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I Can Wait
03:41
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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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Sobriety Clock
02:41
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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
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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 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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