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Fast Train, Slow Thoughts

by early maze

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1.
Just look at that sky and the clouds going by and the waves crashing I think I'll just close my eyes It'll have me believing in something else Or maybe even in myself Been forgetting how going over, under sideways down Looking around looking around Crawling over lost ground Look at them glide Across oceans wide The swifts and swallows Some are sleeping in the sky So people go easy, for this don't fall Making Storms out of breezy, and air into walls By forgetting now The past has locked the present out Falling down falling down Tripping over... It'll stop us believing in something else And maybe even in ourselves Keep forgetting how Under over sideways down Before you're earth bound, have a look round
2.
Sound Asleep 04:02
All hail the sound asleep, in the sun's glare Open eyes can keep, heaven is bed (til we're somewhere else) All we need is.. So what if light has come and everyone is up We're the sleepyheads, lying in our beds Sound asleep again, dreams are what we're in Rock a bye baby No alarm is set, gonna sleep in All we can't forget, know the feeling Dritfting off again... Where meanings don't apply not even gonna try...
3.
Sunburst 04:26
These days have got us on the run With no resistance I guess they've won Get too far off to get it on (I've seen the show, everything grates In boredom's glare you get a taste for it) Crawling up walls To get to the stars Can hurt without scars Just feeling it's rays against our skin Lost in a haze or two Just now and then The sun bursts through Please shut up Mary Anne H Is everything really that great Out of sink I think, out of time And out to bin those scripted lines Still in the dark Why vacuous blah blah blah Can get you so far Missing again, so keep searching Been in a daze or two Like a lost friend The sun bursts through Getting so immersed Driving in reverse This hired hearse Where's it taking us?
4.
Waste Of You 04:49
World's still spinning round Been washed up and drowned Where we're at today Has a part to play Ahh precious time Take at any price Such a waste of you What you gonna do? Nothing's getting through A waste of you Other people shout Your whisper just as loud Can feel it in the air Like there's no one there Ahh these are the times Ahh leave us paralysed Everyone's issues somehow get to you Escape to solitude A waste of you
5.
Direction 01:59
See right through me now Still Trying to get the wind to change direction
6.
Here I go again fell asleep on a train Oh where am I going and where have I been? Feel something odd is in the air Nobody's asking for my fare With total strangers, on our way, Don't know me from Adam, say how I've changed, I said how strange..what could I say? I Wanna stay.. And to this journey there is no end Infinite carriages bend Nothing's gone viral, no breaking news We're all in someone else's shoes And to all stations more delays Just passengers to our own fate So don't be late Total strangers board again Don't know me from Adam, say you've not changed, I said that's strange..what could I say? I Wanna stay..
7.
Let's get away from here, we'll run away Somewhere or nowhere at all The great indoors Thought it was over it's started again Something or nothing at all We're flawed It's all coming back to me It don't mean that to me Just cannot hear anymore Just flawed So let's get lost Way off course Just see flaws
8.
Amen To That 04:02
Dreamt I got it together Woke up It's still a mess Been sending the same letter To no address Keep taking the prescription ...Just for the the side effects To anyone who'll listen I do my best It does the rest Just doin' fine And then we're not not Let's have a blast I say, amen to that Some preach a good ol' gospel But don't include a fact Say we can only blossom, right where we're at Getting old but not so wiser Poor old soul gets left behind Against the flow is where you'll find us Cause round the back Is where it's at Another sign Doesn't say stop Solid gold easy action I say Amen to that We'll get it back oh I know that Why wouldn't we? Put the sun into the night again
9.
Heartsink 04:24
Hey can we just close our eyes Say it's gonna be alright You can hide from the world But I think that it saw you After the event how they all love to warn you Heard something, it's nothing One pin drops, they all drop Silly me what was I thinking? Puts the mean in meaningless Couldn't stop our hearts from sinking ...lies exposed In a burning car we drive Every circle that we find Going round and around and there's always another They don't like your sound unless it's a cover Those borders they put up Just bore us won't shut up
10.
Not here forever, don't waste your time So let's get moving A non action replay all in your mind Do what you're not doing (Wait a minute, just a tick Won't be a second, in a bit) Let all your feelings come out to play Don't keep them all inside Give me your demons to chase away I've had enough of mine Walk in the night you won't see a star If you don't look up
11.
Things we get right and so wrong To get there on time takes too long And it's so cold I know what they're thinking I know what they'll say I know what they're thinking I know what they'll say Looks like I try, looks like I try Make the same mistake twice, the same mistake twice Thought I could fight, get knocked out Another hook from the right stops the bout I know what they're thinking I know what they'll say I know what they're thinking I know what they'll say.. They could be right, they could be right Make the same mistake twice, the same mistake twice..

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Album review: Early Maze was a band – with some band members – but now they number just one among their ranks. Thankfully, that remaining member is Jamie Harwood. Harwood (who lives in Hexham) has a fine ear for a rollicking melody and there are bags of them on this album. There are elements of indie rock and a smidgeon of shoegaze to be found here, but these songs also have that full-bodied, guitar pop sound that the likes of Prefab Sprout were so adept at. Gorgeous stuff. DP

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released April 4, 2023

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early maze Sunderland, UK

.Early Maze formed as a 3 piece band in 2007: Only songwriter Jamie Harwood remains, There are plans to recruit a full band again. Early Maze' sound incorporates an eclectic, heady mix of influences, mainly from the psychedelic/shoegaze genres. “Early Maze cannot be pigeon-holed into one category, but what we listen to somehow manages to manifest itself into a sound that is purely our own,” ... more

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