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Sweet spell

by Tyler Burkhart

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To restate the obvious I know, it seems I've lost control But I recall a simpler time while walking to the grocery store When you turned and said to me you're happy as you'll ever be Your unabashed naivete I tied my shoes and smiled at the pavement Thought I saw you buying gasoline but I guess it isn't unlike me To strain reality besides, that night it was raining pretty heavy Music's gonna heal my broken heart I know that things can fall apart So quick and by the time I knew I'd lost most everything but You were always there for me an angel sitting in that tree Showed me how a man could be graceful as he falls and hits the pavement
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Forgive the space between what's said and what I mean Though the tape has long been dead it plays on in my head I heard that flowers grow upon the grave of the late van Gogh I bit the siren's line but I escaped in time You know it's so hard to find someone to lend you time You dream of somewhere else 'cause you can't accept yourself Yea I heard that flowers grow upon the grave of the late van Gogh I bit the siren's line but I escaped in time Yea we should talk about it which of us could have foreseen? The petals of flowers falling across the front porch screen
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Sunday's morning light rub my lonely eyes Find a shirt to wear comb my knotted hair In the living room window's open in June Hear your car outside we're going out for a drive Though my mind is concrete water's pouring through I'll come out to meet you start the day anew The sun's so bright it stings mama's buying us diamond rings We drink our coffee black we live without looking back Seeking love from me you're barking up a solemn tree Sweetheart, don't despair we'll meet again somewhere Though my heart is concrete water's seeping through I'll come out to meet you start the day anew
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Pulled out of the parking lot heading home just when I thought about a daydream that I forgot and it made me miss you a lot Though I can't say what I need I feel you so close to me Puzzled by the petals strewn still I sing my silly tune In the morning I walked out with some headphones and a blue beach towel and I waded into the sea and a thick fog enveloped me Though I can't say what I need I feel you so close to me Puzzled by the petals strewn still I sing my silly tune I returned a different man a yellow flower held in my hand and a sweet spell fell over me on the sidewalk there by the sea Though I can't say what I need I feel you so close to me Puzzled by the petals strewn still I sing my silly tune Still I'm chasing after you
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Last night's flowers on the bed felt them blooming in my chest Held the fire in my hand wove the patterns into strands I keep writing songs to ease my mind deter me from the pain I feel inside Watch the seams get torn apart again how it hurts my aching heart Don't want to live through a cell phone screen I want to chase my wildest dreams Some have crumbled in these hands of mine but I don't take it as a sign Walked along the cemetery path 'til I thought "I should be getting back" Go lie and bed and let my mind explore think of everyone who's lived before
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My life occurs upon a line running straight inside my mind Birds are singing as I write by the windowsill tonight Oh, to be up in the air living free of fear or care I'm just trying to lay low 'til the morning light Well I'm just trying to get by spark my lazy, idle mind Staring at the walls again chopped in half by ceiling fans There's no letters in the mail all the bread is going stale What's this trouble all about? Guess I'll have to wait it out If I ever get around I might take my thoughts to town If you see me in my car and the windows are down Please don't yell or wave at me I'm not feeling well, you see I'm just trying to lay low 'til the morning light I'm just blurring into time living trapped inside my mind Reaching for a hand beyond to pull me from my stagnant pond Can't tell what I want or need sister, tell me, can't you see? What this trouble's all about Guess I'll have to wait it out
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The mountain's silhouette our clothes are soaking wet Beneath the purple sky we clench our fists and cry When all's been stripped away what part of me remains? It's hard to hold a shape rewind the reels of tape Reach for another clue to find my way to you Through glass so dimly lit how can my soul transmit? When you can't understand stare at the ceiling fan I want to drown in snow to cut the line below
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I know it isn't fair to ask but when I left, did you look back? Walking out into that rain beneath the hum of heavy planes Would you have followed if I had said that all the answers are in my head? You toed the line and I stepped across I'm recognizing what I lost I want you to see it through I paid attention to the warning signs yea it's raining but the sun still shines You've got a smile like a cheshire cat it's always hard to make you laugh Do you remember in the parking lot when we found an ounce of pot? And then you threw it at a passing car just like a dream, it was bizarre Damage done, we're still young Up to heaven and back again I'm steady when I hold this pen I came to sing you one last time to sing my melancholy rhyme A hymn for you to fixate on while you're waiting for the dawn In hopes that you remember me and all the things I tried to be And as it happens, I didn't know of all the ways that I could grow I hope that you remember me when the rain falls on your street
10.
You are small and hidden burning between two mountain tops It is there Sometimes you can see it when the moon sits behind the clouds On the coldest night in February It revealed itself to me When I was young I stared at it every night before I fell asleep Anymore I can barely make it out Amongst the other fires Burning in the night ferociously claiming their own validity But I have seen that the fire remains Somewhere out there I'll see it again Among the burning ruins and cities once made of gold That we've heard so much about but never seen Pendulum will swing Black sun burns and sings
11.
You're a patch of flowers growing wild deep inside me Something in your eye mimes a marble or a diamond Hidden underneath like a lost enchanted city I don't sing of what I've left but of things that I still carry I'm not in the room as my lost mind gently wanders Thinking of my life and the days spent as a child I listened to cassettes on the swing set in the backyard Learning how to sing by the garden and the washline Such a lovely day and I'm writing just to tell you I only slipped and drowned in the bathtub of the world

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released June 11, 2015

All songs written / performed / recorded by Tyler Burkhart

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