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Counting the Minutes
02:28
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seeing my love wield such a heavy club
and i'm alive again, high again
i'm counting the minutes til we all are finished
with our lives again, by my friend
i'm high again
high again..
seeing my dreams working heavy machines
and it's not right again to be high again
i'm taking my cues from places i've been to
and its alright again, hi again
i'm high again
high again..
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By the Lake
02:42
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back home in the West
i had tried my best
keeping it together a little better than before
we moved on from there
with a sudden stare
i barely even remember the pain
and even if those dreams were real
they'd drift away in a minute
and even if my life was forfeit
i'd forget
sitting by the lake
this must be the place
remember when you wrapped your arms and legs around my waist?
you cried through your sweater
but now you're doing better
you barely even remember my name
and even if those dreams were real
they'd drift away in a minute
and even if it all was for not
you forgot
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January Again
04:49
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well i was walking by the turbines
by the time i made the sunrise
it was setting in another part of town
and then i missed out
it aint easy teasing me with the question
of how we all got here..
and all my dreams were disconnected
every frame completely separate
when i try to tell you now i know it makes no sense
no it aint easy seizing these little chances
when everything seems clear
January, hello again
you seem just like my distant friends
i saw you last year
one time so cold
another sign i'm getting old
and all my friends were sitting talking
all their phones were all turned off
all telling stories 'bout the old days
when our eyes were beaming gold rays
it aint easy pleasing me with the idea
that we're now spread so thin
but then i woke up in a train yard
with the windows glowing yellow
on the cold wet dirty pavement
my knees and hands were shaking
cause it aint easy being these other people
that we see out on the street
January right behind me
it seems just like my past lives dreams
i see them still, on silver screens
the greatest films i've ever seen
dream on your own time
thats fine
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Passenger in Me
03:02
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nothing's wrong
somethings right under the surface
walking out on the night
just like i'm lurking
feel the love, feel the light
i guess it's working
tell me whats on your mind
if you've been hurting
tell me whats going on
what you been thinking?
do you feel
that your heart is slowly sinking?
cast a line out to sea
then sink those hooks in
you were smiling at me
i caught you looking
at my reflection
just a bit of introspection
for that classic passive passenger in me
doing laps 'round the moon
to pass the night by
everyone that you love
gone waving bye-bye
things you cannot control
man it's not worth it
letting them spill your blood
there's just no purpose
for this to linger
just a second more
between us there's an obstacle impossible for me
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Fullerton (ft. You Folk)
04:38
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all on board
(we got a story going somewhere..)
we don't give a damn
(cause thats's just how we do it here)
what would you say?
yeah, what would i say?
glance to the left
and then to the right
before you make up your mind
would it really be so bad?
would it really be so bad?
i've got a pocket of gold
and more where it came from
but nobody to share it with
i've got a pocket of gold
but nobody's around
or down
ohh..
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the darkest mind
the greyest sky i've ever seen
no sun today
not much to say about anything
the gravel scrapes
the raindrops taste like memories
my bones they creak
the floorboards squeak out melodies
this golden age of dreaming is almost done
and i've known it all along
it was on the wall..
the sound of wind
meandering through cracks in glass
the windows cry
for someone's eyes to cast a glance
this golden age of dreaming is almost done
and i've known it all along
those secret songs
they'll all be forgot
they'll all be forgot
but since i talked to you
you showed me theres another view
and i realize its not my time
i hide a knife behind these eyes..
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it's alright if you can't take time
time moves steady, it'll be there tomorrow
time is a shapeshifter in my mind
i've taken more than I should borrow right now
running my fingers through your long black hair
time is a ghost in moments when you are around
but i know it'll come right back
ignoring it is the only way to kill it
but then
it rears its head
it was only hiding
it isn't dead
its never dying
washed up to shore like the long lost tide
the wind carries me like a babe to your doorstep
thank the great sprit in the sky that i
didn't take time to ask where i was going
and then
you show your face
you were only hiding
i missed this taste
you were so inviting
you need some space
to find some light
inside a place
where time is dying
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Those Wedding Bells
06:34
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little words spoken quietly
never stand test of time
little things you do silently
resting easy on my mind..
little boy, you think you're a man
well, have you carried the weight?
of the one who loves you everyday
through the darkness and the rain
she believed that you..
said you always stay
if you never meant it
then why did you say?
little boy, learn from your father now
bring home bread, learn from mistakes
little child, look at your mother now
see the light gone from her face
she believed that you..
said you always stay
if you never meant it
then why did you say?
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Terminal # 2
04:26
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Others
03:01
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some have come from distant places
forced away from their homeland
looking for a brighter future
asked for nothing but a new home
some have lived a life a torment
cast aside form those the loved
felt no shelter, no sign of comfort
left to wander this Earth alone
some have felt the sunlight shining
all their life been free from pain
but they feel their grand ship sinking
round the corner they know what waits
some have done great wrong to others
so unable to give love
lost and angry they go on screaming
til their time on earth is up
all these others they are my brothers
no matter where on earth they're from
they deserve seats at the table
we're a family and we are one
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Nature's Neighbor Kyoto, Japan
Nature's Neighbor is the project of song-writer Mike Walker and his friends.
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