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California Goth Pop
03:09
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California Goth Pop
I've been killing time and losing sleep
Anything to turn from light to shadow
Once the darkness was my harmony
My mirror girl, my tragic double
Now she runs me like a pageant show
Tiaras and tears will follow
Writing madly in my diary
Extravagant and bleakly hollow
File under "California Goth Pop"
File under "Won't Somebody Make This Stop"
The sun is high but I can't see a thing
Black spots where there should be smiling faces
Sounds of summer by the open sea
A razor in a bowl of peaches
File under "California Goth Pop"
File under "Won't Somebody Make This Stop"
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2. |
Can't Breathe
04:13
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Can't Breathe
Going through my lines like a TV show
Seeing you just behind the light like
I made you up in my mind
'Cause no one sees you there
I call your name but you don't answer
I know it can't be you that keeps calling me
Phone humming with your heartbeat
Keep calling
Keep calling
Keep calling
Keep calling
I can't breathe
I can't breathe when you're here
I can't breathe when you're away
I can't be this emotional, dear
If I could, I would have stayed
Floating through another anonymous day
Trying to keep from feeling
I made you up in my mind
'Cause no one sees you there
I call your name but you don't answer
The pills have all stopped working
Or I'm much worse
I keep falling asleep, but I can't
Keep falling
Keep falling
Keep falling
Keep falling
I can't breathe
I can't breathe when you're here
I can't breathe when you're away
I can't be this emotional, dear
If I could, I would have stayed
Keep returning, come back to me
Don't believe that I won't follow...
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Cure For Today
02:53
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Cure for Today
All I want is a cure for today
I can't bear for the sun to slip away
But I'll try, I'll try to keep this feeling
Take my hand and we'll run through the night
It never ends if we keep the dream alive
Here it comes, here it comes
Close your eyes tight
The light's on but there's no one home right now
I'm outside where it's wet and wild
Real life getting real-er all the time
It's mine and I like it wild
One more time just for the thrill
One more time and I could kill
I could kill for one more time
Record's on - it's the same as before
Makes me feel like I'm so much more
Than they say
Another state of mind
The light's on but there's no one home right now
I'm outside where it's wet and wild
Real life getting real-er all the time
It's mine and I like it wild
One more time just for the thrill
One more time and I could kill
I could kill for one more time
No one's left and I'm killing time
You'll get yours
And I'll get mine
All I want is a cure for today
All I want is a cure for today
All I want is a cure for today
All I want is a cure for today
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4. |
Call Down The Night
03:01
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Call Down the Night
With a flash and a bang
I was dreaming
That I wasn't here
And you weren't you
But I was me only older
In my bed with a book and a lemon scone
There's a cat in my lap and the kettle on
I'm awake but I'm floating
Two feet up
Call down the night
Call down the night
Call down the night
Call down the night
In my penthouse I recline, an angry heiress
In a room with a view I'm furious with you for being careless
There's a perfect square in an empty mind
There's a dark horse made up of space and time
Take a look and tell me what you find
Call down the night
Call down the night
Call down the night
Call down the night
When you're feeling all alone
And there's nowhere left to go
Close your eyes and let me know
Things are not what they seem, ever...
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Rescued Objects
03:07
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Rescued Objects
He keeps his eyes on the ground
He's got a box at his desk marked Lost and Found
I check it every day
'Cause once he gave me some cat eye Ray Bans
Show me what you feel compelled to seek
Panning for gold in a state of sleep
And are these rescued objects
Products of a curator's tender heart
Or are you scared to look up
I don't know so I'll come back later
Show me what you feel compelled to seek
Panning for gold in a state of sleep
I've tickets for this show
And I happen to know he's dying to go
I let them fall to the ground
So I can check Lost and Found much later...
Show me what you feel compelled to seek
Panning for gold in a state of sleep
I don't know why it's so impossible
Can't you just try, can't you look and see
Can't you look at me
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6. |
Violet Black
02:41
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Violet Black
Is this where our story ends
Yeah, I know about your secret heart
And is my part just to pretend
While the pages burn and fly apart
I thought about it all night
Two wrongs don't make a right, I know
But I wish someone could hold me
Violet black and velveteen sky
Yeah, the stars will keep me company
As I slowly come undone
A lament in full symphony
I thought about it all night
Two wrongs don't make a right, I know
But I wish someone could hold me
Now
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Third Party
02:58
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Third Party
Don't you know, he's going round the bend
He's got that strange light in his eyes again
Watch - he's counting steps now
Sure he missed one
Listen
He's upset but you can't ask why
Come around and have a drink or two
Bring him flowers just to make him smile
I know where he wants to go
Tell him hi, and that I miss him so
Bring him flowers just to make him smile
Make him smile
August fire
Those hot and heavy days
Too stunned to move, we dream in the shade
Wait for something bright to come our way
Maybe you'll see
He's upset but you can't ask why
Come around and have a drink or two
Bring him flowers just to make him smile
I know where he wants to go
Tell him hi, and that I miss him so
Bring him flowers just to make him smile
Make him smile
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8. |
Here I Go
03:22
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Here I Go
I've got my back against a wall
I only wish that I could fall
It's just the emptiness I crave
Lead me to an open grave
Here I go
Here I go
I'm turning black inside and out
Hunted heart and haunted house
The road to hell was ever mine
You stole my reason
You stole my rhyme
Here I go
Here I go
Now I lay me down to sleep
In a place no heart could beat
Ribbons in my bed
So dark, so red
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9. |
Part Time You
03:00
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Part Time You
Every day, part time you
Here and gone
Disparu
I'll be here waiting for
The one I love
Mon amour
And if your heart's not willing to stay
Slip a letter under my door
And if your heart's not willing to go
One look at you and I'll know for sure
Rainy day, cold and grey
Britannicas in the grate
Meaningless, incomplete
Fire makes words obsolete
And if your heart's not willing to stay
Slip a letter under my door
And if your heart's not willing to go
One look at you and I'll know for sure
What worlds could lure you away from me
What fiction, what point of view
Is it a flaw or a rarity
That highlights what's really true
Part time you
Part time you
Part time you
Part time you
Part time you
You are worth waiting for
Part time you
You found the secret door
Part time you
You are worth waiting for
Part time you
You found the secret
Oh!
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10. |
Last Call
04:04
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Last Call
Shiver in the air
At 11 Black Oak
I'm the last one here
I just want to get this over with
I know that you're inside
And when I see you
Things will go sideways
There's no pretense, no artifice
This isn't something I can fake
Leaves are on the ground
Battered gold and red
I never meant to cross the line
Wish I could take back
What I said
I know that you're inside
And when I see you
Things will go sideways
There's no pretense, no artifice
This isn't something I can fake
Last call
Last call
Last call for another take
Help me find the words to say
Last call for another take
Help me find the words to say
Last call
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Arts & Leisure Sacramento, California
Arts & Leisure, featuring former members of Baby Grand, The English Singles and Plastic Shoelaces, combine elements of ’60s pop, ’70s power pop, and ’80s new wave, all of which help to craft the group’s buzzy, super charged indie pop. Their new album ‘This Vast Illusion’ was produced by Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels). ... more
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