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Gone
03:36
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A tremor in your heart
My head against the wall
Always been invisible
But never felt so small
Throw my shame over my fear
Like ashes over snow
Can't tell the difference between
What poets always know
Don't want a premonition
I'm tired of the future
Tired of being right
I just wanted to be wrong
Tired of the future
Curse a second sight
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone
The universe can spit you out
At the bottom of the wall
Always been impossible
But never felt so tall
Scenes of disillusion
Dancing like the pain
of what you should be letting go of
But it's always in the way
Don't want a premonition
I'm tired of the future
Tired of being right
I just wanted to be wrong
Tired of the future
Curse a second sight
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone
Parasocial dreams meet me at the giant heart
I don't think I want what other people want
Comfort is a killer, sometimes love will get you caught
I don't think I want what other people want
Validation & possession, pretty people, clever talk
I don't think I want what other people want
Safety turns to poison, sometimes love will get you got
I don't think I want what other people want
Don't want a premonition
I'm tired of the future
Tired of being right
I just wanted to be wrong
Tired of the future
Curse a second sight
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone
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Shiny Dust
02:56
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Lost in a memory
Tomorrow's always out of sight
Dark as a mystery
Days are shorter than the light
The sun shines a fleur-de-lis
Rolling through the audubon
Streetcars are telling me
Maybe I'm already gone
You can't give up
Time runs out
Moments fall away like tears
It's not your fault
It's not your doubt
It's not anything you fear
A trail of shiny dust
Inches closer to a flame
So quick to embrace
Anything that brings you pain
Waited so long for you
Gave my secrets to the moon
A tomb without a key
Only gives you someone else's truth
You can't give up
Time runs out
Moments fall away like tears
It's not your fault
It's not your doubt
It's not anything you fear
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Somebody Needs You
03:09
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Spend half your life trying to get back to zero
What justice are you waiting for
Enchanted by magic made for other people
It starts with a key to a door
I have to be near you
But somebody needs you
Can you believe me
If I never see you
It's been so long since I've felt anything
The way that my heart sings for you
Sometimes it feels like you love everything
But there just isn't enough room
For someone who knows me
But everyone needs you
Can you believe me
I can't even see you
You breathe an impossible spell
And pull me outside of myself
We're closer in dreams we've no right to confess
I have to be near you
But somebody needs you
Can you believe me
If I never see you
You don't believe me
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Faded Gold
03:17
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So far behind
So down below
There's never time
I can't keep up
Seems everybody knows
How to live a life
Spun out & cold
Can't feel the glow
Everything departs
The faded gold
Of the revolving door
Nothing left but who you are
Maybe the cure for disappointment's wanting more
Trust in something you can't see
I know there's something meant for me
Maybe the cure for bitterness is wanting more
Believe in something you can't see
There must be something meant for me
I'm never here
Ashes in the grate
Just passing through
Dreamed myself blind
Into a beautiful embrace
Until each one was you
Don't want the future
I just want you
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Rond de Jambe
02:40
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You can play it as it lays like Joan Didion
Seasons change their skin like a chameleon
Tell you all my secrets like a confidant
They circle in the air like a rond de jambe
I don't want to talk about the day to day
Those conversations are for people without much to say
Do you ever find you wish that you were someone else
I don't want a life that's easy to forget
A spin of white on amber like a Caili Quan
What happens when everything you believed is false
The lives within your heart could make a ghost afraid
Each rises for a moment like a releve
Lock them in a cage like a want untold
Heartache's being unable to let it go
Summon all your faith when your hope is gone
Fate is everyone just being what they are
Fate is everyone just being what they are
Some things can surprise you on the road to hell
Open up the steeple & you ring the bell
A blindfold in the dark, undo the alphabet
Everything else is a lie we tell ourselves
Everything else is a lie we tell ourselves
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We're never far from devotion
No one needs to know how much it means
We hold on to love like time
Like it was something we could keep
When you're here with me you don't have to be anything
There's so little of the future left
When you're here with me you don't have to be anything
Everything is borrowed in the end
Watched my shadow dance across the river
Summer always makes me want to hide
Night swells like bug bites on your skin
You look so good when you're tired
The thing about hating yourself is no one cares
It's just a prison of your own making
A lonely bird sings over Belvidere
A dawn's cry on the edge of breaking
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Dead Satellite
03:06
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Push your hope through the eye of a needle
Weariness feels like a gift in the dark
"Heaven's a word made for other people"
Is one of the lies from the weak of heart
Spread your joy as thin as a shadow
Unravel a thread for the rest of your life
A curse is real if you believe it
Circles you like a dead satellite
When you turn your face to mine
You could almost change my mind
If I hurt myself again
It's because I only wanted what was right
Can you keep bitterness at a distance
Like a sin you cross the street to avoid
Envy's my favorite one of the seven
Maybe there's beauty for everything destroyed
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There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
Your reflection in his eyes
When he strokes your back like a pet
A dream not meant for me
Still feels like a ship coming in
I'll go through the motions again
As if I don't know how it ends
Your face burns red from the cold
Dickinson Street quartets
All your life for a ring on your hand
But I don't want to be kept
Have I known all the love that I'll know
Would it even recognize me now
Truth is just like luck is just like
Time the way it pulls the stitches out
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
When you've lost all your faith
Sometimes you have to pretend
There are things that make you smile
Don't let the magic begin
When a miracle gives up
Sometimes you have to give in
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
There are things you don't want to forget
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Baby Driver
02:58
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A smile you never show to anyone
No words can break the spell
Repeating reasons to believe you but I don't believe myself
Baby Driver in the rearview
Fate is racing like a fool
To an airport in Atlanta but it doesn't have a clue
We speak of loss like it's a shadow
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
We describe disaster by the things it leaves behind
If I could hold the hope I have for you
For the person in the mirror
I could keep your name out of my thoughts
but scars run deeper
Waves come flooding back
Reflections that recede
How do I love again when you are all I see
We taunt the spirits but we never meet their scorn
Nothing is as warm as when you held onto my arm
& said "I wish I could be near you every second of the hour"
I'm drunk on all your whispers
They blow as gentle as the summer
The breeze makes me so weak
I don't know what to do
Can it burn a little longer
For a while I swear I felt it last forever
Forever dreaming of an ending where I make it back to you
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Keep The Wolves At Bay
03:14
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Throw yourself in to make it burn
No resurrection here
Freedom rises from the ash but I can't touch its wings
It's not the same for you & me
Wave a torch & shout to keep the wolves at bay
There's no room for doubt
No time to be afraid
What's the sense in staying stuck
Throwing good luck after bad
Your life is someone else
Who could see me now & love me as I am
Wave a torch & shout to keep the wolves at bay
There's no room for doubt
No time to be afraid
Holy water from the spout to keep the wolves at bay
There's no room for doubt
No time to be afraid
When it spits us out is there anything to say
I gave up all my doubt
For something far away
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Dumpster Dive
02:58
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Fall asleep with the light on if you fall asleep at all
A night that replies with silence even when you call
Secret Spitter in the alley, Pentecostals every night
Summer trash wrapped in plastic waiting for the dumpster dive
Gold lettered invitation with initials intertwined
If the future feels familiar it's a dread that's justified
You can torture yourself or you can cast it all aside
If you dare to be happy or not, the morning still arrives
It feels for everything all you do is apologize
Summer trash wrapped in plastic under fear that's calcified
You can torture yourself or you can cast it all aside
If you dare to be happy or not, the morning still arrives
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Don't waste your time waiting for doom to arrive
When it gets too close lose it in rhythm & rhyme
A zealous mirage says that it's safe to be you
She flatters your heart but you just want to hear something true
You'll never want for anything
It all works out in the end
You'll always know love
You won't go without
Don't waste your time imagining you have a chance
Whatever it is, you're not a part of the dance
You'll never want for anything
It all works out in the end
You'll always know love
You won't go without
Looking at somebody else's paper
Just gives you somebody else's answer
All you fear is already happening
So if your heart wants to sing
If your heart wants to sing
If your heart wants to sing
Let it sing
You'll never want for anything
It all works out in the end
You'll always know love
You won't go without
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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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