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Death to Winter

by South Sea Island Magic

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1.
Dream in the Dark 05:23
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I. With the wind overhead and the waves below Music underwater with aquatic flow There you are, in the middle of the South Sea Carried by the riptide trying hard to break free Back up back down everything is black now I’ll supply the moonlight you inflate the raft now We could be in Kansas, the comfort of a warm bed We could be in heaven ‘fore the devil knows that we’re dead With a light rain – or a fresh snow On a night train – I guess I don’t know If we go on – Or the story ends But for now let’s begin: We only dream in the dark And when it’s light we get older But life isn’t over The world goes on whenever we’re apart There is a light overhead So we hold on to each other at least ‘til the summer Is over and we return to our beds II. I want the girls who dress like movie stars In knee-length coats and knitted scarves Stepping to the beat in the heat lamp glow Soul songs playing on the patio Give me the girls who aren’t afraid to kick off their shoes Puddles on the pavement and the twelve bar blues Heartache will break you, Heartbreak will ache you The is not the first time–Take two. Is it take three? Or is it take four – After the first time We always want more. Another good love. Another new start. We only dream in the dark
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Tobacco Road 03:26
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Blame it all on the falling rain There’s your suitcase by the door On the morning I woke to find I didn’t need you anymore Falling over the neighborhoods All across the neighboring towns Somewhere on tobacco road Though the car was breaking down I was alone You were alone Wasn’t that what we wanted all along? So turn your head and shut your eyes There’s nothing more to say Everytime you fall I find you’re closer to me Blame it all on an open tomb Restless sleep of those below Navigating by ancient runes When the curse came dark and slow Trippin over the railroad ties Rusted drainpipes, cellar doors Dappled light in your flooded eyes Never noticed that before I was alone You were alone We began to slow dance to that song So steal a kiss and fake a smile And turn your head away Everytime you fall I find you’re closer to me Whenever you fall I find you’re closer to me Blame it all on a Kansas sky Or a tree-lined country road All on the time trap towns People dancing at a show Ghosts are rising from steeples now Spirits step between the stones I was hoping you’d come around Fake your death, and shed your clothes I was alone You were alone Wasn’t that what we wanted all along? Don’t ever try to shut your eyes There’s nothing more to say Everytime you fall I find you’re closer to me Whenever you fall I find you’re closer to me
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Waves Will Crash 06:19
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For Amelia Earhart I. And there are worlds Beneath the city we know And other towns Are hidden under the snow They keep the earth spinning slow Oh no, I won’t let you go And there are fields, and there are mountains ahead The waves will crash The sea will swallow the dead Drown out the words that we said We will return to our beds Far away We’ll be walking on the wayside By your side Things look different in the moonlight II. And there are streams And there are rivers to cross We all have dreams Things that we loved and we lost Don’t give up on this that fast Don’t ever dwell on the past I’ve got a map You’ve got a new pair of shoes A well-worn path That backbeat rhythm and blues Two kids with nothing to lose I’d like to spend it with you Far away We’ll be walking on the wayside By your side Things look different in the moonlight III. Eventually they will all know your story: how you abandoned the earth and took to the stars, how you vanished on the clearest day when the water was still and it was impossible to separate sky from ocean. You disappeared into that magical silence, light striking you in particles and waves, hail forming in cloud banks beside you, vertical winds of cumulonimbus You ascended on an updraft, engines firing, air flowing faster over the upper camber of your wings. Now ice formed on your fuselage. Now your radio transmitted only radio silence. Looking down, the Pacific was no longer below. IV. And it felt as if the world was unfolding before you, lost in polar regions in perpetual sunlight, Adrift amid shifts in earth’s magnetic field your compass rendered useless. This is how you would have liked it to end: floating past satellites in uneven orbits, meteorites and lunar eclipse omens, engulfed in a miasma of space debris and stars. Yes, they will know your story how you abandoned the earth for the heavens how you fled without knowing what you were fleeing, flying great-circle routes and chasing lines of longitude, dimly aware of that fleeting feeling, advancing, receding, rising, repeating, and they’ll start to sing: Far away We’ll be walking on the wayside By your side Things look different in the moonlight
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Cloudbursts 03:13
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You feel the light rush in and it starts again oh it all begins like begins like before And I think This motion’s fine, this inertia’s mine I’m in Oceanside by the shore Followed by the starry eyes, the sunset stares and those Friday nights when the county fair brought the neon signs, the Nashville shows rollercoaster rides, the girls who would not let you go But you have to go, in wintertime, when the air gets cold And you here her say “Well love is love, not fade away” And the words come out, in fits and starts, she’s leaving now For those Nashville shows, you’re paralyzed by the girls who would not let you go
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Young Sun Paradox 03:41
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I’ve had enough of adventure Dreams of perpetual motion Flight and a slight gravitation All laws of physics you’ve broken Oh, it’s not enough Oh, it’s not enough Stars may grow hotter and brighter Murders will spark revolutions You could burn worlds with your lighter Bind me with nuclear fusion Oh, it’s not enough Oh, it’s not enough And when she said our lives had just begun To the dawning of a faint young sun, I said When I’m older I’ll wait for the right one When I’m older I’ll wait for the right one And then she our lives had just begun And there’s no telling just who we’ll become, I said When it’s over I’ll wait for the right one When it’s over I’ll wait for the right one And if the right one never comes I’ll travel across star fields Traverse a thousand suns Stumble over supernovas, Escaping time, and broken plans Breathing thinner atmospheres, you’ll stop and take my hand Oh it’s not enough Oh it’s not enough
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The Sweet Science 04:27
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And if I ever saw you, well I guess I didn’t catch your name I traded one night stands for two nights seated awkwardly alone So say it loud so I can hear you when you’re standing in the rain And say it loud so I will always be the one to walk you home One last time, you’ll cross my mind Take my hand, let’s just rewind Back through time, back to the beat Strobing lights, stomping our feet I started sleeping in and taking things like losing you in stride I’d put a record on the B Side, drown out all the cars below And we were once nocturnal but we’re finding lately that the daylight is much safer than the darkness ‘Cause in the daylight, well, we never sleep alone One last time, you’ll cross my mind Take my hand, let’s just rewind Back through time, back to the beat Strobing lights, stomping our feet Oh I will find you somewhere, try to stay awake And I’ll scale rooftops, roadways, just to see your face Oh through the frozen moonlight, I will make it home And if my compass fails me I’ll know where to go Oh I will find you somewhere, never fall asleep And I’ll scale mountains, glaciers, you would not believe Oh in those distant cities, palaces and mines If I don’t find you, I will search a second time

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released November 1, 2011

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