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What am I waiting on?

I’m so tired of working things through in my head
How long can these things remain unsaid?

What am I paying off?

Am I paying some boys debt
who I’ve never known
I’ve never met
Because you’ve been paying some girl’s debt?
You worked so hard but you haven’t got there yet.

We’ve all got debts of our own
And we’ve all spent time on our own
With our horrors on show.

Maybe I have misunderstood
You know I’d pay
If only I could.

So why are you baying for blood?

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from Empty Words and Empty Gestures, released February 19, 2014
Words:Cox
Music: Cox, Everett, Ackland, Graham

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Magpie Instinct Cardiff, UK

Magpie Instinct is the musical project of songwriting partnership, Tim Cox and Hugh Everett from Cardiff formed in the Autumn of 2011. Combining a love for guitar-pop melodies, catchy choruses and dreamily driven soundscapes with witty confessions of melancholy, spite and resentment to produce a triumphantly bittersweet sound. ... more

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