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Palace of Envy
04:19
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Did you see me breaking into a white marble palace? Shifty eyes
Lying by the swimming pool, can you dream of a life like mine?
I can show you what my life is, I can tell it to you in words
Oh this castle is a place of our creation
But it goes on and on, the girl with the eyes downturned
Livin' in a fortress, sleeping upon silken cushions
Did you see me breaking into a white marble palace? Shifty eyes
Girl with the beautiful guitar, the entry to the palace looming from the sky
When you see it in the pictures, she is always laughing endless
Playing in the garden, some exotic thing
You all knew the girl was me, I the chosen one to be
Is it so undreamed of, me inside the palace
ohhhhh-whoahhhh
Everyone has seen this girl, she represents the world
She is her bedroom dreaming of the kisses
Now it is her time to shine, yesterday is left behind
No more can they say to her, never belonging
You all knew the girl was me, I the chosen one to be
I am carrying the water from the ocean
Sitting on the swinging bench in the garden where I met
The man in the robes who put some flowers in my hand
Ahhhhhhhhhh
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Was it September
03:19
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Was it September when we fell in love?
You were flying so high you were up above
Glitter in your eyes, all the sunny skies, nobody on our minds
Was it a victory I was looking for?
Someone to sweep everything off the floor
All that I adored, but truly it was yours, all that you took me for
You were my true love once upon a dream
I was on cloud nine when you spoke to me
You were angel dust, you let me love you first, I never told you the truth
When we spoke on the street
You were like a lilting
Wallflower dressed in blue jeans
When we spoke on the street
Like you'd been sent to me
It was your day to be free
I often told you that I loved him more
I was afraid to be only yours
You were truly wild, all he had was a smile, I was never really beguiled
He could have easily been put last
You did your best to wake me up first
Grateful that I know, I've lived and cannot go, any further into the past
When I woke in a dream
I don't even remember
What I knew in all September
Was it September when we fell in love?
You were flying so high you were up above
Glitter in your eyes, all the sunny skies, nobody on our minds
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we're looking through an opening in Maya's veil into the real beyond
we open up our eyes to the splendour all around
there's nothing real but love, all else is without ground
we rise above the battle and we see it was just a game we played
we leave our toys behind and listen to the call
we rings our words like bells and sing our way back home
we're falling falling falling through the looking glass to the other side of fear
and when we're here we see that the veil has just one side
illusions melt away, we leave it all behind
we're falling falling falling through the looking glass into each other's arms
at last we meet for real in the light of the inner sun
shining through the veil and lightening up our eyes
we're falling falling falling through the looking glass into each other's arms
at last we meet again in the light of the inner sun
shining through the veil and lightening up our eyes
we're falling falling falling through the looking glass into each other's arms
at last we meet again in the light of the inner sun
shining through the veil and lightening up our eyes
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When we moved out
04:54
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when we moved out you were still in my life
and I found out this time you were on my side
you feared I had caught the wrong train, afraid I was on a train to nowhere
everything seemed so bleak in my eyes even though you were on my side
you were so mad that I worked so hard for my own father's side
it made me so sad, got lost in a dream you said it was my side I had to live
you feared I'd get carried away trying to catch up to the end of day
all of my life all down the drain if you weren't there my friend
your two hands protecting me from what was happening behind the scenes
everything seemed so dark in my dreams, so lucky you were here
you met my mother, you brightened my day you said as we walked away
all night I was sick in your backyard, will there ever be a time machine?
you told me life is too short for worrying about all the loss
you can go so far, just follow your heart, there you will find all you lost
I don't know what happened unlucky thirteen
I don't know what happened in between
when we were enemies
will I see you around those suburbs, will I know all that it's worth?
cause I'm not so down and I should have known after all that I've lost
I'll always treasure who you were then and what you made me believe in
always a pleasure to see you again, it's just like where we left
when we moved out
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Daydreams (Japanese)
03:13
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Lyrics by Mayumi Mullins
Guitar, keys and vocals by Mayumi Mullins
Written, performed and produced by Mayumi Mullins
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6. |
When I was rich
03:26
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when I was rich the world was a playground
like a child, it seemed so big and welcoming
There was so much to explore in the city
So much opportunity could give me
When I was rich, I was fearless and free
I was never afraid to fly
Because at the other end lay a shopper’s paradise
The dress from Tokyo, the shoes from London
Now I wear tracksuit pants and walk around the outskirts of town
In my suburb there’s a man who stands in his front lawn
Naked while I go for morning walks he’s just like me…
When I was rich I was thin as a rail
I ate at restaurants every night and stopped at half full
It’s not a myth you know, it’s the actual truth
It’s the rich that are thin, it’s part of their pull
Now there’s just my Pepsi max to cheer me up every afternoon
And I dream of a house in the Dandenongs
Now there’s nobody who ever falls in love with me
And I have this happiness story
A piano in the early dawn in a house I’ll always call my home
A white cat with little orange feet and a man to make my life complete
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Loft
02:40
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she opened the door to her apartment in the high-rise complex
it was two storeys, one a loft upon which she lay in bed
her name I protect
it was so foreign that I'll blind them from it
like me, she was as white as snow but her hair was jet-black
never had I been oh so safe and comfortably wrapped
we played like we were so young
fabric, buttons, glue and all the best fun
and nighttime games until she lay upon
her bed and pulled me in
in slow motion
when I awoke and I remembered last night's sole endeavour
her kisses and her words to me I'll remember forever
without which I would
be my own shadow, not who I've become
I'm gonna tell you the truth now, this is just a story
fictional tale of my deepest wished for fantasy
I wanna go to a party
kiss the prettiest girl there
brown skinned, red haired or maybe blonde
one day I'll know what love is
and where I belong
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I have a very special dream for mama and papa
we're gonna get into a plane, fly to France that's the plan
mama you've given me so much, papa it was more than enough
all of your riches and all of your time
we'll stay in a boutique hotel, watch people carrying baguettes home
escargots for dinner and clafoutis, pinot noir and French TV
I don't know how much time we have left,
now that you're both growing old and frail
I will show you life in Paris, we can fly
I'm gonna plant a flower bed for mama and I'll tend to it
I'm gonna build a garden shed for papa so he can rest in it
mama your legs are now aching, you can no longer grow parsley
papa when is the last time that you had fun
I don't know how much time we have left
I want your final years to be blessed
I'll shower you with all of my love
night and day
I have a very special dream for mama and papa
we're gonna get into a plane, fly so far far away
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9. |
Canary Bay
02:36
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It's at Canary Bay
Girls who lived in secret
It's at Canary Bay
Thousands of girls who loved each other
just past the cape of the thunderstorm
a lost, isolated place at the sea's end
there are phantom ships in the ocean
to protect all the land from all the earth
hey hey this is a bay very far, far from here
hey hey a secret bay to where no one else can escape
It's at Canary Bay
Girls who lived in secret
It's at Canary Bay
Thousands of girls who loved each other
and just between them and without a man
on rocks and forests where they lived
all the days spent on frivolous games
and nothing more could disturb them
hey hey, a pyramid all around protected them
hey hey, behind it they undressed and made love
It's at Canary Bay
Girls who lived in secret
It's at Canary Bay
Thousands of girls who loved each other
and in the night and under the moon
they danced, had fun whenever they wanted
and they bathed in their shorts inside the foam
and laughed, had fun as they pleased
hey hey, in this bay no one could access
hey hey, a secret bay to where no one else can escape
It's at Canary Bay
It's at Canary Bay
It's at Canary Bay
It's at Canary Bay
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last night in the big hall in the city
I caught sight of myself reflected in the mirror
it's like I'd arrived here from another year
all this time between was just a filler
look what you've done to me
all dressed up and looking nice and clean
look what you've done to me
though I'm here alone again
I can melt away and just fit in
like I've always been like this
as I was walking up and down the stairs
restless and waiting for the doors to open
it's like I had stepped into a time machine
not of the kind I'd hung my hopes on
it only goes forward
whether we want to be there at all
only goes forward
all that got destroyed
I can build again from pieces of
what's leftover and still good
the hope that I hold in my heart is not of you
it's the hope itself I've suddenly been vaulted into
it's not like you can make up for what I've been through
I still regret things I can't undo
was it my destiny? is it time to finally ascend
to where I'm meant to be?
no one but you believed
I'd find my way back out of this mess
this time I wouldn't self defeat
last night as I walked home from the city
I had a revelation that I'm in the clear
all of the rest of my life is in front of me
I feel I still have so many years
nothing is stopping me
the barriers were all inside my head
nothing is stopping me
now that I've suddenly
been transformed into all of this instead
of what I thought was my own fate
last night when I got home from the city
as I lay in bed drifting off to sleep
I thought of the tribulations of the years
does it even matter, now I'm here?
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Mayumi Mullins Melbourne, Australia
Mayumi is a songwriter and multi instrumentalist living in Melbourne, Australia. Her fairytale lyricism is influenced by fiction and sometimes real life, and she is mostly a recording artist whose favourite place is her bedroom where she can write songs. Mayumi's music is like a freshwater spring bubbling up at unexpected times, or a silk quilt in a warm lamplit room on a cold day. ... more
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