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Can't Get Out
02:23
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I wish we didn’t have to make conversation
that silence was enough
‘Cause my tongue is clumsy and my brain misfires
and the words always get stuck
And they can’t get out of my mouth
They can’t get out of my mouth
I wish I didn’t have a broken record
for the voice inside my head
I wish that I could just get up and change it
but I let it play instead
Cause I can’t get out of my bed
No I can’t get out of my bed
I’m sorry if I always seem a bit on edge
I’m giving the best I know how
Sometimes it’s a little, sometimes it’s a lot
but it’s all that I’ve got right now
I wish I didn’t have to explain this to you
maybe you already know
My father’s mind is half of mine and
I’m so scared of where it goes
Cause I can’t get out of my head
I can’t get out of my head
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Ghosts
03:41
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There are ghosts in my head / there are ghosts in my home
There are ghosts in my heart / won’t leave me alone
They are ghosts of the living / and ghosts of the dead
These ghosts everywhere / there are ghosts in my head
They haunt me with the memories of all I’ve done wrong
I can’t keep it together, I’m barely holding on
I look for signs in everything to tell me what to do
I feel myself unraveling and the ghosts can feel it, too
There are ghosts in my head / there are ghosts in my home
There are ghosts in my heart / won’t leave me alone
They are ghosts of the living / and ghosts of the dead
These ghosts everywhere / there are ghosts in my head
They’re with me when I’m waking up / they’re with me in my dreams
They’re with me as I fall apart / and I’m bursting at the seams
They tell me I should follow them / but each time I refuse
Oh, and here we go again / but I don’t want to have to choose
No I don’t want to have to choose
Cause I don’t want to have to lose
Who I am to feel better / who I am is so strange
Who I am is not forever / but the ghosts know
Yeah we both know / I can change / I can grow / with a little time / a little hope
A little courage / a little love / and the ghosts / to remind me / who I was
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My body is small / Sometimes it feels like I don’t have a body at all
But I burn and I bruise and I bleed when I stumble and fall
And I know you know what I mean
Because all of our bodies are made of the same things
When we touch
The boundaries of our bodies blur so much
It’s like all the hardest edges become soft
And we know what it means to be alive
It almost feels like we can fly
If only our bodies would comply
All of the darkness becomes light
All of the sadness is made right
Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared
My body is weak / Brittle bones and blood with a heartbeat
I feel it pulsing even when I sleep / and when I dream
I imagine things I’ve never even seen
Cause our eyes can’t pick up everything
Our bodies can be so limiting
All of the blindness becomes sight
Lay down your armor in this fight
Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared
My body is young / But one day when I’m older I’ll become
A singer whose songs have all been sung
Then I’ll be dead / You can look upon this shell that I have shed
Please say the things I know I should have said
Like “Thank you, I love you, I’m sorry”
Like “Thank you, I love you, I’m sorry”
Like “Thank you, I love you, I’m sorry”
All of the darkness becomes light
All of the sadness is made right
Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared now / Don’t be scared
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Don't Go Away
04:39
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I don’t want to fix you / That’s not my place
The end of the day you’ve only got yourself to face
I just wish that you could see the light like I do
Cause I see a lot of light in you
No I’m not perfect / never said I was
I’m sure that you know more than I do about love
I just wish that you could love your faults like I do
Cause I see a lot of good in you
Don’t throw it out / don’t walk away
Is there anything here to make you stay?
Even if it’s not a lot, a little bit’s okay
So please don’t go away
I’ve been there too / and I recall
How tempting it was to abandon it all
I won’t say that it’s not real or tell you what to do
But life can be beautiful too
Don’t throw it out / don’t walk away
Is there anything here to make you stay?
Even if it’s not a lot, a little bit’s okay
So please don’t go away
This is not about me / I know that in my head
But I would be remiss if I left this unsaid
There are very few things that I know to be true
But life is better with you
Don’t throw it out / don’t walk away
Is there anything here to make you stay?
Even if it’s not a lot, a little bit’s okay
So please don’t go away
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Goodbye my love goodbye / I’d only make you cry
It’s time I should be moving on / goodbye my love goodbye
I must be on my way / I know I cannot stay
Another night will turn to dawn / I must be on my way
You are the reason I fall to my knees / and pray for a cure for this disease
I am an anchor holding you down / keeping you here to watch as I drown
So I’ll go / cause I know
I’d only make things worse / my consciences is my curse
Believe me when I say my dear / I’d only make things worse
You are the reason I fall to my knees / and pray for a cure for this disease
I am an anchor holding you down / keeping you here to watch as I drown
So I’ll go / cause I know
Oh all we’d do is fight / and argue who was right
And the love we make wouldn’t compensate
Cause all we’d do is fight.
You are the reason I fall to my knees / and pray for a cure for this disease
I am an anchor holding you down / keeping you here to watch as I drown
So I’ll go / cause I know
I wish I could turn back / but it don’t work like that
You’re better off without me here / I wish I could turn back
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Body my house
My horse my hound
What will I do
When you are fallen
Where will I sleep
How will I ride
What will I hunt
Without you by my side
Where can I go
Without my mount
So quick to point out
In thicket ahead
Is danger or treasure
When body my good bright dog Is dead
How will it be to lie in the sky
Without roof and wind for an eye
With only clouds for cover how will I hide
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Al Lutz Plattsburgh, New York
3-minute existential pop songs on (mostly) ukulele.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=orEH5709dw0
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