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One True Believer
03:16
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I'm looking for one true believer
In this faithless place
All I need is one
Every drop of love has been poured out
Everyone walks by
Surely one will see what's to be found
Will look and catch my eye
All I need is one
My body's caving in
An inner space
Reaching for a line
A hand to hold
To know that we will make it
Pull me back to life
All I need is one
I'm looking for one true believer
In this faithless place
I'm looking for one true answer
That'll save my faith
All I need is one
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Hooray For Love
03:03
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Hooray for love
The reigning champion
Prevailing over fear and doubt
The hero of all those forgotten and cast out
For isn't love the same in every color
Or shape or language of the heart?
The essence of the force that makes us who we are
So why would I fight?
We are all on the same side
I'll go down defending you
Love stands upright and knows that it will survive
Always wins
Never fails
That's the side I choose
Hooray for love
Hooray for love
The monument left standing
When all our wars have burned out
A victory won not by beating its foes down
But with love
Hooray for love
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3. |
Continental Divide
03:42
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It seems crazy
Since we've come this far
To think that maybe
This is where we part
My whole heart believed
When we laid on the beach
That the infinity we saw was ours
And now we've come to a continental divide
You and I
You're running east and I am tumbling west
So unless water starts flowing uphill
Or some other miracle
This only ends one way
I'll see you in an ocean again someday
We started running
With unbridled speed
Toward the sunset
Chasing pale pink dreams
But by dark I lost track of where you had gone
And the summer we ran had ceased
And now we've come to a continental divide
You and I
You're running east and I am tumbling west
So unless water starts flowing uphill
Or some other miracle
This only ends one way
I'll see you in an ocean again someday
Look: the stars shine bright atop this mountain
They pierce the dark as we make our way down
And I'll see you in an ocean someday
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4. |
Ascension
03:40
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you and i will live in the side of a mountain / i'll build us a home on an ancient granite ledge / only we will know the secret passage to get there / we will fly a flag stretching proud to the heavens / declaring in the wind a true and steadfast love / forged within the cracks of the rust and dirt where we come from / don't be afraid / just come away / up and away / where you and i will live / hand in hand we'll climb / as the earth recedes beneath us / whenever you get tired / i'll take you on my back / and every day will shine a golden sun to make you glad / you and i will live in the side of a mountain / overlooking all the troubles below / here among the clouds not a single sadness will touch you now
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I Am With You
03:28
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Opposite sides of a room standing off in a stare
Even if i found the words
Could you comprehend them?
It's you
I know your face
But there is a stranger in the place of the one who knows my heart best
We never guessed that it would be this hard
We always said it's you and me against the odds
Our fear gaining an edge
Our best promises are put to the test
Am I with you?
Who is this monster with bitter words spat from her lips?
You're not the enemy
How did I let it get to this?
It's you
The same one I picked
Because you understood like no one else did
Forgive me as I forget
We never guessed that it would be this hard
We always said it's you and me against the odds
Too far out on a ledge
Reach for my hand
Let's walk it back in
I am with you
Love is a tender thing
For worse or for better
It can heal us where it hurt
We never guessed that it would be this hard
We always said it's you and me against the odds
Our new old promises
Pulled from the wreckage
Spoken again
I am with you
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6. |
Slowly Break
03:35
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And then sometimes you blink
And it's been years
When did I last hear my own abandoned laughter?
Walking unaware on glistening shards
Where do you start
With something so shattered?
It used to be a shiny hopeful thing
Tossed and heaved on unforgiving seas with no reprieve
And that is how you slowly break a heart
And then sometimes you just do what you know
Keep casting your hope out on a lifeless ocean
You tell yourself it's just the way it is
Because how do you fix something so broken?
There was a time
It pulsed and beat with life
Running hard each day only to find I'm still behind
And that is how you slowly break a heart
I used to be eager to believe any dream that promised falsely it could set me free
And that is how you slowly break a heart
And then sometimes a memory rushes back
You already have all you need within you
You take a long breath in and let it go
This is the moment everything begins new
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Surprised
04:03
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What if we could see into the future?
What if we knew how the story ends?
Would I have known the wave, the thrill
When you walked in the room
And felt for once at home in my own skin?
Even when you can't pinpoint what's missing
Emptiness is real as night is dark
But here you are, the piece that's somehow been there all along
Which joined in fate cannot be torn apart
Our time is bittersweet
It makes us blind to eternity
So we're surprised by what it brings
Like when it brought you back to me
Love is gravity to hearts in orbit
And all I want is to be next to you
So I won't waste one single hour imagining a day
When there is one moon where there once was two
Our time is bittersweet
It makes us blind to eternity
So we're surprised by what it brings
Like when it brought you back to me
Love isn't bound by the ages
I'll look for you through the changes
And I'll be amazed
Again and again
Time is bittersweet
We are blind to eternity
So we're surprised by what it brings
It always brings you back to me
What if we could see into the future?
What if stories start over again?
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8. |
Electrocution
03:27
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Looking up
You were there
Reappeared from nowhere
After all these years
Catch my breath
Blink my eyes
Loss for words
Another time brought back to life
Electrocution
Shock to the system
The current still runs strong
Electrocution
Reaching out
Across the gap
Knowing smile
Familiar hands
Like holding sand
Laws of love
And science teach
Conservation of energy
This will never cease
Electrocution
Shock to the system
The current still runs strong
Electrocution
Invisible
Buzzing underneath the static sound
Silently humming on what once we sang out loud
Electrocution
Shock to the system
You're here and then you're gone
Electrocution
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9. |
Forever And Always
02:40
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Struck like a lightning bolt at night
A wink and then a smile
Was enough to take me down
A force to penetrate the deep
Things I could not speak
But you got underground
Like you'd always been there
Forever
Till the last sun sets on the last day ever
And always
Since the darkness cracked with the first star-flicker
That's how long my heart's belonged and will belong to you
Young
I fixed my bright hopes high
I failed them though I tried to fill the empty space
But you make my hope complete
I marked it down in ink
You're coursing through my veins
And you'll always be there
Forever
Till the last sun sets on the last day ever
And always
Since the darkness cracked with the first star flicker
That's how long my heart's belonged and will belong to you
Well beyond the final song
And long before I knew
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10. |
Say His Name
05:37
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When you leave the world goes silent
Your ears stop making sense of waves and sound is static nothing
But one thing is persistent
The beating on and on
Millions of untethered hearts pumping
And the song
Will someone notice
Someone care
There has to be just one somewhere
Hold her tight
Say his name
Before the sound just drifts out to space
Take his hand
Touch her face
To all the living
Breathing
Listen to what i say
Hold her tight
Say his name
Because when you're gone your soul is weightless
But you can feel the burden carried by the throngs of bodies moving in and out
Avoiding contact
Wondering why they feel alone
Forgetting why and where they're going
Rushing time
Missing what's right before their eyes
The miracles they hurry by
The answers to their deepest cries
When you die you take your memories
And the heaviest to carry are the times you failed to notice that you had everything
Hold her tight
Say his name
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Shannon Curtis Tacoma, Washington
Shannon Curtis is a Tacoma-based artist hailing from California.
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