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Landslide
03:44
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I took my love, took it down.
I climbed a mountain, then I turned around.
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills,
til the landslide brought me down.
Oh mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides,
can I handle the seasons of my life?
(Chorus)
Well I've been afraid of changing,
'cause I've built my life around you.
But time made you bolder,
even children get older,
and I'm getting older too.
(solo)
(Chorus)
I take my love, I take it down.
I climbed a mountain, then I turned around.
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills,
will the landslide bring me down?
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2. |
Bloom
03:50
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In the morning when I wake,
and the sun is coming through,
oh you fill my lungs with sweetness,
and you fill my head with you.
Shall I write it in a letter?
Shall I try to get it down?
Oh you fill my head with pieces
of a song I can't get out.
Can I be close to you? x2
Can I take you to a moment
where the fields are painted gold,
and the trees are filled with memories
of the feelings never told.
When the evening pulls the sun down,
and the day is almost through,
oh the whole world it is sleeping,
but my world is you.
Can I be close to you? x2
(whistle)
Can I be close to you? x3
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3. |
Vagabond's Lullaby
04:17
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He puts his heart in every chord,
and plays each note to please the lord.
And yet they pass him by on the street
and throw their change upon his feet.
He treasures those days, old radio by his side
where they play that old song that brings tears to his eyes.
A flashback to youth, his childhood home,
his father's cigar smoke drifts through the open window.
A ghastly veil, a worn down trail into the night.
Rivers dance in roaring romance in the waning of the light.
The vintage glow of yellow moon, and the distant noise of cars.
This world will be his final tomb, he'll rest beneath the stars.
Lay beneath the stars tonight, within the heaven's holy sight.
Take respite down below the trees, where gods and men have made their peace.
And in the morning when you wake,
make your way to some new place,
where beauty lies,
and truth's revealed,
concealed in long forgotten fields.
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4. |
Bayou
03:47
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When I walked the streets that day,
my fears they were so far away,
and this all seemed so perfect, tried, and true.
But when I reached out for your hand
on the cooling evening sand,
your fingers slipped through mine that cloudless June.
(Chorus)
Whoa, reached for your hand
on the cooling evening sand,
but your fingers slipped through mine,
so I wept away the time,
Whoa, we fell astray,
but that was yesterday,
and now I think the two of us can rhyme
I ran up to your door,
bounding over the boardwalk floor,
yeah I ran until my legs were raw and sore.
But when I looked back on the day
from the bayou to the bay,
the sun will still be setting evermore.
(Chorus)
I jumped into the car,
and headed downtown to the bar,
wondering if you'd stopped in for a drink.
But all I found were empty stools,
the jukebox playing old rock tunes,
the old days gone in just a single blink.
(Chorus)
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5. |
Hideaway Heavenly
03:27
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Well I've found it's a long and lonely life to be the moon,
when you're clear in the sky but people just sleep right through.
And you wax and you wane, and you never complain,
but the next night you're there right on queue.
It's a dark and scary world at the bottom of the sea,
it's black and it's silent and it's cold as can be.
Hoping you'll rise up on a tide you can't reach,
past the poor creatures living in a world we'll never meet.
If you take all the beauty that the world will not see,
all the unnoticed grace, the hideaway heavenly.
These things, they make my head soar off to infinity,
and the first thing to send me there was you,
yeah the first thing to send me there was you.
You should know once I met you, well the world came alive.
You showed me how a soul could live outside the touch of time,
how to let go of the wrongs without trying to make them right.
I was blind to all that beauty til I finally closed my eyes.
Shiny things rust, and the money runs dry,
and the best things you gave me were my wings, so I could fly.
But the world took you young, before we said our goodbye,
and I haven't seen the moon in a while.
Time pulls me on, but I'm missing your smile.
If you take all the beauty that the world will not see,
all the unnoticed grace, the hideaway heavenly.
These things, they make my head soar off to infinity,
'cause you said close your eyes,
and when I did, I could see.
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6. |
Sad 2
01:37
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He was just a dog,
now his body's gone.
So what's left
but me and my poem?
I am just a normal girl,
but my name is Frank
I just wanna get taken
on a date.
All the crazies on the bus
love me so much
I laugh at all the lights
and feel a little right.
What is coffee?
what is wine?
I don't mind
if you don't mind.
Honey you were always so sad,
cats out of the bag;
I'm sad too.
Dad made the appointment
to kill my best friend.
There goes my fear of death.
I just want my dog back
Is that so much to ask?
I wish that I could kiss his paws.
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7. |
Where I've Been
02:57
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Oh I opened my eyes to the dull familiar day,
with fleeting thoughts of dreams I'll never get to replay.
She had these grand plans, but she sat upon her hands,
and the whole world passed her by without so much as a goodbye.
Draws initials from the past,
on the condensated glass,
knees drawn in tight,
to fight the lonely night,
(Chorus)
I've been soul searching,
I've been hardly working,
I've been losing ground to the pavement underfoot.
And if you can't reach me,
well it's never all that easy,
grab the key, unlock the door, gotta find what I'm looking for.
I'll make it up to you, go ahead and count on that
We'll take a trip to the Vegas strip, lets lose our minds and blow our cash.
Where we off to next dear? Close your eyes and spin the globe.
Grab your bags, flag down a cab, I'll take you wherever you wanna go.
Because every pretty Bonnie needs a guns-a-blazin' Clyde,
ain't no feeling in this world like a good old partner in crime.
I wasn't made to stay in no 'inside voices' town,
I'm a hungry soul in search of gold
to turn this life around.
(Chorus)
Sail out off to sea to clear our minds and memories
watch the sun slip low and the stars begin to glow.
The way you wield that look, well I buckle every time.
My jello knees they shook, and your eyes reflect in mine.
(Chorus)
(For now my thoughts are far away, but I'll be back again someday)
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Irving & The Axolotls Cleveland, Ohio
Loren and I are friends from Cleveland, Ohio. We've worked with each other (and other friends too!) to make music as a hobby for several years now. These projects are mostly for fun, but they also provide a great outlet for us to share and discuss music with other friends and archive the stuff we've worked on. ... more
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