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NEVER LOST

by That Dream Was Our Life

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Kitsune 03:39
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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
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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
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Miracle Mile 03:38
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Miracle mile, is that how it starts You know I can't follow the road that you walk What's real in the light, what's cruel in the dark A ghost that you carry, invisible weight A dream lingers on even after you wake Meaning's not what you find, it's what you create The floor won't stop spinning, the water's too hot Staying together while coming apart Sidestep your thoughts, see them for what they are Who you are is where you disappear Not what kills your sleep, it's not what you fear Wipe the shame from your cheeks as if they were tears Sometimes I lie to myself & forget that I ever said it Do you have contempt for the love that you want in case you never get it This can't go on forever, it couldn't be saved Sometimes it's for the better to watch a half life decay Miracle Mile, never noticed before So many lives, above & below Of which I know nothing, not even my own I want to get lost in the blank of a map Follow a star or get caught in a trap When anything dies does it ever come back
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Honeybee 02:35
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Second chances aren't for me but I don't know how to quit When you're dancing like a flame it still burns a little bit Pretty people on the street, faces shine down like the sun I pull my hood over my eyes, don't want to talk to anyone Spaces in a circle but I don't know where I fit You're not my honeybee & it stings a little bit I spend all my time telling myself I don't want what I want Sometimes I think that self-delusion Is the only friend I've got The blindfold's off, the magic's gone but I'm still under your spell The only time I'm truly free is when I'm not trying to find myself It's taking longer than I thought to put things back after you left If I live a hundred years there's one thing that I won't forget

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TDWOL 34 "NEVER LOST" // One of the more unoriginal thoughts I've had over the past eight weeks is that we're quickly learning what's most important to us—our health & safety, our kinship with each other, our sense of normalcy. It's a destabilizing time of loss & isolation, holding us in place between an unfathomable present & an uncertain future. But in this stasis we can also draw a map of what we know, we can find what shines, & we can make beauty as a gift xx

The songs on NEVER LOST draw from my mutual love of indie pop (Your Smith, Sigrid) & dark songwriters (Tim Kasher, Greg Dulli), new books (Ross Gay's The Book of Delights), & the unexpected but not unwelcome free time to watch movies & TV (Portrait of a Lady, Unorthodox), set within the forests of Maine, smoke-filled lounges on the Lower East Side, the Poconos, & way too many Zoom meetings.

NEVER LOST is the second of six EPs coming out in 2020. Check out the Subscribe link above!

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released May 1, 2020

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Photo: Pine City, Joshua Tree CA 11/8/2018 X Delaware River, Philadelphia PA 4/16/2020

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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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