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“Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.” (Jeremiah 11:11)
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A Part of Me...
03:34
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a part of me died
the day that fascism ceased to be
a mystery to me
the day the parts became a whole
and no one was held accountable
for unprecedented crimes
and all the guilt and shame were mine
a part of me cried
at the sight of infinite beauty
knowing it couldn't be
something to be owned and held
by anybody still inclined
to keep it to themselves
i wanted to have it for myself
a part of me lied
when i proclaimed i was content
with the future and the past
seeing that there was a moment
to freely exist and float in
chased after by another
that just said
"if i were you i wouldn't bother"
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RIP to the homeboy
sister magdalene
patron saint of nowhere towns
won't you show your face
in the ashes of my innocence
that kept glowing
all winter long
and now they're gone
you caused me trouble
no rhyme or reason
covered in bruises
the kind that never heals
the hopelessness i cut my teeth on
still follows me into my fever dreams
oh and now i know
that i'll never change
believe me i tried
and it just wasn't right
so if you try
and make me stay
slip me some medicine
to counteract the ache
soon as you looked
the other way i ran
swore to never
mention your name again
and if they ask me i'll deny everything
and never fall from grace again
...of days gone by
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Ballad of a Choir Boy
03:25
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(brought to you by three generations of catholic guilt)
here he come dipshit choir boy
smoking wet from the fire and rain
the lord and the devil
brawling in his brain
struggling with a dying voice
old friends say it's a crying shame
that he'd have to
go completely insane
we put all of our faith in you kid
will you look at what you did
will you look at what you did
tried to talk him out of it
he broke the chain got swept away
twenty years of defeat
going off in his brain
said "i'll sure hit the motherlode
if you just let me play the game
think i could wrap my head
around the filthiness of fame"
i said i'd bet my bottom dollar on you kid
will you look at what you did
will you look at what you did
(...sooner or later we'll all be cold smoke...)
(...clothes smell really bad...)
(...poetry is very mediocre...)
(...people that you see in those old photographs...)
(...sober soul, don't need to be fixed...)
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I'm Doing Fine
00:52
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i'm doin fine doin fine just doin fine i'm not losing my mind i'm not losing my mind and i don't even care what's yours and what is mine oh because i'm doin fine doin fine just doin fine
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Starlight Harbor
03:30
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memories won't let me fall asleep
or open my heart up to the night
staring down that well
so dark and deep
oh it gave me such a fright
oh it gave me such a fright
rowed my boat to starlight harbor
blew all the loose change i had left
on fleeting moments
and murky visions of the past
my kingdom come composed of
an empty promise made in jest
i was looking for a companion
who could torch my smoked out soul
teetered along the
straight and narrow
as i had tried so many times before
oh but it was such a crushing bore
crashed my car at starlight harbor
from the wreckage i arose unbruised
and now it's on to fleeting moments
and countless versions of the truth
each one a little less convincing
one more pebble in my shoe
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you need to try so much harder today
you can't let it slide
you can't let it slide away
you just might end up in the gutter one day
you can't let it slide
you can't let it slide away
the sky is blue my thoughts are cold and grey
i can't let it slide
i can't let it slide away
it's so damn frail and hardly worth the pain
i can't let it slide
i can't let it slide away
well in the dead of night
i tried to call you up
but you had already gone to sleep
and the abyss
stared right back at me
back at me
am i still part of the problem
am i still part of the problem
am i still your fucking problem
are you choking on your silence right now
(don't leave me now)
well then you need to try a little harder baby
you can't let it slide
you can't let it slide away
i've given my all and now it's your turn to bleed
you can't let it slide
don't you let it slide away
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
01:01
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Trippin' in a Cell
02:58
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took my chances at the wishing well
then went on to the border
where they took me by surprise
and now im
trippin in a cell
trippin in a cell
trippin in a cell
fill in the blank
i headed back to the hotel
where i found you
trippin in a cell
pretty baby inside your little diving bell
i've been dying just to see you
ate a pill then took a dive
and now im
trippin in a cell
why it all went to hell
tried to live all by myself
no more desperate dreams on which to dwell
i was only trippin
i was only trippin in a cell
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(no hard feelings. really.)
don't know where you get off man
why don't you forget about it
are you afraid they might catch you
when you're not so sure about it
you don't owe nothing to no one
c'mon leave 'em all dumbfounded
and spare me your old rites of passage
we haven't progressed in a thousand years
so go on cast your first and second stone
see if it makes you feel less alone
'cause everybody's got one foot
out the door it's plain to see
getting ready to jump ship
tonight it's the last call
the last call for reality
so please don't pray for my mortal soul
my curiosity was bought and sold
don't let 'em fool you twice
it was some devil's voice not mine
singing to you every friday night
"we'll drown out the laughter in time"
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For a Lost Cause
02:54
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you want it to go your way
then why are you making it so hard
to listen or to look at you
as you take yourself apart
until there's nothing left
but a dark and gruesome past
you want it to be perfect
so you despair at every false start
you break the wholesome silence
just to keep us all in the dark
you know it's all in your head
and in your head it must remain
don't tell me you've lost it
'cause i've seen you flaunt it
it's all there in the palm of your hand
but you keep crushing it
saying "thats just the way
that it's always been"
but if it's all the same to you
and there's no brighter tomorrow
might as well hum some silly old tune
keep your head above old sorrow
it might not matter to you now
but you'll have to pass the time anyhow
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Lukas David Schultz Hamburg, Germany
Lukas David Schultz is a Songwriter from Hamburg, Germany.
www.facebook.com/LukasDavidSchultz/
management@lukasdavidschultz.com
(I don't really have a manager, I'll be the one answering emails)
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