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Spires
03:59
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The cell phone towers look like crosses
So count your blessings and your losses
The spires
The spires
They're just trying to keep you home
Manage all those expectations
Parlors in the brownstone buildings
The windfarms are just like a beacon
To support another dream
The spires
The spires
They're just trying to keep you home
They're just trying to keep you home
They're just trying to keep you home
They're just trying to keep you home
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2. |
Fourth Floor
03:37
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Waiting for my blood transfusion lines
It's Christmas Eve now
Dark and alone
Here but alone
My dreams were shattered
But it didn't matter to you at all
My dreams were shattered
But it didn't matter to you at all
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3. |
Mirror
03:19
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The only consolation
Was the New York City skyline
With one eye towards New England
The other is off in space
Change is for the better
Right now I couldn't feel worse
The New York City skyline
Is fading in my mirror
It's fading in my mirror
I've given up my dreams before
That is nothing new
But did you ever know that?
Did you even care?
Because you couldn't see me hiding
I never admitted I did it
I won't forget the parking lot
I saw you crying in my mirror
I saw you crying in my mirror
I saw you crying in my mirror
I saw you cry
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Committed To Tape
02:29
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The picture I found in my former apartment
The note on the door as I left in a shroud
Of discontent
Yeah, the time that it bought me
Was much like the picture I found
Each task, in my mind, was the legacy that I built
The time that was left and
The songs that I wrote got committed to tape
So I could quell the worried thoughts of friends
And all of the doubt in their minds
In my mind
In my mind
In my mind, too
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5. |
Little Black Boxes
02:30
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Little black boxes
Stacks of letters I sent
White car in the driveway
Two men and a flag
Within "The Days Ahead"
Within "The Days Ahead"
Within "The Days Ahead"
And I try to smell him
But they washed all his clothes
And sealed them in plastic
In little black boxes
Within "The Days Ahead"
Within "The Days Ahead"
Within "The Days Ahead"
Within "The Days Ahead"
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6. |
Storm Of The Century
02:21
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City drowns you out
Call me in the snow
Walking, midnight
Frozen in time
The timing is so close
The storm of the century
But maybe he's just coasting
Smoke and broken mirrors
And a secret code
They just walk on water
Older, next to me
The timing is so close
The storm of the century
But maybe he's just joking
Until you believe in me
Why would they want to see us fail?
Why would they want to see us fail?
Why would they want to see us fail?
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7. |
Pulverized
04:31
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Every pane in this glass house
Feels like it's under attack
And I feel like I'm losing this
But I won't realize the fact
That I'm proving it
Shouldn't come back
And all my words will lose their weight
Pulverized with each crumbling stone
And I'm giving up growing
All those seeds
Seeds that I've sown
Yeah, I'm questioning all that I've known
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There are things I can't get out of
Flowers on the fire escape
Tires on the hillside
Fires in the crown
And I will never get it right
I will never understand
This crippling debt I can't get out of
Flowers on the fire escape
Flowers on the fire escape
Flowers on the fire escape
Flowers on the fire escape
Flowers on the fire escape
It towers to the sky
It towers to the sky
It towers to the sky
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You Were A Cynic
01:59
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You were a cynic when I knew you long ago
But since then, things have changed somewhat
Some years have passed and now you find yourself alone
Your time at home is bittersweet
In time, the failures that you hid inside yourself
And hopes you have will coexist
But every hourglass you smashed against the wall
Has somehow failed to prove your point
Has somehow failed to prove your point
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10. |
Fight Or Flight
03:26
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Yeah, there's safety in numbers
Comfort in things you know
And you're part of the pack now
Starving yourself to survive
But it isn't right
Because whenever it's fight or flight
You never fight
And we're biding our time
We still wait for your voice to be heard
And all those memories in vain
Are the ones that you'll never get back
But it isn't right
Because whenever it's fight or flight
You never fight
You never fight
You never fight
You never fight
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11. |
The Gatekeeper
02:32
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When everything was about to burn to the ground
I didn't think I would stand all the expectations
Because I'm the gatekeeper who keeps
My old life from my new life
Keeps my old life from my new life
Negotiations fell through and my body fell numb
To a room full of mirrors and unanswered calls
Because I'm the gatekeeper who keeps
My old life from my new life
Keeps my old life from my new life
Keeps my old life from my new life
Keeps my old life...
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12. |
Salt
02:17
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When all the walls that you had built
Could not protect you from the guilt
The secrets hid behind the eyes
Were darker than your safest lies
And when they come, they pull you down
And crush the peace you thought you'd found
But we're deciding who's at fault
We stand the breeze and taste the salt
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Matthew Larsen and The Documents Northampton, Massachusetts
Sometimes short, quiet and sweet– other times building into wall-of-sound anthems, Matthew Larsen and The Documents' introspective piano rock songs often recall serious health issues (Matthew underwent a stem cell transplant in 2005). Their songs are lovingly written and recorded in studios, hallways, and living rooms in Western Massachusetts, New York, and L.A. ... more
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