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1.
home 06:30
lions guard the gates to this town I know where you are but you won't come around. and high above the marble and the concrete wall someone yells, "that's the end of us all." did I hear you're coming down? swear all this off to me with your right hand, lady and I'll help you find your way back home kiss me once for love and let me go if it's to be the last one, better make it slow I've paced this floor a thousand times and know it's not the same - I couldn't call your name swear all this off to me with your right hand, lady and I'll help you find your way back home come back down, come back home.
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juliet 05:24
when morning came, it found me waiting there beneath a summer sky. I'm just another ring you wrap around your finger - another fool who learned to shine. Juliet, when you let me in we were standing on the edge of the world we're lying here and barely sleeping falling in and out of line slowly turn to taste the air that you were breathing come on baby - let me know that you're still mine Juliet, when you let me in we were standing on the edge of the world and it's me that you're dreaming of forever asleep like the angels above and I'm calling out for you, crawling after you Juliet, when you let me in we were standing on the edge of the world
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you and i 03:37
4.
she said, "you should keep the photographs - we're frozen in time." while the ones that you keep in your heart melt away. scattering the cigarette ashes that cling to the sheets with the best day that chelsea hotel room had ever seen and I hold you a space inside I never name just to watch you recite the same lines that I cannot change. like the air hanging low in the night with a beautiful star. and your ghost comes around when I'm knocked down and begging for sleep. apparitioness, cold like the ocean, and her blade is deep. like some strange silhouette from the street light laid down beside me. lets just take away all of this bullshit - and leave me with something that I wanna keep. in your changing direction I'm caught in trap that I set for myself and kept on a shelf. I'm not anyone else and I own my mistakes but your hurt doesn't show whenever you go and I hope someday it will come back around. maybe you won't. like the air hanging low in the night for a beautiful star.
5.
she talks in her sleep laughing out loud with faces that I don't ever meet. we waited so long all through this life, and lives that are gone for a feeling I never knew. rivers flow into the sea, let's be what they'll be - a december beach will wait there for me. Scarlett just sleep - come back to meet me in a dream I know you will see what you mean to me Scarlett just sleep, it's only a dream. come back to me. what I said was wrong it hit too close to home and sounded like she just to reach out and hurt you like me. how long will you run from the only one that's being torn up by this New York summer sun? rivers flowing to the sea, let's be what they'll be - a december beach will wait there for me. Scarlett just sleep - come back to meet me in a dream I promise you will see what you mean to me Scarlett just sleep, it's only a dream. come back to me.
6.
outerspace 05:12
I sit and stare above me to outerspace and wonder how long it will take before you are receiving you say when it comes together you leave this place lead me up to your room - get me tangled up with you say it out loud now, turn me inside out say it out loud now, where have you been my love I'm too tired to pretend and lost it saving face well no one ever wins we're just left to fill the empty space take me up all of the way. I love you like the moon that holds the sea, the waves that fold and hold you deep in the night, in the night you see me now. I see you then. take me up al of the way.
7.
jezebel 05:38
yeah, your tongue does sting. such a fragile thing that buries the best part of me. with your crimson hair and your green eyed stare we come together and come apart - just take me there and let me love you. now you're never named, throwing off my shame throwing all your love away like it's just another page, that you toss away throwing all your love away it's just another lost soul that falls for you. word games and hide and seek. and you catch and release me - but your nails remember my skin. so you kick me around to feel better about yourself. well cut off my head now, Jezebel.
8.
powderkeg 03:53
I walk in circles like I'm caught in a wheel no sense of purpose other than my need to feel your skin on my skin under the weight I'm caving in. powderkeg and a burning flame I'm chasing the wind in a hurricane waiting for you to light an end making the same mistakes again my head is spinning all of these thoughts into a web of reconsidered passion feeding a flame that should be dead powderkeg and a burning flame I'm chasing the wind in a hurricane waiting for you to light an end making the same mistakes again I don't want you coming here when you feel like your missing it you walked away from the best thing you had and I hope that you're feeling it when I burn you in her bed powderkeg and a burning flame I'm chasing the wind in a hurricane waiting for you to light an end making the same mistakes again
9.
we walked along an autumn river green pausing once before a golden tree I couldn't separate the real and dream and lost you there among the falling leaves there I was alone, my mind was overthrown and made to rest upon a silver stone you're the feel in the night make it real and we'll burn out right you're the feel in the night make it real and we'll burn out bright you're the ghost and I'm the scream - you'll be puppet, I'll be string we're ashes on the air - sunlight on an ever changing sea I climbed upon the hill to feel the breeze and thought to try a hand at make believe the fire in the field will meet the sea, erasing all the space that's in between you're the feel in the night make it real and we'll burn out bright you're the feel in the night make it real and we'll burn out right make it real.

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released February 15, 2011

Recorded entirely to 1/2 inch tape and mixed by Ricky Valente

All instruments - Ricky Valente

Written by Ricky Valente

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