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Granted

by Sexton Blake

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1.
Go Outside 04:06
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You have windows but no fresh air You have plants but their roots don’t go anywhere Peek around the corner let your ego drag behind don’t stop to think about it before you change your mind Chorus: Go outside Go beyond your mind’s eye You won’t die You’re in your natural habitat Go Outside Chip away at you tried Play with pride Drumming Rat ta tat tat tat ta-at Reach out before You push away Have your fears be Rearranged Peek around the corner let your ego drag behind don’t stop to think about it before you change your mind Feet first Head up step one climb Footprints in sight challenging your fight or flight Breath the air feel the rhythm in the wind fumble into the flow X4 Chorus
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Laugh till we all fall down 03:54
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We follow the formula They gave us the tools We all crawl to the top of the stairs where our thoughts have been pooled We’re weighed down with order We itch and we scratch We all patiently wait for the next chance to distract Swallowing dry Hoarding happy Ice cold alarms are ringing You’re looking at normal and it’s ugly We are juggling our values We are painting on our frowns we are magicians We laugh we laugh we laugh till we all fall down I read through the headlines My mind starts to run Repeatedly making me fear all the bad that could be done Before I can hide My body shuts down I need a disguise if I’m going to go out and around Pre-chorus Chorus Hahahahhhahahhahhhahahahhhhaaaahahahahah! Chorus
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The World Keeps Turning 03:36
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The World Keeps Turning By Sexton Blake I’m watching the stars thinking bout how far Just how far they are I’m one square foot of the world The world in it’s own bubble A teeny tiny sparkle So much space to think when you’re looking up Where’s the wildcat sign in my zodiac The world keeps turning and I don’t do anything So much space to think when you’re looking up Where’s the wildcat sign in my zodiac The world keeps turning and I don’t do anything I can’t even see your start or finish You’re so vast that I am breathless And I relish in my nothingness Relax, Relaxing insignificance I’m kissing the trees The giants in the picture show They’re blanketing Blanketing my soul The sweetest things are slow They grow and grow They seem impossible Pre-chorus Chorus Bumper to bumper people We all need to get there To get where we are all going Two steps forward one step back Is just enough time to let happiness catch up I’m so sick of my own company Where’s the starts and trees looking back at me The world keeps turning I don’t need to do anything So much space to think when you’re looking up Where’s the wildcat sign in my zodiac The world keeps turning and I don’t do anything
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Sadness 03:30
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Today felt like a life Said the pie man to the butcher Smells like love of things is being made Today I taste the spice Said the florist to the baker Cooking poetry into your bread again Follow the heart beat in the cement Walking in a watercolour painting This is the best place to be holding hands Factory of love Everyone’s collecting I fell in love in all the wrong places Fooled by the artistry of your faces I was visiting love And it’s flirting with lost So I’ve gotta go home soon Baptized by the rain Turning the pages of a passport Freedom floats and the salty air’s our guide Anchored by the chain Of drinking in coffee shop comfort Sailors, cyclists, poets, artists all collide Pre-chorus Chorus I fell in love in all the wrong places I fell in love in all the wrong places Fooled by the artistry of your faces I fell in love in all the wrong places
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Sweet Oblivion 04:18
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Burn off the cloud and clear the scene Life goes back to our routine We tied a ribbon on their souls It cannot fill It cannot fill this size of hole We buy a gun and build a bomb We burn we bury and we run We build an army and get strong We won’t be choked by what you’ve done Bring back the sweet oblivion Let’s all go, let’s go to higher ground Play make-believe on the playground We dig a moat and build a wall We check and double check it all We get insured and looked both ways Know our plan to evacuate I won’t be choked by what you’ve done Chorus Their off to hone their busy minds Practice on mini adult things The alphabet and building blocks Colour and counting all the rocks They are just doing what they see We try to teach them to be free To this fear we won’t succumb Though we have lost you have not won Though we have lost you have not won Though we have lost you have not won Though we have lost you have not won Chorus X2
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Say NO 03:54
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Yes I wanna say yes I wanna say yes I wanna say ah ah Take the phone away No I cannot play There’s no easy way- ya ya Making everyone happy Handing it out like a candy I can’t bring myself to disappoint Hear the awkward after I say NO How do I say? What do I say? How do I say? NO What do I say? How do I say? What do I say? NO NO X2 I’m like an oil spill Coating everything with art Only the surface gets a head start Feeling like a fossil Using up my fuel This kinds of lifestyle needs renewal Growth lives underneath But I need room to move Fatten up the space around you Not thinning out your dreams Not hoping to float back up a downward stream Always feeling like a chore Then I work and work and work some more Time is narrowing And I’m bending like a dorsal fin Where I bend dictates where I go I’ve been to Oz and back Keeping low Following like Toto I’d like a hand in my own puppet show Stop lying like Pinocchio to myself Forget quid pro quo I’m aiming further over the rainbow Thickening my skin takes practice And I’m not well rehearsed but getting better versed at saying no to you and therefore saying yes to me So when you ask and my mouth gets dry My people pleasure inside has signed on the dotted line And While I think And while I think And while I think I have no excuse Except that I want to try being happy Forgive me I put you on the ignore list and swallow Yes I wanna say yes I wanna say yes I wanna say ah ah Take the phone away No I cannot play There’s no easy way- ya ya Making everyone happy Handin it out like a candy I can’t bring myself to disappoint Hear the awkward after I say NO How do I say? What do I say? How do I say? NO What do I say? How do I say? What do I say? NO NO X 2 Guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt……. Let’s practice….No No No NO NOONOO No No nO!
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We Built a Home 04:27
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released June 15, 2016

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SextonBlake Rossland, British Columbia

Nadine Tremblay created her alter ego ‘Sexton Blake’ for the launch of her newest career as a songstress/ DJ. Miss Blake has stage fright so playing a character is necessary and as for the origin of the name, ask your Cockney friends about what it means. Sexton’s music is innovative and energetic with hip hop, indie, synth-pop and electro influences, from the garage to the studio to you. ... more

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