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"Tuning A String”
Somewhere
Away from me
It’s not where I’m meant to be
Plain to see
Don’t be afraid
Have no fear
It’s not where you’re meant to be
It’s clear
Sometimes
I’ll think of that song
“Over the Rainbow”
And I sing along
My voice will dip
In and out of pitch
But its sacred melody
Won’t quit
Finding a voice
Tuning a string
Seems the same to me
The same thing
Sing on, Judy
Sing real clear
For all the sinners here
Voices no one will hear
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Waltz Vincent
04:12
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“Waltz Vincent”
I saw
You wall to wall
I found
You bound for what
You knew you’d have
To make it
Has it
Been the gift I gave?
And what’s worse
Than the curse you made
When you knew you’d have
To make it
Greeting
The fleeting smile
Failing
In the tail-end style
Of what you’ve become
Just to make it
And so you’ll see
A reflection of me
Someday in the way
He tried
And so you’ll see
A reflection of me
Someday in the way
He tried
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Carlos Casagemas
03:00
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“Carlos Casagemas”
Carlos Casagemas
I have seen your shadow
Like the falling blue leaves
That fall upon me now
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
You kept your azul light
On a lover who kept to the shadows
Blazing ever so bright
Til the flame just burned you out
Let go
Let go
Let go
Let go
And I too have felt the flame
That just won’t change it’s color
My love may become my hate
My fate I pray is some other
If I let go
If I let go
If I let go
I’ll let go
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4. |
Here
04:20
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“Here”
Maybe you weren’t the one to blame
I find meaning in the words that came
Out of the mouths of those untouched
I’m calling every time I feel unloved
Your friends are here
Your friends are here
My sister, she knows me well enough
She doesn’t whisper, but she’s not too tough
My brother, sometimes he talks a lot
But his words, they shine a truth on my lot
Your family’s here
Your family’s here
The one thing I guess I’ll never know
Is seeing your father’s love grow
Because my dad, he was a good man
At thirteen I learned what I could, now I can
Know
The end isn’t here
The end isn’t here
My end isn’t here
My end isn’t here
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“Father to a Distant Cloud (Growing Smaller)”
Tread the water
I grow smaller
Find I’m
The father
Of half-hearted dreams
Wanted to stay longer
What you chose
Was stronger
I guess your
The mother
Of lion-hearted dreams
Thread the needle
The church and
Its steeple
Palms up
Heads down
Prayers turn red
Jump off
The big rope
Swimming
In deep hope
Summer
I see you
Prayers turn red
I see you
I see you
High on a distant cloud
High on a distant cloud
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Ballad On A Basketball
03:23
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“Ballad On A Basketball”
It's hard to play a ballad on a basketball
It’s hard to know the things you truly love at all
And when you get the truth, hope you figure it out
And when you get the truth, hope you figure me out
It’s hard to sink a jump shot with the sun in your eyes
It’s hard to hear your mother when she breaks down and cries
When you got no ups, always feels like down
When your layup sucks but no one else is around
Playin’ in the rain
Playin’ through the pain
Playin’ in the rain
Playin’ all the same
It’s hard to play a ballad on a Basketball
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7. |
Rose Marie
02:48
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“Rose Marie”
Rose Marie
Such a simple song
Had a dream
Where there’s nothing wrong
With my voice and I could breathe for free
In between
What I thought was a
Silverscreen
And a watchful eye
There’s a place where I can finally see
Oh
Oh
Rose Marie
So, I’ll sing
Of the praises you’ll
Never bring
Outside of this bed
Still there’s time, there’s room for me to dream
Oh
Oh
Of Rose Marie
Rose Marie
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8. |
The Name On The Stone
05:49
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“The Name on the Stone”
What is it you wanted?
What is it made of?
When you can’t see the other side of love
What is it you needed?
What was not enough?
When you can’t see the other side of love
Why’d you get so heated?
Why you act so tough?
When you can’t see the other side of love
Why’d you drive so reckless?
Then cry and fall down rough
When you can’t see the other side of love
I hope that you’ll remember
When you feel alone
That you can’t change the name on the stone
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“The Lost Paintings of Kathar”
What happens when the will of the artist wanes away?
How many hues of auburn and the hours of the flowers remain?
And though you were not dead, you whispered and said
“What I won’t burn, I’ll bury my burden of love around me…
Around me.”
Your friends told you that “All it would take is some time, you’ll see…
And Kathar, y’know, sometimes all the struggle is simply a seed.”
And though you’d soon be dead, you felt proud
So you chose to shield and shut out you art in a shroud
In a shroud
Your family, or what was left of them, weren’t there on that day
Just a lover and her mother as the snow fell like petals on the hay
And though you were now dead, your will, it read
A demand for a tower made of flowers to be your own unmarked bed
Unmarked bed
O, Kathar!
O, Kathar!
O, Kathar!
O, Kathar!
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10. |
Mill Valley
03:46
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“Mill Valley”
Listenin’ to Lykke Li
Wounded Rhymes
In the back of my mind
Wonderin’ if it was me
Who tossed a cigarette outside
In the dark
Could it have been the spark
That caused
Grandma’s ghost — to take it all with her
To the grave
To the grave
To the grave
To the grave
Sadness is a blessing
Only if you
Have the tools to outwit
Those with their heads
Full of fire
So, I watched the sun come up over
Flaming wood
In my bare feet I understood
What she meant
By love out of lust
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
We were saved
We were safe
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Perhapsy Oakland, California
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Perhapsy is the
solo project of musician/graphic-artist Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of Oakland-based groups Spacemoth, Mahwam, Bells Atlas, and former contributor to Curls (Christopher Owens of Girls), Astronauts, etc., and more
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