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Little White Doll
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Little White Doll
I’ve got your little white doll and I don’t know where from
I’ve got your little white doll and I don’t know where from
Oh for how long? Oh for how long?
I’ve done the dirtiest deeds and I won’t do them no more
I’ve done the dirtiest deeds and I won’t do them no more
Oh for how long? Oh for how long?
I’ve acquired your whole little life and I don’t know where from
I’ve acquired your whole little life and I don’t know where from
Oh for how long? Oh for how long?
I’ve done the dirtiest deeds and I won’t do them no more
I’ve done the dirtiest deeds and I won’t do them no more
I’ve got your little white doll and I don’t know where from
I’ve got your little white doll and I don’t know where from
Oh for how long? Oh for how long?
Oh for how long? Oh for how long?
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We Are All Floating in Mid-Air
Yes it’s true that we never really know what we want now babe, so close out all the lights.
I’ve seen love catch fire like a star that instantly dies, falling through the night.
We are all floating in mid-air, but some of us will fall.
I see your glass overflowing with rain from that night that you stayed, I’m running like I’m afraid.
Now I can see there’s a truth in her eyes so I’ll try it again, keep floating till the end.
We are all floating in mid-air, but some of us will fall.
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Acting to an Empty House
05:25
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Acting to an Empty House
I won’t claim to be shameful, if you won’t claim me at all
I was afraid you might, with the day in trench of night, you might.
My dreams were deeds that shook crazy
I may as well wished to be torn limb from limb
And the cackling laughs are dead; the mourners seek their tread, instead.
Do you see me on the ground?
Looking up so I see you look down
You’ll still cry with the heart of a clown
Shall I stay to play all the parts?
Acting to an empty house, it starts
I freeze like ice over rapture, but my lies interrupt it the best
Any wreck of a thought I reach, are gone like the mines under the beach
They don’t reach.
Break the nails that screech down the blackboard, tell the greedy thunder to boom, all over the lonely place, but the trick’s to remain the same, again.
Do you see me on the ground?
Looking up so I see you look down
You’ll still cry with the heart of a clown
Shall I stay to play all the parts?
Acting to an empty house, it starts
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Dragging of the Carts
04:02
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Dragging of the Carts
We fell about, our laughter heard through plastered walls
Breathing life itself down darkened halls, we ran, with the heat, of a thousand suns we burned.
As we rolled and rolled with clearest view, though the dreams we had may still come true, but for now, we watch the dragging of the carts.
The rhythm of all our plans now brings me to my knees.
We’re colliding strangers on busy streets, first a glance, then look away
But in my mind’s eye you’re still the same and your thorns still hold their drops of rain, memory trades all joy with pain, that life, is carried away in the dragging of the carts.
I think about how I accept these choices so bitterly,
With pain and guts, remember me, how we rolled and then suddenly, it’s frozen with clearest view, though your far away with one that’s true, the dreams we had may still come true, but for now, we watch the dragging of the carts
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The Shaker Heights Oxford, UK
The Shaker Heights are an indie electro-rock band, originally from Aylesbury and Oxford, consisting of Vincent Coole
(vox/guitars), Andrew Brown (bass), Emily Dover (keys) and Richard Dorrell (drums).
The band’s catalogue includes well-received albums/Eps Magna Doors (2007), Collapses (2017) & Little White Doll (2011), and crowd-favourite singles Body, Sitting in the Fire and Out the Blue.
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