Common Holly - If After All
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Let's take this one day at a time
No more assumptions
I have no reason
Let's take this one day at a time
No more oblivion
I have no reason
I won't remember
If after all we're doing fine,
I'm breathing every single time
I have no reason to be blind
No more demons
Never ever
If after all of it I haven't learned yet
I'll learn it
Till I forget
I will always forget
Any way you spin it
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If I got you in a room
If I got you to hold still
It would probably be too soon
To hold you there against your will
But if I got you in that place
Maybe we'd see ourselves as humans
Because I've given you your space
And it has left me here in ruin
I won't open my mouth again
I won't open my mouth
I won't try to reach out again
I wont try to reach out
If I had another moment
To do what I want to do
I'd say I've got nothing to say
Because I'm done hurting you
And if I had another moment
Maybe we could see it through
I swear I won't try to reach out
Because I've already left you
And if I had another moment
To do what I want to do
I'd say I hope that for your sake
The world is done punishing you
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Devil's Doubt
02:08
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One silver hair to give you wisdom
Two silver hairs reflect your sadness
I can't imagine you've been eating
But I can see that you've been sleeping
With a heart on your sleeve
And the devil's voice in your head
Stop all that sitting by the window
Don't you forget about the daylight
It's about time you left your bedroom
You picked a side 'cause you were split in two
And now you can leave out
The devil's voice from your head
You are young, tread lightly
Your footsteps are too heavy
In the daylight use your slippers
In the nighttime use your wings
Catch a glimpse of the ocean
When the bathtub overflows
Stroke the fingers of the minute
When the minute hand is slow
And quit carrying that burden
And quit trying to know the story
Give the angel's voice a turn
Give the angel's voice a turn
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In My Heart
03:03
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I'll just be by myself
A little bit of distraction
I can't help but
Feel you in my heart
There's the greatest wealth
Of memories and affection
I can't help but
Feel you in my self
I will still be me
Don't worry about the anger
It's just because
You can feel me on your sleeve
Don't be afraid of time
We think it's going to harm us
Eventually it'll heal us
In our minds
In my mind, in my mind, I can't help it
With my heart, with my heart, I can't help you
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It's doesn't make a difference
If you shot me with your bad words
All of that, I've forgotten
By the end of the day
I'll be kissing the ground to know you're okay
I won't busy myself
If you're busy undermining
All the things I had to say
I know it would have been wrong for me to try to stay
And I will love you when the snow goes away
So if you give me your bad words
I'll take them quietly
They show me your pain
Not a reflection of me
Come out wherever you are my friend
It's safe
You can come out now wherever you are
And I will keep away
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The Rose
03:58
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Well I know I was the rose
But now I feel like I'm the thorn
And I can't get enough distance
Just to see that I am worn
And If it's evidence enough
Or if it's all been overblown
I'm gonna need some distance,
on my own
I'm gonna need some distance ,
time alone
It's a shame, it's a shame
My foundation isn't solid
Always cracking underneath me
It's so hard, so unnatural
To be two people at once
Does it ever run smoothly
Does it ever end truly
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The Desert
04:42
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I went into the desert and I missed him
Don't know if it was the mountains asking questions
I went into the desert and I held him
Through a muddy creek, he was sand pooling in my hands
And every night the desert sang a love song
And inside my languid body was a fight
And every night I hoped that he would come home
But by daylight I knew it wasn't right
The wash is drying up underneath the red sunset
And I'm a lizard slinking through the valley of regret
Oh I'm the wild coyote yelping at the midnight sky
A lover, forgotten how to love
The sparrow, how to fly
Hollow, hollow, when the moon is rising, rising
Lost my footing in the desert canyon
I lost him, and I lost my home
Saw him vanish into the horizon
And there I was, left to be alone
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Playing House
03:54
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In a town by all the birch trees
Where my love said there'd be fallen leaves
It's a distance we can travel
It involves no parting of the seas
It's a cabin on a lakeside and it's empty
Take the road along the lakeside
Hang a left before the great divide
Hope we get there after nightfall
So we'll have nowhere to wait and hide
Till tomorrow, till tomorrow, It'll look just the same
In the cabin with the birch trees
We'll uncover all our fantasies
It's a distance we can travel
To forget the thickening unease
Let us leave here, let us go there where it's waiting
We will find the path to go there
When we get close, breathe the open air
I'll play mom and you play daddy
And we'll ruin us beyond repair
At the cabin on the lakeside, if we take things too far
Hold on
For a little longer
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New Bed
03:00
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Clean sheets and a shutter I can't close
Where are the lights, excitement is enveloping
Newness is a journey in a new bed
Goodbye old friends and hello strangers
There it is still raining
There it is still raining
Here it's dry
I feel that we will get along just fine
If everything goes the way I have in mind
I feel that we will get along this time
This situation will work out just fine
Shadows that I don't even recognize
Can't guide myself without turning the lights on
Corners I happen to run into
But a steady beating in my heart
It keeps me ready
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Common Holly Montreal, Québec
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