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Snow
02:37
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See the snow falling, slightly, through the streetlamp
Do you want to go to the park someday?
I couldn't sit down, I couldn't reach out. I just went straight to bed
I couldn't forget, but I couldn't remember, ever, being so in my head
See the snow falling, slightly, through the streetlamp
Do you want to go to the park someday?
I said to him, you look like, a guy who, knows how to have a good time
Swing in Vegas, laugh all night, make everyone feel all right
See the snow falling, slightly, through the streetlamp
Do you want to go to the park someday?
I won't smile to make you feel comfortable, me i'd rather choke
But i'll let out my best NPR laugh, to let you know I got the joke
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Ghosts
04:02
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Ghosts
lyrics- charles mansfield
Ghosts with lipstick and small shoes,
with buckles, straps not much to choose from
swimming sheets and trailing scents just underneath most every thought
And the buildings floating on the water and I am floating on the buildings;
and the ghosts are floating over me ,
as the boats leave their sea of foam, for a minute I feel free.
Floating powder gliding over wood floors with no sound
but never leaving, always hinting compromises we'll all be here....
And the buildings floating on the water and I am floating on the buildings;
and the ghosts are floating over me ,
as the boats leave their sea of foam, for a minute I feel free.
But as soon as the smoke leaves my lungs I breathe in what's always inside of me.
For all the lonely souls without a home a heart a page to write on
before the paper cuts and stinging sighs....yawns like yells, and laughs like cries.
Buildings floating on the water and I am floating on the buildings;
and the ghosts are floating over me ,
as the boats leave their sea of foam, for a minute I feel free.
But as soon as the smoke leaves my lungs I breathe in what's always inside of me.
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Flowers of Evil
03:07
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Flowers of Evil
What is up? Are you asking me? What is up? I'm asking that too
My head's a little spongey today; work kinda sucked. Yeah, yeah
A guy got fired and left some stuff behind, I didn't know how to do
and I had to work with Hugo Havermeyer; he knows his shit cold and suffers no fools
And I came upon a book of poems; named flowers of evil by charles baudelaire
Our heads are hard and the floor is cold and I can see the river through the glass
and the sun shines on the ripplin waves that carry the barges out to sea
And I came upon a book of poems; named flowers of evil by charles baudelaire
It had a hardcover it was just lyin there
Leave us with a litte culture here I was talkin to my friend named billy mark
about poetry which I never got much of I always thought myself less for it.
And he said he reads poems like normal books, yeah, page by page, cover to cover
you don't skip ahead to the juicy stuff you take those words as they come
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Animals Lo-Fi
03:46
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Animals
Where'd he go this time? Every time that I pick up my guitar
He runs away
People say animals are, perceptive beyond comprehension, but I want her attention, still she walks away
Where'd ya go? Where'd ya run to? You make me feel blue
When you run and hide away
I know that, it's just silly, it's just too loud for those pointy ears
But still the same, I'd wisheeed stay
Where'd ya go? Where'd ya run to? You make me feel blue
When you run and hide away
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Pray to Make it OK
He bought some flowers today
He threw them away; after they wilted in the trunk
He said he didn't believe in that
Cause she knew it was lame
But I feel so weak, and if it's all the same
To you
What are you wearing, tonight my dear
Well I don't know; well, I don't know about that; anymore
He said he didn't believe in that
Cause she knew it was lame
But I feel so weak, and if it's all the same
To You
I don't know what I want, but I want you
Pray to make it ok
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Green Lightning
03:42
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Green Lightning, it's so frightening.
It calls me. It came calling
It came up from the snow and woke the people below
it came crashing, it was smashing
8x10x2 and there was nothing we could do, when the
Mayor woke at night to clean up that unearthly sight, in the night. in the night
The press, they had a field day, and took the place of what we'd say
that is power, unchecked power
an injunction was won, but the damage was done, when..
The Mayor woke at night to clean up that unearthly sight, in the night, in the night.
And the little town that could, just tore down all that wood. and another attempt failed, the cooler heads they bailed
So another city said what's the problem with you head? Won't you ever learn. we never learn.......
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Ocean
02:57
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I drove past the Ocean, eyes off the road and it looked back at me, with the blackest pool of eyes and said, "you don't know loneliness, not even by a mile, but you might, even with your smile."
And the longer i stared into the darkness, i felt it's words were planted and every event that ever happened dissolved to nothingness.
I felt hollow, and cold, but i wanted to hear everything it told.
On the top of a building,looking down at the tar and there's no cars. Strange for this or any other time. Just silence.......No look, No advice, No joke; is this worthwhile? That ocean can still make me smile
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Snow (slow)
01:21
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See a sliver of light through the crack of a bedroom door right here
The books, the light, a public sight for all of us to see.
Feel your warm breath, speak your new words, stairs to unfamiliar rooms. The glowing hallway, the backdrop for the last best thing we wanted but ended to soon. Now I....
See the snow falling , slightly , through the streetlamp
Do you want to go to the park some day?
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Charles Mansfield Brooklyn, New York
Ask Charles what's up and the answer always is writing, playing, recording; not necessarily in that order. His sound has been compared to somewhere between Neil Young and Elliot Smith. The past few years have seen Charles in New York playing clubs, house shows and open mics in and around New York and Brooklyn. New single This Is Winter slated to release 3/18/18 ... more
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