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A Boy and a Girl
03:56
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A Boy and a Girl
She sits lonely on the pier as the waves crash in her thoughts
Pictures a romantic sunset with her soul mate on the dock
With hopes of a diamond ring on a white summer day
She waits for her prince to come as these moments tick away
Outcome number one is happily ever after
Outcome number two just finds the first one faster
As she’s looking for love
As she’s looking for love
As she’s looking for love so her heart can find a home
Looking for love because she’s tired of feeling alone
He sees her sitting by the bay, but he’s not sure what to say
She looks pretty as she waits, she looks pretty as she waits
With the memory of failure, he is gun-shy as he thinks
Is today the day he’ll swim, or just another time to sink
Outcome number one hopefully will fit him
Outcome number two still has to be written
As he’s looking for love
As he’s looking for love
As he’s looking for love because he want to share his soul
Looking for love so his life can loose control
She waits to be swept off her feet, he’s ready to fill the empty seat
They both know that there is something more, what is it that they are searching for?
Looking for love, looking for love, looking for love, looking for love
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2. |
Telegraph
03:44
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Telegraph
I send my telegraph to you
And I am praying it went through
To remind you of my voice
You shot my future in the dark
And now I’m bleeding works of art
That illuminate the noise
My head dreamed up a certain girl
Brown eyes with a brunette curl
Then eyes of blue came to my aid
You came to twist it all around
My plans just left without a sound
Caught in your lovely masquerade
Oh my poetry was broken, but my words become much sweeter with you
And my heart it was wounded, but it seems that it has healed with you, with you
With winter gone and autumn near
Your laugh shows me that you’re sincere
The summer beach shows off your skin
I think I’ll marry you someday
With lines of love and songs to play
The time for wait is crumbling
Oh my poetry was broken, but my words become much sweeter with you
And my heart it was wounded, but it seems that it has healed with you, with you
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Us
04:59
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Us
Your hair was gold, your eyes were blue, and there were many who pursued
I shouldn’t join the fight, I’m sure its wrong
So I’ll tell you that we’ll be friends, and you wonder why I pretend
To view you as a duckling, not a swan
Oh, I’ve waited much too long to show you love
I’m sure that I’ve waited much too long to show you love
As you keep journals of our time, I wait for names with which to rhyme
Not knowing that your name already fits
See I want you, do you want me, with blinding doubt it’s hard to see
And I’m not sure without my movie script
Oh, I’ve waited much too long to show you show you love
I fear that I’ve waited much too long to show you love
You caught this sinking stone, now my heart is not my own
This is where I’m supposed to be, here with you and you with me
The wedding bells have run and you’re my bride, now this broken love is something I can’t hide
I’m the man that you will need my dear, for when hell comes down I’ll still be standing here
You caught this sinking stone, now my heart is not my own
This is where I’m supposed to be, here with you and you with me
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4. |
Go With You
04:24
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Go With You
Morning came like an unwelcome friend
But I am glad to see you again
You’re asleep, and I’m right beside you
Your beautiful with dreams in your head, in your head
Let’s be reckless fools and break all the rules for fun
We’ll figure this out, what life’s all about and just run
And I, I will go with you
And I, I will go with you
We’ll draw up the blueprints, then throw them away
Cast out our cares and live life day by day
Oh and I, I will go with you
House of cards, we’ll make it a home
Open heart, and a hand to hold
We’re picking up all of these pieces
So we can write, a story untold, untold
And I, I will go with you
And I, I will go with you
We’ll draw up the blueprints, then throw them away
Cast out our cares and live life day by day
Oh and I, I will go with you
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Sydney
03:41
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Sydney
I met a woman in Sydney who looked like cigarette smoke
Her hair was colored with memories and her mouth with a joke
Said “I don’t care for the opera, they might start singing off key
no no no, the opera’s not for me”
She held tight to her coffee as we walked by the bay
She told me she’d moved from Brooklyn, and with her thoughts on parade
I asked “What brought you to Sydney?” She told me “Love brought me here,
oh, I have a story my dear”
As we sat by the harbor, she slowly unpacked her life
Once a prophet of romance, later two times a wife
Said “My heart, it was broken, so I broke hearts in return
Then I crashed and burned”
“See, I lost two men to history, one was shot in the war
The other’s raising my children after I ran out the door
Oh and sometimes you lose love, sometimes you throw it away
And I’ve thrown it away
Oh my dear, my dear, never throw love away”
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6. |
Love Ballad I
04:02
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Love Ballad Part 1
You know I can’t control the weather, I can’t make the grey skies blue
I can’t tell the winds to stop it, but I can give my love to you
I can’t teach you how to whistle, and my jokes aren’t always new
I can’t remember things that I should, darling, but I can give my love to you
I can’t write a perfect sonnet, my melody is out of tune
I can’t string a phrase with poets, but I can give my love to you
I can’t beat my drum with all the others, but you don’t really want me to
A straight line is too much trouble, oh, but I can give my love to you
I can’t walk across the waters, and my words aren’t always true
And I won’t get close to perfect, but I can give my love to you
Heaven knows that I’m not perfect, most of the time I am a fool
But there’s one thing I can promise, that I will give my love to you
Oh and don’t you see I’m trying, trying to give my love to you
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In the Bell Tower
03:54
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In the Bell Tower
Why are you inventing all this trouble, finding problems in your cards?
Life is not as easy as we thought, but it’s also not as hard
The sky is never ever going to crumble, the roof will catch its fall
Luckily our love is strong enough, because it’s holding up the walls
Don’t you hear God in the bell tower, He’s calling out our names
He says this life is going to cost us, all of our ambition and our fame
He’s still holding up the world, we can carry our small part
Oh send peace into this heart
I’m sorry that you’re feeling so neglected, we’re filling up the holes
It seems to me these jobs they feed our mouths but they do not feed our souls
It’s easy to keep shouting from the pulpit, it’s time to go outside
Why are we pretending that we’re dead when we know that were alive?
Don’t you hear God in the sunset, our futures in the clouds
He’s saying all you have to do is take my hand, for crying out loud
He’s still holding up the world, we can carry our small part
Oh send peace into this heart
Don’t you hear God in the bell tower, He’s calling out our names
He says this life is going to cost us, all of our ambition and our fame
He’s still holding up the world, we can carry our small part
Oh send peace into this heart
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8. |
Father and Son
03:42
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Father and Son
I was just a simple boy,
didn’t know much of anything
‘Til my father sat me down,
and explained to me everything
He said son, my father was flawed, he obeyed such a selfish deed
But he turned to the grace of God, and his ransomed soul was freed
I was just a simple teen,
growing up just the best I could
‘Til my father sat me down,
showed me love ’til I understood
He said son, I’m not a perfect man, I don’t know much of anything
But I’m trying the best I can, I work hard so that you can sing
Now I’m just a simple man,
I don’t know much of anything
But someday I’ll sit my son down,
and explain to him everything
I’ll say son, my father was strong, he loved me more than anything
Now I see how to love like him, and someday you will love like me
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9. |
Heartstrings
03:51
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Heartstrings
A boy walks, his footprints stuck in the sand,
Well he goes too far and becomes a man
Fatherhood is a poetry
Where the son follows that boy’s wandering feet
A hospital is an ironic place
Where joy is hard on a solemn face
In a crowded room a brave man loses his fight
But across the hall a baby breathes first life
Oh show me why, why the good die young
And show me why, a father loves his son
Show me why, why we start at a crawl
Show me why, why love is worth it all
A soldier’s wounded on the battle lines
In freedoms pulse he watches comrades die
That boy lies in the medic’s wing
Wondering why heavens birds still sing
The demons played with my heart today
As the angels took my grandfather away
They say when I was born he welled up with pride
God must have done the same when he reached the other side
Show me why, these moments tug heart strings
Show me why, the angel needs its wings
Show me why, we always seem to fall
Show me why, why love is worth it all
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Aria
04:27
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Aria
I told you that you would be fine
That’s what I said before I met you
But now you’re running out of time
Just know that I could not forget you
The darkness came into the room
As walls are closing in around me
It seems that you are leaving soon
But I know your hearts already found me
My lovely one
You told me it would be alright
That you can go along without me
God knows that we put up a fight
One day your arms will be around me
My lovely one
Swing wide you selfish gates of heaven
Return my lovely back to me
These tears are running from my eyes
We’ll have to wait ’til paradise
Oh, my lovely one
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11. |
Love Ballad II
04:19
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Love Ballad Part 2
I believe it’s written in an ancient song
That our words mean nothing if our hearts are wrong
I could bark for hours up a useless tree
But it won’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me
I could walk for decades ’til my feet are numb
Through the wilderness where the rivers run
I could brave the desert and the valley
But it won’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me
I could court a woman, give her lovely things
Tell her she’s my soul mate and propose a ring
We could walk the shoreline of a perfect sea
But it won’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me
I could win the battle, I could win the war
I could be a hero that’s worth fighting for
I could storm the beaches, set the captives free
But it won’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me
I could walk on water and fulfill the script
I could feed the sinners and call out hypocrites
I could claim perfection, die upon a tree
But it won’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me, no it don’t mean nothing if there’s no love in me
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The Simple Parade Denver, Colorado
At it's core, The Simple Parade is singer/songwriter Justin Hooper who lives in beautiful Denver, CO. He is joined by a
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