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First Impressions
03:51
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I find it's just a waste
Trying to make things clear
Trying to explain myself again
And if it's all the same
It's always been the same
We're always making
The same mistakes again
People come and go
They never stay too long
With one foot out the door
They say goodbye
And if it's all a waste
Well, maybe I'm to blame
I couldn't keep the pace
Or say goodbye
And if I fall too fast
I might forget your name
I might forget your first impression's old
And if I go too far
I might forget your breath
I might forget your heart beats soft and low
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The Basement
03:12
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Thoughts of intervention
Left me floating in oceans
Foreign to me now
This could go all night
You know
I could go all night
Tales of indiscretion
Leave me with notions
And I can't see you from the shore
"Don't you follow me
You don't
Have to follow me"
It's only in your head
The oceans burning red
I followed you downstairs
I thought you'd open up there
But I was wrong
To call on you
To draw on time spent fighting me
Spent watching you
I won't follow you
But don't you know
Half of me was you
It's only sometimes now
The ocean's empty now
I followed you downstairs
I thought you'd open up
There you go again
And I don't know
What to do with you
What to do
It's nothing real now
But that's nothing new
I could stand in oceans deep
And drown with you
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Two Can
00:56
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Monster
04:42
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Put on your face in the bathroom
Laugh when the pain starts to get to you
What you hide in your heart is a monster
And you've gotta find out how to stop her
How many cards do you have left to play?
And how many more did you have yesterday?
Will you die on this hill from the inside?
Will you run from her until you cannot hide?
How much is enough to forget your
Selfish lack of love for yourself
And when will you give up
Trying to sell what you should have been
Giving away
Wait to find out if it's over tonight
Wait to find out if the monster was right
Will you die on this hill that you have made?
Will you run from her until there's no escape?
How much is enough to forget your
Selfish lack of love for yourself
And when will you give up
Trying to sell what you should have been
Giving away
When you go it alone, it's a lifetime
When you go it alone, it's a lifetime
When you go it alone, it's a lifetime
When you go it alone, it's a lifetime
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Deal in dreams and stake me on them
Crawling back into the ring somehow
My head is bleeding from the shock
The curtains falling to the blue
Are covering up the spots
Where I was falling to the ground
Too slow to stop
My head is reeling from the sight
Can't hear the screams over the fight
One survivor tells the tale
Of millions dead
And millions more to come
The sequel's better than the first
The focus clearer now
You don't have to go
You don't have to go
Just say so
I can go alone
I can go alone
I can go alone
Just say so
The basic properties of sight
You look at me and close your eyes
You can tell me no
You can tell me no
Just say so
You don't wanna go
You don't wanna go
You don't wanna go
Just say so
You don't wanna go
So change out of your cheap disguise
Don't let the mourning out of sight
Soldiers climbing up the hill
Don't raise their flags until they spill
The blood of men and children's bones
Are laid out on the ground
And screaming
Don't get up
Don't get up
Don't get up
But you won't give up
No, don't get up
No, don't get up
No, don't get up
But you won't give up
No, you won't give up
No, you won't give up
No, you won't give up
No, you won't give up
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To The Woods
01:30
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I'll sell you what you need
And send you on your way
You'll do the same for me
Some other time and day
You can't believe your eyes
But that's a kind of grace
You'll learn to love the lies
That keep things in their place
They keep things in their place
They keep you in your
Round here we do things right
And watch the things we say
We lock our doors at night
But that's all just in case
Somebody lost his mind
And wanted to escape
You're gonna be just fine
You're gonna love this place
You're gonna love this place
You're gonna love
Your crime is what you waste
Diamonds on a silver ashtray
Your timing's out of pace
These days you'd better
Look the other way
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
It's awful in this place
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Common Sense
04:18
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In time you'll say you know the way
But time will tell me everything
You tried to hide with words
You let yourself forget yourself
In ways I can't
Believe me when I tell you
That I've tried
The time will come
The time will come
Will I become a cybernetic
Man-machine?
Will I still know the weight
Of my own hands?
Will we still hate the radiating
Heat from the streets
That take me far away
To distant lands?
How will your eyes find me
When there's so much to see
And will you notice if I sleep?
We'll wake in symphonies
That make it hard to breathe
And when we're loaded
We'll weep
Well I was raised to always face
My own worst fears
But now they seem a lot like
Common sense
Protect yourself, forget yourself
And do what you should
Somehow you know that
This is for the best
How will your eyes find me
When there's so much to see
And will you notice if I sleep?
We'll wake in symphonies
That make it hard to breathe
And when we're loaded
We'll weep
When we're loaded
We'll weep
And when we're loaded
We'll weep
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Too Far Gone
01:26
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You Are Here
03:14
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Darling
You'll be here and then you'll go
You don't even know
What you want to know
But you keep asking
Child of mine
Will you know your heart from head
After all is done
And all is said
Daylight is passing
I have been wandering
Waiting for something to end
That I might start again
Love of mine
Will you come and take my hand
I don't even know
How I ought to stand
If not by your side
And darling, oh
This river will ever flow
And with its waters
You and I must go
Until we arrive
Are you still wondering
Where does my suffering end
And where does yours begin
You'll be here and then you'll go
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Never Known
03:32
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Darling, why don't you just come back to bed
I don't know what's got you so wrapped up in your head
Put down your hopes and your fears and all your dread
Darling, why don't you just come back to bed
I might have never known
I might have never known
I might have never known
What you were going through
Don't spend another good night wondering if
Death is a beautiful thing but it's not a gift
I don't know if they believe what they said
But darling, why don't you just come back to bed
They might have never known
They might have never known
They might have never known
What you are going through
Sun's coming up on a bright blessed day
So take all your nightmares and hide them away
I don't know if you'll believe what I say
But I'm just so glad you've decided to stay
We might have never known
We might have never known
The world might have never known
What you are gonna do
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Lights Are Burning
04:39
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It was a long night
Eyes open wide try as I might
Hoping to hear something call
Out of sight
It's been a long day
My head understands but I feel afraid
Keep looking back but I can't
See your face
So take this broken jar and fill it up
With something we've all got
But don't have enough of
And hide yourself from things that hurt too much
That want you to grow up
Just like the rest of us
So just let your guard down
The things that would hurt you won't come now
And you couldn't save yourself
From them anyhow
All those songs we sing to save ourselves
The ones we sing so well
When everything goes to hell
Will they have a story left to tell
If nobody else will
Why should we lie down and be still
Why keep our hands at our sides
While it spills
And all of the ground filled
Fighting for nothing except the thrill
You can't see the line when you're
King of the kill
Lights are burning in their broken eyes
Coming up slowly
Until it's overflowing
Cast your crown into the fire now
And let it all burn up
Just like the rest of us
Oh, we will
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Court Hoang Fort Worth, Texas
Court Hoang is a singer/songwriter, composer and actor based in Fort Worth, TX. Originally from Dallas, he's worked in California, Vietnam, and most recently Austin before moving back to north Texas. He has composed music for several stage plays in Los Angeles as well as in Austin, where he released his most recent album, Compass Rose (2013). ... more
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