1. |
A Perfect Day
03:57
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I've got this far
By thinking of you
With your cardboard heart
Needed something to do
Bet you miss the times
When I took you away
From your 5 to 9
And the things people say
Blinded by the sun
A perfect day
Don't think, don't lie,
Just open your eyes
What your folks did then
Just doesn't apply
Reclamation project
Is all that I am
Not quite so lost
Still not quite a man
Blinded by the sun
A perfect day
Funny how you're making the best of it
Always missing the rest of it
Through the bars it still shines
While you run and hide
From a perfect day
So sad to watch
While the tail's wagging you
Watching in the dark
Think he'd learn something new
Then again you said
He had reason to be
Knowing what you are
Stands to reason he'd see
What I missed beyond
That perfect day
Look at you making the best of it
Still missing the rest of it
There's two stars that still shine
While you run and hide
From a perfect day
Keep thinking this is the rest of me
While you're missing the best of me
Maybe in another life
Where you run and hide
From a perfect day
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2. |
Like Sunshine
03:34
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It's the laugh
It's the walk
It's the funny way you talk
It's the eyes
It's the smile
Like sunshine
Don't go now
Stay right here
There are things that you'll want to hear
I was wrong
You were right
Like sunshine
I'd have given all to be with you
Were you waiting for last day of school?
It's a bird
It's a plane
It's a sad sign things never change
First I'm up
then I'm down
No sunshine
I'll go now
Nothing's here
I can't wait a whole 'nother year
First it's up
Then it's down
Like sunshine
I'd have given all to be with you
Were you waiting for last day of school?
Yes it's late
Not yet too
I can't say what you'll have to do
You were wrong
I was right
Like sunshine
Let me go
No more games
This is more than needing some space
Want to stay
Over there
In sunshine
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3. |
Hiding
04:09
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Once upon a time
I was sure that you were mine
Counting shadows that come
From the rest of you
Watching it die
Didn't get a goodbye
Nothing matters at all
While we're waiting here
Nothing to do
Nothing left inside of you
It was gone before I met you
You crawled inside of me
Where you left your disease
No more hiding
Show me where it hurts
Why I got my just desserts
From the only one who ever
Got the best of me
More than just a fling
Still it never meant a thing
Then you try and blame the ring
For all the wreckage now
Holding on for life
Saying there's a reason why
You were gone before I met you
Now there's nothing more
Let you hide behind the wall
No more hiding
Tell me what you did
Tell me why, god forbid
you will always resort to
your dishonesty
Trapped behind the faith
That this journey in the rain
would ever lead me to a place
where I would find you there
Hey, where you been
Going West Shore towards the inn
He was there before I met you
No more deaf and dumb
While you stay under his thumb
No more hiding
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4. |
His
04:27
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Chasing you around in circles
Watching you laugh
It's all such a game
I'll do the math
Wondering how he got so lucky
I hope that he knows
Again in the dark
Wherever he goes
Clouds are rolling in again
While the lightning that surrounds you
Pulls me in
Driving down the beach, you're hiding
Under the reeds
I'm not far behind
Still I can't see
Day becomes a night again
I'm feeling you stay
I reach for your hand
You don't pull away
Then I stop in your tracks
Pull your lips to me
Now there's no going back
Everything I told you now just
lives in a dream
there's no one to tell
There's nothing to see
Trust me when I tell you that
I know what it is
You'll always remain
Undeniably his
Still I now know what it's like
Just to live inside those flashes in the sky
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5. |
Friend Of a Friend
03:34
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I recall when I first laid eyes
A friend of a friend
A new friend of mine
I'm of a mind perfectly sound
I try to avoid her
She's always around
Now I'm falling
Off this wholly made up waterfall
And the pain is so big I feel nothing inside anymore
All that I'm doing here I see nothing wrong
All that I'm doing here I see nothing wrong
I endeavor to barely make eyes
I'm backed in a corner
This is no disguise
I'll forget her as soon as she's gone
As long as I see her
She's all that I want
Can you feel it
Like a wave of something you never had
Now I'm closing the door
While I'm looking for somewhere to grab
All that I'm doing here I see nothing wrong
All that I'm doing here I see nothing wrong
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6. |
Anita
03:39
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My sweet Anita
This time there's no turning back
What's done is done
You're on your own
When I feel her it's the sky that brings her to me
And I again become just like the man I thought I used to be
If I could only find a way - to reach you
If I could only find a way - to reach you
I don't remember if she ever made me angry
That can't be true I'm sure Anita would have somehow found a way
I don't know how to pray or even wish, all hope has left me
I tell the sky I'm glad he brought her here at all
If I could only find a way - to reach you
If I could only find a way - to reach yo
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7. |
Matter Of Time
03:42
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It's just a matter of time
Although right now you need me
you will erase me completely
once he arrives
No one would be surprised
They shook their heads in wonder
While I kept on going under
Waiting for you
It's just a matter of time
I tell myself I don't mind
There's no place that I'd rather be
I'd probably do this endlessly
Who am I?
It's just a matter of time
I chase you 'til I'm out of breath
And when I quit you're so upset
Who am I?
It's just a matter of time
I like it here in the dark
I float into the nothingness
The place where there are no regrets
And no you
I get a foot out the door
And then I see the look that makes me
wish I'd never looked at you
at all
It's just a matter of time
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8. |
N Train Song
03:32
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We're in the station now
And pushing through the crowd
She seems so out of place
But I can see her face
There's an indifferent air
Or did she change her hair?
A look I've never known
I don't know where to go
We're rushing down the stairs
And now she isn't there
We have a ways to go
I know she knows I know
I lost her in the crowd
I'm searching faces now
Some of them I know
They all just come and go
I just followed
And she just left this all behind
I can't stop now
the doors are closing right in front of my eyes
I manage to squeeze in
and there she is again
She's looking so annoyed
I'm such a stupid boy
She's staring straight ahead
I'm watching hope go dead
Some guy is singing now
Familiar too somehow
I just follow
I let it take me everywhere
Feels so hollow
And I can't find me anywhere
I just followed
And she just left this all behind
I can't stop now
the doors are closing right in front of my eyes
I just follow
I let it her take me everywhere
Feels so hollow
And I can't find me anymore anywhere
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9. |
Cold Level Heart
04:05
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Still there locked in the drawer
Fleeting it was,
Fit like a glove
Now it seems
Sad how wrong one can be
Once it was more,
now locked in a drawer,
remembered occasionally
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
Hung from a chain
Still locked away
Lives in the dark
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
Can't recall why
I bothered to buy
Something that seems so
SIlly now, but so me
Feeling extreme, no in between
Love becomes
Hating what I've become
You on the ground, me all around
I'd like to cancel now
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
I let you see
Too much of me
I lost the key
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
I need a break
From every mistake
So here's to you
My love
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
Can't recall why
I bothered to buy
something that seems so sIlly
Cold level heart
Cold level heart
I need a break
From every mistake
So here's to you
My love...
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10. |
No Way Back
03:19
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Now there's no way back
You lost the map and I'm in the dark
Who's this little man?
He's in my way, asking me who I am
Does he know who I am?
Is it still my imagination, there's no way back?
Walked out of your past
Which sounds just like maybe two weeks ago
It wasn't Mr. T
Something so small you didn't tell me
Well, you couldn't tell me
We had a place on the hill we were going
Now there's no way back.
Somehow there's a weight that's all gone
No more rearranging, the weight is all gone
Tomorrow make a left turn and you will be gone
Why you look sad?
It's all there outside waiting for you
It can't be that bad
You chose a shorter road to where you
You wanted to go
If this is all that there's ever to know, there's no way back
No, there's no way back
If this is all that there's ever to know, there's no way back
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11. |
I Need A Plan
03:59
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I walk the corner thinking I won't make it this time
I smile and spin out of control
I push the button and I don't know if I'll get back
I may never get back
I had no answers
Don't know if I even cared
That night when she fell in my way
I've got to get her
No, I've got to run, get away
But I can't get away
Wanna feel her
Want to know everything she can't hide
Can't reveal her
Everything I've ever done's coming back now
I need a plan
I tell you I need a plan
I sat there waiting
I swore the clock's turning back
So slowly the sky runs away
I meet the eyes that used to make me wait in the rain
She says, "walk away."
Last chance to tell her all the things that I need to say
She comes but my mind never shows
I'm down to seconds now I know what I've got to do
What am I gonna do?
Gonna feel her
Got to know everything she can't hide
Can't reveal her
Everything I've ever done's coming back now
I need a plan
I tell you I need a plan.
Don't wanna save her!
Don't wanna save her
Don't want to take her life away
So maybe I'll take her
Everything I've ever done's coming back now
I need a plan
Oh god, how I need a plan
Don't wanna save her
Don't wanna take her life away
No, no
Wanna hold her
Touch her
Feel her
Want her
Need her
Love her
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12. |
I Gotta Be Here
03:30
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I couldn't see the reason she was gone
No one can tell that anything I did was wrong
I gotta be here
There on the phone she told me, "it's so hard."
I could've laughed at the fun times there since she's been gone
Nobody said it would hurt so much to be so free
Why was it her who got everything, while I got me?
I gotta be here
Four on the clock and I'm still in the dark
No one can say that they know what life's like in my heart
Bundles of friends spinning 'round my head I'll go to sleep
Maybe when I wake up she'll be there in a dream
Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here
Maybe she's back to late to make a call
Suddenly all that I felt was good's turned into gone
Why do I need everything to be so neat and clean?
Why do I always sit around and think about what it means?
Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here
Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here
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13. |
Tell Me Y
04:26
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Tell me Y tell me why
I didn't need the surprise
Just the odds that she'd walk into here
When I needed a thing to believe
Why she pushed me to dare
Why the clothes that she wears
Why she's not one to mince any words
and she always know just what to say
Tell me why she shows up just in time
She kept blowing my mind in her way
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
She's not all that she seems
She has no use for your dreams
Everywhere she's the light in the room
But she's darker than she'd like to say
Watch her making me fall in again
Just when X started fading away
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Not afraid what they'll say
She doesn't care anyway
Don't they know she has nothing to hide
She's just floating around in a dream
Not afraid 'cos there's nothing to lose
she has nothing that they'll take away
Walks around like she knows who she is
Not again, I'm not wasting a day
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
Why tell me Y
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SLD Brooklyn, New York
An experiment that turned into a musical collaboration via email between two long lost cousins, Paul Costanza and Tom Parisi from Brooklyn, NY.
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