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Between The Laughter
03:00
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I’m wondering if you’ll change
Once your day starts calling
I’m wondering who you’ll blame
When the sky starts falling
Maybe I’ll find you there
Maybe I’ll find you there
I’m thinking about the waves
Of undeserving shelter
I’m thinking there’s no way
To gain what you have conquered
Maybe I’ll find you there
Maybe I’ll find you there
Where there is rain
There is sure to be water
Where there is love
There is sure to be laughter
Maybe I’ll find you there
Maybe I’ll find you there
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Days as dark as night
Awake me
And though I’ve always loved the light
It can’t embrace me
I know it’s true
I pay what is due
most days
Turn myself into
Someone you never knew
Most days
The shadows from an empty room
Erase me
And thoughts of endless afternoons
They can’t embrace me
I know it’s true
I’m more gray than blue
Most days
I try to hold onto
The love I had for you
Most days
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Waking From Dreams
04:23
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Your words are drenched
In the absence of mine
This heart can’t be owned
By the patience of time
My careless last steps
Showcased by
an oceanless tide
Your memory persists
Though it’s so hard, it’s so hard
to find
You are a ghost
that I want to set free
You’re a piece of myself
That I long to flee
Something was lost
Before it was seen
That something it shined
Least that’s how it seemed
And it stayed on so long
That it kept me at ease
While the wheels slowly turned
The light burned, light burned
straight through me
You are a ghost
that I want to set free
You’re a piece of myself
That I long to flee
Some things
are not as we dream
And I guess that’s just the way
it always will be
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The Jagged Path
02:37
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Speak to me
Just like I speak to you
With your hands at your side
pride in your eyes
You’ve fallen victim to
I know your kind
You’ll play the cards you’re dealt
And so must I
Time has forsaken what you need
Left your lungs latched to the breeze
Of an outstretched desert sky
When our worlds meet
Death may mistake your face
For one it keeps
Only shown to those that sleep
In an everlasting peace
Not to wolves that hide among lost sheep
I hope you find
A peaceful mind
When theres no one left to hide behind
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Thoughts of Rain
04:20
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Was it you?, or was it me?
Who bound our weeping love to the willow tree
Desert moonlight paves the road to be
Yet still your thoughts of rain are home sweet home to me
Have I lost what I can’t unsee
My eyes are hidden from your dream like breeze
Snow has fallen onto landlocked streams
And left me with no where to go
To turn and leave
now I must do what I must do
Find a way to start anew
Now I must say what I know is true
I must find a way to
Turn to green from blue
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Dark Times
04:05
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Are you still waiting for the dark to arrive
Flooded heart, yet your time has run dry
Morning went, money spent on cheap wine
Enough to get you through
Not much left to lose to these dark times
I’ll never change but I hope that you do
My mind was made before even I knew
You’ll never know, and I’ll never show you,
How a heart can be blind in dark times
Sullen walks, through midnight rain
People talk of who and what’s to blame
Morning went, money spent on cheap wine
Enough to get you through
Not much left to prove to these dark times
That’ll never change
But I hope that you do
I knew your heart
Even before I knew you
You’ll never know, and I’ll never show you
How a heart can be blind in dark times
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Rough Roads Ahead
03:06
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Should I take you to the places you take me
Should I lose you among the faces I can’t see
Eyes are blurry eyes are red
Thinking over in my head
Should I lay my broken bones upon your bed
Cus you know it’s hard to make it
You know it’s hard to make it
These days
Should I take you for granted like I do
Swallow my pride long enough to see things through
Eyes are blurry eyes are red
Thinking over in my head
Should I trust this is the place I need to be
Cus you know it’s hard to fake it
You know it’s hard to fake it
These days
Find myself standing in the rain
For no good reason
Thinking there has to more to life than what I’m seeing
Cus you know it’s hard to take it
You know it’s hard to take it
These days
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Wandering Ways
03:14
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Should I lay down or should I wander around
Should I try to understand or simply lay down my hands
Cus the walls have been worn thin
Laying waste to the thoughts within
Now I’m left to oversee
What great damage time can bring
Darkeness falls
Your voice calls to me
Winds are turned around
wounds have stood their ground
Now the dawn has shown your face
Whispering that it all is bound to fate
Now the walls have been reborn
Like the armor that once was torn
And I’m left to wash away
With the thoughts of yesterday
Darkness falls
Your voice calls to me
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