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Promised Land

by Kate Grealy

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1.
Did there really exist a role for wanderer of his kind That was a question he wanted to answer, before his time See Moses wasn't allowed to enter the Promised Land either But at least the goal was visable beneath his feet This man had not been taken to the top of that mountain And wherever he looked there was darkness, an apocalyptic night And that vast barren desert seemed to stretch on forever Endless darkness, even darkness at noon La de da, la de da, even darkness at noon x2 What if the thing you'd strived for, for all your adult life Turned around and shot you without blinking an eye But who raised the pistol, what uniform did he wear? And who's coloured portrain hung over his bed? This man suddenly realised, there was not any mountain And wherever he looked there was darkness, an apocalyptic night That vast barren desert seemed to stretch on forever Endless darkness, even darkness at noon La de da, la de da, even darkness at noon x2
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You came to everyone's crappy show You heard stories no-one else knows Oh why did you have to go? I used to dream of our futures as a child At a time when the limit was the sky Oh Why did you have to go? There ain't nothing in life you can predict But then nothing can prepare you for something like this Oh why did you have to go? I always thought we'd be laughing til we're old Bu then life is something frail onto which none of us can hold Oh why did you have to go?
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Do you know what love looks like Have you seen it looking back at you Have you seen it at midnight, when it rips your life in two Do you see it in the morning light, staring right back at you Do you know what love looks like I don't think you do She met him when she just 17 and he made whole world move And by the way that he looked at her, she thought it was true Had she ever seen the same look in the eyes of another man since then The one who always swore that he would hold her til the end Do you know what love looks like Have you seen it looking back at you Have you seen it at midnight, when it rips your life in two Do you see it in the morning light, staring right back at you Do you know what love looks like I don't think you do Thought they grew together, they moved in separate ways She's met some pretty men but none looked at her the same way While Mr. L. Cohen says it calls you by your name She was certain that it looked her in the face Do you know what love looks like Have you seen it looking back at you Have you seen it at midnight, when it rips your life in two Do you see it in the morning light, staring right back at you Do you know what love looks like I don't think you do
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She walked to the balcony to have a cigarette You were standing in the corner with some other hipsters from Melbourne She took your light, you struck her with your ironic smile and she just stood there stunned Your eyes intersected, she choked on her cigarette as she watched your face lit up by the moon Drunk on her 16th wine, thinking up words to try to start to talk to you But she could hardly speak, tounge stuck to her teeth, taking in all she could of you You in that puzling light, ten minutes to midnight, boy if you only knew If you only knew She watched you up on the stage, engrossed by the parade as you killed her softly with your song Wasting the night away, she danced then she swayed It was you for whom she longed But boy, she could hardly speak, 16 wines too deep Taking in all she could of you You in that puzling light, ten minutes to midnight, boy if you only knew If you only knew

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Recorded by Mas Oki Gembus at Studio Kua Etnika Padepokan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia during 2015

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released March 22, 2016

Kate Grealy: vocals, guitarlele
Pramono Wahyu Hidayat: guitar
Wasis Tanata: drums
Joko Tri Budiono: bass
Akrim 'A-inx' Misuari: piano accordion.

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