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Chasing Rainbows
03:51
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Chasing rainbows around the sun
Taking chances one by one
Feeling lightless/lightness around my head
Shooting stars up from an empty bed
See you’ve got the same marks as me
Fellow has-been turned refugee
Tire tracks all up and down your arm
How did we come to so much harm?
Check me in to your hotel
Fellow lost cause, I’d fit in well
Let me stay here for a while
Just until I can trust myself to smile
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2. |
Chlorine Blue
03:17
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There were times when I showed everything to you
And you did the same for me too
We could stay up all night or just lay in bed
Have fun with what was left unsaid
You may recall that night in our hotel room
What we did by the light of the pool
Hollywood never saw such a beautiful sight
There were no words for our delight
But now, we don’t go outside, we don’t laugh or sing
We don’t kiss or dance or do anything
And I want to feel your touch in the midnight air
Want to twist and turn like we just don’t care
Want to lose myself in your warm embrace
Want to wake up in the morning and see a smile on your face
I can tell you’ve stopped talking or listening to me
But that won’t change the way I see
What’s the point of staying together if we can’t be free?
What the hell are we supposed to be?
So you tell me right this second if we’ve got a shot
Cause I’m not afraid to give it all we’ve got
And I want to see your face when you come inside
Want to hear you talk with your tongue untied
Want to give you everything that you’ve dreamed of
Want to make you understand that you deserve to be loved
Want to sink myself in a flowered stream
Want to wake and think we’re still in a dream
Want to dive inside ‘til I reach the floor
Want to find myself standing on your shore
Want to paint your skin with the chlorine blue
Want to kiss your lips with the morning dew
Want to sail away by the Coral Sea
Want to float upstream with you floating right there with me
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3. |
Reciprocal
02:44
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I can’t reassemble my life until it’s stable
Putting pieces back together hoping they would fit
And I can’t take a shortcut that leads into a breakup
Hoping I could fill the void with someone else’s shit
I know you’d give so much
If I just felt your touch
Blessing me with lightning from above
But I could not reciprocate your love
I could never give you the passion that is your due
I would second-guess myself and never make a sound
And I could never ask you to be the rock I cling to
I’ve got so many stones upon me, I’d just weigh you down
I know you’d like so well
To save me from my hell
And thunder like Elijah from above
But I could not reciprocate your love
I know this may not sound good – I don’t think it ever could
But I just can’t be promising a life that I can’t give
You need someone tender to be your ward and mender
And I just need a therapist to tell me how to live
And I know I’d be so glad
To feel things that you have
I wish that I was made of stronger stuff
Am I just the reciprocal of love?
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4. |
Come Forth
03:41
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Out by Sacramento
Everything went up in flames
Then it was just nowhere
There was nothing left to name
On the shores of Varanasi
They could see the smoke rings forming
Everybody knew
That they’d heard the final warning
Time is running backwards / out now
First shall be last, last are first
Is it the end or the beginning?
And which one would be worse?
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5. |
You're Bluffing
03:04
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You’re bluffing
You’re bluffing
Without that card, you’re nothing
You know you’d never really play it
You just wanted me to hear you say it
Like that would make me do what you wanted me to
You’re stalling
Think you’re clever
Say you’ll leave me alone forever
You know you’d never really do it
You need me around to get through it
Well, I’m done playing your games
You never were that much of a player, anyway
I don’t know why I try to get through
You must have better things to do
Than use me up in your little schemes
You’d have to know by now
That they don’t amount to anything
But you’d never want to be alone
Not even in your dreams
And that’s how I know
You’re bluffing
You’re bluffing
You’re bluffing
You’re bluffing!
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6. |
Follow Me Home
03:31
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I don’t get out too much
No reason to
But I’d be lying
If I said I didn’t get lonely
And I wish someone would call
Or even look my way
I’d take anyone at all
Won’t you follow me home
When I’m walking alone on the street?
Won’t you follow me round,
Find a moment for us to meet?
If you’re feeling too shy,
You can watch me at night
While I’m sleeping, sleeping peacefully
I’ll leave my windows open
And my night light on,
Just in case you come
And maybe if I leave the house,
You could spend the day in my bed,
And feel yourself in the sheets
Stained by dreams left unsaid
Won’t you follow me home
When I’m walking alone on the street?
Won’t you follow me round,
Find a reason for us to meet?
If you’re feeling too shy,
You can watch me at night
While I’m sleeping, sleeping peacefully
Sleeping endlessly
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7. |
Stand Strong, Charles
03:38
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We must be kind
How did we fall so far behind?
We must be strong
How have we stood for so long?
We all have to go
But why should we live without hope?
We must go on
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8. |
Hans Holbein
02:57
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You hang there on the wall by the stairs
And watch as we go up and down
But each time, it takes longer to climb
And our footfalls make less and less sound
Until the day when they all fade away
Then you’ll be the only one around
I’ve seen the glow in the bronze by the bed
And hoped that it wouldn’t come today
But you bear the mark of the truth left unsaid
That even angels decay
You complicate my life
I’ll simplify what’s left
You complicate my life
I contemplate my death
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9. |
Dear Mallory
03:40
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Dear Mallory, are you still asleep?
And would you answer if I had the nerve to call?
And what would I say to you?
You should really see Japan
They've got streets and alleys stuffed with shops and restaurants
And not a single garbage can in sight
In Jimbocho you'll find every book you could read
And Tsukiji has sushi like you wouldn't believe
And I feel I could stay here forever and never get bored
But I only wish I had someone to share it with
Dear Kimberly, are you still awake?
And would you listen if I said I couldn't sleep?
And what would that mean to you?
You should be here in St. Paul
Bob and Kenzie just got married, it was magical
When the snow started falling through the chapel roof
And Maria's been asking me to see her up north
And I finally think I'm getting good with the sword
And tonight I've got tickets to see the Replacements again
But I wish I had replacements for your letters
They’re good for now but they won’t get any better
The longer you’re away
I know it's only for a time
But the distance seems much longer
With the feeling that you could be gone forever
So come on back and take me there
Anywhere with you, I don’t care
Cause I don’t know another place that I’d call home
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10. |
Lifelike
03:51
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All my loves were in one place
All standing still in cold embrace
Circled round my sunken chair
And frozen faced away from there
I stood up and opened wide
And water poured in from all sides
Fish were falling from the sky
I crossed my heart and hoped to die
And wake up smiling
All my love is unreturned
You’d really think I should have learned
Must I cave in, make new rules,
Or drown myself in public pools?
I could change and try instead
For empty bottles, unmade beds
But for now I should be fine
If someone’s lived a life like mine
We’ll meet up someday
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11. |
Nice Going
04:41
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Nice going
You know you really blew it this time
Nice going
You know the pleasure hasn’t been mine
Nice knowing you
Who knows if you’ll be happy someday?
Nice knowing you
But I could never make you feel that way
You just take and take and take
Never own up to your mistakes
Then you make me catch your blows
How I stayed here, I don’t know
Oh no
If that’s the company you want
Go find another house to haunt
And if you need that to feel complete
Then it won’t matter who you meet
Though I’d like to meet the one
Who had dared to call you “son,”
And tell them “Look at what you did,
He was only just a kid,”
I won’t
Is it your fault that you can’t heal?
Or did you think you couldn’t feel,
And everyone was just like you?
It’s not my fault if you still do
And even now, I can’t be mad
But I don’t miss the love we had
So don’t be disappointed if I don’t seem so sad
Nice going
You know it’s never too late to try
Nice going
Before you let all the years go by
Nice knowing you
Who knows if I’ll ever talk to you again?
Nice knowing you
I hope I can say I’m proud of you then
Nice going
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Cancer and Capricorn California
We're an indie rock project from San Francisco. Our biggest inspirations are 60s and 70s bands, though we try not to shut
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Our fifth album, ORDINARY TIME, is now out! Feel free to listen to it here or on Spotify.
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