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I Can Wait 03:41
Desires that you want That can never be An endless summer's heart A lock without a key Fire down the block & horror movie screams 90 days of sun escaping from the street Tell me what you want I'll see what can do I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait A flash before the cold A beauty that defies The summer in its throes For everything that dies What you gonna do when you don't belong Where you gonna go when you can't go home How far we gonna go when we've gone too far How deep you gonna fall you can Call it what you want It doesn't make it true I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait You can throw away what's bitter So upset & insecure Some things are meant to wither Some are meant to be endured A slow dance slowing faster We're getting closer to the end The less it seems to matter for a heart to win I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait I can wait, I can wait Can't wait forever but I'll wait You can throw away what's bitter So obsessed & insecure Some things are meant to wither Some are meant to be endured A slow dance slowing faster We're getting closer to the end The less it seems to matter for a heart to win
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Which one is harder to hold A stone or a feather We could be lighter than air But let's see what shatters Worlds that we represent Full of gold & abstraction Light shines on what we project And love's a reflection Am I better off alone No illusion of control Hope costs too much to pretend So confused How do you want this to end A song on repeat all night Broken laws of attraction Just cause we want something It doesn't mean it should happen Am I better off alone No illusion of control Hope costs too much to pretend So confused How do you want this to end Fourteen stations since I've knelt before temptation Are we just iterations of partners or possessions A dozen seasons since I've made my last confession Desire blurs our vision but I don't even question Am I better off alone No illusion of control Hope costs too much to pretend So confused How do you want this to end
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Dark Mode 03:30
I'm losing daylight The past descending Edges growing dark I don't know what's happening I write down all my dreams Like it could bring them closer Some nightmares repeat Like patterns on a sweater Window panes & wishes Shimmer in your eyes Hair spilled in spells & kisses As radiant as fire A band around your wrist I'm wrapped around your finger If I could give you more Would you stay forever These are the days to open up your heart Before bitterness arrives with the poison that it brings An abandoned heart can stay broken forever So if it wants to sing If it wants to sing Let it sing I'm always out of time & love is a mystery I'm hoping that you'll find something that I can't even see in me You're always on my mind, I think about you when I sing If we let this feeling die, will you still dream about me
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If I tell the truth will this slip away I've been lost in you for a thousand days What if all that's good is gone & can't be saved If it has to burn it's gonna blaze If I show my heart you'd be washed away What we leave behind in a summer haze I starting to forget & I'm so afraid To watch sparks burn out & colors fade Can you take the wheel, my eyes are tired I cannot tell you how I feel, how I feel inside The past is gone, the future's out of sight Let the devil have tomorrow, we'll keep tonight Do you tell yourself that you feel the same We trade our pain for another weight Is love another name for what's in your way It's gone on too long & it's years too late Can you take the wheel, I'm almost blind I cannot tell you how I feel, how I feel inside The past is gone, the future's out of sight Let the devil have tomorrow, we'll keep tonight

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THAT DREAM WAS OUR LIFE 32 "DARK MODE"

A burst of bedroom micro-pop before our annual season of decay & retreat: Songs about unwritten laws, untried courage, & paying down emotional debt. Sometimes it feels like I'm just setting my diary to music but as a *serious* songwriter I feel it’s important to occasionally throw in the incidental details of one’s life lol

Written while listening to Sigrid, Leif Vollebekk, & Mallrat, and in between chapters of Ulinka Rublack, Chuck Klosterman, & R.O. Kwon.

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released December 6, 2019

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Photo: Penn Hills Resort Analomink PA 6/21/2019

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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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