1. |
Red Cardigan
03:20
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From atop your high horse you were taken for a ride
Couldn't quite choke down your wounded pride
From atop the mountain the sky echoed with the call
The highest climb proceeds the longest fall
From the safety of numbers
You were leader of the pack
The first to jump the cliff, the last to laugh
You brushed the dust off, cleaned the dirt out of your wounds
Determined that something would give out soon
[CHORUS]
You lost your head
Standing there with arms extended
You broke my heart again
You and your red cardigan
Left to our own devices, and finding that ok
Turns out my only vice is, never really knowing what to say
The price was right
The moment wrong
Existing in a place we don't belong
Present company excepted
Presently we share this broken ice
Yearning to be accepted
Rejection cuts you like a knife
Cast out alone and wretched
Betcha didn't know that there'd be days that felt like you were shrinking
Left along and quickly sinking
No. Ex. Cuse. Es.
It was not meant to be
That. Night. Produces.
Such pain inside of me
Nooooooo quarter asked
No mercy given
Slowwwwwww poison coats
The pill that we've been given
You're wicked bargain
You drive a hard 'one
Can't wait to start again
You and your cardigan
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2. |
Rosalie Louise
02:28
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Rosalie Lousie
I'm begging' darlin please
Won't you sleep another hour
'Cause it's using all my powers
Just to stay
Awake throughout the day
I'm falling to my knees
And won't you hear my pleas
But when I wake up in the morning
And I see the light reflected in your eyes /
There are never cloudy skies
You're my main-est squeeze
Rosalie Louise
Rosalie Louise
I'd sail the seven seas
To make your world a little brighter
Or your heart a little lighter
But they say
Rome wasn't built in just one day
And now time is on your side
You can take it all in stride
BRIDGE
Slowwwwly
You melt away the ice around my heart
Every time you smile I feel it more
Playing on the floor
Laughing
Rosalie Louise
The bees-iest of knees
You grow with each endeavor
More courageous, quick and clever
As you climb
A little higher every time
Your smile warms my heart
So funny, cool and smart
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3. |
Definitive Emotion
03:14
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You're making plans for our whole future
And I'm just trying to make it through the day
Making eyes at you across the breakfast table
I wouldn't have it any other way
[PRE-CHORUS]
And if fate finds us here tomorrow
Along this string of endless days
Or in search of some definitive emotion
Well I will love you anyway
[CHORUS]
Weighing in
On the state the heart is in
That the spark that burns within us never fades
And there's no doubt
There's much left to figure out
In the art of stringing lifetimes out of days
....And time keeps pulling us away
Counting stars, as we stroll between the bars
The night slides in between us as we sway
'Neath the moon, as the love within us blooms (swoons?)
And the earth rises to meet us as we stray
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
Dream big
Dream big
Let heavy lids protect your heavy heart
Stay strong
Stay strong
Know that we belonged here from the start
Let us be content but never satisfied
Let us be at ease and not constrained
Let us never put our hearts to pasture
And let the love we share be unrestrained
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4. |
Little Whispers
02:37
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Little whispers caught in the crossfire
Little kisses nobody knows
LIttle shivers coming through the window
Little slivers, catching in your clothes
Finding out
What the rumors are about
And little whispers soon will rule the day
Little footsteps left in the snow fall
Little daydreams clawing at at the stones
Sparks flying out from fraying wires
Praying softly nobody home
Finding out
What the rumors are about
And little whispers soon will rule the day
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5. |
Writing on the Wall
06:23
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Well this town don't owe you anything
No favors owed or lips to seal
And you can't recognize the places that you came from
And time’s a kiss you cannot steal
The kicks all came and went so easily
The vacant feeling lingers still
And if you belonged anywhere at all
You chose to fall
Between the faded pages never filled
Does it feel too easy
To feel nothing at all
Do you feel it all just slipping through your fingers
Do you feel it turn to salt
And the shadows grow long
You find yourself alone
Amid your creations
And the silence stretches on
And you find you must atone
For your hesitation
Burn my name into the pavement
Scratch this message in the walls
We who lived here once have nothing left to give you
But suffer every dream that never was
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6. |
Strange Motions
06:48
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Strange motions we must recognize
Eclipsed beneath the terrible skies
Exiles of the sun
Stranger landscapes we must occupy
Storm clouds now are scattering
Fleeing from the sky
To terrorize us all
[CHORUS1]
They colonize the reaches
They penetrate the void (evervoid?)
To consecrate the flame
And they were one of us
They held our hands
As we were dying
Stretched upon the sand
VERSE 2
Monarchs of the reach will punish us
For Savage Queens, celestial dust
To dance before the stars
Strange motions we must recognize
Dance before expressionless eyes
Establishing the code
And telegraph the fall
[CHORUS2]
And in the engines of the world
We are free
Free to share our love
Though it is terrible
Our crime is part of us now
Hailing on the frequencies
We gain the in between
We fought as one of them
In this place of wretched glory
Time in front of us, the time we gleaned from them
[GAP???]
Though the ages pass us by
We will keep them
[BRIDGE]
When in our final thoughts
We choose to castigate the true deceivers
We walked the path no lying man
Could pass to clear the true believers
The fury
The fire
The reunion of the flame
The purifying blast
The triumph consecrating every shame
Hold on now
Hold on now
The self disintegrates within each frame
Hold on now
Hold on to ??
[VERSE]
Empty stares that we must penetrate
Elevate the Prodigal dare
And consummate the line
Fortune pairs us with better man
Planned for each his every plan
Withered on the vine
To occupy the now
[CHORUS3 (like CHORUS1 but with extra)]
We colonize the reaches
We penetrate the void (evervoid?)
We consecrate the flame
The fought as one of us
They held our hands
High upon the mountain tops
We made our final stand
We came as one of them
To this place of wretched glory
Time in front of us, and sorrow falls behind
Our tale is terrible
And the path we walk is endless
We are tireless
Yet tiring of the now
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