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The Nightline
03:57
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(Welcome to The Nightline, please leave your confession, after the tone)
I can’t afford therapy
But I desperately need someone to hear me
So lately I’ve calling the nightline
Speaking to an answering machine with my allotted time
(I just feel sad)
I wonder who is listening
What do they think of me
I hope I don’t upset them
This is helping me
(I feel so much better now)
Call the nightline
Nightline
Call the nightline
Nightline
Call the nightline
Nightline
Call the nightline
Nightline
Call the nightline
Nightline
Call the nightline
Nightline
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All That I Need
04:02
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Isn't it easy now, to see through the magic
(magic magic magic)
Isn’t it easy now to kick that bad habit
(habit habit habit)
I am finally feeling something good (good)
And I hope you feel (feel) the way that you should (should)
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
Let’s feel this high
How you feeling babe
Has it hit you yet
I can see the whole wide world
Let’s never forget
How good we feel right now (I feel so good)
I can see our love (I see our love)
How do you feel right now (I feel so good)
My god can you feel our love (I feel our love)
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
All that I need right here right now,
I’m with you I’ve got
Let’s feel this high
Let’s feel this,
Let’s feel this high
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Summer In London
03:23
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Picture this memory, I’m strolling in London
And everything I know is white and covered in snow
Oh what would I know
I’m taking myself back to childhood places
And to new spaces and kissing strangers to feel
Something I need
Because I, I’m feeling low
I, I’m feeling low
I, I’m feeling low
Now I’m running in London, just to feel something
The snow has now gone and the sun it’s got that glow
Everyone’s smiling, London in summer,
The happiest place in the world just so you know
I should feel good, I should feel well, I should feel something
My god I feel like I’m in hell
I, I’m feeling low
Lay down in the snow and sing,
Feeling good, feeling something
Picture this memory, I’m strolling in London
Beer in my hand and I think I’m doing alright
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You watch the sun it rises over these blue horizons
Baby I’m fickle hearted, I’m not conventionally started
I wish I rose like you rose
Full bloomed and always first chose
I’m likely staying ‘till the end
I wish I could see the blue babe
I wish I could see the blue
I wish I could see the blue babe
But all I do is feel the blue
I feel the moon descending
Over back lit high rises
Sure of what I need to tell you
I’m holding on to both ends
I need somewhere to land
Never opening up my wings
Falling into you
I wish I could see the blue babe
I wish I could see the blue
I wish I could see the blue babe
But all I do is feel
That everything left on this place
Makes no sense I feel displaced
I can’t see beauty in a damn thing
That should be beautiful
I want to feel the way I used to feel
Is that possible
I want to see the light seep through the cracks
Will that come back
I don’t care where I start just help me out
I just want to see the blue babe
I just need to see the blue
I wish I could see the blue babe
But all I do is feel
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5. |
Call It What It Is
03:54
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Everything hurts on the inside
But there’s no point talking about it
There’s no point talking at all
Cause’ everytime I try to phone you
Nobody answers my call
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Everything hurts on the outside
But there’s no point talking about it
There’s no point talking at all
Cause’ everyone’s breathing different air to what I breathe
I feel like I’m not breathing at all
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
I write down my feelings and I burn them
I wish I could show you how I feel
Seems I’m incapable in relaying what is real
Why can’t I talk about it
Why can’t you talk about it
Why can’t we talk about it
Why can’t I talk about it
Why can’t you talk about it
Why can’t we talk about it
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
Just call it what it is
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6. |
Broken Toes
04:21
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Stop playing the victim
You’re just a goddamn liar
I’m sick of being your carer
And I’m tired all the time
I’ve tried to understand you
Forgive you for your past
But you don’t seem to learn a thing
And your good streaks don’t last
I’m just an usher
Scanning tickets to make ends meet
But I’m falling asleep at every show
Watching old people fill the seats
I don’t want time
I just want you
I don’t want time
I just want you
I’m fighting with myself
About how I treat you
Cause’ I’m constantly forgiving
All the shit that you put me through
I’ll try to make excuses
Cause’ that’s just the way it goes
But with every step it’s painful
And I’ve broken all my toes
I don’t want time
I just want you
I don’t want time
I just want you
I don’t need time
I just need you
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7. |
Reassess The Marks
03:50
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My hips are at the perfect width
To bare a child, but I’m not ready
I’m still, figuring out what
It is that I want to be
And what I can be
In a world that does not favour me
One foot in front of the other
Is good enough for today
I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
This life is the hardest test I’ve ever failed
I should reassess the marks
Try and get my grades up
Try and get a higher mark
One foot in front of the other
Is good enough for today
I’ll be on my way
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Warm Wine
04:23
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Warm Wine in my mouth
It feels good
Distracting kind of good
I’ve been in a feverish state
I’ve been in bed for days
In a hallucinogenic haze
You wouldn’t believe the things that I’ve seen
I’ve been everywhere
I’ve seen everything
I hope that you’ve been paying my bills
I’m too busy drowning in these pills
Please take four of these twice a day
And two of these at night
Will keep you at bay
Who on Earth is looking back at me
Who on Earth is looking back
What a blurry old world we live in
You reach out and touch my sweaty palm
You tell me it’s ok, I will stay with you today
I’m in and out of travels around the world
I’m going everywhere,
Not moving anywhere
Who on Earth is looking back at me
Who on Earth is looking back
What a blurry old world we live in
What a blurry old world I’m living in
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You don’t call your mother enough
Wait till you know how it feels
That is what they say to you
But you’re out feeling the feels
Dance the night away my friend
I know you need to forget
Tomorrow you said you’d be there
And your brothers have made a bet
It’s only temporary selfish behaviour
Just ride it out
It’s only temporary selfish behaviour
Just ride it out
You don’t see your family enough
It’s not for the lack of trying
Maybe talk to your shrink about it
Spend a few more hours crying
It’s only temporary selfish behaviour
Just ride it out
It’s only temporary selfish behaviour
Just ride it out
It’s only temporary selfish behaviour
Just ride it out
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10. |
Free
03:11
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Everyone wants a piece of me
You’ll take what you know
Everyone wants a piece of me
And I’ll be left so
Free free
Free from all this hate
Taking the trash out on a Monday night
Watching the wheels just roll
Nodding away to all of my neighbours
Suburban living is just so
Used to live in the big ole smoke
Choking away on the fumes
Now I’m sitting in the passenger seat
Head to the suburbs on the Hume
Free free
Free from all the lies and ties and lie
Ain’t no time for giving up on dreams
Head down mind up split at the seams
I’m sinking into the suburb life
I’m feeling good except some neighbour strife
I don’t know what to say to you
I hope one day I speak the truth
Just hope no one does the say same
This god damn industry, those top of the game
Free free
Free from all the lies and ties and lies
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Ain’t a smile on my face that I care for
More than I care about yours
It’s been a while now since I’ve seen it
You know the one where you really mean it
I’ve been thinking, we should dance all night
Really feel, I don’t care what song
I just need, to dance my way through the pain
I don’t love anything that I used loved before
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
So I will surrender this body to the floor
Let it linger let it all linger
We sit around the crowd and watch the southern lights
Trying to feel good but it just don’t feel right,
Where are all the memories we cared for
Too hard to revisit now,
I’ve been thinking, we should dance all night
Really feel, I don’t care what song
I just need, to dance my way through the pain
I don’t love anything that I used loved before
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
So I will surrender this body to the floor
Let it linger
let it all linger
let it linger
let it all linger
I don’t love anything that I used loved before
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
So I will surrender this body to the floor
Let it linger
let it all linger
let it linger
let it all linger
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12. |
Keeping On
03:43
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Oh what a world we live in
Where the good die
but the bad just keep on breathing on
Just can’t make sense of that
Just can’t get my head around that
There’s a time and place for crying
Not when it comes to dying
And if I had a car, I’d drive around crying
Listening to your favourite songs
Instead I cry on buses and trains
And strangers ask if I’m ok
I give them answer that ruins their day
I probably should’ve stayed at home today
Oh what a world we live in
Where the good die
but the bad just keep on breathing on
Just can’t make sense of that
Just can’t get my head around that
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
So I guess we’ll just keep keeping on,
(keep on)
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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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