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Hallucination
05:32
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[Instrumental]
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Edge
05:13
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It’s a cold world, stop and look at the signs
It’s the renegade of the season, paralyzed
It’s a young soul, you left too fast to be noticed
It’s the pain you feel in the water, you are drowning
Come off the edge
It’s safer here, it’s safe in my arms
Come off the ledge
You’re loved like everyone wants you
Come off the edge
It’s painful but the story’s not over
It’s a sharp blade, cutting over the soft flesh
It’s a tight noose, around your neck you place it
Thinking of the world, it’s hard to know your place
Just a little more, just feed a little more
‘cause it’s hard to live with that face
Lay down
Lay in silence
Lay down
Lay in my arms.
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3. |
Icy
03:14
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The ice is melting, Catalina
Right turn, wrong time
Justify the spirit giver
And fall right through the cracks
The ice is broken, Catalina
Spin, run, turn round, fly
Justify your precious lover
And dance till the keg runs dry
The ice is water, Catalina
Trays go back into the freezer
Justify the holy rollers
Insatiate the common man
Test 1, 2, 3 -
this is a message for all of you:
Days go by, days go by
The ice is melting, Catalina!!!
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4. |
Painting the Earth
04:35
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What is “beautiful”?
Sitting, strokes like Monet
What is “beautiful”?
Painting the earth with you
What is “beautiful”?
Beautiful is you
What is “beautiful”?
The colors in your eyes
What is “beautiful”?
Sitting on the dock of the bay
What is “beautiful”?
Your breath on my neck
What is “beautiful”?
The piercing stare of love
What is “beautiful”?
What is “beautiful”?
Painting the earth with you.
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Equal
02:12
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Equal in the eyes of GOD
You started dating ten years before
A marketplace clamor
A visual disaster going on in your mind
Equal in the chlorine pool
You drowned in there many moons ago
Perishing lightly oh so scarcely
Vanish onto the cauldron horizon
Convention, I’ve got detention
The retention of this information
Is driving me into remission
So come on, come on down.
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On the Roof
04:01
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Consecrated, inundated with papers
You took the train at 12 AM and you don’t know what your name is
On the roof you said “I don’t want to be with you anymore”
I took my time, I thought “Good lord, honey, you don’t know me like you should”
You’re late for afternoon tea
With the captain of two ships gone out to sea
A considerable amount of overwashed and bashful incantations
Spread it out so thinly it cannot breathe
Levitating, it’s overrated
Come perish in my presence
Wait for me when you get over the hill
And meet me on the roof
Just meet me up on the roof
You flirt with other men, it hurts, but I’ll get over it
Catcher in the rye, stale bread, it spreads so thinly you cannot breathe
Another day, another novel, another waking moment that you’re not there
Not even the sisters of the callous vertebrae stir up the kind of shit that you do
Cover me with everything that you see, it’s doubtful you’ll be
The man I want you to be
On the roof, on the roof.
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Still Life
05:08
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Hang up the phone, it’s ringing so late
Don’t matter who’s calling tonight
If it’s your art dealer, well you can tell him
That I hated that abstract work of art
or work of crap, depends on who you talk to
Cut me off the line
I don’t want to hear your voice
Otherwise I’m sitting alone in here
Someone told me your still life turned out crappy
Still life ...
You, me, everyone we used to know
is gathered here tonight
for your still life
I hang up the phone, you’ve lost all importance to me
Cast another line and maybe you’ll catch a whore
“Someday”’s gone and never returns
And you smell like you could get a burn from the sun
Once bitten, twice shy, third ... who really knows?
All in all I’m sitting alone in here
Someone told me, it’s not funny, but your still life
turned out like shit.
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Storm Has Passed
04:17
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You think only of yourself
You speak only for yourself
The peril farther down a desolate road
Blooms like a flower in spring
You write only for yourself
No more rhyme schemes for me
Make love only for yourself
That isn’t what makes love now, is it?
Me, is it you
In this life together?
The storm has passed
incubate and futile
Wondering so slow
across the skies
It burns like fire
You try to leave the two-step behind
You worsen your case by thousands
The young man searching for a timepiece
Long gone in the grand scheme of things
You turn away for things not theirs
You give it a shot, a desperate plea
Take the burns only for yourself
That isn’t what will burn you, is it?
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Echo (Poetry)
04:22
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Catapult the ostrich out the window
Why don’t you give me that second chance
we’re always talking about
‘Cause it sounds so good, it sounds so good
when you play your guitar that way
when you say that you love me
Jerky kids on the playground tonight
They light your car on fire
and it smells like a sulfur bomb went off in here
A tad bit of acetylene boxcar
made out of
your mother’s earwax
It sounds like poetry
It’s the echoes.
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Psychotic Impetus
04:10
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Giuseppe made a friend down in little Brooklyn
Called his mommy, trash the car for all the things he’s seeing
Make a mess of all the trash cans and the confiscating
“Oh Lord, I wish you weren’t talking and just masticating!”
The tiny woman walks right on past the store front
Collecting verses, masses, passes and the sound of your grunt
Listen and you’ll find that music isn’t infinite
A gesticulated lull that pulls and culls at your sight
Gelling and selling your
Psychotic impetus
To underrated sharks in parks
Your psychotic impetus is ...
Giuseppe got in trouble with a police officer
Called his daddy, makes amends for all the strict monikers
A tad bit later he is down at the hospital
for the mentally insane ... now figure that one out.
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Evan Schafer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
My name is Evan Schafer. I am an indie musician with a strong grounding in traditional composition, but the material always has a unique flair. I guarantee not being bored out of your gourd when turning on one of the records. I produce, mix, and engineer everything myself, and have done so since late 2005. ... more
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