23</3 (2014)
1) Twenty Three Broken Hearts
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2) A Matter of Gravity
i will cross this line for you and you alone...
sending signals, seeking signs saying “some wounds should be shown”
save what we have sown; save me.
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oh, quiet down my heart i must play the part.
come away we have yet to start.
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you fail to look past while you don that wretched mask; all that i could ask:
slip off your disguise and absolve me of my lies; see my soul with unforsaken eyes
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picture perfect moment stalled in spacetime.
set a new direction to when you’ll be mine.
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seize my heart! i was played upon.
come away, my love, we have only just begun.
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this picture perfect moment stalled in spacetime.
set a new direction to when you will be mine.
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bend my light, trap my soul; your love is a blackhole...
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3) !(!(x))
hey sister? said “where’d you go?”
last we spoke i was ripping words right from your throat.
see my life’s a joke, yet i fail to provide the punchline so we could laugh. they all laugh...
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last we spoke you said i never got the words, but if they’re right then I swear to god i’ll say’em tonight.
i reckon they’ll say anything the music seems to say; pray tell sister, what do they say only to you?
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‘cause there are some nights it seems that i’m fucking with your head,
but i swear if you care i’ll be there and i’d never say
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on the former, the opposite be
false assumptions creep into these songs.
hey sister? it’s the unresolved chords that fuck with me most.
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4) An Old Friend
spread your wings and lend me your heart,
i won’t let you fall.
we’ll take on the world with hell’s fire in our wake.
i’ll be yours forever, amour.
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but things change
when life called out your name,
the woman who loved me
did not come back.
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you tried to hold on
but the choices were gone.
you said, “this love must die.
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i have no time for tears no more
i can’t go on like we once did before
i’ll never forget the time we shared and the dreams we explored.
i don’t have no love, no more.”
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5) This Letter
i’ll miss the good times, i’ll miss it all.
my life is gonna change and so will you and so will they
and nothing at all remains the same.
and it hurts, oh god, it hurts
to think of all the times you could have gone but left behind,
and it feels like i’m missing out.
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i want you to know that this is not giving up.
the life you’ll learn to leave behind but the friends you’ll have for all time.
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so take my hand as you walk away into the times you’ll never see
but we’ll see ourselves in each other’s eyes before we close side-by-side.
and hold on to what we’ve got: these fleeting moments falling faster every day, but i gotta say
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i want you to know that this is not giving up.
the life you’ll learn to leave behind but the friends you’ll have for all time.
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6) Calling All Space Cadets
what would i say when it’s gone?
who could i trust when i’ve abandoned those i love?
how can this be, and how could i come to see
why it chose me?
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where will i go when all i know is the road?
why should i live at all when my melodies won’t flow?
an impunctual enigmatic shuffling of words;
what would i play when the music dies?
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