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Smoke
02:50
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The last time I saw you
You were boarding the train
Smoke in your hair
Eyes to the ground
October wind blew in
From the mountain
And it waits as the night came down.
I ran from the fire
Leaving what mattered less
A world sits abandoned
You called in the next day
You called to an empty house
Smoke in the night
Smoke in the precious night
It fell.
Leaning on
Leaning on.
The last time I saw you
You were boarding the train
Smoke in your hair
Eyes to the ground
October wind blew in
I am leaving
I am leaving.
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2. |
Honey
03:26
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With every light, always far away
I just need to change
You've been leaving me on read
I just need to change
Every day
You are moving away.
Every day's the same
Every night's the same
Every morning same
Every morn - alone
Every morning comes
Every broken one
Every time its done
Every morning.
Like every time, I will run away
I just need to change
I've been leaving you for days
I just need to change
Every day
You are moving away.
Every day's the same
Every night's the same
Every morning same
Every morn - alone
Every morning comes
Every broken one
Every time its done
Every morning.
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3. |
Forever
03:43
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What's the name
The name of your memory
I feel it still
Without a doubt
Your name
Turned around
I ran down your city
You don't look back
Forgot the dream
I know.
And I know it best
And I know you better
And I know it best of all
I feel it still
Without a doubt
Your name.
Wasn't right
This life in the mirror
Went out tonight
She's out tonight
I was.
Held the light
Between shaking fingers
It never changed
It never changed.
And I know it best
And I know you better
And I know it best of all
I feel it still
Without a doubt.
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4. |
Anything You Want
06:27
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Anything you want
I will, I will burn my lies
In the end no time
I run, run away when it is too late
No friend to turn
to now, to the setting sun
Anything you want
I was, I was home but it was too late.
On the road again
There's nothing in those houses anymore
Took the time to mend
And left it all behind before it closed
Is it difficult
I leave alike the wind up from the dirt
Passed familiar roads
But nothing makes a difference in the end.
Your little face was in the mirror
I held myself these shaking hands
I'll never think as clear
The night I saw you writing in the sand
And it never leaves
The smoke I used to dream out on the mountain
Was it ever there
The last of any truth we spoke.
And you told me.
Caught me down again
The sand, the only words scattered around
Life is long run out
I wake until a dream rests in my hands
Every single one: the roads, the roses, the houses, the houses all go
And I need it
And I need it.
You told me.
Anything you want
I will, I will burn my lies
In the end no time
I run, run away when it is too late
No friend to turn
to now, to the setting sun
Anything you want
I was, I was home but it was too late
Anything you want
I will, I will burn my lies
In the end no time
I run, run away when it is too late
No friend to turn
to now, to the setting sun
I was home, I was
Oh no, I was home -
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Little Things
04:43
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It's the little things that change
Home at seven thirty
Listen to the radio die.
Throw your keys away
No one needs to say it
Out the kitchen window and down.
Waiting for the rain
Every morning now
Said it's still the same
When the grey comes down
When the grey comes down.
Cross the gravel road
Scream it at the shoreline
I will never feel it again.
I still see it in my dreams
Long forgotten feelings
Never really leave me.
Waiting for the rain
Every morning now
Said it's still the same
When the grey comes down
Waiting for the rain
Every morning now.
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In June
02:45
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I waited for you in the dark
Under rainfall
You went away from me
The end for a long time.
In June, June there's a rain that brings us together
With every day that you're gone
The rain comes harder.
In summer time
In summer time
There's a reason
In summer time
In summer time
There's a meaning
For all.
I waited for you in the dark
Under rainfall
You went away from me
The end for a long time.
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Pearling
04:17
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If I knew your name
Met you on the carpet
I would not dare to
You whispered in the parking lot
His car
If I had one I'd drive you all over California
And all the small regrets
That we hid in my garage
Climbing out my back window
And streetlight to streetlight
We crossed to the other side.
If I knew your name
Laughing on the pavement
Could not escape it
This night is the only thing
The trees
The music softly sings out in the breeze of California
And with the sun asleep
Passing every dying light
A kid I would close my eyes
The streetlights as stars
And cross to the other side.
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Traveller
03:40
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Found a key on the sidewalk
What to do but leave
You had to leave me
You had to go
You had to leave me on yourself.
None to see in the morning
What to do but breathe
You had to leave me
You had to go
You had to make it on your own.
Every night I remember
Sitting by the phone
Where is the answer
Where is the sea
Where is the night you slammed the door
Where is the light
Where is the ocean floor.
In the cold
In the forest
In the snow
Not a thread remains
Of the floating answer
Only you
Only you
Only a traveller.
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September Morning
03:40
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It's the little things
That change
Home at seven thirty
Throw your keys away
Again
Every morning
Every morning.
Light inside my head
Your face inside my mind
Every moment
Every second.
On September morning I am sane
Alive
Even if it's silent
The pain you try to hide
I feel
Every moment
Every second.
Light inside my head
Your face inside my mind.
Light inside my head
Your face inside my mind
Every moment
Every second
Every night.
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