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Cabaret St.
04:15
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Don’t you mind the bees and their blues
They will fall by any predator they choose
I won’t let you die amongst the dandelies
Just close your eyes
What do we have to lose?
Saw you first on Cabaret
And I longed to know you
Wonder if I’ve shown you
Enough to know your name
We’ve wasted so much time
Hiding our lovers’ crimes
We’ve wasted so much energy
Protecting the lovers’ memory
Swimming in rose oceans
Sinking in slow motion
The drowning days are over
Will you come a little closer to me?
Don’t you mind the darkness and its pull
It will fall like a moth to cotton wool
I won’t let you go to pretty ghost
Just hold you close
Until the moon is full
And when you wake I’ll let you paint my fingertips
By the lake with honeysuckle kisses
I’ll never ask for more than you can give
Don’t you know you take my breath away?
I will follow the voice with which you pray
Do you see the stars, how they know they’re ours?
Will they lead us back to Cabaret?
We’ve wasted so much time
Hiding our lover’s crimes
We’ve wasted so much energy
Protecting the lovers’ memory
Swimming in rose oceans
Sinking in slow motion
The drowning days are over
Will you come a little closer to me?
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Tonight the sky is ashen blue
Like licorice or like a body on the avenue
Is it possible to hear it dying before it does?
‘Cause all that lives has turned to dust
And it’s a sad a humbling feeling
To be alive without breathing
And it knows me by my bones
Will it follow my body home
Tonight every color goes into mourning
Every dance and every planet has ceased to turn
Is it sensible to envy those who cry
‘Cause all I feel has passed me by
And it’s a sad a humbling feeling
To be alive without breathing
And it knows me by my bones
Will it follow my body home
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Afterglow
03:42
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Today I’ll change the way I wear my hair
I’ll make it nice and neat
The clipper man says he’ll take care of me
I’ll buy a brand new button in blue
I’ll make sure that my voice is nice and steady
When I say to you
I wanna take you to a place
Where you and I are face to face and we’re just
Talking ‘bout all of the ways
That we could spend our day
Wanna wrap you up in calico
Tell your friends about me
They already know
One day when we’ve grown
I’ll remember you in the afterglow
I think it’s lovely just how cynical you are
How you don’t believe in little change
Or fortune in the stars
And it’s true that people come and go
And fate’s not always right
But we’ve both been through enough
To let ourselves have just tonight
I wanna take you to a place
Where you and I are face to face and we’re just
Talking ‘bout all of the ways
That we could spend our day
Wanna wrap you up in calico
Tell your friends about me
They already know
One day when we’ve grown
I’ll remember you in the afterglow
And I’ve been trying hard
To show you what the two of us could be
When we’re standing in my mirror
Do you see yourself in me
I don’t mean to make you think
That everything is meant to be
I just think that you deserve the good things
I hope that it’s not childish to confess
That I still fall in love when you’re not looking
I’m just glad I found you and you let me
I wanna take you to a place
Where you and I are face to face
And we’re just
Talking ‘bout all of the ways
That we could spend our day
Wanna wrap you up in calico
Tell your friends about me
They already know
Do you wanna go, do you wanna go
Just let me know
And you smile when I’m awake
And you and I are face to face and we’re just
Talking ‘bout all of the ways
That we could spend our day
And you’re all dressed up in calico
And I say the words
But you already know
One day when we’ve grown
They’ll remember us in the afterglow
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Fractured Bones/Move
04:42
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Laying down in your tomb
You are always making room
For the other dead and their gloom
And the voice in the walls
Through the silence, it will call
By name or by nothing at all
Now all your fractured bones
They shiver inside as you roam
And every part of you
It wonders how you will move
Do you know how you lived
Do you remember Christmas gifts
Do you ever regret your last wish
And your mother in the church
How the heads would always turn
When she sang and you forgot
About the burn
See her cry in the kitchen
Without knowing you are listening
How her body dances to the sound
Now all your fractured bones
They shiver inside as you roam
And every part of you
It wonders how you will move
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Mikah Amani Miami, Florida
Mikah Amani is a Black, indie folk/pop artist who currently writes, produces and composes all of his own music. His goal is to get his words out to people in several different forms, with music being just one. He is endlessly thankful for your support. <3 ... more
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