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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 you
I am within you, but we cannot touch
You are within me, but we cannot touch
I am within you, but we cannot touch
You are within me, but we cannot touch
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I feel
A pull away from
From here
A pull away from here
Two years
Twenty years tops
Vomit
Vomit in the blood
But there is
Something stronger
Than fear
Surrendering to love
When I
Look quite closely
Into your eyes
I feel my inner strength
If there
Exists a person
Someone
To draw my soul in
It is you
Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other's gold
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Trapped again
Trapped
No friends
To help
Me out
Of myself
I can't sleep
The world's in front of me
I can't sleep
The world's in front of me
It's too far
Too far
Far
Far down
To see
I can't sleep
The world's in front of me
I can't sleep
The world's in front of me
I think I know
What to do
I think I know
What to do
I think I know
What to do
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Writing on a brand new page smudged with water
Once straight lines all mixed and faded together
From the depths, no one can hear you
From your own cell, no one will try
Decrees of love and satisfaction
Will echo back from a fortress on high
Somewhere, somehow, still, someone is waiting drenched in water
Common sense and fits of longing bleed together
On the wall, the words are written: "Run now while you still can"
Yet somewhere still a moth is burning, ending up where it began
And I may see your ghost
But it is kind and dishonest
Far away she can hear me
The constant beating of a heart
Footsteps each in the distance
And she can't tell the two apart
And I may see your ghost
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I'm writing a painting while lying in bed
I'll force a description to stay in your head
Denial
Denial
Colors are blending, we bleed into white
The void above us is torn by light
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
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You're with me wherever I go
I can never be alone
You're the only one I let in
I can smell you through my skin
I'm so far away from me
(What I need)
A distant light from across the sea
(What I need)
A familiar voice calling from the depths
I can barely hear my own footsteps
When I die blame it on the gin
Where I end and you begin
The thing that truly bothers me
Is who you are and I used to be
Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other's gold
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Today I fell
(You're with me wherever I go)
Only to drown
(I can never be alone)
Have one more
(You're the only one I let in)
The cause and cure
(I can smell you through my skin)
You build me up
(I'm so far away from me)
To tear me down
(A distant light from across the sea)
You tear me down
(A familiar voice calling from the depths)
To build me up
(I can barely hear my own footsteps)
(When I die blame it on the gin)
(Where I end and you begin)
You're what I need
(The thing that truly bothers me)
You're what I need
(Is who you are and I used to be)
What I need
What I need
What I need
What I need
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Thanks for showing me around last night, hope you don't think I don't care
Cause I do, I just don't know if I can feel this bad about you
After finishing your birthday drugs look at a yearbook unprepared
And betray yourself and sleep it off, 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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You
Your soul is knit to mine
I love you as myself
I've loved you as myself for years
Weeping whippoorwill
My your lake be still
You
You're grafted to my skin
If I were to lose you
Half of my own soul would rip away
I'd drive through the night
Until morning light
Daveed
Courageous and mighty
Do not forget your strength
Your faith lies at the brink of your mind
Weeping whippoorwill
May your lake be still
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I breathe by the grace of the Nazis
The sole few who spared the lives of my family
My blood courses with royalty
Here is where they sleep
Here is where they sleep
The sole time I missed you was in Majdanek
I winced hard and fought it, haven't thought of you since
That night, no sleep, I heard the scratched up walls
Just have another drink you fucking slob
You write it in your songs
You put it in your songs
My granddad escaped under a horse-drawn cart
He was discovered by his new sweetheart
Somehow they told me he fed his family
My blood courses with royalty
I am better than me
I am better than me
My savta escaped the walls of Treblinka
She was discovered by a Nazi guard
He said "run now, before you are seen"
My blood courses with royalty
I am free to be
I am free to be
I don't think that I believe in any god, but seeing my dad's words parting the clouds brought on a new light
Baseless hope will set you free
Baseless hope will set you free
Baseless hope will set you free
Baseless hope will set you free
Baseless kindness will set you free
Baseless love will set you free
I aspire to be
I aspire to be
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released December 4, 2020
Engineered and mixed by Jesse French
Mastered by Brandon Vaccaro
Songs by Jon Kohen
Acoustic guitar/vocals - Jon Kohen
Electric guitar/vocals - Jesse French
Vocals - Delia Bowman
Violin I - Jen Ho
Violin II - Pearl Fuentes
Viola - Alex Wen
Cello - Gavin Hsu
Pedal steel - Neal Rosenthal
Drums - Sam Parsons
