1. |
The Way
04:08
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I was walking in
You were walking out
Saw that little grin,
the one they told me about
Now, I know that love should never be so easy
but there’s something in the way you move
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
Just give me a chance
If you have the time
Hope to get a single dance
think I could change your mind
Now, they say, “love at first sight’s not a real thing”
but there’s just something in the way you move
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
Somethin’ bout the way you move
Somethin’ bout the way you move
Somethin’ bout the way you move
Somethin’ bout the way you move
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
Something about the way you move
it haunts me, it haunts me
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2. |
You and You
05:22
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In time, maybe I
can find a life
alive in open doors,
engrossed in chords,
the known is more misleading.
I've grown with the
unknown in me
the tale is quick to tell
itself given the chance
your health is in my hands
you've put my words on a pedestal
You wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
'Cause now it seems
you place your dreams of we
in the palm of my hands.
Time and its sands,
they pass on hours second-hand
I don't know
how to find your
heart when I've lost mine, you
can't build houses on a flimsy rock
Given the chance
drop all the song and dance
I can't exist on your pedestal
You wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
When I hear talk of gold,
talk of riches talk of woes,
and the inevitable,
holding tight to our souls,
like an ever-present mold,
we survive, latching onto hearts.
Comfort unfolds
like a silent sniper's cold, unflinching
stare down the hole
Like the watchers of the world
from afar, we unload
all our problems on our partners' hearts
Like papers we unfold
telling tales, young and old
all the riches and the golden wreaths
we lay upon our dead
when their minds leave their heads
a solo journey is another way
You wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
you wanna get closer to me
but you need a remedy
for all of the drama between you and you
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3. |
Another Love
06:33
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Don’t get undone, don’t cry
When evening comes, don’t fight
I’ve buckled to the disillusion once too many
The data comes and grows
under a weight unknown
Our waking life is governed the silence
I try to decode the math of you, I do
Every night I dream of another love
Like the warping time dreams cast on all of us
Laid out, all I want to know’s the truth
And ‘cause of you, I can dream higher
Last night I dreamed of another love
took me by the hand, shot past the walls of
my heart, crash landing in a flame
Now it’s all the same
I can dream higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
The weight of time pulls you
when you inquire, lulls you
into a sense of safeness when the braveness calls
I’ve learned by now to fear
comfort that’s found round here
It’s like a cavity, the gravity
I fall
I try to decode the math of you, I do
Every night I dream of another love
Like the warping time dreams cast on all of us
Laid out, all I want to know’s the truth
And ‘cause of you, I can dream higher
Last night I dreamed of another love
took me by the hand, shot past the walls of
my heart, crash landing in a flame
Now it’s all the same
I can dream higher
Who knew I’d find you here
Cradle or crash? Unclear
How can our minds be intertwined so readily?
Maybe the point of this
is just this brand of bliss
to know that two can exist as two and still be fine
We’ve grown all that we’ll grow
Now we need some space
Every night I dream of another love
Like the warping time dreams cast on all of us
Laid out, all I want to know’s the truth
And ‘cause of you, I can dream higher
Last night I dreamed of another love
took me by the hand, shot past the walls of
my heart, crash landing in a flame
Now it’s all the same
I can dream higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher, higher
higher, higher, higher
I can dream higher
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4. |
Stolen Moments
04:54
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I don’t want to go, it’s only stolen moments
Only stolen moments
I don’t want to go, it’s only stolen moments
Only stolen moments
I don’t want to go, it’s only stolen moments
Only stolen moments
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5. |
About Your Love
06:42
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I was led to believe that I possessed a specialness
a special this, a special that
But instead I was made to live without togetherness
that special bliss was never mine to feel
I was told that in time I’d see the fruits of patience
see the fruits of patience
behold the fruits of patience
You told me my eyes shine bright
You told me my eyes shine bright
I think it’s about time this jilted heart were spared
The inscrutability of your eyes made me hypothesize that you cared
You’re warm like summer sun on Mars
Cold like a pain, sweet, so bizarre
You told me my eyes shine bright,
told me my eyes shine bright
Bright, bright
Invisible like the atmosphere
Spatial, maple, so unclear
told me my eyes shine bright,
now I can’t sleep
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love)
Love, love, love
Enter you, with your gaze so warm and so inviting
Delighting in hiding
Behind those eyes, poison and sweetness coincide
Unreadable then, unreadable now
Then there’s me, eyes wide
with a mind preoccupied, a mind you got inside
a mind you got inside
when you told me my eyes shine bright
I thought that you meant it that night
I think it’s about time this jilted heart were spared
The inscrutability of your eyes made me hypothesize that you cared
You’re warm like summer sun on Mars
Cold like a pain, sweet, so bizarre
You told me my eyes shine bright,
told me my eyes shine bright
Bright, bright
Invisible like the atmosphere
Spatial, maple, so unclear
told me my eyes shine bright,
now I can’t sleep
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love)
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love
You’re warm like summer sun on Mars
Cold like a pain, sweet, so bizarre
You told me my eyes shine bright,
told me my eyes shine bright
Bright, bright
Invisible like the atmosphere
Spatial, maple, so unclear
told me my eyes shine bright,
now I can’t sleep at night
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love)
Without your love (love love love, love, love love love, love love)
Without your love (love love love)
love, love
Unreadable then, unreadable now
I don’t know when you set it all down
Unreadable then, unreadable now
I don’t know when you set my heart down
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6. |
Silver and Gold
02:48
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Came out of the unknown
and out of the dark you shone, and
lent me a piece of your soul
you gave me your silver and gold
we found riches untold
everyday the journey unfolded
but climbing mountains of gold
we both fell without a foothold
holding you from afar
is an eyeball viewing a star, it's
best seen from the side
I just can't forget your mind
so while your life unfolds
I'll be here just tryna let go
I'm left with everything old
nothing new, just silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
so while your life unfolds
I’ll be here just tryna let go
I’m left with everything old
Nothing new, just silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold
silver, silver
silver and gold
silver and gold
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7. |
Robot Man
04:28
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There was a man who fell in love
Oh, but it was a forbidden love
The force it carried in his lonely heart
and even though he said it would be fine
He knew that in time, it would only rot
only rot, rot
rot at his heart
rot at his heart
He can’t find the truth in hindsight
let alone foresight, robot man
He sees the toll emotions take
and then decides to throw them down
He chose to be a robot man
Unshackled by the ramblings of emotion
He chose to be a robot man
Traded his broken heart for simpler notions
And on his robotic journey he found
a robot burning in sound
an overthinking, overanalyzing
He can go for hours and hours
when ours and theirs become he and his
and solitude rots, rots at his mind
rots at his mind
He can’t find the truth in hindsight
Let alone foresight, robot man
He sees the toll emotions take
and then decides to throw them down
He chose to be a robot man
Unshackled by the ramblings of emotion
He chose to be a robot man
Traded his broken heart for simpler notions
He chose to be a robot man
(they’d bubble up, he’d throw them down)
Unshackled by the ramblings of emotion
He chose to be a robot man
Traded his broken heart for simpler notions
He chose to be a robot man
(they’d bubble up, he’d throw them down)
Unshackled by the ramblings of emotion
He chose to be a robot man
Traded his broken heart for simpler notions
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8. |
20/20
06:06
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Something inside my head is
Ticking like a clock
Tearing me apart
Telling me what’s right is wrong
Something inside me says
I should know better
I should show better
I should talk to you
I shoulda, coulda, woulda
shoulda, woulda
shoulda, coulda, woulda,
coulda, woulda
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth more than gold
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth more than gold
Inside my mind there’s a letter it says
“Do better next time.”
Even still, something inside me refuses to let me live unchained
So I live the same
But as the letter fades
Erasing your love
Like a dying dove
I know now where I went wrong
Something inside me says
I should know better
Should show better
I should talk to you
I shoulda, coulda, woulda
shoulda, woulda
shoulda, coulda, woulda,
coulda, woulda
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth more than gold
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth more than gold
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth more than gold
Hindsight is 20/20, oh
But mind sight is worth
more than gold
more than gold
more than gold
more than gold
more
more than gold
more than gold (woo)
more than gold
more than gold
more
more than, more than, more than…
When I hear talk of gold
Talk of riches, talk of woes
And the inevitable
Holding tight to our souls
Like an ever-present mold
We survive, latching onto hearts
Comfort unfolds
Like a sniper’s cold, unflinching
Stare down the hole
Like the watchers of the world
From afar, we unload
All of our problems on our partners’ hearts
Like papers we unfold
Telling tales, young and old
All the riches and the golden wreaths
We lay upon our dead
When their minds leave their heads
A solo journey is another way
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9. |
Bones
03:46
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Don’t sweat the cold rock
Find your candles on the block
golden candles on the ground, abound,
around living creatures standing tall
They all want to know you
They all want to know your form
They all want your love
Through mounds of bones and undertones
Skin capsules hold the wandering
Then when oceans bend to let light in
They peer back in, all pondering
And don’t fret the cool breeze
Find your candles on the leaves
and golden footprints on the ground are found
around other creatures all the same
They all want to hold you
They all want to know your bones
They all want your love
Through mounds of bones and undertones
They coexist in wandering
But when empires end, they all begin
to fall, devoid of pondering
Through mounds of bones and undertones
Skin capsules hold the wandering
Then when oceans bend to let light in
They peer back in, all pondering
Give me the right reason to
forgive all the things that you do to you
Give me the right reason to
forgive all the things that you do to you
Give me the right reason to
forgive all the things that you do to you
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10. |
What’s My Name
07:02
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Will I complete the mystery of my flesh?
I will rise after a thousand years
And I will bleed with sober ease after death
And my eyes crafting a thousand tears
There are those who lay words in the grass
when I ask my name
Certain souls, certain eyes
Telling truths, telling lies
and my own anonymity
prevents me from knowing my name
What’s my name?
Tell me, what’s my name?
What’s my name?
Tell me, what’s my name?
Someday I’ll stand on solid land, looking out
Open eyes holding an honest world
But right now I stand so solemn and full of doubt
broken arms molding to any word.
There are those throwing words in the sky
claiming “we” as a remedy,
locking arms, free of shame
Both the nameless and named reaching out for identity
while I’m still just learning my name
What’s my name?
Tell me, what’s my name?
What’s my name?
Tell me, what’s my name?
I will wade out
‘til my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air alive
I will wade out
‘til my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air alive
I will wade out
‘til my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air alive
What’s my name?
I will wade out
‘til my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air alive
I will wade out
‘til my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun into my mouth
and leap into the ripe air alive
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11. |
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Time, on it goes
Lose your innocence
Ride with the flow
show your difference
‘Cause life can be so filled with confusion
You’ll find strength
in those who love you
Hold on
To love
Hold on
Where darkness can be found
Love is your solid ground
when you don’t understand
Hold on with loving hands
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Michael Mayo New York, New York
Michael Mayo approaches his voice as a musical instrument, but in often unexpected ways — with Brian Wilson-style pop harmonies, Stevie Wonder R&B, drum and bass, inspired by a line from poets, and even hip-hop. Even with his classical training, Mayo’s music is a seamless blend of alternative and neo-soul elements, a unique combination that defies genre. ... more
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