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Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter

—Troubled Soul

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Troubled Soul

My heart knows
It needs protection
While it grows

Somebody show me
A place I can go where love’s around
A trip to the ocean
I just need to get far from town

There’s no way around this
No way around this
No way around this troubled soul

Now you’re gone
And I stand
I stand between time

Somebody show me
A place I can go where love’s around
A trip to the ocean
I just need to get far from town

Jaquet Gustave - Young lady with a black hat, 1878

Jaquet Gustave - Young lady with a black hat, 1878

Edmond Grandjean - Femme nue allongée, 1904

Edmond Grandjean - Femme nue allongée, 1904

Salomon Guillaume Counis - Portrait of a Lady, 1820

Salomon Guillaume Counis - Portrait of a Lady, 1820

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::M∆DE:IN:HEIGHTS::

—Wildflowers (Exhale Efreet)

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::M∆DE:IN:HEIGHTS::
“Wildflowers (Exhale Efreet)” 

Taken from the album Aporia: In The §treets (2011)

Charles Chaplin - A Song Silenced

Charles Chaplin - A Song Silenced

Alfred George Stevens - The Bath, c. 1867

Alfred George Stevens - The Bath, c. 1867

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The Anniversary

—The Siren Sings

The Anniversary - The Siren Sings

You were a castaway from New Orleans
Fought the world to find your dreams, oh yeah
Almost starved to death, cuz you had no money
Sold your soul for blood and honey, oh yeah
Cars crash and we collide as the siren sings the saddest song tonight
And this is it, how it all comes down
To the love you would leave the streets of your home town
At the edge of the rest of your life
At the end of a one way road
I was losing everything
And tonight may never shine
If you never open your eyes
I keep this heart right next to mine
I was a cast away from New Orleans
Fought the world to find my dreams, oh yeah
Your heart had to let me go
Now I’d rather die than ever be alone, oh yeah
At the edge of the rest of your life
At the end of a one way road
I was losing everything
And tonight may never shine
If you never open your eyes
I keep this heart right next to mine

Nathaniel Sichel - Flower Girl

Nathaniel Sichel - Flower Girl

Alexandre Cabanel - Pandora, 1873

Alexandre Cabanel - Pandora, 1873

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The Cure

—Maybe Someday

The Cure - Maybe Someday

No I won’t do it again, I don’t want to pretend
If it can’t be like before I’ve got to let it end
I don’t want what I was, I had a change of head
But maybe someday…
Yeah maybe someday

I’ve got to let it go and leave it gone
Just walk away, stop it going on
Get too scared to jump if I wait too long
But maybe someday…

I’ll see you smile as you call my name
Start to feel, and it feels the same
And I know that maybe someday’s come
Maybe someday’s come…
Again!

So tell me someday’s come tell me some days come again…

No I won’t do it some more, doesn’t take any sense
If it can’t be like it was, I’ve got to let it rest
I don’t want what I did, I had a change of tense
But maybe someday…

I’ll see you smile as you call my name
Start to feel, and it feels the same
And I know that maybe someday’s come
Maybe someday’s come…

If I could do it again maybe just once more
Think I could make it work like I did it before
If I could try it out
If I could just be sure
That maybe someday is the last time
Yeah maybe someday is the end
Oh maybe someday is when it all stops
Or maybe someday always comes again…

Thomas Francis Dicksee - Sketch for “Good night”, 1841

Thomas Francis Dicksee - Sketch for “Good night”, 1841

Paul Chabas - Le Bain, Jeune Naïade

Paul Chabas - Le Bain, Jeune Naïade

James Lawson Balfour - A Girl Wearing A Garland

James Lawson Balfour - A Girl Wearing A Garland

Théodore Chassériau - The two sisters, or Mesdemoiselles Chasseriau, Marie-Antoinette-Adele, 1843

Théodore Chassériau - The two sisters, or Mesdemoiselles Chasseriau, Marie-Antoinette-Adele, 1843