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It Means Nothing Now
03:34
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Over the sea line into the breakers
We've started to row
The water below flowing fast
Out of the fear comes something much greater
A feeling you know
Of loneliness starting to pass
The party that's been pulling at your heart
Won't pull it apart
It won't even start
Into the field from out of the silva
We're starting to feel
The sun pouring down on our backs
If we can steal enough of this moment
And what it reveals
The mystery starts to unmask.
The feeling that's been furrowing your brow
It means nothing now
It means nothing now
The fire you know
Is starting to grow
Over the sea line in to the breakers
We've started to row
The water below flowing fast
Out of the fear comes something much greater
A feeling you know
Of loneliness already past
The party that's been pulling at your heart
Won't pull it apart
It won't even start
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2. |
Hazy Maze
02:01
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20 years I never thought of you
Now I'm staring back into the
Hazy maze of days we put away
Summer sinks into the coral reef
Radio blasts "Beyond Belief"
The notes reverberate then wash away
Every hour that dissipates into the cosmic sea
Will return again someday as a memory
Regurgitate another photograph
Either/or, a cry or laugh
Will have to see you through another day
Figures falling from above
Scenes you thought you'd seen the last of
Rising up til you can't get away
Every hour cataloged and posted to the tank
Is another dollar in someone else's bank.
A memory
A memory
I never felt so old
As the day that I was sold
A memory
A memory
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3. |
Everything Dissolves
03:37
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The walls you built were standing still
You were the ghost upon the hill
Until the things you thought you were might come undone
She’s the one
In the silence of the years
Everything dissolves and disappears
You’re the one
Who never let her know what she’d begun
Without her who’d have known what you’d have done
She’s the one
Pulled your finger from the trigger of a gun
Without her who’d have known what you’d become
And you can feel her every hour of the day
A presence that will never go away
A light that always glows
I hope she knows.
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4. |
Hieronymus
02:56
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Touching down in MBA
The day’s too young to go and get a drink
Let’s go see Hieronymus
His garden always gives me room to think
There’s a world we’re overlooking
A world that we don’t understand
A key to the doorway is all I demand
Caught the train to Gran Via
The city is a sea of overcoats
Let’s go hear Thelonious
And hang ourselves in space between the notes
People ask me what I’m doing
I don’t think that I have a clue
I used to feel something
I used to feel true
Breaking through the windows of my mind
Something to alleviate the grind
Every morning the loop starts over
There upon the grassy knoll
Is something else to kill my soul
Breaking through the windows of my mind
Dig until we see what we can find
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5. |
The Most Confusing Part
02:56
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So many miles of nothing
Til it touches nothing in the sky
There’s only one way forward
Reaching out beyond the naked eye
But you still ask me where we’re gonna go
And I can only answer “I don’t know”
How many years we’ve circled in this field
Is anybody’s guess
It’s like the GPS is always changing
To a new address
You had a backlit map
Laid across your lap
Yet we’re in the dark
And that’s the most confusing part
I’m sure there’s some place near
Where we can stop and get a bite to eat
But this road goes on and on
This one mile stretch is on repeat
We had a lot to say
As we pulled away
Then the silence starts
And that’s the most confusing part
It’s just a part we play
While we wait for the day
To break our hearts
And that’s the most confusing part
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6. |
The One Before It
02:45
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There's a spirit in the sound
That you have never found
And it ripples out through all your days
And keeps you on the ground
We're late in our believing
We wish that you weren't leaving
But every day comes faster than the one before it
Well I heard you lost your way
Forgot which song to play
The one that rippled out through all your days
And kept the wolves at bay
The kids are getting older
The season's turning colder
But every day comes faster than the one before it
We'll never kill the hunger
And we're not getting younger
Every day comes faster than the one before it.
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7. |
Suck It Up, Buttercup
03:23
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It's a coronation
A divided nation
Darkened by a thousand points of night
Are you tired of winning?
You've decided sinning on the right side of the aisle
Will be alright
Have we come to this?
The proverbial abyss
When the monster that we've hunted comes to town
It's a slowing breath
And we're amused to death
But there's no sense making that point in a song
Should have seen it coming
Yeah, that drummer was drumming
So loud we should have heard it all along.
Suck it up, Buttercup
Yeah our shit's fucked up
And I can't see any way to fuck it down
Have we come to this?
The proverbial abyss
When the monster that we've hunted comes to town
Can you still invoke the dream
When we can't see what we've been?
Even beamed up on a screen?
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8. |
Slowness Of The Moment
03:14
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Candy can you cut me down
I’ve been dangling above your frown
It’s clear that very little’s changed
You and happiness are still estranged
I was driving through your neighbourhood
Thought I’d stop to see if you were good
And you know I can’t untie you from the past
Candy can you let me know
Do you harvest anything you sow?
The things that grow inside your head
Have you tangled up in your own dread
Are we really gonna do this again?
Y’know I’m only here as a friend
And the slowness of the moment comes so fast
The slowness of the moment comes so fast
And you know I can’t untie to from the past
Yeah, I’m pretty good at steering clear
Of the words I know you wanna hear
But the slowness of the moment comes so fast
The slowness of the moment comes so fast
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9. |
It Breaks You
03:08
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Suddenly alone
Ignoring the vibrations of the phone
Fighting the dawn
Knowing you are gone
You did what you had to
You were always strong enough to follow through
Now who will you be
In your new reality?
When it came to you
I really didn’t know what to do
It wasn’t up to me
Who you should be
Splashing in the pool
When drowning looks so much like waving
You chose to decline
If there ever was a line
When it came to you
I really didn’t know what to do
It wasn’t up to me
Who you should be
Who you should be
Didn’t I show you
How much I tried to know you
But there’s so much you kept from me
I’m slow in showing
You had no way of knowing
Just how much you meant to me
This world
It breaks you
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10. |
Love You Anyway
03:10
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There was a day when everything became clear
There was nothing else I needed to hear
Your voice colliding with the time
I could hear you singing Metal Guru
Out of the window of a blue Subaru
Head back in ecstasy
You nailed every harmony and
I’m gonna love you til the day that I die
Or at least until you stop being you
But then I’ll probably continue to
Love you anyway
I know sometimes you gotta get your licks in
All part of being an independent vixen
The first to complicate things
By being the first to break things
I’m gonna love you til the day that I die
Or at least until you stop being you
But then I’ll probably continue to
Love you anyway
This town looks quiet tonight
C’mon and give me a light.
I’m gonna love you til the day that I die
Or at least until you stop being you
But then I’ll probably continue to
Love you anyway
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11. |
Break Away
03:32
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Should’ve been awake
The day was up and running
I was falling far behind
Couldn’t catch a break
The second hand was cunning
Try to get it to rewind
Oh that!
I never thought of that
What’s to become of that?
It isn’t done today
If you
Find other things to do
Before I get to you
Before I break away
Couldn’t see the shape
Of things as they were coming
Hide from shadows they might cast
The day made an escape
Ya lo haré mañana
The first is always last
Oh this!
What’s to become of this?
Another thing I missed
As I was sorting through
The mess
It’s time to acquiesce
To defeat unless
I can break away
Oh us!
What’s to become of us?
Would you lose your trust
If I don’t come through
What gives?
All the alternatives
To what can be and is
If we can break away.
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In the last notes of the song
We heard the seasons moving on
In the decaying of the waves
We diminish with the last rays
Aching hands unwringing
The clapper’s final swinging
As we ring out an old day
I wish that we could be all that we want to be
But all the want gets in the way
Out beyond where we can see
We dive deep into eternity
We’ve all been here before
Washed up on this shore
Abandoned by the waning tide
And with our final words we repeat what we have heard
From voices on the other side
In the last notes of the song
We heard the seasons moving on.
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Erik Voeks Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City based unskilled laborer that occasionally is allowed to play and compose music.
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