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1.
UNDER THE LANDSLIDE we're too young to be confused we're too old to be amused would you lean on me if you had to lean on something? would you? it's too cold to catch a fire lay our burdens on the pyre maybe we could make up an answer to their questions, before they do they'll do what they've been told under the landslide we'll pave our way with gold under the moonlight rain washed away the coals turned all the red white we'd never be at home under the landslide so long, where did you go? turn around and say hello would you see through me if you had to see through something? would you? then again i'd see you smile fix this heart just for a while oh, if we could make up an answer to those questions, would you? they'll do what they've been told under the landslide we'll pave our way with gold under the moonlight rain washed away the coals turned all the red white we'd never be at home under the landslide
2.
Loneliness 04:50
LONELINESS light a candle, leave it out (oh no!) leave it out for the hungry ghosts every time we wander out, it shows all the fear we hide in these bones somewhere they wonder why the rain's still falling down we live between the wars in this northern town the dancehall where we met has fallen down it couldn't stand the loneliness the loneliness many eyes out has the night, be sure not to be seen where we've been before down where the shadows all collide and fall they're waiting on they're waiting on us all somewhere they wonder why the rain's still falling down we live between the wars in this northern town the dancehall where we met has fallen down it couldn't stand the loneliness the loneliness and when the night it falls it calls us all to sleep we'll handle the fright because it's all we've got to keep some days it seems this place is all we'll ever know but i've seen those lights go on there further down the road further down the road la la la la la la loneliness
3.
It Isn't Me 04:38
IT ISN'T ME no, don't you say you love me when you don't love me you only wanted me to be there when you fall now everything is changing but you're not changing then say you'll blame me if i change at all but i'm the same i'm the same it's just circumstances they always spin around as far as i recall and then if we're not taking all our chances one day regret will come and surely kill us all and when i try to work it out just what this whole damn thing's about you say we're running to be free but it isn't me it isn't me it isn't me we all have hearts for someone we all have no one we all have everything conceivable between bold ideas of sorrow pain and redemption where is the love i need to keep me off my knees? where is escape? where is escape? where is the final battle fought upon for my soul to see? where all the ways to break me they give up on me and all the ways to live they come to rescue me and when i try to work it out just what this whole damn thing's about you say we're running to be free but it isn't me it isn't me it isn't me and after all this time i thought 'well i can't go on just keeping saying nothing' i'll scream until these lungs are raw if it means that i at least stood up for something you won't kill me with those words you say and i will never change in my direction because maybe it's just all a game and i will never fall at your suggestion until it all until it all falls away...
4.
Bad Blood 02:08
BAD BLOOD the queen is in the parking lot counting all the things she's got jack tried being a communist but just kept counting all the things he missed and after all this talk of bad blood of enemies and of destruction we realised there really was none it just gets lonely spinning around the sun the aces in their motorcades the joker and the king of spades i'd try being your best mistake but i know that it's my heart you'll break and after all this talk of bad blood of enemies and of destruction we realised there really was none it just gets lonely spinning around the sun
5.
FALL TO PIECES too high to get out too loaded again we'll never escape until this ends we'll figure it out on one of these lonely, lonely days called by at your house but you're never in for something to end it must begin guess it was about exactly when all those feelings changed see maybe we all just fall to pieces or maybe we all just float away and maybe these songs we sing release us and we'll take our bows while we let this whole world be our stage guess everybody has feelings they show feelings they hate feelings they don't but what if it takes all of the strength i have to hold? hold on to the days? the falling aways? hold on to the same things that won't change? and what if it takes all of my heart to let you go? see maybe we all just fall to pieces or maybe we all just float away and maybe these songs we sing release us and we'll take our bows while we let this whole world be our stage oh, and if these things we do deliver us away from sadness we'll dance under a broken moon our broken hearts amongst the madness we'll burn under a naked sun we'll die a thousand times and i'll do and i'll do all i can and i'll do all i can all i can, to love you
6.
OVER AND OVER (ring the alarm) ring the alarm, another soul is dying and when the fire does come, it'll come for ya like a molotov cocktail that's aimed at ya like a bullet in the chamber trained on you tonight still the murderers all keep on murdering and the burglars all keep on burgling under the holiest all keep on serving him call 'truth and rights' and when this war is over and when this fight is over what will you say about me then? we struggle to move it forward we suffer so easy for it over and over it goes again.. ring the alarm, another soul is dying and so we go run, find a place to meet underneath all the buildings and the streets phone the operator emergency call line tell her we could be home when the fire is out tell her we could be gone, we could all get out tell her we could maybe try and be without this time don't stop and when this war is over and when this fight is over what will you say about me then? we struggle to move it forward we suffer so easy for it over and over it goes again.. ring the alarm, another soul is dying
7.
Numb 02:49
NUMB so tell me now what it is that you think i've done it's too cold around here without your loving i'm numb so crucify me if it makes you feel alright but i'm around if you get lonely tonight let's say goodbye now and let it go because loving you like this is never easy you'll be my girl always you know but that doesn't mean you will be with me time takes away the pain, eventually and every day ends but another will come and i won't regret it never let it undone seems every mile's been walked by a better man than i but i'm a try believe way up in a holier might those never fall, they don't ever rise but i'll be getting through no hurry in reason knelt down before a paradise and said you never knew one thing about freedom time slowly washes by the seasons
8.
The Bottle 04:06
THE BOTTLE some say the damage gets done then it's too late some sooner get up and run, say it's ok ok we all get a hit on the way through occasionally we all feel a bit too late and a day too early and when the bottle does come we go step into the way of it somewhere to run to something real to make us both forget i get bored of the same old things that other people say if there's a time and a place well i want both of those things today and maybe we could like it been sleeping late on the way to destruction keep wishing the days go away like a vampire it's always the same and i know i don't function well oh, let it help with the pain oh, let it cool down this fire and when the bottle does come we go step into the way of it somewhere to run to something real to make us both forget i get bored of the same old things that other people say if there's a time and a place well i want both of those things today and maybe we could like it so pass it over...
9.
DARLING, THIS SCENE MUST END drinking alone under the streetlight waiting for you to come on out there's nowhere to run there's blood in the sky tonight there's blood in us in all of us tonight we can pretend we'll both be falling up into the sky, not to the ground we may be undone come monday morning but just for now, let's wager on this town and i know that it just don't make no sense but darling this scene, this scene must end been caught in the black heart of this city for too many nights i can't recall oh, thorn in my side, seems they won't pity us won't remember us not much of us at all been covered in rust stuck here without you lay still in the mud, could hear no sound we'd crumble to dust still i won't doubt you but when does enough become enough for now? and i know that it just don't make no sense but darling this scene, this scene must end
10.
I'LL BE FOR YOU well it's cold outside and i'm losing sleep well i feel no change but a change in me on a one way road, by a one way sign with a one track soul, and a one track mind and i can't help feeling that it's real this time but i've never been too good with signs and i don't wanna let it pass me by but i'm afraid to even open my eyes be true to me, and i will be true to you just be for me, and i promise that i'll be for you will i be so wrong when it comes around? will i be so strong when it holds me down? what do you think i better try to say, when all the words i've got have all gone away? and i can't help feeling that it's real this time but i've never been too good with signs and i don't wanna let it pass me by but i'm afraid to even open my eyes be true to me, and i will be true to you just be for me, and i promise that i'll be for you
11.
STILL BE YOUR FRIEND what do you say now my old friend? we travelled down that road and now we're back again what all we learned is, i don't know but i'd do it all over just to have you close see, i miss you somedays more than i could show and it all goes by too quick for us to hold the morning wind blows at my side oh lay me down to rest now that the night has died holding a heart won't make it stay holding a moment just will make it go away see, i think we've fallen far enough today and i think we've fallen far enough to say... that any way you call it, i'll still be your friend we live today before it's off around the bend we all keep moving and we change but i won't go changing how i feel about this anymore and i think we've fallen far enough to know...

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Mat McHugh is best known as the front man and creative force behind The Beautiful Girls, September 2008 saw him release his debut solo album, Seperatista under the guise Mat Mchugh & The Black Bird.
The first single, Darling This Scene Must End, sees McHugh return to his acoustic best. Referring to both his past musical style and his past love, it presents a darker side to McHugh that to date has been well hidden, giving great voice to his innate sense of melody and unique vocal style. After years of steering The Beautiful Girls towards an electric-centric three piece, there seemed a need for an alternate outlet for the masses of songs this songwriter had penned that didn’t suit the new sounding format of The Beautiful Girls. Mat McHugh and The Black Bird will be a creative collective of artists, enabling the sounds and the feel the freedom to move and mutate spontaneously. The Black Bird will give wings to McHugh’s songs, bringing them to life.
Seperatista! is available through die!boredom and MGM Distribution from September 20th, 2008. www.myspace.com/matmchugh

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released January 20, 2009

Mat McHugh was joined by Ian Pritchett - bass, percussion, piano; Paul Derricott – drums; Hugh Barrett - piano, keyboards; Simon Ferenci - trumpet, trombone; Matt Keegan - saxophone Caddie Brain – cello.
Seperatista! was recorded and mixed by Ian Pritchett @ Noisegate Studios, Sydney, Australia, produced by Mat McHugh and Ian Pritchett and mastered by Don Bartley @ Benchmark. Art by debaser, cover photo by Kaelen Ohm

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