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1.
Play The Ghost 02:40
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It feels good to play the ghost Even for a little while We miss some things more than most I couldn't tell you why No idea I didn't know How good I'd feel about you The light we lose when we get lost Is it ever coming back The lives we learn when we get crossed Things slip through the cracks No idea I didn't know How good I'd feel about you Put what's broken back in place Sometimes it takes a little while The happy hours that wear your face I lose them in a smile No idea I didn't know How good I'd feel about you
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I Want To Be Here 02:49
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Failure's just another place That you can leave at any time You don't need courage to be saved It's quiet underneath the waves Beneath the ocean of your mind It's surviving which makes you brave We don't need this but I want to be here All my life for someone else at the wheel The past is just another state You can always make the time Laws of half-life & decay Torment answers to a name Lights your self-pity like a sign Invite them in but they can't stay We don't need this but I want to be here All my life for someone else at the wheel We don't need this but I want to be here Somehow you make the impossible easier A near-miss at the circle again I laugh like a fool Lost in a thought of you again I've never been cool We don't need this but I want to be here All my life for someone else at the wheel We don't need this but I want to be here Somehow you make the impossible easier
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Draw Me Close To You This Year 02:33
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A name in lights in New Orleans I don't know What to tell myself it means Should I go Pale Horseman over Magazine Try to hold The helium that fills your dreams Praying to be free Burn the fog of Chartres St Slip the crowd A bolt that knocks you off your feet Saints of doubt Leave you in your bed awake Put them out Like a glass over a flame A different face, a different name Chance or a chase Lonely & caged I don't believe in destiny or signs Choice for a change Moth for a flame I thought that maybe you could change my mind I'm nowhere now And it's easy to disappear Help me see Draw me close to you this year Draw me close to you this year
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The Old Are Vampiric 03:03
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Been lonelier than cold This year's been colder than most A promise for a key A key for every lock A lock for every door that's closed Lost another season There was no place with my shape I know that love can leave for a million reasons But it leaves no time to waste Let the future hold some magic for our eyes Do you remember how it feels to be alive Let the future hold some magic for our eyes I've forgotten what it's like The older are vampiric Cloud of bats behind a cape A lonesome sad guitar offers up a song in the hopes it will be saved Let the future hold some magic for our eyes Do you remember how it feels to be alive Let the future hold some magic for our eyes I've forgotten what it's like I'm tired of living life With my hands over my eyes If I tell myself the truth Maybe I'll tell it all the time Let the future hold some magic for our eyes Do you remember how it feels to be alive Let the future hold some magic for our eyes I've forgotten what it's like to be alive

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TDWOL 48 // AGE IN // I’ve been into writing really joyful & hopeful songs & I think my songwriting has matured to the point where I can write about trusting happiness in a way that almost sounds believable lol. When you’re young, you're often reacting & writing the first things that come into your head without any shame, which is why so many great pop songs are written by young people. But if you’re not careful the first things that come into your head just become what's easiest for you to say & you fall into the same habits & rhythms—if you shake things up once in a while & try something new, that will always make better songs happen. Or at least they'll be different. Sometimes it results in the lamest, most cliché things you could possibly say but they're also the truth. There’s no denying it.

Written during the 2023 Eagles playoff run, episodes of the Broken Record podcast, runs through the Wiss, & semi-weekly games of Ghost of Tsushima Legends w/ Randy, Butch, & Cole.

This is the first release in my 2023 EP series. Check out the Subscribe link above for more info <3

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released April 21, 2023

Written in my journal, voice memos, & Google Keep
Recorded on iPhone in Philadelphia PA
Photo: Columbus Blvd 4/5/2023

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That Dream Was Our Life Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Introspective & prolific, James Cuartero AKA That Dream Was Our Life has been making music as a solo artist since 2014. Described as "a thinking man’s songwriter who stays away from the trap of being defined by a single genre", Cuartero has released fifty EPs, six compilations, & numerous singles over the past ten years. No t-shirts though. ... more

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