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THE THINGS I HEARD AT THE PARTY

by THE MAPLE STATE

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    COLD THEATRE II (ALWAYS YOU
    WINNER
    NOT ENOUGH
    SEXY JAM
    DEADLINE
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1.
So we hit it off and now we’re tied to this place But there was something missing and I can’t explain it If I set the rules I can decide to break them And if you weren’t so shy we would be doing this naked Still there’s something missing Was it you or me kid who explained existence? Just tell me what you’re drinking Do I take my time and see where that gets me Or just for tonight I’m going to try to stop thinking Like the cocaine kids don’t do reminiscing And the American laughed but it was unconvincing Yeah it’s a lifestyle choice but that’s got to count for something In a crowded hall way where nobody was listening So you won’t be here next year? Oh my heart bleeds for you While I try to remember how to pronounce your name You found your separate peace you found what was missing And when you drank through the pain you found the answers within In your penthouse suite with your broken neck bone Just tell me where your friends are I’d say you’re missing a corner stone
2.
Who knows what she was thinking when she came out of the blue into our lives She was crawling up the walls sending shivers running all along my spine And as the sun set heavy over roof tops spreading out for miles There was just a final word to be heard before she passed out on the cold tiles But there was something in the water that had us losing our minds God knows what we were drinking while the world I knew was fading out of sight And there was something in her eyes that had me losing my mind God knows what we were thinking while I prayed I made it out the other side We crawled down to the bar and to some cut price bottles over lime As the time lapsed love turned to lust but everything was all right As the rain fell steady over car doors slamming on my mind There was just a final act to be played before we gave in to the nighttime
3.
CANNONBALL 03:54
If I had something to say I would say it out loud But the words escape me honey I got nothing to shout about Yeah we met in the street it felt like 2009 You shared a house with six young girls each one would blow my mind We can sink another five before we head home When I drink I’m about as subtle as a cannonball Feel my hand upon your thigh before you’re saying “Oh now babe, I’d better be on my way” You had your job in film I had my record to beat Your best friend the gorgeous braggart he saw right through me Yeah we met in the street I took you out for a beer It felt like miles and miles between us Even with you so near Just give me something to shout about
4.
AFRICA 02:27
You wait and I’ll call Seems there’s no one useful here at all I translate a bad line And lost an hour to daylight saving time You were passed out in the room that day Sheets hung across the windows They were pounding on the door while you said “Just get the drugs or get the doctor” You wait and I’ll call Seems there’s someone useful after all While I tried in bad French Just to book the flight and get you out of this You wait and I’ll call Seems there’s no one useful here at all While I tried in bad French Just to get you out of Africa
5.
I was stood out on the deck tonight I held a whiskey with my knuckles white And I kept thinking about the last time Half way to France with you on my mind Now we’re driving on the country road Half an hour out of Cherbourg The sun was high and the air was hot Just like a scene that ol’ Fitzgerald wrote There’ll be a time when we’re both much older And we’ll lock eyes in a crowded room And then you’ll see that it was always you And then you’ll know that there was only you There was a light on in your room tonight I wasn’t sneaking only passing by I took a minute before I walked away How could I knock? What would I even say? So I went walking through the streets tonight All kind of shabby in the neon light I carried on to the central square I found my place and I just lay there
6.
WINNER 03:14
You said you want it and you need it now And there’s going to be a winner I was walking through the city with your hand in my hand Thinking life ain’t really so bad But through the coke and wine and the ignorant bliss Were the signs that I chose to miss Now I’m sitting in the bar having drinks with my friends The cycle starting over again And now I smashed all the glass and took a bruise to the eye Drink until I’m barely alive And now they say she’s a fool and you’re better than this Yeah, but she’s a fool that I’ll miss
7.
NOT ENOUGH 02:48
You can hold me down tonight But push it too far and you’ll be left with nothing She’d better not be the one to find out, alright? I get a feeling like my lungs are tight And there’s a knotting in my gut Oh I’m sure it’s nothing You’d better hope she never finds out Give me a little peace of mind It was the only thing I had to give you And I know it’s not enough to keep you here And you can hold me down tonight But let it run free and you’ll be left with nothing She’d better not be the one to find out, alright? When you look at me that way I’ve got nowhere to hide And I can barely breathe and now its time we talked it out girl It was just a little lie You know I try, but it happens every time So cut it out girl, because I can barely breathe We’re where we are and we won’t hide If life is good you turn the tide You’ll break your heart You’ll lose your mind Forget it son, do what you like
8.
SEXY JAM 04:14
I’ve been holding out all night I’m working just to catch your eye I feel it when you go away You seem so sure of what you wanted You’re breathing in the salt air, dreamlike, painted It’s better if we both believe I’ve been waiting for the light to fade out Spend the night in your arms baby Never touch the ground We’ll find another way to say what we mean We’ll find another way before I beg, before I plead You finally gave it up now we are falling I watch you walking barefoot, cross the carpet So we finally get away and I’m falling all to pieces But pieces can be great I finally get you to myself girl, I just can’t contain
9.
DEADLINE 04:43
If you continue down the same path you’re going to get the same results It doesn’t take a genius to see cause and effect It’s like every dumb idea was realized all at once And now we’re left here, picking through the pieces of what once was Now am I the one cut out for this? Honestly I just don’t know How do we live productive lives when I can’t even focus now? It seems the whole damn world these days is geared up to torture you When every day we’re forced to see the things we just don’t want to Every twisted news story and every ex-girlfriend The words and pictures dragging me away from what I should be doing And I know I shouldn’t look but I get that tiny little buzz It’s the immediate gratification that will be the story of us It’s all just words and pictures We’ve been working toward a deadline I only hope there’s time to try I was going to change the world for you And get it right this time It seems we lost something along the way I guess you’d call it touch When it took two weeks in the desert just to write this second verse When every waking moment we’re connected to a whole It's hard to put things in perspective to formulate thoughts of your own I’m sat on Sunset Blvd now, taking it all in And I know this time tomorrow I’ll be back in Manchester Where the insignificance of every repetitious task Will cloud my view and make me question if I ever really left So I’ll cut it out and tell you that we’re doing it all wrong That there’s a reason why some of us can’t stay put for very long And I would hate to blame myself like I would hate to tow the line So we do things our own way and we’ll be heroes in our time More than words and pictures Every time I tell myself I’m finally getting started There’s always one last thing or it’s always just around this corner But the whole mess got me thinking Are chances ever really gone? No, the only truth is now and the only deadline is my own I’m going to change the world for you
10.
Don’t be fooled by this behaviour For we are not as you’d suppose The heart is not a thing for breaking And the mind is not a thing to lose There’s every chance you should have taken And every word you hoped to say But we are not the bright young things That we were only yesterday I got knocked down not two weeks back The motorbike and the closest of calls And as I lay there, in the road Well, I guess I had some time for thought You see we court the ever-present dangers Of dying young or growing old And I’ll never answer all the questions Which torment me when I’m alone Now I’d hate to say I’ve been enlightened When it’s nothing you’ve not heard before But all the talk of past and hopes for future Were left there on the ambulance floor You know, I think I see this now that all we have it time I finally think I’ve figured out what’s been missing from mine So don’t be fooled by this behaviour For we are not as you’d suppose We strip back all the layers of bullshit And get life back to its bare bones Now all my friends are having babies And I’m the one left all alone So I’ll exhaust this hemisphere Then see what’s happening down below I drag my feet along Sword beach The sun hangs heavy in the West See this is where we put down markers Yeah, they’ll say it’s where we were our best So I embrace the unfamiliar And I’ll take the lesser-travelled road I say give in to your misbehaviour And only answer to your rule I’m not trying to change your outlook I don’t have time but we all need friends But if that’s the biggest you can dream Then this is where our story ends

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released March 23, 2018

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WRITTEN BY THE MAPLE STATE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY ANDREW FARRER & THE MAPLE STATE

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