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Suspension
02:59
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Suspension! Just above you, floating, touching in the air
Losing myself in your eyes' electric stare
Gently draw my fingers over softness of your face
Drowning in the seas of our only first embrace
And Wonders never cease
Waiting for tension
Waiting for tension's release
Grace notes soft descending, brushing back your hair
Wordless conversation; lingers in the air
Listen to the echoes fading, drifting to the ground
Suspended in the moment, magic stillness in the sound
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How many times I've seen her, music waterfalling past me
Sounds like rain, washing every bit of sadness from her face
No one at all beside her, moving in the corner
Breathes in every sound, holds it in and breathes it out again
And dances out of my life and then she reappears
I'll never know her name
But I just love to watch her dance
Who does she dream, I wonder ? Secrets locked inside those eyes and
Who is the guy that gets to ask her all those questions anyway?
What kind of world she moves in
When she's not moving to music
So many things I'd rather leave to my imagination
And so she dances out of my life and then she reappears
I'll never know her name
But I just love to watch her dance
She makes me want to sing
I make her want to dance
Was there ever such a perfect thing?
She dances out of my life
and then she reappears
I’ll never know her name
And I just love to watch her dance
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Air Heart
02:32
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Hurrying home to me, chasing the start of the day
Will she appear to me, or has she lost her way?
Time and space will never keep us apart
My Air Heart
Skimming across the sea
Silver wings cut through the ocean of clouds in the air
Chasing a destiny
Looking for the slip of sand she knew would be there
Facing the fear that she knew right from the start
My Air Heart
Lonely voice, floating frequency
Drifting down to me
Why can’t she hear me?
Hurrying home to me, slipping too close to the sea
Will she appear to me? Where on earth will she be?
Time and space will never keep us apart
My Air Heart
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Short Fuses
05:22
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Lights up, scene repeating the same day
Camera shooting the same way
Monster beneath the bed
Eyes up, tear myself from the memory
Like a page from Maxim’s reverie
Thoughts better left unsaid
And the days go round and round
And the fuse burns down and down
Timepiece ticks hypnotic sound
And the days go round and round
Worn down, beating a path through the carpet
Looking for some place to park it
Tell us if you want fries
This ain't Tales of Brave Ulysses
We know myths are for sissies
Rock and roll never dies
And the days go round and round
And the fuse burns down and down
Broken clock runs ship aground
And the days go round and round
Dark clouds arriving, skimming the sky now
Raining hurricane
shards of steel
But on the first breath of Spring, still the young girls sing
Rear view, fish-eye lens distortion
Slippery sense of proportion
Been since I don’t know when
Step back; blurs become an impression
Dispelling gray of depression
Light in my eyes again
And the days go round and round
And the fuse lies dead and drowned
Coiled spring is now unwound
And the days go round and round
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In Love With Nonsense
03:33
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I’m giving up on thinking hard and losing sleep
And making sense of each and every rule
Too tired to keep my head up when the water’s deep
All the world’s a stooge and I’m its newest fool
Lovely letting logic end
Nonsense is my friend
Giddy with anticipation of pure bliss
The peacefulness surrendering allows
The warm embrace, the happy face, the mindless kiss
As I take my final foolish vows
Marching in the fool’s parade
Motley masquerade
Captain of the Fool’s Brigade
Witless promenade
We’ll all rejoice at Hobson’s choice and sing out our decree
Hoist the scepter with the jester’s jewel
Follow footsteps in the streets, cobbled with debris
All the world’s a stooge and I’m its newest fool
Its newest fool
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Out My Window
02:35
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Picture in blue
Bird haiku
Exquisite view
I look through my window
Cool cobalt glow
Sharp tableau
Can you know
What I owe to my window
Thing that I see
Cedar tree
Sargasso Sea
The ghost of a bee out my window
And my life’s sign
“Omnia vincit amor”
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Run and Hide
03:40
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I handed you the stone
And said show me the beauty
I wandered off alone
So the world would come and soothe me
I screamed into the fire
To keep the cold inside
Now I’m gathering stones
Run and hide
Sketching out my defense
And coloring in the lines
Now here’s my alter-ego
To save your peace of mind
I died inside this ice box
To keep your world alive
I sharpened my pencil
Better run and hide
You don’t know what you’ve started
And I don’t know what I’ve done
Can we be this broken-hearted
Will we burn here in this sun?
There’s a monster made of silence
And hurricane shards of steel
But the only shelter for us
Is nothing, because nothing, no nothing, none of it
Is real
I opened up the stone
Baffled by the beauty
I wandered off alone
And there you were to soothe me
I stood beside your fire
You drank the cool inside
Let’s gather up our teardrops
Let’s run and hide - you and I
Just run and hide - together
Run and hide
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The Odd One
03:23
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The world seems fair, the sun still shines
Until the day you wake to find that you’re
The odd one, the strange one
Unseen one, replaced one
You’re out of time, one frame removed
You watch your life, run the film from the booth and see
The odd one, pretend one
Unsung one, the no one
Where are you, my fate? Show me my part
Please, don’t make me wait for the ghost of a heart
The world returns just what it will
(Can you hear me?)
Crumbs of clues, answers left to fill
(Can you see me?)
Are you the odd one?
The strange one
Unsung one
The someone
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Unquestionably I-95
04:25
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Hey when did you get back in town?
I thought my friends were joking
Was it the money that ran out again?
Or did your ego need some stroking?
I used to think that you were so cool
Someone who couldn’t lose
Until you turned into a tool
That anyone could use
Don't I know who you think you were?
Don't I know who you thought you were?
Don't I know—you?
It's So like you to come so far
Expecting me to wait
Leaning on your youthful charm that's
Past its expiration date
Everyone burning up my phone
Keeping me up to speed
Afraid you're on the other end
A call I didn't need
Don't I know who you think you were?
Don't I know who you thought you were?
Don't I know—you?
Three friends meet on a quiet street
One big secret two can’t keep
It’s quite impressive to me, your casual cruelty
I hope she means as much to you as she once meant to me
Sometimes I take the long way home
Walking down streets where we once met
Thinking someday I that might feel
Some sadness or regret
It hasn’t happened yet, and so
I guess it never will
Please just go home, leave me alone, and
Choke on that bitter pill
Don't I know who you think you were?
Don't I know who you thought you were?
Don't I know—you?
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One Last Dance
03:08
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When the green turns gray
And the sun burns clay
And no rivers like to run
Way down by the ocean side
No more wooden ships to ride
One small step towards a solution
One last dance, no more jukes in the box
One more chance, money talks
One last dance, no more ticks on the clock
Too late or is it not too late?
History callin’
We’re all in the same limousine
When the blue turns brown and the sun burns down
Will we quit before we’ve begun?
More eyes open every day
Give wings unto feet of clay
One small step in our evolution
One last dance, no more hops for the sox
One more chance Break the locks
One last dance No more jukes in the box
One more chance Money talks
One last dance No more ticks on the clock
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She Dreams Of Horses
03:07
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Flying over grass-filled meadows, flowers fill the air
Feels the movement, feels the moment, feels the power there
Wind blows back her hair
She dreams of horses
Leaving land, he arches upward where the clouds appear
And she has no fear
She dreams of horses
Rhythms rising ‘cross the hillside, deep familiar sound
Urging onward, now as one - traveling unbound
Softly sunbeam-crowned
She dreams of horses
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Ghost Heart
02:54
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Soft gray light, the magic place
Between the ending of another dream
Slipping into day
That’s when they start
A slipping sight, the faintest face
Faded flower so gently pressed
To the space inside my chest
Ghost heart
What kind of kindness in words that we choose
Touches another, brings down the walls?
And what sort of madness drives us to lose
Leaving us standing, watching as it falls apart
Soft evening light, the magic place
Between the ending of another day
And when I see you
Ghost Heart
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Why Didn’t We?
04:06
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We gave enough to make it through times and now that we’re here
As we look behind and see some dreams did disappear
We would have we could have we might have done
“Why didn’t we?” is ringing in my ear
Postcards from places that we never found time to see
Were sent by strangers to people other than you or me
Warm islands. Cool highlands, midnight arctic sun
Three saddest words “Why didn’t we?”
Here and now is fine, we toed the lines we colored inside of
Early to bed was what they said would make us rise above
Sleepwalking on the straight and narrow til the ending comes
Lost in the twilight, in the gray after the setting sun
The strains of life became a knife that cut the bonds away
Never daring, loss of caring is the price we pay
Young smiling faces caught in the amber of old photographs
Look in my eyes as if to ask me what are the paths?
Lost voices, bad choices, wrong turns day by day
“Why didn’t we?” could be our epitaphs
We threw away our past
For a future we wouldn’t see
Everyone thought we’d last
Why didn’t we?
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Always In The Past
03:11
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It's so typical, I’m still living each day as January first
So elliptical, rounding the curve and still so very unversed
I try to lose the past
So much trying and so much fumbling on a such monumental scale
So much time spent wasted, mumbling out a cautionary tale
Nothing seems to last
So I close my eyes and I’m five again
Staring at my future history
Seeing all the places and the people I will know
And every precious gift they bring to me
So confusing, looking for clues to uncover any reason or rhyme
It's all in the choosing, all in the listening, all in the rhythm of time
We're all just keeping time
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Ten Times Today (bonus)
03:07
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Ten times today I made a decision
Ten times today I walked it back
Drifting through seas of cold derision
This water feels so hard and black
But the thing that haunts me
Is the price it cost me
Ten times today I turned my cheek
I thought I knew you from somewhere
I got no prize for seeming weak
Reached out but there was nothing there
Maybe someone called my bluff
Maybe ten times ain’t enough
Dogs and gods all dancing on my shoulder
Saints and monsters whispering in my ear
They’re suiting up for battles in the ring
Winter’s breath is making me much older
And as I stumble through my years
Which windows will be shuttered in the Spring?
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Pop Co-Op
Pop Co-Op are:
Steve Stoeckel (Spongetones),
Bruce Gordon,
Stacy Carson, &
Joel
Tinnel.
Fresh, all original powerpop/pop/rock songs.
2nd most played artist on This is Rock 'n Roll Radio, Syracuse.
Aired on Rodney Bingenheimer's Sirius XM show & the Mickey Bradley Show on BBC Radio Ulster.
"Best of 2017" on WKVA 88.1 Oregon's Snap, Crackle, POP!
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