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No Minor Key
03:43
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There's no minor key I am fighting off
I'm just going for a walk, I'm just going for a walk
There's no minor key I am fighting off
I just wanna take a walk, I just wanna take a walk
Don't try to read some subtle shift
What starts in the dark and passes the lips
Into a machine made for bending it
What starts in the dark and passes the lips
Project your student film
On my back, on my skin
Make me what you will
Project your student film
You're gonna find what you're looking for
Suspicion is a tireless dog
You're gonna hear a minor note
If that's what you need from the song
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First Surrender
03:26
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Maybe there's a simple out
I can feel the tide a-changing
Set aside the burden ropes and blame
Loosen up the temper grip
I can be the first surrender
Sleeping in the amber waves of grain
Looking for a heartache sleeve
Lifting up the empty handed
Set aside the burden ropes and blame
Maybe there's a brand new key
I can be the first surrender
Sleeping in the amber waves of grain
Watching/waiting
Carrying the tender seedling, safe and warm
and I know its a simple way to live
All of the evil to forgive
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Homemade Radio
04:49
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I tried everything to reach you
Through a melody of thorns
Hoping to amplify some hidden beauty
Willing my new face to form
I climbed transmission towers
With my homemade radio
Hoping to land on your signal
Through sheets of static my heart will know
I've tried everything to reach you
Know I'm a fool to believe
Maybe I'm the fool you need
When the porch light moths are gone
and the last leaves shake on trees
Have they forgotten why they dance
Holding on to some long gone last shot dying in the middle of the street last chance
Know I'm a fool to believe
Maybe I'm the fool you need
Wanna be the fool you need
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Empty Handed
04:35
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If You Know This One
03:38
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If you know this one won't you help to sing it
If you walk alone and find you're needing
Although the air's getting hard to breath
If you know this won't won't you help me to sing
I'm not one to offer answers
When will we find good clean water
Can we change the way that we lived before
Every day is a closing door
Maybe there's still time to
Come clean leave our old selves how
Can we clean up the mess we've made
Here's to, hoping there's time left to
Get it right, only take what is needed
and leave something beautiful to find
Arms and arms and limbs of trees
All becoming refugees
Under the sun a day is born
The orphan child with no way home
If you know this one won't you help to sing it
If you walk alone and find you're needing
Although the air's getting hard to breath
If you know this won't won't you help me to sing
Maybe there's still time to
Come clean leave our old selves how
Can we clean up the mess we've made
Here's to, hoping there's time left to
Get it right, only take what is needed
and leave something beautiful to find
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Paper Chain
03:54
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In the wine heavy hour I chased an echo's tail
Closer to the source of all that's led me here
The dreams I had like whispers in a chain
Made of paper
I just wanted to belong
I just wanted to belong
Tried so hard for so long
I just wanted to belong
Patient in the storm my shelter will unfold
Close the swollen eyes I'll keep you safe and warm
You've got to believe that everything has an end
The darkness and the light
I just wanted to belong
I just wanted to belong
Tried so hard for so long
I just wanted to belong
Counting the ways I tried
To make myself appear
Before your eyes before your throne
Wait for your blessing
You lock the gate behind you
I wait in line
Before your eyes before your throne
Tell me you love me
I just wanted to belong
I just wanted to belong
Tried so hard for so long
I just wanted to belong
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So Many Days
03:34
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Living so much to feel alive
So many days to wonder why
Just when you thought you've seen the light
So many days to wonder why
Heartbeat a simple measure
A way of counting down
Sit still and keep it slow
There's things that can't be found
Some days I start to wonder
How do the pieces fit
Soon enough I fall asleep again
Emptied the sink of dishes
Wiped the counters down
Slept tight knowing well
The things that can't be found
Some days I start to wonder
How do the pieces fit
Soon enough I fall asleep again
Is it so wrong to live a lie?
So many days to wonder why
Just when you thought you've seen the light
So many days to wonder why
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Somewhere a Knife
03:47
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Masquerade
03:58
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10. |
Bended Snare
06:51
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