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Don't Look Back
04:31
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When the doors are closed what do they say
Are they plotting thick are they planning our fate
Baby brother we've got to get away
Baby brother before it's too late
All you trust all you've ever known
All your world is changing
I tried to keep these stones from your soft hands
Wrap you in dream, sleep my sweet
When they come for us how far we will be
Out the door and down the street
Over mountains over seas
Don't look back there's nothing for us now
That land is black it's wasted
We leave today
With me you're safe
Sing a song hold your little chin up high
stay strong little man of mine
Cuz baby brother we've got to get away
Baby brother before it's too late
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We all take turns bursting in the room
Giving it adrenaline try to make it burn burn
This is my impression, I want it in your head
Do you feel my outline press into you press into you
Before I go, I want to feel it all
I want to make it last, the moments that pass
They speed up, they crash
I want to be inside it, I want to feel it all
We follow, they lead
Excuses, we plead
Give me just one chance
I'll show you, I mean it
I've got this little flame
Be gentle, be gentle with me
So it will grow, I need you to see
Before I go, I want to feel it all
I want to make it last, the moments that pass
They speed up, they crash
I want to be inside it, I want to feel it all
Inside me there's something
Unfinished, a painting, a feeling, a need
A country, it's waiting
A story , a seed
Inside me there's something unfinished...
Before I go, I want to feel it all
I want to make it last, the moments that pass
They speed up, they crash
I want to be inside it, I want to feel it all
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I made a deal you never agreed
To hold up your side but still I believed
So I'd give what i gave and you'd take and I'd wait
Cuz I knew that some day you would change you would change
Someday never came….
When do you finally say 'I've given up,
There's nothing I'm fighting for'
Then how do you stay and drink from the cup
Of dreams you don't believe anymore?
I let the waves crash on me
Stood firm to show that I love you
And I'm crawling to save myself
Cry the whole way cuz I still do
I've got your back, I'm holding the gun
And I'll hold them all off, and I'll let you run
But those demons they hover
All 'round your head
They won't be satisfied till you're--
I let the waves crash on me
Stood firm to show that I love you
And I'm crawling to save myself
Cry the whole way cuz I still do
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Sick With Love
03:04
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Why can't a pretty day take my lonesome blues away?
Missing him is what I've come to do
Here in the afternoon, singing melancholy tunes
Loving him has made of me a fool
Faces in the street are like
Foreign planets flying by
All these world i'll never know
What goes on inside their heads
Who will miss them when they're dead
I'm sure somebody loves them all
Now I'm cleaning up my room
And my heart's as full as the silver moon
But it's the little things that help the day go by
For when a girl is sick with love
There is nothing can be done
Oh there is nothing can be done
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In The Sun
04:33
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It's so hard to take when you turn your light away
Even for a minute, even for a day
So bright so right the way you shine
Burns me from the inside
And I hate myself for shivering
For wanting more and more of how you
Make me feel like I could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun, when you shine
You make me feel like I could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun
If wishes were answers you'd be here
Even for a minute, even for a day
I feel in chains the way you've got me
Begging for you in my mind
Please don't be done with me
I'm not finished with the way you
Make me feel like I could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun, when you shine
You make me feel like i could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun
Sometimes I just want to hide
Cuz when you never see the light
You don't miss it, don't want it
Don't ache for another taste of it
If I could I'd turn away before you shut me out
Even for a minute, even for a day
I'm not that strong, but I'm strong enough to suffer
If that's the price I have to pay
To feel the light on my skin
When you let me in
You make me feel like I could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun, when you shine
You make me feel like I could live forever
In the sun, in the sun, in the sun
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I just broke up with a guy who looks kind of like you
I remember that kiss outside my hotel room in LA
I was a little too young and you were too married
So I said "Can you try that again someday?"
I'm a million miles from the girl I was then
Living out a plot-line she never could have written
The scars on my skin the nights that twisted
My heart like an old house the walls caved in
Well I'm out here still looking for a place
To rest my heart when I grow old
You know you can't believe
In all the things that you thought
When you were young
It's funny how things never go quite how you planned
We were one force with the power of the future in our hands
But I opened up my arms, I let it go
It turned around I was found on a different road
Well I'm out here still looking for a place
To rest my heart when i grow old
You know you can't believe
In all the things that you thought
When you were young
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Family Ghost
03:21
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He's alone in a dark place
Thinking thoughts that no one understands
He's at home in the darkness
I try to find him I'm reaching out my hands
This world can be so cruel, I know
For I have been burned too
We dream of love to sail us through the storm
Just one place to be safe
If you need me I will answer
In the end what else will matter
Take a flicker and grow the flame
Choose the light and call my name
They'll take you down, they'll teach you life is pain
If you let them in
So I say rise up like the sun
Lift yourself up; be the one to chose
If I need you, will you answer
In that darkness, will you hear?
In the end what else will matter?
Choose the light and call me near
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Fast Lane
03:35
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I'll let my body take the lead
I'll let my hands go where they please
my mouth has got an aching need to taste you
I'll give you power over me
I'll let your hands go where they please
I like it when you make me lean into you
I found myself in the fast lane with you
we're holding hands as the world flies by
I don't know where, you don't know where we're going
But we don't wanna slow down now, we wanna just fly
And we know there's no better drug
then running blindly into love
if there's no heaven up above, we got this
Taking your time to make me weak
teaching my body how to speak
to yours like wind into the trees, it's like this
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Broken (2017)
03:50
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You're a little bit damaged,
I'm a sucker for that,
I want to take you in my hands
Wanna bring you back
You're a little bit damaged
I'm a sucker for that
I want to fill up the spaces
Be everything you lack
You're a little bit jaded
and you're closing the door
And all that you felt then
You don't feel it anymore
I'm the picture that's faded,
I'm the love you don't trust
Take the girl out from under glass
and she'll always want to much
I know … you're just… broken
I know … you're just… broken
You're just… broken
You're a little bit damaged,
I'm a sucker for that
So in the moment I lost you
I wanted you back
But that's a feeling that's faded
And I'm closing the door
And all that I felt then
I don't feel it anymore
I know … you're just… broken
I know … you're just… broken
You're just… broken
You're just… broken
You're just… broken
You're just… broken
You're just… broken
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You breath fire
To burn the world
And such teeth
The better to eat you with, my girl
You can fly
Take me with you
Yeah you're wild
And you know not what you do
I'm in love with a dragon put my hand in the flame
I know I should have known better but I did it again
I'm in love with a dragon it's the curse of my life
To be the lover of a monster I'm his dutiful wife
Since I first saw you in the sky
I could feel you in my lungs
Since I was a child
I've had blisters on my tongue
Oh yeah if you're so bad why don't you take it all
Why don't you do me in finally make me fall
You're a tease, I'm a flirt
Oh baby please make it hurt
I'm in love with a dragon put my hand in the flame
I know I should have known better but I did it again
I'm in love with a dragon it's the curse of my life
To be the lover of a monster I'm his dutiful wife
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Til It Lasts
03:48
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Next time I won't be so quick
To say I'm in love when i shake like this
Every storm on my sea has passed
I won't call it love till it lasts
There are so many ways to love
You shiver you ache or you're comforted by it
There are mistakes and there are the ones
You'd die for their love or die of it
I'm always taking wrong turns
Burning too bright and burning out quickly
I've had my lessons but I'll never learn
I keep hoping love will come fix me
How do you measure whether it's love
When it calls at your door
All you know is what you've been told
You've never had your own before
So I'm turning out all of the lights
And I'm finding comfort in my own arms tonight
Taking the next train out of my head
Into my body instead
Cuz there are so many ways to leave
And I've witnessed them all from both sides of the street
I am world weary before my time
And I'm calloused from bodies colliding with mine
So next time I won't be so quick
To say I'm in love when it hurts like this
Every storm on my sea has passed
I won't call it love…
No I won't call it love…
I won't call it love ' til it lasts
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In the glow of the dumpster fire that was the year we met
I made a friend for the apocalypse
I found a reason to get in bed
As another star lights the sky
And the country lost it’s goddamn mind
I made a friend for the apocalypse
I found a reason to stay alive
Stand up and give me a kiss
We’re not going down like this
As the world explodes in slo-mo
I’ll eat you up cuz I love you so
And our love grows stronger
Hold me a little longer
Shut me up with your mouth
Let the night grow darker
Stand up and give me a kiss
We’re not going down like this
As the world explodes in slo-mo
I’ll eat you up cuz I love you so
I want to fuck you in the burning flames
I want to hear you say my name
I want to hold you till I fall apart
I want to feel my beating heart
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Lauren Hoffman Los Angeles, California
music is exceptionally useful for communicating the nuance and complexity of the human experience because it is an emotional language, we process and respond to it in a different way than thoughts, beyond the limits of linguistics. that's why it's special and mysterious and i love it. that's why i write and sing and play instruments and make records. that's why i share my songs with you. ... more
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