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Move on
04:14
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in love I kissed the ground where our bare feet tramped around
now I'm Emmett the clown silly boy turned upside down
and I hold my breath close my mouth 'cause all that's left
is wrecked like Macbeth I was left weak and bereft
of control you stole more than my smitten soul
I load like Van Gogh 'cause there's no hope in lobes
to revive your blue eyes
the ones whose tears could dry the cypress inside
still my heart bleeds alive
they say move on like the night towards the dawn
but I'm tired and I can never stay awake
and they speak of the scene downtown in the evening
but it's the hardest part to play
and it's such an easy thing to say
so anyway
I taste this new tongue and inside her poems I've sung
but it's never Donne I beg death to come
'cause I'm now here and nowhere shamming expressions
while I stare into Zeena's hair
but you know my heart sits there limp in the armchair
moving on like the night towards the dawn
but I'm tired and I can never stay awake
and going out for the scene downtown in the evening
but it's the hardest part to play
and it's such an easy thing to say
move on
I want to move away run like tears down a face
and fade into the color beige
or find a way to travel time I'd turn my world on a dime
but you know life's the hardest thing to stage
and it's such an easy thing to say
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2. |
Always on my mind
03:00
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you doing dishes at the sink my hands finding your hips
you turning gracefully and smiling slowly I kiss your cheek
I love you so have I told you that before
we're always on my mind we're always on my mind
and we're never never ever on time but we're always on my mind
your hands waiting in the backseat my hand finding your hand
warm hands on a cold night painted by the flicker of the street light
I would surely fall asleep but your lips are distractmentally sweet
and always on my mind they're always on my mind
and they're never never ever on time but they're always on my mind
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3. |
19 say goodbye
01:54
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I'll wake up 24 and eyeing my coffee cup
a styrofoaming latte of love half empty and growing
stale in time out the door and dying from the chime
of an alarming clock that tocking lies bedside and denying
Charleston has been so good to me
and still I know I could love her honestly
but honestly my life will pass me by as I sit and wonder
why and how 30 now allotting time to figure out
how we cannot stand lying down like we used to when we stood
side by side 45 unknotting what we've tied
so Gordias and incongruous we adored us before we knew us
Charleston has been so good to me
but still I know I could have loved her honestly
but honestly my life will pass me by as I sit and wonder why
what if and pondering time
still I sit and wonder why 19 say goodbye
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4. |
Valentine sky
03:57
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golden baked apple valentine sky
honey sweet sugar lips stuck on mine
the flutter of the angel's wings ephemeral glide
butterflies buzzing eyes I cannot hide
I cannot deny where my red heart lies
from my sugar veins up to the edge of my eyes
I cannot deny I'm on fire I'm alive
and I'm so high for you
faded yellow summer dress of dandelions
your doll face smiling and facing mine
I believe in the sun outside my eyes
amid the tall grass waving hey and goodbye
but I cannot deny where my red heart lies
from my sugar veins up to the end of my mind
I cannot deny there's one burning inside
and I'm so high for you
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5. |
I mean you
08:01
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driving home and I'm watching you
but I'm falling asleep because I need you
not two feet away but in my mind
where there's plenty to say and plenty of time
now I'm thinking things over at home in bed
the things I would've done if I could instead
maybe I'd say hey you're beautiful today
maybe I don't know something
why don't you stay
maybe we could have some coffee or something
but I'm not allowed to say the things I really mean to you
but I really mean to and I really mean you
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6. |
Balloon
05:29
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buttoned my shirt my left hand at the door
the love note still hanging from the mirror on the wall
it's hard to say what took our clothes away
when I can't recall why I write her words at all
or wait down the hall at the bottom top of the stair
hand and foot with flowers in my hand
thanks for the present was the past so unpleasant
when we gave ourselves away in promises made in sand
alone behind the dunes high tide at noon
who pulls the moon?
you feel the moment calling and beckon you into the room
you can't sense the emptiness when your heart's a balloon
pulled me inside my umbrella over her hair
I hadn't a problem playing the man left in the rain
then drove off stage without faking a wave
she could've left one just to wash away the stain
bittersweet perfume empty as a tomb
if things left to assume
you feel the moment calling and beckon you into her home
you can't comprehend density when your heart's made of foam
bittersweet perfume empty as a tomb
my mind in fumes
you feel the moment calling and beckon you into the room
you can't sense the emptiness when you heart's a balloon
you feel the moment calling and beckon you to share her soul
you couldn't have loved me with a heart of coal
and you can't love me now with a heart of gold
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7. |
Boston
04:49
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New England rain washed away your sandy toes and your woes
and overcast your Aiken past and greyed your clothes
Carolina rural still a Beantown girl destined where the dry evening air
fills your lungs sweetens your tongue and curls your hair
now a southern flight from the weeping cold nights
dims the green and gold lights that charmed you warm
but if you open up your heart and if you open up your mind
if you open up your heart and let me inside
I'll be your Boston state of mind
Gaelic cheers o'er a round of beers
5 Points pub not quite the Hub
while the brew suffice you bottom lip and sigh
it's not here you dream of
So take this T take me I'm free
take me and I'll be for you anywhere
'cause if you open up your heart and if you open up your mind
if you open up your heart and let me inside
I'll be your Boston state of mind
and there you go and there you'll stay
you know I don't know why you stare out o'er the bay
when I'm right here
'cause if you open up your heart and if you open up your mind
if you open up your heart and let me inside
I'll be your Boston state of mind
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8. |
Spain and summer rain
04:59
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you left on a saturday afternoon as if the summer rains divined it
I watched you from my driveway turn your headlights on
and make your way into the dusking day
while I stood behind nightblinded
I'm steady like a statue with a face of clay
in vain in rain is it my fate to wait and waste away?
I need your space to need my room I want to fall asleep inside it
wake up to the sounds of tomorrow morning sighs
and kiss the eyes that are kissing mine
'cause they need nothing else outside us
and the gentle streams of tears down the window pane
but all in vain patient days of rain I've lain awake
alone I dream of rainy days awaste in Spain
I'm wide awake in dreams of Spain and summer rain
you can turn off the lights pull down the blinds
but some things you can't hide
it's another sleepless night with you on my mind
and the leaves that whisper melodies into the rose and grey twilight
drifting to the drone of a lazing sunday morning rain
in vain I've lain patient and awake
in love I dream of rainy days awaste in Spain
I'm wide awake in dreams of Spain and summer rain
where did you go to sleep off sorrow?
my darling please sing to me your sweet lullagoodbye
I'm wide awake in dreams of Spain and summer rain
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9. |
Tralfamadore
04:35
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I love you like the sun smiles down on the plains
I love you like the clouds relax when it rains
I love you like the moon illuminates
I love you like the breeze tickles the trees
I love you naturally
so rise and shine
the weather's fine whether we go outside
or inside your open eyes
the same clear blue skies with high of love
kick off your shoes
there's no excuse for singing the blues
or confusing the hues with different point-of-views
you're simply beautiful to me
you woo the fool in me
I love you like I do though I'm not quite sure
if I love you like I did when I loved you before
I love you any day but today I'd never trade
I love you 'cause I know it doesn't when I go
there's you heavenly
like celestial bodies we moved in cyclically
sick to the stomach spinning constantly
the gravity of falling in love
it pulled us in october wind brought a scent of new skin
but not a sense of why or when what begins would ever end
transcending humanity
impending insanity
we were two earthlings watching life in 4D
with the mirth that time brings when watches stop ticking
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