1. |
Gray Area
05:24
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2. |
Purgatory Emporium
04:00
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Floating Clouds
04:04
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Sun is creeping across the sky
Never could get quite that high
I wish you could see me now
Ideas are floating clouds in our minds
Corners of outer space
They get rounder
At the edge of the stars
Is where I found her
It’s impossible to say
It’s impossible today
It’s impossible to stay
It’s impossible to say
Yeah yeah yeah…
Hey dream girl whatcha dreamin?
Did you have another nightmare today?
See you there floating by me
But ya gotta keep moving on
Stumbling backwards I find the feeling
I was seeking all along
Feel it inside me
Traveling onwards
Takes a lifetime just to know
It’s impossible to say
It’s impossible today
It’s impossible to stay
It’s impossible to say
Yeah yeah yeah!\
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4. |
I've Got an Ocean
04:30
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After all this time
It’s finally dawned on me
Gotta let go to let in
To let loose to let be
Can’t do nothing about it
So give in to the sound
It fills the air that surrounds us
Culls you from the ground
Culls you from the ground
Somewhere past the horizon
Past their eyes so critically
It’s merely illusion
And I want you to dream with me
There’s no they anyway
Or so far as I can see
Joy and sorrow walking hand in hand
Let your waves wash over me
I surrender to your sea
Pressures of temptation
Are far too great to bear
It’s not so tragic
But I fear that I might care
As the planets all align
Feel that now might be the time
I’ve got a notion
But how can I be sure?
How can I be sure?
How can I be sure?
How can I be sure?
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5. |
Coliseum
04:51
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Sitting in a tunnel below the coliseum
Watching the street lights change
And the cars nervously driving past the courthouse
They eye of the law peering down from his chambers above
Got no place to go, no place to be
The circus doesn’t come here anymore
Listening to the fake birds
Trying to scare away pigeons
Desolate downtown hazy and humid
Lazy, sleeping through a beautiful day
Got no place to go, no place to be
The circus doesn’t come here anymore
Tigers and clowns, princes in crowns
Elephants and jugglers and bootleg ticket smugglers
All the night’s they thought my roof might cave in
I can still hear the rumble, I can hear the roar
But the circus doesn’t come here anymore
Demolition thats whats in my future
Monolithic behemoth a relic of a city past
Another building will take its place someday
I’ll be rubble, twisted steel, and broken glass
Got no place to go, no place to be
The circus doesn’t come here anymore
Tigers and clowns, princes in crowns
Elephants and jugglers and bootleg ticket smugglers
All the night’s they thought my roof might cave in
I can still hear the rumble, I can hear the roar
But the circus doesn’t come here anymore
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6. |
Spirit in the Valley
05:07
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Hold on to the inspiration
It’s like catching a dream in your hand
Hold on to the inspiration
For it doesn’t come on your command
And you never know when it’s gonna hit ya
But when it hits ya hold on
Because time flies like and arrow
First it’s there and then it’s gone
Just like this song
There’s a spirit in the valley
I can almost taste it in the air
Sometimes I can get distracted
But no matter what I know it’s there
Back in my younger days I knew how to fly
But somehow I got older and forgot
Well I’m trying to remember
To let go and be free
I close my eyes and drift away
I can see
The light within me
Reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
And touch my heart
There’s a burning in my soul
I wanna share it with the world
For all you spirits that are broken
I want you to be whole
The time has come at last
Your broken days are past
You can be free if you wanna be
The light is the way
Hold on to the inspiration
It’s like catching a dream in your hand
Hold on to the inspiration
For it doesn’t come on your command
And you never know when it’s gonna hit ya
But when it hits ya hold on
Because time flies like and arrow
First it’s there and then it’s gone
Just like this song
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7. |
Mosby's Dirge
06:00
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Come gather round people
And I’ll tell you the tale
Of the tunnel collapsing
Way up on the hill
Blast them charges
Just a little too hard
One push of the handle
In that old rail yard
Do you know the story
Of Mr. W.W. Poole?
His spirit is hungry
He’s our most famous ghoul
If you go there at night
You can hear him cry
And in the right light
Might not make it out alive
So many ghosts in Hollywood
But his is the worst
Blood sucking demon
Dying of thirst
The tunnel was sealed
Their souls wait within
Through walls of stone
And rails of steel
The dust filled the lungs
Of the few left alive
But nobody came looking
Nobody tried
From the wreckage within
There was heard a loud cry
Yonder came a man screaming
With his skull on fire
Hey there Mosby!
Shovel that coal
Has the heat from the fire
Collected your soul?
Way down in Richmond, 1925
Chesapeake Ohio lines
Four men buried alive
So if you find yourself walking
In that old graveyard
When the river runs hardest
And the moon is high
Our vampire’s hungry
And it’s feeding time
So you warm blooded people
You better hide!
YOU BETTER HIDE!
You better hide
You better hide
YOU BETTER HIDE!
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8. |
The Nod
05:43
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9. |
Memory Foam
05:54
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It was time to turn the page again
Go out and tear it up again
With my very good friends
Night time full of how you beens
What you doing after this?
Where you going?
Are you going where it is?
The mood was high and so was I when the band took to the stage
In the final minutes of the year so I went to the bar for another beer
The clocks turned over then came auld lang syne
But the power got overloaded and they had to start again
It was time to turn the page again
Go out and tear it up again
With my very good friends
Night time’s full of how you beens
What you doing after this?
Where you going?
Are you going where it is?
Sometimes it can be too much and you just can’t carry on
So you reach for the stars you grab for some more
And you end up passed out on the bathroom floor
I guess she’s fine now, she’s doing alright
She was dancing to the ambulance lights
While they whisked her away
While they whisked her away
Come on we’re gonna do it
We’re gonna get through it
Even if it takes all year long
Well Tommy’s engaged now
Things turned out okay for old Tommy
So while you reach for the stars
Don’t let them whisk you away
The mood was high and so was I when the band took to the stage
In the final minutes of the year so I went to the bar for another beer
Sometimes it can be too much and you just can’t carry on
So you reach for the stars you grab for some more
And you end up passed out on the bathroom floor
The clocks turned over then came auld lang syne
But the power got overloaded and they had to start again
Well I guess she’s fine now, she’s doing alright
She was dancing to the ambulance lights
While they whisked her away
While they whisked her away
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10. |
Elysium
05:26
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Might has well have been another lifetime
The stories change but the meaning is the same
Could have been that they just love the nighttime
Cuz when daylight came none of them remained
This is your wildest dream come true
Although at time you can be quite confused
Where do you go after the show?
The night’s still young
Are you afraid of being alone
When you go home?
You can return to the fields anytime
Moments we shared
Crystalized in time
Close your eyes
And you’re there
I wish you could stay
But it’s time to go
Just one look and you’ll see
What you already know
So hard to define
So don’t even try
These are the very best
Times of your life
And it comes through so clearly
See the gleam in your eyes
On such an impossible evening
From the fall and the rise
Take care of the light
Don’t ever let it fade away
Might has well have been another lifetime
The stories change but the meaning is the same
Could have been that they just love the nighttime
Cuz when daylight came none of them remained
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Ben Butterworth Richmond, Virginia
Ben Butterworth hails from Richmond, VA and for more than a decade has been writing and performing his own original music.
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