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Tall Sails (Blanc)
03:42
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The Four Winds
05:02
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THE FOUR WINDS
If the world’s not ready now
When will it be?
Sails will be shrouds
When I put out to sea
Anchored safe and sound
The wind bent my will
And those warning clouds
They never kept me still
Ever…
Rising up and falling down
Her ambitions are tidal
Say farewell to the solid ground
I’m scattered to the four winds
Between the devil and
The deep blue sea
No guiding stars
Should or will care for me
Ever…
Rising up and falling down
Her ambitions are tidal
Say farewell to the solid ground
I’m scattered to the four winds
You threw me overboard
Resistance unavailing
All hope left ashore
Rising up and falling down
Her ambitions are tidal
Say farewell solid ground
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Asymmetrical
04:57
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ASYMMETRICAL
We are but dust in a back room
With no lights on, all curtains drawn
There is nothing left of you
None I could hold on to
Although you sowed the best lies for yourself
Like there’s more than one truth and
We have no enemies but ourselves
The table turned on you
As you turn on everyone
With traps and poison
Without rhyme or reason
Right your wrongs
It’s not too late
Love and life
Exist on different planes
Both aligned
While asymmetrical
Don’t give up
I fear no pain
We can call it both
A different name
They’re aligned
While asymmetrical
Once upon a million night of dread
Your throbbing heart, the fear of fear
Was it all in my head?
Who was I talking to?
Who’s drawn the lines that lead you here?
The facts may be angled, blurred or scattered
But all beliefs are made of fear
And they will turn on you
Like they turned on everyone
With traps and poison
Without rhyme or reason
It’s no quest for facts
You better pray or brace your mind for impact
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LOVE LETTER PERFUMED WITH ETHER
No warning
Or blinding flare from the moon
There were none
But in writing
Inked with fire
Words are slave to your ways
Like a drug
They’re thriving
They summon storms and hurricanes
At least someone to cry your name
They’re deafening
Volatile
The poetry never goes away
Only dies a little each passing day
Lines refining
Into a smile, that takes control
Nobody else could ever know
That you’re the one that wrote
Those love letters perfumed with ether
No guilt or lust weighs on your soul
Your blood is hot, your heart’s so cold
Yet I would love to earn
Your love letters perfumed with ether
In your eyes
They’re like stains on a sheet
But your heart
Knows what is happening
To them
Go slowly heaven read with me
Our lives rely on our chemistry
Reacting
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Flattening The Curve
06:09
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MISUNDERSTANDING
The drugs are sinking in
And have you speaking in tongues
She lacks the discipline
Of which you are paragon
Can’t be made to comply
No love can set her free
I’ll never word your lies
No matter what you try,
You’ll never beat it out of me
No words are cruel enough
To force your journey on
None that you are thinking of
But then again,
The night’s still young
Tell me, am I
Misunderstanding
Could I be
Misunderstanding
You tell me
The trial of her intentions
The fire you were breathing in
Left but wrath and scorn
Branded on her skin
You’re hanging from above
The thorns she lies upon
I can see it clear enough now
But once again,
Her timing’s wrong
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Broken Open
07:32
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BROKEN OPEN
[Dedicated to the memory of Andrea Pratt Hockett 1981-2018]
Aaron is tense enough to break
As every mile would get him closer
Since Andrea there awaits
And would love him to the altar
Two pieces of a puzzle
Settled, unriddled
You’re broken
Broken open
I know you’re broken
Broken open
And you love the ghost that haunts your storyline
Love is hard to isolate
It might be lighter than helium
Although science should prevail
It wants to hang in the balance
I wrote her in a poem
So you could read her over
But all that’s meant to happen
It won’t last forever
You’re broken
Broken open
I know you’re broken
All broken open
And you love the ghost that haunts your storyline
You’re broken
Broken open
I know you’re broken
Broken open
And you love the ghost that haunts your storyline
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The Impossible Dream
08:09
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THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Can’t assume that I am next in line
As I’m staring at the rolling dice
Cause if it wasn’t for the bad luck
Then I wouldn’t have any luck at all
None
It’s spreading far and wide
And hailed as the longest ride
Still I may not know where I’m going
But I know I’m going there on my own
Alone
You’re sentenced for life
Tempting your fate
Where you’ll be breading more lies
Each one a line on your face
If you follow your heart
When you follow your heart
Sweep me off my feet and bring me home
No delusion can outmatch my own
Know the dream is more abysmal
Than any love ever fallen into
Or through
As you run to your death, tame your pride first
Know that you can’t catch you breath
And from there it only gets worse
When you follow your heart
Should you ever follow your heart
Could never make my daughter proud
And could never joined the normal crowd
Maybe I haven’t worked it hard enough
Or maybe… I’m just not enough
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Handful of Snowdrops Quebec, Québec
Handful of Snowdrops is a postwave band from Quebec City, Canada, with the most dedicated fanbase any artist could dream of.
HoS could probably be the biggest small and unknown independent band in the world! :D
Active between 1984 and 1993, HoS returned with 'III' in 2015 and still going today.
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