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Do You Wanna Dance?
06:06
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This book that’s been written to sell
This book that’s to write the wrongs
This books that’s been written for so long
So long, so long
It’s a myth that we tell ourselves
It’s a myth that we sell ourselves
It’s a myth that’s been written to tell
It’s a myth, it’s a myth, it’s a myth
How to control
And how to forget
And how not to listen
And not to forgive
Let’s write a book on how to live
So our children can remember it
And we don’t have to write it
Just live, and let live
Do you wanna, do you wanna dance with me
Do you wanna, do you wanna dance with me
Do you wanna, do you wanna dance with me
Do you wanna, do you wanna dance with me
Cause I just wanna dance this night away
I just wanna dance this night away
I just wanna dance this night away
I just wanna dance this night away
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Burke Hollow
04:57
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She slapped my across the face
I just couldn’t walk away
But like the stars all day with the sun in my way I’ll wait
She broke a little boys heart
When he thought he was a man
But like the stars all day with the sun in my way I’ll wait
In a clear Vermont sky
You can see every star shining bright
Put that fire away
This is my time, my time
Now I’m filling up landfills
With broken strings and empty cans
But like the stars all day with the sun in my way I’ll wait
And I might have lost my mind
When I had four hits in my spine
But like the stars all day with the sun in my way I’ll wait
In a clear Vermont sky
You can see every star shining bright
Put that fire away
This is my time, my time
In a clear Vermont sky
You can see every star shining bright
Put that fire away
This is my time, my time
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Holdin' Back the Heart
05:10
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Holdin’ back the heart
That’s what I do
Every single time
That’s what I do
Glass bottom jar
Fill me up and
you see right through
Every single time you see right through
Holdin’ back the heart
I’ve known from the start
I can’t hold back this heart
From you
Holdin’ back the heart
That’s what I do
Every single time
That’s what I do
White cotton curtains
The sun shines and
you see right through
Every single time you see right through
Holdin’ back the heart
I’ve known from the start
I can’t hold back this heart
From you
Holdin’ back the heart
I’ve known from the start
I can’t hold back this heart
From you
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Rose Gold
04:07
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I’ve been knowing you for a long time
I’ve been living you all of the time
You take these awful things
Out of my mind
That’s why I’m loving you for all of time
Laugh a little
Cry a little
Spend a little bit of our time
Bend a little
Break a little
Sing a little more with you now
Learning to love you, Since the first time
Learn to love me too, all of the time
Take these awful things out of your mind
Take this ring from me for all of time
Laugh a little
Cry a little
Spend a little bit of our time
Bend a little
Break a little
Sing a little more with you now
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Lizard Brain
06:15
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I called your name out of my window
As you stomped Lizard Brain down the street
Most people read the signs and stear clear
But this place always has what you need
This place always has...
Back in school we'd show our happy faces
In the places that only we could see
Finding love and making love
But always running from something
Why you still running from something?
Imma pull this car right over
Imma put you back on your feet
Imma hold you tight
Imma treat you right
Imma be, the savior to rise from these street
I never called your name out of the window
I just sank lower in my seat
I hope you find help if you need it
And happiness, if that's how you wanna
Cause I ain't no savior to rise from these streets
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6. |
War With Shadows
03:39
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When we went to war with shadows
Smoke signaled our retreat
We held our heads in winter hats
And snowshoes on our feet
Clinging to a feature unless features
Do deform us
Seeking something to dig up
That was so enormous
It was all that we knew
From the fall to the stoop
Behind stars and closed doors
Hide at all, all cost
One by one our secrets laughed
In our sallow faces
Never looking so concerned
Or stopping to replace us
But the call it never stopped
We just started listening
To a muted echo of
A temporal awakening
A fall something new
Through it all we grew
Behind stars and closed doors
Hide at all costs
A ghostly image forms
In the spaces that replaced us
Spinning little leaves
Like an unknown galaxy
But our memories will fill
Dictionaries with dead languages
Future's tongues creations most likely
And imitation
Of a song that we knew
Wishing something would come true
Behind stars, and closed doors,
Hide at all, all cost
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Snail Mail
03:22
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The rain is falling
Put your mind to rest
Swallow the rhythm
And surrender your regrets
Whispers are blowing
Through the vacant nest of your mind
Climb that Oak
to find
That simple truth: that fear
But for this moment
Be right here
In my heart, in my eyes
Forgive yourself
And forget the rules
The world is nothing more
Than love and hate and fools
The heart is the mind’s own cure
Turn your love on
And close that door
Don’t be ashamed of that fear
You were meant to be right here
In my arms
In my life
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Purple Sunset
05:08
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I go out to see her
Spinnin’ in ether
Wild winds have no name
Fall’s all around me
Lightning surrounds me
Connected to the pulse
Oh, you were nothin’ more than lost
Oh, you were a vision, a feeling I lost
I wouldn’t trade a million sober nights
For this purple sunset with you
Dirty old liver
Delaware River
Cleans me to the bone
Green bridge
Indian Summer
You go over, I go under
Holdin’ on to that night
(Holdin’ on to that night)
Blame it on me, blame it on me
But I wouldn’t trade a million sober nights
For this purple sunset with you
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Jellyfish
04:07
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I pissed your name
Into the sand
The moon looked like
The back of your hand
These four chambers
I’m locked in tight
The image of you
Is the one I fight
Take this art
Take it from me
But I can’t help but
Sing the things I see
Marooned like shadows
Listlessly
A pale moon on
An empty sea
My love lies bleeding
A moment’s blame
A brand new sun
Bursting into flames
So simple
So insane
We made this deal
Under a poet’s name
I pissed your name
I’ll miss you man
The moon looked like
It was in on the plan
These four chambers
This fractured light
The image of you
Came out just right
But I can’t help but
Sing the things I see
So I’ll take this art
I’ll take it with me
Yeah, I’ll take it with me
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Clouds
04:28
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Like staring at an empty page in an unwritten book
Like walking away but turning back to take one last look
Regrets a dirty word I’ve come to hate
Something I swore I’d never say in my younger days
Like a cloud life shifts shape as it rolls across your day
It leaves you speechless and it just fades away
Wasted, I’ve been wasted down to the threads of my only heart
Taste it, I can still taste it, redemption in my lonely art
I’ve kept your way of saying too little and feeling too much
Like trying hard to stay human and losing that touch and
I don’t cry, I sing
And I’m singing again
I don’t cry, well I sing
And I’m singing again
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The Naked Sun Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fronted by singer-songwriter, Drew Harris and guitarist Tim Campbell, the Naked Sun have been a staple of the Philadelphia music scene since forming in 2011. Harris and Campbell are joined by Dylan Mulcahy on drums, Tom Tusler on bass, Alan Sheltzer on keys, and Bradley Moser on lead guitar. ... more
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