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Sugar Pill
03:56
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Wonder why I do these things
Try to employ some hesitation
Only when I feel that pull
Holding out for every situation
Tell me there's a world where I can unfurl
Tell me there's a world that i can uncover
And you can believe
Moving through the cities like
I could create my destination
Anchored by a sugar pill
Pulling up our lines to keep from wasting
Tell me there's a world that I can uncover
And you can believe
Corridors that contain all ingredients that remain
The crystal loom that holds me at stupid heights
Corridors that contain all ingredients that remain
And you'll never know
Tell me there's a world where i can unfurl
Tell me there's a world that i can uncover
And you can believe
Corridors that contain all ingredients that remain
The crystal loom that holds me at stupid heights
Corridors that contain all ingredients that remain
And you'll…
Moving through our cities like I could better create a world
Though our ideas stay unformed, they're so much better
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Grand Ellipses
03:32
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I never knew you
I never knew you could fall so fast
I never knew you
I never knew you could fall so fast
I never knew what was going on
You gotta run if the feeling’s coming on strong
Why won’t you talk to me like I exist?
Can’t even meet my eye
Why won’t you talk to me like I exist?
Can’t even meet my eyes
I just don’t understand
Hold for another week
It didn’t matter
You could’ve passed into higher skies
It didn’t matter
We could’ve passed into better times
I reimagine the waste
You interrupted a taste that you left me with
Tumbling down
Fumbling for our tapestry
Some symmetry
Why won’t you talk to me like I exist?
Can’t even meet my eye
Why won’t you talk to me like I exist?
Can’t even meet my eyes
I just don’t understand
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Green Magic
03:15
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Slow down, the water’s rushing over us
Can you see it now? Does it light your face?
Cool kids, you’ll miss the early morning call
Can you hear it now? Is it far away?
I’ll chase any shadow
I’ll bury any instinct
With the cover of the night, we gave it everything
Did they come for you? Well, she looked at me
Turn down or face the early warning call
This is all we have to impress ourselves
I’ll chase any shadow
I’ll bury any instinct
Two young guns gonna drop to your knees
And the soles of your feet will light up
Swim the whole way across in case you’re on your way
Right now, we gather under sympathies
Do you like the sound of another day?
I’ll chase any shadow
I’ll bury any instinct
We use our hands to make a symphony
Can you hear it now? Is it far away?
I’ll chase any shadow
I’ll bury any instinct
Two young guns gonna drop to your knees
And the soles of your feet will light up
Swim the whole way across in case you’re on your way
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8 Circles
02:28
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It was like nothing before
I just sit on the floor
I keep returning to that picture
When you became a different fixture
I expected to be haunted
I know we love just to be wanted
The sunlight doesn’t stop to breathe
It takes the soul right outta me
I hold my eyes up to the weather
Anchor of sleep that none can better
I found a place where we can meet
I dug 8 circles in the deep
To curl your head beside your feet
Oh, you were all my family
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Robin is the Coke Bottle
04:10
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Thrown into somebody with this pressure to deliver us from the fear
So here we crawl back and forth
We claim nothing more but old fantasies
I wanted to be surrounded
I wanted to be
Evening gowns on enemies – the only ones that know what it’s like
So seize your godless enemies – or anybody privy to your thoughts
Who wants that job?
If I was wrong, deny it in song
I’m just getting started on a tasteless idea in your honor, before the court
I have this here memory that I can’t afford, that you left me with
An angle that I predicted
Evening gowns on enemies – the only ones that know what it’s like
So seize your godless enemies – or anybody caught in your thoughts
Who wants that job?
If I was wrong, deny it in song
Or anybody caught in your thoughts
Who wants that job?
If I was wrong, deny it in song
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I want to understand
I need a little sign
Tomorrow’s tragic but we always go down fighting in this
I need to tear apart the thought and principle
To read between is to untangle what is happening
Not in control, but I see the signs of these illusions creeping in and fall away
You’ve got the mind of a hero I could follow anywhere
My hands are discontent
Too much in front of me
You make me question if I’m doing all I can
Story’s just right, but is it useful?
We cheer ungrateful for the characters that in the end aren’t in control
Yea we see the signs of these illusions creeping in and fall away
You’ve got the mind of a hero I could follow anywhere
Parallel thoughts with no omissions
Drag copious haunts along the battle lines
Until we meet inside
Not in control, but I see the signs of these illusions creeping in and fall away
You’ve got the mind of a hero I could follow anywhere
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Winnowing
04:39
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If you say it slowly, it comes right out
A lawless desert and it’s louder now
Forgot to call but we’ve time for that
We make our own’s what I’m driving at
In case the shoulder embraces us
We bear the consequence of facing up
We just want the carnival we dreamt about
We raise our glasses so it spills outloud
Speak of the passages from saintly ones
Dust off the ink or it’ll start to run
How does a feeling get across a sea?
I wear these mountains like it’s Cullowhee
Some nights I argue for mass ignorance
Too many occupied with permanence
No more electrified, we spin our wheels
What makes it worth it, ¬but not enough to steal?
Why’d I have to reopen?
Why can’t you just be here?
It’s an ongoing question:
Why’s everyone so far, and all of me’s so near?
If you say it slowly, it comes right out
A lawless desert and it’s louder now
How does a feeling get across a sea?
I wear these mountains like it’s Cullowhee
You’re half the image I can’t bring to life
You’re fixed in amber til it’s right
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Blind Chess
02:51
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You will not go alone until you break the surface
You will not go alone for all that effort wasted
Today I asked myself, where to draw the line
Stick my neck between the willow and the pine
An imprint’s just a copy, impressions can’t be faked
But what from this confusion can I ever make?
You will not go alone until you break the surface
You will not go alone for all that effort wasted
Next I’ll kid myself, and wile the day away
Call back the echo I let loose and beckoned back
How to be stronger?
How to be kinder?
And if it won’t, let me, wake me, yes – you better come up and strangle-shake me!
What more could my excuses give?
Any idea, any idea?
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Aim
01:55
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Pin the drop at the silver lake
Gonna catch you comin up
Got a hand in every fire, but I can’t see in front of me, inside of me
Learn to let some go
You won’t miss what you’ll never know
Second night, are they agitated?
Are the wires all lighting up?
In the middle of the greatest time
We fall together or you follow me
Learn to let some go
You won’t miss what you’ll never know
Find your seat in the afterglow
It’s the world as we know it to go
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Inconsolia
03:06
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I came across the other night
A book that opened up my mind
I can’t escape the feeling now
We laid our guns upon the ground
Saved by good advice
Inconsolia
The luck to get it twice
Inconsolia
I leapt across the other night
Retreating further than I’d like
The many castles that I dreamed
Did I clear the gap or get stuck between?
You know I can’t follow these
Saved by good advice
Inconsolia
The luck to get it twice
Inconsolia
You know I can’t follow these
(no, don’t follow thee-oh, no, don’t follow me)
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Omni
04:57
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Head into town
Got one too many cues
But never alone
Thunder in your eyes
Head into town
Got one too many cues
But never alone
Thunder in your eyes, in your head
Take me to it, take me to it
What’s the common man say?
Take me to it, take me to it
Where’s the closest airway?
Running from me, got far too many words
But never enough
Wonder, catch the light
Running from me, got far too many words
But never enough
Wonder, catch the light
Catch the light running
Take me to it, take me to it
What’s the common man say?
Take me to it, take me to it
Where’s the closest airway?
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Saint Solitude Oakland, California
Saint Solitude is the musical persona of Maine native Dup Crosson.
Depending on the
day, or the song, Crosson alternates between the roles of loop artist, multi-instrumentalist, and most importantly, songwriter. He combines his favorite elements of Britpop, shoegaze, post-punk, and psychedelia into accessible and immediately appealing pop songs hereby known as BITTERSWEET FUZZ.
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