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Will Stratton – Katydid Lyrics 18 years ago
I stand corrected. You're a great songwriter Will, keep up the good work. Do you have an official website?

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Will Stratton – Katydid Lyrics 18 years ago
The likeness to Sufjan really rings clear on this song. At least in the instruments, the vocals and lyrics themselves I feel are no where near as robust.

All comparisons aside, this song has a very interesting mood shift from the first lines to the last. He is willing to do anything he can for her, unless it has to do with their future. When the strings come in after "I never knew it all" it feels as though the his own words have finally sunk in. Even when you know you have to break it off with someone, there is always that sadness that the violins embody.

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Arab Strap – (If There's) No Hope For Us Lyrics 18 years ago
There's another version of this song labeled the "Rogue Version on the album Ten Years of Tears. The lyrics are slightly different, this is the best I could make them out:

If once the words were lovers
now they're ugly violent thugs
how did our language get so basic
we speak in grunts and sighs and shrugs
when it used to be we'd never
let our spare time go to waste
but now i'm just a fuckin bully
and you're so bored you're always chaste

and i wonder when it was
when you decided i was vile
i've tried and tried to talk
but talkings never been your style

and every night a taxi softly sneaks you up our street
you used to say you broke your mobile
but you dont care if you're descreet

(If there's no hope for use then there's no hope for anyone)

do you remember

You weren't wearing much of note
Just hold-ups and your long white coat
electric fire lit up your skin
as we whipsered because your mum was in
And then we went to use the phone
We noticed that we weren't alone
We shrugged and let the pervert see
What he could only hope to be

If there's no hope for use then there's no hope for anyone
What chance can they have if even you and me can't have fun?
Was it so long ago our friends called us disgraceful
But could they ever know that we could be so unfaithful

That's me, I'm all packed you know I need some time to think
you keep what you need, I think we both need a drink
The secrets I keep, I keep cause I care
But there's no hope left for us, so let's just leave it there.


I like this version better than the original song found on The Last Romance.

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