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Seven
03:06
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Every now and then
we get personal
harmony and balance
so beautiful
Why do the chains of love
start to break and rust?
Why are the closest friends
the ones that kill the trust?
I pick myself up
Get ready for the change
but change don't come
I try to brush it off
I try to start again
but it makes me feel dumb
I feel it in the air
see it in the breeze
but I can't grab hold
I try to call you up
but you are never there
and I'm getting so old
I pulled the knives out of my back
When I was old enough
God knows I still have scars
But you made me tough
Little civil wars
Build in our minds
Paranoid and waiting
on electric lines
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2. |
Naughty Little Monster
03:03
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I think that you could be the one
To carry my flame into the dark
To kill the creatures of the night
To be the one that I hold tight
You got the silver bullet loaded (loaded)
Got the souls of the corroded (corroded)
Got my heart pulled by its strings
Got the poison in your little sting
Oh
You dirty little monster (you dirty little monster)
You naughty little monster (you naughty little monster)
Ah ah ah ah ah ah yeah
You naughty little monster
You naughty little monster
You naughty little monster, monster
you naughty little monster, ah yeah
You got a way of walking
To make the boys start talkin
You're dancing in long black stockings
You got eyes like the walking grim reaper's daughter, yeah
You naughty little monster
You naughty little monster (you naughty little monster)
You naughty little monster (you naughty little monster)
You naughty little monster, monster
You're just a naughty little monster, yeah
If I could take you down to the picture show
Watch a scary little film about a guy you know
You can show up in that little black widow's dress
You can put my little aching shaking bones to rest
You can make your spider webs to catch my feelings
Inject the venom in my thoughts that you are stealing
Make a mockery of any kind of freedom
And if a boy comes to you well I will surely beat em, yeah
You naughty little monster
You're just a naughty little monster
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3. |
Mourning Dove
03:21
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Oh little mourning dove
Poor little mourning dove
you can never change your fate
Oh little mourning dove
Poor little mourning dove
you can never change your ways
She waits with teary eyes
Phantoms stand at her sides
Listening for the call of a lonesome love
She whispers nothingness
To her there's nothing left
She sings the song of the mourning dove
She lies in fallen leaves
Caressed by dying trees
Analogous to her state of mind
She thinks she's all alone
A vagrant without a home
If you only knew you've been so blind
Sometimes in the mourning
When sunlight hits her eyes
It dries her tears
And leaves a smile behind
The soft orange glow
shows a promise she knows
And calms
this little mourning dove
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Rust
03:25
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You can try and slow me down
Break the silence or mute the sound
By everybody knows
The Rust Will Show
When the molecules collide
Unleash the chaos that's inside
You'll find yourself destroyed
You've lost your little boy
Let me recite in simple tongues
You were my hero but I was young
I had a naive mind
The bees were dying in the hive (ah)
If you find yourself dismayed
You only got yourself to blame
Maybe you'll come clean
Change the way you lean (But I doubt it)
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5. |
Lost Her
01:19
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[nothing to see here. move along.]
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6. |
When I Don't Care
02:38
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I feel I'm going nowhere
She thinks that I run scared
I have tried so hard to be fair
But she only loves me when I don't care
She only loves me when I don't care
She's a pistol and she's loaded too
She won't think twice to shoot me through
But when I run away she only stares
Cause she only loves me when I don't care
She only loves me when I don't care
She only loves me when I don't care
She only loves me when I don't care
I've lived with this girl for years
watered her flowers with my tears
But when they wilt, I say a prayer
Cause she only loves me when I don't care
She only loves me when I don't care
Yeah
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7. |
Emeralds
02:52
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It's hard enough trying to win affection
Without you disregarding me
It's a bitch when you only recognize
My failures and not good deeds
I've been trying for a decade now
to show you I'm not mean
I got no bad intentions and you never ever mention
all the ways in which I'm clean
I've sang lyrics nearly half of my life
and I know you've never learned the words
You got more important business for you to open up and listen
But the radio is always heard
I'm no different, hell we're all the same
Just a single soul playing guitars
But it hits you in the gut when you get stuck in the ruts
Of lucky bastards driving fancy cars
And yeah
It's ok
sure whatever
let's just go
Yeah
It's okay
sure whatever
you'll never know
I've never tried to hide what's in my mind
I'd rather people know the honest truth
But artistic expression breeds human regression
Sweet jesus, tell me what's the use?
You try and smooth it with a tired phrase
like "everybody feels the pain"
But tell me something clearly how much time can you be weary
Without succumbing to the rain?
If you don't listen now
you'll never listen at all
If you don't listen now
you'll never listen at all
It only takes negativity
to break them all
It only takes negativity
to break them all
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9. |
Sushiboy
01:13
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Tiny Lights
04:32
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Tiny little lights
flashing off and on
lighting up your dreams
catch them 'fore they've gone
Fleeting as the wind
Sure as the new dawn
How can I ever pay you back
for righting all my wrongs?
Just grab the tiny lights while you can
while you can
while you can
Just grab the tiny lights while you can
while you can
while you can
My world was warmly lit
a glow that killed the pain
time has broke some bulbs
the comfort still remains
Let me feel your heat
help me break the chains
Dry me off
cause I'm soaking from the rain
(Chorus)
There's one thing that I've learned
Time won't wait for me
but all these tiny lights
Shine collectively
They kill your deepest fear
they teach you endlessly
I used to give in the darkness
but they gave me light to see
(Chorus x2)
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11. |
A Boat To Sail Upon
02:56
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Eric Tyler Louisville, Kentucky
Eric Tyler is a Louisville, Kentucky based singer-songwriter who writes, plays, produces, and records everything entirely alone in the studio himself. Beginning to write when he was just 15, Eric has spanned multitudes of musical genres in the years since, always eager to up the proverbial game musically, stylistically, and artistically. ... more
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