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1.
Nothing 04:39
I remember way back when I was something I was waiting for someone You couldn't do more damage here with a baseball bat and a shotgun A thousand tiny deaths are forever more painful than one really big one You stay sharp and I'll stay indirect I'll be on the road but you'll forget I have nothing now. In my empty ashtrays live happier times from when we were both thinner The truth mixes with lies and it forms little clouds in the middle of winter You're changing your name but some things stay the same Like my problems get bigger Jesus keep these things that we regret I'll be on the road while you forget I have nothing now Sticky tape on cardboard and this blood on my footprints all through your kitchen Don't be so surprised if you open me up and its plastic and neon That you would never come back here God its the last thing we never agreed on The things you took leave dusty silhouettes We were on this road but how we forget I have nothing now
2.
Black Words 04:28
Sleeping on this mattress dressed These condescending bits of breath And these packages, these trials these tests They're breaking by heart. Broken legs and burst balloons New Years Day here in this waiting room While they're picking cards, they're bending spoons They're breaking my heart Black words across the ocean - they sink like a stone. Little birds that don't fly back I lay awake at night here and I count these cracks As I second guess these surprise attacks They're breaking breaking my heart Black words across the ocean - they sink like a stone. Black words across the ocean - when you say it like that, I wish I'd never had known With paper cups for our smuggled booze We forget the things here that we did not choose But when I look at what they've done to you Its breaking my heart Black words across the ocean - they sink like a stone. Black words across the ocean - when you say it like that, I wish I'd never had known
3.
All wrapped up in this darkness that the sun won't mention He remembers this on his own In between the moon and the far horizon There's this little village and it keeps their bones She breaks in through a small window And she hides all the controls She squeezed 'til the bones fractured But he never lets it show So she walks back down She walks back down She unsays all the stories she told He walks backwards through these bad things So he can see them leave him Still the evidence it stains the roads But her fingers - they flicker, they're moving But his mind still stays slow Because these memories they won't loose their hold He lives on this cold mountain where his friends would never go He says 'If we don't mention this - no one ver needs to know' So he walks back down He walks bak down He believes there's still blood in this stone The gambling machines sing a noisy love song While his lullabies rape her soul Her brother - he is a good man But there is some early warning That these damaged goods will never be sold They swim through the warm shallows But they're emptier than most They swear if they just water this The fucking thing'll grow So they walk back down They walk back down They pretend that this house is a home
4.
Give This Up 04:07
I've been breaking all these hours up Until my time is gone Interdict me before the things I do But what for all the things I've done? I've been making a mess while you've been making your love to him Near the absence of faith, on the outskirts of sin Where you live, where i live.... Where well all be living I'm going to give this up somehow. I cannot see too many changes here for me Still I know, that you know, that the change will come So I pound the life right out of it with my fists Still I know it comes back twice as strong You'll be taking the best while I'm taking too long for things I need cotton wool rest, I need your arm across my chest I could swear that we talked - God I never listen. I'm going to fine this up somehow.
5.
Carry 03:52
Come up and see me angel I think they're out to get you I wrap my hands around your throat It helps me hold on better Surgeons open hearts up So they can work their healings But its a bloody awful mess I think it just stopped beating You know I'll only let you down These heavy hearts I carry around With me Oh Its such an awful question Its such an awkward feeling What do we tell our parents I'm taking keys off keyrings And in the early hours Just trying to stop this silent ceiling staring You push your tiny body into mine So we can break these bones we're bearing You know I'll only let you down These heavy hearts I carry around With me Oh Learning lasting lessons About what it means to settle You make the strangest noises The smell of flesh on metal As the years slip past you I feel these footsteps burn beneath me I turned to tell you one last time But you had gone completely
6.
Out To Sea 04:20
Im bottled up, broken down and barred in but you move beneath me You said I never think first - I think thats why they leave me You said you'd offer me truth here - you said, yeah you said You said you'd offer me truth here - but you lied and now I know Arent we all out to sea here Give me something to keep me awake and stop me from eating A plastic bag tied across my face to stop me from breathing You look like sex on the TV So much hurt in the touch for you, but you won't stop seeing me You know that you're getting off easy and it gets you by, and by the by - but now you know Aren't we all out to sea here I'm dragging The Devil out drinking, he's got me nailed to the floorboards Jesus forgive me my weakness, my ugly and my awkwards Cigarette stains through my sunrise, These ghosts in machines and your stab me goodbyes You broke on the day that they realised Surprise, surprise, surprise - now they all know Aren't we all out to sea here
7.
Sayin' I Was 03:41
Bleed my hope out over Christmas Time You know this place is wall to wall with all the years we tried I believed these words, they would be hers and not mine Its such a weak cliche to say that all of these things change with time There the lie was Saying I was Saying I was to be We feed this 'til it burns red To fuck with what your friends said Saying I was to be? I carve my name into your bedroom wall Let this be a monument to all the ones who fell before With their belief so strong it justified a war But such a mistake, its far too late to take their lives back for There the lie was Saying I was Saying I was to be We feed this 'til it burns red To fuck with all we've wasted Saying I was to be? So wipe for fingerprints and burn these clothes I watch you sink beneath the water All weighed down with stones As I delete these numbers from my telephone Still feel you reaching out to touch me through this great unknown There the lie was Saying I was Saying I was to be We feed this 'til it burns red And fuck until the shames dead Saying I was to be?
8.
Let me take your hands I'm shaking like milk Turning, turning blue All over the windows and the floors Fires outside in the sky Look as perfect as cats The two of us together again But it's just the same, a stupid game But I don't care, if you don't And I don't feel, if you don't And I don't want it, if you don't And I won't say it, if you won't say it first You think you're tired now But wait until three Laughing at the Christmas lights You remember, from December All of this then back again Another girl, another name Stay alive, but stay the same It's a stupid game, a stupid game But I don't care, if you don't And I don't feel, if you don't And I don't want it, if you don't And I won't play it, if you won't play it first You can't even see now So you ask me the way You wonder if it's real Because it couldn't be rain Through the right doorway And into the white room It used to be the dust that would lay here When I came here alone But I don't care, if you don't And I don't feel, if you don't And I don't want it, if you don't And I won't play it, if you won't play it first Let's go to bed Let's go to bed Let's go to bed

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released June 9, 2014

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The Ellis Collective create a patchwork of emotion that recounts the sadness, sickness, love and indecision that weaves its way through the fabric of everyday Australian life.

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