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Rond de Jambe
02:40
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You can play it as it lays like Joan Didion
Seasons change their skin like a chameleon
Tell you all my secrets like a confidant
They circle in the air like a rond de jambe
I don't want to talk about the day to day
Those conversations are for people without much to say
Do you ever find you wish that you were someone else
I don't want a life that's easy to forget
A spin of white on amber like a Caili Quan
What happens when everything you believed is false
The lives within your heart could make a ghost afraid
Each rises for a moment like a releve
Lock them in a cage like a want untold
Heartache's being unable to let it go
Summon all your faith when your hope is gone
Fate is everyone just being what they are
Fate is everyone just being what they are
Some things can surprise you on the road to hell
Open up the steeple & you ring the bell
A blindfold in the dark, undo the alphabet
Everything else is a lie we tell ourselves
Everything else is a lie we tell ourselves
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There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
Your reflection in his eyes
When he strokes your back like a pet
A dream not meant for me
Still feels like a ship coming in
I'll go through the motions again
As if I don't know how it ends
Your face burns red from the cold
Dickinson Street quartets
All your life for a ring on your hand
But I don't want to be kept
Have I known all the love that I'll know
Would it even recognize me now
Truth is just like luck is just like
Time the way it pulls the stitches out
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
When you've lost all your faith
Sometimes you have to pretend
There are things that make you smile
Don't let the magic begin
When a miracle gives up
Sometimes you have to give in
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
There are things that make you smile
There are things you don't want to forget
There are things you don't want to forget
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Baby Driver
02:58
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A smile you never show to anyone
No words can break the spell
Repeating reasons to believe you but I don't believe myself
Baby Driver in the rearview
Fate is racing like a fool
To an airport in Atlanta but it doesn't have a clue
We speak of loss like it's a shadow
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
We describe disaster by the things it leaves behind
If I could hold the hope I have for you
For the person in the mirror
I could keep your name out of my thoughts
but scars run deeper
Waves come flooding back
Reflections that recede
How do I love again when you are all I see
We taunt the spirits but we never meet their scorn
Nothing is as warm as when you held onto my arm
& said "I wish I could be near you every second of the hour"
I'm drunk on all your whispers
They blow as gentle as the summer
The breeze makes me so weak
I don't know what to do
Can it burn a little longer
For a while I swear I felt it last forever
Forever dreaming of an ending where I make it back to you
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I Would Be True
02:31
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The van through the ice
The plane from the blue
Either door that you pull
Reveals the same doom
A voice in the dream
Spins down the aisle
Free as the air
Soft as a smile
Drowned in your words
A comfort displaced
The sum of a life
Is more than mistakes
Try not to care
Feign apathy
But what should have died
means too much to me
I've never been scared of the end
I've never been safe
"How do you make it? How does it stay?"
It isn't time that's being lost; it's only you
If you could be here I would be true
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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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