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Losing Las Vegas
04:48
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Sit alone at the counter
Silent phone hour after hour
Drunk by the city’s bitter wine
Last sip at the end of the communion line
But I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
It’s already gone
Solaced by the passing car lights
The flickers on my ceiling match the whites of your lies Put out like your unlit cigarette
An empty ashtray and penniless debt
But I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
It’s already gone
Who flips back an hour glass?
What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past. Who flips back an hour glass?
What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past.
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Young and Haunted
05:17
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Maybe I’m too sick from all this weather Maybe I’m too sick to leave my bed
Too sick to fathom now and then or never Too sick to fathom thoughts I’ve never said And maybe I’m just sick of those I run to
Or running through the slopes inside my mind Maybe it’s from what I didn’t tell you
Honey, I’m just not the telling kind But I’m
Laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride Take me for a drive
A risk to feel alive I want to feel alive
Maybe we’re alone because we want it Abandoned when we’re wondering why we’re sad Life is long but we’re so young and haunted
By normality and the things we’ve never had
I’m sitting in a room with all my worries
But my soul is too full to be afraid
If I drop it all and stop and do not hurry
I need only me to get away
But today
I’m laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride Take me for a drive
A risk to feel alive I want to feel alive
Maybe I’m just sick of pretending Today could be the day my life begins
I find poetry in shadows unending
I find poetry in soil and in skin
But I’m
Laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride
Take me for a drive A risk to feel alive
I want to feel alive
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Ease
04:09
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I left the station yesterday
You never knew you never came
It’s easier leaving than making a reason to stay And I wouldn’t want to interrupt
You never heard when I spoke up
Quiet is easy and easy is enough
You were all I had
When it all went bad
I broke myself, it was easy in spite of that So let me be guilty that’s just my kind
It’s not you, it’s me; the fault’s all mine. It’s easy to be unhappy most of the time
And though I know it’s just pretend I never believe it until the end
It’s easy, lie to me still, until then You’d want me back in better health But I’m all hung up on myself
It’s easy dying than living for someone else
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4. |
Never My Friend
03:20
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No one’s ever hurt me a bit
It’s on my own legs I trip
So don’t you do me right or wrong It’s with myself I can’t get along
I play my cards
And if I win
I’m unsatisfied
Until I’m losing again
Feels so good when good ends But never again
I won’t be my friend, my friend No I won’t be my friend
I don’t want to get my way
My spectrum’s only grey
So don’t you dare put me through hell
I can do that myself
I’m losing sleep
Because I keep
My eyes wide
Until the brightness, it seems To greet me again
I’m never my friend
No I won’t be my friend
I’m all spent up
I’m a bottomless cup
It was never enough When I had too much Had it all til then
But never again
No I won’t be my friend
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5. |
When I Drive
04:28
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6. |
Aleppo
03:34
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I didn’t let you go yesterday
Lost my love in the crimson rain
You were my guard now you won’t let me back
Who looks out the window when the mirror’s cracked?
But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo
Stone falling down again. The bright city lights
Have burned through their kerosene, the days are black as the nights And deep in my mind you’re a rose in the dust
But the colors fade and the petals they turn to rust
But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo
And I won’t let you go if we meet in the morning
No I won’t let you go, a slow, slow earth is turning, turning away
But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo
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Sun and Moon
03:07
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You are the sun I am the moon Shine for me, I shine for you People know only one of my sides A reflection of you, the rest I hide
You are bright and I am blue
The best part of me is you
But you shine on me and I pretend To be seen but all nights end
You are needed, I’m unknown
I am seated far from your thrown
But some come to me for midnight’s silence Tired of light and of days violence
You are warm and I am cold
You stay young but I grow old We never stop spinning, spinning I am lost but you say I’m winning You say I’m winning
But I feel you from somewhere far away Though we’re different as night and day
As things come to pass and come to light Somewhere this night is day, this day is night
You are the sun, I am the moon Shine for me, I’ll shine for you Because all darkness needs some light And all days need some night
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Alice Limoges Rockport, Maine
Singer-songwriter born in Coastal Maine living in NY. Dark lyrics, lush sounds.
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