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Retourne​-​Toi

from AM OK by That Dream Was Our Life

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Can you bring it back to life
With a graveyard full of parts
Lightning dancing through my veins
A broken jar full of thoughts

And you keep coming back
With a rusty knife & Carpenter keys
You're unafraid of most kinds of pain
But you still feel the heat

If we play it like a horror movie
Who's gonna make it to the end
I didn't want to leave you
But I couldn't keep my head

Too many nights spent
Watching Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Too many nights wondering
If I should have said “retourne-toi”

If it's written like a mystery
Maybe we could start it at the end
It was unfathomable to lose you
But I could never catch the thread

I wonder what I am to you these days
Am I the one that got away
Do you turn away at last with a sigh of relief
Am I the cautionary tale

I can see you on a beach
A blaze of white on pink
Are you gonna burn all summer
The way you bloom in spring

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from AM OK, released July 17, 2020

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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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