1. |
Vanity Affair
03:19
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(Verse)
On a night like this
I put my charms beside the window
While I sleep the city stays awake
Wild as the wind in the willows
In rainbows
(Pre-Chorus)
Guess that’s how the story goes
Always rolling with the flow
Still obsession drives the road
Like a hungry hunting hound
(Chorus)
No need to explain
We would have loved the fame
If it didn’t have a funny smell
The secret’s in the lore
The author is no more
In such short matter
(Solo)
(Verse)
Not a day goes by
Where I don’t wish I crawled to freedom
And stand while drenched in pouring rain
Washing greasepaint off my clothes
But what do they know?
(Pre-Chorus)
Like a saint that runs its course
Breeze through every open door
Weary while we search the core
Too delirious to see
(Chorus)
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2. |
Angel America
03:26
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Maybe we weren't old enough to know when Pompeii burned
And yet through the wavelength we are hesitant to learn
Our souls on the brink and the help comes out short
As if it didn't matter before
As Angel America wants us all to thrive
So if the world still turns, Olympus has to die
Within the sharp edges where we walk side by side
There's a contract for your soul when you've got a lot to hide
It hurts seeing a wall keeping forward progress back
In a seemingly circular path
As Angel America wants us all to thrive
So let the fountain run and let paradise die
We've only just begun despite our precious time
To follow with the sun, Superbia must die
No good deed goes unpunished when they see holes
We've let this stand before we came as heroes
As Angel America with wings of desire
Will shield us from the haze and the friendly fire
The work must go on despite our precious time
To follow with the sun, Elysium must die
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3. |
Jetlag Loveletter
04:04
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Verse)
It’s been long since I’ve felt like that
Worried how long until it’s past
I thought I’d never turn that back
But it’s too late to undo that scratch
I wonder if there’s still a part of me
That kept believing what it all could be
I wish there were much better words
That you could have seen or heard
(Pre-Chorus)
Holding on a minute hand
Waiting for it to stop
Or speed away before
I start to hurt us both
(Chorus)
Don’t want to end up in the same place
I know this cycle all to well, babe
Always running past the index
Stop me quick before it makes sense
Is it all we got this far
Strung on our avatars
While we let it stay
There’s got to be a way
(Verse)
I hate the way I think when no one is around
Strumming my guitar to replicate the old sound
Check the clock and it’s nearly midnight
Skies were never cloudy now i see in plain sight
Routine is shattering me but we’re too used to it
Making me wonder if all is predetermined
Pushing away if it doesn’t follow the plan
Or choosing the cliffhanger hoping you’d stretch your hand
If it was in the stars, I’m chasing in light years
I let my heart melt with what I’m leaving right here
Open it up and I still treat it like a battery
Keeping it beating like a jukebox factory
Some go to church to heal, I’m in a studio
Writing an anecdote too soppy for the radio
Hear it back, thinking “Oh no, not again”
But like a letter you can see the ink now and then
(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
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4. |
Exile
04:03
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Exile
(Verse)
Morning train to Taipei
They know the best way
Is saying nothing at all
A lousy picture on your wall
Will suffice to say
The truth is they’ll wait
But only if they want to
While everything you needed
You put on hold
Along with empty feelings
You left many miles away
Spending summer nights
Where no one will find
Tears behind the eyelids
(Chorus)
So let the world spin round
Without you
Great expectations have
No hold on you
Break away from perfect blue
Your heart is here and now
In beautiful exile
(Verse)
City lights seem so different
When you’ve been distant
For such a long time
Blank lines in your script
One ocean across
A different set of stars
Without the pressure to untie
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Free your mind
In your eyes in another town
Come back alive
Still homeward bound
Free your mind
In your eyes in another town
Come back alive
Still homeward bound
(Solo)
(Chorus)
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5. |
You Can Keep Me Around
04:52
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(Verse)
I can walk through streets of people
Through this darker shade of blue
But soon the smell of fresh brewed coffee
Hope it leads me back to you
There’s a definition on my mind
Took til now to understand
Even on the route I’m driving on
By instinct I still hold out my hand
(Chorus)
Even when things dwell on darkness falls
There is no lack of light it brings along
So if we wait until the right time comes
Let’s leave our porch lamps on
But I’ll only push for something close to true
Maybe hold on if that’s what will pull us through
If all is lost and friends yet to be found
You can keep me around
(Verse)
There will be times we find each other
And we pick up where we left
I’ve recharged myself from Tokyo time
Curve the grade from retrospect
Hearing your favorite songs on the radio
While waiting on my evening tea
So low fidelity but clear to me
Enough chance to true believe
(Chorus)
(Solo)
(Chorus)
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6. |
The Hannya
03:36
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He lets out the scars
Blowing in the sky
Remains in motion
To keep truth alive
Puts on the brightest smile
As eyes fade to black
Wonder no more
Left is the corpse
Under the Hannya
She gazes outside
No catch in the rye
While all walk so plainly
She stills her eyes
Dreams of a paradise
Far from the woodlands
She can’t get past
Stopped by the hag
Under the Hannya
(Middle Eight)
Still they ride
Smoking heaven
Guesses seem second
Knowing that both worlds forbid
And what lies within
The nights roll along
Through darkness and rain
Trade gold for armor
And blood for the blade
Knowing they will be damned
If they be too clever
Life is too stiff
The lore seems to rich
To remove the Hannya
(Solo)
(Middle Eight)
In this life
There’s hesitation
And much resistance
Nothing is written in stone
But fortunes may fold
So if they decide
On one bridge to cross
It will not matter
As love be the loss
But for the will to fly
One must sprout wings
Live through the pain
And forego the name
Who wears the Hannya
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7. |
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(Verse)
I never gave up on the world around
To let my heart be heard through walls of sound
Searching a county where there was no love
Far from the peace that I was dreaming off
(Pre-Chorus)
And so I climbed the tallest towers
To know just where I stand
And up so high I realized
I haven’t a lost a step
(Chorus)
So bail me out of jail
I’m not afraid to fail
With only the wings on my back
Which you’ve not seen before
Cos I got so much more
In a certain angle
Idiots and angels
Are all children of the sun
And growing up ain’t giving up
(Verse)
I’ll keep my masterpiece and never wake up
But what’s a good thing if not heard enough
It could have been the shot heard around the world
I don’t need the numbers
Just to discover what’s my worth
(Pre-Chorus)
So we climb the tallest towers
In hopes of feeling high
It’s hard to breathe when only one
Longs more in being alive
(Chorus)
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Ziggy Grover Allendale, New Jersey
Ziggy Grover is a singer-songwriter from Allendale, New Jersey. Their music takes from all walks of life, having fallen in love with writing and performing music at a young age. Now, they hopes their stories have listeners learning and loving all over again. ... more
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