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Colored Copies
03:18
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In my coat
On winters skin
I’m walking backwards over bridges
To the place where we begin
The cameras watch
But I can’t stay long
There’s a guard already approaching
Waving his hands to move me on
CHORUS: And if you insist
How can I resist?
Love is, like nothing else is
The colored copies
We get to keep
The rest is burning up in baskets
In labs where rats and monkeys sleep
This house on fire
This open call
Has me scaling back the plans I had
For climbing up this wall
CHORUS
BRIDGE: Like nothing else is, like nothing else is
Like book sleeves on subjects like guidance
Like postscripts with someone in silence
Where classroom daydreams disappear
Like faint notes left on a mirror
Say goodbye
Before you leave
Keep your toothbrush wrapped in a sandwich bag
And your heart rolled in your sleeve
CHORUS
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The guardrail marks the grave
Where you and I were saved
Before we both gave up on god
You held your breath and smiled
And you woke the world awhile
And we, we tied ourselves in knots
Held vigil in the hall
Thought stars might finally fall
From the weight of wishing
CHORUS You’d pull through
When it hurts you,
When, when it hurts you me
When it hurts you, it hurts me too
You rolled the silverware
I stacked up plastic chairs
And we, we walked around for hours
To clear our heads again
Enough! Fools without a plan
Lost in details
We have so few
CHORUS
BRIDGE: I saw your text come through
I nearly cracked the screen to answer back at you
But like a signal lost at sea
That’s it! You’d ghosted me.
CHORUS
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3. |
One More Someone
03:51
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They’re turning this island into a mall and
They’re tearing the old house down
The game closet’s empty, the ghosts are less friendly
And nothing makes a sound
The sound of the ache in the floorboard
The absent guitar chords whose tune is
One more someone I’m gonna miss
The parents who loved you held it above you
Clueless to their guilt
There’re names out of order etched in the mortar
Of every wall you built
They found us resting in motion
Under the ocean where we kissed
One more someone I’m gonna miss
And you’re one more someone I’m gonna miss
One more someone I’m gonna miss
BRIDGE:
We drove south on the Northway
The windows rolled down the whole day
The miles sweep through us
And the truth comes to us
Like silence follows a thrill
When the endings are over
And you’re only just older
There’s never any doubt
What you take with you
Won’t be the issue
It’s what you’ll leave without
The lengths I’d go through to show you
I love you and I know you know this!
You’re one more someone I’m gonna miss
One more someone I’m gonna miss
One more someone I’m gonna miss
Seely I tell you things
I want you to hear
You won’t believe
They’re turning this island into a mall and they’re tearing the old house down
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Goodbye Berlin
04:02
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Out of time out of bed
Out of order in my head
Suppose we drove as far as we could
And never found our way if we could
Turn back around without regrets
Everyday that waits forgets
About me
Arrive by taxi, check my bag
Watch the clock and feel the lag
Between now and the time we had
CHORUS:
Arrivals, departures
It doesn’t matter whose heart hurts
Goodbye Berlin I miss you every chance I can
Out of luck out of mind
Out of reasons to stay behind
Suppose we float from where we stand
Across the world and not reach land
Will we still swim until we can’t
Or just return home again
Put on clothes and pack your bags
I’m with you if they should ask
CHORUS:
Out of place out of fear
Out of love that drew us here
The bass drum daze of Ostgut whirred
As we came up for air in the cold of Kreuzberg
CHORUS
Goodbye Berlin Goodbye Berlin
Goodbye Berlin I miss you every chance I can
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I'm With Gorillas
03:35
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As for me there’s is no second act
I bombed out in the first
So I took up drinking
And nearly died of thirst
Don’t count my mistakes I’ve made too many
Promises to every and anyone
Who’d listen to me, listen to me
Listen to me!
CHORUS:
We’re not the only ones walking the earth alone
We’re not the only ones walking the earth alone
I’m with gorillas, while you’re getting stoned
And so I lied to save you
And so I thought I had
But I just haunted this house
With things I can’t take back
Don’t count my mistakes I’ve made too many
Promises to every and anyone
Who’d listen to me, listen to me
Listen to me!
CHORUS
Love is the weight of the world in the heart of a girl
Who’s come too far to bluff
Hope is the space in between the plan and the dream
For a boy who’s had enough
Seely take my hand X4
I’m with gorillas, I’m with gorillas X2
CHORUS
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Upstate
03:20
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Upstate, up here, up in the starry skies
That never seem as bright
As they do old and wise
Like poets in the night
Inspired by our loneliness
We faced each other and undressed
And found a splinter in the grass
Everything’s changing you beautiful strange thing
CHORUS:
Down under ground, over clouds
We’re coming up roses.
Down under ground, over clouds
We’re coming up roses, coming up roses
Now! Now
The Ides of March kiss you on the cheek
Then pat’s your back and cut’s your throat
Twilight clouds come on so bleak
Button up your only coat!
It’s gonna be a long long time
Before the planets all align
The tides subside and the dark days shine
Everything’s changing you beautiful strange thing
CHORUS
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, Love, Love, Love!
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses
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7. |
The Ice Age Is Over
05:35
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It’s been way too long
Since I’ve heard you smile on
The phone long distance from a state
Flattened by an oceans weight
Long ago, so much has changed
Everything can be arranged
The Ice Age is over
The Ice Age is over
The parking lot light
Will not compromise despite
Empty spaces beneath it’s post
We’re the last to leave our host
This motel keeps our unmade bed
What’s left is ours for the road ahead
The Ice Age is over
The Ice Age is over
The clock on the shelf
Seems to think it’s always twelve
I’ve got not signal the call was dropped
Or maybe time has really stopped?
Where we go there is no here
The sun just sets and reappears
And the Ice Age is over
The Ice Age is over
The Ice Age is over
The Ice Age is over
OUTRO: Here in the era where we’re both found
Each in our embrace underground
You and I alone know where we’re bound
They’ll pull our bodies up and they’ll probe around
Let’s see what they find X 2
Look at what they…
We are the last ones of our kind X4 (or X6)
The ice age is over, the ice age is over!
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I can’t un-love you. I want to, I can’t but I do
We are seconds in the sun
At last we’ve just begun
If we’re found without a trace
We fell from out of space
CHORUS:
Let’s pretend we aren’t ready to give up on what we’ve started
Let’s say now is not forever and no one gets broken hearted
Our love is, so real it’s, it’s disappearing X2
Before the light, before the light takes us
I can’t un-miss you. I want to, I can’t but I do
And so much happened standing still
We ran against our will
Swallowed pills that weren’t ours
With aims beyond our powers
CHORUS
We’re on a scale neither weighted or true
Comparing posts against the happiness of who?
Don’t waste your time. Don’t waste your time
The ties that bind can break us!
While space expands, and stars combust
Before the light takes us
We take our shape, then turn to dust
Before the light takes us
Don’t tell us now it’s dangerous
Before the light takes us
We’re stones to sand, we’re iron to rust
Before the light takes us
There’s no one here that I can trust
Before the light, before the light take us!
Our Love is so real it’s…disappearing
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9. |
Seely's Song
04:36
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Seely’s Song
Look, look what they’ve done
They’ve unlocked all the cages
The cure for our disease
Is hidden in the pages
Thick with the plot of our decline
Copied and collected and defined
CHORUS:
The more that we are, we’re not
The more that we are, we’re not
Take, take what you need
Whatever gets you through this?
There’s moments out of place
No matter how we do this
And they’ll point to their god and say be scared
Spend your days to get yourself prepared
CHORUS:
Stones sit on these graves
As if a bet’s been placed
Seely, I tell you things
I want you to hear
You won’t believe
When, when we were ghosts
And walked through worlds
Nobody sees
There our secrets were safe
Hidden away
In memories
Like notes passed in class
Folded in halves
I hold on to these
And the lines that kill me
Are ones that fill me with love
“When you look back
On the ones you lose track of
They’re all gone or so you thought”
But the more that we are, we’re not
The more that we are
We’re not!
The more that we are, we’re not, the more that we are we’re not!
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10. |
Predator and Prey
03:18
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We are the ones who survive
And we’re coming out strong
You’ll know us when we arrive
And it won’t be long
You brought us to term for what it’s worth
But your fetish for life ends at birth
If you are who you say
You’ll kill us someday
CHORUS:
Predator and p.p.p.p.prey
Predator and p.p.p.p.p.prey
We are the ones who survive
And we’re coming out strong
You’ll know us when we arrive
And it won’t be long
And the stories your tell yourselves at night
You had it so hard if I got this right
Back in your day
There was no them and they?
CHORUS
BRIDGE: The future is present the pressure is real
It tests us. And taunts and nips at our heals
Our past diagnosis it doesn’t apply
We carry our symptoms and still never die
We thrive. We thrive. We will thrive!
We are the ones, the ones who survive/We are the ones who survive X2
We are the ones, the ones who survive/We are the ones who survive
(Love doesn’t ever look down)
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Josh Joplin Group Chicago, Illinois
Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr—produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo
Wolff
Spin Magazine says GpYr is "a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works...but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become."
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Josh Joplin Group recommends:
I spent everyday on very long tour listening to this music. I got home and within a couple of weeks I found myself craving these beautiful songs again...it's been years and I never stopped.
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