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Damon Albarn – The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows (2021) | Track profile | Dork

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The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

Release date: 12th November 2021

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The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

You were gone, the dark journey there
Leaves no returning
It's fruitless for me to mourn you
But, who can help mourning?
To think of life, that did laugh on your face
In the beautiful past left so desolate now
When you've seemed immortal
So sweet it did we
Heaven's halo around you
Earth's hope to deceive
You were the fairest and dearest
Where many were fair, to my heart you were nearest
The year has it's winter as well as it's May
The sweetest leavers and the fairest decay
The nearer the fountain, more pure the stream flows
To think of life, that did laugh on your face
In the beautiful past left so desolate now
When you've seemed immortal
So sweet it did we
Heaven's halo around you
Around you
Earth's hope to deceive
Around you
Around you
The nearer the fountain, more pure the stream flows

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The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

12th November 2021

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2021

1The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
5:00
2The Cormorant
4:21
3Royal Morning Blue
3:12
4Combustion
2:53

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Damon Albarn — Palaces (Mount Kimbie Die Cuts remix)
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Damon Albarn — Darkness To Light (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [2:59]
Damon Albarn — The Universal (Live At Union Chapel) [3:45]
Damon Albarn — Tender (Live At Union Chapel) [3:56]
Damon Albarn — Darkness To Light [2:59]
Damon Albarn — Daft Wader [3:28]
Damon Albarn — The Tower of Montevideo (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [4:19]
Damon Albarn — Polaris [4:45]
Damon Albarn — Royal Morning Blue [3:12]
Damon Albarn — Particles [3:20]
Damon Albarn — Polaris (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [4:45]
Damon Albarn — Particles (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [3:20]
Damon Albarn — Royal Morning Blue (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [3:12]
Damon Albarn — El Mañana (Live At Union Chapel) [3:58]
Damon Albarn — Giraffe Trumpet Sea (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [1:51]
Damon Albarn — The Cormorant (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [4:21]
Damon Albarn — The Cormorant [4:21]
Damon Albarn — Esja [3:41]
Damon Albarn — Giraffe Trumpet Sea [1:51]
Damon Albarn — For Tomorrow (Live At Union Chapel) [5:54]
Damon Albarn — Girls & Boys (Live At Union Chapel) [4:33]
Damon Albarn — Esja (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [3:41]
Damon Albarn — Daft Wader (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [3:28]
Damon Albarn — Combustion (from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) [2:53]
Damon Albarn — The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows [5:00]
Damon Albarn — The Tower of Montevideo [4:19]
Damon Albarn — Combustion [2:53]
Damon Albarn — The Tower of Montevideo (Edit) [3:49]
Damon Albarn — The Tower of Montevideo [4:19]
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Damon Albarn — Seven High (from Everyday Robots) [1:00]
Damon Albarn — Mr Tembo (from Everyday Robots) [3:44]
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Damon Albarn — Heavy Seas of Love (from Everyday Robots) [3:45]
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