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Pendulums
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by Jacob Magers
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Point of Reference
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Pendulums
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Overboard & Down
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Smiling at Strangers
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Shanghai
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released 14 July 2009
Produced by Jacob Magers
Additional engineering and assistance by Pierre Kaiser
Recorded between Sept. 2008 and March 2009 at Jacob's home, except for the keyboardy bits, which were recorded at Pierre Kaiser's home - license
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- Track Name: Point of Reference
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I'm just a tiny thing
Trying to find my way through the night
Navigating by way
Of the stars in my plane of sight
There's a nightlight twinkling
Down at the end of the hall
And my eyes cannot discern
What lies beyond it all
It seems the world is changing
Faster than I can manage
Gone are the things
I used to use to my advantage
My point of reference
Isn't far as it appears
I notice this too late
And then I disappear
This nightlight's got me flying around in circles - Track Name: Pendulums
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I wake to the sound of freezing rain
And everything's alive
The way it's been for not a day
The cold doth pierce me less the day
And the songs begin to rush through me
As waters rush to the sea
For the world began today
And now she is relinquishing control
The pendulum's swing will take its course
As time comes racing by
The king is born a staff of gold
He forged the stars amid the cold
To glimmer in the dark
These days of ill, these days of woe
These days alone - Track Name: Overboard & Down
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Ten months ago to the day
We raised our sails
Hold me brother
Lest my courage fails
The air I breath grows ever tighter
The sea is growing ever whiter
I will swim against my rising grave
I told my love back home
I'd not return
But this is not the death
I thought I'd earned - Track Name: Smiling at Strangers
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Twenty years have passed now
Since we made that foolish bet
We argued so ambitiously
And he opened up and said:
'I bet two million dollars
And I stake my freedom hence!'
Fifteen years in exile
In a house within a fence
He read all of the classics
And he wrote a thousand songs
His wine and his tobacco
Couldn't hold him all that long
And through his two-foot window
I could hear him moan and weep
What things a man will give up
For his hubris and his greed
And sure enough he made it
But I bled my fortunes dry
My conscience was forsaken
I decided he must die
He looked a man of eighty
Though he wasn't half that age
I found an open letter
So I read it page by page
'I'm the wisest man on earth now
But I'd rather end up dead
So keep your silly riches'
That is what the letter said - Track Name: Shanghai
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What do you see
When the lights begin to fade
When the curtains drop
And the world begins to turn the other way
Will you call in the middle of the night
So we can speak
You lit my fire
Struck a match against my chest
Then pinched the flame between your fingers
Dampened all the rest
Left a book of ruined matches in your wake
Never to burn again
And on a cold December evening
It finally hits me that you've passed
Two years to the day since you pulled your first
Tonight you finally get your last
And I know the things
That make your blood run cold
And I know when you are frightened
Though you act so brave a bold
When you go down underground
Into the dark
I'll be there