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Intro
01:49
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2. |
Mars
04:17
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I’m missing human contact
I’m missing it today
‘cause oh my love you’ve been gone
you live so far away.
I’m missing human touch
I’m missing it today
‘cause you’ve been gone so long
and you live so far away.
You live on Mars
You made a choice to live
so far away from me
you said long distance works
but I tend to disagree
‘cause you’ve been gone so long
and you live so far away.
You live on Mars
I could spend most of my life
loving you through a phone
but oh my god I’m here
and I’m feeling so alone
You live on Mars.
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3. |
Overstayed Your Welcome
04:21
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You’ve overstayed your welcome
7 weeks today
my couch has your imprint
ingrained in it’s synthetic state.
It is time for you to go
It is time for you to leave
my kids are calling you uncle
that’s problematic I believe.
You’re drinking beer in the morning
my kids are gonna be late
you promised that you’d take them
but of course you’d rather be in this state.
It is time for you to go
You’re gonna rinse me dry again
I have a family now
It’s not my fault that your life is a mess
sort it on your own somehow.
It is time for you to go
Now I know you’re hurting
but I just can’t help
I know I said I’d be there
but I can’t relate to what you’ve felt.
So I’m kicking you out
It’s just the way it is
I helped as long as I could
but you took the piss
I knew that you would.
It is time for you to go.
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Don’t treat me like you do
please hold me like you used to
don’t let me say these words to you
I don’t want to see the back of you.
Don’t say you love me too
unless you feel it all the way through.
My heart’s been broken once before
it left me laying on the floor
praying to a god I don’t believe in.
You’re just gonna break my heart
You’re just gonna break my heart
You’re just gonna break my heart
Please don’t break my heart.
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5. |
Little White Lies
03:50
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Won't you tell me your secrets
I would like to know
for if I know your secrets
I know something about you they don't.
Smoke it dissipates around me
so I take another toke
then I tell my doctor I don't smoke.
Little white lies
I stopped breathing as a child
found blue within my cot
when my mother found me
her heart must of stopped.
So now I'll leave this average party
where I've bared my soul
telling strangers secrets
I never wanted them to know
and they told me
Little white lies.
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6. |
Interlude
01:58
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7. |
Shame
03:24
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I was hoping that the way that we are
is not the way that we are in a little while
I was hoping that the way that we talk
is not the way that we talk in a little while
I was hoping that the way that we think
is not the way that we think in a little while.
Honey I’m losing hope.
It’s such a shame
It’s funny how we think we’d be better off
if we took off and started somewhere new
Maybe Saturn, Jupiter, or Mars,
where Bowie watches us through the stars.
It’s such a shame
It’s funny how we think we’d be better off
if we took off and started somewhere new
Maybe Saturn, Jupiter or Mars,
where Bowie watches us through the stars
It’s such a shame.
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8. |
Folding Chairs
03:26
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I just bought some folding chairs
and a table that has folding legs
I’m getting rid of all my shit
there’s piles and piles and piles of it.
I read a book on clearing out
it’s meant to rid me of all doubt
I’ve started yoga up again
it’s meant to help me be all zen
but as I lay there on my mat
you enter my thoughts
stop doing that.
I’m tired
Listen to some Bon Iver
Invite some of my friends over
drink some wine
and eat some cheese
all I want to do is please.
Working hard for no return
I unfold my chair and sit to learn
What the hell am I to do
there is no way of pleasing you.
I’m tired
Working hard for no return
I unfold my chair and sit to learn
I look around and nothing’s here
now I am riddled with fear
I read a book on clearing out
and now I am filled with self doubt.
Nothing I do is good enough
pack it up I’ve had enough.
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9. |
Gun
05:24
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7 days and 13 hours
I’ve been thinking about those flowers
that were left at my door
Irresponsible drinking
led to irrational thinking
led to a bullet through your heart
led to my broken heart.
They drew their gun
pulled the trigger just for fun
straight through your chest
into the heart I knew the best.
26 years of age
always trying to turn a new page
What the hell were you thinking
damn irresponsible drinking
All I wanted was you to come home
but now I’m here
and I’m mourning all alone.
They drew their gun
pulled the trigger just for fun
straight through your chest
Into the heart I knew best.
Johnny why’d you do this?
You promised me
you’d be home just after six
I waited up for you
I’d made the perfect meal for two
Your irresponsible drinking
led to irrational thinking
led to a bullet straight through your heart.
They drew their gun
Pulled the trigger just for fun
Straight through your chest
into the heart I knew best.
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10. |
Dark Heart
03:18
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It’s been so damn long
since you’ve been loved.
Her heart misses beats now
she has fallen to the dark
Her mind misses thoughts now
she is focused on the blind.
Don’t let her go
she’s falling down you know
don’t let her
she’s falling down you know.
It’s been so damn long
since you’ve been loved.
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11. |
Waste Of My Time
04:57
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Oh look what you’ve done
you have ruined all this fun
for your own personal gain
yeah you’re to blame.
If you were looking a way out
I would of shown you the way out
but you left me all alone
I hate being alone.
So you walked away
listening to your favourite song on repeat
that’s neat
now I’ll listen to
bittersweet symphony
for irony and play it on repeat
You’re a waste of my time.
I wish you all the best
that’s a lie
you’re a human I detest.
But yeah I wish
I wish you well
that’s a lie
I hope you rot in hell.
You’re a waste of my time.
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BATTS Melbourne, Australia
BATTS is the project of Melbourne based musician and space enthusiast Tanya Batt.
Touring recently
in her home country of Australia supporting the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Lucius, The Teskey Brothers, Leif Vollebekk, Nilüfer Yanya, The Magic Numbers and many more BATTS released her debut album in April 2019, a concept album surrounded NASA's Voyager mission.
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