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Vanishing Point
03:58
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If I could step inside the painting on your wall
If I could read you like a memoir
If I could see beneath your teethbones
or look through you like a ghost
One day your paintings all will fade
Even brushstrokes show their age
The canvas yellows like a bookpage
and your teeth will do the same
A faceless man clasps his hands in a cornfield
Yellow-faced aliens gather for a meal
There's a color-spotted cave on the wall above the stairs
This is where we spent most of our time together
I never got to know her well
but I spent plenty of days in the world that she built
For a limited time, you can wear no disguises
Even if you're dying, you don't have to despise it
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Gone to lead some secret life,
Invisible, she runs outside
With no footprints, evidence, reason why
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide
And I don't know what to tell ya
I don't know what to say, 'cause it don't look good
And I don't know how to say this
I don't know what it is, 'cause it don't make sense
No one says they've seen her since
Both far and wide, the search runs dry
But she's still levitating in my mind
She'll live in there until we die
And I don't know what to tell ya
I don't know what to say, 'cause it don't look good
And I don't know how to say this
I don't know what it is, 'cause it don't make sense
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Feelin' It
03:23
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You're so morose, overdose
Hits too close to home for most
Fist is closed, bloody nose
Feet lift up and start to float
Sunday comes and Sunday goes
Keeps you on your toes, y'know?
Dozing off and sleeping in
Living in a coffin
No more light, no more sound
Put your body in the ground
Are you feelin' it now?
I don't wanna go home
You never leave me alone, alone
I don't wanna go home
You never pick up the phone
Seems no matter where I go
Seems no matter what I do
I am never at home with you
I am never at home
No more light, no more sound
Put your body in the ground
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
Are you feelin' it now?
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Dreamsong
03:44
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I had a dream and you died in it
I woke up in a cold sweat, my whole face was wet
Why do I always come down so hard?
I always come down so hard
I had a dream that you lived in my head
We spoke through telepathy across from the bed
Why are you always so close and so far?
You're always so close and so far
So close and so far
But in my dreams
You're next to me
In my dreams
But in my dreams
You're next to me
In my dreams
I had a dream we were executed
Our heads rolled together into the ocean
You just won't let me get too far away
You won't let me get too far away
I had a dream you were alive again
I woke up in a cold sweat, my whole face was wet
Why do I always come up so far?
I always come up so far
I always come up so far
But in my dreams
You're next to me
In my dreams
But in my dreams
You're next to me
In my dreams
I had a dream and you died in it
You take me up with a look
You bring me down in a moment
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5. |
Hide Away (in You)
04:56
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I wish I could disappear
As whispers in my lover's ear
But someone is always watching from mid-air
He's not here or there, but floating in-between
And so, I hide away in you
My secrets live and die on the inside
And so, I'll run away in you
Even if it's no use, we've got to try
You are the only one
I never want to run from
I know that no matter where I go
You're the only one who knows me
And so, I hide away in you
My secrets live and die on the inside
And so, I'll run away in you
Even if it's no use, we've got to try
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go now
Where nobody knows, nobody knows now
The only place I tell the truth
Is when I hide away in you
And so, I hide away in you
My secrets live and die on the inside
And so, I'll run away in you
Even if it's no use...
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Lost in the Yard
04:43
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Home isn't, home isn't anywhere to go
The streetlight above me went out
I'm asleep in a bed that I've slept in before
But I couldn't tell you where I am now
You know what to do if you're afraid of the dark
or alone on the bad side of town
But no one I know has got any advice
For when you're lost in yard
The spirit I was born with is slipping away
More of it gone with every person and place
All that was everywhere, every single day
Was still supposed to be here
You know what to do if you're afraid of the dark
or alone on the bad side of town
But no one I know has got any advice
For when you're lost in the yard
All those smiling skeletons sing it for me
I hear it from their graves down the street
Join in, join in they say
Join in and you won't miss a thing
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Gravestone Smasher
03:27
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Gravestone smasher
Gravestone smasher
Do you know the day your mother came to life?
Gravestone smasher
Destroy the winter 1899
The one the child did not survive
Erase the mistakes the past has made
Erase, erase, erase
If there is no time nor date nor place
Then happily, it never happened
Gravestone smasher
If they never lived they never had to die
Gravestone smasher
A sledgehammer through the epitaphs
And obituary paragraphs
Erase the mistakes the past has made
Erase, erase, erase
If there is no time nor date nor place
Then happily, it never happened
Erase the mistakes the past has made
Erase, erase, erase
If there is no time nor date nor place
It happily, happily, never happened
Gravestone smasher
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Guilt
03:39
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Stammering and drunk,
Heart hammering and stuck in place,
I could try to explain, instead I stutter in your face
And I make a big scene
Then I spend the whole night cryin'
'cause I've always felt this way
Unable to let go of things that I cannot change
And what's done has been done, and will be done again
And there's nothing I can do it seems
I would tell you that I love you, but that's not the truth
I just can't let something bad ever happen to you
I can't let something bad ever happen to you, again
My heart has been broken before,
My head has been empty, my feelings ignored
But nothing has ever gone deeper so far
Than that one sinking feeling, that night with no stars
I see your smiling face, full of forgiveness and grace
But will it ever be enough to pull me out of this place?
That's way down, deeper now, all the way down
In the dark?
I would tell you that I love you, but that's not the whole truth
I just can't let something bad ever happen to you
I can't let something bad ever happen to you, again
Then I spend the next day cryin'
'cause I've always felt this way
Unable to let go of things that I cannot change
And if there's anything, anything in the world I could change
Please don't be afraid to tell me
I would tell you that I love you, and that's not untrue
I just can't let something bad ever happen to you
I can't let something bad ever happen to you, again
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Familiar Face
05:46
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You look familiar
You look like someone I don't recognize completely
I look at you
I hear your name repeated
I see your smile in my best friend's
I hear your voice in Queen's Greatest Hits
I thought I saw you at the grocery store
That one stung a little bit
You're a once in a lifetime event
And we shared the stage for some of it
And though our time has come to an end
Perhaps we'll meet again
I wish you wouldn't always be so young
I wish that you'd still play the drums
You know it's hard for me to move on
In a world without Nebraska Prom
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And it's not that hard to find
Portraits, logos, and number signs
Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux
and in between them, me and you
Wes Wallace on the sound
And we will watch the moon fall down
For now the whole world's fate depends
On a disco ball's slow spin
We are seventeen
I've never seen you like this before
Black lipstick smudged all over
Every Friday, Classic Numbers
We are seventeen
I've never seen you like this before
Black lipstick smudged all over
Every Friday, Classic Numbers
You know I've always been the type
Who must dance all through the night
And for as long as I am alive
I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
When the world begins to end
We will run out with our friends
You never know it's your last chance
So we dance and we dance and we dance and we dance
We are seventeen
I've never seen you like this before
Black lipstick smudged all over
Every Friday, Classic Numbers
We are seventeen
I've never seen you like this before
Black lipstick smudged all over
Every Friday, Classic Numbers
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The Alex French Revolution Houston, Texas
Guitarist and songwriter based in Denton, TX
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Gorgeous guitar tones, daring song structures, and a knack for hauntingly nostalgic songwriting.
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DIY pop rock chock full of iconic punk-y guitar riffs and memorable sing-a-long melodies.
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Shimmering sonic landscapes provide a wonderful atmosphere for continuously moving bass-lines and drum parts that rocket you through the sky only to drift you back to Earth moments later.
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