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NOTHING GOLD

by That Dream Was Our Life

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Hell's Hollow 03:30
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I'm almost gone I'll fade with the dawn Like I never was You can't hold on Kaleidoscopes in endless rooms A thousand mirrors won't help you choose It's your birthday again The world on the walls Is it wrong to mourn what never was When you close the door on what you want Does it shut behind Is it locked in front The hollow's spine full of thorns & doubt You fall so far that you can't get out We close our eyes towards the sun We'll hold hands when the terror comes I'm trying hard not to forget but it all starts to blur in my head I'm starting to fear that it's all gone to hell but you have to find out for yourself I'm trying hard not to forget but it all starts to blur in my head I'm starting to fear that it's all gone to hell but hell has no power if you can't dream of heaven
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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
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The Trouble With The Brick 03:32
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I was talking in the stairwell w/ Julianne & then I started walking home from your house at 1AM The heartbeat of neon bleeds green & blue I was singing "I don't know what love is" & it was true Follow typewriter keys & telephone wires Vegan bakeries & the sound of compromise The night blows out like a match & I'm walking blind I turned my back on Venus & not for the last time I was walking home from your house at 1AM I never know how close or how far I am And I played the martyr, like I always do I sang "you make me feel like a fool" & it was true
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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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TDWOL 33 // A lo-fi, 12-minute bedroom mix of dreampop & heartfelt bops, NOTHING GOLD explores self-delusion, the performative nature of digital life, & the slow sink of alienation against a backdrop of infinity rooms, South Philly side streets, & abandoned beach towns.

NOTHING GOLD is the first of six EPs coming out in 2020. Check out the Subscribe link above!

Written while listening to new music from Yumi Zouma, Tamara Valmar, & Bat For Lashes and in between chapters of Jia Tolentino, Anna Wiener, & Lucy Ellmann.

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released February 28, 2020

Written in Notebook #4 & Google Keep
Recorded to iPhone & edited in Audacity
Photo: Beauty Heaven, Camden NJ 12/14/2019

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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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