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Cambria
04:32
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I was born into a world with shifting shapes
I promised myself that I would never change
So something could remain
When others lost their faith
I know we’re alone
I know
Years of tide
It’s time that I’m running from
Change your mind
A smile, but a longing one
Gone, what a shame
My hands are in constant shake
Come with me
One taste and you’re wanting more
Finally
A cause that’s worth fighting for
Raise the day
and no, I will never change
Still, nothing we started then is finished now
At will, endings we don’t write play out somehow
I’ll always be at ease
When others don’t believe
I know that we’re home
I know
Years of tide
It’s time that I’m running from
Change your mind
A smile, but a longing one
Gone, what a shame
My hands are in constant shake
Come with me
One taste and you’re wanting more
Finally
A cause that’s worth fighting for
Raise the day
and no, I will never change
No I will never change
Comfort in the life I’ve saved
Ask and answer make no mistake
My search lives on, I’m still the same
Years of tide
It’s time that I’m running from
Change your mind
A smile, but a longing one
Gone, what a shame
My hands are in constant shake
Come with me
One taste and you’re wanting more
Finally
A cause that’s worth fighting for
Raise the day
and no, I will never change
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2. |
Someday You Will
03:22
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Alana is walking out my front door
She has a worry deep in her smile
Postcards and tickets line the table
Houses on dairies, the view is for miles
Alana is climbing the branches again
Life here in Bloomfield, or what’s left of it
She sleeps in a gallery of unspoken design
Unrivaled in beauty, misshapen a fit
Someday you will be
All you’ve wanted to be
A snapshot on a screen
Or a friend who still believes
escape this county’s grip
a novel kind of trip
to paint the world you see
and to fall in love
get lost and have some fun
put your heart at peace
Jordanne is sitting alone in her room
The news that has killed her, just might save her life
This sickness is not her, and she knows it well
Quivering voice, but her spirits held high
A summer of fighting, with needle and sword
Shortened breath hangs on her every word
But she is triumphant, as she’s always been
And now into August, her new life begins
Someday you will sleep
Without wires or machines
Your nightmares return to dreams
Love will kill the disease
Drove the world around
So long my car broke down
To celebrate with you
And this world turns fast
So don’t you dare look back
you're already on the move
And sunday is crippling my memory of you
But winter will end, and then we will March through
Someday I will grow
and find the strength i behold
the lens remains the same but
the film has yet to show
and it's incipient
what just a year has meant
i only speak the truth
we'll all find peace we crave
but until that day
i'll sing a song for you
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3. |
Wolves!
05:03
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red run over on a night in october
that felt like the bloodgates were burst wide open
the winter or the summer here there is no difference
just one clear storm of complete indifference
same rays from the sun every single day
the city remains but the memories will fade
the past, yeah it's still calling
you know what it's saying but don't bother to follow
as if everything will just be better tomorrow
as if one good day will overcome the sorrow
emotionally stabile and empirically fragile
no leap between the cognitive and the tangible
do you remember, do you still remember?
as if i could forget everything that i told her
and the days go on like i really had a choice
i write with my hands for my lack of a voice
laying on the battlefield wounded in your heart
you could let them kill you off or you could tear them all apart
but the war is over and the soldiers are gone
you're laying in the snow singing quietly a song
"come have shelter anywhere you want
put out the sea and chase your fears"
uncertainty thrills me and december will chill me
and maybe they'll tell me if the heavens are willing
i'm so naive for ever trusting that angel
with her steel blade halo and her wings of camo
"come fly with me" but she better fly quicker
I'm staring at the tracks and the hungry eyes flicker
you'll stumble through the snow you could never escape
by the time you hear the sound it's far too late it goes
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4. |
Twelve
04:46
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I don't want to hear another word
I don't want to sleep another night
it's 30 degrees outside
and crystal clear
you're collecting all your bags
for your two week trip down south
the only direction is
south from here
wait 'til friday's passed
then I will say to you at last
nothing has really changed
I'm not surprised
those secrets in your head
are better left unsaid
the only question that's
left is why
a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
hard to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with the final nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve
i can't afford to run away
i don't want to wait another day
i'm 30 stories too high
and filled with fear
december nears it's end
i lied to myself again
i claimed that this would
be the year
a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
no way to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with the final nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve
annie you are okay
and you don't know this yet
every 10 days or so my heart
finds something broke within
and i've been here all day
all i do is wait
somethings i accept will tend to fail
but this won't be your fate
a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
no way to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with another nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve
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years go by
and i did just fine
in all that time
i never questioned why
now i
will forgive you
twelve
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Awaken to the sound of wind
Recall that this is just where ive been
Remind myself of coming days on the run
Steel fades into the sand
Where it cannot breathe and it cannot stand
I have reached another point in a journey
Just another along the way
Listen close you’ll hear me say
This state is mine
and everything inside
There are a thousand stops
Where I can hide
And I’ve scaled peaks
and I’ll traverse the dunes
Every single road
Can always lead me to you
Kiss me goodbye love just for tonight
I’ve got the border in my sight
Stringing lights along the way I’ll run
Photographs and videos
But where I’ve been nobody will know
Until they breathe the air of zephyr winds
Top to bottom there’s something new
In every corner even for you
This state is mine
and everything inside
I’ve come to know
I cannot hide
From the snowfall nor from the pine
This state is mine
No miracle divine
Just a hunger longs for a world sublime
And if you ever taste the rain it’s so damn sweet
Share a story with each passenger you meet
And know the darkened waves outside somewhere
Would Still crash onshore if you didn’t care
So spend your life running on your feet
Perhaps someday I will find my way back home
my heart whispers for Sebastopol
Curled in your arms with the rain outside
you know that there's a place to hide
Looking back at you
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Leland Bailey San Luis Obispo, California
It all started in June 2012. Me, a beer, and a piano. I cranked out music to lyrics I hadn't touched in years. By the end of the week, I had finished my very first song. Of course, the story begins long before that.
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