1. |
What If I Never Saw You
04:08
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I want to see something in the dark
I want to be somewhere from the start
I want to be perfect in your mind
I want us to be happy all the time
It must be love, but it’s not real
It can’t be love if it’s not real
What if I never saw you in that light
An incandescent halo in the night
The vagaries of random circumstance
The power to disable or enhance
I’ll be more specific when we chat
Right now I don’t know what I’m getting at
It must be love, but it’s not real
It can’t be love if it’s not real
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Dicentra
03:28
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These fading blooms
In your empty rooms
They smell of autumn
In the dusk
If I’m too late
I know you can’t wait
You’ve got a plan for
your escape
This obsession
A fatal infection
The heart has a hunger
It only gets stronger
Fading away
Nothing to say
All of my thoughts in disarray
That door is closed
For good I suppose
This bleeding heart will decompose
But if you find
I’ve not been unkind
Give me a thought from time to time
I want to reach you
But I can’t touch you
The soul bears the stain of desire
The body a house set on fire
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3. |
Lovesick
03:58
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I fell ill from the love
the one thing I’m guilty of
Is running the past in reprise
It seems to help my disease
You write with invisible ink
I never know what to think
The countless clues I misread
I let them go to my head
You’re most happy alone
When you feel like a stone
But you’re a beautiful flower
And softness is a power
What I’m saying my dear
Is that they’re drawing me near
And I’ll give up the ghost
It’s what I desire most
Fenestra
Palestra
Cathedra cadenza dicentra
Tremella
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Blackglitter
05:02
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Well look at you dressed in black glitter
What kind of girl will you attract
Let’s seduce the babysitter
Mother’s never coming back
All this time you never breathed of it
I wonder what brought on the change
A sudden edge a hidden energy
That carried more force than the pain
You look fine in your black glitter
It becomes you in the fall
I’m in love with your black glitter
You have good taste after all
Think back to those last days of winter
If you recall we made a deal
I introduced you to my sister
I didn't know how I would feel
She didn't know you were my girlfriend
I went along and played the ruse
The drama put me in a tailspin
I had everything to lose
You look fine in your black glitter
It becomes you in the fall
I’m in love with your black glitter
You have good taste after all
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Soul Mates in the Rain
03:15
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The boys all love you
But what you need to know
I’m not some other
Sweet talking romeo
I care more deeply
Never pin you down
You’ll decide freely
If you want me around
We’re star crossed lovers
Soul mates in the rain
There’s that connection
Logic can’t explain
I can’t control this
It’s bigger than my pride
But if i tell you
I’m afraid you’ll run and hide
I know you love me
Clues are everywhere
But you keep insisting to me
That you play solitaire
We’re star crossed lovers
Soul mates in the rain
There’s that connection again
No logic can explain
Star crossed lovers
Soul mates in the rain
There’s nothing that we can lose
And everything to gain
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Give me my depression back
the only thing I lack
is blackness
Save all of your sin
keep it deep within
your secret
No don’t tell a soul
how alchemists make gold
it’s restricted
When you crossed to the other side
all the angels I knew nearly died
First you lost all your faith in God
now you’re playing the devil’s ballade
Once in a million dreams
she’s everything she seems
it’s magic
Then all your schemes fall through
she turns away from you
it’s tragic
Give me my depression back
the only thing I lack
is black
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Valori Plastici
03:57
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Your shadow on the piazza
in a dream
The slanted light of late summer
so it seems
The ball the spoon the spool the string
Everything
Is a sign
Connected in a line
Endlessly
The sealing wax with initials
Mine and yours
An envelope in a fire
Now obscure
The hunt the arrow poised to pierce
This lover’s curse
One final waltz
The victim’s shadow falls
Windows burst
The bell the book the time you took
The story line a life of crime
The stagehand said you look divine
The chilly air of december
Keeps your love
In a box tied up in black ribbon
A handless in glove
You dreamt a double dream of spring
Bright and sunlit
The evil genius of a king
Ruined it
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8. |
Stars in Your Galaxy
03:53
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This is the page I tore out
from your diary
You called me “M” in the list
of your lovers gallery
Do others know we are framed
in your memory
How can i even breathe
we’re all stars in your galaxy
The mannequin can’t find her skin in the mirror
it’s much clearer in a fog
The empty hangers now in the closet
recite dulcet dialogues.
You live on air
from a rare planetarium
and waves of grace
in the care of a sanitarium
What hellish noise
could distract you from your equipoise
You don’t need boys
when the girls offer better toys
The perfect love affair from a distance
needs persistence every night
Be steady confident understanding
Not demanding or she’ll take flight
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caramel snow Delmar, New York
Caramel Snow is on Jigsaw, Shiny Happy Records, Magic Rub Cassettes, as well iTunes, etc. Influences range from early Bowie, Beatles (*MMTour), Pet Sounds, Roxy, él Records, My Bloody Valentine, and Sarah Records. He has performed at the Nebraska Pop Fest ... more
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