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Paper Chains
02:38
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Shoestrings
And flowers too
While I sing
Down avenues
I contemplate the things I hate
In Nightmares
Walking through gardens
Somewhere
It's quite bizarre that
I can hear the shore from here at all
Tree streets
and tiny houseplants
Mysteries
Inside the floor vents
I could point the finger so
Convince me
The joke’s on you so
Kiss me
Follow the rules or
ask how they pertain to you instead
Surrounded by the sea
There's a row of streets
Pull me
From little boxes
And put me
Inside your wallet
Cut me on the dotted line
So I bind
and I admit it
Cuz I tried
While I was sleeping
To sing to you a patient lullaby
But on the first of May
I pulled the paper chains
Ou…
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2. |
I Whisper In My Sleep
03:27
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Up ’til now I was dumb
Missed the lure of your mysterious love
A chance encounter, a vivid vision
A familiar spirit in dimension and hum
If we’re just versions of the notes
Sung at the ceiling into vertigo
A tired message, a quick illusion
A primal music that an intuition knows
Did I brush you in the dark lying with me?
I cannot know, I will not know
I get the feeling that you’ll always listen
When I whisper in my sleep, oh
If we're the cut-ups of the stars
Bound together in a billion parts
We met before recorded time
through planetary collisions in the empty sky
Did I brush you in the dark lying with me?
I cannot know, I will not know
I get the feeling that you’ll always listen
When I whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I…
Did I brush you in the dark lying with me?
I cannot know, I will not know
I get the feeling that you’ll always listen
When I whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I Whisper in my sleep
I…
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3. |
When You Cry
03:32
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When the joke’s on you it's hard to get
Tossing in my bed with your silhouette
Trying to fall asleep but too aware of time
With the notes and the tunes I call for you
The sky’s behind the ceiling that I'm aiming through
Thrown like a card headed for your room tonight
Although we're split by some space and land
the whole wide world is a grain of sand
Our love's star so darling dry your eyes
Cuz it breaks my heart honey when you cry
When you cry
When the light in the evening is an orange glow
I'm seduced by believing there's a place to go
I don't peek in bars or in windows of cars it's true
In the notes and the tunes I hear your voice
There's one thing on my mind over city noise
I wonder if I see the same twilight as you
Although we're split by some space and land
The whole wide world is a grain of sand
Our love's a star so darling dry your eyes
Cuz it breaks my heart honey when you cry
When you cry
Cuz it breaks my heart honey when you cry
Well the joke’s on you (honey when you cry)
Well the joke’s on you (honey when you cry)
Well the joke’s on you (honey when you cry)
Well the joke’s on you, honey, when you cry
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Hypervigilant
03:59
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Cold as tears on the pavement
I'll be here duly waiting
I shouldn't feel lonely but I really do
Lipless face I've been kissing
Behind the eyes there's a distance
It doesn't matter what I do
I'll be in the world without you
Hypervigilant of when you’re right
Staring in the mirror when you go by
Am I such a fool to wanna be your only baby
Oh oh oh oh oh
Cold as blood on the pavement
I'll be here bleeding waiting
Why is it never much about love
All I want it someone to give a fuck
Hypervigilant of when you’re right
Staring in the mirror when you go by
Putting too much time in how you look
Flirting with the night you've got me hooked
Hypervigilant of when you cry
Falling on the floor or flying by
Am I such a fool to want to be your only baby
Oh oh oh oh oh
Your only baby
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5. |
Witches
03:52
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Sleepwalkin' in the mystic garden, dry petals on the vine
Doing bad has a kinda pull and I'm about to cross a line
Blood roses decorate my boots and moonlight marks my path
Some people want to bury their fate and some want to take it back
I pulled a card and I threw the coins
New bad news through a face and a choice
I saw the signs but I read them wrong
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Soft whisper in the hallway rising, darkness on my trail
Three steps to go lock the door, three more to a cross and nail
I'm flipping through The Flowers of Evil with a dagger made of wood
Some people do unspeakable things and some don't believe they could
I pulled a card and I threw the coins
New bad news through a face and a choice
I saw the signs but I read them wrong
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Sleepwalkin' in the mystic garden, dry petals on the vine
You write the letter then you lick the seal
Then you live with the consequences
I pulled a card and I threw the coins
New bad news through a face and a choice
I saw the signs but I read them wrong
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
Raven on the roof, witches on the lawn
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6. |
Dealing You In
02:36
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Oh la la here I sing
I show my hand I deal you in
I pull the cards I flip the coins
You speak to me without your voice
Oh la la such a sight
the changes we see overnight
I call the names my speech is slurred
You talk to me in written words
Strange things happen when I reach for your heart
I see shadows in the dark
they fly, they fly
Oh la la here I try
To prove to you I’m on your side
I hold your hand I watch your back
But I can’t quite do more than that
Strange things happen when I reach for your heart
I see shadows in the dark
they fly
Strange things happen when I reach for your heart
I see shadows in the dark
they fly
Strange things happen when I reach for your heart
I see shadows in the dark
they fly, they fly
Oh la la here I sing
I show my hand I deal you in
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Here's a purposed and a planned attack
Someone just took another photograph
Built-in pop-up flash
I didn't want to remember that
the past and the present match
2D of me paper packed & thumbtack’d
Subtract the Polaroid back
this whole stack’s Kodak
The playing speaker and clicking track
The past and the present match
(So if you’re feeling stage fright
the paranormal's your paradise
It’s like your here but not quite
I’ll be whispering through the whole damn night
Out of the blurry and blue-ish black
Someone just took another photograph
Built-in pop-up flash
I didn't wanna have to cut it in half
"The past is a mirror" fuck that)
So if you like to ghost write
(I’ll be whispering through the whole damn night)
It’s like you're here but not quite
(The paranormal's my human right
And if you’re feeling stage fright)
Cuz every picture's gettin' polarized
(The wrong kinda of right)
She said (I’ve got other guys), I said baby don’t apologize, (visualize)
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8. |
The Beginnings Of Love
03:07
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Welcome to the new relief
Where tension dies a slow release
And the pitching down of wild geese
Is heard along the shore
Nothing really disappears
Where could it go from here?
The whispered word behind my ears
Been there since I was born
If I dream before I wake
I pray to peek your pretty face
Time today is time to waste
When I'm not touching you
If I’m not touching you today
In a flash of light or full decay
We’ll meet again denied of space
dealt to deja vu
These are the beginnings of love
These are the beginnings of love
Welcome to the talking sleeps
The hunted songs and flower streets
The paper chains and witches dreams
That make me who I am
Where nothing really disappears
Where could it go from here?
The parts of me will persevere
And be renewed again
These are the beginnings of love
These are the beginnings of love
These are the beginnings of love
Welcome to the new relief
where tension dies a slow release
And the conscious cut of every piece
Builds something on the floor
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9. |
Down Flower Streets
03:33
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I can't hear the shore and my language is failing
On oceans of blue my words are a-sailing
away with the thunder I daydream at the bar
Bad lucked and cold on a highway of diamonds
Heavy sheets of rain rolling onto my eyelids
Have you got the gas and the space for me in your car?
Down flower streets I ride
Like I have my whole life
Everyone turns into be somebody else
At the mercy of clocks - in the mystery of self
but glory in difference is all that there is
Age is a measure our hearts only beating
Away out of time pumping blood and revealing
that forever young is lie dressed as a wish
Down flower streets I ride
Like I will my whole life
I had a vision was out in the garden
A light called the sun came up from the horizon
I’ll watched them bloom and I watch them grow
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10. |
Hunted By A Song
02:53
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Track back, kick up the dust
Some things love following us
Ear drums on closed windows
Keep still and listen close
On every channel the radio plays
In grocery stores, in bars and cafes
I check my shoulders, I try to stay strong
Hunted by a song
Count ins to major scales
Some licks stay on our trail
Big kicks get amplified
Loudness gets weaponized
Off every hill the radio beams
Through every lake down rivers and streams
Shaking nature, the spotlight is on
Hunted by a song
Hunted by a song
Hunted by a song
I'm hearing something moving outside
A steady beat, a poetic rhyme
I hold my tongue, I can't sing along
Hunted by a song
Hunted by a song (but my foot starts tapping)
Hunted by a song (and my fingers snapping)
Hunted by a song (before I know it I'm clapping)
Hunted by a song (oh and I’ve been)
Hunted by a song
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Eric Stephen Martin Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Eric Stephen Martin is a singer and songwriter from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Together with Rick The Loser, he owns and runs Three First Names Records.
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