1. |
Charade
03:06
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Here is your future home
Here you will be alone
We had a postal code
Printed on envelopes
I thought of the Rolling Stones
Reading that Shelley poem
A hundred butterflies
I don’t know why
I could believe a lie
You might be surprised
Just tell me twice
I find you in bowls of change
Earrings and keychains
They haunt the hallway
I could believe a lie
You might be surprised
Just tell me twice
I’ll never know what’s right
As we walk the plants reclaim the path
They soon become the past
Here is your future home
It feels like a funeral
We had a shining time
What I want is hard to find
And harder to leave behind
Can we play a big charade?
In an infinite endless way?
I could believe a lie
You might be surprised
Just tell me twice
I’ll never know what’s right
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2. |
Look Away
02:30
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Fall into 22
Change comes like a flood in your room
Look at the same skin, the same eyes
I’m afraid you won’t see the connecting lines
So I try to divert your gaze—I try to
Live long September weeks
Beat back by my blinds, the sun retreats
Repeat the same words, the same lies
Got used to the way that they made you smile
So I try to divert your gaze—I try to
I want to be alone, messy and guilt-free
I want to leave behind all the people that I used to be
When you call my name I don’t know what to say
I make a joke to make you look away
It’s kinda sad the way we laugh
to deflect or to distract
Don’t you think it’s sad,
the way we laugh?
Don’t you think it’s sad?
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3. |
Rule of Three
02:52
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Off the mark once again
A river runs between our hands
Through orange trees, a semester begins
We’re strangled by entanglements
On the highway, had a thought
What I wanted I don’t want
On this path I’ll end up lost
Off the mark, but nothing new
The arrow’s goal is something true
Cold night on the path walking warm
It won’t last but it’s nice while it does
Between the bar and your car
We were honest
Could we be honest?
We’re off the mark
But we lean on our history
We always fraternize with fantasies
And we’re cruel as some kids
We’re strangled by entanglements
On the highway, had a thought
What I wanted I don’t want
On this path I’ll end up lost
Blinded nights
Blinded days
Somewhere we just lost our way
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4. |
C.A.L. Jam
02:35
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Caught the edge
Of a couple pointed words
In the car, slammed the door
On your mind
Fences, sidewalks, drains
Rivers, bridges, trains
Tickets never paid in a box with some sheets
And some shirts you left with me
In the yard where we criticized
Each other’s hearts
There’s no more pain
I took the train
You took my hand and led the way
Nothing’s changed
Last call on my first night home
Then I walk you out
I’d still be your fool
Last call where the roads are wide
And the mall’s nearby
Where the booze is cheap
And you’re never far
Huddle up at the bus stop
Stay close as love
I would be your fool
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5. |
Blue
02:52
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One day I’ll get it
Things are easy if you let ‘em
“The stairs the petals she loves me”
But I don’t know
If you’re sure you’ll be invincible
Be unsure you’ll be unbearable
I finally see
A perfect sky, we point our cameras
But I don’t know
Look the other way
I’m wasting every day
Summertime I’m blue
The palm trees say it’s ’18
I was so sure when you met me
There’s something sad about this photo
‘Cause I don’t know
In the garden I am guarded
There’s a map but I gotta draw it
But will you wait?
I want to give assurance
But I don’t know and it shows
Look the other way
I’m wasting every day
I’m spinning like a star
But I am glad to have your arm
Summertime I’m blue
Are you?
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6. |
May Moon Interlude
01:57
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Circle-life made of straight lines
I’ll never change but I’m always trying
That’s the song I keep writing
In the mall by the fountain
Wishes fail but we’re always hoping
That’s the song I keep writing
There’s a night with no corners
And a train that’s soon arriving
That’s the song I keep writing
There’s a car full of flowers
The one I love is driving smiling
That’s the song I keep writing
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7. |
I'll Be Surprised
01:53
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I assumed the hunter’s bow was bending
His arrow ready
I feared those moments
Would last as long as lightning
But they kept winding
Anticipating spring, when all is new
We march through the months undeterred
We laugh, cry, laugh
We dance, mourn, dance
It’s on your shoulders that I might see
We drove to New York
Leigh was along for the ride
Each perfect day I’ll always be surprised
If I don’t say it clearly
You might not hear me
The way is ancient and secret
You showed me
Your light is guiding
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8. |
Thorn
02:39
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There’s June in your laugh
And a thorn in your hand
We’re in love with a promise
But we’re high on our distance
It’s tempting to believe
We leave in separate ways
Warm but quietly
The birds form perfect V’s
They pass us perfectly
There’s June in your laugh
Table’s bruised from your glass
We are sick with our memories
I can feel it all over me
We’re still shaking off the past
We leave in separate ways
Warm but quietly
The birds form perfect V’s
They pass us perfectly
There’s June in your laugh
And a thorn in your hand
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9. |
Rivers Without Swimmers
03:07
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Smoke in our eyes
The future’s foreclosed
Out of the past I won’t go
A little car in the moonlight
I like to stand around in my illusions
Hate comes easy but it’s deceiving
We’re only as good as who we love
Empty rivers
We walk on by
Smoke in our eyes
The future’s foreclosed
Out of the past I won’t go
A broom of hair in the archway
Your words are short but you say enough
Hate comes easy but it’s deceiving
We’re only as good as who we love
Look at the empty rivers
Fall comes fast and brutal
Smoke in our eyes
The future’s foreclosed
Out of the past I won’t go
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10. |
High Note
01:46
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There’s fog on the moon
And my room is cored like a fruit
My bike, beleaguered by March,
Now rusts in your yard
Snow falls from the stars
In your house making it ours
When you know, you know, you know?
The floor is a throne
And yes I admit
We’re often convinced of impossible things
I believe anyway
You’re the one I can’t outrun
I find you in everyone
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dan darrah Toronto, Ontario
toronto
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