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Why Ask Why
02:33
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I always think of you as standing in the rain
For no particular reason except that funny lik
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You had a feel about you, pent up tiger
You had a look about you meant to frighten me
But too much knowledge and far too certain
All too knowing when you said to me
You don't know what you say when you ask me to make the world go away
Far too clever and never accepting the end or beginning of what we were doing then
The hardest lesson I learned on my own and never admit it unless I am alone
You don't know what you do when you break the heart of someone who's been true to you
You should learn to feel like I do
You should learn to love like I do
Another place, another time
I'll find a way to make you mine
Thoughts long gone with old ideals
New words to say we wanted envy
We were so sure
We never wondered
Connecting dots
You see me, I'm standing here
She's calling, calling you
One look back, one last photograph
Calling, calling you
Hardened edges, the distance softens them
Unfocused figures that words can't touch
I remember, it's so familiar
Connecting dots
She looks at you and your words fall in pieces
And you want to laugh it off but she knows your secrets
And mountains may fall but you know she'll be with you
And you have a picture of what it could be like
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To Love Is To Live
03:16
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You flip coin, you toss the dice and then you take your chances
Connected unexpected events occur at random
Accident or error could make your dream come true
Why?
Closed system, energy remains constant
Constantly awaiting and constantly surprised
Wake me up and tell me twice, activate, change my life
Why?
To love is to live
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Visual Purple
03:50
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A lonely huntress looking for a game
It's a jungle out there; I suspect it's all the same
One touch or another, another body falls
Another little murder within her walls
Visual purple, the predator sleeps
I reach but I can't find you in the dark
Your touch has left it's mark
I find you by the beating of your heart
A shrugging of his shoulders and a chaste or morbid kiss
It's such a little death with your name on her lips
With his name on her arrow, you've no choice but you've bled
Another little murder in the confines of her bed
Stripping away armor, she strips away her skin
The huntress finds that she's ready to begin again
A child in the wild with no charted rules
A pilgrim kneeling in the sainted vestibule
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In The Air
05:23
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I look up to the sky every time an airplane passed by
I should have learned by now, I should have learned how
How not to listen, not to worry and never, never wonder why
One if by land, two if by sea but I wasn't prepared for the air
Two in a perfect pair, the hand inside the glove
But we're only being wise and we're only being kind
When we hurt the one we say we love
Your thoughts are hanging before me, your words
In the air I breathe
Electric silence, sing to me
In the air I breathe
Hold me now, I had a dream
Finger on a trigger, one second to scream
A moment before midnight
The last sigh we breathe
Our words become weapons
Our thoughts become a scream
And with such fear, delicious fear
As we can imagine, as we dare to dream
I hear a siren in the distance
But I don't listen anymore
And if I think of it, and we've loved and we've lived
But what have we done and what was it for
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Returning
05:49
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You and me, we're two of a kind
Always so startled again to find
We haven't changed the whole time
Looking for answers, looking for clues
I was always me and you were always you
My dreams have been talking
Messages only for me
The more that things change, the more they stay the same
Always returning, as if living day to day
Not a one can be blamed for walking away
You and me, we're two of a kind
By the skin of our teeth after all this time
But methods and reactions are all in our minds
Always returning, time after time
Hold me in your arms, keep my feet from touching the ground
As the world races by round and round and round
Take my hand and promise your world, when mine is falling down
Look into my eyes and speak to me without a single sound
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Fluorochrome
02:21
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The word I say only to you
Life
Heartbeat, a breathless glow in the dark
One touch, one word
No bridge, no ship, no parachute
I cut a piece of you
For my slides, slice of life.
Stray spark, electron, pulsing dark
You've been staring at the sun so long
Now you're blind to what's before your eyes
One touch
Stray spark
No bridge, no ship, no parachute
No contact
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Sand Dunes by the Sea
02:54
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I was nervous, I was lost
I was young, I was eager, I was overtaught
Life is easy if you know what you want
There was a match lit
Spark spark sparkle in the air
We didn't know what we were doing, we made the perfect pair
Question become problems and they turn up everywhere
I held court in my corner, you were laughing on the sidewalk
As we upheld our reputations, the princess and the jack of hearts
I was looking for direction and saw a shooting star
Moments are elusive, like sand dunes by the sea
You can try to put your finger on it, you can take it all too seriously
But you can't go back to see
It was science and a modern style of life
My own fault, I'm sure
But when you're drunk and running on and smashing glasses at your door
Remember me.
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I Think of You
04:46
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Without a doubt too many times
Wishing hard or wishful thinking
I made a wish
I thought of you
Too many dreams
All kinds of dream
Animal dreams are haunting me
Open my eyes
I think of you
Hidden smiles and hidden heartbeats
But feeling so immediate
The words are hanging in the air
You're dreaming of someone who's dreaming of you
And you cry out in your sleep
Your dreams can you too far away
Someday I'll have a house with broken windows
A haunted house
And you can come and see me
In my house
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Sara Ayers Albany, New York
"This is music to conjure lofty dreams of perfect love, to tell trans-galactic science-fiction epics, to examine the inside of a grain of sand." -- Michael Hochanadel, The Schenectady Gazette
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