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Little Crushes
04:18
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LITTLE CRUSHES
We’re always searching for those missing little elements
Are you full, whole, complete?
I’m not sorry that I ever met you
I could never go back to being me
Is this all that I was hoping for?
Is this all that I was hoping for?
I will fall, I will stumble
Always looking for that missing part
All these words I will mumble
‘Coz all these little crushes crush my heart
All these little crushes
My mind is blind except for a picture of you
In your smile I can feel your touch
Didn’t take that long to make that connection, no
I didn’t know I could feel so much
Is this all that I was hoping for?
Is this all that I was hoping for?
I will fall, I will stumble
Always looking for that missing part
All these words I will mumble
‘Coz all these little crushes crush my heart
All these little crushes crush my heart
All these little crushes crush my heart, crush my heart
I get so lost I forget to breathe
It’s hard to write now, it’s hard to think
That I could find something so pure
That leaves no questioning, so sure
Without you, I will crumble, without you, I will fall
Without you, I am nothing at all
Without you, I will crumble, without you, I will fall
Without you, I am nothing at all, nothing at all
Such a warm feeling when you’re flowing through my veins
You are the candy in the jar my mother told me not to taste
And you are all that I am hoping for
You are all that I am hoping for
You are all that I am hoping for
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I Am Not Yet Over You
06:16
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I AM NOT YET OVER YOU
Hey babe, I hoped that you’d get this letter last week
God knows the trouble I got writing myself to ink
I was just remembering the times we spent in each other’s eyes
The first time our hands ever touched we were fully tantalized
Your lips, your sweater, the rain, the shelter
Red bricks, green trees, this unwritten letter
The passion we found in that basement
Your eyes about to cry with happiness and amazement
I don’t think I ever wanna get over you
These shreds of memory, you’d dance to anything, the rain on the roof
Dreams tease of holding you tight, waking up in my arms
Skin upon skin, our souls cut adrift and float above the calm
Your lips, your sweater, the rain, the shelter
Red bricks, green trees, this unwritten letter
The passion we found in that basement
Of this unwritten love, this unfinished love…
And I wonder sometimes about the pictures you made me
The paint we spilled on that canvas and the way that you touched me
To realize this was one of series of phases
That opened the seal to everything real and all that could crush me
‘coz I may never feel again
No, I may never feel again
No, I may never feel again
And I may never feel again
Hey babe, I guess it’s pretty clear that I am not over you
But you can’t go back, no you can’t go back you can only go through
I was just remembering the times we spent in each other’s eyes
The first time our hands ever touched we were fully electrified
Your lips, your sweater, the rain, the shelter
Red bricks, green trees, this unwritten letter
The passion we found in that basement
Your eyes about to cry with happiness and amazement
Happiness and amazement
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Green Eyed Smile
04:33
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GREEN EYED SMILE
Your green eyed smile's what left you all alone
Thinking you got the world to yourself
You were busy dying, instead of being born
You didn't need anybody's help
Shuffle your sunny feet through all the fog
Days slow down shortly after dawn
All cool things meet untimely ends
Care less for yourself than your careless friends
You like having nothing to hold on to
and you don't wanna let that go
If you don't ask for anything, nothing's what you'll get
Your green-eyed smile makes your own bed
Drink from the bottle, piss in a cup
Future'd uncertain, just give up
If the smoke clears tomorrow, what will you see?
Something you didn't expect to be
You like having nothing to hold on to
and you don't wanna let that go
If you don't ask for anything, nothing's what you'll get
Your green-eyed smile is all you got left
You like having nothing to hold on to
and you don't wanna let that go
If you don't ask anything, nothing's what you'll know
Your green-eyed smile, you got to let it go
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Beautiful Mind
04:34
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BEAUTIFUL MIND
God knows what the future holds
Even green grass survives the winter
Cold morning comes with cold morning dew
Under your spell I’ll never shiver
Afternoon rain pours down again
Watching wet world kills your pain
You opened me a door from my ceiling to my floor
And I will never be the same
Moonshine glows, the sky is white rose
Reflecting your blue gray eyes
Like fire in design, your passion is divine
As it burns through your beautiful mind
The evening stars know where you are
I follow their light to find you
When it’s dark and I cannot see
You send the light to guide me
When we’re apart, you handed me your heart
It is something that I will hold forever
When you are near, you strip me of my fear
These ties were not meant to be severed
Fate and faith brought us together
The evening stars know where you are
I follow their light to find you
When it’s dark and I cannot see
You send the light to guide me
You send the light to guide me
You send the light
You still seem like a dream to me
And I never want to wake
You are my womb, my shelter and my tomb
You for granted I will never take
Your kisses wet, our bodies slide
As I look deep into your eyes
Grace in your touch, your words so kind
And I love your beautiful mind
I love your beautiful mind
I love your beautiful mind
I love your beautiful mind
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Sick of Dying
03:43
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SICK OF DYING
When I was 39, I spent a lot of time in the emergency room
I was dead to the world, exhaling smoke curls, and losing you
I gave away my blood, my heart and my lungs, all I had was my head
(Deactivated)
Some little charge, cause a little spark
Can’t afford to misfire, can’t afford to be gone
Hold up my arm, make sure I’m sure I’m still warm
Find a beat somewhere and don’t let me go
Gotta suffocate me, to resuscitate me, and get me to breathe
Rebuild bionically, free of disease, 'coz I’m sick of dying
If I gave me to you, could you make me brand new
And save me some time
Some little charge, cause a little spark
Can’t afford to misfire, can’t afford to be gone
Hold up my arm, make sure I’m sure I’m still warm
Find a beat somewhere and don’t let me go
When I was 39, I spent a lot of time in the emergency room
I was losing you, I was losing you, I was losing you, I was losing you
Some little charge, cause a little spark
Can’t afford to misfire, can’t afford to be gone
Hold up my arm, make sure I’m sure I’m still warm
Find a beat somewhere and don’t let me go
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WAIT (THE HEART IS LIGHT)
Wait, for the storm to break
To be alone
Hands so cold
Breath, soft as steel
Cut the bitter sun
Lose the shield
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
I need you now
I want to see
Wait, for the skin to break
How it hit so hard
Gentle fate
Drift, let the water glide
Oh, the heart is deep
The heart is light
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
I need you now
I want to see
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
I need you now
I want to breathe
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come your way back home
Eyes, too deep to lose
You can fill your lungs
Any way you choose
A love, that was never mine
I could never take
What I could never find
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
I need you now
I want to see
Come your way, come home
Come your way, come home
I need you now
I want to breathe
I want to believe
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There's Yer Ghost
03:57
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THERE'S YER GHOST
All the stars are raining
In the cloudless sparkle night
In all my dreams I’m draining
Down the sink of life
A black so cold it’s white
A frozen tasting spin
A life lived unconscious
A horrible waking sin
Not so high anymore
You’re not so high anymore
Cold dusted hardwood floor
A graceful bitter scrape
My bare feet feel the strangeness
Bloody denial conscience raped
A pain in years of making
Spread so awfully thin
A stomach so weak with illness
I could have said something
Not so high anymore
You’re not so high anymore
A blanket of limited comfort
A bed with empty mind
A house with deep foundation
The cracks begin to shine
You’re not so high anymore
I’ll take my thirty thousand
And plan my own design
You can stay and wonder
As you’re left behind
You’re not so high anymore
You’re not so high anymore
So wrap up this happy ending
From the sad begin
Let everything go unspoken
Let it rot within
I miss the house we lived in
Not the price we paid
And I’ll miss the children
That we never made
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Down
04:01
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DOWN
Are you ready for a big time-sucking bore
A thorn stuck deep in your eye?
Are you ready for a stranger at your door
A soul-crushing regular guy?
Nothing ever works out pretty
I’m an amateur at love
So I’ll ask you out of pity
Is this really what you want?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down with me?
Will you help me shift the car right off the cliff
That blows right before it hits?
We’re three sips from moon, your eyes spin ‘round the room
We got time, let’s make it quick
Nothing ever works out pretty
I’ll do anything for love
So I’ll ask you out of pity
Is this really what you want?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down with me?
Can you wonder why, a shy guy paralyzed
At the thought of sharing his soul?
Despite the inevitable, remaining invisible
Is a thought beyond his control?
You can stand and make your vows
Until death severs those ties
And you may ask yourself the question
How many years until I die?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down?
J-J-Jenny do ya wanna go down with me?
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9. |
For My Wife
02:53
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FOR MY WIFE
Tea warms my hands, your voice warms my heart
waiting for the fog to roll in
They say it will rain today and again
I have yet to see it start
The sun is trying to burn through the clouds
and give us dawn’s ember glow
These blankets have holes where goose bumps sneak in,
under your hand I hold
Your breath like the wind touches my cheek
and rattles all of my bones
Your eyes a distraction to dear to ignore,
a song to never get old
With the smell of your skin I no longer pretend
that my soul’s unable to feel
It’s cold but I’m melting in spite of myself
I’m watching my life revealed
I’m watching my life revealed
This wood turned gray still crackles with life
and I’m shaking myself to the core
Tides come and go every day,
this constant changing shore
I want you to know that I don’t see you as work
but I don’t say a word
It’s crazy, I’ll tell you for once in my life
my prayers must’ve been heard
my prayers must’ve been heard
Fog dissolves into the light
It’s quiet, pure and warm
Breeze picks up another turn,
another day is born
It’s winter, it’s spring, it’s summer with you
as fall tells the leaves to fly
I think that I will be happy with you
until the time comes to die
I think that I will be happy with you
until the time comes to die
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Dan Gannon Sacramento, California
Dan Gannon is a Sacramento-based songwriter whose style ranges from introspective acoustic meditations to full volume indie rock in the vein of modern power pop. He brings a rich, colorful, plaintive yet poignant elegance to his lyrics to match the mood of the music, often wrapping the listener in subtle hooks and melodies. He owns and operates House Potato Records. New music expected in 2023. ... more
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