1. |
Winter Stars
04:35
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I made it through the spring and fall
Before I really hit the wall
I had to stop and find myself
Pull my ambitions off the shelf
Wasn’t what I was expecting
To have something so worth connecting
Don't know how, but I’ll try to say it
I’ll try and tell you now
Maybe I’m just burning time, but
I’d waste all my time with you
Maybe I’m the biggest fool, but
I’d waste all my time with you
When the snow outside is falling
Quiet introspection’s calling
Sparkle in the still of cloudless skies
When the winter stars are in your eyes
The summer left me burned and tired
Not the quiet so desired
I had to leave the sun behind
To find a steady peace of mind
Wasn’t what I saw before me
To find someone who could adore me
Never can say how, but I’ll try to say it,
Try to tell you now
Maybe I’m just burning time, but
I’d waste all my time with you
Maybe I’m the biggest fool, but
I’d waste all my time with you
When the snow outside is falling
Quiet introspection’s calling
Sparkle in the still of cloudless skies
When the winter stars are in your eyes
Sometimes words fall away
And your mind can start to go astray
I know just how, and it’s time to say it
It’s time to tell you now
Maybe I’m just burning time, but
I’d waste all my time with you
Maybe I’m the biggest fool, but
I’d waste all my time with you
When the snow outside is falling
Quiet introspection’s calling
Sparkle in the still of cloudless skies
When the winter stars are in your eyes
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2. |
Charlatan
03:23
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I wish that I could read your mind
'cause I'm so tired of what's in mine
It's the same old story
And it's getting boring
I'm stuck inside this box you made
Waiting to be cut in half with your blade
And the crowd's ecstatic
So why are you panicked?
You're a charlatan with everything to lose
Your world comes crashing down with a single wrong move
Open your third eye and look at what you've done
Cut your heart out in front of everyone
The whole world thinks you're so sublime
Bending spoons with your beautiful mind
But a black cat told me
'bout your gross skulduggery
You're a charlatan with everything to lose
Your world comes crashing down with a single wrong move
Open your third eye and look at what you've done
Cut your heart out in front of everyone
And karma's a witch, and she's coming for you
Grab all your lucky charms, say a prayer or two
Your smoke and mirrors won't save you tonight
Too bad you can't disappear without a fight
You're a charlatan with everything to lose
Your world comes crashing down with a single wrong move
Open your third eye and look at what you've done
Cut your heart out in front of everyone
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3. |
Miss Hughes
03:26
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Roll the celluloid across the screen
For when we're free of miseries
And the world's caught in the in-between
Future's future and the faded dreams
And when the evening passes into night
And we're floating in the empty space
Meet the ruins with your second sight
A broken town so full of faded grace
Miss Hughes, have you paid your dues?
Do you wonder what it is we've got to lose?
Miss Hughes, what's on your mind?
Do you wonder what we're doing with our time?
Did your parents tell you the real score?
Are we gonna have to throw the fight?
I know it's something that you've said before
Tell me that I'm gonna be alright
As the evening passes into dawn
And we're lost among the empty space
Above the ruins of the lost and gone
A city broken by the concrete waste
Miss Hughes, have you paid your dues?
Do you wonder what it is we've got to lose?
Miss Hughes, what's on your mind?
Do you wonder what we're doing with our time?
Miss Hughes, have you paid your dues?
Do you wonder what it is we've got to lose?
Miss Hughes, what's on your mind?
Do you wonder what we're doing with our time?
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4. |
California Misses You
03:24
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The summer spins into the fall
And warms again tomorrow
The sunlight fades under the squall
And shines against your sorrow
A sea of drifting feels and reveries
Bound up in some books I keep with me
The restlessness of this whole world
Ambitions of the ages
Emotions glossy as a pearl
Words on scattered pages
A rush of faded photo memories
Locked up in a box I keep with me
Time that passes in hindsight
California misses you tonight
Lonely girls in coastal light
California misses you tonight
The summer spins into the fall
And comes again tomorrow
The sunlight cuts through the rainfall
And burns away your sorrow
A sense of touch and all our reveries
Carried in the hands that stay with me
Time that passes in hindsight
California misses you tonight
Lonely girls in coastal light
California misses you tonight
Time that passes in hindsight
California misses you tonight
Lonely girls in coastal light
California misses you tonight
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5. |
Stay With Me
03:28
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This conversation’s running out
Here come all those feelings of self doubt
The rain outside wipes away
All my infractions today
If social’s how I should be
No one ever explained that part to me
So tonight why don’t you stay with me
Through another dark and lonely night
Stay with me and say I'll be alright
Stay with me and never let me go
This isn’t hard I know inside
Even though for so long I’ve tried to hide
When the crowd’s too cool for me
I close my eyes and I recede
If social’s how I should be
No one every explained that part to me
So tonight why don’t you stay with me
Through another dark and lonely night
Stay with me and say I'll be alright
Stay with me and never let me go
Stay with me
(Goodbye self-consciousness)
Stay with me
(Farewell cautiousness)
Stay with me
And don't let me go
Stay with me
Through another dark and lonely night
Stay with me and say I'll be alright
Stay with me and never let me go
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6. |
Mr. Moses
04:17
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They tore down the neighbor's house for a parking lot
They bulldozed the corner store for an overpass
They filled in the public pool out of laziness
And now everything is rubber, steel, and glass
When the dust had all been settled
And you signed on with the devil
All the concrete crushing houses
Left the air tainted and clouded
Now it's seven decades later
And the east side’s still a crater
You can tell the subcommittee
Mr. Moses wrecked the city
They sold off the library to a drive-through chain
And built up a highway in my sister’s room
None of it has ever satisfied the crowd
It's just an endless auto-centric dreary gloom
When the dust had all been settled
And you signed on with the devil
All the concrete crushing houses
Left the air tainted and clouded
Now it's seven decades later
And the east side’s still a crater
You can tell the subcommittee
Mr. Moses wrecked the city
Drown us all in pavement
The freeway must expand
Just put living in the backseat, baby
Robert’s wish is our command
When the dust had all been settled
And you signed on with the devil
All the concrete crushing houses
Left the air tainted and clouded
Now it's seven decades later
And the east side’s still a crater
You can tell the subcommittee
Mr. Moses wrecked the city
When the dust had all been settled
And you signed on with the devil
All the concrete crushing houses
Left the air tainted and clouded
Now it's seven decades later
And the east side’s still a crater
You can tell the subcommittee
Mr. Moses wrecked the city
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7. |
Rose-Colored Glasses
02:52
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Stuck inside for a million years
With a cat and bunch of thoughts
Feeling so strange and lost in space
For a reason I forgot
I found rose glasses on the ground
So I wore them for a while
It felt OK, but I'll take gray
Over artificial smiles
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Cause I'm a little black rain cloud
I'm allowed
To be a little bit bummed out for now
Feeling left out for a million reasons
That I made up in my brain
Believing the worst is a hobby of mine
A real masochistic game
I try real hard to steer my thoughts
In a sunnier direction now
The storm clouds come, there goes my fun
With an iceberg on the starboard bow
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Cause I'm a little black rain cloud
I'm allowed
To be a little bit bummed out for now
Rainbows are nice
Unlike unwanted advice
Barely holding on
Wide awake and just waiting for dawn
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Keep your rose colored glasses
Cause I'm a little black rain cloud
I'm allowed
To be a little bit bummed out for now
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8. |
We Never Sang
03:03
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I finally found the box of things
You kept behind my closet door
And ran a hand along the tape
Of the show you played back in oh-four
I couldn’t listen to it again
Cause I might remember your voice
Cause when you sang
And I sang along
You never sang for me
We never ever ever sang together
I heard from Janie that you’re doing well
Married and living in Monterey
The ripples of your life don’t touch me
The echo of your voice faded away
I could call but then again
I would remember your voice
Cause when you sang
And I sang along
You never sang for me
We never sang together
And I want you to know
I’m doing so much better now
Living well is such bittersweet revenge
Cause when you sang
And I sang along
You never sang for me
We never sang together
And I want you to know
I’m doing so much better now
Living well is such bittersweet revenge
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9. |
Please Fade Away
04:11
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The way you talk to me
Like you’re the only one in the room
You mention chemistry
And hope we catalyze something soon
I remain unencumbered
I have nothing you want to claim
You think I want your number
But I don’t even want your name
If I find a pen
and write “do not perceive me”
Across my forehead
Will you ignore me please?
Let me fade away
(Like a sun bleached memory)
Please fade away
When you finally forget me
I’ll be free
You really want to know
Why I don’t smile when you tease me
It’s time for you to go
While I just want to keep this easy
If I find a pen
and write “do not perceive me”
Across my forehead
Will you ignore me please?
Let me fade away
(Like a sun bleached memory)
Please fade away
When you finally forget me
I’ll be free
If circumstance allowed
You’d know when to move on
But since you’re hanging around
I really should be gone
If I find a pen
and write “do not perceive me”
Across my forehead
Will you ignore me please?
Let me fade away
(Like a sun bleached memory)
Please fade away
When you finally forget me
I’ll be free
I’ll be free
I’ll be free
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10. |
Girl in the Background
07:02
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If snark is my oxygen
Self-doubt is my H20
And right now I think I’m drowning
I thought you might want to know
Life’s not a pop quiz
So I’ll keep my Q’s to myself cos you’ve got no A’s
I’ll just go through the motions
And wait for you to requite your awkward malaise
I’m so used to being ignored
But this is ridiculous
I don’t mind attention at the right place,
The right time — that might be right now
Now the spotlight’s on you
And I’m just the girl in the background
Before I’ve started I’m through
Cause I’m not down with the right crowd
I’m the girl behind you
In this thing that I don’t want to do
When the thing that you wanted isn’t the thing that you get
That’s when life gets weird
What’s the use of trying when for all anyone cares
You might as well’ve disappeared
I know I should learn to speak up
But I’m not the only one in this room
If I’m clueless, then shame on me
But if you say nothing, shame on you
Now the spotlight’s on you
And I’m just the girl in the background
Before I’ve started I’m through
Cause I’m not down with the right crowd
I’m the girl behind you
In this thing that I don’t want to do
I’m so sorry (not sorry)
That I don’t meet your expectations
I didn’t realize I wasn’t even worth
A single two-way conversation
Now the spotlight’s on you
And I’m just the girl in the background
Before I’ve started I’m through
Cause I’m not down with the right crowd
I’m the girl behind you
In this thing that I don’t want to do
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The Crystal Furs Portland, Oregon
We're a queer indie band from Portland, OR, making tunes about architecture, anxiety, and lesbians.
We are Steph (she/her) + Kara (she/her) + Rowan (she/they).
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