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Stand Tall
01:58
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Don’t ever think it’s not enough
You already do so much
You could run this world of ours
three times over
And when the mountains seem so tall
You lose your grip, you slip and fall
Just remember you’re already
Half way over
(Chorus)
And Stand tall
Just stand tall
Let your fire grow
And stand tall
And when they try to put you down
And say your worth is nothing now
Just remember in your heart you know
They are lire’s
When you look into your reflection
And you don’t like what you see
Just remember the child in you
Sees a champion
(Chorus)
Stand tall
Just stand tall
Let your fire grow
Let your fire glow
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Fantastic Dyspraxic
03:04
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I lose my balance sometimes
Fall into walls those times
My brain don’t process information
In the usual way
I find it hard to calculate numbers
It’s difficult to process, words
It’s troublesome to make a plan
and execute that plan
(Chorus)
I’m a fantastic dyspraxic
I embrace my dyspraxia
I’m well worth the love
I need just one thing at a time to do
I’m not good at doing two
New skills I learn slowly
But I’ll get there eventually
(Chorus)
Can’t you see
There is nothing wrong with me
I have challenges
A world of anxiety
I can sleep
just about anywhere I stop my feet
What did you say?
I don’t think I was listening, I’m sorry
(Chorus)
Fantastic Dyspaxic
(Chorus)
Fantastic
Fantastic
Fantastic Dyspraxic
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Portal
04:53
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It's your choice where you want to go
You choose the destination
You choose the portal
This is the place we’re we enter
Enter into the portal
And let it take us across time
To any world we want to go
So take my hand and I will show you
Anything you want me to
This is the place where we wonder
Into another better life
It’s the portal of life
So let me put you in slowly
Into the tank where we understand things
I’ll show you a would where we’re already
Are entwined together in perfect harmony
This is the world
We don’t understand but we long to
This is the time
The time to take you were you want to
We’re you want to
It's your choice where you want to go
You choose the destination
You choose the portal
It's calling out to you
here the echo of your voice
it is your choice
Got one foot in the grave
The other one in outer space
Got one foot on the breaks
The other one in a cosmic embrace
Under disco light
Changing through the time
Moving to where we like
To find your self in another life
Another life
In another life
Got one foot in the grave
The other one in outer space
Got one foot on the breaks
The other one in a cosmic embrace
Another Life
This is the Portal of new potential
You choose the portal
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When is enough, enough?
When is it full on tough?
When can I have a chance to breathe?
Apparently that’s not me
Where is the breaking point?
When’s it okay to run?
I don’t stretch the way you do
I wish to God I did
(Chorus)
I want to move mountains for you
It’s just that every time I do
It’s not enough
It all comes down to failure
I do all the things you say that I should do
I have pull down the moon for you
And still you push for more
(Chorus)
So what do you do
when the love runs out
Do we dig in deeper
Do we just tap out
(Chorus)
I want to move mountains for you
But it’s just not enough
It’s not enough
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Paper Airplane
03:55
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They say it’s best to put down your roots
To build where you are
Well I guess I’ve never had the luxury
It always ends up being a cut and a scar
Every time I put my feet
Firm into the ground
Another storm rolls in
And rippes me right out
(Chorus)
I wish that I could be saved
I wish that I could stay
But every time I try to, the wind blows
And I just drift away
Like a paper airplane
I trusted what I thought was good instinct
And I made friends to retain
But now I’m losing it all once again
I can’t bend this way
(Chorus)
I saw it come from a mile away
But still it snuck up on me
I wish that I could tell you
What you have meant to me
(Chorus)
I wish that I could take you
With me this time
I'd show you the world from my view from the sky
From my paper airplane
My paper airplane
Paper airplane
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Check
Because I was wigging out, like I think I was doing it quickly but it’s possible that I screamed
…on the second story
There was someone looking in the window
And the lighting was really wired and it caught on the face
And when I woke up I was on the floor next to the bed where I dreamed I was
Is there someone looking in the window
…it was, um, it was right there.
So I couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t
I suppose I should start with the memory that ripped me out of this state off mind, that until recently I called reality
I can’t recall exactly
It was right there next to the roof and if anyone really wanted to break in they would just have to get on top of the roof somehow
I can’t, I can’t know how much I was lucid during this time and that’s really what’s spooky about it because I don’t know how much of it actually happened
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7. |
Right Here
03:23
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I would take your hand
I would hold you tight
If I was yours
And if you were mine
I need your good long hug to make it okay
I need your extended night of love to take away this day
I need your drawn out kiss
To make it through all this
I need an extended time with you I need that bliss
(Chorus)
I would take your hand
I would hold you tight
If I was yours
And if you were mine
You’d catch me smiling
when I look at you
We’d be the perfect love story
Me and you
I would give how you give That’s the way I would live
I would love the way you love with a downpour of affection from above
And I’m right here. Waiting to prove myself
All the heartache in you will be expelled
It'll be no more
(Chorus)
And if I could tell you this one thing
I wish you could know this one thing
I wish you could know
I'm right here
I would take you hand I would hold you tight
if I was yours and if you were mine
I'm right here
If you were mine
I will hand my heart to you
Because I can give the way you give
I won’t abandon you
I can love the way you love
When you’re too down to move
I’ll do anything for you
I will give the way you give
I can love the way you love
I’m right here
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8. |
Place Of Silence
04:00
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There is something that surrounds me
And I feel it again
And my heartbeat is the only
Thing I can feel again
And this moment it’s like I’ve been here before
Though I couldn’t say just when
But the landscape that I see
Is it a dream
It surrounds me
This alluring road lies ahead of me
And my soul aches to be there
And the sense of belonging in this place
A place I’ve been before
And then silently, silently
It brings me In
This tranquility is all I need
In my minds eye I repose again
And I want to see, silently
And I want to see how silently
This pluvial dance I perform
It touch’s, it touches it touches me
The touch, the touch
Tenderly
Silently; silently
And quietly, quietly, quietly
My soul begins to sing
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9. |
Flowers In The Pavement
03:19
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I’m thinking deep
I’m drowning fast
So what’s the point to this?
Why do I even exist?
I’m losing ground I’m floating down
So what’s the point to this? Why do I even exists?
Maybe it was just another fantasy
To believe I could live in this reality
And though I fight to stay alive
Maybe there’s just no guarantee
Maybe the days were meant to be
Maybe I’m not meant for this life
The things you’ve told me I didn’t understand
Or am I just too small to comprehended
(Chorus)
You showed me that flowers
Grow through the cracks in the pavement
Maybe I’ve told myself so many lies
The kind of lies that build upon each other and
Maybe I was just too week at the seems
That’s why I fell apart at the earliest breeze
And
Maybe it was just another kiss in the wind
And I could never feel that way again
And
Maybe you and I were not meant to be
Maybe we were meant to embarrass everything
(Chorus)
Will you stay here by my side?
We will watch the flowers thrive
Please stay by my side
Please stay by my side
Will you stay by my side?
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10. |
Factory Song
05:53
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Every day’s the same, nothing changes
Work real hard, for real low wages
Every heart’s the same, it can be broken
Hearts ripped out, souls have been taken
(Chorus)
And I would really love to feel again
I’m tired of being numb over and over again
They don’t hear names, they don’t see faces
They only see the numbers when it changes
So many here have rusted bodies
We walk around like a bunch of zombies
There is a storm pouring down upon us
But sure as hell they will never notice
Here we are standing just as strong as we can be
Broken and tired Is this our destiny
(Chorus)
Every day’s the same, nothing changes
Work real hard, for real low wages
Every heart’s the same, it can be broken
Hearts ripped out, souls have been taken
(Chorus)
This factory is ending me
It’s going to put me in an early grave
This factory is killing me
It’s bleeding me so slowly
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11. |
Love And Life
03:22
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Can I tell you again
The part where I fell for you?
Can I complete you again
The way you completed me too?
I don’t think we can go back to
The place that we started this again
And I surely don’t think it’ll be
The way it should be once again
I think that should be left in the past
I feel we should just understand that
And how much I wish it could be the way it was
It simply can not be
It cannot be
Goodbye
Goodbye
Lift me into the sky
Roll me into a high
We can tell each other where we went wrong
Hold me up so high
To touch the sky
And I swear I’ve done everything wrong
(Please don't leave me)
Please take me over
I’m just getting older
This weight on my shoulders
Is pulling me down
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