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The Distance From Here

by Stuart O'Connor

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1.
Side of the Road 02:20
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Keep me out on a limb till I stop trying Pulled up by the side of the road just let me sleep And stop sighing Maybe it's nice to see you again But no matter how hard I try I always fail in being you friend I'm pulled up by the side of the road just let me sleep I'm pulled up by the side of the road just let me be.
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You Know The Score 04:52
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In 17 seconds the slap head reckons Is the time that it takes to make your blood thicken In a matter of hours the global powers Can wait no more to start pushing up flowers In the wake of the burning your brain starts yearning For a life that is ignorant of all this learning In this state of existence you build up resistance But a split moment lapse can rain on your persistence And so you know you've been here before No this aint no Déjà vu Cause you know the score And so you know you've been here before And you know you're probably gonna Be here some more You'll be here some more Stop says the sign Does it mean forever or is it playing with your mind Go faster says the grind And so it grates like sand paper Smoothing off your edges over time
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Precursor 01:01
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A Common Destination 05:27
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Suck em and see says the man with the bee line Headed behind him no need to remind him This is where the money goes tonight This is where the people show their bad side Don't kiss and tell say the people who smell The fear in the street are the people who greet you Come the time your spare change is stuck in wires Come the time you wish you could just start a riot Messed up pieces of the puzzle Meaning less each time they muddle Different receipts from all the places you've been Plus the bits in-between were you living your dream or Just denying the inevitable Just denying feeling gullible Messed up pieces of the puzzle Meaning less each time they muddle Messed up readings on the scale They're made by you each time you fail Messed up beats by respiration We're headed to a common destination You are
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Cotton Mill Greys 02:18
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Evening deals pass like clockwork time There's an underclass that helps to undermine It's a bitter sweet rebellion kicking not too far And not too hard this time Winter breeze sticks in it's evil chill And the people are wrapped in greys from the cotton mill There's tenderness a plenty but it's not to sure weather this is an even keel The summer seller paint with pastel cliches And all the hippies are too busy making love to save the day So it's up to you and me with our cotton mill greys to keep on fighting for what we wanna say So starbucks populate the overground And the ring of tills becomes the only sound And for every lost sensation there's a swinging corporation Giving up its soul for dollars and pounds
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The Distance From Ear To Ear 04:52
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We said we both wanted out Now We said we both thought about How The problem is the distance I have from ear to ear It offers me solutions that have no fear But I'm thankful for things that I have not lost, The moment they are gone I will know their cost We said we'd figure it out But we won't We said we'd do all we can Buit we don't The problem is the distant I have from ear to ear Well it offers me solutions that disappear And then I make up a theory then disagree I'm distrustful of a future that I can't see And then you You wake me up (So we beat this slump by going inbetween) And then you You wish me no luck (So we beat this slump by going inbetween) And then you You do me so wrong (So we beat this slump by going inbetween) And then you You blink and I'm gone (So we beat this slump by going in-between) And then you go your way and I'll go my way and we will never meet
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Initiate 02:49
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The relevance of this occasion goes by The time it took for complications to unfreeze your mind Leave a little alteration behind Because it's only polite The pool of ignorance holds us blind We're shallow in the water but far from the sides Help us swim in deeper Help us learn to stabilise The line it turns so crooked when we try to preach The black spots are our markers for what we cannot reach It's not what we had planned We thought that our development could teach The veil remains down without a trace The chances are so few so please let us see that face So we can look into your eyes And you can look into ours without disgrace Help us swim in deeper Help us learn to radiate Help us swim deeper Help us learn to Initiate
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Ask All 02:03
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9.
Blind Faith 03:42
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Blind Faith you scuffle when you muffle consequence is but a shuffle In this rat race too late says the man He is trying to change your one demand And so migrate eyes onto the border Live it up breath it in take it down keep it in And hibernate till you have the key till you have the route Through this road they call reality And so you know you've been here before Déjà vu is still following you with a dried up thirst for more And on closer inspection the need for reflection Is a way to hide from your own imperfection So give me the time to ask what is wrong And give me the time to take the problem on And give me the time to do arithmetic's By looking under rocks and learning new tricks And so you know there's been some silence made You took the time to stop by design and now you don't feel so afraid And with this new sense of freedom You're sure that you don't need them To tell you where you're going wrong And tell you how to sing your song So take up this knowledge and use it Cause trends are the NME of music Made by the types with vested interests Who take all they can hold back the rest
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Interlude 01:24
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Reality & Pretence 03:50
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When alone we can trade a kiss And then disown it like it wasn't really intended The jury's out on if I'm missed But if I'm mistaken then I thought we had shared was bliss It's a game I guess with a long haul rest bite in-between It's a passing trend that dated so immediately It's a candid moment that only you an I could see And then it's gone And now I wrestle with Infatuation again The line is blurred between reality and pretence It's no-ones fault and so resolve is all that can make a mens When you're just good friends
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Spun 05:08
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We break silence with some aggravated violence It's a shame to hear the sound And we break hearts and minds we feel it like no other kind It's either that or drown And we shape geography we cut out what we want and keep I'll strip what's mine from the ground And we make history by selling up what was once free I'll match this world pound for pound We've been suckered by the politicians Keeping off the inquisitions telling us things are good We've been fooled by the message keepers Truth hides even deeper Media is understood We've been feeding of the enzymes and this time They're disguised as past times We've been busy having fun Making sure the spin doctors Are keeping our records spun We've been busy chasing fast cars beating fuckers in bars Looking out for number one We've been shredding up the Ozone call it on your cell phone Tell it that it's time is done We've been style over content no time to repent Your bling bling has blung We've been busy having fun Making sure the spin doctors Are keeping our records spun We've been co-operating take over have a label make over The logo in this sheep is shorn We've seen music via video T&A in stereo Take it up the A and run We've been running with a limp and trading with a Pimp to play a game of limp or run We've been busy having fun Making sure the spin doctors Are keeping our records spun
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Appellate 09:34
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From apartment building backstreets from inside the promised land Lost glory start reminiscing And so the 'Midnight Moth' always the opportunist Gives him the slip and makes for the freight train With overcast shadows towards global the dark side maestro Antagonises the fetishists (To secure the profit system, to ensure we will always need them) But a love letter has been written to the CEO And while that lunatic stamps his authority on an unconvinced majority Who shout Hear me now Change is afoot The midnight moth is near the cargo bay Acknowledging that corporation defined Ceases to exist as a majority but continues to React as an uncooperative mastermind Temporary relocation has been deemed essential And so the freight train maintains its course south along the line Being merely an unannounced and undesired passenger He maintains subtlety amongst passers by Choosing to keep permissive Despite lost glory's recent decline The Midnight Moth finds refuge amongst the people left in transit Claiming fragile Expensive goods

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Stuart O'Connor's 2nd Album

A result of the culture shock that has come from the first 2 years as a full time musician.

Songs that shift in comfort as the constant transience of the road has left its impression.

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released March 30, 2008

Produced by Chris Hollis with assistance from Stuart O'Connor

Recorded at Midnight Moth Studios, Hertfordshire, UK

Except Track 8 recorded by Yasir Alani at Alchamea Studios, Islington, London

Mastered by Andy Black at Studio Slim, London

Cover Photography by Rob Mchale www.flickr.com/robertmchale rob.macca at yahoo.com

Taken at Club 85, Hitchin, UK

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Stuart O'Connor UK

Full time touring internationally since 2006.

Over 2000 shows - in UK Japan, New Zealand, Australia, S. Korea, Italy,
Germany, Colombia, France, Poland, Austria, Czech Rep, Thailand,
Netherlands, Switzerland, United States.

Sharing billings with
Damien Rice, Billy Cobham, Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), The Staves,
Ocean Colour Scene, Mad Professor, Ed Sheeran, James Bay, To name a few. ... more

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