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Waves
04:22
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We left under moonlight
We went with the breeze
I bet on your blue eyes
You set for my green
We moved with the water
The tumble and sway
The slow dance gets harder
As level shorelines fade
So now I'm out drifting away
What can I say
You're barely listening, asleep in
The shade of tidal waves
Someone throw a lifeline
I don't want to drown
I can't hold you closer without just sinking down
Once I'm safe from the deep you're the waves at my feet that just keep pulling me out
By the power of the moonlight, when the tide comes around
You think that I worry about
What I can't see but fear
The truths always blurry somehow
We still hear these heartbeats clear
And yours might be steady now, yeah yours could be true
Mines always heavy with doubt
Like the current dragging on you
Someone throw a lifeline
I don't want to drown
I can't hold you closer without just sinking down
Once I'm safe from the deep you're the waves at my feet that just keep pulling me out
By the power of the moonlight, when the tide comes around
Oh when it's gone I'm right back where we start,
Waves from so long ago come and crash on my heart
All that we were and I dreamed you to be
Shines so bright on the deep and darkened sea
Someone throw a lifeline
I don't want to drown
I can't hold you closer without just sinking down
Once I'm safe from the deep you're the waves at my feet that just keep pulling me out
By the power of the moonlight, when the tide comes around
By the power of the moonlight, when the tide comes around
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2. |
Needles & Pins
03:50
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I woke up before the sun rose
Did my best to walk on tip toes
Needles and pins
Cus if you heard the way I pace around this room your mind would race for the reasons and sins
I never learned to wear a tie and go to work and tell you lies like everything's ok
Though sometimes it is for a little while
And I can live in between those smiles
And patiently wait
When it feels like home where you can't be found cause she haunts the alone and you need her now
Revered like gold in your plastic crown when your kingdom falls and you lay it down
Before the next breathe you need the grace
To breathe out
I've been talking faster I've been
Looking for distraction trying to loosen up some days
Ain’t it funny how we can't remember
Most our lives while a few words never mercifully fade
So I beg you honey take some pictures
Frame them hang them high and let's set fire to the room
Cus I think I like the lighting better when it's wrapped up in burning time like sweaters for the cold winter blue
When it feels like home where you can't be found cause she haunts the alone and you need her now
Revered like gold in your plastic crown when your kingdom falls and you lay it down
Before the next breathe you need the grace
To breathe out
Oh have I lost some keys in the dust as I cleaned up
Oh don't it always seem to come as you let go
When it feels like home where you can't be found cause she haunts the alone and you need her now
Revered like gold in your plastic crown when your kingdom falls and you lay it down
Before the next breathe you need the grace
Before the next breathe you need the grace
To breathe out
I woke up before the sun rose
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3. |
Firework
03:02
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Carolina, I've been looking for the time to tell you nothing feels the same since I moved back from where you are
Words don't line up, and every time I try to lay them down the god forsaken page rips out and tears up into parts, I’m tearing into parts
So Hallelujah, reads the church sign on the side walk now I pass along the five blocks to the amber colored door
What's it to ya if I still believe in magic see the beauty in our tragic and want to feel like there's something more
Since I told you that I love you and you said it isn't true, cus you treat love like a firework just to keep the sky amused and you might find that given time and once the fire burns the fuse, you still stand too close
California, can leave the money on the table and the silver in the halos of the angels in her sky
I adore you, so I'm getting on this train home and I'm letting all these stars go, I'm sleeping through the night
Since I told you that I love you and you said that might be true, but you treat love like a firework just to keep the sky amused and you might find that given time the fire burns right down the fuse and you still stand too close
If I said again I love you would you say you know it's true, we can treat love like a firework just to keep the sky amused and we might find that over time the fire burns right down the fuse, but I'm still standing close
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4. |
Ring
04:33
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Standing on this holy ground
Of fallen leaves and crooked limbs
Looking back I see you now
Climbing high no mind the risk
The subtle lines beside your lips
Like souvenirs of years of laughter
And dangling cross across your wrist
Got you through more than you asked for
They say it's a ring that wraps around
With no end and no beginning
Like the well spring underground
The way you sleep, believe through doubt
It's the way we stay here living
As our names fade from this town
It's the way you keep on giving me your fire to burn on
Feels like I can't come home
The more I'm gone the more things change
The man I am ain't what they know no more
And under all these coats of paint
I know there's lines I know there's cracks
I know there's times we couldn't see
The leaks and damage in the rafters over years gone past
But still feels safe up in those trees
They say it's a ring that wraps around
With no end and no beginning
Like the well spring underground
The way you sleep, believe through doubt
It's the way we stay here living
As our names fade from this town
It's the way you keep on giving me your fire to burn on
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5. |
Alone with You
03:06
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I love you, I hate it, I can't get through
I've tried to re-name it to a face not you
But it can't be contained and
And it just won't do
What I want so I'll let it out
My body's been aching from times hard weight
And I'm sorry for shaking in your steady grace
But I'll say it if you say it but I won't go first
If you want to leave then walk me out
Let's go get lost on a long back road
Where the river turns to streams and the time moves slow
It's not anything you say, anywhere we go
It's just being along with you now,
Being alone with you
Either death like a shadow or love like a light
Every step it must follow then stay back and fight
For what you laid down or stood for in your life's great breath
We sigh out, but we never die
Let's go get lost on a long back road
Where the river turns to streams and the time moves slow
It's not anything you say, anywhere we go
It's just being along with you now,
Being alone with you
Let's save our breath
And let’s go get lost on a long back road
Where the river turns to streams and the time moves slow
It's not anything you say, anywhere we go
It's just being along with you now,
Being alone with you now
Being alone
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6. |
Between the Stars
04:12
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Maybe I was looking down
When you, the satellite broke through
And left the spec that was our town
And disappeared in fading blue
So when the gravity let go
And all the forces loosened grip
I couldn't help but feel alone
In some way heavier for it
All I know to say
Is it as lonely in between the stars
As I've been back home watching from far away I wonder where you are
And did you look back as you crossed the moon
Do you wonder if I wonder bout you
And so we turn and so it goes
You feel the timing start to slip
We'll meet again one day I hope
Like midnight waves of passing ships
And when you feel the dreams collide
Is it as lonely in between the stars
As I've been back home watching from far away I wonder where you are
And did you look back as you crossed the moon
Do you wonder if I wonder bout you
Is it as lonely in between the stars
As I've been back home watching from far away I wonder where you are
And did you look back as you crossed the moon
Do you wonder if I wonder bout you
Do you wonder if I wonder bout you
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7. |
Time
03:26
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The day's almost over
The sky's 'bout to show her
The first glimpse of gold over waking up dreams
And thing is I don't know
Why things that I felt so concerned with just let go
And drift with the breeze
Like all of these colors
Then stars softly fade in
And all of the silence
I wish I could save up
For times when I need it
Sometimes when we leave it unspoken I hear it
And hum in a melody
The crickets sing harmony
I've been running round looking for answers in all of these days
There still ain't enough
Like the moonlit late planes
Let the questions just hang
All I need is time with you love
The wind in your bedroom
The curtains left open
The shadows of branches dancing in light here
Sing me a love song
Something from so long ago
We don't know when or who they did write it to
So I can decide it's you
I've been running round looking for answers in all of these days
There still ain't enough
Like the moonlit late planes
Let the questions just hang
All I need is time with you love
I've been running round looking for answers in all of these days
There still ain't enough
There ain't enough
Time with you love
I've been running round looking for answers in all of these days
There still ain't enough
Like the moonlit late planes
Let the questions just hang
All I need is time with you love
I've been running round looking for answers in all of these days
There still ain't enough
There ain't enough
Time with you love
There ain't enough
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8. |
Blue (Midnight Version)
03:16
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There's someone running round in your head tonight
Circling your heart like a satellite, I know
There's ghosts in the road and my home, that's right
Where it creeks in the floors and the water pipes run cold
And you might have your company
But I've got these lines and memories to hold
And keep close
Cus you're blue on a cloudy day
There's dust falling down from the ceiling fan
Tracks of a past life's steps and plans I'd follow
And the world just turns like a record spins
I close my eyes smell the rain roll in cracked windows
And you might have your sympathy but
I've got this time, a fire, and pea coat
To keep close
And wait for blue on a cloudy day
There's someone running round in your head tonight
Circling your heart like a satellite, I know
A new day breaks, a flash of light
Dries up the rain before the embers go
Cause you’re blue, oh you’re blue, yeah you’re
On a cloudy day
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Woke up cold the smell of smoke & ash
Of fires bright and burned away
Your Notes still ringing in my ears I guess
A choir louder every day
All my words are caught beneath my tongue
All my lines still hid somewhere deep in my lungs
Oh my chest says it's not over just yet
Oh my mind guesses it's not clear ask again
Both my feet seem to want to lead straight to your door
But oh my eyes see you're not here anymore
I've been waiting for your hearts arrest
After all those wanted signs
Plastered everywhere I go confess
The breath you broke in and stole was mine
Oh my chest says it's not over just yet
Oh my mind guesses it's not clear ask again
Both my feet seem to want to lead straight to your door
But oh my eyes see you're not here anymore
And no one wants to leave
With broken bones but we
Can't help but fall sometimes
Oh my chest says it's not over just yet
Oh my mind guesses it's not clear ask again
Both my feet seem to want to lead straight to your door
But oh my eyes see you're not here anymore
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10. |
Olivia (Bonus Track)
04:45
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[Verse 1: Canyon City]
Hello old friend
Are you in love with love again
Whispered to my reflection
Have you forgot just how it ends
Good bye good dream
It sure was nice to fall asleep thinking of you
But now daybreak screams so loud
I understand you have to leave
[Pre-Chorus]
But there's one thing or two
I've been thinking through
And need to slide off my mind
So if you find a little time
I wrote a note that goes something like
[Chorus]
I don't blame you for the winter
Or the way I feel when I'm alone
And I won't hold your smile against you
Or write your name into a song
Olivia
Honestly we could be happy
If we first taught our hearts to stand
But just so long as I need to need you
We're two left feet going dancing
[Verse 2]
Good news, new day
The sun has chased the dark away
I do have one favor to ask
When everybody's gone could you just stay
A few minutes past
[Pre-Chorus]
Cus there's one thing or two
I’ve been thinking through
And need to slide off my mind
So if you find a little time
I wrote a note that goes something like
[Chorus]
I don't blame her for the winter
Or the way I feel when I'm alone
And I won't hold that smile against her
Or write her name into a song but
Olivia
Honestly we could be happy
If first we taught our hearts to stand
But just so long as I need to need you
We’re two left feet going dancing
[Bridge]
Just so long as I need to need you
With every twirl we'll fall
So if we can't move on from this
Well
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Canyon City Fort Collins, Colorado
Canyon City is the moniker of modern folk artist & producer, Paul Johnson. Since its inception in 2015, the project has become known for its distinctive whispery vocals layered over intimate acoustic orbiting candidly emotional storytelling.
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