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Oh, you can see the alibi
the moon casts a glare,
an everlasting stare
on your might
and it seems a fickle fantasy
to look up from the clouds and see you're right
but light plays a mean game,
you come back down it's all the same as it once was
But on that fateful day
when we all could stay and proceed at any other time
it's just a holiday
"it's a shame" you'd say
to proceed at any other time
Plate-glass and pine
strum along it's fine
to your symphony
A train set for south will make it's way around eventually
But on that fateful day
when we all could stay and proceed at any other time
it's just a holiday
"it's a shame" you'd say
to proceed at any other time
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These empty walls have no conscience
that another day is gone
if it's any consolation
these walls will fall
so if I make a new drink
then I'll sit back down
there's no way that beyond these wall the world
keeps on spinning around
I'll take some time to ease my worried mind
because I fear it's running away
and I'll sit back down and take a deep breath
but it's the same everyday
so if I make a new drink
then I'll sit back down
there's no way that beyond these wall the world
keeps on spinning around
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No lyrics here bud, it literally says Instrumental in the title.
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You and I are going to build a house
ten feet tall and twenty around
and when the space is all used up, and we've given out all our stuff
you and I are going to build a house
and with rain pellets dancing over our heads
we'd count the ripples on the river instead
instead of listening to ourselves we can listen to the melt
of the snow-capped mountains overhead
It's just the way you'd laugh, darling
and just the way you are
and if you want to wake up in the middle of nowhere
I promise it won't be too far
I say we start building in Hokkaido
find some space with the mountains around
and we can go just you and me find some Sushi there by the sea
is there even an ocean near Hokkaido
(yep, I looked it up. There definitely is.
"Wait," you say "that sounds like a bore
I've found a little grass shack in the Azores
and if you never even mentioned hiking, kayaks, the surf and biking
what the hell are we even moving for?"
It's just the way you'd laugh, darling
and just the way you are
and if you want to wake up in the middle of nowhere
I promise it won't be too far
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We'll you'd think, wait by the bar
and you'd drink, look at her from afar
but you won't sing songs for Unicorns
and she'd walk, glancing over so quickly
as she talks with guys who aren't so picky
what she wants is a Song for Unicorns
and if you wait just a little
and she waits just a little bit more
there'll be time by the restless morn
for scribbling down pictures and lyrics and more
songs for unicorns
you're getting too brave, and you pick up your arrow
and you wave but the space is just too narrow, between bodies
and your arrow falls to the floor
a smile on her lips, as she continues walking
so you missed, another time to start talking
but she slips on an arrow that's never been there before
and if you wait just a little
and she waits just a little bit more
there'll be time by the restless morn
for scribbling down pictures and lyrics and more
songs for unicorns
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Ohhhhhh yeah.
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Shells (The Sappy One)
03:36
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Isaac Balson Kelowna, British Columbia
Bedroom acoustic experimenter
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