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October 2016
02:43
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Walking up Cherry Street that is
Where you'll find me
With a key I tied up in a shoe lace
A young man shuffles by
Jet black shoes and a tie
checks his watch and holds tight
to his brief case
The rain falls in sheets and
pools under my feet
I look up at the sky
It is grey
The hands of my clock wish the seconds would stop,
make this moment last for a day.
Well I'm just your music machine
Where you can get all your noises for free
or you could toss in a coin
and slip down to the point
where you're stuck in the same sorry key
and you're just the ink from my pen
You've ripped through my notebook again and again
and you leak through my fingers get under my skin,
you crawl up my spin and you make my head spin
Now I'm drunk on a bus and I don't plan on getting off soon
And the streetlights are watching me catch up on thoughts about you
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Time
04:34
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Dependency's getting the best of me lately
I can't take it lightly when friends tell me they are not home.
So, I wait under torchlight and wish that my thoughts might
Send me something soothing to spit into the microphone.
Now I'm changing my key I'm revamping my signature,
Hoping these notes can make something that I'll call my own.
So don't answer my messages. Don't call me back
'Cause I'm stuck in a rhythm that's lifting me to the unknown.
I found God on the bathroom wall
With a guitar pick dipped in alcohol.
I found myself swirling down the drain
And, I'll count to six before I go insane.
I am watching and waiting and wishing and wanting
To be something worthy of
One Two Three Four Five Six
One Two Three Four Five Six
One Two Three Four Five Six
One Two Three Four Five Six
So give me a beat that I'm comfortable with,
Put a capo on two and make my voice sound like this.
Now you know.
These songs take me back to those nights in the park where we'd
Smoke on the bench and climb trees in the dark.
Yeah you know.
My skeletal system is something impure
Cause my skull's filled with poison that makes me unsure
Of the thoughts in my head
Or the words that I've said
And the sad angry troll that lives under my bed
And my rib cage is cracking
My shoulder blades bend
Under weights that I'll carry from start point to end
There is no letting go, there's no making amends
With the words or the numbers that I'll call my friends they go.
One Two Three Four
One Two Three Four
I'll let the time go by
I'll say you were right.
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3. |
Color the Sky
05:06
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The moon above us, the crickets are singing our song.
We carry onward through thicket, and try to keep strong.
But it's so cold out here.
The wind chills my ears.
The battle's over, the bodies lay in their place.
Under the twinkling sky we meet face to face.
We wonder how.
We've never reached the clouds before.
They came tumbling down all around our feet.
With an unexpected sound we rose above the streets.
Purple ink filling up our minds,
We let it out and color in the night.
Those voices in my head where did they go?
Either a piece of me is dead or I finally let go.
I have trouble moving on,
And finding words to lean on.
I look into the mirror and see someone new.
I'm not standing there, instead it's you.
Another something to aspire to.
Another world to set fire to.
These cracks are getting deeper the ice is wearing thin.
I'm not a heavy sleeper, but with you I sleep in.
When colors fill our minds
we paint the colors of the morning light.
How can you say you are okay
When you know you're not?
How can you wake up and face the
World before you rot?
How can we fight back these demons
live inside our hearts?
How can we light up our minds and turn these colors
into art?
We're running madly, our heads are empty and afraid.
We stop to look up at the patterns that we made.
We let our past fade away.
We live for today.
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4. |
Alfred's Instrumental
02:45
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Blub
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Who says you're not an addict you
Seem pretty fixed on this negative attitude.
You're speaking in tongues with your upside down psyche.
Saying you're nothing like me I don't think you'll ever be
Something that's noteworthy, something less ugly.
You're dumb and you're dying, you'll never be something if
You don't start smiling at things that will smile right back.
Last week I blew off the symphony
I stole your ideas and took over the industry.
Now it's a factory pumping out self esteem
Wrapped up in boxes and shipped to your local Walgreens
And you can buy one at a very very very small price.
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i am cold
02:48
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Although I'm still breathing, there's ice in my lungs.
My voice has been frozen by the songs I have sung.
I can't control my fingers or toes.
I've carved tiny holes in the shoes of my soul.
I'm cold.
I'll keep my head down in case you try to wave.
I don't want to be seen hear outside of my cave.
Although I feel broken, I aim to seem brave,
But my head flashes back to the memories we've made.
And I'm cold.
I'm cold.
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7. |
Polar Bears
02:17
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Polar ice caps started melting.
Falling ice and falling snow.
The polar bears have started walking.
Watch them turn their heads and go.
On the first page of a novel
The author writes about his dad.
How the dad that he was given
Is the best he's ever had.
At the bottom of a letter
Ink stains melt into the page.
All this imagery is helpful.
It lets my brain out of its cage.
And they say the grass is greener on the other side.
The other side.
And they say the grass is greener on the other side.
The other side.
I was confused
When they told me I had nothing to lose
Because I knew something like that could not be true.
All the things I tell myself,
And advice I steal from my self help books
have given me a something to pursue.
So I fell in love with everything.
I'd see the trees and start to sing
because the wind would blow and they would shake their leaves for me.
So take the time to love yourself,
And send that love to someone else,
And let your problems melt away beneath a shady tree.
And they say the grass is greener on the other side.
The other side.
But I say let them have their grass
Because days like this are built to last
And everything is greener when you're glad to be alive.
Because the polar bears will find a home,
The author's book is put on hold,
and the letter that I write for you fits in an envelope.
And the mailman brings these words to you,
Your smile makes him smile too
So smile as you read the words I read the words I write for you
They say I love you.
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Tunnels
04:04
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I'm on my way to the bottom of a cave
Where my thoughts can misbehave.
Misbehave.
Misbehave.
The walls are tall and cold.
In the light they shine with gold.
There are colonies of mold beneath my toes.
Beneath my toes.
My eyes are growing red.
I think of all the things I should've said.
Now I'm staring at the light ahead.
I'm gone.
I am gone.
I am gone.
She is on her way to go make something of This Rainy Day.
She's singing all her fears away.
She's singing loud.
She's singing loud.
The water's coming down, the trees are shifting in the ground,
and they reverberate the sound of feeling free.
She's feeling free.
She's hearing.
Echoes of her life before. She came in search of open doors,
But now she's left with only metaphors.
This is not.
This is not a war.
Sing with me don't let me stumble.
Songs float through these endless tunnels.
Save it for the morning after.
Our days are bright if we just sing louder.
I am on my way to the bottom of a cave
Where my thoughts can melt away
They'll melt away.
And I am gone.
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