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Ghost Tour
03:12
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Take the shuttle to the train that rolls back to your house
Haunted tracks lead you back to the land of the living
There's a season of guilt that I'll have to answer for
Maybe at the end I'll be forgiven
Moving sidewalks to the plane that climbs over your house
The summer outside everything that I love is melting
There's a lifetime of reasons that I'm not the answer
It's enough to know that you can be the reminder
Will I fall for you every year
For a future that disappears
For a wound that never heals
Like a moth for a flame
Like a sin for a name
Like a lie for the grave
The ghost tour of my heart walks the street to your house
I'll hold the ache of your perfume till it's passed
& blow a kiss to the door like there was someone there to answer
But nothing ever changes and nothing ever lasts
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The Alchemist
03:25
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Drag my fear out like the summer
Like it would end if I let go
I don't want you to forget me
Or fade like ashes over snow
The blue is brighter when it's colder
I want to see it through your eyes
Can we love the world as it is
When all it offers are goodbyes
You could be the apologist
The blood spilled on the floor
Love is the masochist that always asks for more
I can't keep this up forever
What if there's nothing left for me
What is real & what's imagined
What is and what isn't meant to be
Your voice is music in the distance
A song that's singing you to sleep
We'll laugh & hold on to this moment
Like it was something we could keep
You could be the alchemist
That turns the air to gold
Love is the masochist that always asks for more
The things we love become our stories
Our stories become our lives
But I can't tell you how to read yours
You can't tell me how to read mine
You could be the alchemist
That turns the air to gold
Love is the masochist that always asks for more
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Nowhere & Now
03:02
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Buckled under the weight of a world that you'll miss
Things go up, things go down and that's all there is
A love that can't be won, a snake sheds its skin
Were you someone else's dream of a life to be lived
You're not the answer, I'm not the way out
I can't see the difference between nowhere & now
Throw yourself at the speaker stack until you can't think
Lost in a sound that only gets louder the lower you sink
You're not the answer, I'm not the way out
I can't see the difference between nowhere & now
If I leave now somehow maybe we can stay friends
I don't know how I want this to end
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New Tattoos
02:14
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Loved you with all my heart but it's all over
New tattoos, silver bells & the dress you wished for
The wind over the river's gotten colder than the life you & I would have had together
You said "Be honest for once & I'll believe you
Tell the truth & I'll forgive you everything"
I lied about the past thinking it would keep you but nothing stays buried, not anything
Was it a lie to be here at all
A wrong turn on the map
I know you're happier now but do you ever look back
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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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