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If you were a city
I'd drive through your streets
Looking for somewhere to sleep
People walk by
In their faces I see you
But your body is no longer here
I am within you
But I cannot touch you
I've missed you for thousands of years
I drive through the darkness
And it's cold as hell
But there's nowhere that I'd rather be
Because there's nothing quite like missing you
If you were a city
You'd be best represented
By the lights that shine overhead
They turn on and off
As I pass by each one
Somehow you're still lighting my way
I pull off and park
Right where you meant me to
Some rich part where no one will care
I turn off the engine
And get in the back
Of my fucking Honda sedan
But there's nowhere I'd rather be
Because there's nothing quite like missing
I am within you
But we cannot touch
You are within me
But we cannot touch
But I'll keep driving these streets every night
Because we'll be together someday
Because somehow we'll be together
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Here comes your pride and joy
The comic little drunk
You call your boy
Making everybody smile
Partakes your pretty plan
And then becomes a disappearing man
After a little while
I saw you with your make-up running down
Now what's that all about
You say you don't want anyone around
Cause you're all cleaned out
You toss the empty beer
Not really as composed as you appear
A icicle inside
Wearing clothes that clash
Wondering is this treasure, is this trash
Still trying to decide
About 5 o'clock here comes your clown
With the foot he's putting down
But all you say is you don't want anyone around
No not right now
There ain't nothing to drink
You don't want to think about it
I'm sorry you seem so stung
And I'm sorry you think you have to hold your tongue
When your so pretty and smart
I'm seeing you caving in
Becoming afraid of all these men
That you've given your heart
I saw you with your make up running down
Now what's that all about
You say you don't want anyone around
Cause you're cleaned out
All cleaned out
All cleaned out
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Well, I'd like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon
But I don't think I'd like to live there
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don't want to live on the moon
I'd like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I'd travel under the sea
But I don't think I'd like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren't real family
So I don't want to live in the sea
I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There's so many strange places I'd like to be
But none of them permanently
So if I should visit the moon
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I'll wish I was home once again
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I'll be coming home soon
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon
No, I don't want to live on the moon
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lyrics/performance notes
(sad)
I feel
a pull away from
from here
a pull away from here
(angry)
two years
20 years tops
vomit
vomiting up blood
(with love)
But there is
something stronger
than fear
and it’s surrendering
When I
look quite closely (with love, leaning in)
in your eyes
I feel my inner strength
Do only one of the B riff then build up HARD with C power chord
Bad-ass solo (REALLY dig in to those accents)
At the end/arpeggiation, REALLY dig in, and move up swiftly.
(softly, with intent, whispering in the loved one’s ear.)
If there
were ever to be
someone
to keep me here
it would be you
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Thanks for showing me around last night
Hope you don't think I don't care
Because I do, I just don't know if I
Should feel this bad about you
After finishing your birthday drugs
Look at a yearbook unprepared
And betray yourself to sleep it off
Then come down to collect it
I think you're funny
I like your friends
I like the way they treat you
I've got some money
That we could spend
Not that you're like that
I'm falling in love again
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Lyrics/performance notes
You have my heart +1
Carry it for the both of us 0
You won't miss what you can't touch - +1
So take hold; free us - 0
You have my heart
If it were a note, it'd be crumpled up
Remember these words instead:
“I leave, then this ends.” -
Ohh
You have my heart
From the ashes, it'll turn to dust -
When we die, nothing remains -
Only those you’ve saved -
Ohh -?
(Why)
In some ways, I'll miss you
Though I know it's just the same
(did she die?)
I'll never let her go, just like he will not escape your mind
So you'll never know
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You’re with me wherever I go
I can never be alone G
You’re the only one I let in C
I can smell you through my skin G
o0o0o Riff, little string riff
I’m so far away from me C
A distant light from across the sea G
A familiar voice calling from the depths C
I can hardly hear my own footsteps G
o0o0o Riff, end in F,
Riff, G, cut.
When I die, blame it on the gin
The end of me, and where you begin G
The thing that really bothers me C
Is who you are, and I used to be hold out chords
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Bottle up and explode over and over
Keep the troublemaker below
Put it away and check out for the day
In for a round of overexposure
The thing mother nature provides
To get up and go
Bottle up and explode, seeing stars surrounding you
Red white and blue
You look at him like you've never known him
But I know for a fact that you have
The last time you cried
Who'd you think was inside?
Thinking that you were about to come over
But I'm tired now of waiting for you
You never show
Bottle up and go, if you're gonna hide, it's up to you
I'm coming through
Bottle up and go
I can make it outside
I'll get through
Becoming you
Becoming you
Becoming you
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Wake from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today we escape, we escape
Pack and get dressed
Before your father hears us
Before all hell breaks loose
Breathe, keep breathing
Don't lose your nerve
Breathe, keep breathing
I can't do this alone
Sing us a song
A song to keep us warm
There's such a chill
Such a chill
And you can laugh a spineless laugh
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you
Now we are one in everlasting peace
We hope that you choke, that you choke
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When I was just a little boy
I asked my mother: "What will I be?"
"Will I be handsome? Will I be rich?"
Here's what she said to me:
"Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be.
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be."
When I grew up, and fell in love,
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead,
"Will we have rainbows day after day?"
Here's what my sweetheart said:
"Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be.
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be."
Now I have problems of my own,
they ask their victim what will I be?
"Will I be trouble, will I be kitsch?
I tell them tenderly:
"Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be.
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be.
Que sera, sera."
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When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need
Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling...
Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping
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capo 1 (or 3, if you're me)
C G Em
It's looking like a limb torn off
C G Em
Or altogether just taken apart
C G Em
We're reeling through an endless fall
C G Em F
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
Chorus:
Dm C
But no one is ever gonna love you
G
more than I do
Dm C
No one's gonna love you more than I
G
do
C G Em
And anything to make you smile
C G Em
It is my better side of you to admire
C G Em
But they should never take so long
C G Em
Just to be over then back to another one
Chorus
Em F
But someone,
F G
They could have warned you
C
When things start splitting at the
Em
seams and now
F G
The whole thing's tumbling down
C
Things start splitting at the seams
Em
and now
F G
It's tumbling down
C Em F G
Hard.
C G Em
Anything to make you smile
C G Em
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
C G Em
I never want to hear you say
C G Em F
That you'd be better off, Or you liked it that way
Chorus
Bridge
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Today I fell
Only to drown
Have one more
The cause and cure
You build me up
To tear me down
You guild me up
To tear me down
You're what I need
You're what I need
What I need
What I need
What I need.
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At my door the leaves are falling
A cold wild wind will come
Sweethearts walk by together
And I still miss someone
I go out on a party
And look for a little fun
But I find a darkened corner
Because I still miss someone
Oh, no I never got over those blues eyes
I see them every where
I miss those arms that held me
When all the love was there
I wonder if she's sorry
For leaving what we'd begun
There's someone for me somewhere
And I still miss someone
I still miss someone
Oh, no I never got over those blues eyes
I see them every where
I miss those arms that held me
When all the love was there
I wonder if she's sorry
For leaving what we'd begun
There's someone for me somewhere
And I still miss someone
I still miss someone
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A tall glass of you at night,
another in the morning.
I feel it in my blood—
there's something you've left out.
And when you're gone too long—
well, that's when I'll start shaking.
I need you here to—
//I know exactly where you//
I need you here to sleep,
cause I know I can't quit you.
I've tried at least three times, and each one was too long.
You bring me right back down to exactly where I belong.
Suddenly, it's late at night.
You call from across the room.
I smell you on my scarf from just two nights before.
You don't know that I know—
//I know exactly where you go//—
You don't know what I saw.
I make a quick remark,
I leave the party early.
I make a glass of you,
and then I smoke my mind.
This can't keep going
--I know exactly where—
This can't keep going
--I know exactly where you—
This can't keep going on
--I know exactly where you go when you don't sleep here at night.
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She said
She'd take me anywhere
She'd take me anywhere
As long as she stays with me
She said
She'd take me anywhere
She'd take me anywhere
As long as I stayed clean
Kiss kiss
Molly's lips
Kiss kiss
Molly's lips
Kiss kiss
Molly's lips
Kiss kiss
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I used to want to be alone
In a place I'd not escape
With nothing stopping me from
Seeming the same
To a world without me
At times I find myself
Frozen in my head
Sometimes still in my bed
Seeming the same
To a world without me
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20. |
Trap Beat
01:52
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22. |
Have Courage (Draft 1)
04:18
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I'll breathe life into these words if I have to
There yet lies strength within this blessed molt
Though my voice is thin within a whisper
Courage rumbles deep within my heart
Though the words you said drip like acid
They scatter at the sight of light
They cower at the wake of sincerity
And huddle towards scraps of blight
I emit a force so powerful
So stark, so quiet, and sincere
That with the thought of my sober mind combating them
They retreat and disappear
Like the subway cars down the tunnelways
Like the Australian girl with stars under her eyes
Like my sense of wonder and accomplishment
Like the future if I choose to use again
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Granite to Glass New York
Jon Kohen is a singer-songwriter who has been creating music as Granite to Glass since 2016. Through the course of numerous albums, EPs, and singles, Granite to Glass has captured the hearts of listeners with strikingly genuine songs, accompanied by orchestral strings. ... more
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