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1. |
False Gods
02:03
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I am the origin
I am the start
I am the ultimate
Initial part
I am primevil
I have the heart
I am the standard
Original stock
Your temple is crumbling
Your statues are falling
And false gods are raining
Down down down down
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
And they’re reigning
Down down down down
I am the blueprint
And I am the dawn
I am eruption
A tempest from far
I am inception
Foundation that brings
The end and beginning
And birth of all things
Your temple is crumbling
Your statues are falling
And false gods are raining
Down down down down
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
And they’re reigning
Down down down down down
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
They’re all false gods
And they’re reigning
Down down down down down
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2. |
A Long Peaceful Sleep
02:22
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A long long long long peaceful sleep
A long long long long peaceful sleep
Tread lightly, my friend
You may have met your end
Never realizing
How lucky you have been
A cushion, a safety
A warm home with plenty
Insulation
Validation
The good faith of men
No drama, less trauma,
A homemaker mama
Insulation
Mmm, sedation
A long peaceful sleep
Don’t you see what you’ve got
The princely role you thought
You earned all alone
Was granted at your birth
So tread tenderly, my dear
The brave new world is here
One where you must defend
The ill you extend
A cushion, a safety
A warm home with plenty
Insulation
Validation
The good faith of men
No drama, less trauma,
A homemaker mama
Insulation
Mmm, sedation
A long peaceful sleep
A long long long long peaceful sleep
A long long long long peaceful sleep
A long long long long peaceful sleep
A long long long long peaceful sleep
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3. |
Carte Blanche
01:47
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If it’s so hard
Know that you don’t have to stay
‘Cause it’s just a piece of paper anyway
If you think that
There might be a better way
I’m not gonna keep you
I’m tired of your games
Paper thin and paper frail
It’s been some years
And you’re only more sad
So paper chase your paper trail
I give you carte blanche
To finally bail
No I’m not gonna
Sit around and lie in wait
To catch you in somebody else’s birthday cake
Leave me be to
Start a new life for God’s sake
I give you carte blanche
To make you’re own mistakes
Paper thin and paper frail
It’s been some years
And you’re only more sad
So paper chase your paper trail
I’m not gonna follow your
Sorry ass tail
Since our vows are
Easy for you to forsake
I’m gon’ start over and build a different fate
Please don’t come back
I will have another mate
I give you carte blanche to pack and liberate
I give you carte blanche to pack and liberate
I give you carte blanche to pack and liberate
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4. |
It's Time
02:03
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Crawling out to see the light
Getting up took all your might
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
And you gotta know that I couldn’t see it
But Lord how I believed it
No matter how hard the fall
Because every time I promised I’d quit it
Oh Lord I recommitted
In answer to heaven’s call
Singing out to the unknown
Making meaning all my own
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
It’s time (it’s time)
And you gotta know that I couldn’t see it
But Lord how I believed it
No matter how hard the fall
Because every time I promised I’d quit it
Oh Lord I recommitted
In answer to heaven’s call
And you gotta know that I couldn’t see it
But Lord how I believed it
No matter how hard the fall
Because every time I promised I’d quit it
Oh Lord I recommitted
In answer to heaven’s call
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5. |
Saint
02:38
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You’re not good
You’re not bad
You’re a walking contradiction
On a road that’s mad
Walking circles
Around the same
It’s an elevator
Up and down
One big game
Be a human
Be a saint
Tell nobody what you’re doing
‘Cause the doing is the thing
Be a human
Feel your pain
Let your stories burn your insides
So they’re not in vain
Stop the noise
Hold the gate
If your only contribution
Is a smaller stake
In what we’re living
In what we make
Let your inner constitution
Prove you’re not a fake
Be a human
Be a saint
Tell nobody what you’re doing
Cause the doing is the thing
Be a human
Feel your pain
Let your stories burn your insides
So they’re not in vain
Be a human
Be a saint
Tell nobody what you’re doing
Cause the doing is the thing
Be a human
Feel your pain
Let your stories burn your insides
So they’re not in vain
Be a human
Be a human
Be Be
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6. |
Perfect Machine
02:37
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Deep in your heart
That beats
A feeling that burns
Heat
Without it you fall
Weak
It compels you to
Speak
You’re a perfect machine
That knows what it means
And won’t let feelings show
You’re a perfect machine
That sees through the screen
And secretly knows there’s more
Under your skin
That bleeds
A tale that spins
Deep
Is it in your bones
To compete
Or to be the light
You seek
You’re a perfect machine
That knows what it means
And won’t let feelings show
You’re a perfect machine
That sees through the screen
And secretly knows there’s more
You’re a perfect machine
That knows what it means
And won’t let feelings show
You’re a perfect machine
That sees through the screen
And secretly knows there’s more
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7. |
House of Bones
03:07
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(Welcome, welcome
Welcome, welcome)
Here’s my home that felt so safe
Until the walls caved in
Here’s my heart that’s wrapped in steel
So tall it will not feel
Where did all my windows go?
And why is it the sun won’t show?
Welcome to my house of bones
Where all the fallen leaves have blown
And memories, though overgrown
Hide treasures in my house of bones
Here’s my gate that rusted shut
To keep away my kin
Here’s my spirit carrying
The burdens of my skin
Why did all my doorways close?
And why did all my dreaming slow?
Welcome to my house of bones
Where all the fallen leaves have blown
And memories, though overgrown
Hide treasures in my house of bones
(Welcome, welcome)
Welcome to my house of bones
Where all the fallen leaves have blown
And memories, though overgrown
Hide treasures in my house of bones
Hide treasures in my house of bones
Treasures in my house of bones
(Welcome, welcome
Welcome, welcome)
(Welcome, welcome
Welcome, welcome)
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8. |
The Narrow
03:33
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Between beauty and greed
Between plenty and need
Among angels and dreams
Lies the narrow
The promise, the creed
Lies the narrow
A faith guaranteed
And I knew that I find you in the narrow
Even though everyone told me I was
Looking in the wrong place
And I knew that I would find you in the narrow
In the veil between
In the space between
Our lives
Between good and conceit
Between health and disease
Among demons and dreams
Lies the narrow
A humble deceit
Lies the narrow
A lesson concealed
And I knew that I find you in the narrow
Even though everyone told me I was
Looking in the wrong place
And I knew that I would find you in the narrow
In the veil between
In the space between
Our lives
And I knew that I would find you
In the narrow
In the narrow
In the narrow
Oh oh oh
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9. |
Something
02:31
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Sometime
Waiting for the clouds to clear
Only grateful you were near
Now I wish I’d known
Somewhere
Deep within the atmosphere
Long before I felt fear
Living in the afterglow
Something gained
But feelings fade
Wishing I could find the name
Of what I thought I lost
Terrors old
And warmth grown cold
Wishing I could grab a hold
Of something
Someway
Gleaming in the nether light
made the love that felt so right
Harder to uphold
Somehow
In between the sunlit rays
I disappeared inside your gaze
And forgot my own
Something gained
But feelings fade
Wishing I could find the name
Of what I thought I lost
Terrors old
And warmth grown cold
Wishing I could grab a hold
Of something
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10. |
Windswept
01:50
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Mother are you
Calling Me
We left you long ago
But I know you
Run in my veins
And you have built all my dreams
Oooooohhh
Where does the wind blow
Everybody else
Oooooohhh
Oh I am windswept
But I’m still singing
Now we know that
Streets of gold
Can wear you very thin
So I long for
Times of old
When wandering on the plain
Oooooohhh
Where does the wind blow
Everybody else
Oooooohhh
Oh I am windswept
But I’m still singing
Oooooohhh
Where does the wind blow
Everybody else
Oooooohhh
Oh I am windswept
But I’m still singing
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11. |
We Got This
02:06
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Mm the whole world has changed
And nothing feels the same
Yes there’s a harsh wind blowing
But there’s no other way
You’re making calls for order
These people are deranged
But didn’t anybody ever tell you
We’re the same
And we may not know where we’re going
Ooohhhhh
But we got this
We can’t stop it
Even if it’s hard to be growing
Oooohhh
We got this
We can’t stop it
Yes it’s still so strange
We’re in a different age
One where without a screen you
Might even feel more caged
Distracting with a border
To blow up the exchange
But didn’t anybody ever tell you
We’re the same
And we may not know where we’re going
Ooohhhhh
But we got this
We can’t stop it
Even if it’s hard to be growing
Oooohhh
We got this
We can’t stop it
Even if it’s hard to be growing
Oooohhh
We got this
We can’t stop it
Even if it’s hard to be growing
yeah, yeah, yeah
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12. |
Two Hearts, One Man
02:45
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Is there room in your house
For two opposing truths
To live under one roof
Is there room in your heart
For good and bad to weep
Together in one heap
We keep fighting, dividing
Without a chance
So there’s no use deciding
Without this ask
Can you hold two hearts (can you hold two hearts?)
In one hand, in one hand
Can you love both parts (can you love both parts)
Of one man, of one man
Can you hold two hearts (can you hold two hearts?)
In one hand, in one hand
Can you love both parts (can you love both parts?)
Of one man, of one man
Is there room in your head
For wicked and weak
To stumble in speech
Is there room in your plans
For the victims of greed
To finally breathe
We keep fighting, dividing
Without a chance
So there’s no use deciding
Without this ask
Can you hold two hearts (can you hold two hearts?)
In one hand, in one hand
Can you love both parts (can you love both parts?)
Of one man, of one man
Can you hold two hearts (can you hold two hearts?)
In one hand, in one hand
Can you love both parts (can you love both parts?)
Of one man, One man, one man
Two hearts, one man
Two hearts, one man
Two hearts, one man
Two hearts, one man
Two hearts, one man
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13. |
You're a Star
01:54
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Walked out on a Wednesday
Well after dark
Forgot just how cold
It was outside
Drove off in the distance
Tempted to park
But the road just kept on
Calling your name
It asked
Do you know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
Pulled over in sorrow
Into an empty lot
No one but the moon
By your side
Hand over your worries
Everything you got
To the ten thousand
Years in the sky
And they said
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
You know who you are?
Who you are? You’re a star
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Crystal Drake Chicago, Illinois
Crystal Drake is a pop R&B singer whose earthy vocals have been described as "refined" and "emotionally charged." Her powerfully earnest singing borrows from gospel and soul traditions. Crystal's songwriting is thoughtful, grounded and moving. "We all need a little push to believe, to appreciate, to listen and to love." Her soulful voice nudges us to feel and remember that we are divine. ... more
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