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Taking Sides (album)

by Court Hoang

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1.
Please, Don't Mistake My Weakness for Grace 04:51
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the folding chairs are where i set my sights the separation folds into night but i can't sit you down until dark no i can't sit you down until dark from the top come dozens of grays from the bottom come the light rays but i can never open your eyes no i could never open your eyes again so, please, don't mistake my weakness for grace tell me something beautiful now just close your lips and tell me right now because i can never read you right now no, i can never read you right now just, please, don't mistake my weakness for grace don't you know you can turn me over don't you know that you can just turn me over
2.
Undefined 04:06
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don't be afraid of me, darling i won't cry, i won't cry if you just tell me your name and your heartbeat stays with mine, keeping time inside you don't get in the habit of be- lieving you were born to be something different from me, from me what would you say to me, darling you would lie, you would lie to keep me free in a sense that i don't think i can define, yours and mine would never correspond in this time or be- gin to follow paths that intertwine there's yours and then there's mine there's try and then there's try fucking open up your eyes there's something wrong with you there's something wrong with you tell me what is wrong with you something's wrong you won't tell me what's wrong
3.
Only Ghosts 04:39
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i was on a freight train running over hillsides, wond'ring where you were staring at a letter torn out of your notebook scrawled in broken verse tried to say goodbye, you know i'm just a maybe not a certainty but if you stuck around, i'd show you i'm not so bad, maybe you'd agree and if you still believe it's only ghosts who bleed unseen i don't want to hear your anecdotes when i am grieving i can hear your breath in whispers now there's no one keeping it from me if you want to go, just say so, we'll go far away from this old world i don't want to take your antidotes for my diseases if you still believe we're only ghosts then stop your bleeding now the wind is crying only for the ground ten thousand feet below i can feel your heartbeat pulling me up, but i think you just can't say no
4.
Makes Me So 04:27
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after so long i can't believe you don't believe me. i can tell, you're long gone, you don't want to see me, don't have a reason to go on so now we're done if you're going, i'll move on but i don't think you're really gonna stay gone. you promised to leave me, don't have a reason to hang on you swore me off but we both know that you don't keep your promises and don't pretend you know why you break them you don't know it makes me so our days of infancy are wearing thin we linger on until we break the skin fortunes pass us by as we build walls for mansions standing tall built for separating lives and taking sides if you don't mind, i'll come with you, at least until you feel you're satisfied. but i can't help the voices inside me that say you're wrong i don't know what i feel anymore, i don't know why you won't abide the stumbles and falls of everyone who sees you choke it makes me so i don't know what to think anymore it makes me so i can't forgive the things i'll never even know it makes me so
5.
Starting Over 04:48
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never had a chance to get you down something tells me you wouldn't give in so easily always had a leg up on your shoulder something told me somehow we'd get by oh, somehow i had time and you said you wouldn't mind starting over but now it's late and i don't have to feel anything when i'm sleeping revelations separate the fights never had a chance to get me right in the face all this talking, all this sympathy something told me someday we could get so much higher than this i had time and you said you wouldn't mind starting over but now it's late and i don't know where we're starting from, someplace new no i don't feel better no i can't see we could be so much better, you'll see oh, you'll see tear me open, tear my heart in two don't just stand there tear me open, tear my heart into something new, something new no i don't feel better no i can't see we will be so much better, you'll see oh, you'll see yes, you will see
6.
Open/Shut 04:48
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laid out on my floor, pictures try to sell me things i was walking out my door and stopped to breathe picture's fading, feeling free (h)ours are all the same, yours and mine are both the same i was listening until the picture faded and the clock covered its face in seasons of the deepest of the seas i was waiting for your teeth to open/shut and tear through me won't you come and sit with me sometime there is a reason to go outside the lines of the pane it struck me as unwise to derail the dialogue looking closely helped me see through all this fog see you clearly as i was pouring down the drain thoughts of intrigue and of blame but something's catching me up in the same old ways picture's fading out of a clear night in the moonlight and the skies are singing songs of love and grace, singing songs of hating the daybreak making clear all of our mistakes don't know what you're asking for, but i can't help you anymore i can't help you anymore, i can't help you anymore
7.
The Basement 03:33
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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 it's nothing new i could stand in oceans deep and drown with you
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Don't Hesitate 04:25
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hark! the herald angel said to me where the fuck d'you think you're going now the party's over this way oh, but i forgot to bring your shirt you must think i never had a chance to wash the stains away when the smoke is the glass and you can't relax at all i can't even hear you cry anymore so, where did you go again last night did you think i'd never notice if you didn't come back home to me? i don't know how you think we could live in the same confinement if you don't pretend to give a shit when you know it's a lie but you won't supply the answer i can hardly even try anymore don't be afraid of my love don't hesitate to surrender when the hints turn to shouts and no one's about to answer i don't even question why watch the gates and close them if you see anything that constitutes a moving violation in this town oh, but i remember you can't dance how about i take your legs and bind them tight so you can't walk? when there's nothing to gain from sparing with painted faces you don't even have to try i don't mind anymore tell me, do you think i went too far? did i take you for a ride and leave you hanging out to dry this time? oh, but i don't think you understand when i held you down i swear that you were always on my mind
9.
How to Cope 03:28
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i was never open to the way that you played the game exactly how you wanted to but rules were made for breaking spirits how to cope is something i can help you learn broken pieces fit together in their turn but you don't have the patience to stay on the wagon's charge i don't know why you have to go so early in the morning in the afternoons i get so fucking bored in this room bring me with you and i'll show you where to go but if you want to leave me here then go, go, go i don't need you half as much as i need something stronger from johnnie walker don't you want me now don't you care don't you dare vision's blurring as the night is wearing on wonder if i'll see the sun before it's gone again simple things are never simple if you don't take the time to recognize you'll never know and justifying never seems to change the fact that broken bottles look so much like diamonds sparkling after fighting i can't even get my brain to start to tell them apart
10.
Basic Properties of Sight 05:33
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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 cov'ring 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 want to go, you don't want to go, you don't want to go, just say so you don't want to go so change out of your cheap disguise don't keep 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
11.
Not Really an Apology 04:30
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won't you take me home there's nowhere left to go there's nowhere else i want to go and will you wait outside as the door is closing when the moon is falling from the sky because i won't let you in i tried to make pretend that we were partners in this war but now my flag's been flown i'm never fighting for peace i'm never fighting for the chance to begin and i know that's not okay yeah, i know it's not okay i don't know what to say leave your coat with me when you need to breathe and i can still believe in you but when the clocks are gone will you stay in my thoughts will you stay in my heart until the end because in the streets i walk i can't hear you call when my wheels are turned around so help me try to see when there's no one in reach when there's nothing in my head but me because you know i'm not all right yeah, you know i'm not all right so why'd'you look so surprised? in the falling snow my thoughts are falling low so won't you please just take me home i'll never try to be the kind of person you'd meet the kind of person that you'd see on the street i promise i'll be discreet
12.
Wind-Up Girl 02:50
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i was a no-brainer trapped inside a well-don't-you-know, trying to go in too deep never-you-mind passed me by and told me i shouldn't care honesty posed on the ground for me to capture the sound, turn it around, and send it upward all that i know now is i can't feel my feet: someone picked me up and dragged me through the air until i cried trying to buy patience from a broken vending machine; oh-what-a-dream just laughed in silence holding a transparent mirror to my face seeing you oh-what-a-chore asked me why i never tried to pretend, knowing the end, well, why'd i bother i said what i said to the face of someone strange lied and cheated and the feeling didn't change until you cried best wishes and a chance at fortune fading from inside
13.
Imprint 04:29
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all of the elders fell from the burning tops of the trees foxes in fables searching for silence in their screams notions of people forgotten and lysis of disease famous for fables and yarns spun around the open seams but i should've known you, i could've brought you something something to burn or something to leave at your feet as a record of the changing mean i feel its range in me and i left an imprint on your cheek rondels and songs have always been on the edge of weeds planted and sown for someone to grow around their seeds standing on tables and flailing their arms in ecstasy moments of glorious madness and authenticity but i should've known you, i could've helped you to keep something to burn away all the older memories you never had a chance to see you wouldn't stand with me when i demanded peace you never granted it to me but i never asked for you to leave and i laid the answer on your sleeve i left an imprint on your cheek i left an imprint

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My first full-length album recorded! 13 tracks written and recorded in Hanoi, VN; 2010-11.

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released November 17, 2011

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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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