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Sapphire Eyes
06:40
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You tore me apart
And soon our bodies were enmeshed
I felt so blessed
To see your stained glass heart
Beating through your paper flesh
And I’ll pour every drop of my blood into you
So you can rest
Your sapphire eyes
Were refracting a spectrum I couldn’t see
And I felt free
To see those colors
Painting a gentler picture of me
And I found myself falling slowly deep into a green and gold and blue
And violet sea
I want to absolve you
Of all of our sins
Our Mothers’, our fathers’ and mine
Then maybe I could resolve you
To stay in love with every love that’s ever been
And I swear to god that I will hold on close to you
‘Til everything is fine
‘Cause you showed me Orion
And I showed you the constellations on your skin
You had been cryin’
Over a lie scrawled everywhere my eyes had been
But I saw through it
And read a story plain as day
Spelled out in the freckles
Splashed across your body like the Milky Way
And they were staffed out on your body just like notes
So we gathered them together and we wrote
Some music we could play
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Goodbye Bolero
06:57
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Red-gold curls are splashed across my pillowcase
Like Flower petals on an annivers’ry
A pretty smile is slashed across her pretty face
That says “I don’t know that this guy don’t deserve me”
Tiny white hands are searching for a heartbeat
In my sallow sunken chest
Outside snow is falling in the dark street
And I can’t seem to get no rest
No I can’t sleep
I can’t barely breathe
So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend
I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again
No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins
Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins
Like a Celtic Catalina she is dancing
Across the dusty floorboards of my memory
Like a scarlet Proserpina she is planting
Funerary flowers in all the holes inside of me
Her hips are swaying in the moonlight
Behind my eyelids in the dark
I follow her braying in the lamplight
Across the creek and through the park
And then she’s gone
Just like that it’s over, she’s gone
So goodbye to Bolero my sentimental friend
I don’t know when I will drop the needle on you again
No more dancing in my bedroom to your horns and violins
Though your drums beat on inside my chest, keeping time with all my sins
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3. |
Less Than Love
03:39
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Please don't let down your hair,
I'll only want to run my fingers through it
And if your eyes should catch my stare
Avert them before they see right through it
We can not afford this
Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited
And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited
So please don't look at me
And tell me how you feel
Please don't let me catch the blush
That rushes to your face each time you smile
Can't you see it tortures me
Each time you ask to walk for just a while
I was not prepared for this
Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited
And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited
So please don't look at me and tell me
You're in love
Haven't got the decency to tell you
That I'm not the one you're looking for
I haven't got the common sense
Not to show up at your door
Tonight
Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited
And it's safer still when it's unrequited
And I'm sorry love, but I just can't fight it
Tonight
So let me love you madly without warning
And save "I'm sorry" for the morning
I want my love to be the only thing adorning
You
And it's not fair to me when it's you that did it
It's kind of beautiful, when we both admit
And I the we'd be remiss to call this
Less than love
Because it's dangerous when it's uninvited
And it's soft and safe when it's unrequited
But please just look at me, and tell me
You're in love
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Velvet Curtain
08:38
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I remember lying in the dark
Cautiously telling you about those other women
About the lies in their eyes and the nights between their thighs
I felt silently forgiven
What a fool I was to ever think
I could ever speak so candidly
What a fool I was to ever think
I could handle what you'd handed me
Because I had tread water in the shallows before
Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more
But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays
I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing left to say
And you'll look at me
And you'll say to me
We're just extras
Reading someone else's lines
I'm all out of inclination
And you haven't got the time
Baby it's all been said and done
There's no one left for us to be
And I think that if you still love me
Maybe you should set me free
I remember drinking too much whiskey
You had been drinking too much wine
And you gently whispered to me
That you wanted me to find
Ways to worship you
That no one had before
So I smashed your stained glass windows
And kicked in all your doors
What a fool I'd been to think that I could ever stand before
That bare and flawless altar
What a fool I was to drink that sacrament you poured
And think I would never falter
Because I had tread water in the shallows before
Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more
But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays
I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing interesting to say
And you'll look at me
And you'll say to me
We're just extras
Reading someone else's lines
I'm all out of inclination
And you haven't got the time
Baby it's all been said and done
There's no one left for us to be
And I think that if you still love me
Maybe you should set me free (x2)
But while the orchestra plays dirges
To an empty house
Baby if you've got any urges
I think you should let 'em out
Let's shake the dust off of these rafters
With nothing but the sound
Of your love and your cries and laughter
Before they bring that velvet curtain down
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5. |
When You Sleep
04:40
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Alexander Ross Boston, Massachusetts
Alexander is a guitar player and singer-songwriter living and studying in Boston. He hopes you'll listen to his songs, be his friend, ask him to start a loud rock band, and conquer the world with him, but he'll settle for that first thing.
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