1. |
Purple Haze
03:26
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Tomorrow feels so evergreen
A racing heart at seventeen
I'm done with holding back
They say that love will find a way
Well baby you're my bullet train
I'm never looking back
Even if it's a lie, can it be true to me
I can't deny what a half-truth might do to me
In the right light, on the right night
I just need to know
Can you find me in this purple haze
Am I worthy of your scarlet embrace
I’ll undress my secrets next to yours
Girl I just have to know
What love has in store
In this purple haze
I used to want it crystal clear
Just had to know what brought you here
Now I'm just glad you are
Even if I'm a liar look for the truth in me
I can't deny all the half truths I've used to see
If you're the right mix of my vices
I just need to know
Can you find me in this purple haze
Am I worthy of your scarlet embrace
I’ll undress my secrets next to yours
I just have to know
What love has in store
I just have to know
Can you find me
Am I worthy
I can lay my secrets next to yours
If you'll find me in this purple haze
If I'm worthy of your scarlet embrace
I can lay my secrets next to yours
Girl I just have to know
What love has in store
In this purple haze
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2. |
Beautiful As...
03:34
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I won't move, close the windows to this empty room
Lose sense of time and space, and I'll pretend I age
As I choose
I trace my scars, they tell the truest tales of who we are
And I'll try to understand, that's while that’s who I am
It’s not who I'll be
Cause we're waves that take a shape, crash, and rearrange
A thousand times a day
And as the sunsets on the shore we're nothing less or more
No matter how we change
It's beautiful as we fall apart
I pull the shades, no, the dark that hides here, can't escape
As long as it's inside, I can still decide
To "be not afraid"
Can empty hands bear the weight of such an empty man
So far from seventeen and just as incomplete
As I am
Cause we're waves that take a shape, crash, and rearrange
A thousand times a day
And as the sun rises again, it's harder to pretend
I ever knew the way
It's beautiful as I fall apart
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3. |
Western Shore
04:27
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I could've spent my whole life waiting on the sunrise
Eyes fixed on the Western horizon
I've been drawn to the blood in the water,
Led many a lamb to the slaughter
All's fair in love and holy war
I just never knew what to do
When violence felt like mercy
When blindness set me free
When questions felt like weakness
Oh, I've worshipped and left unclean
But if I fight you no one wins
Cause if I go down I'm taking you with me
No more white washing my sins
No more taking these secrets to my grave
Because I will break before I bend the truth
I grew up reading between the lines of absolute truth
Procrustean suicide at best
Bet my soul on Pascal's wager, ooo, I'm such a sucker for a savior
Anything that can save me from myself
Cause I still don't know what to do
When lying feels like mercy
When hiding feels like peace
When affection runs on whiskey
At least I chose my suffering
But if you judge me no one wins
Cause if I go down I'm taking you with me
No more white washing our sins
No more taking these secrets to our graves
You will break before I bend, the truth
God’s own son couldn’t escape our sins, who are we to try?
He who was without sin dropped the stone and still got crucified
Maybe the lesson is never question the firing line
You don't need a God for a sacrificial lamb
If I fight you no one wins
Cause if I go down I'm taking you with me
No more white washing my sins
No more taking these secrets to my grave
Because I will break before I bend the truth
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4. |
If This Is a Mistake...
02:39
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If this is a mistake, it's better than the last one
I hear every sound you make and the silence after
If memories can change, let's write another chapter
No we can't erase, just find new distractions
We've been who we've been
We've been who we'll be
The only surprises left to see are what you'll draw out of me
We've lived and we've learned
Forgot in between
Wiping the set and setting clean, fading back into reality
Nothing that feels this good could ever be wrong
No words are coming to our rescue
But we've fled the scene before
I need what I want, wish I could want what I need
And we could be baptized in our sleep, and shake off the nightmares with the dreams
If we only live once, can double lives set us free?
Can I miss you, and have you, can I steal you, God damn you
Nothing that feels this good could be wrong
Right?
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5. |
A Song For Forgetting
03:36
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It’s new stories that you’ve known all along
It’s saying volumes without speaking at all
It’s a riddle with no answers
It’s a song that keeps changing keys
It’s five minutes stretching into a night
Being sick together, contagious and bright
Tomorrow's treasure is seeing today with new eyes
And one less secret to hide
If it helps to call me a stranger
And hope that all we have is tonight
Here's a song for forgetting
But enjoying the ride
We live and we learn, die a little inside
Stir up the ashes and feel more alive
It's hiding each other, it's a joke at a funeral
A slate you never quite wipe clean
When you don't know where you're going
But you know stopping ain’t an option
Here's a song for forgetting
But enjoying the ride
Here's toast to the last place I left my heart
Raise a glass to the family I chose
I make my home when and where I can
Til friends feel like strangers
Then I pack up again
Here's a toast to the last place I left my heart
If it helps to call me a stranger
And hope that all we have is tonight
Here's a song for forgetting
But enjoying the ride
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Adrien and Lizbet Palmer, and Lucas Reader, combine acoustic guitar, violin, keys, and bass for a blend of folk, rock, and acoustic pop.
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