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The Other Way
02:00
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So I answered, “Nothing could be further from the truth.
When you told me you had evidently gathered proof
So I’ll shoulder all the blame. You blame me anyway.
As we punctuate the words we know we shouldn’t say.
We agreed to disagree on every single thing.
And we promised to remain in touch without a single ring.
So we’ll wade in the deep end while we can’t depend.
On the history that we erase and can’t defend.
So I thought I saw you walking just the other day
You were not alone, so I just looked the other way.
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Embrace The Day
02:49
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Wash off the night, embrace the day
Remember black and white make many shades of gray
You bargained for a show, you just may get a play
Accept the past, except today
Play past what you can’t change
And watch it float away
It isn’t set in stone, but it may be here to stay
Collect your memories. Memories.
Ignore the errand thoughts
In all their ways
You won’t believe how fast it all decays
Will you stand taller on top of feet of clay?
Embrace the day…
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Melinda
02:28
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You think that he’s adorable. You’re close.
He’s deplorable. Take your blinders off. Melinda
He’s not the dreamboat that he seems.
Shipwreck, just consider why he’s playing for both teams. Melinda
You’re lining up to be a feather in his cap.
Just one more broken girl played for one more sap. Melinda
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Belladonna Road
03:19
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Every other day, someone passes by
Breaking the illusion…everyone has died.
The yard is filled with broken glass and wild grass
I wish it knew…it doesn’t need to grow
I’m outside, sitting very still
I’m watching everything until…the sun retires on Belladonna Road
The lonely house across the street…a dull veneer
of ugly army green…nothing to see here
The maple leaves are shedding fast…there goes the last
The heartwood’s stripped away…it’s seen its day.
I’m outside, sitting very still
I’m watching everything until…the sun retires on Belladonna Road
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy just to be
Away from everything that asks too much of me.
Before another thought can come along
I need just one more chorus in the song
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The knife you’re searching for is lodged between my blades
It has your fingerprints but still you ask me why I’m so afraid
Nobody loves you like, loves you like your friends
I let you in, you froze me out, you crossed a line
And now you serve a cup of nerve with fake concern and ask if I am fine
Nobody loves you like, loves you like your friends
The cost of lost emotion never gets reduced
But all good memories should end in what we hope is a truce
Acid just consumes whoever begs to own its hate
The toxic road we’re traveling is lined with words you chose to marinate
Nobody loves you like, loves you like your friends
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ForGiveness
02:53
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Fragments of my life remain in disrepair.
There are moments I’m not sure I’m anywhere
Waiting to inspire me
Before they can retire me
ForGiveness ForGiveness
For a start, it seemed the well was well and dry.
Wish there was a book on how I could get by
Visions blur behind my eyes
Every day’s a compromise.
ForGiveness ForGiveness
You wanna peek behind the curtain
Some things are better left uncertain
Sometimes it’s better not to see what will be.
Thinking ‘bout the words you said,
While staring at an empty bed
ForGiveness ForGiveness
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Happy Isn't On The Menu
02:02
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If Will is right and the world’s a play, don’t you play it safe.
Reading someone else’s lines at center stage.
Knowing everything at such a tender age
Doesn’t leave much mystery for when you turn the page.
Happy isn’t on the menu
Time to choose another venue…and then you
If life’s a joke what’s the punch line?
And who’ll be left to laugh.
Are we tourists reading maps along the path?
Two unequal sides of someone else’s coin
Just another club that they won’t let you join.
Happy isn’t on the menu
Time to choose another venue…and then you
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He’s married to the dials on his pedalboard
He yields his power as he swings his angry sword
While kids in dirty Converse lean on the wall looking bored.
The sound man sets the volume as my head explodes
The drummer plays a rhythm that I can’t decode
The song is long forgotten lost in a world of its own
Between song banter doesn’t do a thing for me
The bassist checks his tuning oh, so carefully
They make a sound I can’t believe was intended to be
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Never My Love
02:51
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10. |
Stars Unseen
02:27
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Once I played in a broken-down arcade
Now I dream of a somewhat future scene
I want to build a new machine
Extend my view for stars unseen
Found my muse through a hazy maze of blues
Made my way through an ocean of decay
I want to build a new machine
Extend my view for stars unseen
Translucent rooms through younger eyes
Laughs at the insanity of compromise
Once I played under trees of broken shade
And I dreamed of circling the stars unseen
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Cherry Fez Abington Township, Pennsylvania
Cherry Fez is Todd Shuster, formerly of The Impossible Years.
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