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Cars race along the harbor
As you pull down the shades
And fall into the night that surrounds you
Like I fell out of your grace
What is faith in a future you can't escape?
I'll find my way.
You sulk through your routine
Like I stumble through this town
Who are we really fooling?
I know why I'm still around
To be what you need when everyone's turned away
You'll find your way.
Cars race along the harbor
As you pull down the shades..
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2. |
My Brother In Arms
04:23
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Brother you’re still fighting a war
Started so long ago
The fires that burned in your heart
Have only grown stronger now
May they keep you warm
My brother in arms
Do you walk under storybook skies
Do you find sunken treasures
Is there something out on the road
Money can’t measure
May it save you from harm
My brother in arms
The things that you’re waiting for
The things that you’re waiting for
They wait even more
For you
Adam he found his Eve
When the world it first started
Out there tonight waits your queen
So open your heart
And she will give you her charms
My brother in arms
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Looks like he stole your faith
Well there’s always some heartbreak lying in wait
When the roads always changing
It’s easy to get lost
When you’ve been hurt
When you been tossed
Don’t stay down long
You were cut from a different cloth
Saw an old friend today
The weight of the world, it was hanging on his face
When you want to play the game
You gotta pay the cost
To belong
And not forgot
It’s not for you
You were cut from a different cloth
The story's always been the same
People building dreams, others taking them away
Well all you can do
Is just play your part
Don't let them win
Don't lose your heart
And show the world
That you were cut from a different cloth
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4. |
Falling Again
04:23
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You should have seen her running
Like a feather out in a storm
Singing songs to no one
While my longing played the chords
Thought I'd locked her away forever
Somewhere frozen in the past
In a dream I heard her whisper
And I knew she'd break me at last
When I heard her voice
It was shining like silver,
spinning like a record around my head
I can’t help myself, I’m falling again
Just when we stopped believing
It’s really hard to tell
Time will make you different
It'll make you lose yourself
But some things they’re worth keeping
Can’t just grind them into dust
Something’s lost in a goodbye
And I've already lost enough
When I felt her touch
Had me running through the red lights
Bouncing like an echo around the bends
I can't help myself, I'm falling again
Should have seen her running
Like a feather out in a storm..
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5. |
The World Is Wide
03:34
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The past is just a story
No matter where you’ve been
Keep on wishing
It ain’t coming back again
You gotta roll with the punches, roll with me
Roll with the punches, c'mon roll with me
Cuz the world is wide
And I'm here on your side
Well the boys around here
Play rock and roll
You know singing those songs
It can save your soul
Well a midnight heart
Just knows how to run
It's about where your going baby
Not about where you begun
All these memories, hang like diamonds around your neck
Ohhh this old life, it ain't nothing but a thought in your head
Love is real
That's why you're still here
I've been staring into space
But I still don't see heaven
So I just walk around my house
Thinking about nothing
You gotta roll with the punches, roll with me
Roll with the punches, c'mon roll with me
Cuz the world is wide and I'm here on your side.
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6. |
So Easy Now
03:26
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Michelangelo made glory of his days
David conquered, Houdini amazed
Put yourself up to these men
How can you measure up to them?
But I’m giving up that ghost
And it’ll all fall so easy now
It’ll all fall easy now
Read the poets of the sea and of the stage
Went out looking for the spirit of my age
But you are who you are
And nights get lonely out that far
So I’m giving up that ghost
And it’ll all fall so easy now
It’ll all fall easy now
Michelangelo made glory of his days
Carved the mountains into statues that he made
We're still talking about it now
I just want to shine that bright somehow
But I’m giving up that ghost
And it’ll all fall so easy now
It’ll all fall easy now.....
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7. |
Young & Wild & Free
04:43
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The city is ours tonight
I can feel your blood in these streets
The years gone fading by
It’s a world you never got to see
But in my mind, you’ll always be…..
Young & Wild & Free
Well people say that there’s a plan
And things are how they’re meant to be
You know the good ones never last
And you were always good to me
So you’ll live in my memory
Young & Wild & Free
Like the changing tide, floating out to the other side
It'll change your mind, something about the stars tonight...
Would you be living out on the coast?
Like you said you would be
Or would this place have called you home?
Like it called out to me
Cuz in these streets you’ll always be
Young & Wild & Free
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Telegraph Avenue
03:55
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America I’ve tried so hard to find you
Out on the shores of the sea
Waiting for the tide to be right so your ship could come into harbor
Young and reckless and unafraid
But it’s only darkness ….tonight….on Telegraph Avenue
America I read the words you wrote me
In the letters of Kerouac and Cassady
Went to find those City Lights and see that you were still alive
When all the poets have gone and died
In this darkness ….. tonight….. on Telegraph Avenue
Put an ear against the pavement, searched all the subway stations
Push through a crowd of faces, map out the sacred places
Shout out your favorite phrases, count down the time you've wasted
These turns your life’s been taking, you know you were always racing
Towards this darkness …tonight….
America I’ve tried so hard to find you, America I’ve tried so hard to see
America I’ve tried so hard to find you, America I’ve tried so hard to see
Through this darkness…tonight…
It’s only darkness …tonight…. On Telegraph Avenue
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9. |
Back To You Someday
03:52
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Well there’s birds up in the sky
Ships out on a wave
Cities waking up
Somewhere far away
And looking at you know
You can barely stay awake
I see where I’ve been blind
And what I put at stake
I know I left you out in the fray..
I’ll be coming back somehow
Coming back some way
Coming back to you
Coming back someday
From the Colorado sun
To the Pennsylvania rain
To the dark and empty wind
Where I listen for your name
I know your world's on fire
I've been burning in the flames
It was written in the stars
And we're just turning every page
And I know you're hurting now...
I'll be coming back somehow
Coming back someway
Coming back to you
Coming back someday
We’ll take all these dreams
Put them into shape
I'll be coming back to you
Coming back someday
Now I'm looking down on towns
Out the window of a plane
Electric flowers blooming
In the endlessness of space
The dreams inside your heart
Well they just wouldn't let you stay
Things can fall apart
And fall together just the same
And I know there's nothing to say
Til you're coming back somehow
Coming back someway
Coming back to you
Coming back some way
Coming back somehow
Coming back someway
Coming back to you
Coming back some way
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The 40th Parallel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 40th Parallel
All songs written by Ryan C McCloskey ©ASCAP
Published by Spirit Animal Publishing
©ASCAP
Produced and mixed by Brendan Monahan
Mixed at Miner Street Recordings Mastered by Ryan Schwabe
Recorded at Range Recordings and Miner Street Recordings
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