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The future isn't here but we'll miss it when it's gone
A spring that spins like a revolving door
I used to think I knew what was right but never wrong
But I'm not really present in the present anymore
I'm forever leaving Southern California
Dancing through graffiti saints & Urban Light
My self-loathing was the mammoth trapped on Wilshire
Buried in the tar pits of my mind
You can shine a memory until it blinds you
Into a lie so bright that you can barely see
But every in-flight movie just reminds me
What if all the things I want are never meant to be
Two years ago I was sleepless in Seattle
Staring at a ceiling inches from my head
I wrote about you every day that summer
But I left the book in the rental & you left my heart on read
Maybe true love's just a thing only that happens once
But I'll spin the wheel as long as your sweet name keeps turning up
I thought about your hand holding my hand against your face
Maybe true love never dies but it doesn't always stay
Do you want to dance?
There's music in your eyes
Possibility & chance
It's good to be alive
Suffering & loss teach us to survive
It's all part of the cost we pay to be alive
Do you want to dance? There's magic in your eyes
Coincidence & chance, it's good to be alive
Do you want to dance?
There's music in your eyes
Possibility & chance
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
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Tell me what I owe, it's worth it for the moment
Say the words to me, I'll hold them for a year
Can I pay with silence? I guess I'm always hoping
It's never what you want, it's always what you fear
For no one to keep me up
For no one to hold me back
For no one to leave me stuck
Whatever I owe, I'll pay it back
Why don't you remember the silences for hours
That left me burning out like lights along the street
I still wake up in the dark like you were next to me
I've been going hard for nothing I can keep
For no one to keep me up
For no one to hold me back
For no one to leave me stuck
Whatever I owe, I'll pay it back
Didn't want to stay too long I painted all my dreams into a corner
Nothing's ever as it seems, you give up on a dream to find another
For no one to keep me up
For no one to hold me back
For no one to leave me stuck
Whatever I owe, I'll pay it back
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Summer's hard but most seasons are, I know
A fantasy that slips through the bars, I know
Fireworks & dreams that go off every night
I love explosions but sometimes I just want some quiet
Because I've never been loved the way that you love
I've never been touched the way that you touch
It's easy to love someone from afar, I know
Sometimes it feels like we're just tapping hearts, I know
I'll write you a letter, you'll send me a card, I know
It's been an age since I've seen your face & I wonder how you are
Because I've never been loved the way that you love
I've never been touched the way that you touch
A prayer for anyone who knows when a dream ends, where does it go
I know it's late, I know you're tired, I'll let you sleep for the rest of the ride
I've never been loved the way that you love
I've never been touched the way that you touch
I've never been loved the way that you love!
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Retourne-Toi
04:13
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Can you bring it back to life
With a graveyard full of parts
Lightning dancing through my veins
A broken jar full of thoughts
And you keep coming back
With a rusty knife & Carpenter keys
You're unafraid of most kinds of pain
But you still feel the heat
If we play it like a horror movie
Who's gonna make it to the end
I didn't want to leave you
But I couldn't keep my head
Too many nights spent
Watching Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Too many nights wondering
If I should have said “retourne-toi”
If it's written like a mystery
Maybe we could start it at the end
It was unfathomable to lose you
But I could never catch the thread
I wonder what I am to you these days
Am I the one that got away
Do you turn away at last with a sigh of relief
Am I the cautionary tale
I can see you on a beach
A blaze of white on pink
Are you gonna burn all summer
The way you bloom in spring
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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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