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Dust
03:50
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It isn't hard to recognize the wingspan of the time that flies and kicks up dust along the way, colorful, but also grey.
Some who were born upside down appreciate whats all around. The blurred vision in front of me makes it hard trying to see.
Why is nothingness so frightening?
Why do I reconsider everything?
Everything's just dust.
Although we can't sit on the sea, it's happiness momentarily
in hopes that we aren't settling, we'd turn to mud so lazily.
If you saw my shape in a cloud, would you wave if no one was around?
What if nothing was imaginary, and we were dust just momentarily?
Why do we bother getting so upset?
Cause most things we too soon forget?
I've must be out of touch, and everything is dust.
Why do we push away the ones we love?
Why is nothingness so hard to understand?
I've fallen out of touch, and all turned into dust.
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((Pulling Shapes))
06:46
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I tend to stare off to space when people see my
I can't look them in the face without trying way too
Hardly notice that I'm everything they're claiming to
Need me to tell you that I need you?
Who's that benefitting?
I tend to always run away when I see my shadow
These days are growing longer by the hour with the setting
Sunlight will give you cancer
Brunettes will give you
Heartache always fades away -
Times the only medicine left to take.
My mind starts to wander, right when I discover the shapes I pull with you, all the shapes I pull with you.
Instantly I'm dreaming, right when I start thinking of shapes I pull with you, all the shapes I pull with you.
No sweat, sleeping in for days, with reoccurring
Dreams that manifest themselves in the future which always is
Tomorrow, I'll come through.
I'll be honest when talking with you, my heart beating faster than my mind - they are racing.
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Lalalazy
04:32
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Lalalala lalalala Lalalala lalalala
Some times we measure our own happiness in others happiness it's pretty strange.
And I've met some of the craziest who never seem to be able to change.
"I'm so glad, that I'm not" so & so, I've heard it so many times before.
Most people measure happiness wrong.
I don't want to go crazy thinking this whole thing through.
I just want to be lazy with nothing left to do.
Lalalala lalalala Lalalala lalalala
Some people will call you lazy for making decisions too hastily.
And some people will call you lazy for making decisions nonchalantly.
And I know from past experience, that past experiences are in the past.
And I know it's all a memory, and now and is now and nothing else exists.
I don't want to go crazy thinking this whole thing through.
I just want to be lazy with nothing left to do.
And I know making decisions sometimes doesn't come easily, it doesn't for me.
I get away always blaming propinquity for everything that I have turned out to be.
Do you really want to spend the rest of your time, with me being lazy?
Do you really want to waste the rest of your life? Most people call thats crazy.
Lalalala lalalala Lalalala lalalala
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Longer Legs
04:49
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would you blame me if I told you that you fell in too deep? I think it's true that maybe you haven't gotten sleep, because if my legs were longer, even longer than before, then I would run even faster to the door.
I've felt pressure from all angles, some I didn't know existed. Solitude is in your future just without me in it. But if my eyes were larger, then maybe I could see how we fit together thru all uncertainty.
So if my arms were stronger, I'd carry you to sea, I'd throw you at the sunset, far away from me, because one day I'll destroy you, with love and confusion.
You'll thank me in the future, you're tanned from all the sun
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Confusion
05:08
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I take things day by day, but early in the morning I wake up so confused, just hoping I'm not broken.
What if I made a big mistake, but then I kept on going?
I have too much to say, but I've never been outspoken.
I want to tell the truth, please let me try.
My loves not broken its just an emotion, easily confused.
The bird is to the tree, a guest with funny powers, who comes and goes all of the time, and seems to have the answers.
Well they couldn't be alone, so they clearly found each other.
A vision never blurred, or mixed up by emotions.
I want to be the truth, please let me try.
My loves not broken it's just my love.
Just a long winded riddle without an answer.
My heart speeds like a drum off in the distance.
Maybe I just lost it, I'm confused.
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Bitter
03:41
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I lift you up
Just to see what it's like at the bottom
I grab my gun
I can tell that it's lonely.
My legs melt into nothing
What it is, I don't know
My face becomes an ocean
Thats very bitter.
I dive right in
Just to see what it's like at the bottom
I have some fun
At the expense of others.
My brain melts into something
What it is, I don't know
It's strong and pretty bitter.
I just don't know.
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Rita
02:40
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Show me where everyone is going to.
Teach me all the things you like.
Forgive me if I acted way too soon.
Help me, cause I feel like I could die.
Don't pack up your suitcase
My head is higher than the tree tops
Cause most of the time I think I need you.
Blue faced, cause I feel like I'm drowning in
Red Wine - it's all I can consume.
Mistaking everyone as my new best friend
Rita, I feel like I could die.
Don't pack up your suitcase
My head is higher than the tree tops
Cause most of the time I think I need you.
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2ndary Colors
05:10
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I think my favorite color is a type of blue, but I can't remember if someone just told me it was... but I really think I like it.
My chickee's favorite color is a dark maroon, but don't quote me on that, I may have spoke too soon... but she often wore it.
I'll try to remember anything.
I'm gonna try.
Years have been taken, is time some master robber?
I'm growing up, with a fear of getting older.
I hear no one makes it.
Green, Purple, Tangerine, so serene.
Green, Purple, Tangerine, so serene.
And if there ever exists just a ghost of me, but the world still spins, and theres nothing on the news, and you're left thinking.
All the best thoughts have been thunk before. Who would have thought that heaven could be such a bore?
I think David Byrne did.
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I can impersonate someone
Who doesn't like to think of reasons
Who stares into the sun.
Hypnotic, I can't close my eye lids
Transfixed on an idea -
"What if I'm the only one"
And I'll find, I'll find that nothing, is easier than waiting around for anyone.
And I'll find that waiting, is even worth the nothing, but not for everyone.
And I can contemplate reasons, why happiness had left us, blinded by the sun.
Forgotten, we walk along the freeway, sporting new sunglasses, not afraid of anyone.
And I've found, I've found that nothing is more difficult than waiting around for your only one.
And I've found, I've found that waiting, might be the only answer, if love is what you want.
Just like the Earth itself, we'll wait thousands of years, waiting.
Just like a world of glass, we're delicate and precious.
Just like a hundred years, we'll pass thousands of chances.
Hold me till the end of time, I'll give whats considered mine away.
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11. |
Silver Lining
05:03
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Julie says the worlds breaking in half
I try to keep it funny, I try to keep it cool.
She tells me about all the aftermath
She can see from the bottom, what hasn't fallen from the top.
Silver Lining, is it still shining?
Are we lying, or are we dying?
She puts on a look that I can't understand
Theres just something about it, I can't shake it, I'm a fool.
She's talking in a modern kind of math.
She tells me about balance, from being calm to being cruel.
Silver Lining, is it still shining?
Are we lying, or are we dying?
Cause we're killing each other, by thinking of a secondary color.
Regretting our being, but being is so deceiving.
Are we just pretending?
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Overhand Sam Rochester, New York
Known for the upside down guitar playing in Maybird (30th Century Records), Overhand Sam has been releasing music the lo- fidelity fanatics across the internet since 2015. Kink's retro-pop meets Gainsbourg jazz-ish meets Vonnegut inspired Fuzzy-Space-Krautrock. ... more
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