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A TON OF COLOURS

by RYAN DOWNEY

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1.
Layers peel back slowly, there’s no true sky Your heart is an onion, it’s making me cry Crawling over car seats till the end of time Our hearts are an onion, mirrors inside Born without the brakes We got on it, we got in it For the friends A leaning tower wins That’s the signal, we be nimble We be quick We said it before and we’ll say it again I don’t know how this all could end But I feel it coming for sure We made it before and we’ll make it again I don’t see how this all could end So what we always waiting on? Layers peel back slowly, there’s no true sky Your heart is an onion, it’s making me cry Crawling over car seats, now don’t you die Our hearts are an onion, mirrors inside Pain against the wind Every age is gonna fade Asking it Our telescopic lens; Love is harder, love is ardour When it bends We said it before and we’ll say it again I don’t know how this all could end But I feel it coming for sure We made it before and we’ll make it again I don’t see how this all could end So what we always waiting on? We made it before and we’ll make it again I don’t see how this all could end So what we always waiting on? Layers peel back slowly, there’s no true sky Your heart is an onion, it’s making me cry
2.
Kaleidoscope horizon Cut through me, you diamond My night-long crave cycle Your eyes on the back of my eyes Your eyes on the back of my eyes No sleep, no think, no speak, no fair Sors de ma tête, j'étais ici le premier Can’t read you, no words left All hotel, no exit Spent weeks in hours My hunger devoured No freedom From dreaming With your eyes on the back of my eyes Your eyes on the back of my eyes No sleep, no think, no speak, no fair Sors de ma tête, j'étais ici le premier Gone are the sounds of the tender and meek Gone is the touch of the finger to cheek Sifting through the shadows for the seven degrees Tryna get an angle, tryna get an angle Oh baby I need you To leave me But your eyes are burning My eyes, burning No sleep, no think, no speak, no fair Sors de ma tête
3.
Half Light 03:18
Stifle the crest I don't wanna be first I still need you But all I don't do make it easy for who in the picture? Arms are not arms are not arms, give me strength I'm here at the table, I will go to its length Am I all alone if I don't understand this; That you need me and I need you? Fear, you will not own me But I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna see half light in full flight Hone my one, my only But I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna see half light in full flight Stifle the view I don't wanna see through I'll still need you Just give me the hour before the sun isn't found in the picture Arms are not arms are not arm, give me strength What's under the table is what's making me sick Am I all alone if I can't make any sense that you need me and I need you? Fear, you will not own me But I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna see half light in full flight Hone my one, my only No I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna see half light in full flight Mine, I don't feel you My love won't break you Mine, I don't hear you My love won't make you break me Arms are not arms are not strength are not arms All I don't do now is doing me harm If love's on the table please don't take it away I can free you as you free me Fear, you will not own me But I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna see half light in full flight Hone my one, my only No I don't ever wanna be lonely So see me in half light, full flight
4.
Contact 03:50
Can’t look down Baby we can’t look down Wheel’s turning like an octagon Tentacles round the oxygen If there’s a reason why There's no reason why We won’t know it from a hologram And that could show up at the close of hands Just like that we’re happy again And nothing else has changed Pictures falling, catching their frame That’s the plug in the ocean baby Hold me like you wanna be held when it’s almost over And all the time you knew me was all the time you loved me Leaning out Baby we’re leaning out World’s turning on all fours again Hold me close so we don’t fall in And if I can’t be touched right now Then I need your love Wheel’s turning like an octagon Take a breathe from each side you’re on And just like that we’re happy again Nothing else has changed Pictures falling, catching their frame That’s the plug in the ocean baby Hold me like you wanna be held when it’s almost over And all the time you knew me was all the time you loved me Just like that we’re happy again And nothing else has changed Pictures falling, catching their frame That’s the plug in the ocean baby Hold me like you wanna be held when it’s almost over And all of the time you knew me was all of the time you loved me
5.
Patterns 03:47
I want you To see me Slither from the sand Feel me, like you can feel me Warm from your hands To see me Hot like this With the taste Of uncoiled risk Mmm Mmm All the stars are dead That I shed Mmm Mmm All the stars are dead And here instead… I’m new, improved Rising in the doom Hey, well here I am And there’s the doom Gleaned A flash against the foam Here and gone Mmm Mmm All the stars are dead That I shed Mmm Mmm All the stars are dead And here instead… I want you See through me The foam against your feet Feel me Beyond belief
6.
Same dream, every night You say I want you I say I want you too Real love’s Not an action anymore It’s not a sight It goes on in the atoms Made, split, made new No kiss is a landmark But the kiss makes a landmark out of me Bolt of definition Strikes through Same dream, every night You say I want you I say I want you too Big house, house dark With the porch light And every window lit bright As a cake, brand new Up above, pillow clouds Bird sound And the sky Fresh sky blue Our heads angle And every angel with a pulse Fills the bulb Makes a red rose fill the room We dive stark into the heart Bring back anything that moves Same dream, every night
7.
Edge Of U 03:09
I’ve seen you in dream You’re the one who sang for me Hard as daylight, now you’re ghost Now the moon lets no wave roll There’s no fires, just alarms Old habits staying young Still there’s burning, still there’s love Still the work of a ghost is done And I’ve got hands for thee As I know you do for me Until I feel you in the moves I’ll be dancing on the edge of you Turn me over, turn me on Love’s not playing, love’s the song All is silent, all is heard Everything aches but nothing hurts Hearts beating, hard to hold Love goes in without us Wave rises, never folds But it blossoms and it blossoms And I’ve got hands for thee As I know you do for me Until I feel you in the moves I’ll be dancing on the edge of you Come lightning, come lightning Come back upon the shore I’m frightened, you’re frightening And that’s what I need the most There’s no distance to the moon now From any given beach Come and strobe strike all my senses I’m right here on the beat
8.
The Holiday 04:21
The wait is over All your little rabbit holes are filling up I’m made of water And I sink like water Rippling out to paradise My stripes, like soft silver tigers Swim, my little enemy in me I’m out beyond the wave that fishes fear You owe me work Work, but I’m the holiday You’ll never… It got cold But really not that cold Snow demons in the sun Their smiles are bending over Five star slipstream That’s me And there’s hope at the head of the V But I’m all you see Swim, my little enemy in me I’m out beyond the wave That fishes fear You owe me, so work Work, but I’m the holiday You’ll never take Feel it all Filling up
9.
I’m back I’ve got your back Now you’ve had mine It’s such a vision to turn ‘round to That quiet strength That measured breath I couldn’t breathe Till you told me You can’t turn it off Now I’m a feather A ton of feathers Free to fall Catch every corner of the breeze And you remain Never the same I drew your eyes In my mind A single line Drew me back a thousand times To where I’ve been To what I’ve seen That same familiar feeling Of surprise all over again Now I’m in colour A ton of colours Free to fill every corner of the breeze And you remain Never the same
10.
Bobby 04:31
Bobby got them big beige eyes Honey that’ll twist your mind up blue You know you need a little new in you Bloom after bloom Flowers from another world Wanna bloom in you Wind hints across the island All this perfume, cocktail hour But if you’re listening to the lack below It’s gonna try to melt you It don’t wanna tell you What it don’t know Bobby wake that nerve Bobby wake that nerve Come on Bobby wake that nerve You got the curve in your backbone Bobby, I can see the whole sky through you Held up, loved up, fixed up blue There’s no shame in coming through a door I love you when you’re winning Love you when you’re swimming Back to shore Bobby wake that nerve Bobby wake that nerve Come on Bobby, wake that nerve You got the curve in your backbone

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released May 14, 2021

All songs written by Ryan Downey
Performed by Ryan Downey, Nicholas Roder, Jesse Glass
Produced, engineered and mixed by Burke Reid at Soundpark Studios in Melbourne
Mastered by Guy Davies at Electric Mastering in London
Artwork by Kate Adams

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