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X. the fume of sighs (demo version)

by zach chase

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ophelia 05:45
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a brief history of you & me a brief history unseen & seen sonder with me, please all that's past will be from the wonder years to a hall of mirrors look back to find your way up for the mystery our imperfections are keeping the stars apart ophelia i'll sing a song with ya by the riverbed sleep now in(n)a(oc)sense a brief history of you & me a brief history unseen & seen my heart, your pen, & then put on our VHS she is my arcitect the truth just sounds different forget what i forgot deep in the place beyond near where the essex lost requiem eternam ophelia i'll sing a song with ya by the riverbed sleep now in(n)a(oc)sense ophelia i'll sing a song with ya by the riverbed there's rosemary for remembrance soft tears they crack your cheeks like thunder on the sun how cold can hearts be & still burst smilingly a brief history of you & me a brief history unseen & seen lincoln lives in thought as a cosmonaut civil sons they fought daughters walk the talk i heard myself proclaimed paper cuts on the stage st crispin marks the day we fade but copper stains ophelia i'll sing a song with ya by the riverbed sleep now in(n)a(oc)sense ophelia i'll sing a song with ya by the riverbed there's rosemary for remembrance soft tears they crack your cheeks like thunder on the sun how cold can hearts be & still burst smilingly cut my tongue on the sharpened silver sentiments unsent second guess my second guess until there's seconds left a brief history of you & me
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knowing & being known 04:04
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ghost light eyes the fume of sighs my restless mind is trying to find meaning behind what's between the lines sense in the rhymes sense timeless time knowing & being known is all that life is for tom stoppard taught me so & she once showed me, oh ghost light eyes the fume of sighs my restless mind is trying to find meaning inside what's between the lines sense in the rhymes sense timeless time don't anticipate, just react & wait... wait... wait... exit the stage knowing & being known is all that life is for tom stoppard taught me so & she once showed me, oh a flash of genius your first, my last & after all this time i'd still go back knowing & being known is all that life is for tom stoppard taught me so & she once showed me, oh knowing & being known ghost light eyes the fume of sighs ghost light eyes once in a lifetime
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stardust 04:14
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walking on stardust we watch the earth rust while syncing inside us our hearts become timeless when everything is quiet we light sky up fireworks blow up silent cuz we like to stay hiding up in the air we'll live forever there walking in a garden where the flowers beg pardon perennials parting but the season's just starting she loves me, she loves me not i hope she forgets me not she loves me she loves me not i know i'll forget her not & somewhere out there she lets down her cotton candy hair as we dance a two step to 'your ex-lover's dead' with eyes closed we kiss slow lifting us high into the unknown as we light up the night above & keep on dancing in the stardust up in the air we'll live forever there up in the air we'll dance together, my dear she loves me, she loves me not i know she'll forget me not up in the air we'll live forever there walking on stardust we watch the earth rust
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blanket of clouds 04:40
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i can see underneath the arteries of the trees centuries of history & all the stories spoken free by the people who believed in a dream that they would meet once again after death & they would spend eternity sitting around on their blanket of clouds they don't look down they just laugh out loud thunderous but gentle somehow, they're hangin' around i can see you & me in the heart of the sea rising up full of love wondering what will come on the land we don't look back i ask you if you packed a snack two sandwiches & some chips the undiscovered country is sitting around on our blanket of clouds we don't look down we just laugh out loud thunderous but gentle, somehow we're hangin' around on the roof, looking out to the stars & the moon thinking bout way back when & hoping that we'll meet again cuz all of this suffering that we live it has to give something back, something that sounds as sweet as the promise that we'll be sitting around on our blanket of clouds we don't look down we just laugh out loud thunderous, but gentle, somehow we're just hangin' around happy ever after comes only after you've opened up to the truth that we're doomed but here we are so let's do the best we can with what we have & maybe, maybe after that we'll be sitting around on our blanket of clouds we don't look down we just laugh out loud thunderous, but gentle, somehow we're just hangin' around
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until you don't 03:46
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slings & arrows come & go, they come & go & when they're here we want them to just disappear but when they're gone we realize they define us you don't know what you know, until you don't we lives our lives behind the fourth wall at all times casting shadows as the stand ins without lines but we're given more than just the given circumstances you don't know what you know, until you don't the roots of us are in the caverns of our minds history & mystery all intertwined things unknown are deeply sewn blood from a stone & the grass that grows through a concrete crack heralds that a dream is just a dream like a tree is just a tree when we sleep we see the forest & believe you don't know what you know, until you don't the roots of us are in the caverns of our minds history & mystery all intertwined things unknown are deeply sewn blood from a stone & the grass that grows through a concrete crack heralds that the secret of our souls is that they're all black holes the roots of us are in the caverns of our minds history & mystery all intertwined things unknown are deeply sewn blood from a stone & the grass that grows through a concrete crack heralds that you don't know what you know, until you don't
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circles 04:05
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i never know the way i walk in circles all day comfort in the same, same, same staring straight til my eyes dilate someday i'll separate the picture from the frame someday i'll hesitate & break the chain i never calculate i walk in figure eights breathing in scenery i can feel eternity someday i'll separate the picture from the frame someday i'll light a flame & burn away it's hard to remember all the things i never forgot it's hard to remember all the places i never forgot it's hard to remember all the faces i never forgot it's hard to remember all the days i never forgot i always wanna change i walk between the rain i always wanna leave but the circle is incomplete someday i'll separate the picture from the frame someday i'll let it fade & find my way it's hard to remember all the things i never forgot it's hard to remember all the places i never forgot it's hard to remember all the faces i never forgot it's hard to remember all the days i never forgot
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delirium 04:02
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a decade of delirium living on the run life's as sweet as rum with six sick tongues & a love for rugs you've got a way of getting away & i've gotta say i love the way you smile when there is nothing funny & actually it's sad everybody says that you're the best at being bad i think they're mad the lies you've spat the lives you've had you've got a way of getting away & i've gotta say i love the way you smile when there is nothing funny & actually it's sad slit my throat & see how long i bleed cut me into pieces & mail me, please so that i can be wherever you will be just don't forget me when i'm dead let me live with you in your twisted head
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sometimes 02:28
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curves & curses cursive verses a love for hearses i hate rehearsing sometimes in the light sometimes in the night sometimes it's alright sometimes sometimes lost, lucky, lame all the world's a stage on memory lane past lives conflate sometimes in the light sometimes in the night sometimes it's alright sometimes sometimes when you come to a fork in the road just let go
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still life 04:39
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sketch a still life in black & white i got watercolors on my mind reciting lines silent as a mime once upon a time i tried footnotes on a footpath these leaves of grass resemble that future that's never coming back light a match & take a drag reaching out while pulling in sitting still while i spin coming down like a comet now crashing's how i reach the ground in the moment is where i live but before & after is all there is i'm reading into nothingness & teaching myself loneliness reaching out while pulling in sitting still while i spin coming down like a comet now crashing's how i reach the ground transcendental absence is the law by which i'm fixed reality leaks kerosene & i'm gaining speed towards disbelief coming down like a comet now crashing's how i reach the ground sketch a still life in black & white i got watercolors on my mind
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always 04:32
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& she says, always, always, always will never be long enough & i say, no way, no way, there's no way the sands of time will bury our love & then we look up, look up, we look up to the stars, shining above & we watch them falling, falling, they're falling making wishes on us your valentine has been on my mind a faint gold heart & your timeless line & she says, someday, someday, someday baby, we will become all that we're dreaming, dreaming, we're dreaming of just don't give up your valentine has been on my mind a faint gold heart & your timeless smile & with the sun in my eyes i see the wonders we'll find infinity rings while we sing your valentine has been on my mind & words can't describe how you've changed my life & she says , here's nothing, nothing, no there's nothing that i would rather do than waste a day with you
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drifting engines 03:35
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say anything to make me think that this is real & not a dream oh, pinch me, please 'cuz i'm certain we are somewhere else fast asleep in a stolen car our lightning hearts they stop then start incandescent sparks our lightning hearts incandescent sparks i will never forget the night that we spent sharing stories & our life pursuits far from the burden of tomorrows truth say anything with your sweet mischief double smile lines i am hypnotized out here on the road everywhere but home we just wanna be together & alone singing along to 'sally's song' & 'jack's lament' here is a blanket pull over, you say by the polluted lake & hold my hand say we'll be okay oh, hold my hand say we'll be okay i will never forget the night that we spent recreating our favourite scenes i was john & you were ione in my arms & in your eyes for the first time, everything felt divine say anything with your sweet mischief double smile lines we were so alive in a stolen car our lightning hearts incandescent sparks the world was ours

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released October 6, 2023

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