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Pax Americana
03:43
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if it doesn't happen right away
it takes forever and a day
and fades the longer that you wait
the closer that you look the less you know
it breaks in pieces as you go
that bear no semblance to the whole
so you can bow to the sky above
I'm sorry dear there is no love
or punishment out hunting in the starry night
so you can fool yourself on your knees
there's places I would rather be
perhaps I'll meet you there when you get wise
here's the bruised heart of an iron fist
the double past of one who says
I wish it hadn't come to this
look until there's nothing left to see
the slumped shoulders of centuries
a nation driven to its knees
untold millions resulted in you
for one brief lifetime someone who
I tried to know and claimed I knew
so how did you who were so inspired
ever come to be so mired
in the petty detail of your daily chore
so call a truce with the yawning depth
a stolen ocean where you kept
your council calling from opposing shores
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Adeline
03:03
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Adeline, words will not suffice
to bridge our separate lives
a letter won't do, no
Adeline, this is my goodbye
the growing months and miles
without a word from you
what might have been will always be
a pleasant curiosity
Adeline, it's better unexplored
if this was something more
than things we won't mention
what might have been will always be
a pleasant curiosity
Adeline, I don't even mind
I've studied well how time
betrays all who ask what if
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it's not the way you like
but it's easy to deal with it for now
not something you would try
but you'll vouch for it anyhow
not the one you want, there's nobody even close
you said you were there
and I found you where nobody else would go
something that's only true
as long as it never gets said out loud
the less to do with you
the more that it makes you proud
go ahead and laugh I would too if I were you
you said you were there
but you told me something I already knew
who I would be if I were you
maybe I'd finally know who
just like before when you became
just as much myself as I am
you don't really know
for every hour you
spent trying to keep all these thoughts at bay
there was somebody who
spoke so clearly you turned away
I'm already gone but I'll never say goodbye
you said you were there
and I found you when nobody else would try
you said you were there
and I found you when nobody else would try
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Lull 01
03:01
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Miranda Rights
03:59
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anything you say can be used against you
anything you think's been tried before
ours is a certain fate but I'm not so sure
everything you want will be given to you
everything you need's already yours
everyone pays for what the world can't afford
everyone you know and their life's ambition
everyone has their own private truce
mine is a vague suspicion, yours is a truth
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Anywhere But Here
04:01
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every time you come here
no one says a thing
smiles all around, as if we don't notice
we just hold our breath
as long as it takes
hey, where you think you're going?
wait, we're not finished here
after all this time, nobody's leaving
and you say at all, at all, at all
curtain calls and idle reveries
that should have been your answer
you're rehearsing speeches
you'll know you'll never use
for what comes after
it all
hush, it's our little secret
come on, get back in the car
maybe just this once things will be different
and you say, they are, they are, they are
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The Vanities San Jose, California
The Vanities is the solo project of Peter Colclasure, who has played in many bands over the years from Wisconsin to Boston to Seattle. Bands include The Kissers, Facts About Funerals, Smile Brigade, and The Foghorns. He lives in San Jose, CA.
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