1. |
Love Is An Earthquake
03:49
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Love is an earthquake
It rolls in and heartbreaks
Walls that have stood too long
Tearing them down till the last stone's gone
'Cause love is an earthquake
Love shakes your foundation
It makes you uncertain
Like all that you believed up to now was wrong
The ground beneath your feet feet beats a jarring song
'Cause love shakes your foundation
I believe
That love is an earthquake
No one knows the hour
No one is safe
From under-surface fault lines comes relief
A devastating power from the deep
And nothing is unchanged
'Cause love is an earthquake
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2. |
Keep Swimming
03:16
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Take a last look
You keep what you took
Here we part ways
I see an island
I see my last chance
No time to waste
'Cause you won't take me down with you
It would take a willful fool to believe
This ship's not sinking
It takes everything I know
To let go and watch it slip underneath
I've gotta keep swimming
Hands pleading
Eyes scheming
Heard it all before
In my own voice
A panicked, thin noise
Keep my head to shore
'Cause you won't take me down with you
It would take a willful fool to believe
This ship's not sinking
It takes everything I know
To let go and watch it slip underneath
I've gotta keep swimming
You won't take me down with you
Not today
You won't take me down with you
I am safe
You won't take me down with you
Beneath the waves
You won't take me down with you
I am safe
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3. |
Dandelion Wishes
04:01
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One change in the wind
In a swell you were standing beside me
Two hands that have been unheld come together
Hold tightly
With each breath my heart is flying
You blow me away
All my hopes in bloom
Scatter on the air as we sway
In the wind like dandelion wishes
Three chances I've spent
And a fool's undeserving of another
Four eyes haven't bent
Since the moment they saw through one another
So there is life after dying
You blow me away
All my hopes in bloom
Scatter on the air as we sway
In the wind like dandelion wishes on a spring day
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Thought I had it figured out, when out of the blue
Everything got turned around in light of you
Turns out I’d been walking blind
So now that I’ve discovered sight
Pardon if I stare
What am I supposed to do?
You’re the brightest light in the room
Everything else just fades away
And I can’t avert my helpless gaze
If I could lay my eyes upon you just tonight
It might be enough to light up every night
Across the deserts and over oceans
You will be my spark of hope
And you will be my prayer
What am I supposed to do?
You’re the brightest light in the room
Everything else just fades away
And I can’t avert my helpless gaze
When you’re out of view
I’ll fix my eyes upon the moon
‘Cause it makes the darkness not so hard
The same thing you do within my heart
These crazy days can shake the strongest faith
But I see the way when I’m standing next to you
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5. |
Book Of Fiction
04:38
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Don’t stand so close to me
We make electricity
And it would help if you’d say something
Instead of staring at me with those eyes
It’s getting harder for me to disguise
That I’d like to feel your lips on mine
Maybe in another country
Maybe on a distant shore
Maybe if I’d made a left instead
Or wandered through a different door
Maybe on a faraway planet
In a futuristic time
Maybe in a book of fiction, I’d have been yours
Don’t be so interesting
Or smart, and kind, and funny
I’m having trouble remembering
Why I can’t just walk over and say
“Whatcha doing the rest of the day?
How about you and me run away?”
Maybe in an ancient temple
On the sound of an an unheard prayer
Maybe if I’d answered “yes” instead
Or followed a whim somewhere
Maybe in a mountain kingdom
Where the people speak in rhyme
Maybe in a book of fiction, I’d have been yours
The story goes like this
We meet and then we kiss
And then it goes, how stories go
Till happily it ends
Maybe in an Argo vessel
In the light of the farthest star
Maybe we’ll be born again someday
And I’ll remember who you are
Maybe on a desert island
In an era before our time
Maybe in a book of fiction, I’d have been yours
And you’d have been mine
Maybe in a book of fiction you’d have been mine
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6. |
Anti-Gravity
03:36
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I don't want to wake up
In a world where you're not there
Don't want to sense the difference
In the light, in the air
And all the leaves will turn
It's out of my control
And melt into the earth
I know it's natural
Not like letting go
Lift me off the ground
'Cause I can't hold you down
From where you're going
You're anti-gravity
And if I can't release
I'll end up floating nowhere
I don't want to walk around
In a town that forgot your name
I'll stand in streets and shout out
They can stare, call me insane
And that's what I might do
Go out of all control
A me without a you
Is not natural
Just like letting go
Lift me off the ground
'Cause I can't hold you down
From where you're going
You're anti-gravity
And if I can't release
I'll end up floating
Nowhere
Nowhere
Nowhere
Lift me off the ground
'Cause I can't hold you down
From where you're going now
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7. |
So Many Stars
03:39
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Not a sound for miles around
Cold sets in so slow
If I knew
How to undo damage done
I would
There's so many stars
And a broken-down car
Everything feels uncertain in the dark
Even with so many stars
I'd have driven on
Believing nothing's wrong
But here we are stalled out
Under so many stars
And broken-down hearts
It's easier telling secrets in the dark
With so many stars
So many stars
And broken-down hearts
But anything's possible in the dark
With so many stars
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8. |
Let's Stay In
03:21
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Put on a pot of tea
Come sit as close to me as you like
I say we strike a match
Something is bound to catch on fire
And burn for a while
Let’s stay in tonight
There’s not one thing outside these four walls
That you and I will need
Let’s stay in
Tune in the radio
Something for moving slow in the dark
This is how time stands still
Hearts racing on the thrill
We rise and fall in each other’s arms
Let’s stay in tonight
There’s not one thing outside these four walls
That you and I will need
And it would be all right
If well past midnight you were holding tight to me
Let’s stay in tonight
Music and moonlight
Are everything that you and I will need
And it will be all right
If well past midnight you are holding tight to me
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9. |
When The Lights Go Down
03:41
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When the lights go down
And the curtains shut
Can they tell I'm terrified
Did I do enough?
In a boundless dark
Looking for release
I am captive of my mind
I just want to sleep
When The lights go down
I am eight years old
And I just found out
How it feels to know you're all alone
When the lights go down
Then the seconds tick
Keeping pace my pulse races
Panicked for the fix
Turning over and over
In a web of dread
Reinventing new nightmares
Out of nothingness
When the lights go down
I am twelve years old
And I just found out
I'll be walking through this on my own
Down down down
Until the bottom catches me
By some miracle
Alive to see this mercy
Love that's bigger than my fear
When the lights go down
Can I be this old
And only just find out
I don't have to carry this alone
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10. |
We Are On Fire
04:09
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Produced by Jamie Hill. Recorded and mixed by Jamie Hill at Secret Agent Audio Services, Los Angeles
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Shannon Curtis Tacoma, Washington
Shannon Curtis is a Tacoma-based artist hailing from California.
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