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For Everybody And No One

by Matt Midgley

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1.
Hatchet 02:53
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A pregnant dawn Heavy with promise It's much too early Much too honest And my coffee has burned again Your pauses stifle Tearing out my lungs What were those women like When they were young? Bitter: Forgot my cane. Inconceivable is a fallacy Why we care, we can't recall The clock hits six Contractions of worry breaks against the window pane One last good luck before you go Read the paper To tear away my mind From abstract thoughts Of absent times Movement makes me ill Watch the cobbles Push up the sun I wonder if their hands get burned Sometimes Good things can hurt
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Everybody And No One 02:58
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He locks the front door late Even though he got up on time Watches the first train come and go To buy himself some Gets lost inside a crossword Only knows a couple of clues Drags and stamps his third cigarette Get plenty more to lose Surrounded by nameless faces Never felt so alone Sends out a message addressed To everybody and no one She watches the glowing boxes For the fiftieth hour that week The chime of the inbox tells her The weekend's not quite yet She focuses on the middle Tries to hold herself in Closes her eyes and counts to ten A drink can't come too soon
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Treehouse 04:52
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Late night, come home Feeling fine A few jars down, played Guess it went alright But sitting in the dark I can't help but stare At the faces in the cloth The faces in my head I am sorry To put you through this It's not your fault But something takes hold Then I'm caught And before you know, I'm I'm going down, going down, going down And I can't get back up No, I can't get back up Alone all day Waiting by the line Got caught on a claw: Bled Locked outside But sitting the dark I can't help but crave A drink with a friend But a friend I can't find here
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Carrier Wave 04:38
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Decided to write you a letter But I tore it up I might understand, but I don't comprehend Why you never stopped Bought a new bag to go with your shoes And I filled it up With sincerities, gratuities, and apologies But it wasn't enough No it wasn't enough If I don't call you, know it's not because And if say that I love you, know that it's not false And if I seem distant, know you can't have done more If I seem like I'm coping, know it's just because You are my carrier A carrier wave keeping me afloat And I know that you walk just behind Maybe out of touch, but never out of mind Alone one night I took a drink from the bottle You never told me off You took a swig yourself and asked me up to dance "So sorry! It's over!" AndiIf I don't call you, know it's not because And if say that I love you, know that it's not false And if I seem distant, know you can't have done more If I seem like I'm coping, know it's just because Know it's just because When I lost my mind When my body fell apart When the bank got broke When I broke my heart When I missed my train Had to sleep outside Battered by the rocks and Scattered by the tide When I lost job Couldn't pay my way When I paced through the night And I slept through the day When I lost the roof from over my head When my face got bloody falling down, you said: I'll be you carrier I'll carry you 'til you can find your feet And when you do, know I'll be just behind Maybe out of touch, but never out of mind Maybe out of touch, but never out of mind
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Penumbra 03:17
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A poet picks his words with care With calculating poise His woman too, he might calculate But when he's done, he's done A sucker I got caught up by love Was it real? Did it count? You sing 'bout how you killed the man That mean it's done? It's done How many times have I thought these thoughts? If I cared I might count You might have killed the man dear, but he killed you too An artists pushes paint around The expressions in the wrist He'll flick his brush to make you weep But when he's done, he's done I might have got what I deserved For fucking with your head Still I can't help but believe That we're not done, not done
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Vanilla 03:06
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Hatchet (Reprise) 00:25
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A silent night Heavy with sorrow It's been six month now From tomorrow And my glass is half empty again One last good luck, and then I'll go
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Foster 03:05
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I talk to myself But I don't find no answer Black teeth give me clarity Feeds the dragon, sets me free Hypnotise, hypnotise, hypnotise me The sweetest words you have imparted Green fairy you slipped out of the bottle and into my mind Makes me wonder why I only choose to see you at night I have taken the time And I have taken the path But the tiger just waits To see me die
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Icarus 03:08
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I hardly know you but I wish you well Your smile firm set, betrayed By the burden you've placed 'round your neck You told me your words were a vessel Do you think they're worth believing? You dance like there's not another soul in the room You breeze through the streets making faces at panes Yet they always seem distant You told me the ocean's in seashells Do you think that's worth believing? Do you believe it yourself? So take every feather you've put in your cap With arms outstretched Declare that you finished looking back You'll still have you monuments if you ignite And if you impact, well At least you'll have tried To risk all you have, and swallow the sun To risk all you've got, to swallow the sun Risk all you've got, to swallow the sun Do you believe it yourself? Do you believe in yourself?
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Ribbon 05:41
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Lately I've been running much too fast Eyes down never watching, never looking back I guess it comes naturally to you I guess it comes naturally to you Those were the longest days Everything is turmoil again, it's all collapsed Focused too much on one piece and saw the gaps But silence is louder without your breath Silence is louder without your breath Those were the longest days So long snake: It's time to flow Hello bird: It's time you soared So afraid of failure, so scared of success Heard some advice, taken from the best Get up, man up, and carry on
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Late To Fall 03:53
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Been three days now Since I could Sleep well, I'll try Not to disturb The debris from The drills in the wall Make my head split Splits up the day, and I haven't felt like this since I last missed you call It's only the passing of time, that's all We've walked for miles Trying to cure this Ma'lady take my hand I feel I'm starting to Slip outside For a twilight Smoke on the hour Splits up the day, and I haven't felt like this since I last missed you call It's only the passing of time, that's all Take what you can, and try not to fall
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Those Three Words 03:23
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My shoes stick in my throat My words trip up on this swollen subway floor That's going nowhere And the lights, and the smoke, and the sound hits me All at once I'm alive yet I don't Feel anything at all I can't hear, but I laugh And you laugh back 'til we're almost out of air I'm deflated,and hollow, and empty, and wasted Those words are overused and under-meant They roll off the tongue like and empty promise So quick to dismiss what we say when we've had a few But I've never been more honest when I say: It's my round, no I don't mind I've got to get out of this crowd and out of my head And out of yours too And we dance, and we scowl United by that bastard and that's all That's all Those words are overused and under-meant They roll off the tongue like and empty promise So quick to dismiss what we say when we've had a few But I've never been more honest when I say: I don't love you I don't love you I've never loved you
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Worlds End 04:31
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Woke up this morning And the world had ended Rubbed my eyes And they just streamed Tried to find Small comfort in it As I stood there naked I felt my heart Feel my heart beat Got myself together And went outside Went down to the river To see first hand The banks were muddy And the fish had drowned As I watched them thrash I felt my lungs Feel my lungs breath Feel my heart beat And start over again And you are not alone And there's no one in the sky So get up off your knees And dry your fucking eyes You've felt this way before And you're sure to love again So learn how best to cope And memorise the pain And when you feel the darkness Encroach upon your soul Take a moment's silence Remember what you own A heart to pump your blood Lungs to breath the air Eyes to witness beauty Stop blinding them with tears The world's not ended
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Time To Part 02:46
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Please don't sit there speechless Just staring at your toes I understand it's a lot to take in, but I don't Know how to start explaining Justifying or defending Can't make it make much sense But I'll try: At first we were a shambles Two one way streets, no traffic signs The pile up was predictable We always jumped the lights When we met three years later While we'd both grown more sober Our beginnings were and will be lined With bottles and bathroom tiles We hid it with the sex With hangovers and sleeping bags With bags under our sleepless in the cold light of day See we aren't simple addition Or even straight subtraction We're an inverse logarithm Rising, but never meet See the funny thing about us that are emotionally retarded We seek the company of mirrors To clearly preen out faults And for a while it seems ok If it's not worsening it's getting better So who's a pretty Polly? Sure as hell isn't me There's plenty I'm unsure of And I know that it's a gamble But the only things that's certain is a wait and a box And 'cause the time's unknown It's even more important I'm leaving, I'm withdrawing It's time for us to part I'm leaving, I'm withdrawing It's time for us to part
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Road 02:37
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Awake How am I awake Shouldn't be hard to drift off Four sheets to a gale Blood rush to the temple Slackens the sails A drink More time for a drink More-so lest I'm sober And I can't take that All that I have now is all that I've have While I will take my leave Not like that A sound What I'd give for a sound To drown out the insistent silence so invasive To save me from drowning in my glass so persuasive A road Oh, draw me a road So long as I'm moving I feel more at home So long as I'm lonely I've the drive to keep going So long's I've the will I might just say no And we'll dance there 'neath the moonlight 'til the day paints us a new sky
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Landslide 03:11
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I took my love and I took it down I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well, the landslide brought me down Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, oh Well, I've been afraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Children get older And I'm getting older too Well Well, I've been afraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Children get older And I'm getting older too Well, I'm getting older too So take this love and take it down Yeah, and if you climb a mountain and you turn around And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well, the landslide brought it down And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well maybe, well maybe, well maybe A landslide will bring you down

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released April 22, 2018

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Matt Midgley is a Scottish solo-acoustic musician currently based in Oxfordshire. Some people have said the following nice things about him and his music:

“Matt is a one man sledgehammer of in your face emotion and raw talent”
Mike Dawes, 2014

"highly-skilled, compellingly entertaining"
Guardian Music, 2012


"outstanding guitar virtuoso; excellent voice"
Icarus Club London, 2011 ... more

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