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Doom Forever

by That Dream Was Our Life

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If The Glimmer Burns Forever Will I Burn Forever Too 03:42
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I wrote it to remember Something terrible & true A prayer beneath your breath Teardrops in the pew A diver in the rapture The air is running out I watched it like a fool Without a hope or doubt It's the way you keep me guessing I can never see the future But I can make it easy if I never try to reach you Leave me something to remember Something beautiful & real There nothing time can do for a wound that never heals A moth mistakes a streetlight For the crescent of the moon If the glimmer burns forever Will I burn forever too It's the way you keep me guessing I can never see the future But I can make it easy if I never try to reach you Does it always have to die Do we always have to let go Do you see it in your mind or is it just an echo I can't go back to nothing Touch the hand inside the casket You make me want to find if there could be an answer It's the way you keep me guessing I can never see the future But I can make it easy if I never try to reach you It's the way you keep me guessing
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The Curse of Getting What You Want 03:46
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A fever you can catch That never seems to let go The curse of getting what you want Repeating like an echo The wind splits the sky Reflecting in the river A name in disappearing ink I trace it with a finger A pair of tickets in my hand Panic in the ballroom I just want to be confused By the breath of your perfume Twelve footsteps in a sleepwalk year Does it make you wanna cry Our voices tremble like a shadow But we lose our shadows in the light 24 on the 10 I'm in front of your old house You're breathless at the door Red dress & your hair's down If I stay inside the past I never see the present I'm never really here It's real until it isn't All I have to offer you Is a life I've never known before Maybe together we could find some luck And know the touch of something more
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Doom Forever 03:06
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Blow a kiss 11:59 Can I sleep through the new year Just have to keep the coals alive Microdosing on disco lights What separates you from your fear You don't need courage to survive Am I chasing ghosts Tracing ashes in a room The way they float Just breathe them in like doom Until they're gone forever Trees & memories creak & moan Still find a way to miss you Searching for the shortest line If I ever make it home There's nothing I can give you From a life that isn't even mine Am I chasing ghosts Tracing ashes in a room The way they float Just breathe them in like doom Am I doomed forever to be doomed forever
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Memory Is A Stack of Clouds That We Keep Falling Through 03:00
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I tried to get away but fear pulls me like a chain That leaves me at the mercy of a ghost train If decay is still a friend then I should be checking in Before he takes me in his loving arms again I left the party feeling sorry for myself Lonely lights of Cheesesteak Vegas shine at 1AM A line of trash & pretty people on the pavement Staring at an alien or some unfrozen caveman Is it better to find love & refuse it Than to hold it your hand & simply lose it Better to shrink away than make it true Memory is a stack of clouds that we keep falling through If you fall at least you tried At least you know that you'll survive I wish that you were here & I want you to be mine But I don't know how to keep anything alive Dulcimers & decibels, the streets are all a blur You said everyone should get a chance to see their funeral You're funny when you're funny I laugh for no reason You can live forever as long as you never weaken

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I started writing DOOM FOREVER in the fading light of 2020 & it was a real struggle to figure out what I was trying to say. Most stories are incomplete or idealized & we only catch a glimpse of beauty or an echo of truth before it fades. But I love mystery & not knowing—they're an invitation to possibility & seeing things in a different light & you rely on both in order to create, regardless of how ugly you feel that week or how dumb you are or how unbearable you think you are to others. Despite all the little wraiths that haunt you, you always have an opportunity to make something new xx

Written between pages of Marc Lamont Hill & Charles Yu, episodes of the Design Matters & Tara Brach podcasts, & way too much COD.

This is the first entry in my 2021 EP series. Check the Subscribe link for access to everything I'll be putting out this year.

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released March 17, 2021

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Front Photo: FDR Park Philadelphia PA 11/29/2020
Back Photo: Newbold Philadelphia PA 1/11/2021

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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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