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EMPIRE
03:20
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what if it’s in the rush of streetlights
outside this car window?
wish I could narrow it down to less words
and make it sound simple -
is it in the fact i make sense to you
and you make sense to me,
devoid all of rethorics -
or the sum of these things?
I, I, I never was one to hide
in the obvious retreat of shadows
but you’re in my empire now
to my delight
and I’ll be damned
if I will let go
i grab what i can and get thrown into noise
incapable of belonging
maybe you let me feel what it means to be safe
when i shroud myself in easy worry
do i have to, do I need to spell out to you
what we’re doing here, listen
you’re the gravity I pull onto myself
all those times I realize it’s missing.
not even one atom
not even if you go
not ever
I, I, I never was one to hide
in the obvious retreat of shadows
but you’re in my empire now
to my delight
and I’ll be damned
if I will let go
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BETWEEN
03:09
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Harper, remember
when I should have hated you
and I didn’t?
when I believed I could share you
turns out I couldn’t.
how don’t you know
this is I what I came for?
not a dream, not a vision -
just a chance to feel you close
Harper, did you get my last note?
where i called you unexpected
not the way you took it
but the way i meant it
how don’t you know
this is what I came for
not a dream, not a vision -
just a chance to feel you close
your eyes your eyes I know
your eyes your eyes I know
they hold my undivided attention
how don’t you know
this is what I came for
not a dream, not a vision -
just a chance to feel you close
not a dream, not a vision -
just a chance to feel you close
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ASCENSION
02:31
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tell me if you believe as I do
there was no mistake
at all in my creation
i was shaped from leftover truth
if only I could
be bothered
by this information
defiant like the words of Moses
come hell and high waters
come hell and high wa-ters
the stone that cracked Goliath’ skull open
my love is forgiveness
my love is forgi-ven
have you ever seen the garden
the place where it started
the place where it ended
bend the Word as much as you can
her hands on my shoulders
take the weight off the burden
defiant like the words of Moses
come hell and high waters
come hell and high wa-ters
the stone that cracked Goliath’ skull open
my love is forgiveness
my love is forgi-ven
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INTERFERENCE
02:18
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not the evidence of it
not the possibility
you drew circles around us
for the sake of it
like a rain above us of questions over questions
is this what really matters?
is this what you want?
and if we said yes to whatever you asked
would it make our love fit right to your norm?
not the obvious either
not the mystery
you ran interference
for the sake of it
is this what really matters?
is this what you want?
and if we said yes to whatever you asked
would it make our love fit right to your norm?
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WELLS '94
03:02
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Lyrics:
Close to me like a porthole view to a valley,
“I’m always here” you said;
but you were not.
I hid from everything till you hid from me
and I was finished,
ridiculous by my own standards -
come back to me,
and if it were not so heavenly,
it would be shameful
to fall all over.
if you’d call me
and if you were not so you
I’d be there
close to you in a second.
unlike a memory of a different life,
how are you so bright and defined?
when all i have done is try
to confine you to a name (a memory).
and I fell all over
that’s how i am torn
like it’s 1994
thorn in my side
of the valley. (torn in my side of the valley)
of the valley (torn in my side of the valley)
come back to me,
and if it were not so heavenly,
it would be shameful
to fall all over.
if you’d call me
and if you were not so you
I’d be there
close to you in a second.
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the windows are open,
but it took me a decade -
I got here this morning,
I got here unscathed.
there was two of me,
two of the same:
both lacked the habit of staying sane.
can you believe it?
I filled all my scenes,
the dialogues that mattered
existed unscripted:
once spoken they’re useless,
but then she claimed me
declared me
living
I lifted my shoulders more times than I could count
to signal that I’d had more than enough.
no one got the clue, not you, not at all.
I was fit for nothing, too big or too small.
can you believe it?
I filled all my scenes,
the dialogues that mattered
existed unscripted:
once spoken they’re useless,
but then she claimed me
declared me
living
you won’t, you won’t
you won’t, you won’t
believe it
you’ll find love
up on the hills
like a mirror on the mountain
so high and blinding
so high and blinding
you won’t believe it
can you believe it?
I filled all my scenes,
the dialogues that mattered
existed unscripted:
once spoken they’re useless,
but then she claimed me
declared me
living
no one got the clue, not you, not at all
you won’t, you won’t
you won’t, you won’t
believe it
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