Moving On

from Hutong by Contraplans

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Moving On

If you could give yourself a break,
Then you’d sit back and watch it all effortlessly fall into place.
You’d see there’s something strange
About the thought of higher powers sitting somewhere
Pulling on your strings.
If you give your god a face,
It stands to reason one day you will have to stare into it.
If i do i’ll tell you now i won’t be there for long,
Because i’ll make my peace as i go along.

I’m moving on
Its time to put those fears aside
I’m moving on
Lord knows it’s time.

Although i see there’s another path
I’m sick of people telling me i have to put my order in.
That nature moves in mysterious ways,
And my mind is just a magnet and my life is drawn into it.
I’d like to give a little something back,
So i’m sifting through the madness and i’m trying to make sense of it.
And when i do, i’ll tell you now, it won’t last for long,
Because i’m cleaning out this walk-in closet once and for all.

From the window of this tireless train
I see the remnants of the rain that punished me with shades of grey.
No cross to lean on all the way,
So my sadness had a density that you could not appreciate.
I never got the news,
It was written in a language that would put the apples in the spoons.
But the quest to order and explain will never keep you warm.

credits

from Hutong, released April 4, 2011
Track 01 - Taken from LP, 'Hutong' [2011]

Recorded @ Douban Hutong, 东四十条
Mixed by Mark Andrews @ Big Momma's House, Bromsgrove

johnedevlin - Guitars & Vocals
Drews – Bass

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Best Laid Plans

Jun 2023
Let Go - Single

Nov 2022
No One Is Listening

Jan 2017
Checkpoint

Nov 2013
Contraplans

Aug 2012
Hutong

Apr 2011

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