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BEING WITH YOU
the moment i kissed you i knew it
ten ten on a friday night
all these years in the dark i said screw it
being with you being with you turned on the light
you said you’d love me forever
one week and you’re moving away
fast track from always to never
what can i do being with you one more day
we could take a walk on the beach
hand in hand, skin to skin
we could lay in the sand and begin
you tell me you’ree paint me a rainbow
come and get it at a quarter to four
knock knock it’s nice to meet you miss laidlow
“he’s up in his room, keep to the left,
the second door”
your mother’s packing the pantry
i watch you folding your clothes
then you unbutton your pants, tell me
it’s gonna be fine unbuttoning mine
we’ll see love grow
after blast off a walk on the sun
you above, me below
time to cast off, i whisper my love
you tell me you know
i think i’ll go to church naked
kick start my life full of crime
i finally find my heart and you break it
the things i would do to be here with you
six weeks and the pain hasn’t faded
i scratch your name on my arm till it bleeds
the lights are out again the world is deflated
what can I do being with you is what i need
being with you being with you is all that i need
being with you being with you
being with you being with you…
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NADINE
nadine lives in a dream
phone bills and sleeping pills
lost in between
nadine, jersey queen
life’s cool when the kids are in school
and the kitchen’s clean
okay, okay, okay
nadine sways in the steam
hot shower, they’re home in an hour
she’s the star of the scene
nadine face full of cream
tired eyes judge the weight on her thighs
and watch the mirror scream
no way, no way, no way
what do I have to do?
what do I have to do?
what do I have to do to make it through?
nadine lives in a dream
children in bed, ugly thoughts in her head
caught in between
nadine, alone on her knees
one soft prayer in a forest of despair
god bless the trees
how do I make it through?
how do I make it through?
how do I make it through to you?
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FADING TO GREY
don’t let me go
you’re drifting away
i can see it in your eyes, there’s something’s wrong
frozen in time and you don’t have long
nobody hurt you, doesn’t mean you weren’t abused
you can’t blame the flame on the fuse
don’t let me go
you’re drifting away
fading to grey
last in line, the cornerstone
all above, none below
the buck stops and you’re all alone
the world on your shoulders, but nothing to show
don’t let me go
you’re slipping away
fading to grey
no matter you say
i won’t let you go
we’re one and the same you and me
but the path to freedom is where we disagree
eye to eye, we share a soul
but while i’m filling, you keep digging the hole
sometimes i think that it would have been better if i could’ve just let you be and let you go
but you can’t cut the cold from the snow
don’t let me go
it’s slipping away
fading to gray
it’s gonna be okay
i won’t let you go
only love can break you heart
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THE WEATHER
too much history
too much you and me
too much time together
let’s talk about the weather
we live in different worlds
reality and yours
I could tap dance or try to be clever
let’s talk about the weather
we used to see eye to eye
but maybe we had blinders on
we used to hold hands but by and by
life goes on
the truth is a poke in your eye
but it hurts too much to lie
it needs to be now more than ever
let’s talk about the weather
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GRAVITY
i’ll come around your way
i’ll try to see your shade of gray
another world another day so fine
i’ll come around you’ll see
i’ll cross your i’s you’ll dot my t’s
and all the while this fantasy so fine
but something holds me down, these iron boots, this gravity
swimming to the surface from the bottom of the sea
and somewhere stars are shining, children laughing, and so are me
trade my eucalyptus for your twinkling evergreen
i’ll come around if you don’t mind
i’ll join the search until I find
the bitter end to leave behind so fine
i’ll come around your way
i think I see your summer day
your color wheel warms my dying gray so fine
i might be a square but i can shed my corners
i’ll come around
i’ll come around
i’ll come around
i’ll come around
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Helium
00:47
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UP UP AND AWAY
monday morning and i’m waking
i push the fishbowl now it’s making it’s way to the ground
monday afternoon i’m clear
all that’s far away is near
monday evening and i’m crying
far to fall when you’ve been flying so close to the sun
monday night the fuses blow
it seems i’ll have to let you go
too high to see
a world of color now blue and green
too high to see
chew up the details and life can be a dream
tuesday morning and i’m shaking
the spark’s a fire now the truth takes the bull by the horns
tuesday afternoon i roam
a hero’s got to have a home
tuesday evening i let go
i watch the worlds collide and smile as the fishbowl explodes
tuesday night i’m all alone
you have to die to be full grown
and i can see the bones
who would i be if i left it all behind
what will i see when i peel away my mind
the truth speaks slowly, my thoughts go rushing past
i reach to touch my soul, but the drugs kick in at last
wednesday morning and i’m aching
the cracks are putty-filled i splinter when breaking apart
wednesday morning the fire’s gone out
they took the certain and left the doubt
too high to see
no one i think is in my tree
too high to see
there’s all of you and all of me
too high to see too high to see
too high to see
the world falls back to shades of grey
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STILL LIFE
home again
that cruel ‘lectricity again
the pressure bearing down
a frozen explosion
drives you inside again
a place to hide
in crashing chords and melodies
an ode to thurman munson
two shelves of science fiction
home again
that cold incinerator
the web behind the looking glass
frustration beats like a drum again
anger comes
bloody knuckle smelling salts
and shame shoveling earth
holding up the wall
loyalty above all
never welcome
no one is ever welcome
kill yourself in quiet
and protect our world
home again
a child become a man
your children won’t ever have to hide again
you moved up and away
but still you’re home again
i’m home again
let it all fall down
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BEHIND THE BLUE
we enter upside down
we exit underground
there’s just a moment’s air
still we care
we’re all inside alone
waiting by the phone
though it never rings
still we sing
there’s only there
because we’re here
and the we
is me
everyone is one
and you are too
everyone is me
everyone is you
we rise and fall
like juggling balls
we stare up at the sky
we know we’ll never fly
still we try
we live in dreams
nothing’s as it seems
we’re all out of control
bless my soul
everyone is one
and you are too
everyone is me
everyone is you
everyone is one
and so are you
woe is me
and woe is you
everyone is one
everyone is too
everyone is me
everyone is you
everyone is one
and so are you
everyone is me
behind the blue
hidden by the blue
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GHOST STORY
a broken heart, a valentine
half-remembered details of another life
a checkered scarf, an apple tree,
the lavender bouquet on your gray-green vanity,
my fraying sanity,
cross my heart and throw away the key.
a whipping post, a melody,
distracts me from subtracting from
what used to be
us minus you is me
a loyal friend, a home betrayed
fresh cemented feelings
show the holes you made
filled with vodka and lemonade,
but I can’t drink your judgment away
i can still hear you say:
“why does it always have to be
you and me against the world?”
a broken heart, a starting line,
half-forgotten details of another life
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CRY
what can i do? what can i say?
when i’m with you i want to stay
now that you’re gone, there’s only me
i’m all alone, how can this be?
i think i’m gonna cry
it’s hard to say goodbye
i tried to hate you, i laughed in your face
you couldn’t wait to leave my place
i made a mistake, i’m begging you, “please”
just give me one break,
can’t you see that i’m on my knees
i think i’m gonna cry
i just can’t say good bye
what can i say? what can i do?
it feels like today yesterday was with you
there’s no more hope, can’t make a sound
at the end of my rope
i’ll just be here hanging around
i think i’m gonna cry
i guess this be goodbye
i think i’m gonna cry
so hard to say goodbye
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LOST AND FOUND
everybody plays the fool when falling down
every dog and every day the lost and found
a sweater red
a lonely ked
a sound
in a battered cardboard box a useless key
you sift and turn and look where can it be?
a book of poems
noise reduction phones
and me
where can it be?
carousel me homeward
turning old and gray
over rooftops roaming
far away we’re falling
down you’ll come
and down I’ll follow
everybody plays the fool while underground
everybody’s digging through the lost and found
diamond ring
a ball of string
winding up
winding down
there you go again
there you are alone with me
together lonely
all that comes around
and all that runs away
and all that makes you me
at the bottom of the bottom
a tinfoil bird
a dying word
unheard
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(PUMP UP THE) VALIUM
fire cracks the sky
bleeding north and spilling south
slowly burning its way to the ground
the wind worries in
punches dusk in the mouth
rushing mad through the branches
a song without sound
fate’s fickle fingers
stick her pins in the dark
and needles of light sparkle out
the moon pulls the tides
guides the blood through my heart
leaves me dangling suspended
between fever and doubt
pump up the valium
pull down the shade
life is unkind
and you’re slipping away
once upon a time
it was happily ever after
and ever after’s been nothing but pain
you huffed and you puffed
and you blew out the headlights
kept your foot on the pedal
we sped through the rain
the heater’s on high
still i’m numb to the bone
when i stand it’s just like lying down
i’ve got so much to tell you
but i can’t find the phone
or the floor or my fingers
through all this spinning around
pump up the valium…
i open my eyes
and consider the ceiling
try to guess if it’s day or it’s night
you left me the bed
but you burned all the blankets
my cold comfort
your licorice spite
i float to the kitchen
try to manage some eggs
and pretend that i wanted them scrambled
then on to the couch
and a world where i don’t miss you
as i count out the cure
then forget
i count out the cure and forget
i count out the cure
pump up the valium…
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Andy Liotta Seattle, Washington
Genius is an overused word in the music industry. Not in Andy’s case. He’s a true solo artist in the strictest sense: he composes and arranges all his music, writes the lyrics, plays every instrument, sings every vocal and mixes his records. Be blown away by Andy’s debut album, Monday Songs. ... more
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