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Casablanca
06:29
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Of all the gin joints
In all the towns in all the world
Here I am watching Casablanca
In a hospital ward
With one kind nurse
Who’s been assigned to take good care of me
I’m quiet and polite
But somehow I can barely breathe
CHORUS
Here’s looking at me, kid
Here’s looking at me
Here’s looking at me, kid
Here’s looking at me, though my eyes can’t see
Tell Ingrid Bergman
I would like to speak to her alone
And while you’re at it
See if Humphrey Bogart is at home
I’ll ask them how they got
To be so dark and wonderful
I’ll find one use for all my sorrows
and I’ll sell my soul
CHORUS
As time goes by
I try to find my music in my head
But it is nowhere to be found
So I can’t go to bed
These doctors try
To see the inside of my candy shell
They call me by my Christian name
Cause they don’t know me well
CHORUS
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Farther From You
05:09
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One day when you’re old, when you’re ancient,
you’ll know what it means to be at home
The levees will break on the banks of your cautionary soul
When you die, all the pets you’ve ever had
will meet you on the other side of life
Your previous mistakes will build a doorway in between the day and night The never-ending sound that filled your life will give you never-ending light
CHORUS
You know why I’ve come home again To show you what you’ve missed again I’ve grown up quickly, faster than you You’ll know me dearly, farther from you And oh no, give me some room
I’m on my way to the promised land I’m tired of waiting for you
so you can let go of my hand
You speak like a modest-mouthed savior
a gift to the people of the earth
like holy water runs from the tap in the place you call your world
When I rise I’ll be stronger than before
and kill you with the kindness we deserve
The bridges that I burned will be rebuilt, more protected, more secure The lessons I have learned will guide me in a new direction from before
CHORUS
You know and I know that something has just got to give Kicking and screaming is fine but it’s no way to live
I’m running forward and not looking back
This chapter’s ending and fading to black
You’re on your own now I’m dropping your slack and I’m home
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Wind
04:50
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In the morning light I stretch my legs
wash my face and clear my head
of the dreams that make me see my mind
for what it’s worth from the inside
As the sunlight reaches through my room
Inch by inch until noon
There’s a thing that makes me fall in line
roll the dice and check the time
CHORUS
I wind my watch and let it run
but if I didn’t, would the sun stay in the sky?
Would my poems cease to rhyme?
I hold the power in my hand
to make our moments all expand into a life
We could live our Fridays twice
There’s a destiny for this machine:
tell my story scene by scene
And it never fails to do its part
even ticking in the dark
When the ticking stops I feel my bones
moving slow, moving home
And the thing that makes me fall in line
rolls the dice and stops my time
CHORUS
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Ingredients
03:07
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We love our 3 a.m.
We do it better
There’s always chicken in the fryer
Get the pepper
I’m sitting on the counter
Swinging my feet
As far as I’m concerned
I’ve got the greatest seat
CHORUS
You know that food is love
It’s never just a product of ingredients
In our night kitchen we just
Make it our religion to be disobedient
In our inebriated state
We do our best
To love each other and our food
To make and clean our mess
There’s nowhere I would rather be
Even my bed
I’m busy writing down
These moments in my head
CHORUS
So tell me when is the next time
That you’ll be high inside a mansion
Cooking burgers with your friends
In an industrial-sized kitchen
And when was the last time
You really thought you had it all
When “all” is just that you’re content
A happiness so small
A happiness so small
CHORUS
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5. |
Normal Beast
06:04
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Two sticks in my eyes
pulling my vision down, by surprise
The soles, the soles of your shoes
are coming unglued from you, unglued
CHORUS
When the storm has passed the ships align
You’ll have ten toes and fingers just like mine
Everything and nothing will be fine
when the beast of normalcy arrives
Steel under my skin
is making the rules for him, for him
Twice he’s heard it before
I told him the gate’s been closed, I’m sure
CHORUS
Waiting for a confirmation, mind is full of information
Capitals and math equations, spinning round like drain invasions
Holy rollers, figure eights, majesty of bad first dates
I never took you for a quitter
Life is short so make it glitter
Oh—it makes things very hard
when I call myself someone very far
and oh—there’ll never be a me
if I keep hiding me from me
Hell-bent on demise
holding my failure close by my side
Wait, I’m trying to see
how it is possible that we breathe
CHORUS
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Azure
09:12
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Bare feet, big hands, and one thick skin
I was listening to your broken record spin
I hung my sorrows by the door
But they followed me in your house and to the floor
I hope you know I loved you best
When I lay my head down in its groove on your chest
We stayed for hours in that field
Till reality came back, biting at our heels
CHORUS
There’s never been a truer blue
Than the azure I see when I remember you
I met you in the bitter cold
I just wanted a good warm body I could hold
But then I came to understand
You were more than one body, you were one good man
I feel your smile on my lips
Then I catch myself hoping, wishing for a fix
As if I stepped out of the sea
With the salt on my skin still clinging onto me
CHORUS
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Zero Sum
05:22
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You always have a way to make me smile
Even when I’m not having a good time
It’s cruel of you to understand my mind
Why don’t you just stick to your own kind
CHORUS
You’re winning just by losing me
I’m losing just by winning you
So let’s agree to disagree
That zero sum is bad for two
I like your sense of humor, dry as bone
But when it’s misdirected watch your tone
These days we’ve been a very funny joke
But soon we’ll have to reap the seeds we sow
CHORUS
You’re the hook in my eye
You’re the pain in my back
You’re the hate that I love
And the love that I lack
You’re a delicate boy
Not a generous man
And you’re bringing me down
Just by holding my hand
The innocence of our first love is gone
And with it all the water in the pond
We drank it up; it made our bodies strong
And gave me all the words to write this song
CHORUS
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Molly Bolten Los Angeles, California
audio • music • los angeles, CA • she/her
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