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Prayers
03:00
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Last night I was praying, as I lay awake
Let the night pass quicker, for tomorrow just can’t wait
I can breathe and the world is mine
I can see people stuck in time, and you know
Although I’ll grow up, you’ll always be the same to me
Now I can breathe
I see in the distance, my future limitless
And one day this world will be at my fingertips
So when tomorrow comes, it’s just another one down
Let the years pass me by, I want the future now
I can breathe and the world is mine
I can see people stuck in time, and you know
Although I’ll grow up, you’ll always be the same to me
Now I can breathe
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Can You Feel It?
07:34
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Reaching out to feel a vibrant life
I wonder why you buy your state of mind
Can you feel it now, as you look around?
As you look back from the end, do you think you’ll be proud
Or is your conscience just a lie?
It's your timeline, filled with gaps
Don't you know every high has a low and a lapse
And every night is a day that you can't get back
So as you lie there wasted, do you hear me ask
Can you feel it?
Do you remember turning off the light
Looking to the stars and breathing night?
It's your timeline, filled with gaps
Don't you know every high has a low and a lapse
And every night is a day that you can't get back
So as you lie there wasted, do you hear me ask
Can you feel it?
When there’s nothing more that you can do
Will these times mean anything to you?
Burning through the best, like your cigarette
It almost seems as though you never really left
Only fools run from the truth
It's your timeline, filled with gaps
Don't you know every high has a low and a lapse
And every night is a day that you cannot get back
I can feel the way it’s meant to be
I am free, this world is all we need
Can you feel it?
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Remind Me
04:27
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When you tell me it’s just practice
Soon enough I’ll straighten out
What do you expect me to believe?
Can you think of why I ask this:
What is it I’m learning for
If I don’t know what’s real?
Please remind me I’m alive
I am waiting in the future
Fortune tellers all agree
The path I take was paved in gold
Sometimes I forget I’m breathing
I forget I have no choice
I’m blindly staring straight into a hole
Please remind me I’m alive
There is nothing you can tell me
I won’t find out for myself
I’m not you and you’re not me
From the past, I hear your echoed scream
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Someday (The Dream)
06:44
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Do you still believe that dreams come true?
Someday the rain from above will save me too
Can you still conceive another day as one more chance?
The dream comes to sound the alarm to break my trance
Ahh
Someday
Ahh
Someday
Climbing the ladder, too tired on Saturdays
Next week I’ll see you again
One after the other, our faces lose color
Still, we laugh and pretend
The dream that we follow, put off for tomorrow
It comes back around in the end
Moving away, see you next holiday
If I can
The feel of the wind, the wheels on the road
The freedom to drive on ahead into the unknown
Like the temptation of sin, rewards are surely sweet
Why am I forbidden to taste the freedom of the dream?
Ahh
Someday
Ahh
Someday
Climbing the ladder, too tired on Saturdays
Next week I’ll see you again
One after the other, our faces lose color
Still, we laugh and pretend
The dream that we follow, put off for tomorrow
It comes back around in the end
Moving away, see you next holiday
If I can
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The Trade Off
04:25
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Pray, but nothing you can do would make a change
Wait, breathe the air before the night turns into day
Some say take it all and lock it up and wait for someday
But how long is enough before you're unchained
All it ever takes is one mistake
Because you know it’s coming soon
You have to choose between the two
A weekend afternoon
Before the bitter moon
Running out and falling ahead
Turning the page before the words are read
Gold today for tomorrow’s lead
Oh, that’s the trade off
Sometimes, she takes a break to gaze at the sunrise
Sometimes, clouds are forming in the sky, spinning clockwise
And the still life hanging on the wall seems like real life
Hear her spitting out a curse to all of mankind
As the emptiness collapses over her time
Because you know what you’ll become
And every time you see the sun
You know which way it’s coming from
And there’s nowhere to run
Running out and falling ahead
Turning the page before the words are read
Gold today for tomorrow’s lead
Oh, that’s the trade off
That’s the trade off
Running out and falling ahead
Turning the page before the words are read
Gold today for tomorrow’s lead
Oh, that’s the trade off
That’s the trade off
That’s the trade off
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There is nothing more that I can do
All I have are memories of youth
I am the ghost, at last I’m alone
If you’re lucky you will be here too
When there’s nothing you can do
I am just the sum of my past
Now I know that potential never lasts
Do I like what I see? Did I think it was me?
Did I know it would end so fast?
There is nothing I can do
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Gravity
14:29
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“Me today, you tomorrow”
Is what my mother used to say
As we know, our time is borrowed
And given back as we decay
I can feel it when I’m looking at the moon, it happened all too soon
I can feel it when I’m breathing in the night, the air stings with the truth
We’re fighting gravity
Some, unaware of what they're chasing
Will win the race but lose the game
And all of those who are waiting for the future
Will be shocked when they find out that they’re twice their age
I can feel it when I’m looking at the moon, it happened all too soon
I can feel it when I’m breathing in the night, the air stings with the truth
We’re fighting gravity
Time takes a piece of us that we can never take back
Time answers the questions that we are afraid to ask
Oh Oh Ohhhhh
Although I’ve always known
That one day I would find myself gasping for air like there’s not enough oxygen left
Do I run from the truth
And cling to my youth
Blind with the eyes that I’ve closed?
Do I run from the truth
And cling to my youth
Blind with the eyes that I’ve closed?
Me today, you tomorrow
The face in the mirror reveals what I know
The child can breathe, and soon he will grow old
Do I run from the truth?
Only you know why
You've wasted too much time
To let it slip through your fingers again
All the time you choked
All this time you had to know
It comes back around in the end
We’re fighting gravity
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Mike Matteson Blacksburg, Virginia
Mike Matteson is like if God was cooler.
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