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New Year's lights & six degrees of night
But nothing touches you
Invincible & frozen as the city
A beauty that feels like destiny & truth
California burns like heaven's justice
Sand fires cloud the interstate
I could tell you I went back 'cause I had promises to keep
But the truth is no one asked me to stay
What do you think you're gonna find
Do you really think you're running for your life
The lion has no hatred for the lamb
The future has no message for the past
Icy streets & snowflakes on your cheek
We pursue the things we must possess
The snowman outside the bar begins to weep
He cries, "Is it wrong to love the world as it is?"
What do you think you're gonna find
Do you really think you're running for your life
The lion has no hatred for the lamb
The future has no message for the past
Love's the chill that never leaves your bones
The sunlight that never keeps you warm
"I miss you," said the fisherman to the sea
"But dreams die for the sake of other dreams"
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Start getting dressed
We're heading west
Spent nights crawling out from under
Skies of sand & Colorado thunder
I'm tired & frayed but you're electric air
The current pulls like an arrow
Pushing us straight through the narrow
4:45 - you say it's Alpine Time
Rainclouds in the rearview mirror
If I wait will I be delivered
A river can't be crossed but I love being lost
Will we fall in the frozen water
Or rise like Zion's sons & daughters
What if all I find is a heart that cannot be climbed
Spent years waiting for you to come round
Some canyons are better left drowned
The way you waved your hand across the broken land
Scenes & smiles I want to remember
They flash for a moment & they're gone forever
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Old(e) City
04:02
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Let's meet in Old City I'l pick you up at the comic shop
You can leave your cape & truth & justice behind
The last shot of a shotgun summer in a city that never stops
And no one cares if you can read their minds
We'll sit on the pier & watch the waves roll by like lovers
We'll count the flashing lights underneath the bridge
You lost your job & you talk about getting sober
And if you don't you say it is what it is
We'll buy cigarettes & sit outside the Industry Bar
Your skin as white as smoke against the glow
You stop a waitress in a Misfits shirt, "Can I get another Budweiser"
It's getting late but you're already home
There's so much loss in you
You say you're gonna pull yourself together
But you're never gonna make it through
You're never gonna make it through
You're never gonna make it through
If you harbor pain forever
If I could love you as much as you hate yourself
Hold you tight when you want to fight yourself
I'll clean up after you & all the blood you spill
But I can't pour myself into hearts that never fill
There's so much left in you
It takes the world to hold yourself together
Saying it doesn't make it true
You're never gonna see it through
If you hold my hand I'll walk with you
You don't have to harbor pain forever
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Chorus Of Fangs
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I caught a glimpse of what life would look like with you
But the call of the west & the distance between are colored in blue
Coyotes crowd in the canyon & howl at the moon
A chorus of fangs closes in on our dreams, do you hear it too
What have you heard?
I want to know the magic words that can bring me back home to you
My coat held the ache of your perfume for an hour till it passed
A hundred miles from Phoenix, my heart as transparent as the glass
How do you keep it from fading, how do you make it last
We can shine our light for a moment but our lives are nothing like that
What have you heard?
I want to know the magic words that can bring me back home to you
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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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