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1. |
Just Kids
03:43
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Young love
An acid blue flame in god’s veins
Runs from all of us
First touch
A feeling estranged
But we hang on the thought it brought
Too much
Concrete heat wave
They’re our days in the burning sun
Just kids
Just kids and we know we did
Just kids
Just kids, we both know we dig
Visions
The mystic kid gaze
Can replace every moment lost
But not gone
A stillness remains
To explain all our fatal flaws
Young Love
Affable days
Ya I hang on the thought of us
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2. |
Dead In Tracks
03:07
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It stopped me dead in my tracks
Shook me down
These days don’t stand a chance
Dried and bound
Escaping inner attacks
Skipping town
Shattered, but staying intact
Hear me now
Oh man, throw it out
There’s no chance!
Punished by the odds
Shaking and changing fast
Wild and round
Killing my big, big plans
Wicked hounds
Getting lucky if we last
‘Til we drown
Split time and it all began
Hear me now
Oh man, throw it out
There’s no chance!
Punished by the odds
It stopped me dead in my tracks
Shook me down
It stopped me dead in my tracks
Wild and round
Getting lucky if we last
Wicked hounds
It stopped me dead in my tracks
Hear me now
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3. |
Smoke In Our Eyes
04:31
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Far we’ll go away from here
With smoke in our eyes
Crystal vision, crystal clear
With telescope minds
If I could only see him
If time would really tell it
Fighting faces in the mirror
That try to disguise
Underestimating fear
Of what we might find
If I could only see him
Still trying in the basement
We’ll fly like smoke in the night
Induce time to divide
Single innocent ride
Into the divine
If I could only see him
If time would really tell it
We’ll fly like smoke in the night
Induce time to divide
Single innocent ride
Into the divine
Without even trying
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4. |
Wake Up Evangelist
05:28
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Wake up evangelist
A virgin mother in your eyes
A long way from what it is
Don’t look now, don’t lose sight
Sunlight, sunlight!
Hush, hush apologist
The right line’s sometimes hard to find
The moments we’re born to fear
Blown up by our awful minds
All night, all night!
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5. |
Costume Party
03:29
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When did rock and roll become a costume party?
Chi-chi in the songs and all the homies, heartless
Friends are more than gone, at least the drugs still want me
Oh, when did rock and roll become a costume party?
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6. |
We Met In Alcatraz
03:41
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Weapons founded by defunct minds
Disengage us in blinking lights
Pulsed towards earth from satellites
The longest fall (Bound down)
Couldn’t take back the call
The shortest flight (Blazing)
Human oversight
We set the course
Made the gears
In the cracked desert light
A mirage of this life
Our kaleidoscope truths
View the Powerhouse Bloom
Losing direction (Reaching arms from the black lake)
Not without consequence (Sinners regrets and mistakes)
So many questions (Throats covered with stone)
Like, will we still falter in love
Freed inhibitions (Moving deep in the dark night)
How can we live without (Culling with no thought or oversight)
Feeling our own conscience (Processed, pressured, and finite)
Fill the prescription for us
Rewritten archetype (Reborn out of the blood moon)
A futureless compromise (I know now I’ll eclipse you)
Left to our own devices (Watch the horizon fires)
Feeling no wrongs or rights
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7. |
Tithing
04:37
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Couldn’t hear the words that she spoke
I remember feeling so stoned
I remember the picture of you
Magic in our cells that divide
Who knew which were yours and were mine
Stems imprinted
Pass deep through time
Sad eyes all in waiting room blue
Empty hands that never held you
Ribbons replaced by tape and clear tubes
Ten years later, I remember alone (a ghost)
Decades pass, not much to show
Couldn’t hear the hope he consoled
I remember feeling so stoned
I remember the picture of you
Tears were shed but they weren’t my own
The gate shut, but the secret was told
Autumn leaves fell, then we froze
Ten years later, I remember alone (a ghost)
Missed the chance to get to know you
Decades pass, not much to show
Travelled south to escape the snow
The sun couldn’t keep out the cold
Tithing - Inhaling - Ruminating - Waiting
Tithing - Inhaling - Ruminating - Waiting
Tithing - Inhaling - Ruminating - Waiting
Tithing - Inhaling - Ruminating - Waiting
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8. |
Nice Mistake
03:38
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Your mind nearly put me away
What a nice mistake
Destruction in dangerous games
We still want to play
But I don’t need more ghosts
In this time alone
My mind should have put them away
What a nice mistake
Nine lives took us into the fray
Found a way to stay
Lived through your adventurous days
The kind that devastate
Body be my vessel
Let me feel at home
Our minds should have turned us away
What a nice mistake
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9. |
Acid Tongue
04:22
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Acid tongue, unintentional
Burns all the word that I should say
We waste away, but just a little
Made minds and straight lines turn sideways
If I could make this silence sing
Into your heart and under your skin
We’d watch the walls come falling in
Stone, snowglobe heart, impossible
Maker of love and of mistakes
Gold at the core, stuck in the middle
Waiting on ideas and somedays
If I could make this silence sing
Into your heart and under your skin
The broken world would re-begin
When it breaks it’s a little taste of what we are
Lay awake the reminder, silence takes us all
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RALEIGH Calgary, Alberta
Unafraid of both straight-up hooks and experimental song structure, RALEIGH is a band carving their own space in new music. Thoughtful refrains are woven by vocals, cello, and guitar, with drums and bass treading the groove together. It is indie rock, damaged by art, delicate and exposed but intimately pointed, connectivity through song. ... more
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