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All Talk
03:00
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Sometimes you feel like you've got to fight
For every piece of joy you find
I know it's hard when it feels like
They're out to get you every night
I know it's hard when all you want
Is just to get some sleep tonight
All your life for some sleep tonight
Loss is the price for being alive
But I don't mind if you don't mind
& fear cuts through like the streaks in your hair
But I don't care if you don't care
It's the first time for a last time
Forget the boys who corner you
They only want to take you home
Forget the girls who torture you
They want to make you feel alone
Forget the boys cause they're just boys
Forget the girls forget that noise
Forget the past cause it's just noise
Loss is the price for being alive
But I don't mind if you don't mind
& fear cuts through like the streaks in your hair
But I don't care if you don't care
It's the last time for a first time
Loss is the price for being alive
But I don't mind if you don't mind
& fear cuts through like the streaks in your hair
But I don't care if you don't care
Put your face on the wheel & talk all night
But I don't mind if you don't mind
& fear cuts through like the streaks in your hair
But I don't care if you don't care
It's the last time for a first time
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Broken mirrors, fractured smoke
Ballet dancers & bachelorettes
You get so lonely, everything's a joke
Night spirals like pirouettes
Eyes cloudy & faithless
When you're lost or you just don't know
This world is more than secrets
But truth fades like afterglow
This is where I lose my nerve
I don't know how to tell the truth
I don't think that this is gonna work
When every road leads back to you
Twice my hope is still nothing
A whisper from inside the tomb
Try to make it count for something
I love the way red looks on you
This is where I lose my nerve
I don't know how to tell the truth
I don't think that this is gonna work
When every road leads back to you
I don't know how to find my nerve
I always try to fight the truth
I don't know how to make this work
When every road leads back to you
Sometimes all that we're good for
Is a momentary glimpse
Holding on to you is like when I wake up & I try to make a fist
This is where I lose my nerve
I don't know how to tell the truth
I don't think that this is gonna work
When every road leads back to you
I don't know how to find my nerve
I always try to fight the truth
I don't know how to make this work
When every road leads back to you
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Is Your Life Electric
02:55
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Love thrashes in the net
Until it's suffocated
Best to let the magic go
Until it's drained and desiccated
Hold a hand over a flame
Like a joke that lost its humor
As if time could break the spell
I'm laughing at the future
Failure loops like a movie
Shadowless in carbon arc
The projectionist slumped over
Knows all the cues by heart
Cut every fume of fancy
With acetate & alcohol
When the scenes are all assembled
It's a tribute just as false
Is your life electric
Is it alchemy or art
Is it a universe of silent waves, black holes, & ancient sparks
It all matters till it doesn't
Nothing matters till it does
The past is prelude & contrition
Throw it in the well for us
Fantasies die in the hollow
Desires remanded to their cells
Celebration for the devils
Proud of their little hells
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We Won't Read Every Book
02:05
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Scoop me up before I blow away like sand
Try to find a grain of joy before it slips through your hands
We won't read every book or open the covers
Won't see every film or love every lover
At least for today we'll be together
The copper splash before a wish dies in the well
Sometimes hope's just an echo we have to hear for ourselves
We won't read every book or open the covers
Won't see every film or love every lover
At least for today we'll be together
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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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