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At Any Given Moment
06:24
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Freewill sits oh so still while everything around it / keeps moving, spinning, changing at any given moment / Suddenly it's all different now & I don't recognize it / Some faceless fascination sewn into a new horizon // Not too slow & not too soon the past consumes the future / the gift of presence, something found within another / tethered to divinity, sacred strings go unseen leading & weaving through / an instance of eternity sheds light onto my shedding skin, awakens a sea inside / beneath these changing tides, / oh moon, I, too, will soon be new & rise // not too slow & not too soon / at any given moment / the truth sits oh so still / & I can't recognize it //
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I Thought I Knew You
05:23
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The more you say, the less I wanna know you / say anything else / I thought I knew you, where did you go? / Turns out you're somebody else // I see you every day / I don't know who I'm seeing / You're like a stranger to me now / I wanna find the colors of your mind before they fade away somehow // It's hard to recognize the truth when all the cards are stacked against you / take the world for what it is / with all its history & all its mystery / broken & searching for a fix // we were lied to all our lives, no doubt about it / but you won't find the answer out there on the line / just shut your mouth & open your eyes /// I know it isn't easy navigating through / questions left open-ended all depend on you / & when there's no one there to tell you it's alright / you find an echo chamber telling you you're right / I thought I knew you, but now I'm not so sure / I've got this feeling I don't know anything anymore //
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Secrets of What
04:59
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Somewhere in the dark spinning unseen & afar / oh so high above our heads, come & gone, back again / all our little lives bemused by what we find / saddle-up, satellite, soon we'll see the divine // Falling out of the sky / objects unidentified / weaving in & out of time / left behind & leaving / all we are undefined / no words to oversimplify / remnants of the stars / secrets of what we are // Talking in our sleep, some sweet somniloquy falls out of our mouths / Suddenly all we see / preternatural light aglow within our eyes / what we thought was worlds away, hidden somewhere inside & // Falling out of the sky / objects unidentified / weaving in & out of time / left behind & leaving / all we are undefined / no words to oversimplify / remnants of the starts / secrets of what we are //
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Sour Memory
03:05
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Now I see your true colors bleeding through every page of our / story ending soon. I thought I knew you, oh how I was wrong. / It's all different now, within & without what it used to be / echoing throughout every memory found souring solemnly // Timeline tangle tongues / twisted truths become more opaque over time / more & more unclear & year after year, I know less than before / oh say can you see what's become of me hiding from the sun? / turning a blind eye to your ego, I lost what was left of mine //
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Inebriated Enlightenment
06:48
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Sun is sinking & I'm thinking I should really go home / Blame it on the times but I would really rather not be alone / Moon is howlin' & I'm down in (downin') another gin / drunk off confession & I don't know what to do with my sins / maybe I'll take them to the river to see if they drown / or hold them gently against me as we sleep safe & sound / make them look pretty like a gift that I got just for you / or take them to a secret place I wish I never knew // beauty is only skin (skin-deep) deep in a heart of gold / wide eyed & child-like, a home that I have outgrown / send in the clowns, isn't rich? are we a pair? / I thought that love was something blooming in the springtime air /// Oh how I was wrong, & I let it go on & on / Tell me it won't be long till I feel like I belong //
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Gethsemane
04:28
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At times I can't explain how it always ends this way / I thought I knew the answer but the answer slips away & // I don't know if I can be what it is I'm meant to be / I ask the stars & hear their silence / & as it seems, I can't believe in something that can't believe in me / Just tell me what to do, I'll do anything // Nowadays I walk alone wondering what there is to know / the secret is there are no secrets I've got to learn to let it go but // I don't know if I can be what it is I'm meant to be / I ask the stars & hear their silence / & as it seems, I can't believe in something that can't believe in me / Just tell me what to do, I'll do anything, anything //
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Nothing To Lose
03:48
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Can you tell me where to go from here? / I'm lost, I need to know how these days erase away the years nowhere to be found / Now everything around me isn't what it used to be / Have I changed or am I only wasting time, waiting for nothing? // Hiding from the summer sun, I pale in comparison to who I thought I'd be / This caricature of me goes slowly down a road unknown / where did you go? I've only grown / stranger in these trying times / I try & I try to get by but // Nothing is what it seems / nothing is what nothing means / I've got nothing to prove it / I've got nothing to lose //
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Again, Anew
08:45
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Save the best for last, it won't last / Future feels so slow yet goes so fast / I thought I knew, but I don't know anything / Lessons lessen, I've learned so much nothing // Standing in place, listen & wait / Daylight changes all around / the thought of you, now falling through / what I thought was solid ground // I wish I knew but there's nothing I can do / Understand, I don't understand / I am, again, anew // It's inevitable, it's happening again / water under a burning bridge, my dearest absent friend /// Tell me where to begin before it ends ///
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Mikey Franz // Frxnch Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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