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island girl
04:07
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no man is an isle, we're waiting for our island princess
i haven't seen mine for a while, she's dancing in that yellow dress and as i sleep i hope she smiles, cos where i lay it feels like a concrete floor
a monarch with orange wings stopped by to say hello
riding on our dolphin skis, and that night we saw the moonwhale
it's been one big dream, i hope that this doesn't go stale, wrap around me a lavalava, so i can feel my island girl
(where are you now going island girl)
where you gotta go, what ya gotta see my little island girl my little island, where you going?
don’t go
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dolphin skis
04:20
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comfortable bubble pops mid-air, i can see my mother pulling at her hair
saying dive with me, dive with me, dive with me, dive
cove in the shallows, to keep the water warm, i learnt that in a doco, for conversations sake
now drown with me, drown with me, drown with me, drown
the refraction of light underwater, shows us what it’s like to see beauty before we die
it’s time to leave the nest, my fearful feathered friend, the beat is in your chest, but you are in your head
singing fly with me, fly with me, fly with me, fly with me, fly
darling if you splash into the water, tide will bring you back
comfortable bubble pops mid-air, i can see my lover waving me into swim
saying dive with me, dive with me, dive with me, dive
fly with me, fly with me, fly with me, fly with me, fly
drown with me, drown with me, drown with me drown
the refraction of light underwater, shows us what it’s like to see beauty before we die
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o'la
03:30
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she is dressed in banana best, freckled and brown with dots
i can see she is ripe and fine, I wonder if I’m a peel to her
o’la
with my feathers on display, she moves like she wants to know my name,
wild as we courtship dance, tomorrow we are making plans
o’la
hold me brother just to sit closely, i will bring her love to me slowly, is it paper stains or is it golden? what will be the way?
darling I will not leave and forget love, forget love, fall in love
o’la
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she's my baby
03:28
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i know what it’s like when were one on one, I’ve never had so much fun
making love like we had no rush, then i got confused and i made myself a fuse and it blew
shes my baby
we stopped for a while I came to notice, that everything is shit without you,
and i’ll pretend like i’m the guy who wants this, but love I dunno, I dunno
shes my baby
i was a buoy in the water, wandering where i float, you sat by the ocean, watching me to and fro
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life is golden
03:50
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if life, my love, was always golden, then my soul it would be soldered, in the mold they pour on children as their souls begin
just believe, in what you’re told and only scream when fear takes hold, and understand now was it worth it, spending time without dad
so, all my friends they seem to leave me right before the times I need one, then again when one starts bleeding there I am again
don’t hide, there
so, life with pills is always ways golden, right before the time you’ve fallen, in the hole, the pity people adore him, as the crowd it sings
so, they bid to sing-a-long, the remix coughs like a gatorade bong, when did worth come before meaning, what’s a kitchen sink
don’t hide, there
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no geography
02:28
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our love has no geography, but you said come with me so i’ll go, i asked where we’ll meet and you shook head i’m unsure, i’ll take a towel and lay it out for you and me, when i’m onshore with you i wanna spend some time there honey, with you
at the beach we see beauty past the caution signs we’ll be just fine i know, remember when I was on at nine and you had ten minutes to get to my show, you text “i’m running late”, next thing i see you walk into the door, when our paths cross we harvest the ‘garden of love’
where we’ll grow, basil leaves and olives trees, and make-believe fairy seats, we can just be sittin’ acting so smitten, cos our love has no geography, you said come with me so i’ll go,
our love has no geography it’s not what you see but much more,
our love has no geography,
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Tom Riccioni Melbourne, Australia
After a string of intimate shows across Europe in 2019, Tom released a self-produced single called “Sunup” in Jan 2020 which received national airplay “…I want you to sit in the magic of Tom’s music… So much emotion behind his lyrics” ~ Nkechi Anele (Triple J, Roots’N’All) ... more
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