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Shovel & A Stopwatch
03:31
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I've forgotten what fall looks like
Weather wets the string and threads another week of 85 degrees
While blood clots at the turnpike
Bachelors wander pockets stuff with rings
I'm disappearing daily to the trees
The future's near
I'm hoarding every penny from the street in case we're out of change
Before your reappear
Remind me of the life between monotonies
Digging our new place to be
I've created something tiny
Jeopardy: what is a DMZ?
A trench, a safe of light and shadow for our dreams
That's right
CHORUS
...And all the week spent struggling to spell sentences
Like "I am here" and "We are fine"
Carving out small corners of the sky for you and me
Let's count up the days of our separate stories
Let them count against our separation
You said with conviction, "There must be time for us somewhere."
I quick-clicked off the stopwatch and led you into the trees
The future's here
And now it's safe to settle
From under here
We'll block the city with our thumb
It took a year
But now there's room for anything
So many possibilities
Like weeks to spend on sentences
Like "We are here" and "spin the globe"
I did my best to make a little home for you and me
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From Orbit
03:22
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The questions aren't getting far as there's no sound
You've never heard them before-- you sure won't now
But how big would I have to be
For you to finally notice me?
A stargaze mystery
I'm the strange satellite you see
I'm way up here
I'll stay up here
In the palm of my hand the planet turns
Places we'll never go begin to burn away
In which of these slow dying stars
The last call lights of closing bars
Are you asleep or scared to dream?
The night sings nightmare songs
But follow the moonbeams
And if a shadow passes through, it's just me
From way up here
(I'll keep you safe from far away)
I'll stay up here
(Just look up I'll keep you safe)
I'm drifting off
I'll hold you close
I'm way up here
(I'll keep you safe from far away)
I'll stay up here
(Just look up I'll keep you safe)
I want you nearby
I want you with me
To see the world
The way it looks from above
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Midnight Kids
05:04
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We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides
We’re the loud ones stuck in cheapest seats
Speak soft in leftover hours of night
To the future as if it was listening
Let's think about the might it might have taken
A generation's best
To reach from small towns into school texts
But that trail's been run so much
There's nothing left for us
But persevere
And tape together headlines
Of a world beyond our means
Wait for word to come from upstream
Gather bread crumbs through the city
Watch the ships blow out to sea
We don’t have to go home yet
We can lock the doors and try
Diagram our distance from
The perfect selves we do our best to be
Until the night knows better
Now, list the ways we hide from passing headlights
Cause we're more broken than we seem
A web of days dismissed as bad dreams
Parking lots at holy hours
Hide our crevices in comfort food...
… and conversation
Tell me how you wish you could be more
How you don’t know what you’re here for
(Don’t know why I’m here)
How our promises feel real right now
But I don’t think I’ll remember in the morning
We don’t have to go home yet
We can lock the doors and try
Diagram our distance from
The perfect selves we do our best to be
Until the night knows better
Come on let's drive!
We don't have much time
We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides
We’re the loud ones stuck in the cheapest seats
(We’re the loud ones… )
Speak soft in leftover hours of night
To the future as if it was listening
We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides
We’re the loud ones stuck in cheapest seats
Speak soft in leftover hours of night
To the future as if it was listening
We’re midnight kids playing footloose and fast
Our clothes stuck to the wet paint of growing up
But for tonight, the streets are where we survive
With our four seat speeches and storms in teacups
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Boys and Their Balloons
04:28
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5. |
Life After LA
04:15
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Watch our history go
Turned over in a game of Concentration in reverse
At first, I lost sleep on your explanations
Until the realization
I'm not safe with you anymore
CHORUS
When LA finally slides into the sea
We'll watch on our TVs
Stay home and grieve
But day by day, there's drift in the memory
Morning priorities shift away from the ache
And that's you and me love
It's history now and that's all it ever will be
I'd say a word and we'd see
Venn diagrams combine and share a meaning
Smile, draw and turn, they match
We spent hours on names and finally found a great one for the future
But you don't call it that anymore
I'll pull on my side, you pull yours
CHORUS
History now and that's all it ever will be
History now, and that's all, that's all
You've got friends in the writer's room
I've got friends rewriting too
And they'll both convince us we're the more mature ones
You're getting up and you miss me
I'm getting up
Guess what?
In the moments right before these memories close up
I will get better but enough’s enough
We took our separate ways out
With water round our ankles as we both looked on
LA finally fell into the sea
We watched on our TVs
Oh God, I grieved
And day by day
The months mowed the memories that both of us could have kept safe in the morning hours but
It'll never come back
History now, and that's all you ever will be
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Montana
05:32
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Montana
This is the last time
Gather everything we're owed and we'll be gone
Montana
Look out the window
At the shadows getting long in setting sun
Follow them past town
Into the deep frown of the cornfield rut we used to run
I promised you my share we'd never go back there
But I'd do anything
To see Mom and Dad again, so
Let's go home, it's been too long
Don't know what we are but I know it's gone wrong
Let's go home, let's finish strong
Could we learn tonight what we know each dawn?
Montana
Where are you going?
If you need to talk, why can't you talk to me?
Montana
You know I couldn't stop you
If you leave me with the screen door swinging, doppler sirens
Blue all around red – The ocean and hot lead
What comfort would, “I told you so,” be
Thrown at your memory?
Cut in the old tree
Yeah, I'd do anything just to keep you there with me
CHORUS
Now the streetlights
Fight the moon's light for monopolies on who's seen more
Don’t walk away
Remember we swore we’d always get out of here
But you’d rather stay
Stay breaking bottles and searching the splinters for signs
What’s got the best of you?
Poisoned your point of view?
We could still make it through
But I think I’m losing you
Montana
Guess I've got an answer
Give me all the time you can and I'll be gone
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9. |
Roseland
05:23
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10. |
We Didn't
04:48
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11. |
Climb
04:29
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Henry Mansfield Seattle, Washington
Seattle and LA-based anthemic piano rock. The best parts of Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie and Slingshot Dakota.
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