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To Surface

by Jacob Daffy

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1.
These Towers 03:10
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I don't want to live this way Giving up my heart to a game Where nothing is sure and I hold it over the flame Twenty-five years could pass Who knows how long the silence will last Waiting for impossible news but it's not coming fast We'll never have these words in the sky And none of these towers can answer me why I live in hope that you'll open up my eyes They're running in circles again Finding a hook to connect the string To hoist up decorations, cause they can't feel the wind Maybe they'll float away Maybe they'll summon the clouds to my day But over the rain I can hear you speak anyway Can I trust my sight The sea and the grass and the skies Are they illusion dancing on in my mind My feelings are black and white Nothing has felt as right As the bread and the wine on a warm Sunday night
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Homeless 03:08
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Listening for the footsteps to fade to nothing He hides around the corner Today he can afford the luxury of Keeping intact his dignity. Rummaging around for the hundredth time he Wonders what brought him here. But emotions die down as he Hardens himself again. You know it's so easy to say I'm going home I I'm going home Standing at the back of the line, there's Not that much she can do now. Her stomach is eating her other organs But who is she to take another's place. Shaking, another dizzy spell starts Pulling her into gravity's arms All of the faces around are smiling Why are they smiling? You know it's so easy to say I'm going home I I'm going home
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Overseas 02:51
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I want to go far away I want to go overseas And seeing you here doesn't change a thing When you say goodbye I would like to know why You say it now And not before
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To Surface 03:06
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I don't want to be on life support I don't want to live without a thought Smiling and drugged up with the opium of God Feeling like I need to be alone Paranoid, I cut the telephone And stare at the sorry little wire sticking out I'm swimming through a million different options at once But not one of them lets me see the light of day I thought that I could get by without talking to you Now my heart wants me to surface to the spray Silence is a buzzing in my ears I listen to my agitated fears And gradually start to wonder if I'm really here I thought that this would make me feel alive I'm blurry and I'm scattered and I'm tired Turned off my headlights now there's nowhere I can drive I'm swimming through a million different options at once But not one of them lets me see the light of day I thought that I could get by without talking to you Now my heart wants me to surface to the spray
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Shallow Stream 03:29
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It's not a sign of maturity To shake your head and walk away The concrete heart will never beat Or feel the pulse of work and play I'm over this. No shallow dream The boat scrapes the bottom of the stream You can't dive I'm half submerged I might as well just travel to the sea You gather up the empty frame Bones and skin are awkward now They can't be carried easily And life has long abandoned now It's not a brave enlightenment To move from trusting God to crowds To feel the fractured soul's lament And have no wind to move the clouds
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Why give up 02:36
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Why give up When there's so many other things to do? Why stop trying When you can do anything you want to? I don't understand You had a plan Why don't you follow through? That was The other day, the other year Sometimes I just don't know if he is here Right beside me, All around me Sometimes I give in to fear I know there's a way Into oblivion I know that sometimes Sometimes the night is long But we're tested Like gold is refined by fire Don't you stop singing your song Why give up When there's so many other things to do? Why stop trying When you can do anything you want to? I understand You had a plan I'll help you follow through
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Double Beat 02:58
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The double beat on the window wakes me up I trip into a rhythm from the start The colours of the night are ricocheting Soft pressure of fireworks in my head I feel like the coral, jagged and floral Drawing from the water the salt for my soul But suddenly a shadow passes overhead and moves very slowly The pressure starts to build and my edges crack And you draw out my breath And you bring near the death If living is creativity You've lost the life in me But I've misplaced my love No fireworks above The stars shine as simple as can be My life's not about me When you come in the words always stop The guilt needle rushes to the top Too much sung and not enough done Silence is not enough. I have to have an answer for my time Am I working for your world or mine? Should I release this restless energy? Or does it only fuel the fire?
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Syria 03:53
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She's here Always She's called Liliana No mother and no father They both met bullets It was early morning But there's never any warning We mourn Paris Because they're part of Europe, Connected to the windpipe And then we Doze off We're not interrupted We're in a good neighborhood We keep Their culture The killing and the dying Clip their wings, they're flying We are The first world We keep the separation By patiently ignoring them That day Did we hear the dim explosions Was that A tremour in the double glazing How quickly Did we continue conversation Syria Couldn't be further away
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Honeycomb World 04:22
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The last day of the year And the dark Was put on hold By lights swinging in the wind There in the background Guitars Out of tune voices and Conversation soul to soul I met somebody in the crowded night Who doesn't care if she lives or she dies She's more than happy to stay fast asleep She's in her pocket of this honeycomb world She's rising fast She has Husband, daughter She waves, the crowd waves back to her Nothing else is true She lives Her reality She won't leave home in the flood After we all Counted down New years faded out The guitars and the lights packed down A boy talked to me He had Heart attack last month He was holding on to life
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Echoed in the night 02:56
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Every day The train cycles To From And arriving at the same place I have always arrived Am I getting anywhere? As the day turns into the night In the dark The lights stream Each instant Vanishing gently Serene Empty as my carriage The cares of each day Stream invisibly into the night. Now I am happy But sometimes I wouldn't mind the feeling Of my hollow heart Echoed in the night And your warmth Giving me Enough for Tomorrow
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Movement 03:50
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In the distance there is movement The field, it shimmers in the sunlight, Like grain on a summer's day The wind swells up a distant wave Suddenly my vision clears Droves of people drifting up towards A mountain, the mountain My memory pulls, and I smile Choose life and climb with me into the sun We won't need the rusting sword Nobody will ever make us afraid and before Will slowly, slowly fade Choose life and climb with me into the sun And I Will never See You There Unless you Come With Me

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released January 29, 2016

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Jacob Daffy Pakenham, Australia

Jacob Daffy is a songwriter and singer living in Melbourne who aims to create musically rich and meaningful songs. He loves listening to new music, jamming with friends, and the feeling you get when summer is around the corner.

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