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Grandview

by Mike Dole

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the rain invites but all are hiding they are dividing it's empty when the night has fallen secret world is calling familiar souls are summoned when we lose ourselves searching for the secrets no one ever tells are we all right (know it all) are we the light (gonna fall) are we all right (know it all) are we the light... so isolation soon entices shelter from the vices giving focus to the meaning clarify the dreaming we need the black, we need the white we need the grey we need uncertainty to know how we are made are we all right (know it all) are we the light (gonna fall)
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I get up to face the world again and again hoping to see some change in the hours ahead but it's still the same old world that it's always been and I'm still the same old me in the same old skin earth is a circle, it moves in circles going nowhere so we vainly follow the treadmill hollow and never swallow where are we going it's hard to see a step is a hundred years the breath of a tree seasons, the only change that we ever see our time is too short to know what it all means earth is a circle, it moves in circles going nowhere so we vainly follow the treadmill hollow and never swallow
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for you I would swim down to the bottom of the sea if that's what you needed then that is where I'll be if a star is what you're after then a star it shall be I'll fly into the night sky and outrun eternity I'll bring one back for you, cinderella blue if anything should grieve you or bring upon you pain I'll do whatever's needed to take away the rain your love is pure and tender so humble and so true I could not fathom losing the days I spend with you escaping into you, cinderella blue
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38 Steps 03:52
38 steps to go until the end but you can't run, you can't run only misery gets you home again you know the gun, you know the gun sandman will take you only for awhile soon you're returning weeping as you smile every illusion takes a darker hue nowhere to hide, nowhere to run from you 38 steps to go but never gaze up to the sky, to the sky watchful downward to the dagger rock the moon that shines, the moon that shines sandman will take you only for awhile soon you're returning weeping as you smile every illusion takes a darker hue nowhere to hide, nowhere to run from you 38 steps to go until the end and then it's done, then it's done
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there is a hole where I put my intuition out among the hills where I saw my sad condition where did you go sweet and low, sweet and low what did I know something in my brain never was the same back on the track of a vengeance driven twister made for the dead and the sedentary sister where did you go sweet and low, sweet and low what did I know something in my brain never was the same
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Nowhere Town 02:28
river river swift and pure lead me to a world no more all my seconds drifting down counting sky till nowhere town you don't need to worry bout what you're with or you're without give an inch and lose a pound such is life in nowhere town no warning so please take heed there the dying do not bleed empty faces make no sound on the road to nowhere town you don't need to worry bout what you're with or you're without give an inch and lose a pound such is life in nowhere town shadow water deep and warm mother's milk and locust storm past the hill where I'll be found eternally in nowhere town you don't need to worry bout what you're with or you're without give an inch and lose a pound such is life in nowhere town pictures getting smaller still acclimate diminished will best to not betray a frown to the ghosts of nowhere town
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Castaway 02:46
for what it's worth I've been to earth and know of birth and what's occured is quite absurd and yet so blurred catch the evening wave and off I turn waiting safely from the fire's burn and dream of home that I've never known lacking power to discern monsters causing me concern as the branches 'round me churn I have the shits I'm lost in bits and having fits what is the sign that they'd define as being mine simulator broken, project crash help before they turn me into ash it's not my team so I send a beam only nightmares to be dreamed in this land of blood and cream waitful I to be redeemed
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leave me today, because you will tomorrow I shall dissolve like the snow in the spring feeling hurt and confused and self righteously bruised leave me here to get fucked up in the rain don't turn around, remember me standing and not on the ground like a heaving child near the end so it seems drained of hope and esteem leave me here to get fucked up in the rain think of me when I was stronger think of the laughter and fun think of me some, but not longer picture my face in the sun go live your life, don't look back and wonder I'll be alright, at least one of these days I'll be doggedly bound to get up off the ground until then I'll remain just a memory stain filed away in your brain remote and mundane while I'm here getting fucked up in the rain
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I just want to say I'm sorry for every thing I've done but why should I be sorry when I'm not the one on the run taking the time to find the right line under the cross, can't live with the loss of your eyes curtain closed the womb surrounds the liquid sun electric in my eyes nothing here the pathway down is clear the last of doors is open wide please don't abandon me this empty world is too much for me now you're a vanishing island and I'm treading water can't hold out longer please don't go

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All songs written by Mike Dole except "Come On Let's Go" (Keenan/Cargill/Stevens/Felton) and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (Lennon-McCartney)

Written/recorded late 2012-early 2013

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released April 12, 2013

Instruments & vocals: Mike Dole

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