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Tortoise Party
02:52
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Lyrics:
Words stuck in your throat
Any reason just to ignore it
Every song you know
Over and over you sing
Good things come
You’re better off without
All or none
Take a look when where you put your foot down
Say the quiet part out loud
Say you don’t know how
Say the most obvious parts out loud
I wish I knew
(Why we’re) Caught in hot pursuit
Maybe
It’s never the last time
It’s all so far behind
Still feels a little too close
All the things you love the most
I wish I knew
(Why we're) caught in hot pursuit
Maybe but lately it's all I can bring myself to do
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American Lightning
03:11
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Lyrics:
Knew it all along
At least that was the story, it always sounded so convenient
Feel it in your bones
You’ve got the superpowers of sailors and old seamen
Catch the world off guard
Or maybe just the room, the silence in here feels awful
Stay right where we are
Start a fire or catch lightning in a bottle
Where did the good vibrations go?
Bruce said ‘let’s beat this town’ but that was like 50 years ago
Dance underneath a blood-red sky
All for a dream that was runaway back in 1975
What’s there to do about it?
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Garfueled
02:42
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Lyrics:
Stammering, I don’t know where to begin
In a roundabout way to let the bad parts in
Said “I love you, but you don’t have the thickest of skin, do you?”
Something bubbling up from waters beneath
Described only using hyperbolic figures of speech
It’s got big, empty eyes and a mouth full of teeth
Don’t you?
Liberace couldn’t stop me
Not with that attitude
Always a little bit belated
And so frustrated
But then again
You’ve got the heart of an old god tucked right up your sleeve
You can Say it doesn’t matter
But it matters to me
And in the wildest situations we can learn how to speak
And who
But Liberace could ever stop me
A little attitude
Let’s write each other postcards in languages neither of us speak
So we’ll have something else to talk about the next time we meet
And in a roundabout kind of way
We’d heal from our grief
And bloom
Let some light into your room
Fresh air to set the mood
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Honeycomb
04:30
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Lyrics:
Always facing polar north
Can this be our direction forward
Can’t this be our funny little way to waste our time
Humming softly on the walk back home
Sniffing every flower
Looking under every rock and every stone
But I don’t want to do anything but you
And we could be missing the forest for the trees
Why can’t we be a little mindful of the future
Always facing you, searching for some higher truth
Or some tall story
Can I be yours only
Never letting loose
remake myself a little more like (you)
tall and charming-- kind and disarming
and I don’t want to be rude but I’m not in the mood
And we could be missing the forest for the trees
Oh why can't we talk about the ways we feel disorder
I’ll move slow, staring into space thinking of those few things I know and selling myself a little shorter
We could go find a little place to call our own and learn to grow all the things we need to make life easy
Let’s plant seeds, growing into flowers for the bees
And rest easy
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Crystal Ball
03:42
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Lyrics:
Missed by an inch and some focus group it’s safe to say I’d get lost in you sideways
Hey, crystal ball do that thing that you do and roll away, predict the ending of all things
There’s always someone listening
The world continues turning
What’s there left to do? (Oooooooh)
Desperate to be heard speaking delphic words, it all sounds the same Like a mouthful of marbles
Rading the birds
Every omen that’s occurred melts away with the ice caps
There just might be something to that
Finally understand it
Some clarity at long last
What else is there to do?
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Simple Shapes Portland, Oregon
Kinda moody, kinda groovy
Portland-based indie rock outfit Simple Shapes walk the
line between a revival of classic late 90s/early 2000s indie rock and modern pop-rock production.
Pete Bensen: Guitar/Vocals
Quin Saunders: Bass
Justine Yee: Guitar
Jeremiah Larsen: Drums
JJ Shafe: Synth/Vocals
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