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Silver Lining
01:00
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Tell me it's begun
But I can't hear a sound
You tell me you are serious
Through the makeup of a clown
But I see a silver line
And I see it flicker out
And lose its mind
Tell me where to run
It's the only thing to do
Tell me your experience
Without a sliver of the truth
And I see a silver line
And I see it flicker out
And pay respects to the end of someone's momentary peace
Of mind
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Moat
01:23
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When I die
I will float along a moat
With questions
That I had when I was old
Will you hear them
From my aching throbbing throat?
Will they carry
Through the lifetime I rewrote?
And I know
That I started
Flickin thoughts from a bridge
And I know
Black waters
Deep enough to begin
To bury the answers I want
And all the wounds you forgot
In the living rooms and grocery stores I haunt
You forgot you forgot you forgot
You forgot you forgot you forgot
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3. |
Blue Eyes
01:12
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Blue eyes come from your family
Blue eyes see so much more than me
Stare down into a memory
Of the hour you're waking up
To the echoes hanging above
You are everyone I love
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4. |
Hysterical
01:44
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Never any doubt
We took our time and found we'd never figure it out
Slowed down to a crawl
It's a miracle we made it out at all
Stumble to a fall
And we say, "Oh,
My lies melt like icycles"
In the middle of the story,
We say "Oh,
Your logic is hysterical"
And you'll never change my mind
So don't you try
Don't you try
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5. |
Another Home Song
02:18
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Summer's like a hawk lurking around the bend
Keeping tabs on you like bunnies hopping through the rock garden
And you take me backwards
To when I used to dream
Of my notebook in the barlight
And a liquid self-esteem
And you make up memories
Of lives I lived alone
But you can't make up
A home
Loneliness is shaking hands with his brand new friends
He is bloodthirsty and tired of the nights that never end
And you take me backwards
To the smokey living rooms
Watching hockey on a weeknight
When we'd wake up much too soon
And you make up memories
Of the fair and friendly fights
And it makes me feel
Alright
Dawn is just some esoteric piece of advice
From some billionaire American undead parasite
And you take me backwards
To when I used to dream
Of my notebook in the barlight
And a liquid self-esteem
And you make up memories
Of lives I lived alone
But you can't make up
A home
No you can't make up
Your home
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6. |
K-Gun Cafe
01:26
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Spilled coffee stained our sleeves
While we were sitting there
Waiting for scrambled eggs
Served with a side of despair
Inhaled the old perfume
Scented like cigarettes
We shot the shit like Jim Kelly
Threw long bombs of regrets
And we knew Time
Was like a freshman dorm poster
It defines us till we grow up or die in some great disaster
And we knew Truth
Was just some rumor in Wisconsin
Seen in Brett Favre's tiny legs and last minute throws that still come to haunt him
And we knew Love
Was in the bars on Sundays
The dream of Tom Brady's retirement some day
And we knew Love
Was the old men who stayed
And used their ruined voices in those steel town cafes
Spilled coffee stained our sleeves
While we were sitting there
Waiting for scrambled eggs
Served with a side of despair
Inhaled the old perfume
Scented like cigarettes
We shot the shit like Jim Kelly
Threw long bombs of regrets
We shot the shit like Jim Kelly
Threw long bombs of regrets
We shot the shit like Jim Kelly
Threw long bombs of regrets
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7. |
Remarkable
01:55
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When the sky sheds its amorous gray
And the wind blows our fence in the lake
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
We'll drink up today
And we'll smile and we'll stay
When the crows caw and fill up the sky
And our coffee mugs fill the fourth time
How will we know?
How will we know?
When the world disappears
We will still be right here
And I'll remember the driftwood
Your hand in my hand
Our city in silence
Your remarkable laugh
Where will we go?
How will we know?
You're forever my only home
You're forever my only home
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Why should I believe you
When you pepper in your lies
You wear your pestilent past behavior
Like a bulletproof disguise
And I have fallen off my axis
I am old and out of practice
And it's hard to believe
I'm waiting patiently
In this virgin guillotine
Don't you ever wonder
Why your mind it seems to wander
To some awkward lapse of reason
Little cognizant shit to ponder
To feel wise as Nostradamus
Or as crazy as a caucus
But your wisdom couldn't save us
From the silver sheen
Of a virgin guillotine
Why do you follow all the rules?
They were written up by hypocrites and fools
You can win and still find a way to lose
You can win but it won't be you
Why should I continue
Seeking truth within the static
When my day to day reactions
Are so cold and automatic
Like a preprogrammed assassin
I've assessed my lack of passion
And it's hard, but I concede
I'm waiting patiently
In this virgin guillotine
Waiting patiently
In this virgin guillotine
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9. |
Circles (BONUS)
04:28
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I don't know why I'm stuck in circles
I always feel so sorry for my friends
I loop around and I feel so certain
This time around I'll be coming up to the end
But then I can't pretend
And so I do it again
I can't believe my rosey red vision
It never seems to show me what's up ahead
The turning points and the moot revisions
The flying saucers synchronized to your head
In a burning red
And then it happens again
And we run round round round
Like a bolder in the snow
And it sounds sounds sounds
Just like we know which way to go
When the walls fall down
And you're too lost to stumble home
Tomorrow knows the same's in store
Through the next door
I done my time with some bad decisions
I don't remember half of what I said tonight
I loop around with a sweet new wisdom
This time around I can spread around my new insight
But then they dim the light
I guess I'll call it a night
I don't know why I'm stepping forward
Get nowhere fast but I'm happy nowhere with you
I don't believe in sad sappy endings
It's time to take a pen to my life review
Take a minute or two
Just to circle the truth
But you're still gone gone gone
Like a leaf in a windy fall
And you're song song song
Sounds like you've learned nothing at all
When the walls fall down
And you're too lost to stumble home
Tomorrow knows the same's in store
Through the next door
And we may run run run
From the love that we need the most
But we're done done done
Taking blame for a lonely ghost
When the walls fall down
And you're too lost to stumble home
Tomorrow knows the same's in store
And I can't take it anymore
Tomorrow knows the same's in store
I don't know why I'm stuck in circles...
Through the next door
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I feel fine with where I've been
Dancing on the outskirts looking in
I feel like a lonely ghost
Looking all around for a place to go
I feel fine but out of place
Looking all around for a friendly face
You don't know but I look strange
I was never here I was far away
And love
It whispers then it rusts
And opens up to one
Illusion we discussed
In empty talk
You set it up and said good luck
You knew it would come
In your blood
But it sat there sinking
Poignant and untouched
I step out to watch the snow
Peer through the glowing window
This feels right
A look inside
I won't remember
If I'd just stayed home
But I had to go
And love
It whispers then it rusts
And opens up to one
Illusion we discussed
In empty talk
You set it up and said good luck
You knew it would come
In your blood
But it sat there sinking
Poignant and untouched
Like the driftwood sitting in the ripples of a flood
And you sat there sinking.
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Alex Berkley Buffalo, New York
Alex Berkley is a singer/songwriter rooted in Buffalo, NY who has been writing and performing for 13 years or so. Berkley's songs feature melodic poetic lyrics with a pinch of whimsy and wit. His debut album, Lists & Listlessness, has been called, "Awesome," by many of his close friends. Most recently, Berkley completed his third volume of fun-a-day songs in February 2015. ... more
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