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Am I Who I Think I Am?
03:08
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You’ve always seen right through my
wandering like a wounded dog
To focus on and hold the light
In what was once an endless fog
Some days it still surrounds me
Then burns off in the afternoon
My darling when it's storming,
Will you sit with me and watch the view?
Am I who I think I am?
Will it be enough for you?
Will we make good on these plans?
Is there enough room for two?
I will always love you
It’s a different kind of yearning
To run until I find my way
But how to justify this,
grows harder with each passing day
I spend out on the highway
In search of undiscovered truth
But if everything’s inside me
Could I have stayed home next to you?
Am I who I think I am?
Will it be enough for you?
Will we make good on these plans?
Is there enough room for two?
I will always love you
Am I who I think I am?
Will it be enough for you?
Will we make good on these plans?
Is there enough room for two?
I will always love you
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Could You Carry Me?
03:31
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Working through the daylight
hoping to catch a break
This body is an anchor
while my mind floats awake
My love is far away now
In a vast expanse of dream
While lying in these arms
Just as close as she can be
Could you carry me?
The clock's incessant ticking
Contradicting my heart beating
All the words that I've been thinking
Spin round and round and round
My love, she lights a fire
In the depths of what's beneath
To covet beauty and desire
Is something short of cheap
Could you carry me?
There's guilt amongst the unknown
And also fear of those with pride
A question looming and unchanging
Who will be there by your side?
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Gold Flake
02:10
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You used to tell me that you loved me
When did that stop?
All the years passed by quickly
Slowed down like a top
And all the quiet desperation,
in the letters, you’d write
Don't forget dinner
Please turn off the lights
Finding our love again
And the castle we built
Watched it crumble and fall
We almost felt nothing
But the fire burning out
You said your love was not waning
It was straight out of town
And if it came back you’d tell me
If I was around
Finding our love again
With the riot act read
and the truth on display
We had nothing more to say
You tried holding my hand for comfort
I tried too
I was so in love with you
We didn't know what to do
A golf flake in the water
Loves sacrificial fodder
To try a little harder
Committed or a martyr
Finding our love again
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4. |
Gone This Time
03:58
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The spirit left you
And you fell down into a dream
At least that’s what I've told myself to believe in
It's a lie
You're gone this time
Oooh
You're gone this time
If mournings mending
Then why am I pretending to be fine?
A thinly veiled line
between treading water
and building a shrine
Oooh
You're gone this time
If I could paint your portrait in my mind
Then you'd still be with me
But at the rate, we’re spinning out of time
Will your soul wait for mine?
On the drive home
I fell asleep on the vinyl seats
Much to your relief
Without holding your hand
You're gone this time
Oooh
You're gone this time
The constant silence
A paralyzing violence that remains
Trapped in a refrain
“Was not part of the plan”
Oooh you're gone this time
Oooh you're gone this time
Am I underwater or on fire?
I can't tell the difference
Everyone says that the fog will rise
Adjusting my eyes to the light
Will I see you waiting by my side?
Too afraid to risk this
There is some strange beauty in this life
I'll tell you about it
If I could paint your portrait in my mind
Then you'd still be with me
But at the rate, we are spinning out of time
Will your soul wait for mine?
Will your soul wait for mine?
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Warmth
02:49
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Say, you want more warmth?
How to get that feeling back?
A cross between comfort and a heart attack
Darling, you’re crying out the lines of a poem
Overflowing and flooding what's left of this home
Willfully lost
Blind leading blind
Wandering these sidewalks
In search of starlight
Say, you want more love?
Don’t go holding someone else
For silence weighs heavy when shame is on the scales
It's a losing man's game
The lines drawn in love are pleasure and pain
We both know these threats
It's just a ship without sails
Ride the crest of the wave till the nightmares prevail
Willfully lost
Blind leading blind
Wandering these sidewalks
In search of daylight
Wandering these thoughts
Searching for a sign
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Miners Song
03:10
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The mystic mountains veil the passage to my mine
Waiting out the light of day to stumble down and find
The only thing worth seeking, because love will leave you blind
The cure to all my sorrow as old as the end of time
I might buy a castle / I might buy a boat
Drinking through the night and day / Floating on a boat in a moat
Dreaming tales of riches / Singing songs of gold
The old rock candy mountains will soothe these troubles I’m told
I am working
Picking my life apart
Stone by stone
Searching,
Sifting the rocks and the dirt
From my bones
Haven't found a thing yet
But I'm not leaving without my gold
Working like a mule deep down in the ground
Finding I'm a fool is the only thing I've found
To which I've mastered, hard work and getting drowned
Praying that one day I'll find my luck will turn around
I am working
Picking my life apart
Stone by stone
Searching,
Sifting the rocks and the dirt
From my bones
Haven't found a thing yet
But I'm not leaving without my gold
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New Death
04:18
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I can feel it in the bedsheets
The warmth that once held you
And I know that I am stalling
Hiding from the truth
Cause the only things I'm cleaning out
Are the knives and forks and spoons
It's just that their reflecting
No memories of you
It's in the stillness of these hallways
And the moans that this house makes
I've been begging my own children
And friends to stay
But they have to go back home now
They have jobs and bills to pay
But I wish that you were here
To hold me and keep me safe
And I've got nothing left but memories
Of happiness and dreams
From a lifetime of loving
And this old house now a nightmare though it seems
It didn't mean a thing to me
Cause you were everything a home should be
There's this burden that I carry
Each and every day
And sometimes I think id lift it
If I just threw enough away
There are these nights that burn with anger
At some lie, you used to say
That you were mine forever
But I just watched you float away
And I've got nothing left but memories
Of happiness and dreams
From a lifetime of loving
And this old house now a nightmare though it seems
It didn't mean a thing to me
Cause you were everything a home should be
I now live in the city
With our daughter up the street
That old house kept on haunting
It was driving me crazy
And now I tell you that I love you
In each and every dream
And one day I'll lay beside you
Forever you and me
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8. |
How Did We Get Here?
03:06
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Are we doomed to repeat this
or destined to redeem it?
Will the fire burn out before I tire and lie sleeping?
Well I must have been dreaming
Not to know of the reasons
Blinded by my own fear and self-deceiving
Darling, can you face it?
All these years now lay wasted
Idling while we thought we were chasing
How did we get here?
Running our mouths
Running’s just falling when you can't fight the ground
Controlling convictions
Punishing doubt
Searching for light in the depths of the clouds
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Arran Fagan Portland, Oregon
Singing songs of sadness and having a great time doing it.
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This band is so inspiring and makes me want to scream every lyric to the world.
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