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Sending arrows straight
Balance targets on my head
Solitary space
For you I would change
To ride the worlds beside you
Here in all my time
Bearing on my shoulders
Carry you tonight
How could I explain...
When explanations die
In all that I have been
There is more inside
I stood alone there waiting
I saw your tail lights fade
Burn out like the stars
But here I remain
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Hourglass
03:32
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When I was seventeen I got the call that my father had died
Then I went to my bedroom and cried on the floor beside the TV
And I thought and I thought about when I was a kid
Then I thought about what my father did and what he didn't do
As I sunk like a stone in that hum
I was raised by my grandma you know... It was weird sometimes
She had a hard life with my mom (she's a published writer you know...)
Had a book of poetry that she wrote
When I was young I heard about it
Now my sister she's sick with her pills and anxiety shit
My mom passed down to her kids
When I was young I laughed about it
Now I see through this curse placed upon my family
and the truth about a matter of time (We don't talk)
I'm thirty-three and lost
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Your Love
03:45
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Smoke escapes your birthday cake
A candle blown and a wish you made
Someone should tell you it won't come true
When you have a selfish heart
Halloween when we were kids
Playing in the woods, covering my lips when breath escaped your mouth
We're strangers now and all that faded away
All that faded away
December left dust on frosty leaves
To cover my world just like a dream
December left dust on frosty leaves
White covered your eyes just like a veil
Dangling lights, no wedding bells
You loved that dress like I hate myself
My little dove that flew away to soon
You told them lies when we were kids
we shuffled through the leaves and all them days
Someone should tell you... It's sad but true
All that faded away
December left dust on frosty leaves
To cover my world just like a dream
December left dust on frosty leaves
White covered your eyes just like a veil
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Dear,
I'm a puppet a marionette dancing for you
Pull on the strands of my heart strings
Watch me move around
Where we waltzed through the infinite sounds, where we held on
Did you breathe at all?
Dear,
Did we drown in the dark last night?
Tell me no lies
Did we fall through the cracks of sky
into the light...
Did I watch you illuminate with these eyes?
Did you see it all...
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Alone
03:00
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The pearly, pearly gates
where there ain't no hope for me
the Lord cast me down into the fiery lake
through the Pentecostal flames in the sky behold my name
the words written in the smoke from effigies
Burn
Near the Devil's woods I played
where them voices called my name
snakes slithered in the grass beneath my feet
by the riverside I wait for the holy man to leave
ain't no water's gonna wash away my sins
Burn
I lay down with my demons now
from wince they came
I always give out
I lay down with my demons now
and I'm afraid
I always give out
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Open
02:48
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Open (the poem)
the things you find
when you leave the windows open
a moth that chose to spread its wings
to die
i didn't know how to touch it
still convinced it was about
to go somewhere
i forget there are so many ways in
to where i live
the air doesn't seem to move
in the daytime
but like ghosts
i can trust the leaves and moths
to find all of the
shimmering portals.
- anna-lynne williams
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There's an old painting of Jesus on the wall and a tapestry that hangs by a cross
that weighs heavy on my shoulders now and then
I get caught up with (why the things we love they never last)
You can calculate the changes that in time
it just doesn't add up
when the world won't wait we just leave it behind
when life goes by too fast
There's a picture of my daughter on her shelf and a porcelain doll that sings to herself
a song I've heard her sing a thousand times
a million memories ago (I hope you're happy now)
You can calculate the changes that in time
it just doesn't add up
when the world won't wait we just leave it behind
when life goes by too fast
You can calculate the changes that in time
it just doesn't add up
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Patterns
02:44
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Once you stood beneath a noisy light
Now it's quiet
And the silence gets to you sometimes
It was summer in the yard
Catching lightning bugs in jars
And the reflection of them in your daughters eyes
You were saving up to leave
All the factory lines and magnolia trees
It was morning in your eyes when you said goodnight
To the colors and the contrast of the sheets
Once we stood beneath that lonely pine
And talked about things
It was January beneath an evening sky
It was Winter in your eyes
And a reflection of the night
How the stars did circle around you like a dream
You were saving up to leave
To trade a pattern for an all new imagery
It was something in your eyes when you said goodbye
To the colors and the contrast in your life
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Fall's burning those embers
drifting off
you ain't but a fire on my lazy day
Through the wildwood and brambles to a city of ghosts
down where nobody lives anymore
this old house is in shambles, it'll rattle your bones
when it won't, it won't matter no more
November's warm glow
kerosene
shivers through my shadow in my dreams
Through the window that shattered when glass turned to laughter
where nobody hears anymore
there the old ghosts wreak havoc, it'll rattle your bones
when it won't, it won't matter no more
It won't matter no more
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Jeremy Squires New Bern, North Carolina
"New Bern, North Carolina native Jeremy Squires is a singer-songwriter best known for his haunting melodies and evocative lyrics."
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