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Simply to Hold

by likela

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I. My Morning Glory 09:06
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My Morning Glory oohhhh(angel voices)
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II. Ghost 04:16
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Homme Mystère don't look at my eyes why are you talking so low to disguise something in you is in me but who will ever know, not me a field of stars pass by the window of this passenger side seat is it so hard my mystery man is it so hard haunt me
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III. Lover Boy 02:52
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you're my lover boy stay in the car when it goes wrong again tell your jokes to the moon but don't think I don't see the scars Lover Boy, why don't you say it out loud? all you're doing is growing old this was always who we are nothing ever really changes except I can read you darling everything is not okay but I love you Lover Boy is it okay over there? you are a wave sometimes you're right here with me sometimes you're far is it okay over there? can you hear my echo? what are you afraid of? it's fake my love I can see you I know you lover boy hold my hand it's okay, I feel it too why are we both hiding? you weren't even there all night you were somewhere else, hiding behind that smile remember that night I drove out to get you? I see your wrists everything is not okay you're shutting off you're shutting up you're shutting me out and I've been complacent you're not okay neither am I but I don't show that so why should you? except I can read you darling everything is not okay but I love you lover boy
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IV. In Another Time 03:55
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I want to see you projected on my face while my band plays and i sing of you Ill sing about you every day (hmm) Remember the days with you on my skin Remember the day, how cruel time is. I dont want to be in love I dont want to be in love w/ u (painful angel noises) (I dont want to wake up) I feel sick its the best ive ever felt will you still love me if im not in church on sunday? I wont pray for you I want to
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The Low 01:51
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I. Hymn 02:48
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I'm not what you wanted I'm not what you needed what did you ask for? I can come back around in another time and maybe get it right
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II. A Sad Messiah 04:35
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in the morning baby blue skin a hand on the railing moonlight on an arm (a word) (a whisper) I can hear the sound of your breath from the other side of the wall tormenting me begging me to step through to the other side
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III. Daisy 03:22
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IV. Passant des étoiles 03:02
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tenderly breathe a word with no meaning it fills my lungs, tears my veins writhing on the ground you catch me take me northern lights spin through my mind my head tilts back make me worthless take everything that I have reduce me to the piece of flesh that I am take my soul from me fill me with teeth and blood there is nothing but violence and motion left in a thousand years I will be the same time and death cannot do more to rob me of myself than you have they have no sting like your gaze I am stripped of anything of substance
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a small note folded neatly on the kitchen table 02:25
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A letter home There will be no last goodbye A letter home Sell this body Leave your marks upon my flesh No fear of Death
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Untitled 06:14
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Ive tried every turn in my head and with my feet We are here together but youre not really here with me Its ok Its actually just fine Its ok Its actually just fine The sun will go black The stars will soon implode A charriot will come for me The wind will take us all and crush this useless body my eyes will shut we will become one its the end of the world can you feel it? In a stampede we will come

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I've been writing this album since Christmas 2014, and i just finished the last track about a week ago. I wrote it in a lot of different places, with a lot of different instruments, with alot of different people, but every song is about the same thing. I started writing this album for really personal reasons, and each song has a specific meaning and message. The numbered songs were written for my best friends in the world. The first four numbered songs were written as a personal goodbye, and the last four were written as a thanks for there not ever being that goodbye. The creation of this album has been a really important part of my life, and I'm finally ready to share it and let it go.
-Alex

10/4/15 Grand Rapids MI

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released October 4, 2015

I. For Leo
II. For Mikey
III. For Andy
IV. For Mckenzie

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likela Mullett Township, Michigan

Some things are meant to be listened to alone in a quiet place.

Some things can keep you company in the background without requiring your full attention.

It might be an end time prophecy, it might be a message from god, but someday, the person who is supposed to will hear it.

Maybe sometimes that person is me. ... more

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