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Cordelia
05:13
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Gods have smiled upon you
And all you do is laugh
Take a photograph and
Send it to yourself
The only one who'd care for
The only one to like
Kid yourself for another while
Til you get some
Rid yourself of your sickle smile
With the jetsam
Cordelia
You are not your money
You're not anyone
Or anyone who's anything more to me
Than what I would give for you
Just to open up your mind
Give yourself just one more shot from the get-go
Rid yourself of the shit you’ve got
Cause she said so
Cordelia
You and I
We’re the sickest kind
But we’re not the type to criticize
Delicate and elegant and white
I am ready for you
Just to cast the past aside
See yourself through another’s eyes
Til you know it
Free yourself from the world of lies
Don’t you blow it
Cordelia
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Abilene
03:19
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Abilene,
you're a friend of mine
Since I wrote your name
in a book that I've had
For the longest time
Off and on
You're a mystery
You're a truckstop queen
on a jukebox screen
Something else to see
You and I, we can touch the sky
Never coming down again
All it took was a simple lie
You know I never wanna remember
But I'll never forget you
So alone
In your history
Just a trumped up line from a twisted time
S-stuck in repeat
Oh, I know
Oh there's a place for me
Cut the demons out
Take the trail on out
Live in ecstasy
You and I we can kiss the sky
Never come down again
Oh but I'm such a restless guy
Only gonna move it along now
But I'll never forget you
Ooh you're a certain kind of defeat
Ooh now you're ready to die for me
You and I we can touch the sky
Never come down again
All it took was a simple lie
Only gonna move it along now
I'll never forget you
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Exit Plan
03:58
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Here I stand, alone in a Neverland.
One and one makes only two; the lies you tell catch up with you.
Where we'll land, where no-one would ever go
The dream that lies in front of you
Is rotten to the deepest roots.
The earth can hardly keep with your demands.
No-one here can know the exit plan.
With all the need we hold within our hands
Only you can know the exit plan
You know that you can never be
More than just a cameo
And only for the broken hearted
The dream of light is soon departed now
And when close your eyes you can only see
See you and me in the spotlight
bringing, the lies and ties that bind
I'm singing yeah,
more than just an antidote
Only for the broken-hearted who’ll never know
Yeah more than you could ever know
On and on and on and on it ever goes
Yeah more than you could ever know
Only for the broken hearted
Who dream of life that's soon departed
Yeah more than just an anecdote
On and on and on and on it never goes
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Nobody Home
03:43
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I’m leaving when nobody’s watching
I’m walking away on my own
No feelings to spare
‘Cause there’s no-one to care
I’m leaving with nobody home
No-one to ponder my departure
No sad lament for my going
Not a sinner to pray
Or say “please darling stay”
I’m leaving with nobody home
If I hadn’t’ve been quite so tiresome
If I had’ve tried all along
Then maybe I’d have a dear sweetheart
To miss me, or notice I’ve gone
I’ve packed all my things up in boxes
I’ll write a brief note by the phone
Saying how it’s just me
And I’m gone, fancy-free
I’m leaving with nobody home
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The Other Side
03:02
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When you’re coming up here won’t you keep it on the other side?
When it’s only you and me won’t you never ever let it die
I know, I know
Life’s slow as it goes
Just a little upset gotta see if from the other side
Walk a minute in his shoes
Don’t you never ever question why
Love grows as it goes
When you’ve got a load bearing down on you
And dream you seek could only be for
More than you could ever lose
All your broken hearted dreams
And all the hope inside
Seems to bleed you dry
Til you’re free from it
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Seraphine
04:17
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Once upon a canvas blank, in the quiet dark of night
Seraphine paints pictures of her paradise
A blaze of color and an ever-praising eye
Seraphine sang a hymn
She sings for all the world to hear, but all the world’s asleep
With tired hands and broken skin
She paints her soul to keep, evermore
Casting visions out of pure necessity
Seraphine sang to me
I hear her clear around world
Across the century
Once the war is over I'll return to you
And given time and healing, minds of stone will crumble too
Just to see
All the world through eyes of your naivety
Just for me, Seraphine
Once when I was just a boy
I found a toy to play
A question not for answering;
A joyful noise to make; to create
All at once I made a promise to myself
Just to be, like Seraphine
You breathe just to let it out
Open your eyes and let the sunshine out
You bleed, light is all around
All the love you have here on solid ground
On solid ground
Once upon a canvas blank
Ten thousand miles away
A steady hand puts pen to plan
A voice begins to say:
“Fill the world with all the colors that you see”
Just for me, for Seraphine
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Carswell & Hope Lawrence, Kansas
Alternative rock from Lawrence, Kansas by way of Ireland
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