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Tune-Up
00:53
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Dream Castaway
03:48
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Come into my sleep let's meet again
Run away and leave me when I wake
Trap me in my hope for all I care
Fantasy is where I go to dwell
Is it fake if there's no way to tell
Where will I go, what will I find
Swim away from reason
Drift away, a dreaming castaway
Open up my mind unto the night
Reality a burden left behind
Nightmares come fight my peace of mind
What I felt I'll never comprehend
But I know I almost held you in the end
I know, I know you're not there
Swim away from reason
Drift away, a dreaming castaway
Don't let me drown tonight
Just pull me out before I find
My dreams wont come alive
Swim away from reason
Drift away, a dreaming castaway
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3. |
Dopamine Dance
04:00
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Lost inside a stupor, I was sticking to my bed
I needed something brighter
You picked me up with something that made music in my head
But didn't want to tire
The tempo set my heart so fast my focus ripped in shreds
And set my mind on fire
Driving me insane
My body can't contain
The dancing in my brain
So watch me lose control
As dopamine explodes
So much fucking energy began to pirouette
A dance of pure ascension
Synapses went to tango so my thoughts could not connect
Breaking my attention
The beat shook every section of my skull with no regrets
Concussing comprehension
Driving me insane
My body can't contain
The dancing in my brain
So watch me lose control
As dopamine explodes
Spinning, spinning in all of this music
Somebody pick me up before I fall inside it
Wake me up again
My body can't contain
The dancing in my brain
So watch me lose control
Of every overload
As dopamine explodes
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4. |
Relate
03:54
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You don't understand
You just don't understand
So go ahead and try
I've been grieving for so long I'm finally realizing
I just can't explain what's on my mind
One symptom to the next
There's so much more to fix
When you're sick of being sick
You beg for just one day to finally have a fucking
Pick of normal problems in the mix
So how do I relate
In an unfamiliar place
Where I wouldn't want you anyways
Please help me understand the change
That I hope you'll never face
I don't need the high
To try to feel alive
I'm fighting to get by
And I want to live my life the way where I can simply
Try to see the world through open eyes
Don't think I think you're less
I don't want to express
Holier than thou
If I could get the comforts from the pleasures you allow
I'd be beside you there right now
So how do I relate
In an unfamiliar place
Where I wouldn't want you anyways
Please help me understand the change
That I hope you'll never face
Well I can't tie me to you
Cause' I can't express the truth
And I'm pounding circles into square echo holes
While one more normal comes
Again, and again, and again, and again
So how do I relate
In an unfamiliar place
Where I wouldn't want you anyways
Please help me understand the change
That I hope you'll never face
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Voice Lesson 2/8/18
01:05
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6. |
Coda
03:34
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Hey maestro how I wish to sing again
But the notes run rampant or silence falls
Without your hands
Composer of hilarity
Conducted into melody
The song lives on
As you vamp into
The great beyond
Even though you're gone
Your coda carries on
The music cowers inside my chest lost and trapped
The room where once all the voices danced
Is just a gap
Composer of hilarity
Conducted into melody
The song lives on
As you vamp into
The great beyond
Even though you're gone
Your coda carries on
If I had known this was the last
Chance we'd ever meet again
I would have tried
To give what you gave back
I said I'll see you, it lost it's way and came to rest
And the beat just won't be the same again
But I'll play my best
Searching for the melody
Filled with your hilarity
To sing along
As you vamp into
The great beyond
Even though you're gone
Your coda carries on
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7. |
Resting Road
03:42
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Porches glow warm and bright
Inviting light guides the night
Strolling slow, beneath my feet
The welcome streets where I retreat
Let me roam
The resting road
Though I don't know
Where I will go
Peace will bring me home
Skies are fair, stars are free
The moon it pleads to shine on me
Meet me there, where midnight plays
Share the way till break of day
Let us roam
The resting road
Though we don't know
Where we will go
Peace will bring us home
Let us roam
The resting road
Though we don't know
Where we will go
Peace will bring us home
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Leave
03:41
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Love has blinded all the godly men
The system fails them in it's gaze
What will it take to finally open their eyes
Tradition binds them all as slaves
Why can't they change
The tragedy's absurd
But holy is your word
So I need
To leave
Children pray but lose their hope again
All they've known is tainted grace
Faith is wasted by a thousand lies
The world moves on inside its rage
The dawning age
Its cries all go unheard
But holy is your word
So I need
To leave
Cause' Sunday's not for me
Rape and hate
The collar saves the day
How the fuck could Jesus want it this way
Flush the drain
Just maybe we could clean
Create the place you fooled us to believe could be
So I need
To leave
Cause' Sunday's not for me
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Finding the Groove
03:51
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Thanks or making hell a home
And giving me a hand to hold in my stasis
I want you to know
That all those nights
You kept me alive
And thanks for dropping everything
To come and keep me company in packs
I will not let go of every time
That you kept me
Alive Every day
How could I repay
Another chance to breathe
Thanks for curing my disease
And giving back abilities with replacements
You gave back the drive
To survive
And live a normal life
And thanks for never giving up
When I refused to take another step
Never out of ways to describe
How you kept me
Alive every day
How could I repay
Another chance to breathe
And thanks for showing me a day
Is worth more than all of the pain I've felt
Thanks for holding tight in the fight
That gave me back my
Life every day
How could I repay
Another chance to breathe
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David Bays Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Based singer/songwriter. Finding the joy through overcoming struggle.
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