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Summer Love
04:08
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I watch summer lovers playing in the sunshine, I pray for one of my own. We'd build pretty castles, I would wear a pink bikini. We could watch boats come in and go
But I just swim in circles under skies of blue, I walk home the long way, hoping I’ll bump into
A summer love, a summer love, where are you?
Maybe after tomorrow when the tide has had its way, maybe it will leave a heart I can claim. If I bow down to the sunshine, will it bathe me in forgiveness? Will it shed some light on all that I've misplaced?
But as sure as tides will change, and as long as light will leave. The solitude remains and the seasons come between
My summer love, my summer love, and me
When the dark falls like a curtain, when the black forbids the blue. Will the longing leave the light I left for you? When will you learn your part, and offer me a heart? When will you learn your part?
Some are buried in contentment, some are bound to what they knew, some are caught beneath the shelter, some are stuck above the view
Summer love, summer love, summer love, where are you?
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What Becomes Of The Things I’ve Seen?
I've seen you laugh at me, cry to me, see through me, lie to me, crawl from your skin. I've seen the night taken from you and day fall upon you, nowhere to begin. I've seen you curled up in caves with no cards left to raise, no secrets untold. Seen you swallow your sword stained in blood and withdrawn like a fox in a hole
Now, I envy the things, that to whom you resigned, to whom you gave in.
To the space between the mountains, to the call of the wind
Now, I envy the sea
That pulled you in, left me your skin
Now, I envy the wind
That called your name, left me your stain
It’s heavy, all the images in me
What become of the things I’ve seen?
I watched you through every window I wanted you to know, I felt deprived of your mention. I watched the circles consume you and crowds that pursued you, always got your attention. I watched the worm start to turn when the lesson was learned, but the need would persist. Every end finally failed grew another restless tail, but the head was dismissed.
Now, I envy the things, that you didn’t deny, you didn’t resist. To the howl of the moon, to the fingers of the leaves.
Now, I envy the sea
That pulled you in, left me your skin
Now, I envy the wind
That called your name, left me your stain
It’s heavy, all the images in me
What becomes?
I’d trade all these imaginings to be the night that led you in and left me with the things I’ve seen
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Faces
04:58
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I left the door wide open
And abandoned all my truths
I left a shadow of myself
An elephant in your room
Now the bitter winds will take me
To the trenches where I'll lay my failed love
I felt so out of my own depths
In your water, in your head
I couldn't stand beside you
So I came to awkwardly resent
And I felt guilty for deceiving you
Every time I said I needed you
I never needed you
Faces I was wearing
For you baby I confess
I know you loved me better
When you knew me less
But these dreams, sweet dreams of you
Linger on my pillow
Long enough to haunt me
Sweet dreams of you
Still I wanted you to want me
Shamelessly the way you did
But all my suffering and self-doubt
Bit off every nerve you hit
I was defensive, you were just a man
I bit the only hand that would feed me
Faces I was wearing
Lost inside the glove
Wrestled you for answers
Rested on your love
But these dreams, sweet dreams of you
Linger on my pillow
Long enough to haunt me
Sweet dreams of you
I never could come clean with all my secrets, all my shame
I tried to bury them like words, but they came up in the rain
Now I know a rose will die alone
“Til it shows its thorns that it has grown
And you can see it
But these dreams, sweet dreams of you
Linger on my pillow
Long enough to haunt me
Sweet dreams of you
I left the door wide open
And abandoned all my truths
I left a shadow of myself
An elephant in your room
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The Hours
04:12
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Lose every evening to the hours that suspend me in between, certainty of end of day and the unforeseen
Lose every morning to your shadow drawn beside me you’ve become, a stain upon the pavement I cannot outrun
Lose you again through every season, with each turn I shed my doubt. Still I'm a tree that weeps when leaves it stands without
I've sunk beneath a silent storm, filled the circles of my eyes. I’ve turned into a longing creature I no longer recognize
I've stretched my skin from head to toe, concealed everything that's grown. I've sheltered you inside the garden, a garden of my bones
I've waited for the water's rise to take your name into another tide. I've folded you into a bottle so you could float from my mind
When will I lose myself so I can finally lose you? When will I lose myself so I can finally lose you? When will I lose myself so I can finally lose you?
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To Be True
04:17
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Lover lover, lover, I will give into you now, I'll put your heart above me and I’ll let my own fall out. Standing like two stubborn pillars, breaking at our knees. Remember me as someone who you loved but did defeat
Followed you through changes silently upon your wake, heard you cry for mercy to the ocean in your way. Bitterness I felt for you, rippled through the clear. Mourned you for your anchored grief, sailed upon your tears
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
You were always talking about better days to come, have you conquered the horizon, have you stumbled upon one? You never knew your sorrow was the master of your fate, you never understood the sadness in the concept of better days
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
Your love was all I ever needed to be true
I became the bee tryna' make peace with a beast, pierced the skin that plagued you in your swollen grief. I lost myself to save your health, to bring you back, keep you on some steady track. I surrendered to your pride, broke the pillars, cut the line. Was it all for the contentment that I lack?
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You Who Knew
04:11
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Have you forgotten what you came here to do? It was you who intended to sleep in the womb, you who designed the vastness. Now you flounder through
It was you who dreamed the darkness now you wrestle in, and the night feels like a stranger’s skin. You who held an image of love, forever held it in
Did you know?
It was you who knew what you came here to do
It was you who knew what you came here to do
It was you who fled from the sea to the land, now you stumble to salvation on the map of god’s hand. You who never could relate defeat, with what you did command
Did you know?
It was you who knew what you came here to do
It was you who knew what you came here to do
Now you seek console as you cast out despair, now you search for doorways through the dull of your stare. You who decided the roads paved in doubt, You who imagined the with and without
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You Forever Elude Me
04:10
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I keep my ear against the door, just like a shell wed to the shore.
Your melody, it beckons me, what else can I do? But I sink into a voiceless sea.
You, forever elude me
My feet have dragged me through the leaves, to trace your scent inside the breeze. It brushes my mood, with empathy, like you used to. But I’m lost inside the colour green.
You, forever elude me
Lines drawn vague gently wash away. Lines drawn beneath, burdens that I keep. I have worn your fingerprint so deep in me, forever your memory eludes me
My limbs have drifted off the page, to search for skin that I misplaced.
A tenderness, awkwardly, tangled up in modesty.
That’s the only way you knew, sheltering the things that grew
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All Because Of You
03:32
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I watched you sleep
In your darkest room
I saw the light pour in
And scatter shadows on your skin
I fed you from a heavy hand
With a weightless spoon
And heard you try to sing my praise
But you were always out of tune
How could I know?
What could I do to show?
My love
Love
I guess it don’t make much sense
You won the fight but lost the dance
I guess it don’t matter anymore
‘Cause you threw it in
And walked out the door
The door
Well don’t you wish you played it out?
Look at you now
You’re just floating around
And don’t you wish you thought it through?
A colourful man has been turned to blue
All Because Of You
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Crazy Man
04:10
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For a while I knew you as one of my everything, before I understood, life will take what it brings. What happened to you? Look at what this world can do, now you're suffering, now you're wearing everything
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I was looking for you way back then, I was lost in the palm of your hand
I hope you're holding someone new, above the bar you held me to. The signs of your misuse, they keep me bound to things I can't undo. Like bitterness that burns, like snow, you keep me bound to blame I can't outgrow. And I couldn't run, ‘til we came undone
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I want to be a good woman, don’t want to die in your arms
I watched you shake, I swallowed all the lies you threw my way. I was the pigeon you fed, you were needless, you said you needed anything other than me, I miss your trembling hands
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I fell in love with a crazy man, he showed me to my knees
I was hoping one day we’d make amends. But now I understand, you’re just a crazy man
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Flightless Crow
03:23
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Are you just another will-less, weakened man? Covered up in thorns and feathers, craving for the cup of someone’s hand.
Tortured by your limbs that turned fruitless, now you linger in the branches of endurance. Rested in thought. That every flightless crow will tempt the wings of a sparrow.
Who am I? Who am I?
Am I just another willing wasted woman? Measured by the grip of your hand? Am I worthy only when I am a hunger? Am I who I am only when I am the eyes for your blindness? The voice that rescues every begging silence.
Who am I?
The ways of men are narrow, am I just the bow that bends to shoot the arrow, just a sparrow? Without the weight of the wings, beneath the sorrow of a flightless crow
Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?
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11. |
Me & My Longing
06:33
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I’ve followed stitches through fields, faithfully sewn. Waist-high in spears piercing sunlight and parts I’ve disowned. Scattered my thoughts leaving trails of winter’s blow, traded my threads for the blanket of New York snow
I’ve locked myself in a tower like a righteous recluse. Couldn’t come down from my own convictions, so I let the rope hang loose. I was hanging by a thread on every word I’d said
Oh, the places we have gone
Oh, the places we have gone
Me & My Longing
I’ve hailed the wind with my suitcase and grief, ridden the wake of another lost tumbleweed. Wrapped in the arms of fatigue, some holy longing sheltered me
I’ve drawn my sword to the kings who have beckoned my beauty, resisted and ran from the man who saw right through me. I’ve belonged to the grip of a cold heart’s desire, offered myself to the night and danced in the fire
Oh, the places we have gone
Oh, the places we have gone
Me & My Longing
I’ve taken my troubles to the voiceless sea, back to the silence I thought would comfort me. But all was dark, all was loud. My mind a mirror of the clouds
I drifted away long before you caught sight, like an unguarded watchtower I vacated the night. Back to my mother’s, back to the womb, back to the silence of my youthless room
Oh, the places we have gone
Oh, the places we have gone
Me & My Longing
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