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I've been trying to make my mind up but I can't
Trying to find a hill but I can't stand
Chasing fairies as the wind declines
Maybe it'll work out this time, or it won't
Or it won't
Oh babe you take me to your nirvana
Oh I can't have you but I know you want to
Be my baby
I see right through you
How long it takes me
Does it matter?
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Now I'm winding back the clock on this one
I don't know how I feel about time
Said I didn't need you but that was a lie
Wish I could turn back just to rewind
Wish I could turn back it's clear to see that I want to be with you right now
If you feel it, I could probably be on the next flight right back in town
I finally realized that it could be just you and me and no one else
You stole my heart and now I pay for your crime
Can we just get over ourselves?
Ourselves
It doesn't matter to me, matter to me, yeah
You're all I need, you're all I need, yeah
Now I can see, now I can see that you're the one for me yeah
You're the one for me yeah
You're the one for me yeah
It don't matter yeah
You're all that I need yeah
Now I can see that
You're the one for me yeah
Now I'm winding back the clock on this one
I don't want to be with no one else
Stole my heart and now I pay for your crime
You're the one for me, yeah
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Little fires everywhere
Who would've thought you'd be involved
You showed me a side of the world
That ain't so dark, ain't so dark
You pick all the right words
I'm in awe
I know how your mind works
I'm in awe
And I saw you silent, passenger side and
Playing with your hair I know you're deep in thought
You crack a joke and
Gave it a moment, now you're heating up
And the pressure is gone
I admire you, you're a candlelight
You handle all this pain yet you shine
Beauty in the pain, beauty in the rain
The thought of you just keeps me sane
You inspire me, you amaze me
Guiding the way through this maze of mystery
Little fires everywhere who knows what's involved
I don't want to stay the same
Promise I'll be honest about the pain
I don't want to stay the same
It's cold, cold in Boston's snow, no more
So long
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I've been running around in my head
Looking for a place to rest
Dwelling in my thoughts, it's my reprieve
From nothing it's harsh realities
Please don't go away, please don't go away
Please don't go away, from me
It's true, I'm starting to sweat, starting to think it's all
True, I'm starting to sweat, I'm starting to sweat I'm like:
*Keyboard solo*
(Are you happy? Are you free? Are you chasing your dreams?)
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*Raga riffing*
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Solace, summertime was honest
Walk around the town and shared our local truths
How you grow
I know I'll go anywhere you want at all, at all, Allah?
Don't go wasting time, show your misty eyes
Hotel with the dice, formal not precise
You know
Yeah, yeah
You know
I'm hoping our paved roads
Now I have to go, not alone
Don't worry, don't worry about me
Woooo!
Woooo!
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Wooowooaohh…, heh!
She ask me how you spend your time…
Why don’t you spend the night
Haven’t you not been before?
I take you to a place you can’t ignore
Fuck around you can name the game
Funny that I’m so insane
I don’t want you to leave…please just say my name
I made a thousand…ooooh sang a thousand or maybe more, Ima make sure I make more…keepin these thoughts in
All the time, when you talk…ooohwoahhh it’s what you have to gain…acting like it never happened with you…yuh (yeeuh)
Now you wishin that yo name was bigger
Finna meet’em at the top, ooohwoahhh, remember where you came…mind moving at a thousand…yuh
I don’t wanna be late
You can’t allow me to dance around it, anything I can find…just like before, I been taken back by what made the game
Am I the only one that stayed the same
When I’m in town for me…you better make time this world is mine
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I only think bad when I'm looking back
Or looking at you
Those eyes are so beautiful
got me so confused
You're something new
You said I keep you safe
With you it's hard to stay just friends
You've been gone for so long I've been with no one
Thoughts of changing, you hope I want the same things
Caught in my daydreams, fantasy escaping
This town before the flood
Exists to rush the love we've come across
Our lips touched the first time the other night
The way you looked at me said you wanted me
Baby let your hair down beauty queen
Then you put your lips and said you could never be
Without it
Without it
Our lips touched the first time the other night
The way you looked at me said you wanted me
Baby let your hair down beauty queen
Then you put your lips and said you could never be
Without it
It's raining again, it's raining again
Without it
It's raining again
It's raining again
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Please call me out
When you catch me just waiting around
I'm all syced out
Tell me don't start that now
Too indecisve for this
Go pick your fig
Sylvia she's already taught us this
go on go on go on
Intuitions failing me
For the first time we disagreed
Going against my gut feelings
I always start it's hard to finish
Who would have thought it'd take so long
But who would have thought this would take so long and so hard, I didn't know
To swallow precaution
Live how I want to
I've never done
Something like this before (x2)
You keep rushing me forward (x2)
I want to feel secure
I'll follow your lead (x2)
Do it for me (x2)
I've never done this
I've never done (x3)
I want to feel secure
I've never done - I've never done this
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Under neuralgia,
Ibrahim of finding my faith
Losing all this
Ankles in the tide
In the August light
Think I fell in love with the color Jade
To you, so blue, colors Jade
Our eyes got big, what was sacrificed
Looking for the green
How long will we wait?
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How long will we wait for each other (x3)
How hot
Little God
Killer pause
You keep on taking contracts you keep breaking
Don't you hear my baby down below the reservoirs
How long will we wait? (x2)
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*Raga riffing*
*Miranda Brown voicemail*
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Outside of the party
How lost I've gotten
My mind my garden
I might let God in
Light
It's vibrant, enlighten, it's lost and it's truth
I'm coughing, there's coffins, with my friends, it's true
It's true, it's true
Well it's soon
It's true
This time I might let God in
I'm seeing the light
Abstract ideas in my mind
Let's have a party in my garden
Might let God in
Because I'm seeing my mind
Watch my friends gather near me
I don't want to watch them fall
See the sky
Illuminating now
Welcome to my mind
Garden
In my mind
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Flawless
Glad I love my baby
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Well if this is it, who will remember the greatest?
And if this is it, are you good with the silence? The quiet?
And who wanted you?
Said a crow staring from the other side
The other side
The other side
The other side
Peace the world that made me
Watch me ride
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This album is a mosaic of sonic and aesthetic influences, drawing upon the talents of several musicians and songwriters from across Virginia. Accordingly, many songs have several vocalists and instrumentalists contributing to it. However, we wanted to maintain some cohesive thematic influences; all of us being in our younger 20s, we opted to write about loss, transitioning to adulthood, climate change, and even love. 'The Birdsong' is questioning our significance in a rapidly changing world, both as a species and as individuals.