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New Design
03:11
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raven hair and a black balloon
heart belongs to the summer moon
eyes of blue and the realest smile
oh, won't you come and visit soon?
too late; mistakes been made
should have stopped, should have stayed
evening time when the nights grow long
my thoughts return to my summer maid
it ain't the light i'm runnin from although it looks to be
it ain't a new design that keeps me from my misery
it ain't the earth beneath my feet that tells me something must go wrong with no exception for a heart that seeks to breathe
please don't mind if i leave
my mind's not at ease and i'm giving up on a kind of release
that my mind says i need so i tell myself i'm better off alone
sunshine and peace of mind
places we have left behind
the sky still rains and the grass still grows but she don't stand the test of time
the best friend that could have been
i never even let her in
i'll use this shame and adjust my aim to never miss a shot again
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take a walk down mercer on a sunny afternoon
count the cranes and know that it will all be changin soon
well i guess i been changin too
weave amongst construction sites on union, pike, and pine
well i used to know these dirty streets, i used to call them mine
knowing i was theirs as well
but time and distance cut the same and tendrils of possession retreat
and i won't lie and say that i don't miss it when i visit but the lights don't shine the same
guess i been gone too long; everything has changed about the place that i am from
old familiar streets look wrong to my eyes
but life goes on discreetly; i can tell this place don't need me no more
and the grass was always green until they cut it down and built a place for wealthy folks to spend their money
i met you at bauhaus by the bridge across I-5
drinkin kool-aid and black coffee til they called for closing time
well they never opened up again
and then you played at the josephine and you took off all your clothes
had a busted synthesizer that you fingered with your toes
and you smoked a cigarette each song
well the josephine is history and bauhaus is a gutted frame
and i saw these changes coming but i guess i always hoped that maybe you'd still be the same
guess i been gone too long; everything has changed about the place that i am from
even my old friends been movin on with their lives
though there still remains a mystery, uncertainty of what's to come next
and i do concede the part of me that loves the way things used to be don't always know what's best
and it don't keep me away; i find myself believin i'll be comin back someday
a person is defined by the place that they're from
and growing's about changing and it's strange and rearranging is hard
and if i go back it would be not through the lens of memory that i gaze upon streets no longer mine
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lady luck! i have lately learned a lot from you
but i don't like to live allowing you to lead
though i know my course is straight and true
i don't long to list and drift effortlessly
so set the sails! these seeds we'll sow with certainty
there is somethin bout the sight of sacred shores
though they may be distant, certainly
it's the journey, not the goal, that offers more
and yet i can't decide where my fortune lies
is it beside me, obscured by butty skies?
or do i venture off the beaten trail onto a path much stranger?
my heart can't figure out
there's so much i could do
how do i end up like you
i just don't know what to do with myself
when my heart is hardly beating heartily
with a pulse that pauses between precious beats
if i sit and search my memories
i should like to find a smile upon my cheeks
but if i fail to fight the force opposing me
and i die alone and broke with some disease
well my soul will rest quite comfortably
if the journey that i'm on feels complete
and yet i can't decide where my fortune lies
is it behind me, a forest enterprise?
or do i venture off to find the grail into a world of danger
my heart can't figure out
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Girl//friend
02:38
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"what in the world am i going to do now?"
i said to thin air
my girl, in a whirl of the world
left me standing there
it's amazingly painless, a strange sort of aimless,
and somehow i don't care
for the sun on the trees and the salty ocean breeze
reminds me why i'm here
girl, friend, you're better than the world, friend
but don't you fix on me
girl, friend, i love you like the world, friend
but don't you fix on me
wind in my hair and my soul without a care
as i wander through my mind
it's a dungeon with no demon, a man who seeks a reason
but reveals none to find
am i going mad? am i happy, am i sad?
am i losing all control?
is it wrong of me to postulate there's not a way to subjugate
the love that's in our souls?
but i need you now tonight (no one feels better than you)
only you can make me right (you make me grin like a fool)
and we won't turn off the light (cuz that don't matter at all)
when i see your face, there ain't no time and there ain't no place
that i would rather be than right here next to you
currents of the mind change direction all the time, oh, what am i to do?
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In Flames
03:03
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times may change but the devil stays the same
he may go by different names but still remains
i may grow like the grass up through the snow
in a place i have to know will someday be replaced
every distance seems to be so near
but the mountains bring a fear of finally seeing clear
green grass grows all along the dusty road
and you'd think i would've knowed my path would veer
half the time seems the road is on my mind
but i have faith in time my way home i will find
words can't say how i wish that i could stay
i feel it every day that i have to spend away from my home
all my friends will stick with me til the end
and my heart will break and mend and i cannot defend
life goes on if i'm here or if i'm gone
i'll be back before too long but please, don't take my place.
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