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1.
Stumbling out of the CVS You were still coming down from the X I grabbed myself a gummy bear & you lit up a cigarette I joked you were drunk as a skunk Pointed at the silver streak in your hair You took a drag as deep as regret & you laughed like you didn't care We walked through the rain I remembered the time That you shotgunned me with a kiss & you got me high I left you to follow fool's gold Like the fool I'll always be If it's any consolation your life would be much smaller If you had stayed with me If I could light all my hopes like a flare & watch them spark & explode through the air Would they fill the sky or go unheard like a prayer I never told you but I saw you on your birthday At the karaoke bar where we met I was walking home from Material Girls Feeling hollow & depressed Nostalgia & the smoke from the bar stung my eyes You were circled by your friends I only saw the back of your head I pretended I got a phone call & left
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12/28/2016 I'm at the wheel & I'm falling asleep Candlelit eyes are haunting my dreams Gray like a smoke, the joke's always on me Bookstore cats & used poetry Galway Kinnel of the late century When you've been alone, you turn into the snake Deceit splits your tongue & dissolves into hate Despair so immense it takes on its own life The way that a star is survived by its light The way that a heart can beat after it's burst & fills the sky with the breath of the world
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An unlocked heart & cemetery gate Sinking in the dirt over Walda Crossley's grave Does the spirit rise from the body right away A trail of chicken bones & broken CRTs Lies I tell myself but all I want is to believe An ache for all the lives that I no longer dare to dream You said "Baby I need you I miss you in real life Can't make it without you" Everyone I love has left this ugly town Blew a kiss towards your door & heard an unfamiliar sound Cleaning up my shame like it's a dog I drag around If you could sing the notes of my name one more time If I could feel your heartbeat race like a bird approaching flight I'd relive every moment in a year of sleepless nights "Baby I need you I miss you in real life Can't make it without you" Drake said in 6pm In New York There are nights I wish I could go back in life Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice The way your tiny fingers used to lock in mine Melting snowflakes in your hair at 2AM that start to shine Does anything that dies ever come back to life Does it ever come back to life
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Salty Pimp 02:07
I'll be the boat that follows in yr wake I'll give you all my strength until yr heart is safe Distrust & memories reanimate A cursed hand that reaches through the grave Voices that you can't keep out Men that never shut their mouths Is he gonna tell you all about How not all men deserve your doubt Black holes as small as cities, heavy as the stars When they collide it could be heard by an astronaut Will you be the waves I follow in the dark I might never find out where you are But I'll always keep you in my heart

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Written between chapters of Janna Levin, episodes of S-Town, and D&D sessions where I play a half-elf bard

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released April 21, 2017

Written in Notebook #3 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone
Photo: Hawksbill Mountain, VA 4/15/2017

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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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