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Parks
03:08
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Now I'm going to play an album
All about the falling leaves
About all the parks in autumn
Walking through the golden trees
And from the slowest room to the fast hall
I'll only play the ones that make you sing
So you can shake, you can shake
I'll turn it to eleven
And I'll play it like it's five
When everyone starts leaving
We will sing your favorite one
We'll only sing the good ones good ones
We'll only sing the ones that make you cry
So you can shake, you can shake
I'll keep you awake through the summer nights
I'll keep you away from the ruthless lights
If you can keep me breathing
If you can take the sun from feeding
I'll take you away through the melting sky
I don't know the way but I know where to fly
When all the hope is fleeting
Silence from the noise of living
So you can shake, you can shake
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Fruit
03:40
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Old sheets, ghostly through my window
Can't shake the thought of you
Cool and towering
Mythic through the roof
I've got miles to sing about you
Got miles to hear from you
Real, peaceful, lethal
You're soft like gentle fire
You're soft like gentle fire
I don't want to go
I didn't feel so fun
I don't want it to be so long
But if I knew that you would go
So cold, polite, and wild
I don't want to go
I don't want to be too far
Take me
Put me by your side
Take Me
Right inside your eye
I have butterflies to see you
Don't know where I would start
Evil and fevered
You're far and I misfire
You're far and I miss fire
I don't want to go
I've never felt so fine
I don't think it's been that long
But if I really want to glow
And I can go so slow
I want to be
I want to be afloat
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Flowers
04:51
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So I sat down here to think of
of all the choices that we made
of what I'll bring myself to say
before the road takes you away
I'll build myself again
So when you come back you can tell
That everything that's nice was in our stars
was always ours
I don't ever want to feel alone with you
How much time has passed
And we were still the same
And we are still jumping around
And being different every day
We have some time to think
Of how we want the world to spin
Of how we want to start
Of how we want to end
But I don't ever want to be a stranger
Will you ask me if I want to go?
Even when you really know that I will just stay home
I would love to be invited
If you wanted me to be your teammate
Would you come around to play along, to fly and thrill me
There are words I can't imagine now
Now our path has been extended
Now our play won't always be pretending
There's nowhere else where i can I see myself
But I don't ever want to break your heart again
So I asked myself before
If I would hold your head
If all those things you said
were always tied to me
Now i'm walking in a vortex
Cause maybe you don't know
And you know I don't know at all
It doesn't matter anyhow
Cause I don't ever want to miss out again
Will you ask me if I want to go?
Even when you really know that I will just stay home
I would love to be invited
If you wanted me to be your teammate
Would you come around to play along, to try and feel me
There are worlds I can't imagine now
And there's nothing here concerning me
And as close as how we want to be
Because everything keeps hurting anyway
I don't ever want to feel alone with you
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Branch
03:00
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Here it comes, back down, momentary
Here it comes, polite and ordinary
Like an old friend, like a storm
A forgotten childhood toy
Takes me back, twists my insides, gives me hope
Makes me cry, makes me useless, gives me joy
Oh I can't control myself when you're around
Won't you please, leave me alone
There I go, outside, empty handed
Heavy bags, confused, noisy canvas
Trying hard to keep you out
I am fine with what I've found
But not you, you remind me what I lost
All the youth, all the trust I left behind
Oh I can't give in to all your dissonance
Won't you please, stay out of sight
So I'll go, awake every morning
So I'll go, alert to your charms
I won't let you in tonight
Your pathetic black and white
Has gone bland, has grown tired, cold and sad
Just a masked faceless coward looking back
Well I won't be that person anymore
Won't you close your eyes, goodbye
Won't you close your eyes, goodbye
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Leaves
03:47
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Are you awake?
Are you still thinking about eternity?
the human race?
the little monster hiding down the street?
Well it's still early if you want to take a run around the block
Well I'm still drowsy but I'll show you anywhere around the town
Well it's still warm out if you want to stay in bed until it's dark
Well I'm still shy but I don't mind if we go out and have some fun
I was still wondering if I'd get to see you
When you're back home you're always so mysterious
You'd have no time to set aside for me, but no
I have to ask myself if I'm delirious
I thought inside your strange and tall experience
You'd have no love to set aside for me, but no, me, but no
Did you escape?
Are you still finding your identity?
A brand new face?
A little closer to neutrality?
Well you would never trust a northern star to tell you where you are
Well I'm still lost because I've taken every turn when it goes right
It's not surprising you would find me when I don't know where we are
You're only passing but we get to be cold fire until it dawns
I was still wondering if I'd get to see you
When you're back home you're always so mysterious
You'd have no time to set aside for me, nut no
I have to ask myself if I'm delirious
I thought inside your strange and tall experience
You'd have no love to set aside for me, but no, me, but no
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Ben Beltran Guadalajara, Mexico
I once fought a wizard and won; enthusiasm enthusiast; noise emitter; low standards; displaced border crosser; amateur witch doctor; power ranger; certified cat whisperer; 98% water.
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