The River Below

by Frazer Spooner

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1.
The River Below 03:07
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Maybe this time around we'll do it differently Now I know what we are No one else in my life could change the scenery No one else knows my heart When we met I could tell you'd never go for me When it ended I knew Nothing good can last until you looked at me By the bear it was true Ohhh be near me Ohhh let's stay in Ohhh drinking tea till the morning I just really want to try and stick around In all honesty what do you now think of me Has the memory gone bad Are we running away from what potentially Could be the best thing we'll have Focusing too much on failure Will not fix the past Why are we circling endlessly On moving too fast Sometimes the worst of ruins Can be the best mistake you've made So I'll try and stay the same But I can't promise you That we'll always be happy Ohhh I want you Ohhh don't be ashamed Ohhh next to me in the morning If we promise that this time we'll try not to run away
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Emily 02:56
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Emily, I really wish you weren't so make believe I pray to God that you exist for just one night, if you're still here in the morning I'll make you coffee and cry Till life gets better, I'll get carried away but I'll never forget her Emily, how come you very rarely look at me I swear to Allah if you kissed another guy, I'd sit alone for fourteen days then die, till the morning comes Promise everyone I'd be the one to bear your family Emily, a cigarette is held between your teeth I told your sister if our love should warp and fade, I'd try to love you anyway, cause that's the way I am I'm holding onto anything, touched by your hands, cause if you don't excite me what will, sink so low that I'd rather be killed Emily, you choose your friends way too selectively I vow to Krishna if you look into my eyes, the sun will collapse into the moonlit sky And every day will be cold, until you come home, and you hold me and never let go
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Losing Sleep 05:00
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If we're going to give this another chance to fail Then you better be ready to receive my worst intentions as I come back round If you don't believe me, when you know it's true Then we'll always be nothing to our friends, we might as well just end it as we are In the living room, staring blank-faced at each other's values Wishing that somehow we'd meet again, for the first time Both pretending that we don't share any similar attitudes Now in the bathroom I am praying quietly one of us might die That's what I call tragedy a woman so alone by her own grief Thinking someone's wanting you, and only you What a perfect life we made where both of us still cry so commonplace Never wondering who we are or where we'll go If you tell me what you need, maybe there's something I could do But I can't promise you any more, anything If you're sure that's the best you can do, maybe I'll think of thinking it through But I can't promise you any more, ever again We're gonna give this another chance to fail We'll become just like the rest in case you're not aware I'm tired of losing sleep
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Accidental Narcissist 03:24
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You've become an accidental narcissist But somewhere in my mind I think I need you Too superior for my taste, too ulterior of notion Don't let me down by staying here Tried desperate claws for you to no avail Therefore I'm thankful cause you meant me well What you told me on the landing, left me short of understanding Don't let me down by living here Cause you're not lost, just because you feel imperfect Maybe it's just an overactive fear Please keep on trying To fit in with such an intellect Probably tired Of me communicating as though I'm in debt Don't play the waiting game if you don't need to It's only positive that they're beneath you But don't take this all the wrong way, I'm not tryna force a new reign The rising fear of feeling whole one day You're not lost, just because you haven't felt it Maybe it's just you're far beyond your years Please keep on trying To fit in without a price to pay Probably tired Of me communicating, as though I'm ashamed As though I'm in pain As though you're my way of starting new
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Pyrrhic Remains (Of The War We're Still Fighting) 02:40
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In the night, a screaming constellation of ill-trained thoughts that pose as libertine morality And yet his bed is still empty, aside from the hope and the curtains of smoke and tobacco These walls could tell a few stories I bet, could entertain a cheaply thrilled alliance formed to fight the cabinet Lets have the drug dealers one side, the kids by the wall and the nubile reductions in uniform I don't know about you, but I could never kill a stranger for a joke, rhyme or reason it's all changing seasons I, decline Not sure about this, cause every movement, word and scar you have is nothing but sickness, with death as my witness I, evaporate into your memory just around the corners of the raining coaster Only recently can I explain the things you made me feel that I don't want to feel how could you ever want to feel this It's uninspiring unimaginable unforgettable you stumble over syllables and makes me feel so miserable Like a knife victim left in the rain with the salt from the sky coursing into his veins Like a priest lurking in Fantoft Stave back in June '92 calling out for the rain
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I'm The Key 03:47
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Georgia said romance was dead How was she to know that He didn't care about settling down With a wife and three kids in place outside town because He said you're his everything You didn't half believe it Lived one hour away you could pre-book a train ticket Go round his house have a drink make a day of it What a surprise; every detail and glimmer turned out to be lies again Loneliness consumes us all but some just can't bare being alone And they cling onto people they've seen half a photo of, cherish them dearly till they turn their wifi off And so the cycle spins, he's fourteen year old claiming he's had a lottery win Snaps of fake cash getting posted online, his only potential is dreaming of dollar signs I don't know who's who but if stupid's infectious I wouldn't step near to you Some of you can really take the mark and overstep it by a mile Not quite so bright when you're fighting with your fists and you're met with the blade of a flick knife Leave it out and stop pretending that you're somebody who Runs the rooms at MTV Head of world diplomacy If you're the lock, I'm fucked if I'm the key George and John where have you been, the state of musics quite obscene Writing songs about sex just to get to the top and if it's got a backbeat it's put under modern pop And if you're wondering, the youth are fine it's clear to see Selling drugs gettin pregnant at twelve to a father who's too young to buy half an overpriced lager I'll get one a them flats on mars, and write poems about ancient lovers and Johnny Marr 21st century falling apart again, telling the world that you're back behind bars again For shooting a gun in the face of an old friend Who'd come to conclusions that he wanted to make amends Bird in the hand isn't two in the bush because, money and fame led the masses to rush for it Wasting their own and their families time, trying to reach for the stars with no grip on the sky Some of you can really take the mark and overstep it by a mile, not quite so bright when you're fighting with your fists and you're met with the blade of a flick knife Leave it out and stop pretending that you're somebody who Runs the rooms at MTV Head of world diplomacy If you're the lock, I'm fucked if I'm the key Some of you can really take the mark and overstep it by a mile Not quite so hard when you're drinkin in the park and you're met with the sirens of police cars Leave it out and stop pretending that you're somebody who Once invented gravity Head of world diplomacy If you're the lock I'm fucked if I'm the key
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Implant (Acoustic) 03:48
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Oh I never bled for this Oh she said don't touch her there She screams silently to me Please be heard but never seen How I long to stand here easily But I'm so out of sync with us I need to curve you like I should Someone take away the part Where I once loved you Oh where did you say we were Oh I haven't been here recently You said most is still not all But most the time I can't admit That I still see us as What we were Three more minutes on the clock What a thrill this should have been Implants memories Infrequently How you begged me How you could Leave me thinking If I should Do I look back with regret On a half-smoked cigarette Did I prove myself the way you asked? Dying campfire Drunken nights Carnal desire Drunken fights After all is said and done We had our time, if just half fun Implants memories so frequently
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One Day We'll Find Out Who We Are 03:40
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I suppose we've got our histories Taken straight and chased with mystery But it was only yesterday I saw One day we'll find out who we are Mixing fears then we're trading tears Darkness acting as our overseer When you need me I will never be far One day we'll find out who we are I'm a hypocrite but this I swear is right I've got my problems but it's you who needs to fight We have our feelings and as long as you're okay I'm pretty sure that it's alright for me to say I may need you much more than you need me and you know that's fine at the best of times Fun and games are what we always tend to play unless the other half says we've crossed the line If you're to worry bout the emptiness or loneliness of friendliness and endlessness just take a guess I'd bet you the stars That one day we'll find out who we are Moments shared on stairs with those we love Don't tease the push if you don't like the shove I'm not saying you should raise the bar One day we'll find out who we are All I ask is that you're staying strong if you're staying long Cause that's enough for me to right when it's all wrong Love should never leave a permanent scar One day we'll find out who we are If you ever feel like falling down just sit instead Don't let it pull you over, but don't let it live inside your head This could be how it's planned yes all along you would come running home But even if you think you'll never be alone I may need you much more than you need me and you know that's fine at the best of times Fun and games are what we always tend to play unless the other half says we've crossed the line If you're to worry bout the emptiness or loneliness of friendliness and endlessness just take a guess I'd bet you the stars That one day we'll find out who we are
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Emotional Parliament 03:06
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I'm so tired, of this imbecilic wasteland D. G That rears it's teeth at me and smiles G/F# it's toothy grin and says F. C Hey boy you lookin for a ride tonight, E I'm sorry Dr Lewley You're too humble to your own ideas and thoughts like a Female Confucius watching waning friendships rot away into A stream of consciousness that died tonight I'm so sorry Mr Lewley After all you're just a captain to your emotions Gagged and bound to a ship you'll never love What if I told you that I want your life way more than mine and that I'd kill a stranger just to be there when you flower Disillusioned by the scent of petrichor in winter Drinking processed Marrakech in hopes to let my voice be heard A sentimental suicide occurred tonight I'm so grateful Mrs Lewley Reading diary entries from that sun soaked heartbroke summer when We were all lovers and we lived and lost together but then Somebody opened up my eyes tonight I'm so lonely Goddess Lewley How do I start to explain miracles to you, when I've Never had one happen in my present life We'll float in orbit representing Robert Crumb strips, and then We'll collide ephemerally Into nirvana
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Golden Girls 04:44
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If you can't hit the high notes then we'll never live in harmony Or if you can't accept the truth and you're blind to yourself and I Have apologised, thrice too many times before too the world This jealousy, the irony, there's many things you'll never see like What's inside this head of mine, when what we had was suicide or Genocide, killing off my memories one by one Still you try to recognise, the bombs I dropped but you fucking lied to Me about the state of mind you're in I would have realised Your touch has fooled me in the past and now it's everlasting I'll be you and you'll be me we'll both jump on the count of three Paralysed by what you've said your words are nerve gas wrapped around my Conciousness my mind turns blue we'll both be pretty when we're dead To the town, tributes in the centre where we were found I love you more no I love you more it's funny when you are no more Fairy tales and dragon tails, crawling on the bathroom floor And I'm cold, at least to you and therefore making me cold Now I've had to amputate, the fingers that were kindly pointed And there were no signs of blood, no madrigals of irritation Everything I've done for you was pointless tell me tell the truth I'll be you and you'll be me, we'll burn the sky and torch the sea Now I sense you're watching me divine protection setting in And though we never met I'd like to, sympathise for loving me Unconditionally, angel darling thanks for everything That's what I call tragedy, that is loss beyond belief Your presence takes me everywhere from, atmospheres or solid stares Now I sleep, knowing that I'm safe from her and her fluctuations Take my hand and we will see exactly what it could've been like You're with him now and that's fine I hope you're well and loving life

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released July 3, 2016

Vocals - Frazer Spooner
Acoustic Guitar - Frazer Spooner
Production/Mixing/Engineering - Frazer Spooner

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Frazer Spooner Sheffield, UK

Independent multi-instrumentalist from the UK, with a love for vibrations that sound subjectively good together, some more than others. All instruments and lyrics you hear are recorded, played, written and mixed by myself.

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