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Desire Paths

by That Dream Was Our Life

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What Happens In Cheesesteak Vegas, Stays In Cheesesteak Vegas 03:07
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Walking by your house on the way home The lights inside your windows are never on Are you asleep, are you alone, is it anybody's business but your own 2AM on 9th street's full of life I always pull my hood over my eyes Neon disappointment & ultraviolet dreams will only leave you blind Maybe I would only let you down Baby I could only weigh you down Party lights that spin blue green & red Like the internal conversations that I dread Some mysteries are better left alone & better left unsaid Maybe I would only let you down Baby I could only weigh you down Am I only repeating the mistakes of my life A different hotel, the same jokes every night Hope & temptation come from the devil The way I care for you is nothing special I've been starving myself, listening to Ex:Re & feeling almost spectral Maybe I would only let you down Baby I could only weigh you down Am I always repeating the mistakes of my life The same disaffection & regret every night
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I Am Lady Marlborough, Right Down To The Scar 03:34
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When I dream of you I don't know what's true But if your heart is free I can never lose I am Lady Marlborough, right down to the scar Did I say too much Teary from the cold Some wounds never close When you smile at me I know that I'll never be free Frozen as the ice that's covering the street I'll walk you home just to say goodnight & walk back home Did I say too much Teary from the cold Some wounds never close Did I say too much Laughing in the cold Some wounds never close
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Desire Paths 03:11
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Grieve another year away The heart will take as long as it will take Another page of endless days Beauty feels like destiny But destiny is never what it seems Sometimes dreams are only dreams All the signs you hoped were true Desires that you kept in view Always find a way of falling through You can take another path The one you find & not the one you planned The lines we draw are made in sand I don't want to find someone when I know that I'm better off alone I don't want to fall in love but I'll drown if I fill my heart with stone Sometimes when I catch your eye An inside joke, a secret smile It makes me feel a little more alive Late nights when we're driving home It's freezing cold, your eyes are still aglow Desire paths we'll never know I don't want to find someone when I know that I'm better off alone I don't want to fall in love but I'll drown if I fill my heart with stone
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Electric Street 03:21
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How do you sense all the things you sense What do you see when you look through a lens We're only a version, an iteration Fighting our way through the crowds & the cold Drunken parades & passed out bros Costumes & cheap beer crushing the new year Illusions & ghosts that I keep to myself How can you tell that I have a tell Taking a deep breath, holding a secret Caught in the glow of electric streets Why do all of my prayers turn to concrete Is anyone listening A wireframe heart, the next stop on the line I get so lost, am I missing it every time It's been so long I've been so blind Is anyone listening

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TDWOL EP 29 // DESIRE PATHS // The cold takes many forms: the long walk home through the snow, the desperate phone call, the dream that slips away like fog. But blood warms, you hear an exhalation on the other line, mysteries reveal themselves. Seasons change—and there are things other than ice that melt xx

Written between pages of Maria Popova, Peter Wohlleben & Jane Hirshfield, episodes of Great News, and demoralizing trail runs in the Pine Barrens.

This is the *second* EP in my 2019 series. Check out the subscribe link for more information!

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released April 12, 2019

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Photo: Taft Point CA 11/10/2018

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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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