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Through callous hearts and changing minds
And passion’s risk of ceasing
I will keep on loving you
Until our love’s like breathing
Though I’m a lad of solitude
And you are one for parties
I’d gladly toast and dance for you
As long as you’re beside me
If I could drink my weight in rum
I’d do it in a heartbeat
But only if by drinking rum
I kept you right beside me
No I don’t have a remedy
To save from bitter fighting
But you can write our melodies
And I can do the rhyming
And when we fight we’ll sing this song
Keep slowing down the timing
I’ll stop when you sing along
These vows we put in writing
Through callous hearts and changing minds
And passion’s risk of ceasing
I will keep on loving you
Until our love’s like breathing
And when we grow to eighty-two
We’ll spend the evenings dreaming
Of all we still have left to do
With bones and joints now creaking
I’ll listen to you loud and clear
We’ll round my edges softly
If you should choose another year
Of spending life beside me
Through callous hearts and changing minds
And passion’s risk of ceasing
I will keep on loving you
Until our love’s like breathing
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Mistress
03:12
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Tell me what you wanna say, cause it’s too late for that
Take your wife and all her kids, cause I won’t take you back
Even though my heart’s with you
I’m gonna steal it back
He liked what he saw in the mirror he was often eyeing
My skin it crawls, believing you with all your lying
Had me convinced that the mistress wasn’t me
Tell her that you’re gonna stay, like you did with me
Been a girl my whole life, it’s a woman that you leave
Thought it wrong to be with you
But the sickness was in me
He liked what he saw in the mirror he was often eyeing
My skin it crawls, believing you with all your lying
Had me convinced that the mistress wasn’t me
Pay me what you want to pay, it’s alright with me
Your money can’t fill out my home or warm me in the sheets
Even though I wish you wounds
I wish it wasn’t me
He liked what he saw in the mirror he was often eyeing
My skin it crawls, believing you with all your lying
Had me convinced that the mistress wasn’t me
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Ocean's Cold
04:56
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Yes you know that I like the bottle
But I know it wont swallow the chill like you will
I’ve been told why put off til tomorrow
All the things that make today harder still
Like I’m sure you will
Oh you’re knife, wanted for the way it sits on my chest
Looking straight in my eyes, when the point is to push it to the depths
Don’t you call it attraction, it’s just a distraction for me
We’re willing to try, but I don’t know what that means
But you would it seems
Oh your love is like the ocean’s cold
And through the years you’ve accepted
The salt and the sea as my home
And I’ll keep runnin Im runnin I’m runnin I’m runnin to you
But are you coming soon?
Love I’m tired
And you don’t seem to care
Doing all the things that daddy told me
But I’m not seeing you there
Some say that you’ll know
But for now I’m alone in the dark
Is that what you want?
Oh your love is like the ocean’s cold
And through the years you’ve accepted
The salt and the sea as my home
And I’ll keep runnin Im runnin I’m runnin I’m runnin to you
But are you coming soon?
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Cambria
03:09
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God knows you were made to change
And me to stay
We would disagree since there is hardly ever peace
With all these emotions I know we’ll fall
I have had my reasons you’ve heard them all
But for you I’ll stay
And with you I’ll lay
By your side til the morning is night and the night turns day
Though you’ll complicate
The things our hearts say
I’ll deny all the voices inside that want to break
God knows you were made to love
And me to trust
Easy thing for me to do with anyone except for us
And I’m surprised at anytime you’d wanna know
My heart and mind aren’t any place I’d wanna go
But for you I’ll stay
And with you I’ll lay
By your side til the morning is night and the night turns day
Though you’ll complicate
The things our hearts say
I’ll deny all the voices inside that want to break
You are not my missing piece, but still you’ll do
I’m not a broken puzzle, I’m an entertaining Rubiks cube
You will get annoyed at the time it takes
But there is more to gain than what’s at stake
But for you I’ll stay
And with you I’ll lay
By your side til the morning is night and the night turns day
Though you’ll complicate
The things our hearts say
I’ll deny all the voices inside that want to break
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Step Or Sway
03:46
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Pickles The Rat
02:47
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Going through your bedroom, all you found was new clothes
And no place to lay down except your spotless floor
Staring at your body, hair has no place here
Unless they wait attentive to the master's order
She just wants to feel dominant over something
She just wants to feel dominant over something
Over anything at all
Looking for your children, but al lee found was blankets
I guess you're all alone now, just like it was before
Look into your pantry and pull out that old wine
Bought for an occasion like crying on your floor
She just wants to feel dominant over something
She just wants to feel dominant over something
Over anything at all
Now you know how it feels, going through your own house
Wishing someone else would lay down on your spotless floor
She just wants to feel dominant over something
She just wants to feel dominant over something
She just wants to feel dominant over something
I just want to feel dominant over something
Over anything at all
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Conner Cherland Santa Barbara, California
It all started with a goal to become a good songwriter, which then became a terrible obsession, which later became something to enjoy. I hope you enjoy the first of (hopefully) many albums.
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