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Lost Clouds
03:33
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Let's walk through the graveyard again
Trying to find our old friends
Everything's quiet and cold
As we sing through the gravestones of gold
The moon's like a big white balloon
While we stand by a small wooden room
And my senses never will sound the same
The frame before I became insane
I don't know
Why are we singing so slow?
All alone, all alone
Can we find somewhere to go?
We pretend to be pieces of planes
Flying like kites in a cage
I sold my first house for some rain
And it came and my brain filled with pain
I sank into grass in the ground
And my ears filled with telephone sound
My eyes were like old silent films
How quickly our stars start to spill
We all go back to our town
Silent shadows of sound
The windows are flickering now
The TV is talking so loud
I turned into a lighthouse today
But my light, it still shines the wrong way
I keep getting caught in the clouds
And I keep getting lost in the crowds
My room says it's sorry it knows me
My clothes are refusing to clothe me
And my army men became marines
My dreams are now run by machines
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Infinite Falling
02:47
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Your name is written boldly on the window of my car
So I know that you'll be with me when I fall so very far
And my spirit will remember all the things that we have done
Before my body burns and I am left with what's to come
When the forces pull me upwards, gravity will pull me down
Like a planet made of magnets, I'll be spinning all around
And I'll see my muscles melting in the center of the Earth
From the outside of the opening where I will be rebirthed
And nothing matters anymore, no I don't think so
I'm willing and I'm waiting to see how far I will go
A raincloud will collapse just like the lungs inside my chest
And the breeze will blow without me, we know that’s what it does best
I see my whole life flash just like a dream before my eyes
While I fall into infinity I feel I'll never die
But my memories are clouded by a face I can't forget
Signed inside in my eyelids she is sculpted in cement
Will I ever reach the bottom of this dark and dusky hole?
My life just keeps repeating as it skips inside my soul
I'm stuck inside the center of this sunny spinning sphere
And I'll float for all eternity with no one coming near
And nothing matters anymore, no I don't think so
I'm willing and I'm waiting to see how far I will go
A raincloud will collapse just like the lungs inside my chest
And the world will spin without me, we know that's what it does best
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Sand Castles
02:18
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Castles made of sand found on the ground
Will only stand until someone knocks them down
Someone oh so careless
Who walks without awareness
Will overthrow the king and take his crown
Letters held by pigeons in the sky
Fly to me but merit no reply
Cause all the words were written
With some fabricated vision
That it’s I who let our kingdom go awry
But who takes all desire
And then throws it in the fire?
It seems to me so callous and corrupt
I wish I could acquire
Piece together the entire
Shattered stained glass window you destruct
But happiness is something I can’t trust
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Untrue
02:47
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Seagulls soar like seconds flying by
Learning laws and lessons to abide by
Ocean cracking noises mask receptors from our oiled eyes
And lean against the boardwalk to exhale your foreign cheating cries
That haunt my pretty dreams
Nothing’s as it seems
All because you tried to make me believe
We’re sinking in the sea
But when I tried to go to somewhere else
You tried to make me fear myself
And it’s so selfish to sustain
This sympathetic strain
Hours pass like seconds flying by
Calling out false caring angel eyes
Missile seeking objects from the space between our satellites
Which orbit some bizarre arrangements of the distant candlelight
That makes me seem insane
But that’s only in your brain
All because you tried something else
To make yourself felt
But that just led to more percussion
Beating on your stolen stomach
Making poison ivy grow up through
Those words that were untrue
And now wage all the wars of which I never could endure
And now I have to know what I have never known before
And sing our sorry song
Cause how could I be wrong?
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Glaciers
03:35
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I saw a mirage of a golden garage
And reminded me of you
It made me remember that somber September
Where all of us fell from view
And when you consider the water has withered
Away all our scribbled names
It seems a bit sadder since none of it mattered
But still sacred all the same
The last of the children to grow in this building
Informed as the final few
So write down a remnant, becoming transcendent
Remain with the world we knew
But father has faltered the bones in the altar
Receding the greener grounds
The visions all vanished, the details were damaged
And nothing more can be found
Now it seems
We are strangers
And old dreams
They are glaciers melting away
So stare at the ceiling refining the feelings
You have in memory
Remember the monsters who called you for answers
That clearly you couldn't see
I wonder if ever you figure the feather
We found in the sacred shrine
A symbol of something that wrongly went running
Away from the leading lines
So walk through dimensions to answer those questions
Like "what this fate we fear?”
But live the regret if you ever forget
All the moments of yesteryears
And someday I'll see you and go up to greet you
And talk for a little while
But sadly we'll never reshape those Septembers
When all we could do was smile
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Carousel Ride
05:06
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Sometimes I don't see you
Even when you're here
So when the camera closes
It is all that comes in clear
You could paint a portrait
Of a racehorse in the spring
And trace it on my car window
To show me everything
And even though my eyes are closed
I know that you're around
I don't know how
I don't know why
Let's fly above the clouds
Carousel ride on the hillside high
Where will we go as we spiral by
Close your eyes
I will build a subway station,
Shape it out of snow
And have the engine take me to
Wherever it will go
Maybe you could join me
Where the sunset drowns?
And even though the answer's no,
There's still snow on the ground
Everything is charcoal and
The sky is made of silk
Spin me around
Break me unbound
Free me from this filth
Carousel ride on the hillside why
Spiraling down into the ground
Blinding my eyes stealing my time away
But I'm okay
Or so I say
It's all that I want
For all your head to haunt
Coming down now onto firm ground
Oh calliope don't abandon me
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Viewfinder Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Folk rock for rock folks
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