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Turning Point Overture
02:24
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What Did I Miss?
02:00
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I unplugged my modem
Set out for a walk
Connected with my own nature
Answered my own call
What did I miss?
Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know
What did I miss?
This absence was to help me grow
What did I miss?
Three months in a lean-to
With no digital crutch
Although it claimed to support me
I was leaned on too much
What did I miss?
Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know
What did I miss?
This absence was to help me grow
What did I miss?
No matter what kind of progress I missed
It just hits better to bucket my own list
So what did I miss?
Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know
What did I miss?
This world and me have come to blows
What did I miss?
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A Diamond Dozen
03:22
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Once you factor out the novelty
Happiness is easy to achieve
The gifts of presence may not come in threes
But jump that bridge
Suspend your disbelief
Take a walk upon the mild side
Darkness can be taken in in stride
The foot falls on the other shoe drop tide
When the mood has ebbed
You’re drawn into their web
If you’re happy, never let ‘em know the score
A diamond dozen on the rough draft page
You’re three times more but acting half your age
Back up the road the car had disengaged
It stalled that rail
And no one threw your bail
Talent gets erotic when it’s blown
Turned to dust from worn out bones
Keep ‘em wondering why you let it go
Goddam these genes
Their blue dye’s fading me
If you’re happy, never let ‘em know the score
One day this will fade away
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Vespa Cosa
03:59
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The western ‘burbs are quiet tonight
Despite absurd reports of the right
The wrongs are being swept from under the rug
A shoulder shrugs and war has begun
The war has begun
I don’t know what to believe no more
I don’t know why I believe no more
The hound’s at the door
A trail of lies, a tale of fate
Forging art for art’s sake
Two thousand strokes, a click of the tail
It’s all here for you to decide what path you should forge ahead
Or will you be led?
I don’t know what to believe no more
I don’t know what to believe no more
I don’t know if I should grieve no more
I don’t know why I believe no more
The hound’s at the door
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5. |
Drug Holiday
03:51
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Fifteen hours across the plains
The wind’s won’t blow you sane
They howl through your brain
The hum of tire pressure pounds
And time just spins around
A scream won’t make a sound
But when this holiday is through
The words come back to you
The script is filled and you can rest again
Then test again
Trapped inside this great expanse
And frozen in advance
Of crops that may not reap
Or sow - the terror grows in fields
This country seems unreal
Through any shade of glass
But when this holiday is through
The words come back to you
The script is filled and you can rest again
Then test again
But when the mountains rise ahead
I know it’s time to come down from the clouds
And start my rain
And claim my prize for giving this a try
Misfortune’s swept under the rug again
Until we meet in this backseat
And test defeat again
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Out of Time
05:14
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In between the notes that’s where I live
In between the holes, ‘cause I don’t fit in
No matter where I land
I always find I stand out of time
No matter who I am
I turn around and stand out of time
No matter what’s in hand
Drawn, decked, or dealt I stand out of time
Out of time
In between the tones, that’s where I’m found
Pages inked with notes, sounded and bound
I ride a wavelength nobody can hear
And one I’m afraid to show
I couldn’t tune into nobody near
So this is the way I will go - go - go!
No matter where I land
I always find I stand out of time
No matter who I am
I turn around and stand out of time
No matter what’s in hand
Drawn, decked, or dealt I stand out of time
Out of time
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7. |
Fire Watch With Me
02:16
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Words don’t have currency or gravity
Until they’re filled with weight of lies
And then distilled into narcotic cries
That nobody seems to hear
Endless echoes bound by apathy
We wait and wait to flip the script
As frame by frame, the image comes to be lit
So come inside: we’ll watch it burn from our door
Don’t you cry: we’ve watched this movie before
It always ends the same, there’s always goats to scape
And no escape
You can never spoil the end if it don’t arrive
You start to see reality is virtually a fever dream
That fell right off the screen
So come inside: we’ll watch it burn from our door
Don’t you cry: we’ve watched this movie before
It’s not escapist anymore
We should have read the book instead
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8. |
Summerhouse
03:55
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Sun is setting in for darker times
Someone’s betting on the next headline
Placing wagers on a way too blind
Find a place where you can turn your mind away
Break a pebble and then watch it burn
Break a promise that you never learned
Earn your keep and watch it disappear
Ring the bell and listen for the fear to find you
This cold’s uncommon even for this town
This town’s uneven, but that’s not so odd
If this ignites then we can take a drive
Drive into the night and turn your mind away
All the faces need another chance
All the faces need another dance together
All the faces need another mourn
No faces need another storm to weather
We’re gonna burn again
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I tried to get lost in a dream
Seemed that was where I should be
Life on earth had seemed to lack lust
Rust belt voices that don’t back trust
Dusty gems were hard to scope
Hope lay just outside my globe
Bound outside the longest of ropes
Not long ago, I used to aim high
But now I’m over the moon
Now I find I no longer need dream life
I’m content in the backyard
I can still still go and stargaze
Staying safe on the ground plane
No time left to play the game from not long ago
I used to aim high
But now I’m over the moon
I’m in the stars right here at home
I’m in the space, I’m in the zone
I’ve got a star right here on earth
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Lillison
03:53
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Summer Faces
03:46
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Summer faces and summer places
And some are turning to blue
Summer face us and summer grace us
And some are turning to blue
How ‘bout you?
Maybe in time we’ll drop our line
And cool our heels in the grass
Maybe in time we’ll time it right
And slide down the trees
On the skin of our knees
With whomever we please, and our…
Summer faces and summer places
And some are turning to blue
Summer face us and summer grace us
And some are turning to blue
How ‘bout you?
It’s just a swivel chair ride from the subway station
Show inebriation? Show me the door please
Payoff or payday? Shouting “mayday!”
We exit the scene
As we grow up from green
And at work we will dream of our…
Summer faces and summer places
And some are turning to blue
Summer face us and summer grace us
And some are turning to blue
How ‘bout you?
Swan dive off the wagon
Lady be good, later be good
Look what the cat just dragged in
You’re bumming a cigarette
And feeding your pig
Yet you’re wetting your wig
And forgetting those…
Summer faces and summer places
And some are turning to blue
Summer face us and summer grace us
And some are turning to blue
How ‘bout you?
I wish I knew what I know now
Then I’d know what to do
I wish I knew what I know now
Then I might see it through
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12. |
Turning Point
03:44
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Alex Northrup Rochester, New York
songwriter / producer / multi-instrumentalist / basement psych / electro chamber-pop / rochester, ny
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