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Your Orbit
04:21
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The light has awoken
Up in the morning
Over a silver lake
And the sun also rises
The stars are hidden behind your ears
And they've melted my voice
I swam through your orbit
And I found refuge there
They are the ones who know you
Though I don't, I want to
So...
Open your eyes and shine
Open your eyes and shine
Open your eyes and shine
Before I open my mouth and burn
Blue heart and black eyes
Darkness your disguise
While I struggle with plasticide
You exit via the hall
I am the one that knows you
When they don't seem to want to
So...
Open your eyes and shine
Open your eyes and shine
Open your eyes and shine
Before I open my mouth and burn
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2. |
Midnight in Manhattan
03:02
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I would live my whole life over, just to see your Parisian eyes not leave mine tonight
You're out of sight, but not out of mind
I'd have walked you safely back to a hotel in lower Manhattan, it's a place I don't know too well
And now I wonder if you made it home
Cause when I went and rode away, I felt so goddamn lonesome
Like I was living in a play of characters with no name
And so I'll search the whole world over, just to catch a glimpse of you
I promise that it's true, I will crawl til I see you again
And when I do I will call from afar, remind you that every moment spent was apart
I wanna know you, my pink flower
I would live my whole life over, just to see your Parisian eyes not leave mine tonight
You're out of sight, but not out of mind
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Air
05:20
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Am I just sitting here with nothing to show?
And am I worthless even with all that I've come to know?
And I'm ashamed of what I've become
Is there no pride in all that I've said and done?
Is there no meaning in all of the songs that I've sung?
Have these tortured melodies all come undone?
I wish there was a way that I could explain
Just how I got here, just pick a name
The air is so much clearer without you
These steps that I take no longer keep me out of breath
The ashes are blowing with the wind
Who would've thought that I'd be burning this bridge?
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Zombie Eyes
02:58
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I want to reach down and feel holy again
But I don't know how
There's no light to guide me now
Only place to go is down
Only place to go is down
And when all my friends have left my side
And there's no one left to confide
In all the secrets in my mind
I will see through a dead man's eyes
I will see through a dead man's eyes
And all of this will surely fade
Deep into the waves
And then into my grave
I will never wake
I will never wake
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Half Hearted Boy
09:11
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Disoriented beyond belief,
I'm walking with stone tablets stapled to my feet
And when I see the pictures posted on the wall
it makes me want to scream in anger at what was never there at all
And I can hear birds sing,
but I don't know what they mean, still their melodies come straight and true
And as they fly across the sky,
I can see why they love to stay among the trees and not walk around on their feet
Shape without form, shade without color
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
Walking through the forests filled with sand
under my feet I can't catch the grip, I need your loving hands
I'd look up at your beautiful face through this half eaten heart
that you delicately left me with
Watching your hair blow through the wind with a smile on your face
while I feel like shards of broken glass
I'm a half hearted boy with not a cause in the world
No one's ever here to protect me anymore
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
but I'm still tired of living in desolation row
I don't want to wait for the rest of my life
To see the holy spectacle where a mighty god lies
Shape without form, shade without color
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
But it's your eyes that I see whenever I lay down to sleep
Why should I try to build the kingdom, without you it wouldn't mean a thing
And I'm missing every thing you ever said, even though it wasn't much of anything
No it wasn't much of anything
Shape without form, shade without color
Paralyzing force, gesture without motion
Eyes I only meet in dreams
This is how the world ends
This is how the story ends
This is how your love ends
This is how your life ends
Not with a bang, but a lonely whimper
It's not with a bang, but a lonely whimper
This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper
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Midwestern Dirt Chicago, Illinois
Formed in 2017 as a solo studio project by singer-songwriter Patrick Kapp, the group has expanded to feature Colin Mercer and Owen Hemming.
Midwestern Dirt has put out four LPs and two EPs on Nantasket Records.
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