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Absent Daylight Savings
03:59
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Favorite girl from Arkansas feels so short to be six foot tall
You’re gonna be alright, because I’m here by your side
Arizona boy done broke your heart, you’re still crying and it’s all his fault
Baby, I’m on my way, I’m sitting on that plane
These summer days don’t seem so long
We’ve got each other, we’ve gotta hold on
You’ll forget all the other boys in time
We’ll pick up the pieces and drive
It’s been years and I see you’ve grown
Somehow your arms still feel like home
You’re gonna be alright, because I’ve got a few more nights
Throw your troubles over the edge
Into a Grand Canyon sunset
Baby, please dry your tears, because I am finally here
Drive down Route 66
Forget all the time we missed
Continue where we left off
That desert moon tucked into your arms
Would you hang it for me one last time?
We’ll pick up the pieces and drive
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Back
04:16
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Let’s meet tonight at the cul de sac and leave everything we know behind
Drive toward some peace of mind
Because our god’s failed us one too many times
Who would have thought I was so naïve
That I would trust you and fall for anything
Tonight is for running, we won’t look back
It’s a forewarning off the beaten path
Every night we wake up in the mist of the same dream
Pawn off the return tickets to back where we came from
Fed up with all this habit and routine
Together we’ll keep moving further from here
Meet tonight at the runway and watch the planes taking off
Elevation’s sick, we feel the prick
Of needles as we roll back and we cough
All we believed in fades to delusion
Search for acceptance, finding seclusion
Tonight is for running we won’t lose track
Of the forewarning with the end on our backs
Every once in a while, it seems so childish
And we can’t take it
The place that we know, we think of in our sleep
But it’s not where you want to be
Where do you want to be?
Further from here… with me?
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Bridesmaid
04:43
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Dead weight, bullshit, I guess life’s what you make of it
Bum luck, dim soul, I guess that’s how we lost control
Distraught and faithless, recalibrate the populace
Trip step, faux pas, years waiting for the fall
Always the bride’s maid, never to wed
Always the pallbearer, never the dead
Try to take what we’ll never get
It’s best to get used to it
So get used to it
Vulgar, annoying, exasperate your closest friends
Cold heart broken, too hard not to offend
Soulless lost cause, it’s everyone else’s fault
I’ll have no one to spread my ashes when I’m gone
Superfluously oblivious
I thought you would have learned this
You’re every child that had a wish
Transformed into a pessimist
You’re every child that had a wish….
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U+I=X
02:54
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Like empty suicidal sweet release
I hit my knees, future’s folded and creased
In the depths of your dark soul
I can’t console, impaled through fence pole
Like empty bottles bring sweet relief
It’s only brief, they found us dead up on the streets
Eyes roll back until they’re white
It blurred my sight, we went down without a fight
The stars fell down to finally die
The moon is full but burning down
The Sun’s not our friend, so tonight we’ll be sleeping upside-down
Like sweetest nightmares turn to dreams
When kept too clean, no more blood left in your streams
When the midnight bell begins to ring
And angels sing, as they cry bloody and dying
You’re an angel with a demon’s eyes
A sheep in a wolf’s disguise
And everything I ever hoped to be true
Lost hope with eye contact with you
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5. |
Icarus Wings
07:00
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I’ll never wake up again to feel your breath on my skin
I can’t make myself pretend that you meant the things you said
I guess you done up and gone
Right when you knew everything was wrong
So I bought myself Icarus wings
And I melted on the ceiling
I still smell you on my bed and feel the memories tied to it
But it’s not you that feels my lungs, it’s not you carrying me to the Sun
The candle’s lit and I set your plate, but you’re not showing up today
And I’m not leaving again because this wax has burned my skin
I’ll grab the chainsaw and spread your pieces on the lawn
And chase you to the northern sky, a compassed heart as my guide
A silhouette bleaches the night because the Sun refused to fight
You were a needle and tourniquet, you were the key but I never turned it
It’s always you that’s out of reach and you’re not waiting up for me
I’m taking time to learn to fly but these wings are useless for this crime
These wings are useless for this time
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Nothing Remains
04:29
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Nothing remains if it’s good
What would you change if you could?
Through evolution grows dissolution
A shadow lies where I once stood
The seconds tick by into hours
And days into months that drift into years
The confusion that comes with the passing of time
We go wherever we’re steered
(I keep my eye on your hand
Clean culpable contraband
Falling behind while we can)
Nothing golden can stay
That’s what Johnny would say
Running somewhere with our newly bleached hair
And we probably won’t live through today
Why are your hands feeling cold?
Is the pressure making you fold?
We trade away all our sunny days
And the parts our lives that we sold
I start to wither and rot away
Memory’s broken and starts to decay
I’m just a shell, a hollowed out man
Learning nothing to help understand
That as I watch the sun fall
Time’s coming after us all
I never again want to see the dark aging side of me
Nothing remains if it’s good
What would you change if you could?
We start to die in the blink of an eye
A shadow lies where I once stood
All of my timing is you
The white noise is now mute
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Of the Unknown
02:14
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You say, “I never,” but I feel like everything will be alright in time
You caused me pain and I never seem to cease to be amazed by your lies
Please let me go and tell me how to live my life alone
I have no fear of the unknown
Look at that face and then look inside and see what you can find in my spine
Show me my place and try to complicate as I go the extra mile
Teach me to grow and show me that I’ll never be alone
I have no fear of the unknown
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8. |
Roll Again
04:36
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You’re looking oh, so perfect
Perplexed, draped all in purple
Like a lost royalty
Pack up the lessons learned
When the tables have all turned
Now, you’re running dizzily
Wrap your arm up so tight
Let the veins scream at the sky
Come on, inject me in
Let your skin catch fire
Before I’m much too old and tired
Jessi, let’s roll again
That’s why I’m spending all of my time
Stuck knee deep in your smile
It comes as no surprise
Wondering what comes next
After reading through the text
Will the plot run too thin?
If you come see me tonight
And run from all of your ties
Then, Jessi, we’ll roll again
You’re so ungodly gorgeous
With a voice like a chorus
Beautifully tragic
I’m stuck here and outdated
But unused and unfaded
Like my darkest magic
That’s why I’m spending all of my time
Stuck waist deep in your thighs
It comes as no surprise
I’ll fix up your fake smile and carry your face in plastic arms
Fill those empty pits with your eyes so that you never fall apart
That’s why I’m spending all of my time
Up to my neck in your style
It comes as no surprise
It’s all the things I would never want to change
Trapped between your skull and skin, I’ll take back my soul and then
Jessi, let’s roll again. It’s no surprise
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9. |
Laws of Physics
02:59
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It doesn’t add up, we are all of arbitrary significance in this equation
Values assigned, randomly assorted, the margin of error declines
Expands, implodes
Now we are everything that never mattered at all
There must be some sort of truth to find
Get right to the essence in time
We’ll never find a way out
Because that’s what giving up is all about
Our hands are tied, look at what we can find when falling from cliffs on ranges
We could never climb. Harshly stated emotion ascend
Accelerate, explode
Later on we become we become nothing, disintegration
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10. |
Green Eyes Close
02:21
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You wore a blue sweater and a rainbow scarf
You said I was different, you knew if from the start
I’ve never been one for blondes, but I feel a change coming on
We were waltzing in my room
Right before we spooned
Jaime please, don’t say you have to leave
Went out for pasta and a beer
Never thought we’d find our way out here
Movie’s on, but we don’t watch
Another chance for us to talk
It’s cold outside, there’s frost on the car
It’s not a long drive, but it seems so damn far
When I don’t want to watch you go
Come on, and stay a little longer with me, Ms. Malone
I want to watch your green eyes close
I don’t kiss on a first date, but I guess that rule can break
Oh, Jaime, please, just stay a little longer with me
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11. |
This Side of Romance
03:05
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4 Star View Cape Canaveral, Florida
Originally from Northeast Mississippi and living in Cape Canaveral, FL, 4 Star View is a cathartic songwriter who swings among genres to create emotionally laden soundscapes. He is the poet laureate for the city of Cape Canaveral. Every album is unique in sound and themes. Most songs are single take, single track to produce a raw sound. Mistakes are not fixed because flaws are part of the art. ... more
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