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Love
03:12
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Those skies in your eyes
Cast only clouded lies
You come as no surprise
The devil in disguise
"I wouldn't be happy until I have seized the ripest apple on the tree"
Is it so? I will die or grow old?
Half of a soul and no hand to hold?
"Come, come close, my love
Give me your kind heart
I won't pay you mind
Just rip my body apart"
"If I were the devil, I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned; that swinging is more fun; that what you see on TV is the way to be; and thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if were the devil I'd just keep right on doing what he's doing"
There is nothing you can give
That can make me feel like this
Do yourself a favor, forget I live
You will find another to kiss.
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2. |
Grain
05:14
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Come home only to find
Home is only in my mind
Where I belong is where you are
But you are somehow suspended by a star
Dangling above me ever so close
Beyond words but beneath my nose
Am I in your head?
Or could I be?
Am I already dead?
Am I asleep?
Now I know we lie
To ourselves at night
No sweet lullaby
No tuck in tight
We are but specs in this picture
I am microscopic, but I miss her
Goddamn, I am wide awake
And alive as I'll ever be
Though my heart may break
And my mind drift to sea
I just need you here with me
Selfish I am, me, but a man
You are the sea I wish to be
But me I am sand in your hand
Won't you let me let you hold me?
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3. |
Fetal
02:56
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Morning air chills my bones
As I roll off the couch alone
Scanning surfaces for a smoke
Chewing up some thoughts to choke
On days in a daze from the night
Before I raise my right
To shut off from myself
And turn on no one else
I'm not looking for a miss
With a cosmetic kiss
No, I need lips worth speaking
Some words that are worth keeping
Close to this hardened heart
Not just spit from the start
If such love is even real
It's not for me to feel
So I'll leave this place
In pursuit of something pure
But nothing can erase
These traces of her
Left within my flesh
Leaving me a mess
Fickle and fetal
And thin as a needle
Weaving through people
As if I never were
Truth be known
Now told
When my bones
They will grow old
Only I will be
Still waking with me.
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4. |
Walls
03:12
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After all
All we are
Are ashes
So let's raise
Our glasses
To death
And love
What little life
We have left
All of your faces look like walls
And those pictures in your halls
They mean nothing at all
We sleep at
Different times
In separate beds
But opposed heads
Can't be read
So you're left
With the dead
End of love
After all
All of the above
Is never enough
All of our faces look like walls
And those pictures in my halls
Mean nothing, they mean nothing at
All we are are ashes
So let's raise our glasses to death
And love what little life we have left.
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5. |
Bridge
03:41
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Once upon a time or two
I sheltered you
Day by day, we both knew who
To wake next to
We used to smile and kiss
Before all this
Shunning now, under the sheets
As your heart beats
For someone else, but I know
Time goes so slow
When there is nothing
New to know
My head is here but I fear I've lost it
My mind is a bridge, you've crossed it
As you may come to expect
This won't affect
Your poor thoughts of me by now
If they somehow
Are ever too close to those
Nights you were froze
And I was the warmth you sought
Or so I thought
If you stayed, you would go
So I saved us both
But mostly just you
Nothing new
Were you truly content in that life with him?
Did he make you feel something real again?
Or is all that you do only to pretend?
We lost more than a lover, we lost a friend?
Your fault, my fault, oh, it's too tough to tell
At the end of the day I hope you sleep well
While I lie awake freezing head to toe
You won't hear this song so you will never know.
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6. |
Vibes
03:39
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Where to start?
From the belly
Up to the heart
Then I'm yelling
For the art
To pull me apart
And put into this
One and only thing
That exists
When I sing
Vibrations
I'm layin'
In my yard
Of battle scars
From wars
I've poured
All I am into
Before I was sent to
This lonesome
Forever frozen
Horizon I've built
No flowers to wilt
Just white and cold
With me as I'm old
And the stories I've told
Of beauty within
One, two, okay
A few women
Who have long
Lost their glow
No, no
One I know
Considers me an option
But, I'm not much for talkin'
Unless you're hurt
Need a friend or comfort
All I need is time
To write and rhyme
Some peace of mind
The pieces find
Their way against me
Bringing up history
Many shames, blames
Games and names
Though they were
Unkind and unsure
Needed just the same
I would be insane
To think otherwise
Based on our lives
Every dot
Connected or not
Wherever you are
At your home or in a car
Feel alive and well lit
Be you and don't ya ever quit
Anything can be beauty
You control what you will be, you see
And you are only what you have truly got
Make it heard and true
First and foremost for you.
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7. |
Swim
03:48
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Could I say "my love"?
Let's sail this sea of
Silent solitude
Oh, could I look at you?
When you look at me?
Look at this scenary
We're an open field
Where a house used to be
Now nothing but green
Is all that can be seen
To know you know I know we know
Sometimes time takes some time to take things slow
When we feel most alive we dive right in
Eventually we learn to swim
Now that we've found land
I think we understand
That storm we withstood
Only done us some good
It was our choice of words
That hurt us the worst
They don't mean a thing
When that butterfly bursts
Out from it's cocoon
A moment too soon
We're out of water but breathing fine
I'll file your fins if you do the same to mine
All of those other fish can keep looking around
If we find ourselves afraid of being found.
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8. |
Eyes
03:28
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Don't let me revert back
To looking at what I lack
You know there's more to me
There's more for you to see
Just look me in the eye
When I look you in the eye
"Oh my god" she says so loud
When I spit my guts out
You know, I can't explain
I can't seem to seem sane
I could be your's
If you could be mine
But it's gotta be you and me
For all time.
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9. |
Vessel
04:04
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Do you wanna go all out?
Well, are you all in?
We draw lines from a to b
Now what do you see?
A bridge or a division?
Take what you're given
But don't forget to forgive me
For who I cannot be
All alone or all along, we will sail
Seas of storms or shine, until our ships fail
So, you wanna see the light?
Well, define the dark
And if you put up a fight
I'll rip you apart
This vessel
It carries nothing less than the truth
I don't care, unless you do
I won't be who won't be there for you.
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10. |
Arrows
03:45
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Wasting arrows on things we can't see
Our whole lives we are lookin' for places we can't be
And the substance of our corruption is plain but we can't tell
We're busy throwing pennies into empty wishing wells
Our yellow sun is still aburnin', our worlds still spinnin' 'round
But still we search for an end we know just can't be found
So if tomorrow I don't wake, I'll say I'm sorry for now
But my feet have lifted up, I've floated off into the clouds
So do what you do
See what it does to you
For me, I feel brand new
Oh, could it be true?
That I have found
There's no truth to find?
Only made up minds
Counting nickels and dimes
Singing "Oh, pretty face in the sky
Won't you sell us some good times?"
Nothing calms the musician
Who needs not only to listen
But also to feel...
Something
Anything
Nothing
Everything.
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