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Saint Jude

by Ashleigh Southam

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Epic (free) 03:19
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Like a flag in the wind Like a heart on a string I am drawn to this feeling The ragmans revenge In a hundred years We'll be dead What can I do I've got ten more days counting butterfly breaths What can I say to your face when your ceiling of faith is a lie I am measuring the deepening disorder in your closed system you cling to it with finger tips take a rose in your teeth and love What can I do I've got ten more days counting butterfly breaths What can I say to your face when your ceiling of faith is a lie Let everything you do Grow throw it from the arms of safety if it happens let it happen to me
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Dove (free) 04:03
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You say sing with your heart It's fine if its pure like you are This confess there's no control of this sweet mystery Like a thorn in the side of me Your the bind Your the Dove I don't wanna another place to start I got so far with you I don't wanna be the danish prince Who cannot rule His foolish heart Such a pretty thing I found I should've followed you down Now this string cut on our tin can we grow up The wispher breaks the seal The memory glove stays on these hours of love on the wrist Such a pretty thing I found I should've followed you down Such a fool with his crown It's all over now When will you weep for me Sweet willow
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Body (free) 03:31
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Bless the actress Bless her myth Her eyes are locked like this on the bravest sado-masochist There is no silent witness Shame takes it shape and runs in my veins Your mouth Your hair I turn my face I know I come and take too much I promised you I would tame this but I am sick Wash your sin from this poison bitten lips Can't keep my eyes off her pockets and her lips of the pistol This trapeze man falls lands on the trail Your mouth Your taste I turn my face I know I come and take too much I promised you I would tame this but I am sick What will you say if you see my face This guilt we share but deceit my own
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Phantom (free) 03:32
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This proud dream of the horizon ballet oh its a horse that fades with its newness gone and its startling hardness your face ends the dream Look into the eyes of the beast he say, Come on This phantom wound fades I hear you say This fairy tale ends Let it happen The king of mice says “I'm just a wound in your side” so he pulls at the sky To hide this foolish twice failing charade Look into the eyes of the beast he says, Come on This Phantom wound fades I hear you say This fairy tale ends Let it happen
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Night Flight (free) 03:45
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Kid comes in like a hurricane doesn't say excuse me just puts a cape on her shoulder says “come with me” In this sweet hour my heart is child Under her clothes his cruel truth smiles Good demon on my shoulder says “come with me” Are we singing yet? Cos I don't wanna come back down again This nights for the ghosts that will never catch me Let me down, starving for the sound of the silent rose that blooms on your lips If you fall on this spear All drunk with a girl at his feet Or sober with a belly of fear On his mirror her lip stick good bye says “you ran from me” Are we sinning yet? Cos I'm never coming down again
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Avalanche (free) 04:43
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Your palm says this avalanche of calm will unravel my heart you find it healed but scared Your palm says your plan to be led will come true with his fat cheek and his weak chin He's strong when your under him Eating, Working, Dreaming Loving to be someone Poor fuck in a rich man's shows I'll do this dance with you oh but I don't fit This poison blood runs too thick No one who could ever write in peace In this lonely millionaires club dream Wake me when I'm done With this thieves eyes I stole a look at the crooked boy of time he said “The good are not yet born, but there's hope, so hold on” Eating ,Working, Dreaming Loving to be someone I wore my eyes out on you I lost my pride for you Oh but I was just a dreamer The reality of your flesh catches hard The bull hits the matador This great imitator My words betray this thing My shadow the only original thing Wake me when I'm done What a wonderful thing it is To be the one to blame Eating, Working, Dreaming.
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Anniversary Suit (free) 05:05
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Hope dancing in a cheap ignorant annniversary suit I don't regret any fantasy I ever had about you and me Do I still move you? does it thrill you to know about my little life? so loyal and so quiet A paranoid bubble floats out of the hugeness of the system pops on my head and tells me the king of love is dead and you knew him but not that well you were close enough to tell no one in this city noticed they should've noticed now he's gone I'm finding it harder than you the cracks in my armour are new it's starting to show through the signs said it I'll be glad for what I have I often bump into my heart and soul it's mishapen unguided well meaning chaos leaves me with no answers just a bunch of excuses and dirty dishes with no action just reaction to these melodies and comedies that come with being me The basics of being alive can sometimes cause my skin to crawl and fly off these bones I can propel them to huge and powerful labours but how do I decide what that is? When the battle is with yourself The well is really that deep But looking inwards has made me weak Pour something pure and I'll cyphon a cure so we can move on Let us move on now For what we have I'm so glad Hail to the habit of loving It can often be found Bringing me around instead of letting me down or shutting me in For what I have I'm so glad
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Painless Part (free) 03:28
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Sweet heart the sweetest part of this waking dream Words that don't sleep comfort me The stars touch the ground A thousand feet crush them in Sweet heart the sweetest vows from your sleepy lips Colour my memory pale Softly take my hand This autumn leave palm you said you loved you love These lines that I drew in the sand You blew them away with a wispher Wait for me Wrestling this ape heart and this kid brain Make room for this Every thought I re-aimed as a kiss Help me get back to your arms
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Poor son (free) 02:07
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Poor son His heart was broken He fell down from his tower to the lions at his gate Turn your head away from the scene it will show you nothing No battles won With his eyes wide open Poor son Drowned in sheets and smoke Down those lonely streets Not broke but broken Empty bottles have spoken Poor son poor son His heart was open like a fire it goes out
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Avalanche bonus (free) 04:29
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released April 4, 2009

Ashleigh Southam - Vocals, Guitars, Keys
Kurt Preston - Bass on tracks 1,2,4 & 8
Jon Coursey - Drums on tracks 1,2,4 & 8
Suzanne Calvi - Bass on tracks 3, 5 & 7
Chris Spark - Drums on tracks 3,5 & 7

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Ashleigh Southam Melbourne, Australia

I am a Melbourne based composer, instrumentalist and vocalist. My influences range from Nina Simone, Mahler, Rufus Wainright and Miles Davis. My music is best described as lyrical and romantic. I use classical instrumentation, jazz improvisation, music theatre forms and an indie rock rhythm section. I gig around Melbourne solo or with larger ensembles ... more

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