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Seeing Is
04:13
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Soft spoken shy and sweet, seemingly
Helplessly aimless
Awkward in speech, you seem to be
Helplessly acting
Say C'est la vie one more time for me
And I won't believe anything
Love you love me, speechfully
Mumbling distractions
Seeing is believing, confusing everything
Say C'est la vie one more time for me
And I won't believe anything
Seeing is believing
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Unmarked Graves
04:11
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You can't buy your way out of the next revolution
And everything you buy enslaves you
Though you bought your way out of the last revolution
Now all that you do kills you
I'll paint you in a fitting fitting shade
With a tie-dye round your neck
And watch the colors slowly fade
Out of your head
What will you do when all that you knew is through
And imploding in your face
The first will be last and the last will be first you'll learn
That all you are now will burn
You can't buy your way out of the next revolution
And nearly everyone you pay is against you
Though you though there would be no more revolutions
You never saw what this world would come to
Though you want it you can't have anything
You let the market give everything
And all your want did was consume everything
Now all you bought is rotting
In unmarked graves
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Vienna You White Moon
03:36
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You're a white moon Vienna
I thought I'd tell you the truth
You're an old lie Vienna
I thought I'd tell you, but you already know the truth
With all your flags fading read and my old home now dead
And how you fell in its stead
But it's just the thought of you, just the truth of it
You're a white lie Vienna
I thought I'd tell you that at night I pray for you
You're an old moon Vienna
You're starry-eyed Vienna, but I love you Vienna I do
With all your flags fading read and my old home now dead
And how you fell in its stead
But it's just the thought of you, just the truth of it
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To Hold Me
04:01
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Another night of thinking about noone at all
With empty arms I'll write another song
Singing about all the things I want
And making it worse to think of what I have not
I don't mean to sound naïve or searching for sympathy
But there must be somebody to hold me
Another day of searching with blind eyes
With empty maps I'll feel to find
A way to pacify
The pain I've been trying so hard to hide
I don't mean to bitch, but I've had enough of this
And there must be someone to kiss
I don't mean to sound naïve or searching for sympathy
But there must be somebody to hold me
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Summer Hair
03:12
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Warm wet summer air, driving through the corn fields where
I learned to run my fingers through
Your soft summer hair, blowing everywhere
In my view and I could not see through
To the road ahead with all its twists and turns and bends
With no maps to guide me through
To who I am now, love's cynical clown
With a smile painted frown
Lonely in the corner with red win and memories
Painting the past in pretty pretty colors
Knowing nothing will last, no never ever ever
Will I be so naïve
To love anybody
The first love has the worst of all falls all falls
And the first fall built up my callused heart my callused love
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Paperbag
03:33
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As soft as a candle I blow and sway
All of the shadow and stretch the lines of your face
Woman with the two cigarettes in your mouth
"One for me one for you" you spout
And somewhere in the smoke and small words
I see everything and worse
Wrap yourself in a paperbag and hand yourself to me
And from then on, and from then on we'll see
I am young and I am lost at sea
And drowning in nothing
Paint myself in the color red
And pose and pose for the camera
With visions in my head
Of the things I'll never have
Wrap yourself in a paperbag and hand your ashes down to me
And from then on, and from then on we'll be
Young and lost at sea
But drowning in nothing
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I Will Break You
04:13
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All I wanted to do was touch you
From the moment I saw you I knew you wanted me to
In the way you avoided my eyes and my nothings that made you smile
I knew that it was true you wanted me to
I don't know you at all, but yet I've gotten myself into this
I guess it was more of a jump then a fall
Now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that love with come after the kiss
But knowing it will probably lead to this
I will break you down
I will break you down
I will break you down
I will break you
All you wanted was for someone to love you
At the moment I looked as if I would do
From the way I made you smile you thought you could deny
That I would break you
You don't know me at all, but yet we've gotten ourselves into this
To me it seemed like a jump not a fall
Now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that love will follow the kiss
But knowing it'll probably lead to this
I will break you down
I will break you down
I will break you down
I will break you
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Manmade Mountains
01:57
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I was an older man when I was younger than you
I almost forgot about all of the shit that you do
To yourself and noone else
In the dark where noone can tell
To make you a better man
Yet you don't understand
You just believe what you're told
Buy what you're sold
Try to fit into the mold
And break yourself on manmade mountains
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Are You There?
04:08
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It's a full moon tonight and I'm sure someone's howling at it somewhere
I turned out the lights, but my windows seem shadeless
My eyelids are filling with things I've heard, but not seen
Now I'm filling my head with you with me in that scene
I stared till I was blind
Trying to find
A reason why
I can't find
You there
Are you there?
Are you there?
Are you?
Cursing myself for being alone
Forcing myself into molds I've been shown
Started to believe that love had fairytale endings
Now I'm starting to believe that love is mostly pretending
I stared and now I'm blind
Stopped trying to find
A reason why
I won't find
You there
Are you there?
Are you there?
Are you?
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Broken Tongue
03:26
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I'll dance for you if you want me to
Do all the things I wouldn't do without you
And I'll forget the names of all who went and came
Before you
All I'm trying to say in this broken tongue in my broken tongue is
You came at the right time at the right time
I was writing on pages unbound
Now if I bind them to you
I'm bound to read you some how
Some how
I guess all I'm trying to say in this broken tongue in my broken tongue is
You came at the right time at the right time
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Cream Plastic Dream
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Selling off myself I'm gonna move off to the suburbs
To a cream colored house and a wife
Find a steady job just like all who went before me
A predictable and prepaid life
Hi-ho hi-ho it's off to work we go
Oh hi-ho hi-ho it's off to work we go
I want a plastic dream machine
To make sense of everything
And rock me to sleep
And pacify me
Hi-ho hi-ho it's off to work we go
Oh hi-ho hi-ho it's off to work we go
Feed me who I am
As seen on TV the average American
Rain is falling
The water's at my feet
No need for running
It's never gonna get to me
Hi-ho hi-ho How high will this water go?
Oh hi-ho hi-ho High
I'm gonna kill myself out on an island in the suburbs
A top a cream plastic dream machine
The first story'll flood while the second will burn
And that's my closing scene
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The sound of shoes thrown through the air
The ricochet and funerals there
Are things that I will never share
With You
The taste of metal, smell of blood
The feel of sweet and knowledge of
The fact that all your life once was
Is now what it is not
A tattooed name on your left arm
Of a woman you knew before the war
Who gave you love and kid or more
That you may never see again
I do not know your name
I do not feel your pain
But I do feel ashamed to know that
You may think your dying for me
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VIE
03:12
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On a bus riding to the other side of town
Seems like years I've been stuck here in this town
Hear the engines purring to take me away
Thinking of reasons why I can't stay
Down in the big VIE
Vienna I must leave
There's a plane that waits for me
Down in the big VIE
Cold but it's just a feeling I catch myself feeling when
I'm alone
Home but it's just a place I catch myself wishing for
Sometime
Down in the big VIE
Vienna I must leave
There's a plane that waits for me
Down in the big VIE
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Ian Fisher Vienna, Austria
A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".
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