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I quit believin’ in all these crooked feelings
Other people’s demons that lie through a smile
I quit believin’ there’s one good solid reason why it’s considered treason
If I won’t fight the war
I quit for love
I quit for love
I quit believin’ that everyone’s deceiving
If someone’s out to get me just come and get me now
I quit deciding there’s ever truth in hiding
Yeah I quit denying all I am anyhow
I quit for love
I quit for love
I quit for love
Ain’t no looking back
I quit believing it’s noble to be shrinking
Or noble to be thinking you’ll keep it to yourself
I quit resisting the calling of the mystics
There’s something in here missing
Dying to come out
I quit for love
I quit for love
I quit for love
I’m gonna be alright
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Rewind
03:43
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Remember in the morning
when you'd reach out and pull me to you, oh to you
Every touch felt like you meant it
Every moment was electric with you, oh with you
We can't rewind, falling through time
Every day we get further away
From the life that we knew at the start
Sooner or later we must take a chance
And I'm willing to take it if you are
When it's quiet in the evening
And I wonder if you're thinking of me
What do you see
No, it's not like the beginning
In this life we're not pretending but we
Have just what we need
We can't rewind, falling through time
Every day we get further away
From the life that we knew at the start
Sooner or later we must take a chance
And I'm willing to take it if you are
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Another devastation, chaos in the street
Wish it was a nightmare, but I am not asleep
Scattered on the pavement, innocence again
Promise of a future, coming to an end
Did it mean anything, anything at all
How do we recover, recover, recover
Hiding in the silence of sanctuary stone
Or looking for an answer
In the safety of our home
No one is exempt, can we go back to the start
What are we afraid of losing, we’ve already fallen apart
Doesn’t that mean anything, anything at all
How do we recover, recover, recover
History stuck on repeat
Loss that begs for us to grieve
Can’t be frozen in disbelief
How do we recover, recover, recover
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Cruel Expectations
03:18
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I waited around, with my hands in my pockets
Shuffling boots on the pavement
And you, big man in town
They said you were hot-headed
But I see you're just a big kid
Time after time, you said lightning might strike
When it's only rain
Can't undo the things you have done
Such a fool to fall for the tale you spun
Cruel expectations
Now the curtain comes down
It's just me in the shadows
All the bright lights have burned out
Time after time, I said all the right lines
To play the game
Can't undo the things you have done
Such a fool to fall for the tale you spun
Cruel expectations
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When I see you in the morning
and you're dragging out of bed
the way you're looking at me
I flash back in my head
Way back in the beginning
Had no idea I was alone
I didn't know I was divided
Or that I hadn't found my home
They'll say the moment when I found you
I found the other half of me
That we were never really strangers
When they write our biography
In the early pages
They'll tel the story well
I'll see you in the cafe
and introduce myself
They'll say the moment when I found you
I found the other half of me
That we were never really strangers
When they write our biography
And woven through the chapters
Will be the thread as it unwinds
That we will hold to through the darkness
Leaving our loneliness behind
So come back in here beside me
Another day is done
Dream of all our favorite memories
And stories still to come
They'll say the moment when I found you
I found the other half of me
That we were never really strangers
When they write our biography
That we were never really strangers
When they write our biography
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6. |
Look At Me
04:11
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A million distractions
What was that you said
I’m dancing alone here
I'm standing on my head
Look at me
Look at me
Am I talking to myself
Pay attention to what I’m selling you
You don’t want nothing else
I wanna impress ya
I wanna make you proud
But the message must be hazy
Cause you can’t make it out
Look at me
Look at me
Am I talking to myself
Pay attention to what I’m doing here
I don’t want nothing else
There’s nothing like you
Nothing I can see
And there’s no one who loves you
Half as much as me
Look at me
Look at me
Am I talking to myself
Pay attention to what I’m telling you
I don’t want nothing else
Look at me
Look at me
Am I talking to myself
Pay attention to what I’m saying here
I don’t want nothing else
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7. |
Ol' Will
03:57
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Off the Pacific Coast Highway
Where the sea meets the skyway
you can find him there
Down a sandy little road
In a blue mobile home
with a hammock in the yard
What are you doing today, Will
Oh, just more of the same
Oh Will, you know he'll
Be up in the mountains near Topanga Canyon
Got his tools and his dog but he's lost his companion
Will he or won't he find a fine lady
Got an aching space to fill
The lonely summer of ol' Will
So he'll pack up his tools
Take a seat on the stoop
of the house he made for them
And the sun slowly sets
And the record spins
Playing After the Gold Rush again
What are you doing tonight, Will
Oh, I don't know I just might
Oh Will, you know he'll
Be up in the mountains near Topanga Canyon
Got his board and his bike but he's lost his companion
Will he or won't he find a fine lady
Got an aching space to fill
The lonely summer of ol' Will
Oh, listen to the sea
When you're hurting she'll sing you to sleep
A new day brings a new start
So take heart
Oh Will, you know he'll
Be up in the mountains near Topanga Canyon
Got his tools and his dog but he's lost his companion
Will he or won't he find a fine lady
You know he always will
The lonely summer of ol' Will, the lonely summer of ol' Will
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Wisteria
03:39
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Wisteria, showing off it's new perfume
Climbing up the window ledge into your room
In your dream, you're lying in your old backyard
Searching for another world, somewhere in the stars
Ooooh
Someone calls, switched on the back porch light
Grab your jar of fireflies and go back inside
The house is warm, everybody says goodnight
Settle down into your bed and close your eyes
Ooooh
In your dream, looking back on everything
Swaying with your oldest friend on the front porch swing
It's quiet now, you've said all that there is to say
Just breathe in the evening air and drift away
Ooooh
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Over Their Bones
04:49
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The land was forgotten like a whisper in the wind
Swallowed by ivy, by the creepers and weeds
Where headstones have crumbled under blankets of moss
Names forsakes and lost
They came here as farmers, masons and maids
Worked through the seasons in the sweat and the rain
But the fruits of their labor were never their own
All for another man's home
Over their bones, over their bones
Long passed over like a river stone
Over their bones, willows weep, a lonesome moon
Is left to grieve
I walk in the forest, brush the webs form my face
And fall through the pages of my history, my name
I can tell you the face on the dollars and dimes
But I can't trace my family line
Over their bones, over their bones
Long passed over like a river stone
Over their bones, willows weep, a lonesome moon
Is left to grieve
With greatest care one man tended the grounds
Knew the map and he passed it down
What would he think, what would he say
Since the days a dollar bought a grave
Over their bones, over their bones
Long passed over like a river stone
Over their bones, willows weep, a lonesome moon
Is left to grieve
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10. |
Highest Hill
03:43
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I am leaving on a journey today
Packing up this soul in this skin
There are things I've been meaning to change
I don't think I can without going
And I will climb, climb, climb the highest hill
'Til I'm face to face with the sun
My eyes will see their burning reflection
Oh, I'm coming undone
Leave a trail of sorrow and shame
And all of the hurts I've held onto
They are much to heavy a weight
To take all the places I want to
And I will climb, climb, climb the highest hill
'Til I'm face to face with the sun
My eyes will see their burning reflection
Oh, I'm coming undone
And when I come back down
I'll be the girl you loved and more
My feet meet the ground
More certain than ever before
And I will climb, climb, climb the highest hill
'Til I'm face to face with the sun
My eyes will see their burning reflection
Oh, I'm coming undone
So I'm leaving on a journey today
Taking all of these memories and years
There are things I've been meaning to say
In a voice unshackled by fears
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Ali Sperry Nashville, Tennessee
Ali Sperry, when faced with a year of trauma, racial reckoning, and downright worldwide existential crisis, did what she has
always done-turned inward and wrote songs that channeled, mirrored and ultimately DISTILLED those cultural currents…
In Front Of Us will be released march 11, 2022, a record that should quietly find its way into a lot of needy hearts.
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