Saturday 9 January 2010

Camera Obscura - "My maudlin career" (lyrics)

Brilliant, melancholic, bucolic songs I've been looking for for ages and I found at last!
The latest album from this Scottish band is simply sublime...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5ngUPK-T4

Lyrics
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You kissed me on the forehead
Now this kiss is giving me a concussion
We were love at first sight
Now it's crush
It's crushing
Now choose two stops through the city though
I'm lost easily
I took to the desert but my heart just whines
and deceive me
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Now we're in love again
And you're wherevers
I'm not a child I know
We're not going steady
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You're pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego
Promise not to abandon you, please let me go
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Now I've been hurting your feelings
Yeah they were worth protecting
They say I'm too kind and sentimental
Like you could catch affection
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Oh in your eyes there's a sadness
Enough to kill the both of us
Are those eyes overrated?
They make me want to give up on love
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I'll brace myself for the holiness
Say hello to feelings that I detest
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This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
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This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
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Bill Callahan - "Too many birds" (lyrics)

American singer. For years I've been waiting for listening to a song like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_weCYvN5KU

Lyrics

Too many birds in one tree
Too many birds in one tree
And the sky is full of black and screaming leaves
The sky is full of black and screaming
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And one more bird
Then one more bird
And one last bird
And another
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One last black bird without a place to land
One last black bird without a place to be
Turns around in hopes to find the place it last knew rest
Oh black bird, over black rain burn
This is not where you last knew rest
You fly all night to sleep on stone
The heartless rest that in the morn, we'll be gone
You fly all night to sleep on stone, to return to the tree with too many birds
Too many birds
Too many birds
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If...
If you...
If you could...
If you could only...
If you could only stop...
If you could only stop your...
If you could only stop your heart...
If you could only stop your heart beat...
If you could only stop your heart beat for...
If you could only stop your heart beat for one heart...
If you could only stop your heart beat for one heart beat.
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2009 FRM Full Exam: passed!!!


I'm just happy with my approval in the 2009 FRM Full Exam!!!
Now I take part of an internationally recognized risk professional group...
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