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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Without Story or Illusion, Boy, You May Think So, From a Starlit Room, Hello Stranger / The Bitter Refrain, Doves, Daisies and Meaning, soft world, The Hello Stranger plays The Romancer, Ora Child, and 2 more.
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Yeah, I’m writing new tunes
Woah, child, it’s gonna be soon
Never gets any easier
It even comes a little slower
A tale dying to be told
Woah child, written in the dark
A signal that you may never know
Though the song can change, lord
My soul’s already been written
You let some darkness get close, child
But I haven’t lost it yet
And in dealing with what does not yet exist
You blame the one who listens for it
You're begging for beautiful surrender
Woah, child, people can change
And you’re never just a passenger
Why would I have to fall
Only to find they’d always been listening?
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I was taken
Rearranged there
I was feeling it all
And the voice said, “Are you with me or against me now?”
I packed my hopes and followed you
I found a new note to sing with you
I traveled into the unknown
It was all the same
Doves, daisies and meaning
And you beside me
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Erased America
05:06
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Cheer up baby
It’s coming down
Time to see what the children are seeing
Offensive talks
Apocalyptic walk
America’s caught
Better think pretty thoughts
In the garden scores of sad men
Save their "hey ya's"
Erasing heaven
From the blazed amber
To the hallowed stages of stone figures
Will you safely lead her
Through America?
Unblocked places covered with sorrow
Dirty traces of the Great Antique River
Going through the fog
Overflowing with no conscience
The mind is dangerous in America
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The Bridge
01:20
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Dead Bouquets
03:28
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Lost in time on a lake
Plagued by old failings
There goes that gold memory
Somewhere between truth and uncertainty
Childhood lullabies
Love works plated with lies
Plucked a dead bouquet
From your banquet table
Even to eat was vile
Couldn’t let yourself be her child
Childhood lullabies
Love works plated with lie
Fuck those halo days
Tortured dead melodies
You’d never abandon the dream
That you planted with blood and seed
With the greatest ambition
And the Hollywood silver screen
All your ghost led-life
Little play of light
All your travelogues are outrun
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You like to think you’re some great operator
Hanging out waxing cynical with corner store dwellers
Well you ought to know better than to hang around with those dudes
My mind is guilty and becoming narrow
Haunted by the anguish of many generations
and many more to come too
I stole a dance with the lady in blue
Out of comfort, we took a bed together
And we noticed the rug with its many patterned avenues
I toured the wall and I made a sale for
Our great Republic, our wishing well
full of fake patterns and made up attributes
Time overflows in a vase of digits
Images folded like counterfeit
But don’t be afraid
We’re just playing games with the Moon
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When you are alone
time will wait for you
I know it's gonna give you hope
Everything you lost
Suddenly returns to you
The sky has a way of opening up
The things that make you sulk
also make you lovable
I know it's hard to see but...
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