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Go Back (Enterlude)
01:44
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February Third
Empty parking lot
Hands of reckless will
Head of poison thought
If I could go back
September Second
Would it save my life
Would it paradox
Gotta go back
Gotta warn him
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Juggernaut
03:02
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I think I’m hearing voices again
Do they originate from within
They’re coming from him from her from all around
Some would say they come from underground
Oh-oh I think this is so mistakeful
Oh-oh to fail to carry out what you are able
If you overcome your own apathy
Break away from this bland monotony
No laugh it off cause they’ll never see through
Your juggernaut bombshell but neither will you
So why should I not you feel so ashamed
You should be careful with what you say
You’re thinking your x-ray eyes see right into my head
But my thoughts yeah I try to keep them quiet and lined with lead
I hope you got more to be
Than a moral authority
Not saying don’t look twice but listen to me
Think before you think on what you see
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3. |
Time (Isn't On Our Side)
04:00
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Gravity
Has got its hold on me
I’ve fallen down and I can’t get up
I’m pressing on but I’m all out of luck
Can anybody save me
Or has our world forgot
Still I can’t seem to muster
Conscientious thought
Oh no because we tend to not think about what we say
We say it anyway
Put off our work it’s time to play
It’s for another day
Ever fail to see
Mild hypocrisy
Disinclined to firmly take a stance
It’s time we left behind all our
Promises to time
Deny to delay for a chance
For time isn’t on our side
Anxiety
Why must you be
I missed her then and I miss her now
Could I fear that face somehow
Shadows dance on reason
Yet there’s far too much trust
Sooner or later
We’ll have to adjust
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4. |
Outer Space Lights
04:09
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I look at the stars above
I feel that push will come to shove
Come to shove
As long as we can see them
Up in the sky we will agree
Harmony
And you will know
The stars remain there
As they always do
Ever burning starry glow
I will be there if you want me to
In the city I suppose
You know there’s something here
In the absence of your fear
Of your fear
There is a chilling silence
Radiating from the sky
Electrify
It goes to show
Somewhere up there floats the major
Far within our galaxy
The evening winds find my cold shoulder
Too oft’ with you as absentee
Outer Space Lights
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5. |
Say Yes
04:28
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I’ve really liked you, for such a long time
But I still knew, you would never be mine
I took a chance, but the sun wouldn’t shine
You wanted to say yes, but still said no
I’ll wait this out, ‘cause you know I won’t go
I’ll be here for you, through the high and low
You say yes, and then no
How long before I know
I’m right here, next to you
Tell me that you always knew
You’re gonna come to me, and we’ll be together
I’m sick and tired, of all this rejection
It’s spreading through me, like an infection
But I’m not giving up, because you’re the cure
Don’t sell your heart, rather let it be free
I’ll give you mine, and then take yours for me
Hand in hand, we’ll forever be
I want to be forever
Just you and me together
I want to be forever
Forever in love with you
You say yes, and then no
How long will, will this go
I’m right here, where I’ve always been
And you’re right there and then
You’re gonna come to me, and we’ll be together
Forever
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6. |
She'll Get You
02:51
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She's just like a twister
You can always tell where she's been
She leaves an array of destruction
So stay out of her way
Don't let her grasp get you
She'll take your heart and snap it in two
Stay away and watch what you do
Oh- oh she'll get you
She tells a lot of lies
She loves to make us cry
Much like a smoke filled room
So dense you can't breathe- breathe or move
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7. |
HERO
04:16
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I’m just finding my personal paradise
Cut out the bad and make room to optimize
I’m honing my skills yeah it’s a matter of time
But you know what they say, “time is not on my side”
I’ll strive to be nothing else like you’ve ever seen,
Yet my super-powers may be few and far in between
But between you and me I think they’re more than enough, just enough!
I’ll be a hero!
Yeah a hero
Someone’s hero!
A hero, honey
I’m just guarding my personal aerospace
Been inactively searching for someone to save
When a friend let me know that she just had to confess
She’d held some feelings at bay and they were time to address
But now she says that I was better before
She brought her suitcase and self through my door
It hurts so bad, this news it really is rough
And it means my powers maybe weren’t enough
To be her hero!
A hero
I’m not her hero!
Not yet her hero
Now we’ve been apart for a little while
It sure seems more than enough
I find myself always thinking of that smile
And how it used get me through the low times
I hope you find it in your heart tonight
To overlook the times I wasn’t quite enough to be your hero
Oh please, tell me that you’re ready to give me one more chance
I hope you find it in your heart tonight
A hero!
A hero
Your hero!
A hero honey
I’ll be your hero!
A hero
Yeah your hero!
A hero honey…
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8. |
Interpret Me
03:29
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Blasting punk rock music
Through the car stereo
Some bloke’s doing what he does best
Never taking no
If you are much like me
What you show outside
Pales in comparison to
Everything that you hide
Take a look around you
You’ll begin to see
Everyone’s putting up their own façade
Of necessity? Out of need
Feeling less alone now?
Or more than ever before?
Live stream biographies of
Fiction that you adore
Interpret Me! The way I know you will anyway
Interpret Me! Based on everything I ever say
Be sure to leave some room for doubt in your mind
Because the iceberg knows all along your blind
Sing to me shadow people
The choruses I think I know
God only knows what
Lurks inside your every soul
Sometimes I’m pretty sure it’s best this way
That such a bloke has an out
Gives him the benefit benefit
Benefit of the doubt
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9. |
Run Away Runaway
02:20
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Run run runaway
He’s left home and now he’ll stay
Away from everything he’s known
He’s somewhere he can be alone now
Far far faraway
Redemption come another day
Pay pence to his solitude
Let him have another mood swing
Break break breakaway
You were more than throwaway
Say what you have wanted to
Dying thoughts are overdue and
Fly fly fly away
If you can then it’s okay
Today you will change precedent
You in fact are competent
Say what you’ve wanted to say
Even if just to try to erase
Say what you’ve wanted to say
All your problems are miles away
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10. |
Dance Dance
04:06
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I think it’s time I start leading with my left
I’m getting way too predictable again
Better addle up my consciousness before
Fate starts claiming more friends
It’s out of character it’s madness at best
I look away and grant a mental absence
But memories they burn strong, hot, and bright
And the silver linings start to reflect
I wanna
Dance dance dance with you one last time
In your basement the radio on all night
We’d last forever or so I had thought
You were mine
Dance dance dance with me one last time
For thirty seconds pretend that we’re still just fine
Just once before we say
Goodbye
I think it’s time I start leading with my left
I’m getting way too predictable again
The only way out of this labyrinth is to
Ditch the black box heart from within
Now night has found me in these dark prison walls
Cold and lonely yet somehow still awake
The guards all slumber and the key’s in my hand
Why oh why can’t I make my escape
And so they went
Into the night
As lovers do
From time to time
But one broke free
No dawn in sight
The other perished
By hounds that found him cold with fright
Dance dance dance with me one last time
In your basement the radio on all night
We’d last forever or so I had thought
You were mine
You’re breaking my heart tonight
For thirty seconds we’ll be just fine
You’re breaking my heart tonight
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11. |
Excelsior
04:02
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Your brown stargazing haunting eyes will
Dominate my dreams tonight
Much like the way they always seem to do
Although what have I got to fear
Despite the face that’s always near
Since when do my dreams come true?
I’ve become a veteran of taking apart
The long-term disagreements of the head and the heart
You’ve gotta stop and tell yourself just what you will say
Excelsior
The OSL is a weather balloon
Or a training exercise
Aurora Borealis has yet to be found
You must come to realize
They’d trust me less if I could sow
Their sorrows deep and watch them grow
Under divulging light of the yellow sun
Concessions to those that I owe
I torched those bridges years ago
On purpose? No but still what’s done is done
The flames still luminate my smoking gun
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12. |
Return (Exitlude)
02:30
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I’ll pack my things up and shut down my gear
Like the runaway boy it’s time to disappear
Gonna travel through time until I come to the right year
Oh for some reason that I cannot explain
I am so weary and so solemn all the time
And it seems that I am just not the same
Since you said that I was not your HERO
I will return
At least I sure hope so
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James And The Solo Projects Grand Ledge, Michigan
James pretends he knows how to sing and play instruments. (He can't, but don't tell him)
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