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Heaven beyond your hope, a hell beneath your wings
Maybe someday I'll find the nerve to tell you everything
Slow dancing under flashing lights that spin purple blue to green
You were shrouded in smoke like a mystery to me
Time never runs out for the prettiest girl in the room
The winter's been dead but you're always in bloom
Trip the light like lovers but we only pretend
This might be our future if we didn't know the end
I don't know how to be safe
Only how my heart behaves
If I could tell you I would tell you but I don't know what to say
I owe you everything that stands
Between heaven & your hands
There are a million things in this world that I'll never understand
I don't know how to be safe
Only how my heart behaves
If I could tell you I would tell you but the words get in the way
Sunflowers on your dress
A scarf around your head
The future's never clear, it's always dark, it's for the best
The gunshot of your smile
It echoes through the sky
Wonder can make time stand still for just a little while
I don't know how to be safe
Only how my heart can shake
If I could find you I would find you but my life got in the way
I don't know how to be safe
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The smell of nickel on your hands from holding keys the whole way home
The past casts a long shadow but a shadow never keeps you warm
Cartoon faces on silverware, folding paper in your hands
I'll lose everything you've ever given me like the heat from a wedding band
If I knew, I could wait forever
Under memory & stone
Will you bury me like a treasure
Undiscovered & unknown
The taste of rose mint on your lips we roam like nomads all night long
Desire is a dark phantom that follows but it never takes its form
A thunder quakes across your heart, the first lightning of the spring
If we ever kissed in a dream I don't know what those kisses mean
If I knew, I could wait forever
Under memory & stone
Will you bury me like a treasure
Undiscovered & unknown
If I was sure, I would wait forever
Under mystery & bones
Will you search for me like a treasure
Undiscovered & alone
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Lights out for the night owl
It gets so dark don't you freak out
You're so pretty whenever we're out
I'm always eating my heart out
8th street is full of real talk
Boys are looking at you up & down the sidewalk
A dream is over when you wake up
The spark that lights a secret story flames out
Does it feel like you haven't been touched
It's always been you but it's never been me
Sometimes I fear that I want this too much
And the things that I want aren't meant to be
Lights out for the night owl
It gets so dark don't you freak out
You're so pretty whenever we're out
I'm always eating my heart out
Lights out
Sometimes you laugh when you're breathing in smoke
Always getting it wrong when I want to be right
The sun comes up like it's some kind of joke
It takes so long to forget these nights
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i'll be yr pet
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i'll be yr pet
asleep on the floor while you finish yr beer
but I won't forget
i'll pull away from yr hand with instinctual fear
i'm tired of waiting to lead you to safety
the light's not changing
we'll stay here as long as it takes
all that i am is blind resentment
two years of regret
delusions of rising above
& being good enough to forget
i'm tired of waiting to leave you
the light's not changing
we're stuck here as long as it takes
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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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