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Dispossessed

by That Dream Was Our Life

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1.
Kitsune 03:39
lyrics
Meet your fate, unorthodox I don't always need to talk Rained out parties start to shrink Thin as the shadow of a blink Light the candle, ring the bell Burn the ego, flee the self Recite the words, cast the spell Set the fuse & run like hell Change your shape, the nine-tailed fox Blind with secondary thoughts Awake the mirror of your life You have to break to find the light No possession in our hearts Your fingers violet as the dark Turned on Venus & the moon Concede the future like I do Pretty words, hidden debt All of mine for all of yours Pay it down Every face you've dreamed is one you've seen before The cabin blurs, spun out & cold Life is more than you've been told A prayer made in every breath Can you die without a death You're just an arrow's flight away
2.
Nothing Gold 03:59
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It's only indifference If there were no people there'd be no significance Are you performing for yourself Or is the click in the mirror for an invisible audience Don't hold on to anything that you can't keep Nothing gold can stay A song dissolving you like sleep Is it only bitterness Or is there no room for wishes in the heart of a cynic Do you keep your eyes in front of you Or are you comparing yourself to an impossible happiness Don't hold on to anything that you can't keep Nothing gold can stay A song disintegrating through your dreams When I see the light in your eyes & it's dancing for someone else I guess it hurts just a little bit I'll say goodbye to the shore And if the cure for loss is wanting more Then I call on the infinite Don't hold on to anything that you can't keep Nothing gold can stay A song disintegrating through your dreams
3.
Whatever I Owe, I'll Pay It Back 03:53
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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
4.
Tantalize NYC 03:29
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When I made it to New York Wasn't quite sure where I was People come & go I was a Lower East Side Tourist Take me to A & 6th The Pyramid's still breathing Followed the sound of Hotline Bling You used to call me on my cell phone There's a name that always stays on the tip of my tongue It's all right, it's all right You're never lost if you don't belong to anyone It's all right, it's all right Walked through strobe lights & the haze You were smoking with your friends They were disinterested in me I wasn't interested in them I'll play the fool to make you laugh & ache for all that you can't have Some feelings come & go But some run deeper There's a name that always stays on the tip of my tongue It's all right, it's all right You're never lost if you don't belong to anyone It's all right, it's all right Sometimes I think you look like me & there's no one else like you The trace of wood in your perfume My ears still ringing Is it wrong when you're everything to everyone It's all right, it's all right I don't want to be loved by just anyone It's all right, it's all right There's a name that always stays on the tip of my tongue It's all right, it's all right You're never lost if you don't belong to anyone It's all right, it's all right
5.
Dancing With You At The End Of The World 03:05
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The punchline at the end of the joke is like a slap in the face Transmissions that I'm sending to you over the vacuum of space Headlights snaking over the bridge can barely break through the fog I'm screaming your name over high beam lanes cause I don't know where you are Who's dancing with you at the end of the world In your room as the calendar burns The arrow at the end of the road leads to a break in the bend The wall behind the break in the bend is made of guilt & cement My dad told me we are ruled by greed & fear I was twelve & it was true but when I think about you My worry disappears Who's dancing with you at the end of the world In your room as the calendar burns
6.
Summer's Hard But Most Seasons Are 03:55
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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!
7.
Heaven Sleeps Under The Stones 03:13
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Diamond dust that flakes into the sky A slow blink since the summer's fireflies Familiar ghosts haunt different walls this year They want your pain to count for something real Miracles tumbling down Heaven sleeps under the stones Maybe if you come around Christmas won't feel so alone Maybe it won't A two-step over 13th like a dancer A question's always bigger than the answer Truth's the knife that's shaking in your hand It can cut you free or drop you where you stand Miracles tumbling down Heaven sleeps under the stones Maybe if you come around Christmas won't feel so alone How long have you been missing Can you make it through one more season Hope is not a wish but it can hold you in the dark Miracles tumbling down Heaven sleeps under the stones Maybe if you come around Christmas won't feel so alone Maybe it won't
8.
True Love Only Happens Once 05:04
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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
9.
Forgiveness Works 03:49
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Who answers the door when the memory arrives The collection is due & no one gets out of it alive The world gets smaller like your wave in the mirror I hold on to the heat like the rings on your fingers Stay for the weekend at the haunted honeymoon hotel Ghosts in the hot tub, glass in the rotating bed You said you wished I'd tell you what to do You have to do the right thing even if it hurts you Me & Jaclyn met for a walk & we went to the park where the hurricane hit We stood next the roots & she let out a gasp when she saw where the heartwood split And I thought about you & how happy you are & how I should be happy too I can lie to myself but I can't hide from my heart I want to live in the magic I want to breathe in the sky We won't be here again All I tell you are goodbyes Forgiveness works because it just has to There's no end to the road See where it takes you
10.
Poor James Richard's Almanack 01:45
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Snow through the skylight & the pines Falling on a life that isn't mine Floats away like dreams that you haunt Chasing something I'm not even sure I want It's easy to love someone from afar We're only trading hearts after all Memories could fill an almanac But you couldn't even get one of them back

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DISPOSSESSED is a compilation of ten selected tracks from my 2020 series of EPs. I made a deliberate effort not to write obvious “quarantine songs” this year because we’re already viewing everything through that lens—do we really need to be reminded of how much we miss everything & everyone? Maybe it's a symptom of denial but I prefer to think of it as keeping in touch with the people we were & the everyday emotions that keep us human in a year that buried us alive xx

NMM 5/23/20

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released January 22, 2021

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Saxophone on "Dancing With You At The End Of The World" by Tom Genevie
Photo: Market-Frankford Line Philadelphia PA 2/17/2020

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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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