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A Love Story

by The Simple Parade

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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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Telegraph 03:44
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
3.
Us 04:59
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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Go With You 04:24
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
5.
Sydney 03:41
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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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 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
8.
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
9.
Heartstrings 03:51
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
10.
Aria 04:27
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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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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released June 12, 2016

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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 group of talented and humble musicians who are dedicated to a simple mission; create authentic and honest songs that challenge the mind, touch to the heart, and encourage the soul.

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