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Do I Have to Be
03:37
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Do I have to be a star to be free of conflict?
Do I have to be alone to be free of all the things that make me sick?
I order a drink
The service is slow
Do I have to be a king, something big, to drown in my sorrows?
If I only had a car, I’d be sloping that valley
If I only had a car, I’d be free! I’d be drinking more reliably
I hasten my gaze and beckon you on
Do I have to be a saint for you to accept this ride along?
There is evidence that man is as cruel as he ever was
A tired man sits at the bar
His stool breaks
And we all laugh
Why is that?
Do I have to be nice to be your friend?
Do I even know the price? To be nice can be deafening!
I ask you what’s wrong...
“The energy I give to you is returning only partially, can’t you see I need some understanding too!”
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I dreamt that I was lost in you
Split between the strength of two
Carrying on like people do
When overwhelmed by what is new, beautiful and true
Borderlines are thrown aside
The victory is without pride
It’s lifted from a patient smile
And the energy of a thunder cloud
I’ll never get tired of loving you
I witnessed it in slow motion
Felt the wind take direction
Took me running through the wide ocean
Feeling like a dolphin might
In conversation with the moonlight
I got the blues in a heavy way
The one that never goes away
It’s ok, it’s just a way
To balance out our loving ways
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Stardust
03:38
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She heard the news
Could not believe
He could be taken away
To wrestle from the grip of death
And then so swiftly pull away
The world is only big and grand
When nothing is personal
The world can get so small you know
Suffocate body and soul
Did I make an angel blush
With my suffering?
My loss?
Or was it never enough?
Did that angel brush me off like stardust?
Some quiet energy has taken hold of my weakness
Splintered from humanity
A shred of gentle kindness
I licked my wounds and kissed the world
Speak my language Sister Mary
Am I grounded on this earth?
Or writing my obituary?
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4. |
Crazy Love
02:39
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Does it get to you?
Patience has always been your virtue
O my crazy love
Does it get to you?
Talking like a fool
There is love in laughter
Don’t you play it cool
O my crazy love
O this love is true
Time to think it through…
O no
Here comes the tidal wave of loving you
Time to think it through...
O my crazy love is always you!
Does it get to you?
I think of everything I’d give just to be next to you
Does it get to you?
Love is imposition of a higher truth
Is my crazy love love love love reaching you?
Is my crazy love love love love ringing true?
Time to think it through...
O no
Here comes the tidal wave of loving you
Time to think it through...
O my crazy love is always you you you!
Is my crazy love love love love really true?
O my crazy love is always you you you!
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5. |
Rough Times
03:26
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I never cared to think
If I hurt anyone
(Softening blows from the rising sun)
I never thought if I was fun
One dream
Torn apart in anger
Stretched across a canvas
Projected on a screen
One dream
Can be reduced to nothing
Hold on
To remembering
Hold on
To creativity
Try to be active or you'll freeze
Mourning brings the strangest
Breeze
Rough times
Blindsided by love
You wrote poetry
In a state of perpetual boredom
Could it be
You were free as one can and always be?
I can’t remember
The sky having so much colour
Or the clouds so wild and bothered
The world refreshed
By what is lost
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City By My Window
02:18
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There’s a city by my window
It’s so close that I tend to forget
You smell it before you see it
You smell
Perfect
PERFECTION is a noose
You hang around too much with losers!
PERFECTION is a moose
a symbol dragged through genocide en plus
There’s a city by my window
It takes much more than I can stand
I am constantly the problem
Constantly an island
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7. |
Positive Push
03:42
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In a derelict parking lot
I saw my sifu bend
Bend bend bend to the whim
Of directionless suffering
Why do we suffer?
For who do we please?
I bought a loaf of bread and cheese
I will find myself a romantic rendezvous
To share with so and so and you know who
I’ve got a lot on my mind
Every path leads to another a land mine
Who needs a positive push?
I need a lot to be doing fine
Summer ended with a quiet yawn
Polite dreams of another dawn
I feel restless, I lost my edge
I remember what my father said,
“If feathers tickle as they do
Why don’t they make the chickens laugh too?”
You gotta be the butt of your own joke sometimes
To be serious too much is to be blind!
You don’t got no...
You don’t got no idea of what you want to do with this feeling, but I know that it hurts real bad
You don’t got no...
Simple way of trying to achieve your goals, but you try and the lack of success is so discouraging
You don’t got no...
Way to tell me what you really wanted out of being this way, so come on and say it, I am no longer going to try!
Green grass, blue world
It’s so simple it seems absurd
I could be helpless, that is my choice
Why be helpless with this golden voice?
A cold wind is a breathing thing
A thing to become a reckoning
Sing, sing sing like a singer-songwriter
I hope to die a lot lighter than this!
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Sayonara Blue
04:50
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It was going to be tough
No bullshit, no bluffing
This was pain
Self inflicted
Begin again
To be feeling like this
Is mysterious
My heart is strong
But my body’s furious
Can you hear my voice
Through all of this noise?
Can you hear my voice?
I’ll listen to yours
Patience might kill you
Doesn’t everything too
I heard a careless whisper
Sayonara blue
Communication drifting
Every word is deceit
Are you laughing at me?
What is your secret?
I don’t like paranoia
It’s annoying as hell
Give me 24 hours
I’ll be ringing that bell
Fall asleep naked
In stifling heat
Am I a piece of meat roasting?
Or something sweet?
I don’t want my lover
Her body is burnt
I want the deepest sigh
To unburden this hurt
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Skyline
04:34
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She took each friend as a mirror
“Reflection won't do, I need practice if I'm to overcome”
I took her empathy as an excuse
I was wrong
She just felt it deeper all along
When the rain gets heavy
Pour me another glass of wine
When the rain gets heavy
Let’s look at the skyline
Some nights she would stumble in
She would say, “Must I bear the burden of every god damn thing?
It’s a job, it’s a duty, I could do so much more”
Friendship overwhelms the senses ’til every hurt does blur
I am intoxicated by the sweetness of a painful cry
I can soothe you like a sister, I can make those tears blush
Bye bye
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10. |
Stardust (Reprise)
03:41
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She heard the news
Could not believe
He could be taken away
To wrestle from the grip of death
And then so swiftly pull away
The world is only big and grand
When nothing is personal
The world can get so small you know
Suffocate body and soul
Did I make an angel blush
With my suffering?
My loss?
Or was it never enough?
Did that angel brush me off like stardust?
Some quiet energy has taken hold of my weakness
Splintered from humanity
A shred of gentle kindness
I licked my wounds and kissed the world
Speak my language Sister Mary
Am I grounded on this earth?
Or writing my obituary?
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11. |
Be New
03:31
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You crawl into bed
How'd it get this heavy?
Was it something I said?
It’s hot, it’s late
And I'm slipping in and out
Why so much distance?
Digging into my pillow
With a cankerous shrug
There is air to be cleared
Space to be bridged
And bodies to mutually warm (and feel all over)
Don't put pressure on my bruise
I have a weakness for the blues
I am reminded
That anger is only a dead end
You gotta feed it
But never follow it
It’s a trick
I don't want to feel sick
I need love
And so I cross the fold
Of this newly christened mattress
I won't get bored
I'm going to
Hold you in the wildest storm
Don't put pressure on my bruise
I have a weakness for the blues
And if you kiss me lightly
I may hardly feel it
I’ll be new
I’ll be new
I’ll be new!
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Luka Kuplowsky Toronto, Ontario
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