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Beach Ball
03:05
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Beach Ball
I was there yesterday, I waited for you at the cafe
Didn’t sleep that night, but even after a certain point
Regrets can’t be helped, you have to try and free yourself
I tried to hold us like a beach ball babe
But with no hands no fingers a mistake
A fake a fake, I fade I fade
About what you've missed, Id say your mission’s accomplished
It’s just like you said everything just ends up dead
I remember it now, a happy day and I don't know how
I tried to hold us like a beach ball babe
But with no hands no fingers a mistake
A fake a fake, I fade I fade
I've missed you but I’m mad, admitting importance to all that we had
Ill still write to you, but the pink is black and the paper’s blue
I tried to hold us like a beach ball babe
But with no hands no fingers a mistake
A fake a fake, I fade I fade
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Greenleaf
03:42
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Greenleaf
I’ve lived here a long time
I don't rely on anyone
If I wanna get a job done I have to do it by myself
My blood is far away but in the same house
My neighbor thinks I’m hysterical but I just have to protect myself
I live on an island of grass in a house that I keep clean
You know my husbands dead and he left it to me
I’m not hysterical I just need you to do something for me
I struggle and I sweat but I never get what I want to get
Help me, please
Never thought I’d die like this
Outside in disbelief at sunset
The beast has pierced my heart and im paralyzed by fear
Please get down on your knees and whisper in my ear
I’m not hysterical I just need you to do something for me
I struggle and I sweat but I never get what I want to get
Help me, please
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Third Floor
04:41
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Third Floor
Oh as the days move by just above the telephone lines
And I see just how quickly things change but some things are still the same
The crosswalks from above look like zippers on the asphalt
And the birds they are not above they are gliding the same altitude as us
The doug firs and the pine tree tops on the hills that are surrounding us
Let off steam as if they're on fire
But the cool rain makes the fog drift higher and higher
The rooftops all dusted with moss and the people we look down upon
And their chimneys and their windows
Its a view that we will miss when we are back down below
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Dearest Dear
03:51
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Dearest Dear
Oh dearest dear the time draws near when you and I must part
And no one knows the inner grief of my poor aching heart
Just to see how I suffered for your sake
You are my love so dear
I’d rather I could go with you or you could tarry here
I wish my breast was made of glass and in it i’d behold
Your name in secret I would write in letters of bright gold
Your name in secret I would write
Pray believe me when I say
That you're the one that I love best until my dying day
And when you're on some distant shore think on your absent friend
And when the wind blows high and clear a line or two pray send
And when the wind blows high and clear
Pray send it love to me
That I should know by your hand write how times have gone with thee
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Shelley Short Portland, Oregon
I like to write them, sing
them, and listen - all the way back to a long time ago. I think it’s all worth it, anyway.
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