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Wishing the Day
04:11
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Melancholy longing, reckless gaze
Dulling sting of halcyon days
The best that never was is yet a dream
Unbeholden beauty is not what it seems
I’m wishing the day, wishing the day away
I’m wishing the day away
I’m wishing the day, wishing the day away
I’m wishing the day away
Infinite sigh, from battered breast
Elysian splendor, rendered dispossessed
Nonsensical wisdom, quizzical whimsy
Hollow excuses, forever flimsy
The best that never was is yet a dream
Unbeholden beauty is not what it seems
In the Sea of Tranquility
Fear turns to felicity.
Beneath restless waves,
You’ll find me whiling my days
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Bright Lights
04:05
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Bright lights always keeping me awake
Closed eyes always leads to big mistakes
Till night when you come into my room
And bright lights come to carry me away
No one needs to hurt now
You got what you came for
Just leave them alone now
I’ll come with you quietly tonight
Sunshine or sunny so it seems
I’m wide awake and lucid in my dreams
I’m upright but you’re towering over me
You’re eye height but taller than you seem
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Marbury Park
05:01
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Shed the mortal coil,
Embrace your daydream a while,
Bide some idle time
Inside the slipstream away.
It keeps your hair on end,
where up is down, and not is in,
The deja blue begins
an endless, swirling wind
Keeping rhythm with the sacred dance
Chemically feeding the never-ending trance
Haunted by the ghosts I’d chased
Indelible years won’t erase
Another enchanted day with you in Marbury Park.
Faded pages of the mind
Sifting through the grit of time
Another enchanted day in Marbury Park.
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Into the Aether
03:58
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Ever and anon she treads the silvery trail, luminescent.
Gently ebbs along the swirling tide, effervescent.
Trip a traipse to Alexandrine shores, pearlescent.
Wistful whispers tickle unspoilt ears, delitescent.
Dancing between two worlds, belonging to neither.
Left alone to rectify, she slips into the aether.
Into the aether, Into the aether.
Feeble effort strains to meet the mark , acquiescent.
Archetypes will course the tattered path, obsolescent.
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Faded Nocturne
04:34
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Lying prone on stony ground in undemanding days,
Bathed in ghostly starlight, incipient in grace.
What wisdom whispers through cryptic skies?
What enlightenment hides from peering eyes?
Sing to me a faded nocturne,
Fill the night with bittersweet melody.
Sing to me of days gone by,
As slumber reclaims the depths of night.
Lingering remnants of daylight succumb to shadowed fade,
The morning glory’s trumpet withers in decay.
Like watercolor dripping from the curling page,
Blurred intent obscures the painter’s rage.
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The Simpletons Dallas, Texas
The Simpletons are a reformation of an alternative Dallas-based band from the early 1990s. Originally formed by Australian Nathan Fynn, the Simpletons relied on innovative chord structure, driving creative melodies.The Simpletons are Nathan Fynn, Brian McMurtry, Scotty Mac, and Kari Grant Campbell. The Simpletons are produced by Marty Willson-Piper. ... more
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