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Grandfather
04:38
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In my memories of you, you are patient
Joking and keeping the peace
Laughing with us, when we were too upset
In my memories of you, you're a trickster
Part of me is, too
Tricking me into
Thinking I know best
Patient trickster, old shapeshifter
Makes me think I'll die a drifter
Lonely and sadder by the day
But I remember my grandfather showed
his daughters and sons wherever you go, there you are
You can talk and talk and feel lost
or make a joke and laugh it off
What can you change? What can't you change?
And why think about the latter at all?
Since you died in peace, we've tried to laugh
at all the jokes that only you could tell
I love you, and miss you, thanks for all the laughs
Maybe you said all those things,
maybe I only wish you had
Two years past, went slow, went fast
but all in all, you are with me changing as I change
Your memory is changing as I change
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Sirena
04:11
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For you, my sleeping lover far away
For you, I sing and hope like I've never hoped before
For you, my sleeping lover far away
For you, I make space to share your burning light
For you, my sleeping lover far away
I've calmed myself and held my own for long enough
So now I'll lead, take care of you and me and finally sleep
with you, my sleeping lover far away
This collage is no mirage
By the river, we breathed and paused
The warmest dream to meditate
to find you in this day and age
For you, I'll believe in anything
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For Anima
04:05
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I'm so tired of the end of the world playing in my head
over and over again
cause no one can see this clearer than me
and no one can hurt me more than me
My inner voice can tear down
every line I ever wrote
before I can even hear my own voice
It takes all I can not to try
and make it oh so perfect
to hear the voice, and serve it again
cause no one can hear it clearer than me
and no one can do this better than me
I suffer more imagining than living in what's there
burning in a hell I that I make when I listen too long
to the voice in me that's always wrong
I'm so tired of the end of the world playing in my head
so now I try to live in what's really there
and I'll let you know how that goes
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The Empty Orchestras San Antonio, Texas
I'm a composer / poet / teacher writing, recording, and performing original music when I can.
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