1. |
Fistful
03:28
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Live in your light
Forget mine
If it’s not alright
Keep to the right
Forgive yourself
It’s all hell
Just be okay
With what your life is like today
Wait to grab a fistful
Wait until the signal
Those flowers in the open
I’m holding out I’m hoping
Love your life
Between all the lines
I really try
But sometimes I fry
Wait to grab a fistful
Meet me in the middle
Those flowers in the distance
I smell them in an instant
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2. |
Katydid
02:43
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When I’m full of love
Will I say enough?
What I’m putting on
When I’m picking up where you left off
Am I holding on
Or being pulled along?
What I’m falling for
When I'm making up for what you were
Am I holding out
Or am I holding off?
Don’t know what I said
But katydid
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3. |
Easy on Me
02:48
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I don’t believe in you now
I knew it would hurt you somehow
If I don’t foresee this truth
Then I know we can't follow through
Please make it easy on me
I don’t bleed for you now
You’re haunting every cloud around
I don’t dream of your eyes
I tell you that and I wake surprised
Please take it easy on me
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4. |
Hoofin' It
03:04
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You want me to measure
The circumference of my light
I want you to reach out
You’d prefer to stay inside
You say that you’ll sleep on it
I say I’ll sleep for days
You say that you can’t see me
Or yourself in a hundred ways
I lost my footing
Fell and stopped looking
I offered you my help when
You couldn’t help yourself
I’m glad we both could see it
Are you seeing someone now?
The wind is picking up now
And you’re blowing me around
If we’re still friends in summer
Then I’ll see you above ground
I lost my footing
Fell and stopped looking
I lost my footing
Got up and I’m hoofing it
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5. |
Lost and Found
02:39
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Running round
That week it really wrung me out
Calming down
Coming off and coming back around
Staying down
I’m back up I'm getting off the ground
Running out
Of good news I end up lost and found
But if I'm in the lost and found
I don’t think you can pick me out
Even though I'm feeling so left out
I don’t think you can claim me now
Holding out
For some hope of hoping we’re not done
Hold it down
I’m not strong enough to stop the sound
Holding back
I can’t think all I can do is react
Say it back
But ok if not I'm cool with that
But if I'm in the lost and found
I don’t think you can pick me out
Even though I'm feeling so left out
I don’t think you can claim me now
And if I'm still feeling so down
Then why don’t we just hang around
Cuz we’ll be moving up in time
And together we might claim our minds
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6. |
October Light
01:32
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I don't believe in you
When we’re caught up in follow throughs
What am I gonna do
When I'm out here and falling through?
I don't believe the truth
And I'm ignorant to the blues
I can’t unsee the news
Of you lighting another fuse
I don’t believe in it
And I don’t think I'm suffering
Even when I'm abandoned
You know I'm up and down
And in October light
The truth is I
Can’t live without the sky
It’s always passing by
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7. |
Hang Around
02:30
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I know you don't know it
But I've got a feeling if
It ever makes a shift
Things could be different
If I'm moving up
Then why do I feel so down?
If you want me to
I can hang around
If you're running out
Of space I'll comfort you
If you want me to
I can build around
If it's not too late
Then I'm gonna try to do good
If I can concentrate
Then I'll be understood
I know i feel it too
And I want to help you out
But if we’re pulling through
Then I'll be around
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8. |
Ride Home
03:54
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When I wrote it out
Felt like I could see
There was the end in sight
And nothing left to be
When I rode it out
Felt like it could mean
That the ending wasn’t
All that’s left of me
On the ride home I woke up
On the ride home I fell down
On the ride home moving up
On the ride home I held out
While the daydream fades
And I rub my face
Then my eyes adjust
And I cannot replace
That to be alive
And awake it seems
Is a precious gift
Even when I can’t breathe
On the ride home I woke up
On the ride home I fell down
On the ride home moving up
On the ride home I held out
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9. |
The Fence
02:21
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What’s this?
You’re feeling sick?
What’s that?
You’re running out again?
But if
I’m running for the fence
Wherever that is
I’m getting out of this
Out of it honestly
I don't need to be seen
Spilling out my dreams
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10. |
Coconspire
04:21
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In that moment I was overcome
By my desire to be someone
Other than the one I had become
But I grew out of it said so long
In the awful yawning dawn
Found what I needed all along
Found a way to fall in line
But I don't know if I have time this time
Am I the builder
Or am I the building
Am I under construction
While I’m not singing
Am I the builder
Or could I be building
Am I part of construction
Or just a separate being
In that moment I was overdone
Overwhelmed and ready to move on
From the sight of all the sand and sun
I couldn’t help but feel on the run
Am I the horse
Or am I the rider
Am I maybe both
Can they co-conspire
Am I the horse
Or am I the cowboy
Am I maybe both
Can they co-conspire
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Blue Stoplights Chicago, Illinois
midwestern friends making homemade songs
contact: bluestoplightsband@gmail.com
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