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Something Overtook Me
02:02
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She came to me gently, her hair hanging down Warm smile and pink lips, softening the ground Where I lay so confused, pretending to seem Oh so much wiser than I can really be
As she approached me, I tried to speak Her eyes began to emit golden beams
I stared in shock as she began to explode Not in a way that was human at all
Light filled up the room, and I was frozen
In what she spouted that February morning
I can't explain this cruel world at all
Something overtook me, now I just laugh as I fall
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Savior
05:31
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I opened up my computer
Gave myself a fair warning one more time
I sounded so calm and sure of myself
So I took out that needle and stuck it in my side
I picked up my old guitar
Looking to drain all the poison from my mind
I thought that feeling bad would turn me into some kind of savior So I scribbled out those words and gave it one more try
I looked in the mirror and said
Do you even know me?
The fire inside your head died
Someone got up and walked out to the cold breeze You don’t even know him
You just tell him he’s all wrong But his hands are on you now
I’m going on a road trip with my dad
Looking to break up all these days gone mad
Where I sit in my body, but I can’t stop exploring my mind
So I pinched the thin skin on my hand and gave it one more try
I remember sitting in the front seat, eyes half closed
Squinting at the dashboard, miles of air into my nose
And with each inch down on the gas pedal, feels like I am bursting out of myself I thought that feeling bad would turn me into some kind of savior
But really dwelling in that world only brought me closer to my anger
I feel like a hot stove
Hurled into a frozen lake
I watch it all go by
I know that everything decays
I know it ain’t healthy
To calm yourself down
By thinking about the universe
In its massive pointlessness you just drown
Instead I go home
Get to know myself
And I trust that more
Than anything else
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Wonder
03:20
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A strange green gray light filled up the sky
As I walked out to the eerie summer twilight
The world is quivering like an injured child
Clusters of dark spirits form clouds above the fire
And I wonder, are you sleeping As the panic in my head
Expands to my heart
Ending the world again
A little mouse scurried across the kitchen floor
As I worried that my head no longer worked for what it's for I look down and see that I missed your call
I lean my head against the two AM, and sink into the wall
And I wonder, are you dreaming
As the great waves come cascading On us all
Dark butterflies flood the hall
And when the day envelops your room
You're calm as the ever moving moon
Those dark shapes retreat into the sun
Surprising everyone, but you just stand in the road and laugh it off
And I wonder, did you feel it
That bitter silence so ripe with hatred
Or did you just hide it so very well
Like I hide my love for you in the wishing well
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Man
02:48
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Ripping through this fog
Like an ancient machine
Like a divine being
Longing to come home to you
Been a thousand years Sleeping in the rain Slipped out of my mind Only her far away eyes
Could quench my thirst
I’ll push a mighty river through this fog Every soul on the hill
Will hear my shame screaming out
Lonely is a word
That I’ll save for you
Somewhere there is light
That will gently hammer out a flower’s frame
I’ll water her there
In my garden green
Scattering the stars
Won't remember what lonely means
But I am a man
It’s easy to forget from time to time When I let my hair
Flow long and freely watered by her light
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Lullaby for Dissociation
03:18
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Lay down low and look at the room Da da da da dey
Close your eyes and open again Da da da da dey
Count the ways the air moves around Your body like a wave
Hold your hand to the candle again Da da da da dey
Feel the gravity on your feet
Da da da da dey
Trust the goodness in all you see Da da da da dey
There was a time when you’d look in the mirror And see that every day
The world will see you through to the end
Da da da da dey
And the seagulls
Say good morning
Just outside
They aren’t only in your mind
Go and see them at the end of the night When the sky is a golden light
And the smiling thousand suns
Blink an eye, and you’re no one
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Will Orchard Nashville, Tennessee
live from the sky train
Will Orchard recommends:
jess is an amazing human <3 these songs are reflective, melancholy, bright and so much more. a beautiful & special voice
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i first met ben mccormick at my middle school geography bee. thank goodness i dropped my guitar pick next to him. he picked it up and said "do you like eric clapton?" the rest is history :-)
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