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SF
03:58
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When I've been one place long enough, I need layovers and change
New scenery for dreams, new symbols out of place
I'm going to San Francisco for her
I'm crossing the ocean for me and mine
When I've been one place long enough, I need layovers and change
New scenery for dreams, new symbols to see this through
Alone and lost in thoughts of you
The wood all gone with the sunrise right on cue
I crossed the ocean for me and mine
cause we all change when it's our time
for what we have, I can't find the words
So I'm going to San Francisco for her
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Tryphon (Acoustic)
04:53
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all we know is this can't be
as you're floating, you don't know that I'm asleep
and together we might find our way
he is signaling and planning our escape
I will take you through the dreams that
we didn't quite know were dreams
as you soundly slept in our life preserve
I can't say I know what this shit means
what is looking down and watching everything
but I'll guide you through
Virgil to your Dante
through the darkness, to our sea beneath the stars
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Nightswim
06:15
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Stars bringing all goodbyes to a close
You were described when you were out of the sight
We were the young, the old, the in-between
the actors and the audience alike
I sped off in the night, not looking back, but thinking of then
and going ahead
In a fog with an instrument you used to play
a fog that came once you went away
and there it stayed
I was the fog below the breath, surrounding the cars
from under all the water, I counted the stars
so cold and so far away from here
We were the night, the smoke, the lights,
we were the way we went and travelers alike
I was the fog below the breath, surrounding the cars
from underwater, I counted the stars
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Sound Stone
05:33
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I.
From the meteorite, a messenger gave me purpose
with his dying breath
The psychic prayed, calling us to her
all the friends we've never met
The psychic prayed from another age
saved us from our death
The scientist dreaming in the snow awoke and flew across
Summers and Winters till he landed in our grave
as a future king transcended when his
limbs were ripped away
He came to us on a Summers day before we crossed the sea
to stop the madness by capturing
a hidden melody...
II.
Starting off here, in search of a step
of a giant that vanished from a place I, too, have left
Visions of my past in Lilliputan Steps
in a Happy, Happy Village where my nightmare made a mess
Heard my mother's voice in Saturn Valley hidden far
where someone wiser told me that the journey's all we are
(I'm where your enemies won't run)
In the desert caves, you vanish to the winters where you're from
Your ship's crashed in our grave and we prayed and held our breath
Chanting, "Come to the South! Oh, friend we've never met..."
In Winters' caves, UFOs around the bend
making way into a Circle where the Rainfall never ends
A live Magnetic Hill dead history will hide
It's not the tallest building where the city's heart resides
Before the lonely Cloud, the Thunder, the Storm
We meet a future king on a seaside calm and warm
Found an entrance in the exit of the Lumine Hall
Where my mind is so electric all my thoughts read across the wall
(Silent village singing in the caves...)
In Fire Spring, a melody, complete and born in me
Now I must face my nightmares on a dark and dreamy sea...
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Stratosphere
06:14
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If I surrender, you wouldn't leave?
Leave me to the rip tide
haunting, hauling all that meaning over me?
If I surrender, for a change,
Will I see this hidden mosaic
Haunting, holding all that meaning under me?
The haunting riptide, the endless night:
Vast and all apart and all along
Dreaming in the ocean on my back
I'm the flea that flew beneath the acrobat
In the upside down, the stratosphere below
Vast and altogether, all alone
What I am running toward and running from:
The vastness in the shadows we become
The stratosphere awaits
All we are in flight
To race the changing day and
Catch the endless night
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Leagues Away
04:57
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Leagues away on shore in the fog
The bridge to the city and the hills
I can't afford a place but I could take a day
or two to watch the lights and make
a few long stops
Cause I don't make that stupid money
Or hang the moon for anyone
I just run the race
Make my place under the sun
Face the music when it comes
Try to sleep when it's all done
Early as the cold was passing on
Above the growing crowds,
Just as the sun came out
and I greeted the dawn
In the ocean breeze,
my mind slowing down but wandered on
I sadly realized
I don't carve no marble stone,
set any angels free
but I've been lost so many times
I know what roads lead me home
I just carve on in the dark
From what I've seen, I'm not alone all the time
Before the moon had faded, my heart forgot my jaded mind
And I felt so alive in a city I had never known
And later as the high ended, and I felt so alone, I let the wind bring me songs
about your burning fire burning on
the light you are, it leads me home
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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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