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Another Time
05:34
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When the sun came up this morning
I was already on my way
I did not owe you any warning
You were not asking me to stay
Another time
Another day
We could have found
Another way
When I saw the new horizon
It was a promise bright and true
But it only kept receding
Leading me away from you
Another time
Another day
We could have found
Another way
A star falls
No one sees
The ground is shifting
Under me
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Leonard Said
03:00
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Like Leonard said
There’s a crack in everything
Sometimes I think
It lets out more than it lets in
I want to see you
So beautiful and free
I want to know you
Have everything you need
Powerless
I know you’ll never change
I must confess
I did it anyway
I want to see you
So beautiful and free
I want to know you
Have everything you need
I am trying not to be like this
I am trying something new
I am trying to be everything
To be everything for you
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Everything is Temporary
03:06
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Everything is temporary when you’re young
Everything is temporary when you’re young
If I knew then what I know now, I’d probably still mess it up somehow
Everything is temporary when you’re young
Everything is different when you close your eyes
Everything is different when you close your eyes
You can’t make it go away, but you can push it to another day
Everything is different when you close your eyes
You want a scene
I want a read-through
I need a script
I want a re-do
You make demands
What do they get you
I have a dream
That never comes true.
Everything is temporary when you’re young
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Winter Palace
03:15
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What is you want from me?
What is it you hope to find?
Maybe when the time is right
We can leave this place behind
You want to build your winter palace
I want to stay here in the sun
You want to build a winter palace
I want to stay here in the sun
How do you speak your mind so clearly
Without destroying everyone
You want to build a winter palace
I want to stay here in the sun
How do you speak your mind so clearly
Without destroying everyone
What is you want from me?
What is it you hope to find?
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Universe
02:56
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Universe you don’t know who I am
I’m just someone who is trying to do the right thing when I can
I’ll keep your secrets well
I promise not to tell
Universe you don’t know where I’ve been
I’m just someone who is looking for the things that are unseen
I’ll shine a light until
I lose the strength of will
If writing songs is lying
Then singing them is truth
All investigation stops
Confronted by the proof
Of another time and place
Where none of this is found
Where everything is real
And the silence is the sound
Universe I love your tender ways
I’m just someone who is living through the hours and the days
I’ll write it on my skin
Contain the beast within
The universe that doesn’t know my name
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Vultures of Lima
02:28
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Sitting in the shadows in a city of light
Feeling kind of helpless as the vultures take flight
Thinks about decisions that have landed him here
Thinks about a time he could live without fear
Wonders if the time has come to make an escape
Wonders if he has the kind of courage it takes
He’s such a long way from home
He’s such a long way from home
Beneath a winter sky
The vultures on the wing
The winter rain, it stings
We see the end of things
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7. |
You Spin
03:46
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You spin, and half a world away
I fall into another day
You see a simple way to be
I’ve heard your every waking word
I’ve felt like this before (Did you know about the problem?)
It left me wanting more (Were you ever going to tell me?)
You spin, and open up your eyes
I watch and wait for the surprise
You float upon a rising tide
I feel the feelings long denied
The stone that’s left unturned
Is a privilege we’ve earned
A prayer for safe return
Is the lesson we have learned
I’ve felt like this before (Did you know about the problem?)
It left me wanting more (Were you ever going to tell me?)
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8. |
First Kiss
02:29
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Remember
First place
First time
That you were mine
My parents didn’t like you
They just didn’t understand
You were my first kiss
First Kiss record
You were my first kiss
First Kiss record
I was too young to know
Everybody told me so
You were my first kiss
First Kiss record
You were my first kiss
First Kiss record
(Remember)
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9. |
This is Not My Home
03:21
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Suzie doesn’t like it that she’s made of atoms
Doesn’t think that that’s enough mystery
Wants to think there’s more to life than life itself
Wants to live in unrequited curiosity
Even in a crowded room
She thinks that she’s alone
She says “these are not my people
And this is not my home”
Even in a crowded room
She thinks that she’s alone
She says “these are not my people
And this is not my home”
Jimmy doesn’t like it when the sun goes down
Wonders where the light goes when it fades away
Wants to solve the mysteries of the earth’s rotation
Wants to skip the night and move directly to the day
Even in a crowded room
He thinks that he’s alone
He says “these are not my people
And this is not, this is not my home”
The atoms and the photons and the memories combine
Everyone’s together and alone
Everyone’s together and alone
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10. |
People Who Are Gone
03:40
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Never want to be the one who only looks behind
But there’s such a fascination, watching things unwind
Even as the days go by and as we carry on
We’re listening to music from people who are gone
Listen to
The music
From people
People who are gone
The days go by so slowly as the years just melt away
Doesn’t seem to matter what we do or what we say
Time to take some time to listen to my favourite song
It’s just another record from a person who is gone
And when the sounds like sunset
Close the day
Memories like echoes
Faces gone too soon
Traces left behind
Marks upon the soul
And we’d do it all again
Given half a chance
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11. |
Our Love
02:19
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What’s gonna happen to our love
What’s gonna happen
What’s gonna happen to our love
When the hammer falls
What’s gonna happen to our love
When the siren calls
It’s not a revelation
Or a sign of desperation
But I make my declaration
We will rise above it all
What’s gonna happen to our love
After all the years
What’s gonna happen to our love
After all the tears
It’s not a revelation
Or a sign of desperation
But I make my declaration
We can conquer all our fears
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12. |
Instrumental 82
01:24
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Journey's End
03:00
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I’ve written the first page of several novels
Taken lots of photos that the world will never see
I’ve seen some hidden places of the earth
Seen a lot of places that you never would believe
I’ve lived a life of quiet desperation
One among the huddled masses, yearning to be free
I’ve traded time for money and for nothing
Looking out the window my escape philosophy
I’ve listened to the voices of my heroes
Listened to the voices of my friends
Listened to the voices in my memory
Spoken from beyond a journey’s end
I’ll plan a trip to Europe in great detail
Spend the time to figure out a lyric or a line
I’ve taken opportunities, it never did occur to me
To figure out just how to plan a life
I’ve listened to the voices of my heroes
Listened to the voices of my friends
Listened to the voices in my memory
Spoken from beyond a journey’s end
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The Valery Trails Brisbane, Australia
Atmospheric guitar-based indie rock since 2012.
New album Winter Palace out now
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