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Family Of Anything
03:00
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You buy
Those lies
That you're nobody
Til somebody
Tells you you're real
But I feel
So real
I feel like I'm already
Real
People
Real people
Reeling from feeling
Those feelings we feel
Get away for me
Get a way from me
To you
Breathing
Believing
The stars will collapse
And the blackest of black
Takes your breath away
You gave your breath away
They say we
Could be
Anything
Everything all at once
We're a family
Of anything
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Wildfire
03:54
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When I was a child
I saw the world through the eyes of a wildfire
Pure and clean
Like the fire I was naive
You walked like a poet
On a bed of ash planting leaves of grass
Never knowing
The effect it would have
And the rain came down
The fire went out
We looked up at the stars
And softly, gently, sweetly
Slipped away
I slept for a decade
Under the shade of a tree planted near cripple creek
With a stifled mind
And bridled teeth
You were a reptile
You drank from the fifth of unconscious abyss
All these forces
Beyond your control
And the sky cracked open
And it all came down
With furious anger
Everything we had planted in the ground was torn apart
And swiftly swept away
I awoke in the desert
With a bottle of sand and a tigers eye in my hand
I was alone
You were a stranger
From the ghost of your lips came a paradigm shift
I was alright
Saw a fire in the distance
I was drawn towards it
So strange yet familiar
That fire began to rise I closed my eyes
And let it carry me away
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Permanence
03:35
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When enough is all we need
The only place we have to be
Is exactly where we are
When enough is not enough
When in life or when in love
I cite entropy as my excuse for apathy
May permanence depends
On just how long you've spent\
With your eyes closed
Fairly certain that this curtain isn't closure
It's the robe we wear to rid ourselves
Of the pain of letting go
I don't want to be your king
I want to be your castle
I want to feel like home to you
I don't want to be your ruler in the general sense
But the means by which you measure
What all your other loves have meant
So if permanence depends
On just how long you've spent
With your eyes closed
You should open them
Fairly certain that this curtain isn't closure
It's the robe we wear to rid ourselves
Of the pain of letting go
So let it go
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Lilac
02:32
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Running out of breath
You found some place to rest
Indifferent at first
They fed you to the earth
The knights divide the daze
No intent to leave
My voice on your machine
I just wanna hear you say
I missed you I'm away
These moments never fade
Love was never kind
This heart was never mine
You're lost without the light
I'm loneliest at night
You've no reason to stay
Lilac in the air
No love left to spare
Baby, who turned out the light?
Your body is the night
My body is the grave
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Lost Boys
02:40
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Remember when we ran out of that church
And hopped into that hearse
And thought that it'd be cool to drive
Once we got a little older
And we spoke in pirouettes
As an older silhouette
Chased us down the street
Caught up to us
We're both a little colder
We don't talk much anymore
But the battle scars adorned
That we adore
They remind us of the times that we were bolder
Whether we were right or wrong
All our friends are moving on
Like summer days fade away
Winter's resting on our shoulders
And it's time for us to grow up
The good old days are living in the past
And it's time for us to grow up
They warned us it would happen this fast
And it's time for us to grow up
Your childhood was never built to last
I don't really want to grow up
So grow up
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Home
03:24
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Home is the tire in the rut
Home is the fire in my gut
Home is the Home is the pride before the fall
And the place I lost it all
The place I lost it all
Home is the pages of a porno pasted to the wall
Of the bathroom stall
With letter and condolences
Scratched scribbled and scrawled
So I jotted down my name
So they'd have someone to blame
So they'd have someone to blame
Home is anywhere I've been
And everywhere I go
And anyone I meet
And everywhere I go
Home means nothing to me without you
Home is the picture in the frame
Home is thew place without a name
Home is the photo in my mind
Home is everything I've left behind
Home was shattered in the street
The day that you met me
And helped me
Pick up
The pieces
Of what I thought was my life
I knew I wasn't right
I couldn't have been more wrong
It's anywhere I've been
And everywhere I go
And anyone I meet
And everyone I know
But home means nothing to me without you
Home means nothing to me without you
Home means nothing to me without you
Home means nothing to me
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The Stranger
02:15
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I grew up with a voice
That tells me I just wanna be
Someone else
Someone else
Someone else
Someone else
I grew up with a voice
That tells me I just wanna be
Someone else
Someone else
And now I am
Someone else
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The Great In Between
06:16
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We spend our lives asleep
Searching for the dreams
That let us change the future
We cannot live again
The past was that and then
We only want the future
Drift off drift off drift off
Drift off to the great in between
We spend our live asleep
Hoping we can keep
The dreams that change the future
Awaken and we find
A bitter present mind
Longing for the future
Drift off drift off drift off
Drift off to the great in between
The present will not bend
Or break at our command
We're searching for the future
And while the dream awaits
The sleeping only takes
The scissors to the sutures
Drift off drift off drift off
Drift off to the great in between
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12 Hours
02:23
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Candles lit
The darkest sphere
A violent wave of fear
Grips me by the throat
As shadows move across the wall
After me
No after you
After all we've been through
We were happy once
Maybe even twice
My life has been
An awful mess
I must confess
I know
No ones calling me back home
And so I'm here
Not for goodbyes
But to apologize
For the bastard I have been
The bastard I was then
I never sleep
I only dream
The same old ugly scene
Again and again and again
I let you slip away
The door ajar
The light pours in
Relinquishing my sins
Your face the promised land
Your hands the only ones
Who truly know me
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Holy Shit
04:32
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My mother went to war
My father went to work
Then came home and looked after us
Sometimes I feel like
She's been at war ever since
There was tragedy in her voice
As she spoke to me in monosyllabic aggravations
And her life unfolded into a coffee stained map of
Cigarette burn holes
Then I turned thirteen
My skin felt unfamiliar
It's tough at that age
When everything around you and inside of you is changing
All at once
The first day of school I walked though that door
They knew I was different
I never realized
I never realized
I remember reading
Heavier Than Heaven
I was a child then
And all I wanted to be was anyone but me
Anywhere but here
I took all your secrets and buried them beneath
All the cocaine I could find
And we all fall down
Down, down, down
Then I turned twenty-three
I think I wanted something different
Because there was nothing in front of me
And no one beside me
It took a turn for the worse
Before anything got any better
And I realized
I realized
Time is fleeting
Time waits for no man
All that matters
In this moment
Is this moment with you
Oh my god
We've got it all
Holy shit
We've got it all
Today
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Birth Of Hatred
04:42
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He walked down the beach with a briefcase in hand
And buried the fears of the world in the sand
Maybe one day it'll be dug up again
Until then
We could be happy
Years later a young man washed up on the shore
Naked with hatred pouring from his pores
With only one thing on feverish mind
To find where his father was buried
The beach seemed to glow under subtle white moon
Fear birthed in reverse as his womb was a tomb
Hate flung open the case and fear filled the air
He said, "Father. How are you? I've missed you."
So I walked headlong into the storm
I swore I had more than ever before
Give up
No, no, no
Get up
Because everything that led up to this moment
Was chosen by me
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Fireflies
03:22
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And my brother oh
Wears the other sole
On the other foot
Doesn't mean that much to anyone
Meant everything to him
And you never know
Where the wind will blow
And carry far from here
So you quietly
Keep a shorter leash
Than you'd like to appear
My sisters and brothers
Look just like my mother
And she loved them too
Hear the dinner bell
There's so much to tell
As daylight disappears
Hoping summer stalls
As we pray that fall
Stays far away from here
Catching fireflies
In our mason jars
I said I let them go
But I secretly
Keep them here with me
Under my pillow
They're all dead now
Mama I'm sorry
And I miss you
God I wish you
Could have stayed right here with me
My sisters and brothers
Look just like my mother
And she loved them too
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Jeremy Bursich Arcata, California
Delaware native, Jeremy Bursich is a prolific folk artist know for his lo-fi charm, haunting vocals, and labyrinthine lyrics. With nine self-produced albums under his belt in the last six years and a tenth album in production, he still manages to find time to circuit bend anything within reach, build boutique pedals, and continue the quest for the worlds greatest cup of coffee. ... more
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