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Gone
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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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New Orleans is sinking but I couldn't raise you
A head full of fire & lies on repeat
Your name in lights & I can't erase you
Every desire becomes concrete
You'll be the song of the summer
Eyes that dance like a flame
It breaks me up like no other
I don't know how to be safe
Always waiting for a landslide to take you
Scrawl an x on a tomb for a wish to come true
To be delivered but salvation doesn't save you
It only justifies you, it can never reclaim you
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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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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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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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