1. |
On the Road
04:44
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Bracing at the sight of a tractor trailer
the thought of them could always derail her
now I’m hugging the mountain side, and my lover’s arm
We’re only halfway through Pennsylvania
In the wilds you’ll possibly go insane
from boredom, or from questions of an anxious mind
Snowflakes whipping down from the sky,
brown mountain roads winding high
Say “goodbye for now,” to my Midwestern life
There’s a magnet buried inside my mind
paired to memories left behind
New York is the feeling of losing all control
Driving on I-80, I
feel a little unsteady, now,
knowing I can’t take her from that place
Knowing I must live with the look on her face
I only have my questions and 500 miles
How come all your love is gone?
How did everything go wrong?
How are we supposed to carry on?
She keeps seeing my father’s face:
a silent cry from a quiet place
Nobody came first to close his eyes
Driving on I-80, I
know there’s a time to say goodbye
Parents are supposed to show the way
but now there’s no one left to say
if, or how, or when
we’ll safely arrive
How come all your life is gone?
How did everything go wrong?
How are we supposed to carry on?
She keeps seeing my father’s face:
a silent cry from a quiet place
Nobody came first to close his eyes
Driving on I-80, I
sing to myself and I have a cry
This is my cry,
a song to carry on:
I am your child,
You don’t even know
You’re not quite gone;
where did you go?
I miss you
I’ll always miss you
This is the road
I’m on the road
to you
Driving on I-80, I
fear that I will never arrive,
knowing no matter how fast I drive,
the past I seek will always
be passed
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2. |
Stars Over the Lake
03:46
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Friendship can be so mystifying
if I said I didn’t love you
I’d be lying
If I said I didn’t want you
I’d be denying
how I stone cold feel
Each night I open a door in my dream
hoping you’ll walk in and I’ll know what it means
Once you came to me and
simply held my hand
There was no deeper meaning
to understand
You are who you are
Who are you
What am I to you
What am I supposed to do
A puff of smoke,
a paddle stroke:
things that break apart
fan out as my heart, now
Sometimes I stare
at the stars over the lake
hoping that there
can be no mistake
Feeling certainly can mystify
Why does caring for you so
make me cry
Why does crying for you
make me high and low
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3. |
Make Me
05:05
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Some people’s moods are beautiful
like something cracked and sparkling on the ground
What happens when you scoop it up?
You end up carrying tiny shards around
That’s one way to get under my skin
I can see it in your eyes,
under the gentle and sublime:
You wanna make me
You wanna make me cry, you do,
so you can make this better for you
Everyone knows that mess begets a mess
Heartbreak is not a direct line
Everyone knows the hurt are looking to hurt
and that is part of the design
Or am I standing in the way of something?
You can tell me now, it’s fine
Some things are too hard to say
and so they just die slowly in our minds
I keep noticing the city now,
walking the streets till they turn me around
You wanna talk to me 'cause I’m pretty now
Pull up your truck, and quietly slow down
Pretty sure you might have been my type
but pretty sure you don’t have the right
Walking away not breathing while
I picture you watching me from behind
You’re so polite
You wanna make me
You wanna make me cry, you do,
so you can make this all for you, this is all for you
Everyone knows that mess begets a mess
Heartbreak is not a direct line
Everyone knows the hurt are looking to hurt
and that is part of the design
Or, am I standing on the edge of something?
You can tell me now, it’s fine
Some things are too big to move
and some things are too big to leave behind
It’s not all gonna be fine
Come on and make me
Come on and make me cry, will you,
so you can say this is all true
It’s all for you
Everyone knows that mess begets a mess
Heartbreak is not a direct line
Everyone knows the hurt are looking to hurt
and that is part of the design
Or, am I standing on the edge of something?
You can tell me now, it’s fine
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4. |
Endless Loop
02:37
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I’m in a lovely group
I’m in an endless loop
I want to make it hurt
I wanna steal your shirt
Like you stole my dreams
last summer
And you wrecked my sleep
forever
I’m never bad
but if I’m bad
it’s bad
I’m not that good
but I try all the time
Each day is another song
on the dance floor
And I just wanna be true
I wanna dance with you
I don’t wanna write this down
but I’d better
It’s more important than
talking about the weather
You make me mad
and then in makes me sad
I can be so in my head
and nowhere else
So you stole my dreams
all summer
Though it’s not quite what it seems
It’s still a bummer
Didn’t need another reason
to lose sleep
Heaps of impossible problems
feeling incomplete
Oh, well!
They make a pill for that now
or an endless well drink for that, now
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5. |
Eros + Vibes
03:17
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My body tells me what to do
My body tells me I need you
It’s talking at me the whole night through
but it’s wrong
Wide awake
Heart beating like I’m running in a marathon race
but strange and sad how life can play out out of pace
eight dollars short and a few years too late
I love what I love, I want what I want
It’s all feeling, I am reeling
Eros + vibes
Eros + vibes
It’s a story about nothing
and no one survives
Parked on every corner, vibes
Tears keep welling up in my eyes
I want you to fall in love when it’s right
but I just need to flee from the sight
Stay away, but come closer
Lean your neck onto my shoulder
It’ll all make sense when we’re older
and our feelings found their legs
How can I want for more?
Already have too much
Already making love,
all full up
Stay away, but come over
I just have this need to be closer
It’ll make sense when it’s over
No regrets, every stone
on the sand was a boulder
Eros + vibes
Eros + vibes
It’s a story about nothing
and no one survives
Eros + vibes
Eros + vibes
It’s a story about nothing
but the love in our lives
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6. |
Alice Lake
04:52
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I feel it flowing into me
I feel it flowing from me
Kawishiwi
When the day is full of rain
can you help me pass it by?
To bring back the sun
can you wring out the sky?
It took so long to get to you, Alice
now I want it to be known
I want to make you my home
How do I make you see me?
How do I make you mine?
These are unholy questions
This is an unwritten time
Sleeping beside you,
where do I belong?
It took bravery to find you
I’ve left everything I counted on
I made you a crown of flowers
Daisy, grass and clover
I give it to you now
trembling all over
How do I make you see me?
How do I make you mine?
These are unholy questions
This is an unwritten time
You must touch my face
Let me fill your mind
Like a loon song
filling the night
Lighting pulses somewhere,
wind rushing through the pines
Storm clouds batter down soon
gathering in the blind
It took forever to find you, Alice
but I live in hope and not in fear
that what I feel with you
will flow with me from here
I feel it flowing into me
I feel it flowing from me
Kawishiwi
The only way out is through
The only way out is by you
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7. |
Goldfish/Good Question
00:26
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8. |
Beams
03:52
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I lost myself when I found you
gave it up to be around you
I lost myself when I found you
I lost myself around you, I
Lost myself when I found you
Traded in for a better model
Can’t blame me, I’ve no throttle
I just needed to be around you
I just needed to be
around you
I lost myself when I found you
I did
I wanted to
I lost myself around you, I
lost myself when I found you
Traded in for a better model
Don’t wanna say it, but I gotta
I lost myself around you
I lost myself around you
Oh, there’s nothing I can do
I’m going to the moon soon
I’ll beam back down on our room
I’m going ‘cause I don’t deserve you
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9. |
Star World Moon
04:35
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It's a new day
and a red dawn
when the sun's up
and the moon's gone
its shadowy way
across the sky
I'm sorry that we won't come
in contact again
Oh, you were my friend
and that was all
And I was a star about it
and you were the moon
I give off too too,
what I give off
It's not peaceful,
this burning way
we blow through the days
Can't behave at any cost
And why can it never be enough?
We want it celestial, we want it raw
I know why you don't answer
I gave no air
Oh, was it unfair?
Did I pull too rough?
And you were the world about it
and I was the moon
You give up too soon
Don't give up
If I want it celestial, I still like it rough
You could take me in the bathroom
at the Cactus Club
We could make a break for it,
burn it up
But first:
a shot of Brandy
for the this mortal coil
Tell me I'm the only girl
You wanna be a big star,
a powerful sun
and give off light to
just about anyone
So now you'd better be
getting gone
Tomorrow I'll sing this
Cowboy song
and I won't try to say
that the time was wrong
'Cause it's a new day
and a red dawn
when the moon's up
and that sun's gone, gone
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10. |
Angel of Bay View
03:47
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Angel of Bay View, turn to me
I can't speak my heart
but I can sing it shyly
under streetlight, outside
Angel of Bay View
I can’t read a mind
but I can draw it slowly, outside
Heal my earthly body
Go on now, explain to me
how I can be unfolding still
in this third decade
like wings, like weather, like will
Or send two black cats,
slink them to me
through the violets
to curl beside me,
mmm mm
Angel of Bay View, be with me
Lead me tenderly down Delaware
we’ll peep the living rooms, if we dare
Send me a goosander
A harbinger of feeling
I’ll watch the harbor
Count her landings and departures
gather her up in my armor
She can make a nest in me
like I was a broken tree
When I am thirsty
I’ll go to the well on Pryor
And it’s just as well
I’m on fire
Angel of Bay View, I see you
and I know your secret too:
fireflies are made of you
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Warhola Cats Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lyrical pop from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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@warholacats
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