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2020 Vision
03:32
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Sometimes if I squint I
Get 2020 vision
Images of past lives
Blurring into view
Once I was a sparrow
Calling out a warning
Once I was the earthworm
Crawling underground
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
Dancing in the lightning
The spirit of romancing
Caught up in the fire
Never looking back
Once I was the one who
Would light up when I saw you
Once I was your lover
Painted in your dreams
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
Sometimes if I squint I
Get 2020 vision
Images of past lives
Blurring into view
Once I was your father
Once I was your mother
Now I’m just a portrait
Hanging on your wall
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
In a while you’ll get along without me
Won’t you?
In a while you’ll get along
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Train
03:29
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I took a train
Out of the city limits of my hometown
I’ve been living upstairs in my head too long
And I need
A vacation
And everyone
On every train car as I pass down the aisle
I keep waiting for even one purse-lipped smile
But they’re glued
To the windows
Where are you now?
Where are you right this moment?
Is your train stuck in the station?
Or are you well past your destination?
I’m thinking back
I’m caught in the things I might have said
And I’m wishing I’d never been quite so scared
To just say
What I meant to
I glance ahead
The future’s no better than in my past
I’m still hung up on things I can’t take back
And I stare
Out the window
Where are you now?
Where are you right this moment?
Is your train stuck in the station?
Or are you well past your destination?
You sat with me
You asked me how my day has been
And it snapped me out of my spiraling
To just talk
With a human
And every day
A new sun rises to bring new light
And I am and I’m not the same inside
Cause we’re always
Evolving
Where are you now?
Where are you right this moment?
Is your train stuck in the station?
Or are you well past your destination?
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3. |
Thinking of You
03:58
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I slept the deepest sleep I’ve had in so many years
A dreamless empty sleep
I woke up feeling like I finally put it behind
Til I started thinking of you
Thinking of you
I know I get a little narrow-minded sometimes
Running circles in my head
And what I thought was so important wasn’t at all
Now I’m only thinking of you
Thinking of you
And all this time I just believed
That we were we
And you would never leave
And through the night and through the day
I’m wishing for you
Missing you always
I never wanted anything to change in my life
I would’ve frozen time if I could
But now I’m getting older and I’m starting to learn
There’s always someone saying goodbye
Saying goodbye
So in the darkest hours when I’m lying awake
Nothing right in my head
I open up the secret door reserved in my heart
Til I'm only dreaming of you
Dreaming of you
Dreaming of you
Dreaming of you
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4. |
Friend for the Ages
03:15
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When the colors run dry
In autumn’s sleepy lullaby
That’s when I find you
My friend for the ages
Forgotten somehow
Got that mischievous smile
That youthful gleaming in your eye
That’s how I know you’re
My friend for the ages
My friend for the now
Running around every corner in town to find
Reversals of time
Everyone’s gotta have someone who knows the way
To wind back the day
And it pains me to see
You struggle growing up with me
Neverland lost boys
We never get older
At least not inside
So we find our old path
It’s overgrown but made to last
Then when the trail ends
We go a bit further
A bit further each time
Running around every corner in town to find
Reversals of time
Everyone’s gotta have someone who knows the way
To wind back the day
That’s how I know you’re
My friend for the ages
That’s how I know you’re
My friend for the ages
Forgotten somehow
Forgotten somehow
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5. |
No Turning Back
02:35
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I could try loving you with all my heart, all my soul
Never listening to reason when there’s reason to go
And if you are the sweetest thing that I will ever know
Well there’s no turning back from that
There’s a lock on the doorway to my love so sincere
And you might find a key but it’s been rusting for years
So if you bust on through into this cobweb heart of mine
Please be kind to the boy inside
You stare me down until my knees go limp
Cause my sea legs never taught me how to swim
When love comes crashing down
I dare not stick around for very long
I could try loving you with all my heart, all my soul
Never listening to reason when there’s reason to go
And if you are the sweetest thing that I will ever know
Well there’s no turning back from that
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Creatures large and small
Crawled out from the ocean
They walked on solid ground until
They could not walk anymore
Destruction in their eyes
Kill or be the victim
Dog eat dog eat cat eat mouse
In perfect disharmony
Making way for you
Making way for you
Everything that came before
Was all
For you
Mother Nature laughed
And kept her children fighting
Survival of the fittest in her
Twisted fishbowl world
Millions had to die
Millions more were lovers
Little leaves and branches in your
Giant family tree
Making way for you
Making way for you
Everything that came before
Was all
For you
Who will cast the first stone?
The blame is nearly endless
We’re perfectly evolved for
20,000 years ago
The universe was born
Without a speck of kindness
But for us creatures large and small
It’s all
We can hope
To do
Making way for you
Making way for you
Everything that came before
Was all
For you
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7. |
Better
04:53
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Sometimes it feels like I’m
Swimming up rivers of time to get better
If I could just float upstream
I could just live in that dream and feel better
But memories only hold for so long
And soon I’m rushing back out to confront the future
It’s deep and dark and rocky and steep
And I just can’t believe that it could ever be better
My vision becoming so small
My hoping the darkness will all wash over
Sleepless in a hotel bed
The heat of my burning head turning over
It was then I first felt the anxiety hit
Hit like a brick and I still today feel the ripples
The sadness carved into my soul that night
It took me down with it so long I thought joy was over
I used to be someone who knew
his head wasn’t solidly glued to his body
It took me til thirty to see
The brain can suffer disease like the body
But I’m treating it now with love and time
Carefully twisting the knobs to bring forth the goodness
Finding my hope in the gradual climb
Knowing I’m more than the pieces within my body
Sometimes it feels like I’m
Swimming up rivers of time to get better
If I could just float upstream
I could just live in that dream and feel better
But the past will always be there for me
Decades of happiness built up the world around me
So I cast off my fear and swim downstream
Knowing my future might be just a little bit better
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8. |
Bugs
03:58
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The better part of me
Is the the part that let you be
But I always had to try
To break into your mind
And fix what I could find
But the source code to your love
It’s full of bugs
It’s full of bugs
That winter night I knew
When I opened up to you
And you bared your heart to me
But I stared down at my feet
And I walked off down the street
Cause I’ve got my problems too
I can’t take your bugs
I can’t take your bugs
In the cold moonlight
I can only imagine
Walking side by side
Hanging on your inflections
I need your bugs
I need your bugs
I need your
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9. |
Hypersensitivity
03:20
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I feel the temperature drop one degree
I feel a minuscule shift in the breeze
Hypersensitivity
Still makes no sense to me
Carry you up to our bed after drinks
Waiting awake for your sleepy-eyed wink
But soon we’ll drift away, my love
Soon we’ll drift away
If I could whisper to you in the night
If I could tell you I love you just right
If there was anything to say
Anything to make you stay
Anyone else might have thrown in the towel
But my naïveté feeds my denial
Even one smile from you, my love
Even one smile would do
Wake to the sunlight warming my cheek
Watch your heart pulse through your lips as you sleep
Even one smile from you, my love
Even one smile would do
Hypersensitivity
Still makes no sense to me
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10. |
Clipped Wing
03:02
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Just like the bird with the clipped wing
I’m bound to the ground but I still sing
And just like the sun between winter and spring
I sing to you
Just like the bird who grew too tall
I flew from the nest, now I’m so small
And just like the breeze between summer and fall
I call to you
Just like the bird with the clipped wing
I’m bound to the ground but I still sing
And just like the sun between winter and spring
I sing to you
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11. |
Words Too Wrong
03:38
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She was going 65
Racing away from city light
Everything on her mind
Moving too fast this time
Nine miles left to go
Looping her song
Loud on the stereo
All night long
All night long
All night long
Flashing back to the past
Living a life she almost had
Still she can’t shake the sad
Feeling her dream won’t last
Dream won’t last
Dream won’t last
Woken up in a fog
It was a far too early call
When I heard she was gone
They were just words too wrong
Words too wrong
Words too wrong
Words too wrong
Nine miles left to go
Looping her song
Loud on the stereo
All night long
All night long
All night long
She was going 65
Racing away from city light
Everything on her mind
Moving too fast this time
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Charlie McCarron Minneapolis, Minnesota
I write melodic classical pop songs and alien electronic concept albums. I also compose film and video game scores.
I formerly produced the podcast Composer Quest.
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