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Golden
04:04
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My pops used to load us kids up
In the car, do the late-night freeway flying
Salem cigs burning the night sky
tumbling their red flicker at the rearview mirror
Those times were golden
Stationed in Huachucha mom put her foot down
Said we're living off base in the O.C. with her family
Pops drove every weekend from AZ to SoCal
To see us as he wrapped up work
Crazy-long stretches of highway thru the desert
Where there were literally no one or nothing for hours
Those times were golden
Yesterday was the anniversary of Pop's passing
I talked to mom about an hour ago
10:30pm her time, 1:30am our time
I tried to find a way to pay homage to him in a good way
These times are golden
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Chateau Malediction
03:08
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Mis en bouteille au chateau
Where does time start and where does it go?
Speckled in dust and missing a label
You will be served at my table
Chateau Malediction
We're missing from places
and we don't even know that we're damaged freight my friend
We're missing people in somebody's life
All tangled up in heart strings
Crack the cork it's a beautiful sound
We'll sing one for the missing, sing one for the found
Sing one for the night, sing one for the dawn
Sing one for the here, sing one for the gone
Sing one for the now, sing one for the then
Sing one for the women, sing one for the men
Sing one for a stranger, sing one for a friend
Sing one in case we never get to sing one again
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Love You Better
03:45
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I will come in last
In the sleeping championship
But do not laugh
One day you might suffer this
I will come in first
In the overthinking games
You think you have it worse?
Surely we can talk about it
I may be a fool, but I'm your fool
And I can love you better than anyone else can
I won't even place
In the Civil War beard contest
You think I'm saving face
But it feels good to get off my chest
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Where do I start, how to begin?
A roll of packing tape I can't find the end
I was me for a time
Being me in my mind
I was tea for child
Uncomplicated and mild
The more I know the less I can
I'm not changing my mind
Now I'm walking doom
Window seat on the gloom
The tide changes so soon
Knocks everything out of tune
The more I know the less I can
I'm not changing my mind
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5. |
When You're Leaving
02:50
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Pink cherry blossoms snowing in the spring
Dawn in Pennsylvania, storms in Mississippi
The breeze is breathing careful
Full of missing souls
Drinking in their wisdom, ceding all control
When you're leaving
I'll leave on a light
When you're leaving
Gimme a kiss goodbye
'Cause if it's the last time
I shudder at the thought
The price at which all love is bought
The price at which our love is bought
I know what you're thinking
Love should be free
I don't believe in free love
But it need not cost a thing
Tell you I'll be careful
Tell you I'll be kind
I don't believe in free love
Though all great love is blind.
When you're leaving
I'll leave on a light
When you're leaving
Gimme a kiss goodbye
'Cause if it's the last time
I shudder at the thought
The price at which all love is bought
The price at which our love is bought
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My Kind of Weather
04:05
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Drifting cloud, she's a breeze, she's catholic guilt
Mischief lying in wait 'til the castle's built
She's the wind on the waves
When the moon is full
She's the champagne up my sleeve
Feeling gravity pull us together
She's my kind of weather
She's salt, she's fire, an electrical storm
She's bearing down on me, small crafts be warned
She's the AED when the shock hits full
She's my reason to breathe
Feeling tragedy pull us together
She's my kind of weather
A strong melody can only help for so much
I thought I'd figured it out
Without harmony, accompaniment and such
What's all this singing about?
She's the cabernet, bold and full
She's a storm out at sea
Electricity pulls us together
She's my kind of weather
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Thirsty for a summer breeze
Orchestrated by moonlight
What a better way to ease adrift
Beside a sunkissed sea darkening
Silhouttes crowd the porch tonight
I want to be where you when you are
I want to do where you go when you go where you go
Ramble past staggering azalea
Bees fly drunk in candlelight
While the moon drinks the sea
At the swooning jewel of Howard St.
I want to be where you when you are
I want to do where you go when you go where you go
If this porch could talk it'd probably sing
With the rocking chairs in harmony
I want to be where you when you are
I want to do where you go when you go where you go
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8. |
Hold Your Horses
02:06
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Hold your horses
Find your tribe
Try different people
All shapes and size
Keep your head up
and your powder dry
You're gonna get a shot
Ready or not
People will not believe
If they can't hear what you heard
They'll need you to take the lead
Turn feelings into words
and sing from memory and heart
Hold your horses
Find your tribe
Try different people
WIth your same eyes
Keep your head up
and your powder dry
You're gonna get a shot
Ready or not
And if time takes
It's sweet old time
Mix new kinds of colors
Find new ways to rhyme
and sing the melody in your heart
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9. |
Stay For The Summer
03:56
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It was a long, hot day
And we're at sunset bay
And the clouds are cotton candy pink
As the sun sinks low
Near the big Atlantic O...
Don't let the breeze carry us away
We should stay for the summer
It's time we got away
We should stay for the summer
Always
I know that the car is all packed
And I know you just want to get back
But you know traffic is all backed up
On any road you need
I see you're not moving fast
We can make a good thing last
Think about all the fun we've had
Why'd you ever want to leave?
We should stay for the summer
It's time we got away
We should stay for the summer
Always
It was a long, hot day
And we're here to stay
The boardwalk's only
Two blocks away...
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Matt Cummins Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Voice and guitar for The Matts, Disheverly Brother for life, Zephyr PHX instigator,
Singer-Songwriter Cape May selectee,
International Pop Overthrow performer, multi-instrumentalist, dreamer, veteran of the indie rock wars (19X2-20X9), bruxist, laconic yet excitable
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