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Lemon Squeezy
04:34
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You've had time to settle down
they say it's peaceful when you drown
You're alive you're in deep, let it sink
Latest night, mysteries and terrifying clarity
making plans with shaking hands
and palms to read
Forever paralyzed and caught between
nothing really matters and you care about everything
There's a thousand tricks to numb the sting
but it's never easy lemon squeezy
You were young you were scared
you're forgiven you're repaired
breathe in hope breathe out fear breathe again
cause we're alive and we're in deep
the love you give is yours, to keep
so take the world my clear eyed girl
and get back to me
all the elemental melodies and colors still remain
and the tears will turn to water turned to rain
Forever paralyzed and caught between
nothing really matters you're in love with everything
and I've tried every trick to numb the sting
but it's never easy, so enjoy it while it's easy
lemon squeezy
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2. |
Kids Go Crazy
02:51
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I like the wake and bakey lazy days
I like the trees that make the sunshine shady
I like the records that the record player plays
I like the way she never calls me baby
I like the feeling when the lights come out
and the sun goes down and the kids go crazy
I like the summer when it spins around
yeah
I like to slip into the salty sea
I like to sing and have the sound surround me
A kind of temperamental ecstasy
I like to tell you I'm so glad you found me
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3. |
Fond du Lac
04:51
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If I'm in the way, I'll go, you stay
You like the silence anyway
and you're best at games that don't take two to play
I'd run back through the fire but there's nothing left to save
but I'll miss the way you roll your eyes and sigh
and playin Pacman at the laundromat when we're high
I see you swimming in the deep of July
It's been a long goodbye, but I keep on waking
from fever dreams shaking
If I don't get out now I know, I'll never go
and you've never been one to laugh when it's not funny
and you'll never leave Fond du lac
I knew in 7th grade, your bed was made
and it didn't matter where you laid
we were bred in captivity and that's just where you stayed
and I always knew I'd rather burn than fade
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4. |
Colorado
04:40
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Before you settle in, it's time to move on
You shed your brittle skin, exhale and your gone
I know it
Your cartoon colored eyes, are taking it it
it goes in slow motion until you're nearing the end
I know it, I know
I know I'm like the silver stars that shine on Colorado
I'm alone, I know it
This plastic colored mask, I'm peeling it off
these jokers ain't joking and the roads all lead into Rome
I know it
You think you'll arrive at a place in your life
where the answers alight but they won't
The floodgates are open and the lights aren't leading you home
I know I'm like the silver stars that shine on Colorado
I'm thankful for my tiny life and the time I got to borrow'
Hi di ho
I know I'm like the silver stars that shine on Colorado
I'm thankful for my tiny life ant the time I got to borrow
I'm shaken wide awake at night by wasted time and endless skies
I'm thankful for my tiny life and every minute of it
and all ot the time I got to borrow Hi di ho
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5. |
Pretend I'm Me
04:07
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What is and what's not my fault
paper cuts and pass the salt
exonerated by default, as the only witness called
the state will rest it's case again
as another jury's ushered in
everybody on it a friend, who knows exactly where I've been
maybe I could learn the talk, and even walk the walk
but they're never gonna let me in
cause I've spent half my life asleep
wondering what the dreamers think of me
I click my ruby heels and count to three
and I pretend I'm me
Looking at the list of sins
and staring matches I'm still in
my disguises thick and thin
and this one I'm living in
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6. |
Heavy Arms
04:24
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You can do what you wanna do, make believe that it's up to you
seize the day, like they told you to, have the time of you life
You can say what you wanna say, no one ever listens anyway
watch it shine watch it fade away, hear the noise turning white
I've had enough, you can keep my stuff
the bittersweet release of giving up
washes over me and over til I rise above
Heavy arms, heavy legs, heavy heart, heavy head
let it go, set it free, get myself, out of me
You can be who you wanna be, steal your own identity
be the cure be the remedy, live the life that you like
You can love who you wanna love, do the thing that you're frightened of
you will find there is just enough, dark to show us the light
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7. |
Moon Like Me
04:09
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I was a kid who couldn't sleep through the night
my mind would race there in the absence of light
and there was a lot I couldn't see at the time
with my eyes wide open, half crazy half blind
so I keep a lonesome company
staring at the moon like me
static, electric with a face to the sky
hopeless romantic til the day I die
there is a man I'll never be that's alright
got my mind wide open. half crazy half blind
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Brothers
04:25
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when people used to ask if we were brothers that
would make me feel so nice
it was you and I and a cool white lie
and so I came to be fluent in dishonesty
and learned the words they like
and hit my every cue, as if it all was true
it was like everybody had read the book before
or took a class that I never took on how to act
and what to say, and rules I learned to disobey
me with no self control, you like a general
I've watched you all these years
standing true and strong
I knew it all along
I don't think I should run in your race
I don't belong and I'll be taking it slow
but brother your my chosen family
you lift me up and let me be
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9. |
I'm Surrounded
04:26
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There's a pretty good chance you'll be changing your plans
if you never learn to love yourself then no one can
take this hard, take it easy on me
I'm surrounded
I'm trying to make the most of all these days
and you know you've been blessed with the light in your chest
no more keeping it a secret honey just confess
there's a hero in every tragedy,
there's a battle ahead
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10. |
Lovely When It Shined
03:48
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this was only a case of fools gold
brought to life by the light of the moon
and the sodium light shone through on what I never knew
and you wouldn't do
but this was all I ever wanted when you gave it to me
it's going by me very quickly, still I don't mind
some time
You were playing the role they gave you
be a good girl light up the room
and the time and the tide shone through on
what happened to you, the darkness was truth
it was all I ever wanted when you gave it to me
now my tongue won't speak and my eyes won't see
all I ever wanted when you gave it to me
it's going by me very quickly
still I don't mind
you were living in the future I was falling back through time
but I loved to watch it shine
it was lovely when it shined
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11. |
Pink Polo
04:55
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I had a crush in seventh grade in my French class
at the dance and Journey played in the light blue light
she shined on a west coast night she shines
and the first high is the last high
they oughta make a drug and call it this feeling
pink polo
and the wind felt warm and cool
and her heart beat through
I could feel me coming true
on a west coast tide she shines
in the best of times she shines
and the first high is the last high
they oughta make a drug and call it this feeling
pink polo
like a dream it fades away
like the leaves that burn on a cool September day
oh the way she smiled
so kind and those light blue eyes still shine
and she's still there in the soft air
and the first high is the last high
make a drug call it this feeling
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Jeffrey Walter Barnes Atlanta, Georgia
Jeffrey Walter Barnes is an Atlanta singer songwriter. Though mostly retired from gigs and recording he has recently discovered the joys of the home studio and will probably release 17 albums in the next 3 years.
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