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Only In L.A.
03:12
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Only In L.A.
Only in L.A. would they complain about the jacaranda trees
Purple falling leaves that leave your shiny B.M.W. unclean
Alarms are always going off, the Mockingbird it changes its old song
The desert lakes are filling up, the bodies floating down from Forrest Lawn
Only in this place would choirs ring from all the air-conditioning
Humming like cidadas or the beasts that used to roam these very streets
This is just a Disneyland, we need to score to keep the dream this big
I’m growing larger than this old apartment, I’m a star in the making
I’m your billboard
I’m your hiding place
I’m that face upon the bus that’s moving people even further from their dreams
Only in the space of days could this place turn a beggar to a king
From singing in the streets to burning bright on everybody’s phone and screen
Screaming “go and take me, I am yours and you will always be my friend!”
Slaughtering the lamb so that the agents and execs get their percent
I’m your fake war
I’m your tidal wave
I’m the friend that you relate to more than anyone who’s ev en touched your face
Only in L.A….
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2. |
Calling To Me
03:26
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3. |
You Made Me
03:50
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You Made Me
With your riot police…you made me
Watching the city burn down…you made me
for Pushing me to the ground for the curfew I broke on a warm winter’s night, you made me
For your fiery fields…you made me
For your false victories…you made me
For the pace that we’re goin’, all the jails packed and growin’, the levees overflowin’…you made me
Dance in your black tie while ivory waits
Vultures will clean the bones left from the graves
of All of the innocent children who played
Under hazy orange skies
With your cages and slaves…you made me
For every school now unsafe…you made me
For every fence you have raised to keep the desperate away, that’s why I drove here today…you made me
For forcing us to a side…you made me
For making it black or white…you made me
For forcing loved-ones to fight over the simplest of rights on a warm Texas night…you made me
Dance to the rhythm of skeleton bones
Berlin’s recent memory won’t leave me alone
We’re tearing it down or we aren’t going home
Under a red El Paso sky
Tunneling under
Climbing right over…
With your riot police…you made me
For Watching the wall topple down…you made me
for pulling me off the ground, for the wheel that we broke on a warm summer’s night…you made me…
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4. |
Harmony Insane
04:43
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Harmony Insane
You took the long road, the long road to Harmony Insane
and nobody else remained
In the night cold, the desert wind lapping at your face,
you finally found the place
Kill the engine, leave the lights on as you retrace
the entrance to the cave
Move the stone then, crawl down and loudly meditate –
Nirvana for a day
All the heroes won after they were slain
Heroines were dashed right at heaven’s gate
There she found you, naked and trembling in a state
of ecstasy and shame
Coming to now, you see that you recognize her face -
the glowing golden rays
In your head now, all the frantic thoughts have been replaced
by harps, lyres and flames
In a white room, white walls and IVs in your veins
A smile lights your face
All the heroes win after they are slain
Heroines are dashed right at heaven’s gate
Saw my fate in the fire…
(my eyes wide in the fire)
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5. |
A World On Fire
02:54
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Cells multiplying and skeleton shining
And outside the world is on fire
Lungs started pumping, soon blood is rushing
And outside the world is on fire
Outside the world is all covered in tears but inside it's simple and warm
I want to welcome you into a world without harm
Big head and a tail less boy than a whale
Ignore that the world is on fire
If you keep on swimming and growing and limbing
We'll try to extinguish the fire
Outside the world is all covered in dust
But we're keeping your room safe and warm
We want to welcome you into a world without harm
Still weeks away as we fight and we pray
That we aren't getting used to the fire
I hear you whisper through layers of tissue
That you don't mind a world that's on fire
We're born into this, we're all clenching our fists screaming why'd you pull me from the warmth
Weeks till the cold room, weeks to welcome you
Into a….
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6. |
Tea With Demons
03:18
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Tea With Demons
I finally got ahold of him
He said you were back in the thralls of your demons
In and out of hell again
And I’m in denial of the same destination
Tea with demons
I pour another cup
You told me of the accident
How you weren’t sure if it was rain that had caused it
That you might have caused the car to flip
In your pain all it takes is a quick flip of the wrist
Tea with demons
I pour another cup
I swear that it ends
I know it will stop
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7. |
Outrun
03:31
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If you run away, it doesn’t loosen
The noose gets tighter every day
And I don’t want to say that it’s over
So I’ll stay
We romanticize flying farther
Hopping up aboard an unmarked train
But even in the hills over the ocean
It’s all the same
Peace with your hands bound and clutched
Dreams that were long-abandoned
And when you leave you will see you’ve been outrun
You begin the day like orphan
Washed upon the shore of some old beach
Clothes soaked to the bones and nobody for which to speak
And like a saint whose been raptured or
A state of consciousness finally reached
You take a look around but your thoughts are deafening
Peace with memories unlocked
Dreams of known laughing stock
Upon the beach in the sun you’ve been, atop the hills in the dusk you’ve been, back in your room with your son you’ve been outrun
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8. |
Vampire For A Night
04:50
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Vampire For A Night
Headphones on, walking up
The lost hills where I once belonged
Bells for her, the Cornflake Girl
For one night just us in this world
Ooooh
Fences jumped, moonlight cast
on our shadows as we drink and dance
The desert chill sent us back
To your parent's house and their stash
Put the needle on the record
Someone said it sounded better
Can't hear anything above our words
Take your hands out of your pockets
Take my hand for just a second
Close your eyes with me and sing along
If it were up to me
These times would never end
These vampires we would stay
This night would come again
If it were up to me
I'd take you by the hand
Breathe your breath through me
Make you understand
Sunrise up, the day unfurled
Shades are drawn and on the floor we curl
Flannel shirts for our covers
Wouldn’t trade this life for another
Put the needle on the record
Now I know it sounds much better
When I listen to the singer's words
Take your hands out of your pockets
Take my hand for just more than seconds
Close your eyes with me and sing along
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9. |
One Look In The Mirror
03:20
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One Look In The Mirror
One look into your eyes, I see that you don’t care
There could be ropes among the trees where all the leaves went bare
Something died inside you from a-who-knows-where
Guess it was the dark that stalked you every year
The canopy had blocked the light from getting near
Lost upon the river I released my fear
Something lives inside me and it’s getting clear
Seven years of bad luck for one look in the mirror
Oooo oooo ooo
Glass covering my hands for finally getting free
Seven years are over but that’s just for me
Too many tired souls are swinging in the breeze
We’ll take a shard of glass and start to chop these trees
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10. |
I.V.
04:12
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I.V.
Forgive me my trespasses
I don’t remember the refrain
You forced me to repeat again
A splinter underneath the nail
Disguised as loneliness and rage
A mother abandoning us at an early age
Got a little taste of fame, didn’t you?
Got an I.V. in your vein
Got a little taste of fame, didn’t you?
Gotta bury these remains
Forgive me my memory
is short, so please repeat your name
You say that we spent a week together in Spain
Now that you mention it
I seem to recognize your face
A mirror pointing to a flickering flame
Got a little taste of fame, didn’t you?
Got an I.V. in your vein
Got a little taste of fame, didn’t you?
Gotta bury these remains
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Garrett Pierce San Francisco, California
Garrett pens songs that are literary in style with well-worked lyrics and a voice that soars over dark, ethereal
melodies.
His newest record 'Eyes Wide In The Fire' is Garrett's fifth album – a project penned alone over several years, but only fully realized after collaborating with producer/multi-instrumentalist Max Hart.
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