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5am Paradise
03:50
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If nobody tries that hard
Do you still have to fall apart
Nobody plays that card but you
My body fades away
But my mind just stays the same
Nobody lies the way you do
I’m allowed to waste part of my day
Getting high and running late
Holding on to my younger ways
When time was long and nothing changed
5am paradise morning air
Someone take me back to the start again
We’ll get it right then walk away
Never have to ask you to lie
5am paradise
Remember an old friend say
You’re gonna miss these days
So slow down and let it play If I were you
Or maybe the feelings changed
Did all things stay the same
Or is it a different pace from them
You’re allowed to waste part of your day
Getting high and running late
Holding on to your younger ways
When time was long and nothing changed
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Drive Alone
03:16
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Cherry blossoms and the full moon rising
Up from being half asleep
I didn't fall in love but fell enough
To really scrape my knees
Old lovers turnings to friends
It’s a Loose cannon beginning again
I’m not a run away just drive alone these days
The four seasons by the raleigh airport
Dogwoods blowing in the wind
Kind of anxious but kind of tired
I never thought it would end
My mother knows I’m always alone
I rest assure her that I’m still coming home
I’m not a run away just drive alone these days
Oh oh it’s easy traveling slow
Oh oh I’m learning to let go
I missed the party that you had last May
Couldn't face the bullshit and the patio games
Don’t need a lucky star or guiding light
Just someone from my memory to hold me tight
An old lover or even a friend
I’ll deep dive just to go there again
I’m not a runaway just driving slow these days
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Man Made by Delusion
03:24
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I’m a man made by delusion
I wake with dream in hand
Speak before spoken
And lose the upper hand
Take me back to New York
Cause I don’t like the winters in the sun
But I stumbled over all my words
And I cut my hair but made it worse
Alright need to give it some time
Remind me your name again
I swear I know what it is
It’s on the tip of my tongue
And I know you’re the one to forgive
Yet still I forget
And I can’t get enough
I remember all the names on the bathroom wall
Perfectling in cursive easy to recall
Now they’re banning cigarettes
From the lips of all these strangers mouths
But I stumbled far from where I rest
And I still don’t call though you insist
And I’m sorry half the time
Cause there’s Saratoga Springs
You and me in the back of my mind
Cause there’s Saratoga Springs
You and me in the back of my mind
Oh in Saratoga Springs
You and me just losing our minds
Cause there’s Saratoga Springs
You and me in the back of my mind
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Somedays
03:57
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Somedays I count on you
To be my instinct
To pull me through
A lonely mile
I miss our seaside talks
Milkshakes in hand
Yours strawberry red
Will we always have to have our doubts
Hovering like the clouds
In the springtime
Will it always have to be this way
Can’t tell between the night and day
In the fall
There’s some days
I’m falling through
The cracks in my driveway
Before coming to you
But I stop at the freeway
I miss the easy way home
And the October smell
And the way that we felt
Are we ever going to get it right
It’s never me that starts the fight
Okay I’m sorry
Every memory bitter sweet
I get jealous of the golden leafs
In the fall
Am I growing without knowing you
The mind takes over dreams get sober too
Will we always have to have our doubts
Hovering like the clouds in the springtime
Will it always have to be this way
Can’t tell between the night and day in the fall
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Stayed Up Late
04:10
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I remember when you laid it straight
In the remnants of the falling sky
Standing in a new waterway
You held my hand as you started to cry
I remember when you stayed up late
Now you fall asleep a quarter to nine
I remember when our dreams took shape
And I was standing right by your side
Am I letting you down
Or is there something you found
Not everything that bends will break
Test the strength through a hurricane
No blackbelt but I’ll put up a fight
Not everything we had will die
I remember when we stayed up late
Now you fall asleep a quarter to nine
I remember when our dreams took shape
And I was standing right by your side
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Monochrome
03:28
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There’s a million different ways to fall into your arms again
If my friends were money tell me where it all was spent
I’m thinking fast and talking with my therapist
Keep going in circles but maybe that’s the point of it
Give me something else to try
I’m bored out of my mind
I live in monochrome
So tell me where the day has gone
I just can’t stay and talk
Everything on feels off
I stay in monochrome
So tell me where the day has gone
There’s a feeling that I hate when everything just hesitates
There’s too many burned bridges from all of those younger days
And I followed every river looking for the perfect place to cross
Hoping I would feel more alive than I would afraid
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Old Blooded
04:49
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Let’s ring in our second change
Take to the coast where I don’t know
Maybe a nordic summer trance
I hear it’s somethings else
Taking turns now with a ghost
You lived your life with a year ago
I hear she speaks now when you don’t
But you could of married could of married
Deep breathing just holding out
My memory keeps fooling me
Cold water won't change a thing
I’m trying to understand you
Old blooded
Slow flooded
Can we figure a way back out
More worry
Less money
We know everything comes around
I’ve shown you my very best
Took a postcard and magazine
All these places I’ve never seen
I hear they’re something else
Deep breathing just fading out
My memory keeps holding me
Cold water won’t change a thing
I’m trying to get back to you
We’ll find another window
Just to stare at the clouds
We’ll find the perfect angle
Just come lay on the ground
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This Again
03:42
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Go and let things fall
If they’re going to
Slipping through my hands
They weren’t built for sand
What if we don’t float
What if we don’t
What if we don’t know
What if we don’t
Ever mention this again
When we lay on an island
How do we ever change
We’ve weathered these storms
A hundred times before
What if they don’t come
What if they don’t
What if we don’t swim
What if we don’t
Ever mention this again
Fair isle you’re speaking your truth
You’re tired and you’re keeping me blue
Throw me a lifeline
Or just cut me loose
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If You're Falling Asleep
03:15
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Tell me how the story goes
Can I give a reaction
Or try to forget it
Are we even really living?
Hiding out from who we know
I don’t mean to enable
Sometimes I get carried
Straight out of my head
Don’t wait up
Don’t wait up
If you’re falling asleep
All I want when morning comes
Is a place at your table
I’m just tired from a long trip in
We’ve been here before
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Hands in the Dirt
04:17
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I’ve seen the world
I’ve seen the flowers
I’ve seen their wisdom
I’ve seen the fall
Sure of the moment
Sometimes lonesome in the winter
After all our wishful thinking
Got our heads stuck in the clouds
Just look at us now
Don’t want to fight
Don’t want to worry
Don’t want to misconstrue the pain
How do you grasp every moment
Soak the wisdom of the rain
I feel the thunder and I’m wondering again
Just look at us now
With your hands in the dirt
You call up a friend
Swore you would change
But you’re at it again
Remember falling asleep
With your hair in the wind
Back of your grandmother's car
She held your life in her hands
Somethings we don’t understand
Some other town
Some other state
Some other way to right a wrong
Sure of myself don’t need no one
But I was lying all along
We’re diving under feeling younger than we are
Just look at us now
Well we’re all getting hurt
We’re all losing friends
You don’t believe that I’ve changed
I’m just beginning again
Remember falling in deep
In that gold autumn wind
Back of your grandmother's car
You held my life in your hands
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Old Sea Brigade Nashville, Tennessee
The music crafted by ATL-born singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Cramer documents the ebbs and flows in our environment and the growth in the middle of major milestones. His lyrics capture anxiety, nostalgia, confusion, love, loss, and, ultimately, hope in tender true-life snapshots colored by folk eloquence, Americana bliss, rock energy, and country heart. ... more
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