1. |
Nothing
05:52
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A simple touch
A rested hand
A fallen face if he can
Remember her, light his eye
When she comes to his side
Boy was what you were called
Were you a poet inside of your body?
Held in place by skin and bones
A fallen face never home to spoken word
Or his own name
Or wishes to be saved again
I often sit and imagine you as a reincarnated bird
Ready for a second flight
Body follows hungry eyes
Comforted by John and Paul
You had their picture up on your wall
God cut out your tongue
Left you unable to tell anyone
I…
Inside of my head I am free
It would mean nothing
Boy was born
Boy was left
Boy was sick and that was it
Boy was loved
Boy was lost
Boy was never known
Birthday sung too many times
Full of dreams and quick goodbyes
The first in line, the first to go
The only one so unknown
Boy was what you were called
You were a picture up on our wall
God cut our your tongue
Left you unable to tell anyone
I am here
It would mean nothing
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2. |
High Roller
03:34
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Heavy like a ball and chain
Heavy like a pad of butter
Never one to take your pain
Never one to seek the other
Let me get a word in son
Tell me all about that kiss
I could be the golden one
If someone had the common sense to hear me out
Have you got another one?
Pity you to go alone
I could be a smoking gun
Help you put the cool inside
That loosey mouth
I tune you out
High roller
Lose it again
I dare you
Heady like the written word
Heady like the sting of sulfur
Hustling the early bird
Calling out the morning after
Let me get a word in son
Someone’s gotta catch that kiss
Used to be a different world
No one had the common sense
To hear me out
Have you got a dollar on you?
Someone’s gotta catch that kiss
I could be a shepherd for you
Show you how to make good of that
Goofy pout
I tune you out
High roller
I tune you out
With that loosey mouth
High roller
Lose it again
I dare you
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3. |
Your Bones
03:04
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There’s something in your eyes today you’re simply not the same
I wanna be the catalyst that makes it all okay
You’re trying to write a letter in the rhythms of your breath
We start to say but now we’ve talked this elephant to death
Cause your bones are your own
your bones are your own
your bones are your own
You went out on the ocean on a solitary raft
I wanna bring a lifeboat but it only holds you back
You’re blind with salty water, desperate but free
And soon you’ll find an island a place I’ll never see
I don’t want to be your hero just to be your friend
Just to speak your language
Just to be a respite
I tried to read your needs like you’re a novel in turmoil
Like you are the main character and I am just the foil
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4. |
Give Up
04:22
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Give up the homies give up the slack
I think you’ll be better in your second act
Tell all the people holding you back
You gotta move right now its painted black
Cause I don’t think you know what you are made of
Cause you’ve never looked there before
And I don’t think you know that you’re afraid
So when you need more, don’t be sore
Give up the reasons give up the slag
Butter a biscuit for the tail that wags
Tip off the driver who goes fast
And gets you away from your molasses past
Shake off your leeches
Rip up your magazines
I don’t wanna see you back here
You’re onto bigger things
This town will stay the same
And they’ll still know your name
Cause I don’t think you know what you are made of
Cause you’ve never looked there before
And I don’t think you know that you’re afraid
So when you need more, don’t be sore
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5. |
For Liam
04:50
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All the friends I’ve lost, acquaintances so meaningless
Honestly I’ve nearly forgot all but a few
As the years go by and I see you from time to time
Silently we draw the lines from me to you
And I would die for you
I’d take a bullet and I’d give one too
I’ve thought about it since the day when you came into my life
As we’re growing up and moving on to different stuff
We’ve always known that life is tough and never fair
But through these veins of my mine runs your blood and you will find
That as the world crumbles with time that will stay true
And I would die for you
I’d take a bullet and I’d give one too
I’ve thought about it since the day when you came into my life
And I could spread myself thin or I could really dig in
But at the end of my life I hope I do it right
And I would die for you
I’d take a bullet and I’d give one too
I’ve thought about it since the day when you came into my life
And I would die for you
But I hope that I won’t have to
I hope we’re happy, old, and crazy when we both close our eyes
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6. |
You Have It All
02:40
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In some ways you’re wrong, some ways you’re right
Look out for shallows stranding you at night
When you have, you have, you have, you have it all
In some ways you’re old, some ways you’re young
Some realizations will do you no good
When you have, you have, you have, you have it all
I some ways you’re near, some ways you’re far
Somehow I’ll find you wherever you are
Cause you have it all, you have it all
You have, you have, you have, you have it all
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7. |
Hyenas
03:39
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There was jelly on the floor, something in the air
And the girls were laughing like hyenas, hyenas
White chalk on the ground
They called their corners
For something they had found
To free them, the hyenas
Now they’re walking out the door
Nylons in their hair
They go to Blockbuster to see who they can scare
And they saves a pretty penny for their first date
With busts of cotton
And heels, high heels
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8. |
Both Ways
03:33
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We can’t have it both ways
And the pain of that is amazing
I’ve been so sick
At the thought of calling it
What it is
We can’t have it both ways
We can’t look it in the face
I have half a mind to erase you
And just quit town
Let my crazy drown
Where it may
I can’t look you in the face
See you see me
Try to get my demons to die quietly
See me, seeing you
Try to let this all go lightly
We can’t have it both ways
I wanna be a wolf every other day
And leave the pack
Coming running back
Go off and howl at the moon
I can’t have my way with you
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9. |
Abilene
03:12
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Abilene you don’t even know what I mean
When I tell you the world has done you wrong
Abilene maybe if you’d seen what I seen
You would see that someone is keeping you down
Cause everything you knew just flew out the window
Everything you had just walked out the door
Everything you stand for, everything once were
Doesn’t matter anymore
Abilene filter out your noisy scene
Pulling you far far far away from yourself
Abilene somewhere there’s a bigger sea
Waiting for your voice to stir it’s calm
Everything you knew just flew out the window
Everything you had just walked out the door
Everything you stand for, everything once were
Doesn’t matter anymore
Oh how are you doing everything?
I’m truly blown away
Everything you knew just flew out the window
Everything you had just walked out the door
Everything you stand for, everything once were
Doesn’t matter anymore
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10. |
Adonai
04:39
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I just want to put it out into the universe
That you are missed so much
The feel of your sweaty palms and your funny take on psalms
I really miss your touch
But love is in the nuances we know
And it’s easy to imagine we’re alone
I’ll forgive your ma– the missing headstone
How she could’ve known she had a good son
But you made that call without us all
I can still remember your eyes coming out of your cashmere sweater
Oh it got better, it did
Your tutu running down the school hall, the boy of the ball
With vegan cheese on your bagel
But love is in the nuances we know
And it’s easy to imagine we’re alone
Reaching for your ever hallelujah
Thinking that you’d never find a true love
But you made that call without us all
Adonai ro’i, adonai ro'i lo-echsar
It got better, it got better, it got better
Yes it did
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Sima Cunningham Chicago, Illinois
Sima Cunningham is a Chicago-based musician. She writes a lot of songs and is on tour a lot with her band Finom. Here lies her solo material.
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