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Who am I but just another lovelorn child
What do I live but just another love song
An inner Venus intervenes in my life
Into another world I’m thrown
Nothing means everything to me
When I find the envy in me
In self-pity I’m still sitting idly by my eyes
The wind will pass into the willows
Blowing through an open window
Watching as I find herself in me
Love will slip into the distance
In my grief I beg for resistance
Moments missed will never leave me be
To all the lovers that knew me
See what you’ve done to me
You’ve gone and made a new me
Once you decided you’re through me
I still cry for she who finds me
I still want to be somebody
Confident in everything I am
I still cry for he who lives me
I still want to love me freely
See myself in they who I become
To all the lives that knew me
See what you’ve done to me
You’ve gone and made a new me
Once you decided you’re through me
To all the lives that knew me
See what you’ve done to me
When will I come clean
Being one with she
He as two with me
When will I find peace, tell me
When will I come clean
Being one with she
He as two with me
When will I find peace, tell me
I will find somebody else
To live myself in greater health
And when I find my loving truth
I’ll walk away from missing youth
To all the lovers that knew me
See what you’ve done to me
Around, around, around
Dreams you never found
Unraveling in sound
To let the lovers down
Around, around, around
Living here and now
Never felt so down
Leave me here to drown
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Talk
02:06
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I can see in color babe
I can see the love we’ll make
I can’t see a day we’ll break it off
Oh no
I can see the moments made
Show me in another way
Up until the day I make it known
I’ll know
When I call your name
And you go silent
All I wanna say to you babe is just
Talk
Just talk babe
Cause nothing makes me feel the way you do
When I hear that voice that brings me to something new
And I just wanna take in every moment
Cause every word you say has me drawn in
So babe just talk
I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life
So may I have this dance
On such a wondrous night
Tonight I can feel it in the air
There’s something special now
I’ve got more love to share
And I swear I’ll never let you down
There’s nothing more to say
And you know that I love it this way
I can see in color babe
I can see the love we’ll make
I can’t see a day we’ll break it off
Oh no
I can see the moments made
Show me in another way
Up until the day I make it known
I’ll know
When you call my name
Babe I go silent
All that I can say to you babe is just
Talk
Just talk babe
Cause nothing makes me feel the way you do
When I hear that voice that brings me to something new
And I just wanna take in every moment
Cause every word you say has me drawn in
So babe just talk
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Lovetorn (Talk, pt. 2)
01:01
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I’ll be your singer in the silence
A mist upon the river
To meet your iridescent eyes
In essence of the morningrise
The world tells me it’s not love
That takes me in my lowest time
And guides me to the great divine
In soul-bound bliss and eyes aligned
But I can see the world behind me
Left for good for you beside me
And I know that all I need
Was meant to be ahead of me
I can see in color babe
I can see the love we’ll make
I can see the day I’ll leave you cold
Oh no
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Epilogue
01:04
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I can clearly see
I am one with she
He is two with me
Now will I find peace, no
I can clearly see
I am one with she
He is two with me
Now will I find peace, no
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Blackthorn
04:22
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The blacker the blood
The brighter the blue
The bleaker the day
The more I blame you
The blinder the bliss
The blanker the eyes
The less I can hide
This blessed disguise
I can’t live alone
Awake in the night
A lone satellite
I’ll never forget
What I left behind
To see you requite
I know what I’ve done
I know what I’ve thought
That’d tear you apart
I know what I’ve done
I know what I’ve lost
To take you back home
Don’t tell it’s over
Don’t tell me you’re gone
Don’t tell me I’ve waited
To long to keep on
Don’t tell me the heartache
That staying brings on
I just wanna know you’re
Content in my arms
I can’t live alone
Awake in the night
A lone satellite
I’ll never forget
What I left behind
To see you requite
I know what I’ve done
I know what I’ve thought
That’d tear you apart
I know what I’ve done
I know what I’ve lost
To take you back home
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The Rain
02:18
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You are the worst version of yourself
The one that creates expectations
Only to get torn apart by them
And fall short every time anyway
Who lets a child fall and cries to himself in shock
And shies away from the fuckup instead of making it right
A killer who blames your crimes on the tragedy of your sheltered life
No better than the child’s mother
You see and only muster a sigh
Ball up a fist and tighten your chest in contempt
For reinforcing the distance and generational neglect
But what you hate the most is when she reflects the worst in yourself
The instinct of fight-or-flight reduced to one-track weakness
You’re a coward and don’t ever want to speak it
You struggle to even write it down
You claim that you want to turn back to living your inner child
But lose your innocence every time that you fail
You can’t live with yourself but suicide’s off the table
You can live to tolerate without but mother’s not able
At the age of fourteen you began to take on that pain
Bottling up the tears until you’re drowning in the rain
Singing through the storm but inside prepared to erupt
And never come to terms until talking’s no longer enough
See the child’s mother in a former lover-turned-stranger
Grand tragedy of generational psychosexual anger
Spite building in a family in desperation
And in the darkest hour finds herself in the same fixation
Sees me in the ones that take after my image
And after we part ways falls in love with my brother
Influence I chased after slowly turned to a curse
Limits pushed to hide the pain brought on by her mother
The pain no longer hers to bear alone she finds solace
But big brother was left finding it harder to recover
Paths cross and diverge, love lost and rediscovered
Youth was once restrained now it’s left to the brightest summer
A filmic ending turns bitter when carelessness sets in
Now big brother’s in trouble and I see her mother again
I put away anxiety and take the torch of a friend
Try to provide the guiding light at the tunnel’s end
And when I thought the dust had settled it had only set in
Now big brother and I were approaching a suicidal end
Thank god for my mental block for saving me from myself
But big brother wasn’t quite lucky enough without help
A long and winding road on the distance slowly unfolds
As big brother and I look ahead to find the lord
It’s bigger than us, children of hand-me-down pain
Suffer worse than us but have to get by all the same
Self-sufficiency in youth so thoroughly engrained
The virtue leaves us lost as we’re all drowning in the rain
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Season Shakes
06:00
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Stargazing towers come down
As an open rose blooms deep within
The fields of color washed away
Into the dream the love will lay
The city shakes around us
Whoever shall we choose
to release?
Our living makes a promise
Whoever they shall use
to retrieve
And all that we can do
is grieve
Let it go
Leave it to the wind
Nothing here
Will find us at the end
Psalms sang to the children now
As an open letter read to them
Proclaims the end of all that’s sacred
In dreams of cracked and hallowed walls
Our world comes crashing down
Who are we to say
who’s truly free?
The waves come crashing down now
Who are we to you
and to me?
And all that’s left to say
is what you preach
And all that’s left to see
is yet to be
Erase the sky, cross the horizon
Burden the mind all of the time
Break down the lines of all you environ
Escape in enlightened love and excitement
As all you advise is left uninvited
A man so enlivened: a child so misplaced in time
Forgotten words left to the hands of the divine
Innocence maligned in all its design
To die intertwined with the self you define
As the child gives way to man, purity enshrined
As lies surround the dusk of the years left behind
The final twilight resigns the sublime
Paintings decorate the walls
Of everything the children saw
I gaze upon them all and I break down
Fallen to the ground I see the world that escapes my dreams
Misplaced intentions lost in tension
Slip away to grave inattention
I look away in disbelief
A heavy sigh in great relief
Escapes the voice of lives left in yesterday
A necessary sorrow lives through us
The love we beg to borrow away from trust
The passing of the torch breeds the end of days
Skip past the street signs
Run against the windchimes
Dreading the self
That reminds us of the lost time
Never together
Always forever
Spring brings the sun to the rainiest weather
Drive past the street signs
Ride against the windchimes
Dreading the self
That reminds us of the lost time
Always forever
Never together
Autumn turns the leaves to bright-burning embers
Skip past the street signs
Run against the windchimes
Dreading the self
That reminds us of the lost time
Always forever
Never together
Winter brings the snow down in diamond-jeweled feathers
How close can I push myself
How far can I pull myself
(Drive past the street signs
Ride against the windchimes
Dreading the self
That reminds us it’s the last time
Always together
Never forever
Summer brings regret into the love we remember)
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Push/Pull (He & I)
07:07
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How close can I push myself
How far can I pull myself
Love, you know that you amaze me
But how will I live up and face these
Feelings that conquer and plague me
I wonder, just what do you make me?
But none of it matters beside you
Cause all that I want is inside you
The life that I need lives around you
And I thank the stars that I found you
You bring me to life in a new way
Love born again from the deep end
I’ll burn all my art, let my pride lay
For your love I can’t start to understand
And what is our dream
If I can’t play your part
And what does it mean
To come back to the start
When the sky sounds your name
I will follow the call
Out of everything
That to us never falls
I’d love to know everything about you
But dear sometimes less is more
And each absence that I find
Just leaves me colder than before
Everyday I’m reminded
You’ll never show up at my door
The world goes on and divides us
Further apart evermore
How close can I push myself
How far can I pull myself
Faithful promises will bring me closer
And gracefully you let me in
I call on you like an angel to save me
And every time you bring your love back again
I know this uncontrollable envy
Will push me someday over your edge
I’ll hide behind begrudging innocence
Lock away the self the both of us hate
But every time I fall
You take me in at the end of it all
Look through me with gentle eyes, otherworldly
You can take me somewhere far away
You’re always so far ahead of me
Sometimes I wonder why you’ve stayed so long
Don’t ask me what I’m feeling now
Cause I don’t know if I’ll ever belong
And every time I fall
You’ll take me in at the end of it all
I want to speak your mind
When you can’t find the sound
And I want you to speak mine
A Gordian knot unwound
I surrender myself to you entirely
I want to hear your voice
Whispering my name
Cause after every misguided choice
Our love remains the same
I’m dying where you stand
Like I thought we always wanted
Cause I’ll never learn
From regrets thrown on the fire
I’m dying by my hand
Like I thought you always wanted
And as you watch me burn
I see what you once desired
How close can I push myself
How close can I push myself
How close can I push myself
To the edge of throwing everything away
How far can I pull myself
How far can I pull myself
How far can I pull myself
Away from all the help in the world
I can write songs
About all that’s gone wrong
And you just sigh and turn away
As if I never spoke at all
I scream into the distance
As it all begins to fall
I waste my time and spend the day
Unheard against the wall
Cry into deaf ears
Bereft here of death’s fear
The rest hear blessed tears
And echoes of what’s left here
I can write pages
About everything against us
As friends turn their faces
And my words are wasted
How close can I push myself
How far can I pull myself
To the end of you and I
Away from every light
How close can I push myself
How close can I push myself
How close can I push myself
To the edge of throwing everything away
How far can I pull myself
How far can I pull myself
How far can I pull myself
Away from all the help in the world
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Goodbye Orion
03:50
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Seconds pass as days
And I’ve got so much to say
But I’ll forget it all
By the time it leaves my brain
Evaporate like yesterday’s rain
The time just slips away
God falls apart
And the broken lose their hearts
So goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
I wanna know that you’ll always be mine
Let’s get together in the end of time
Let’s get away and take some time out of mind
This love is so unusual but slowly’s alright
Living feels like dying
And I can’t seem pass the time
In any other way
So I look to you to find
Something unusual
But comforting in time
Forget about the twilight
And leave the sky behind
Goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
Ordinary strangers
We’ll meet again someday
I wanna see your face
In the morning when I wake
Someday we may find
A world where we belong
But for now we’ll make it right
With each other and a song
I wanna know that you’ll always be mine
Let’s get together in the end of time
Let’s get away and take some time out of mind
This love is so unusual but slowly’s alright
Goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
Ordinary strangers
We’ll meet again someday
I wanna see your face
In the morning when I wake
Someday we may find
A world where we belong
But for now we’ll make it right
With each other and a song
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Best Laid Plans
03:03
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Here’s to hoping that you never see me again
The words roll off for the last time
Hope you’ll take it like a friend
I’ve fallen enough now
To know I’m getting too weak to stand
Losing sight of the only light
Reaching out to taken hands
I can’t let go
Just yet so I know
You’ll hate me again
Hope you take it like a friend
When you lose me again
Take it like a friend
Keep your love away
Keep your love away
Can’t take another day
That you hold your love for me
Here’s to hoping that if you ever see me again
The gates are open for the last time
And you’ve made your best laid plans
I can’t let go
I can’t let go
Never let me know
That your love never showed
I can’t let go
I can’t let go
More than you know
I needed you so
Keep your love away
Another day so I’ll stay
I just want to hear you say
That you’ll come through my way
And that I can still change
After all we let lay
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Today I’m leaving everything
You and me, the sky and sea
Today I’ll know at last I’m free
From everything that I knew I couldn’t be
I’ll find your space up in the clouds
And I’ll wait for you to come and join the crowd
I promised that I’d make you proud
And I only found that my thoughts were loud
It’s been so long since I haven’t cried
The great lord knows I’m weary and tired
Today I’m leaving you and I
The days when you taught me to fly
Have fallen all too far behind
And now I strain to leave the lie
Let go of all the ways we’re tied and blind
And find the light has turned to night
Another love is out of sight
It’s the last to leave me in my life
It’s been so long since I’ve known peace
The great lord knows I seek release
My hands are tied, prepared to seize
Like Sisyphus lost to gravity
I can clearly see
When I am one with she
And you’re alone with me
I can’t find my peace
I can clearly see
When you are done with me
I can never be
Enough to bring you peace, no
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Thank You
01:18
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My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why
I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window
And I can't see at all
And even if I could, it'd all be grey
But your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad
It's not so bad
And I want to thank you
For giving me the best day of my life
Oh, just to be with you
Is having the best day of my life
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I
I wanna see the air
I wanna see my breath
Out here in the snow
Outside your window
I
I wanna see your face
I wanna see your breath
Up against the window
And we’ll write our names together
Out here in the snow
I can’t hear anything
Over everything
The brightest lights are saved
For the blindest eyes today
I
I wanna know you more
I wanna knock upon your door
And call out for your name
And learn to live with you
I
I wanna hear you say
You wanna see the day
That we can love a little closer
Cause I know that I do
I’m falling deep for you
I can’t hear anything
Over everything
The brightest lights are saved
For the blindest eyes today
And we will learn to fly
You gave me the will to try
And if we fall again
We’ll start over hand in hand
And rise above the sky
I
I wanna hear your name
I wanna feel your breath
Here inside your head
Our hearts and minds connect
I
Hope you remember me
Cause I’ll remember you
The day we ever part
Divine we meet again
Far above the sky
Cause you taught me to fly
The river’s deep and the river’s so wide
He’s waiting for me on the other side
I want the river to take me home
Can’t ride the river no more all alone
I wanna tell you that he’s so fine
I’m gonna love him till the end of time
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I can see in color babe
I can see the love we’ll make
Help me make the day that we won’t go alone
In your eyes I’ll find a way
To look into another day
Leave behind the rest and open up the door
I’ve missed every chance to be
The stories that you used to see
But you’re good to me
I’ve missed every chance to be
That long-forgotten memory
I hope you still believe
Around, around, around
Dreams we never found
Unraveling in sound
Someday to come around
Wake up to the sun
Pretty dreaming one
The dusk forever gone
For us into the dawn
I’ll find you in the old church halls
That brought me up from heavy falls
Into a spirit’s call
Will you take your chance on me
And be my loving remedy
Might I be what you need
I can see in color babe
I can see the love we’ll make
Help me make the day that we won’t go alone
In your eyes I’ll find a way
To look into another day
Leave behind the rest and let our souls come whole
I can clearly see
I am one with she
You are two with me
We can find our peace now
If you can tell me everything
I’ll give it all back willingly
And we can leave our grief
If you rewrite my history
I’ll promise I can set you free
And I won’t ever leave
Around, around, around
Dreams we finally found
Unraveling in sound
So lovingly I’m bound
Around, around, around
Living here and now
Never felt so naturally
Now won’t you lay me down
I can clearly see
I am one with she
You are two with me
We can find our peace now
I can clearly see
I am one with she
You are two with me
We can find our peace now
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Seconds pass as days
And I’ve got so much to say
But I’ll forget it all
By the time it leaves my brain
Evaporate like yesterday’s rain
The time just slips away
God falls apart
And the broken lose their hearts
So goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
I wanna know that you’ll always be mine
Let’s get together in the end of time
Let’s get away and take some time out of mind
This love is so unusual but slowly’s alright
Living feels like dying
And I can’t seem pass the time
In any other way
So I look to you to find
Something unusual
But comforting in time
Forget about the twilight
And leave the sky behind
Goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
Ordinary strangers
We’ll meet again someday
I wanna see your face
In the morning when I wake
Someday we may find
A world where we belong
But for now we’ll make it right
With each other and a song
I wanna know that you’ll always be mine
Let’s get together in the end of time
Let’s get away and take some time out of mind
This love is so unusual but slowly’s alright
Goodbye Orion
I’ll meet you in the dark
Just take me in the night
And I’ll let you cross my heart
Just take me by the hand
And I’ll love you from the start
Our minds, they may collide
You and I won’t come apart
Ordinary strangers
We’ll meet again someday
I wanna see your face
In the morning when I wake
Someday we may find
A world where we belong
But for now we’ll make it right
With each other and a song
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Stopping Clocks Aiken, South Carolina
The only band in Aiken, SC
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