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Run Away With You
03:19
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You were waiting for your breakfast in the kitchen
That’s when I remember seeing those brown eyes
Your sun burned skin belied my disbelief in wishes
When I heard you laugh
I could feel my heart beat hard and out of rhythm
Alyssa kiss goodbye your plan to leave today
It’s blissfulness sitting and talking ‘bout our lives
Make believe tryst still I will miss your smiley lipstick game
I could fall in love with you
If you’d ever ask me to
You could be drinking chocolate milk somewhere in England
Or be sipping Sauvignon Blanc in a Brooklyn bar
You could be traveling the world with your best college friend
I’d still dream about you doll, wherever you are
Alyssa kiss goodbye your plan to leave today
It’s blissfulness sitting and talking ‘bout our lives
Make believe tryst still I will miss your moonlit sultry shape
I could fall in love with you
But you’ll never ask me to
(Run run run away)
I heard you were leaving
(Run run run away)
Traveling is a lonely word
(Run away run away)
We went skinny dipping late the other evening
You were smiling acting playful like a girl
You were speaking passionately like a woman
I could hear the sound of my world turned upside down
Alyssa kiss goodbye your plan to leave today
It’s blissfulness sitting and talking ‘bout our lives
Permit me this to read my listed top priority
“I want to run away with you
To somewhere with an ocean view”
Alyssa kiss me we can take it slow
Alyssa call your mother from the road
Just join me for a month or two
Holding hands beneath the summer moon
Come on let’s run away
Come on let’s run away
Come on let’s run away
Let’s run away
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Hot Summer Nights
02:29
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Summertime in the City
Subway sweaty
Sundress sticking
She’s the woman doing laundry
On Avenue B
Sippin’ a dirty martini
Make out in the bathroom
Up against the wall
Feel her heart beat faster
As the shirts come off
This isn’t love just a good time
Life in the City’s a fist fight
The train to Brooklyn to Satellite
We let our hair down
On these hot summer nights
You look Julie Delpy
In Before Sunrise
I love that movie
Happy hour here is easy
Its two for one on
Everything
Make out in the bathroom
Up against the wall
Feel my heart beat faster
As your skirt slides up
This isn’t love just a good time
Life in the City’s a fist fight
The train to Brooklyn to Satellite
We let our hair down
On these hot summer nights
We let our hair down
On these hot summer nights
On these hot summer nights
On these hot summer nights
On these hot summer nights
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3. |
Pretty
03:43
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It was pretty dark
It was pretty hot
It was pretty obvious my heart needed a shot
Of something other than adrenalin
Of something other than speed
Of something other than alcohol
God, get that away from me
I was reeling from the medicine
I’d been taking every day
Measured out in liquid ounces
In pints and in wine glasses
She was pretty soft
She was pretty kind
She was pretty smiling in the rain walking by my side
She told me I was valuable
She reminded me to breathe
She taught me how to love myself
By the love she showed to me
But I was reeling from the medicine
I was taking every day
Measured out in liquid ounces
In pints and in wine glasses
Now I don’t know
If her pretty face will be near my lips again soon
But I decided to make some changes for myself
They make me happy
God, I really miss her
I was pretty lost
I was pretty fucking high
I was pretty late to realizing it was time
To live life with intention
To to let ambition fill me up
To be happy in the present
Yeah, to admit where I was powerless
To stop reeling from the medicine
I was taking every day
Measured out in liquid ounces
In pints and in wine glasses
Still I don’t know
If her pretty face will be near my lips again soon
But I decided to make some changes for myself
They make me happy
God I really miss her
I don’t know
If her pretty face will be near my lips again soon
But I decided to make some changes for myself
They make me happy
God I really miss her
God I really miss her
God I really miss her right now
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4. |
Experiment In Love
03:43
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The sum of our parts was better than our limbs alone
To me but not to you
I kept trying to hold on
Thinking you might change your mind
But a woman is gonna do what she’s gonna do
And you didn’t come back
And you didn’t come back
And you didn’t come back
And you didn’t come back
And you didn’t come back
Come back
I keep trying to feel like you weren’t leading me along the whole time
Although I’m pretty sure that’s true
I was an experiment in love
You’ll use the memories to do what you do
On stage or in a film
You didn’t have my back
You didn’t have my back
You didn’t have my back
You didn’t have my back
You didn’t have my back
My back
I keep running ‘round in the rain
Falling down all the time
I think I’m going insane
But I keep trying to write
Can’t use the phone to connect because you blocked the line
Walking through North Brooklyn streets
Blistering skin in the heat
Distressed by everything I see and every woman I meet
A pretty girl in some sheets
Should be enough to appease me
But don’t know when I’ll see you
And that’s fucking my mind up
You were away for so many months
But now you made it home
I’m scared of running into you
I’ve been trying just to survive and my heart’s a little less alive
Missing you has been all I’ve been able to do
Will you ever come back
Will you ever come back
Will you ever come back
Will you ever come back
Will you ever come back
Come back
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5. |
Kiss I Miss
04:48
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I don’t know what to say, it’s finally done
Sad lonely broken people together
Well, wasn’t that fun?
Curious lack of trust we could not rise above
The ambitions and petty deceptions
That shattered our love
What happened to me
That I couldn’t see
And I allowed it to come to this?
Lost sight of myself
Derided my vision
Betrayed my heart for a kiss
A kiss I still miss
You called me “petulant” drunkenly
Then quaffed to quell
While you dreamed of “a man with career, confidence, and wealth "
Maybe someday you'll realize
That love is truly the only way anybody ever gets free
That's what I used to think
What happened to me
That I couldn’t see
And I allowed it to come to this?
Lost sight of myself
Derided my vision
Betrayed my heart for a kiss
A kiss I still miss
I don’t blame you now
I was lost now I’m found
But I’m still looking around
What I see with you gone and perspective is more of myself
Though it’s difficult to imagine dreaming with somebody else
I’ve been riding the train to the ocean and the sunrise there
I’ve been thinking less lately of moonlight and smelling your hair
What happened to me
That I couldn’t see
And I allowed it to come to this?
Lost sight of myself
Derided my vision
Betrayed my heart for a kiss
A kiss I still miss
A kiss I still miss
A kiss I still miss
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6. |
City Living
04:30
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It’s been almost 15 years
I’ve been walking these streets
The City is a jealous lover
She likes to turn up the heat
I give her what I think she needs
But she just keeps taking
I try to love her like a man should
But my heart keeps breaking
City living isn’t all fun and games
But it sure is worth it in the end
It will try to steal your dream
But like De la Vega said, “don’t let it.”
I’ve been on Delancey
In my head again
John Moreland at the Bowery Ballroom
That music, medicine
It’s been a magical six months
But the lows really got me down
I try to get up when it hits me
That darlin’ I’m a man, now
City living isn’t all fun and games
But it sure is worth it in the end
It’ll try to steal your dream
But like De la Vega said, “don’t let it.”
My heart was broken on Houston
The City wrapped me in her arms
She was there when my mind wasn’t
The City is my passion
I was singing at Vagabond
Til they put that place on ice
I quit smoking to stay living here
It’s where I want to spend my life
City living isn’t all fun and games
But it sure is worth it in the end
It’ll try to steal your dream
But like De la Vega said, “don’t let it.”
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7. |
Vamonos
03:57
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This is where your new start begins
Right where we left it
I feel conflicted
I won’t lie to you we’re over that
We both know I liked it
I’d do it again
Henry died but you can have a life
It can be pleasing
You’ll be alive for a while
So live in style
I made it easy
When you look back
Remember, I loved you
When you look back remember I tried
Desert sands slip through my hands
I never was innocent
Not for a minute
My day to day was like taking valium
Then last year was heroin
If you need a reason
Henry died but you can have a life
It can be pleasing
You’ll be alive for a while
So live in style
I made it easy
When you look back
Remember, I loved you
When you look back remember I tried
Goodbye my love
When you look back
Remember, I loved you
When you look back remember I tried
When you look back
Remember, I loved you
When you look back remember that I said goodbye
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8. |
Dear Friend
03:48
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Dear friend, I didn’t know these kids last Christmas
The year we spent meant everything to me
By Secret Santa time her parents left us
We were sitting in a circle feeling free
Dear friend, everyone was drinking brandy
Exchanging gifts, reciting poetry
About a coughing, kissing, suicidal teenager
Bleeding crawling past the bathroom sink
I wanna kiss you
But I don’t know how to
Standing by the typewriter
In your bedroom
Paralyzed by fear
Then you kiss me
Dear friend, I’m standing in a pick up truck
The music in the cab filling my ears
From a mix I made last winter just for Patrick
The wind touches my face and dries my tears
Dear friend, I look at her all through the tunnel
The city lights are not too far ahead
I dream of Michael and of my Aunt Helen
Finally I’m alive and not afraid
I wanna kiss you
But I don’t know how to
Standing by the typewriter
In your bedroom
Paralyzed by fear
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Why am I always crying
Remembering being a kid
Wondering why she did it
I wanna kiss you
But I don’t know how to
Standing by the typewriter
In your bedroom
Paralyzed by fear
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
Then you kiss me
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The grass outside is greener than I’ve ever seen
It crushes underneath our toes
It stains our naked feet
By the quarry
She’s inflating
No debating
Lie down
Lie down and listen closely to the sound
The melody that slowly starts to roar
Is there a door?
Conscious of the lives that came before
And before that
I’ll be tripping on a raft with girls
Their soft skin like a summer wind
We’ll let go and forget about this world
Regression with intention
Conscious of the water
Sinatra bikini daydream
Floating
The water and the air become a part of us
We all ascend
Three hours of beauty
And nothing to discuss
Swim to shore
Content and peaceful
Feel like different people
Lie down
Lie down and listen closely to the sound
The melody that slowly starts to roar
Is there a door?
Conscious of the lives that came before
And before that
I’ll be tripping on a raft with girls
Their soft skin like a summer wind
We’ll let go and forget about this world
Regression with intention
Conscious of the water
Sinatra bikini daydream
Conscious of the water
Sinatra bikini daydream
Conscious of the water
Sinatra bikini daydream
Floating
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10. |
Wouldn't Be Summer
03:26
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Wouldn’t be summer without the Cyclone
Wouldn’t be summer without you in tiny clothes
Hell yeah I wanna go
Ride the Cyclone
Coney Island Q Train
So glad it didn’t rain
Let’s pack some beach towels miss
I can be your summer’s first bikini kiss
Running for the train at Union Square
The sunlight is bringing out highlights in your hair
Let’s go
Let’s go
Wouldn’t be summer without the Cyclone
Wouldn’t be summer without you in tiny clothes
Wouldn’t be summer without the Cyclone
Wouldn’t be summer without you in tiny clothes
Your jelly shoes are a hit
Like it’s 1986
Kids drink water bottle booze
Beachside theme park zoo
The Wonder Wheel is the best
We’re stuck at the top so you pull off your dress
We’re going for a spin
Until the ride begins again
Let’s go
Let’s go
Wouldn’t be summer
I can smell salt water
In the warm ocean air
Can we ride forever
Wouldn’t be summer without the Cyclone
Wouldn’t be summer without you in tiny clothes
Wouldn’t be summer without the Cyclone
Wouldn’t be summer without you in tiny clothes
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11. |
Don't Lose Heart
03:16
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It’s been a challenging year to say the least
Xenophobic, warmongering oligarchs
ACLU amicus briefs
Decency can’t dance alone
So take to the streets
Raise our voices loud they’ve got to go
Politicians on the take
Police trafficking in hate
Every day citizens stand up to the dark
Like Lucy Burns and Rosa Parks
Speak truth to power
Don’t lose heart
Boundaries irrelevant as children die who can’t escape bullets
American weapons Chicago to Aleppo fire
Military industrial complex
The oligarchs smile
They traffic in fear to divide
Raise our voices loud they’ve got to go
Politicians on the take
Police trafficking in hate
Every day citizens stand up to the dark
Like Lucy Burns and Rosa Parks
Speak truth to power
Don’t lose heart
Raise our voices loud they’ve got to go
Politicians on the take
Police trafficking in hate
Every day citizens stand up to the dark
Like Lucy Burns and Rosa Parks
Speak truth to power
Don’t lose heart
Don’t lose heart
Don’t lose heart
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