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Shrunken Head, Pt. 2
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I can't wait for the cold
Spooky season never ends
My shrunken head on the door
Summer drained from my skin
Time changes everything
A lie changes everything
& I would give anything to be where you are
I'm still paying back the loan
On a house built on sand
Just tell me what I owe
& bury me with your beautiful hands
Time changes everything
A lie changes everything
& I would give anything to be where you are
Will I fall for you every year
For every June in Baltimore
For a future that disappeared
You don't even live here anymore
Time changes everything
A lie changes everything
& I would give anything to be where you are
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Are we creatures among creatures
Love is not a prize to win
Dreaming's no reward for your suffering
Broken light inside a prism that still spins
Telling the truth won't set you free but the secret's safe with me
Do you read all of the books under your table
Or does the glass keep falling dust from the sleeves
Sometimes the storm you fear can save you
Hope is hard but it exists if you believe
Telling the truth won't set you free but the secret's safe with me
Are you gonna be the best in bloom
Or does beauty just make us turn away
Is happiness only real when it's shared
I'm not sure it is but I'm sure that I don't care
Telling the truth won't set you free but the secret's safe with me
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Forgiveness Works
03:49
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Who answers the door when the memory arrives
The collection is due & no one gets out of it alive
The world gets smaller like your wave in the mirror
I hold on to the heat like the rings on your fingers
Stay for the weekend at the haunted honeymoon hotel
Ghosts in the hot tub, glass in the rotating bed
You said you wished I'd tell you what to do
You have to do the right thing even if it hurts you
Me & Jaclyn met for a walk & we went to the park where the hurricane hit
We stood next the roots & she let out a gasp when she saw where the heartwood split
And I thought about you & how happy you are & how I should be happy too
I can lie to myself but I can't hide from my heart
I want to live in the magic
I want to breathe in the sky
We won't be here again
All I tell you are goodbyes
Forgiveness works because it just has to
There's no end to the road
See where it takes you
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Summer through a window
A year buried alive
The still life of September
Hanging like a spine
It's your birthday
A circle closes in
Do you weigh the hopes & dreams
Of every age you've ever been
Fate's not ours to call
and the past is no one's fault
but what if every failure was a future saying yes instead of no
I never see you
But I don't see anyone
I'm always up against it
Always on the run
Your tracing paper fingers
The vellum of the moon
Drawn over a summer
That couldn't end too soon
Fate's not ours to call
and the past is no one's fault
but what if every failure was a future saying yes instead of no
Summer through a window
Exchange our fear for stars
I read your poems
I know them all by heart
It's your birthday
A wish is like a spark
I hope that you remember
Everything you are
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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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