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No Future

by Greyhands

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1.
No Future 02:35
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There’s nothing here to see Except what’s on TV There’s no future No future No bands, only DJs No original screenplays No future... No getting a job No retiring because There’s no future... No cashing in promises No meaningful politics No future... No anti-corporate science No protests, no defiance No future... You’ll never own a home If you go offline you’ll die alone With no future... Don’t you dare Act like you care I doesn’t suit you... Don’t you dare Act like you care We see straight through you... Don’t you dare Act like you care We’ve got no future... Don’t you dare Act like you care We know you sold our future You sold my future You sold his future Her future Your own future You sold the whole goddamn future For a tidy profit
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21st Century Folk Song 02:47
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Write yourself a book Fill it with friends and pictures you took And everyone will see But no one will read Or give you anything you need No one’s quite as smart As it seems their telephones are But there’ll soon come a day When they’ll all be thrown away And they’ll be replaced But we won’t be thrown away We won’t be replaced People don’t get thrown away Oh god please don’t let us be thrown away Don’t let us be replaced... Everyone’s talking more But they’re saying so much less It’s so easy to ignore Just how easy it is to ignore The fact that it’s just so easy to be ignored When there’s kittens and puppies Echo chamber op-eds and celebrities When the ads choke out any artistry Like they’re waterboarding us with cattle-feed All because it serves to please The hidden powers that be So that this will always be Words and melody To just some lonely Fairly early 21st century Folk song La da di da...
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Houses With Nice Gardens 02:04
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People cry in houses with nice gardens Their lawns are so perfect, oh so perfect They fill their homes with nice things all clean white And learn to fear what’s in the shadows; it’s only themselves Oh from those empty houses Oh to hollow homes Fill your home with nice things all clean white And learn to fear what’s in the shadows; it’s only yourself
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Michael 03:43
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Oh Michael, I hadn’t talked to you in years Oh Michael, the news did not shed any tears Oh Michael, I wish that you had shown a sign Cos Michael I never thought you’d cross that line What ugly thoughts went through your mind? Oh Michael, what have you done? Oh Michael, was there nothing I could do? Oh Michael, I know your dad was hard on you Oh Michael, maybe the sea was just too wide Oh Michael Was there a parasite inside That you could not fight how hard you tried? Oh Michael, what have you done? Oh Michael, remember how you used to dream? Oh Michael, your toothy smile always beaming Michael, what happened to the kid I knew? Oh Michael Your life just seventeen years through What you did I never knew You were dead for months before they told me The rain kicked up, the wind blew coldly You still had a race to run You still had time left in the sin Oh Michael...
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Without You Within Me 04:00
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All the lights and all the people Sitting on the roves of cars And amongst them I am lonely Just wondering where you are And why you’ve gone so far Another new year’s eve without you Yeah I hope this one’s the last Someday this will be forgotten But not before it has all passed I just want it to be two years after now When the little bits of us add up somehow I just want it to be dark when night has come Cos in darkness no one sees me come undone No one sees me come undone Another year begins without you As we sleep under different skies With my pocket filled with promise But my poor head won’t survive I just want it to be two years after now When the little bits of us add up somehow I just want it to be dark when night has come Cos in darkness no one sees me come undone There’ll never be a time without you within me And you say that you’ll be back before too long But this ring it weighs so heavy on my heart And when you get back it will have been too long But you won’t see me come undone
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The Day of Broken Kite Strings 03:06
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Kids at the park Paper and string Clear-eyed, knotted, wistful The blowing wind Those sailing dreams Watch and see them flying Cos you don’t need to worry About the force of gravity Unless you fall, unless you hit the ground The colours fly Red, blue, and green The wind will try and claim it So don’t forget To hold on tight Hands all sore and itchy It got away! It got away! Catch it! Quickly, catch it! It got away! It got away! Cuts and bruises, filthy – oh no Cos you don’t need to worry About the force of gravity Unless you fall, unless you hit the ground Cos you don’t need to worry About the force of gravity Until you fall, until you hit the ground So start again Paper and string The wind will still blow for you
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Prelude to Potholes 01:00
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I sit (and watch) This room (get darker) Nowhere really feels like (I sit) and watch (This room) get darker Nowhere really feels like Home
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Lover, Play Me a Sad Song 03:49
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Lover, play me a sad song Let it ring around in my head Let it bring back all the days The days I wished I’d stayed in bed Let it comfort all the days The days I wished that I was dead Lover, play me a sad, sad song Lover play me a sad song Play some slow and minor tune A melody that listens That listens and does not presume One that on happy days Would be too bitter to consume Lover, play me a sad, sad song My lover turns to me to say: “There’s no such song I can play I know darkness too But such sad song are not my way You may walk the night But I’m a creature of the day Lover, I know no such song” Lover, must my song be sad? Lover, must my song be grey? Must I be the night When I do so love the day? Lover, will you listen To the sad songs that I play? Lover, can you love my song? My lover gave me both her hands She asked me to play as I might For colours paint the sky Where the day meets with the night And we’d miss melancholy stars If the sun always shone bright For my lover I’ll keep playing My sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad song
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Love Will Find You 03:20
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There’ll be a last time for heartbreak Love will, love will find you Dry your cheeks, wear your brave face Love will find you Your room is a fortress now It may be cold, but it’s safe When you strike your last match and start a blaze Love will find you And the freeway breathes with us tonight Melancholy, organic You’re just a kid in the passenger seat And you’re half asleep Yeah, I know that they were special and I I know it always hurts to move on The freeway breathes with us tonight Now, release I swear Desire speaks Through the noise... When you strike your last match and start a blaze Love will find you
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If I Could Just Speak Plainly... 00:57
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It’s been a while Since I’ve felt like myself I’d like to speak plainly if I can I’m tired of poetry And communicating in code when All I want is for you to understand It’s just that every time I talk It turns to some big metaphor That only veers of course And crashes through the barrier And rolls down the hill and bursts into flames Well, it’s been a while Since I’ve felt like myself I’d like to speak plainly if I can If I could speak plainly If I could just speak plainly If I could speak plainly...
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Goddamn Coffee 01:03
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I don’t want to wake up I don’t want to sleep all day I don’t want to rest I can’t be bothered anyway I don’t care if I eat or sleep properly All I want is a goddamn coffee I don’t want to wait in line I don’t want to have my turn I don’t want to save the world I don’t want to watch it burn I don’t want to do my own thing I don’t want you stop me Honey, all I really want is a goddamn coffee I don’t want any apathy I don’t have a shit to give I don’t want to die I don’t want to live I don’t want anything There’s nothing you can offer me Just leave me alone and let me have a goddamn coffee
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Angry Song (I Wanted to Write One) 01:00
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I wanted to write an angry song But I was too sad
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Let's Just... 04:02
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You know I’m always tired I guess I’ll write another song about how I’m feeling You that I say that I’m always tired It doesn’t really matter if I am Cos either way, I’m just gonna say Let’s just fall apart... I’ve been thinking about the future Some lovely hypotheticals that probably won’t ever be I really hope one of them gets there Cos if none of them get there I’m worried I might not get there Let’s just fall apart... I’ve always had this fear of failure Now I’m mostly terrified of success The last thing I could let myself be is mediocre So what else is there left for me to be? What’s left? Let’s just fall apart... They say to go and find the thing you love And then let the thing you love kill you But what I love brings me life, it’s people who kill Who slap me on the back, ignoring what I say Goddammit Charles Bukowski was right about everything Let’s just fall apart...
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Potholes 05:06
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How come I never noticed the potholes in this town? Why do we all walk with feet that don’t leave the ground? The traffic’s been delayed It’s road works yet again Someday we’ll be perfect The workers will go home then For now we stub our toes and pray we don’t fall down I’ve known you for years You were always wandering round Like a kid lost in a supermarket Hoping you’d get found Now... Now the shit on your shoes Is caked up, muddy dreams From where you stamped them out Cos you were bursting at the seams Now you’re older you don’t see The potholes in this town Now you sit And watch This room Get darker This prison feels like... Home How come I never noticed the potholes in this town? How come we never notice the potholes in this town?
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That's Life 04:03
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released May 29, 2020

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Greyhands Adelaide, Australia

Greyhands is the acoustic project of Adelaide artist JC Finlay. Taking influence from Death Cab For Cutie, Radiohead, Animal Collective, and Leonard Cohen, Greyhands seeks to create unique acoustic music that is both raw and emotionally honest.

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