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Sunday
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Sunday could not come soon enough | The plan was set into motion | And I thought I’d do it differently | And you thought I would, too | I hear you | I listen carefully | When you speak, it goes right through me | And I think we’re saying the same things | And you think we are too | The truth is | It’s never black and white | Because love is a soft gray
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Acadia
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Acadia | Because there inside you was a heart | That echoed through you in the park | Like a dove lost | Acadia | I saw it first | Somes Sound shone through upon the rocks | Beehives and sun and broken docks | Like a rope tied | Acadia
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Holding Pattern
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Took a picture of burned out paper mills | I make nothing but still it crumbles | Threw a brick through every car window in the mall parking lot | It’s a holding pattern, now | Now we’re older and everything’s the same | Hear it come from the speakers | Every sordid detail about the villains in the city hall parking lot | It’s a holding pattern, now
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Gallantly streaming | I will subscribe to | The death of terrestrial radio | Retire the call letters | Bring back the bands | And bury the cans | Go get some files | Compiled in Xs, 0s, and 1s | Inside the houses | They’re bending antennas | Counting the seconds | And stacking the tiles | Gallantly streaming | I will subscribe to | The death of terrestrial radio | Compiled in Xs, 0s, and 1s
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Regret
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When I exploit my talents and I hold my breath | While life hangs in the balance and I’m cheating death | When I am old or lonely or I’m stopped in my tracks | You would have known this only if you had the facts | We hatched a secret scheme | I fell so fast for you | It was a sweet dream and the love we had was true | But our lives were barely harnessed while the pages turned | And though the shine was tarnished and hard lessons learned | I regret almost nothing
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Common Wall
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The common wall | We bested them in the middle there | The science falls | Invested time in the middle of the war | Then we get older | The teachers teach but the books decay | The summer is colder | And we can’t reach them in the middle of the war | So let us know now | How it used to be and how it really is | Prepare the throne | The power is yours now or is it really his? | The common wall | The science falls | The books decay | The summer is colder
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All his demons were hiding inside every box he put into the attic | Box of cameras | Telescopes and maps of the stars | Magnify the places we will someday get to | It’s a long drive | Too much time to plot it out | What are we supposed to do with all of this? | Keep on task, feeling smaller | The endless begging for time | On a hilltop | Or the firmament | Or the cloth you burned in the fire | Or the love and the valor | Or the pills you swallowed in full | Ending up like some cliche |Flattened out like the lake in the morning
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I Don't Want to Decide
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All the beauty that surrounds this city | In the tall trees when you’re walking with me | Is there a way to slow down time? | I don’t want to decide | Past all the churches where good people bow their heads and talk to God and feel some comfort | Is there a way to slow down time? | I don’t want to decide
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Violet Light
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In the violet light | You will figure out the words | When it all turns black | It has always happened to you | Holding up the world | It’s the season to commit | To the violet light | When the blood gets drawn | And they wrap you up with fear | And you cannot stop | ‘Cause it happens every year | So much more to say | Than you ever did confess | When the blood gets drawn
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Doubt
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As soon as you’re born, you’re dying | The stuff in between is just trying | And it takes a lifetime to figure it out | If you want honesty or if you want doubt | Because we are connected, we are to blame | Jealousy, passion, empathy, shame | And it takes a lifetime to figure it out | If you want honesty or if you want doubt
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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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