1. |
Elsewhere
03:12
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These traffic lines
keep passing by
on a road as black as ice
black beneath my eyes
I couldn't find any signs to guide me
now it's like I'm destined to drive
around and around again
looking for the end
can't keep my mind off you tonight
the street is dead, cars keeping quiet
I sped through red and yellow lights
just to be elsewhere
your lonely highway eyes
keep this heart alive
your lonely highway eyes
but with the headlights at my back
I can't stay on this track
forever
these diner signs
no longer shine
swallowed up by the past
lost on absent minds
I'm surrounded by an endless valley
uncanny as well as unkind
where everyone's the same
and everyone's afraid
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2. |
Used To Know
02:27
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We traded in the romance
auctioned off the thrill
everything is different now
with so much time to kill
I remember a place where it always felt like spring
we would run outside and let the screen door swing
I get so attached sometimes
yeah, it's as though
the sun keeps setting on the things
we used to know
all the handwritten letters
that you gave to me
are all going up in smoke
like effigies
I could carry for a while this torch of love
but the ways have changed, it just won't be enough
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3. |
In Reverse
01:57
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Shimmer
04:14
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The thoughts race back again
like thawing frozen leaves
all dim or burning out
lights strung up along the eves
your long brown sun-kissed hair
the dresses you would wear
I never used to care
Shimmer
the voice that I once knew
since taken by the breeze
destined to fade into
a distant memory
now my ears begin to ring
the silence deafening
we haven't learned a thing
Shimmer
sometimes I want you too much
sometimes I'm cold to the touch
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5. |
Valspeak
03:51
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Isn't it strange
how every single pavement path
leads you to the end of the cul-de-sac
pay phones never gonna call you back
I could've sworn
this city used to be so rad
whatever happened, did you ask your dad
we're looking down our noses at a passé fad
oh
when you whisper to me
the voice still carries
down neighborhood streets
it's in the ghostly aura
of idle TVs
that bittersweet
valspeak
tell me why
something hiding in periphery
gets a lot of flak like its blasphemy
when it's sweeter than a splash of grenadine
what can I do
for a little of that joie de vivre
an insulated bubble of security
looking at the world like I'm seventeen
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6. |
The Big Chill
03:51
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It's another day
and you're on another screen
I am living in a glass house
with no safeguards in between
I can't wait to get outside
you can't wait to have your fun
as we sit beneath a monolith
that's blocking out the sun
oh you say you could go back
we both know that isn't true
complications have evolved
other problems have ensued
I still feel the cold hard letters
and your acronyms of love
I reciprocate half-heartedly
pretending it's enough
and I never thought
we'd be the ones to
phone it in
for something less
and I never thought
we'd be the ones to
dance alone
in nothingness
and you're keeping still
but you feel a chill
and your eyes just stare
as if they're looking
miles away from me
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7. |
Yesterday's Clothes
03:43
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People change
I don't
we're still wearing
yesterday's clothes
people age
I won't
we're still wearing
yesterday's clothes
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Slow Coda Los Angeles, California
Slow Coda is Tavis Balkin and Nicholas Morford.
Contact: slowcoda@gmail.com
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