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New Wildfire
04:12
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Did they take the moon you were after?
Give it back piece by piece
There was a room full of laughter
Now it speaks and speaks
There was a hum and a chatter
A card up your sleeve
Is this the room you were after?
Never ever have to leave
Tiny piece of glass that I carry around
I grow habitual in my playground
Tell me when the sun shines bright
The way you move yourself through time
I thought you'd never ask
See you stumble around
Beautiful ritual in your hometown
There's a story when you went to fly
When you lost all the fear in your eyes
New wildfire each day
Give us heavy weather then you take it away
Breeze on the reason for leaving
Pulling me back to the places I'm free from
New wild fire each day
Give us heavy weather then you take it away
Breeze on the reason for leaving
Pulling me back to the places I'm free from
Two hands with the blood stains
Messing around with some loose change
You all you ever want is new things
You all you ever do is take take
Take a while to notice
The circle isn't broken
Pacing in the hallways always
Living under heavy shoulders
Daze another little day away
Hold me like your'e never coming back to me
Tell me all your recipe for alchemy
You all you ever do is take take
Take a while to show me
The fireflies they know me
Moving like this backwards circus
You didn't see it pass right through me
This is not a measure we make
Addicted to the moment and the pleasure intake
Come up with something better and I'm happy to chase you down
It's got a broken face
The microphone is humming on a burning plate
Fall into a pixelation
We work it out
New wild fire each day
Give us heavy weather then you take it away
Breeze on the reason for leaving
Pulling me back to the places I'm free from
New wild fire each day
Give us heavy weather then you take it away
Breeze on the reason for leaving
Pulling me back to the places I'm free from
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All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my hand-me-downs
Where's my weekend
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my wedding gown
Throw it on my deathbed
Wild and lonesome smile
I walked a lonesome mile
Crawled to my attention
What could I have told you?
Wild and lonesome smile
I've walked a lonesome mile
You crawled to my attention
What could I have told you?
Where I Inhabit
This lonely casket
All the homes you hid me in
Well I'm aware now
They start to stare now
Singing on that Isolation hymn
Bury my hands in the ground
Two in the city and one in the town
Bury my body there too
And we all sing the isolation blues.
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my hand-me-down
Where's my weekend
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my wedding gown
Throw it on my deathbed
If you ever need a way with words
Or Just a break from a real cold life
You can barely see the moon from here
There's some things that we'll have to try
Let it in and let it do what it wants
Don't you ever forget your song
When you feel lost
The Moon rising off your tongue
Let it in and make yourself at home
I love you dearly but it's weighing on my bones
I'll tell you something but it won't mean much till it does
I can feel you reaching in my lungs
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my hand-me-down
Where's my weekend
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my wedding gown
Throw it on my deathbed
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my hand-me-down
Where's my weekend
All my friends are dead and buried now
Where's my wedding gown
Throw it on my deathbed
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3. |
Life as a Sigh
03:26
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Half the places I like
Nowhere never lasts
As soon as I find out the lay
The unturned stones
Swing down the hawk upon my past
With a bird's eye view of all you do
Waiting on the crash
If only you could see this place
We brought together woven strings
All the scenes of Memory
Flow through you like a well
I climbed the city scape from hell
With a bird's eye view of all you do
Waiting on the crash.
The water rose and swallowed all the flowers
The coast and all the humming of the power
Living out the life as a sigh now
The best thing we could do would be to lie down
In the city you've assembled in your sleep
It's all your's now
Half the places I like
Nowhere never lasts
As soon as I find out my place
The un-turned stones
Swing down the hawk upon my past
With a bird's eye view of all you do
Waiting on the crash
The water rose and swallowed all the flowers
The coast and all the humming of the power
Living out the life as a sigh now
The best thing we could do would be to lie down
In the city you've assembled in your sleep
It's all your's now
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4. |
The Moon Leans In
03:36
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I watch the dove sail into the glass
Find the way out
Break the cage at last
Your heavy heart weighs on you so bad
If it feeds you though the winter time
I'm so glad you got it back
Wear your starry crown
Pull the hair away from your eyes
Drink this one in deeply
Sing out to the sunrise
If only you had met me then
Knock the door you let me in
Moving like a fever dream all around your head
It's better when the lights are off
Disregard the hidden costs
Oh thank god I'm not the boss
Just show me to the bed
Oh how we fly
The moon leans In for listening
We'll know when we die
Our mouths still open whispering
I see the distance now
You still mind the gap
I have no business with you
I'm leaving once I pack
Something still moves out there
Now it's staring back
It seems to dance like light
But curvier than that
Wear your starry crown
Pull the hair away from your eyes
Drink this one in deeply
Sing out to the sunrise
If only you had met me then
Knock the door you let me in
Moving like a fever dream all around your head
It's better when the lights are off
Disregard the hidden costs
Oh thank god I'm not the boss
Just show me to the bed
Oh how we fly
The moon leans In for listening
We'll know when we die
Our mouths still open whispering
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5. |
Spare Me (Acoustic)
03:47
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Spare me
Wear me 'round your neck
Stick around this town until you make your nest
In the pear tree
Soon to meet it's end
Rotten fruit around my ankles, but it's sweeter than the rest
I've been looking at this wrong
Pulling teeth I went the wrong way
I couldn't hold my tongue
Hold me
Reason not to run
Burning feathers swarm around, and slowly cover up the sun
I don't know you yet
You find me so down, but so blessed
I don't know you yet
You find me so down, but so blessed
What on earth are you crying for?
Pull the wool away
Push the wall over
Do you still see the light of day?
I can't tell the teeth from fur
Spare me
Wear me 'round your neck
Stick around this town until you make your nest
In the pear tree
Soon to meet it's end
Rotten fruit around my ankles, but it's sweeter than the rest
Spare me
Put me down like that
Cut me loose if what you need is living life without me
Blame
You forgot your place
Where's the laughter ever-after
If i'm standing in the way
I've been looking at this wrong
Pulling teeth I went the wrong way
I couldn't hold my tongue
Hold me
Reason not to run
Burning feathers swarm around, and slowly cover up the sun
I don't know you yet
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6. |
To the Moon
04:58
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What could make me tangle your heartache
up within my stormy brain
Lend me a reason to leave here
I couldn't find a reason to stay
Everything is shifting on purpose
Tangles up and drifts away
Attention sometimes makes me nervous
It kind of really matters how it takes
What do you do when the night becomes the morning
You’re still out there telling stories to the moon
It ain’t what you think
And it isn't what you do
No no
I’m all over the place
Because of you
Let me play a tune on your heartstrings
Slowly bend them to sing
We could ignore all the truth brings
And be moving on to finer things
Overtime were sinking our heartbeats
Or riding out a sigh of relief
Falling asleep at the wheel isn’t real
If it only really happens in my dreams
What do you do when the night becomes the morning
Your’e still out there telling stories to the moon
It ain’t what you think
Hell it isn't what you do
No no
I’m all over the place
Because of you
Tell me when you're love seems removed from
All your expectations and dreams
Lend that old oar to whomever will row best
Hope they don’t drift you off to sea
We descend from burning parachutes
Pretending like we've taken flight
Once that we have all jumped this boat
Well know that it was right
What do you do when the night becomes the morning
Your’e still out there telling stories to the moon
It ain’t what you think
Hell it isn't what you do
No no
I’m all over the place
Because of you
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7. |
So Busy in the Wild
03:48
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Gold moon over Seattle
We roll around and bid our goodbyes
Without my teeth in that apple
I get blue from all the red in the sky
Take a walk in the garden
Suffocate on the stardom
Get free on either side of the ice
You get so busy in the wild
Your’e gonna leave somebody behind
So brave, but a stranger
Saying what you need to say to get by
Now you got me working for you
You dig your heels up into my side
Little ol’ me
Follow her through the dark
I get old in a minute
Now I’m out in the yard
You get so busy in the wild
Your’e gonna tear somebody apart
I know you’ve got questions
About wolves crawling into my bed
With no need for explanation
I try to keep this moving instead
Now I got teeth on my left side
Some on my right
Drag me out to Arizona
Where you left me to die
You get so busy in the wild
Your’s gonna leave somebody behind
Take a walk in the garden
Suffocate on the stardom
Get free on either side of the Ice
You get so busy in the wild
Your’e gonna leave somebody behind
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Almost anytime
You were so gone then
Am I supposed to follow you?
Sticking around feels wrong
I feel you gunning like you’ve something to prove
What’s on your breath?
What’s in your head when you lose?
What the hell, let’s make it ruthless
Am I really gonna have to decide?
Cutting corners in my own mind
It’a a beauty how you make me crazy
Lean so gently on my mind
It’s just a side-effect of eager please
Praying you’ll leave
Begging you stay on my knees
What the hell?
I’m fucking clueless
If it’s not all it needs to be
You’ll be looking for a window facing out to the sea
If they call, just let it ring
There’s so much to get into, falling off
Oh Mother Nature on her own terms
Oh ah Mother Nature on her own terms
Back then you didn’t write
Just fell away in the night
Hold my hair back dreaming
Of what’s left to win
It’s just a side-effect of eager please
Praying you’ll leave
Begging you stay on my knees
What the hell, let’s make it ruthless
The letters that I write
All written with a dying pen
Held it up to the window smiling
My words, but it was your voice pining
I feel you gunning like you’ve something to prove
What’s on your breath?
What’s in your head when you lose?
What the hell?
I’m fucking clueless
If it’s not all it needs to be
You’ll be looking for a window facing out to the sea
If they call, just let it ring
There’s so much to get into, falling off
Oh Mother Nature on her own terms
Oh ah Mother Nature on her own terms
Almost anytime
Almost anytime
Almost anytime
Almost anytime
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9. |
End of Session
05:11
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Awake
The summer days
Blissful and faint of focus
Do you notice a change?
Losing place
I don’t think we’re holding our weight
Taste
Just a little taste
While they empty the oceans
Render me tasteless
I swim out to find a dessert lake
We die out there
Held in slow motion
Progression end of session
What a funny way to go out
In case we learned our lesson
Tell it to me now
As far as I can tell
Evil just explains its self
It’s busier than hell
You can drown it in the light you make
As far as I can tell
Evil just unfolds it’s face
It’s uglier than hell
But you can see it in the light of day
Lonely moon why are you staring?
All of the lost and weightless words
I’ll see you soon if it’s worth repairing
I never know just what you heard
Lonely sky, do you see us staring
why do this stars come facing me
My life all stretched apart and tearing
I’ll never know just what you see
Oh It goes beyond your damn shadow
Going off on all your realest of friends
When I'm caught between my bitch face and resting
No first reflections
Signals are sent
Its love in the language of laughter
What does it matter, It doesn't matter
With me or against don't lose me from within
It can all seem overwhelming
No end and no beginning
As far as I can tell
Evil just explains its self
It’s busier than hell
You can drown it in the light you make
As far as I can tell
Evil just unfolds it’s face
It’s uglier than hell
But you can see it in the light of day
As far as I can tell
Evil just explains its self
It’s busier than hell
You can drown it in the light you make
As far as I can tell
Evil just unfolds it’s face
It’s uglier than hell
But you can see it in the light of day
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10. |
Beautiful Island
02:34
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Some are dying
Some are known by you
Please be kindly
Don’t cut the line, just follow through
When you leave me smiling
The creek below, it heard us sing
Beautiful island
Comes to the shore to feel the spring
Hold my wild tangles, and I’ll tell you what I’ve learned
When everything feels mangled, take the time you need to hurt
The rude awakening
Sunny days all wasted slow
Make it distant and haunted
Make some changes before I go
It’s ok to hang around here
I like you well
Feet that never touch the ground
You wear like hell
Hold my wild tangles, and I’ll tell you what I’ve learned
When everything feels mangled, take the time you need to hurt
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Thom LaFond Boulder, Colorado
Thom Lafond, currently based in Colorado, is known for his distinctive spoken style of lyrics and full-spectrum sonic arrangements. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, he weaves compelling narratives through music, adding a fresh dimension to the broader musical scene. LaFond delivers pure, unbridled emotion, backed with impressive playing. ... more
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