1. |
Catch and Release
03:46
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if you take a hammer up to a pane of glass
it's gonna shatter into spiderwebs
you'll have to melt it down to make it good as new
is that the cost of what you're going through
memories form
into myths that tell you why
the truth is something
that you feel but you can't quantify
put the picture back together
so it makes some kind of sense
if you hold a mirror up to the past tense
you won't see nothing cos it isn't there
catch and release the day you're holding now
see and repeat the beauty around you now
catch and release the day you're holding now
see and repeat the beauty around you now
catch and release the day you're holding on to
there is a reason that the life force found you
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2. |
Love to Give
03:24
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tenderness that feels like a miracle
a kiss that's sending shockwaves through me
rain may fall but time has stopped in place
struck by lightning or so it feels to me
you've got a lot of love to give
through the darkest places you can go
to be bereft and left alone
your spirit could remain intact somehow
with a boundless hope that fills your soul
you threw me a line to climb back up
from the pressure that has been collapsing me
from the depths of the darkness I can see
the glow of an angel so heavenly
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3. |
Sea Break
02:49
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No waves from the sea
Wash my toes from my feet
I can still move them; I can still feel them
No waves from the sea
Knock my legs from my hips
I can still bend them; I can still feel them
No waves from the sea
Knock my chest from my neck
I can still breathe in; I can still breathe the salt air
Waves from the sea
Wash over my head
I cannot speak, I cannot breathe, I cannot live
Waves from the sea
That engulf me
Take my life and wash it away; Take my life and wash it away
I go with the waves
From the sea
Body and mind surrendered; Forever with the sea
Waves from the sea
Wash over me
Body and mind surrendered; Forever with the sea
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4. |
Lost in Time
04:29
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I don't know where I'm going but the moon is high
and I don't know what it's going to be like but I know I'll try
like a rocketship that tumbles to the surface in a flash of light
my heart fades into the distances behind me as I try to fly
would I trade this bitter lifetime for a moment in your heart of hearts?
maybe you would offer up a kind of lifeline, or a place to start
all I know is to be careful with the moment as it vanishes
then you're left with just the memories and the feelings and the vestiges
you have to try to understand
the spirit is what makes the man
and I would be lost in time
without a mountain left to climb
baby you know if I try to hide my feelings I might pass clean out
let me hold you close and be there in the daybreak without any doubt
if you love me then it's all I need to hear and I won't bother you
if you opened up my heart you'd see the reasons why you know it's true
you have to try to understand
the spirit is what makes the man
and I would be lost in time
without a mountain left to climb
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5. |
New Dream Now
03:12
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so much depends on being strong as steel
to stay intact despite the way that breaking feels
there's no time anymore, no time to play along
with all that is unspoken from the past that's gone
I got a new dream now
so much conjuring good things to come our way
but voices in a hurricane get cast away
there's no time anymore, no time to play along
til all that is unspoken from the past is gone
I got a new dream now
and I can't go back
to the old way
no matter what
price I'll pay
so much depends on being strong as steel
to stay intact despite the way that breaking feels
there's no time anymore, no time to play along
til all that is unspoken from the past is gone
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6. |
Destroy the World
03:10
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remember when we were wild and free
etched into memory like a melody
the sunlight fell, you cast your spell
I was impelled as you could tell
the acetone, burning brimstone
to be disowned and so alone
the seeds are sown, the sun has shone
I've turned to stone on my own
destroy the world,
but it's the will that's in your heart that matters
dreams come and go,
but it's the will that's in your heart that matters
remember when life was open-ended
a quantum state where both cats are alive
as sunlight fell, there were no magic spells
just you and me and the etchings of our memories
destroy the world
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7. |
Blood from a Stone
05:05
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"You can't get blood from a stone"
Is what they say when they stop trying
Your heart is shielded from my own
No matter how hard I'm vying
But I can't do this on my own
There's no way to simplify it
To be loved or alone
Is it the choice that is stupefying
If I could only know your reasons
You don't want to take my seasons
In my heart the level's rising
As the days are vaporizing now
If you could love me, let me know
Cos all I have is your silence
And longing to hold your soul
As my heart hangs in the balance
In moonlight, blue and icy cold
Shining down as it circles past me
If I could hold you, let me know
Cos there's no one who could outlast me
You can't get blood from a stone
If you love me let me know
Cos I can't keep standing by
If my love's gonna be denied
Cos I can't keep hanging on
For a love that ain't gonna come
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8. |
Take Flight
04:20
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when you were young you held the world in your hands
you felt so confident and free
a limitless view became an ever narrowing pathway
with time marching on relentlessly
even while the dark is growing
you're gonna have to take flight
even while you're never knowing
you're gonna have to take flight
even while the walls surround you
you're gonna have to take flight
even while the past has bound you
you're gonna have to take flight
in the darkest depths of your heart
there's a power that's untapped
to rise above the din and the chaos
and see the world fully enrapt
there's a way to surface, so you can breathe
and there is light to see by at the bottom of the sea
hydrostatic pressure 20000 feet below
It's all that you can do to survive, I'm sure you know
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9. |
Slow Motion Disaster
04:38
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slow motion disaster
through momentum slides
years of missed connections
secrets and the feeling of holding back
sunlight's coming through the trees
in beams that still cohere
stop motion recovery
window glass divides
in the glass they're always near
with words to bring you comfort
keep holding on
sunlight's coming through the trees
in beams that still cohere
time will roll on as the light bends
whether not we're here
the sunlight burns away
the remnants of the days
and there's no need to say
what your heart just gives away
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10. |
What is Left to Prove
03:52
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what is left to prove, to whom and for how long?
what compels me forward into brick walls?
pretty lights are shining in the nights to come
If I could only get there that's when I know I'd become
more than an illusion, more than just a dream
all the things I'm chasing, radiating hope to be redeemed
what is left to see on the trail of old mistakes?
who is there to show me what to learn and what to make?
from the pile of ashes build a tower to the sun
when the wind blows, vanish, will I finally become
what is left to prove?
what is left to see on the trail of old mistakes?
who is there to show me what to learn and what to make?
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11. |
Caught Outside
04:30
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you say you don't know what you want
so having nothing would be better
and I'm caught outside the transom of your heart
but I keep looking for a way in
though the drawbridge has receded
as if that could be any way to be
--and now I'm caught outside the transom of your heart
and I don't know what you'd say
if you knew the way I'm feeling
I guess that it would only chase you far away
and I just have myself to blame
for all my stupid talking
about the ways that you could take away my pain
--but now I'm caught outside the transom of your heart
and when you're in a hole
they say you should quit digging
but they never knew a man could dig so hard
and when you're cast away
without a hand to hold
well they never knew a man could fall so hard
if I could write the perfect song
with the perfect message
that resonates with you and captivates your heart
and any fear that's holding back
is overcome with love that's waiting
that's waiting on the other side only for me
--but now I'm caught outside the transom of your heart
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12. |
Standing Above
04:02
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no one could know the things that I've seen
or the pain that I've been told I caused
I've been to the edge and looked down just to see
all the people who'd follow me down
so I turned up my eyes, and fixed the horizon
and realized something is true
that living again is the heart of the matter
the dreams that are yet to be true
to open up, not to close down
to risk in the service of love
the weight of the world may have crashed down upon me
but now I am standing above
I never knew all the things I was missing
wandering through all the dark
but you give me hope that I have what I need
at the start of the fire's the spark
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Midnight Lands Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Power duo brothers-in-arms featuring guitar sounds that reach for faraway places and recall shoegaze legends Swervedriver.
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J. Robbins from Jawbox 2019 solo album, great songwriting and production. Huge fan
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