1. |
Looking For
05:24
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When I was a boy just five years of age
I picked up a fiddle and started to play
Those were
The best years of my life
Picked a guitar back in summer ‘09
I made my first tune and wrote my first rhyme
It wasn’t perfect
But it was all right
I wasn’t perfect
But I was all right
It began to feel different when I hit eighteen
Made some new plans set aside all my dreams and I
Can’t get away from the push and the pull
Of the waves crashing over my body and soul
Twenty-three and I’m not going back
All I carry with me are these memories intact
It’s hard to move on when I’m stuck in the past
It’s hard to move on when I’m stuck
When I’m stuck
When I’m
Still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Still haven’t found what I’ve lost
Still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Still haven’t found what I’ve
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2. |
Let Me Go, Loneliness
03:21
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Let me go, loneliness, I'm running out of lies to tell
Those who keep asking me if I'm doing well, I say, "Swell"
'Cause these past four years I've been tryna get by
With a smile on my face and the good Lord by my side
Let me go, loneliness, it's getting harder to pretend
To laugh along, drink with these people that I call friends
Oh, I said
Let me go, loneliness, it's getting harder to pretend
To laugh along, drink with these people that I call friends
'Cause if you ask me to name the folks who've stayed by my side
I can name three
Namely,
Me, Myself, and I
Let me go
'Cause if you ask me to name the folks who've stayed by my side
I can name three
Namely,
Me, Myself, and I
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3. |
Constantly
05:25
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Constantly fighting for rest
Can't get this heaviness off my chest
It feels like I'm
Falling down a bottomless pit
Could someone or something reach out to get me out of this
Constantly waging a war
Oh, top of my head
I can't even tell you what for
I feel like I've messed up
And hit rock bottom it seems
Nothing to do
Nothing to do but to shout and scream
Can anybody hear me
Can anybody see me
Can anybody feel me
You're constantly fighting for me
Right now that's all I need
You're constantly fighting for me
Right now you're all I need
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4. |
Running to Vancouver
05:09
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Dusty living room
With paintings on the wall
Staring back at me
For as far as I can recall
Tiny flashing lights
Wrapped around the Christmas tree
And your names are on boxes, they're on boxes
Written in ink
You've been away for far too long
And I've been feeling so alone
I've got no cash for a ticket
So I'll come running to Vancouver for you
When will you come home?
I'm sitting here waiting
With this old guitar
I'm singing here waiting
'Cause I miss the sound of your voice
I miss the stories that would go on forever
I miss the dinner table noise
I miss the Sundays that we spent together
And I miss you
You've been away for far too long
And I've been feeling so alone
I've got no cash for a ticket
So I'll come running to Vancouver for you
This house ain't a home without you
It's just bricks and stones without you
This house ain't a home without you
It's just bricks and stones without you
You've been away for far too long
And I've been feeling so alone
I've got no cash for a ticket
So I'll come running to Vancouver for you
I've got no cash for a ticket
So I'll come running to Vancouver for you
I've got no cash for a ticket
So I'll come running home, running home to you
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5. |
Milkyway
03:57
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Table full of strangers
There's something wrong about this space
I know I've seen your faces before but I can't explain why I shy away from the talking
I sit and laugh and figure out
All the words that flow from your smiling mouths
I've never known true warmth before
Like I'm feeling now
Moving pictures on a screen
Making sense of all that we hear and see
An escape from reality
And you're sitting in front of me
While I'm cheating Mondays
I sit and laugh and figure out
All the words that flow from your smiling mouths
I've never known true warmth before
Like I'm feeling now
Oh, I sit and laugh and figure out
All the words that flow from your smiling mouths
I've never known true warmth before
Like I'm feeling now
I'm glad I share a universe with you
There's no reality I'd rather choose
I'm glad I share a universe with you
There's no reality I'd rather choose
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Lagoon
02:29
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Where the beasts are running free
And the white clouds kiss the trees
There's a house that's mossy green
There you'll find me
After dawn the sunlight shone
Through the walls of cobblestone
On the earth that I call home
There you'll find me
Far from all the smoke and dust
Far from toxic rain and rust
Underneath the soil I trust
You will find me
Where the worms are filled with lust
Feel no sorrow or disgust
You will see I'm finally free
When you find me
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7. |
Icarus
05:57
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I set my mind on ending my lifelong dream of being happy
There’s nothing left to lose
When you’re standing underneath the—
I set my heart on giving up everything I thought I could be
There’s nothing left to choose
When all the winding roads are just a ruse
These are the things that are tearing up my soul
Could someone make me whole
The voice in me is crystal clear
It speaks to me in times of fear
And rids me of the longing for decay
A different kind of dying has to happen today
(So lead the way, lead the way)
A different kind of dying has to happen today
(So lead the way, lead the way)
‘Cause I don’t wanna go on throwing this life away
(So lead the way, lead the way)
A different kind of dying has to happen today
(So lead the way, lead the way)
So lay out your blueprints and tables and plans
There is no fear when I’m safe in your hands
Take me and break me and make me again
All of the pieces are yours now to mend
Lay out your blueprints and tables and plans
(Whole)
There is no fear when I’m safe in your hands
So take me and break me and make me again
(Whole)
All of the pieces are yours now to mend
Whole
(Whole, whole)
These wings have been taking me places again
Now I’m no farther than when I began
Here washed ashore tracing prints in the sand
They’re leading me back, oh, they’re leading me back
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The Ridleys Manila, Philippines
Telling stories through songs.
Benny Manaligod
Bryant Ayes
Jan De Vera
Joric Canlas
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