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The Magical Floating Bed
02:24
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If it feels good, or it’s helpful
Try to picture a better place
but I, don’t, see that working today
Cause you can’t stay in bed
No you can’t stay in bed
and if it’s for the best
Then we wouldn’t leave again
If it heals you, and you want more
Try not to be such a bitter boy
So, I, think how could you fall in love
Cause you can’t stay in bed
No you can’t stay in bed
and if it’s for the best
Then we wouldn’t leave again
We wouldn’t leave again
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2. |
Emerald Dream Thief
03:03
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I’m in love,
with a girl
who sometimes leaves this world
cause I can’t find her some days
But I’m sure,
She is pure
she told me so, so I know
cause of the days when she stays
I’m in love with someone who I trust
to tell me what is real, what’s illustrations
I’m in love with someone
who with the tip of their tongue
can turn the balance beams
from right to wrong
I’m in love,
with a girl
who sometimes leaves this world
cause I can’t find her some days
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3. |
Slapback
02:59
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When I find the time I will tell you again
please be careful with what you don’t wish for
And it may seem kind of unkind I presume
but it helps me when I just can’t sleep
When you were born
the world stopped spinning for ten minutes
so since then
the timing never seemed right
like a tape that plays too slow to a movie track
your lips going too soon
voice going too fast
And the melody meant to set the mood
won’t quite
When I find the time I will tell you again
please be careful with what you don’t wish for
and it may seem kind of unkind I presume
but it helps me when I just can’t sleep
When you were born
the world stopped spinning for ten minutes
so since then
the timing never seemed right
like a tape that plays too slow to a movie track
your lips going too soon
voice going too fast
And the melody meant to set the mood
won’t quite
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4. |
Bluebirds & Meteorite
04:08
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The strangest thing I’ve ever thought
was why am I here if you are not
but now I know it’s true
I know why I am blue
I know why my colour’s all awry
is cause I let you in my life
So strange, so strange
the way that one behaves
When you turn off the light in their brain
When you take off their roof and it starts it starts to rain
Though I have learned to count the days
like a little kid playing marble games
still now I know it’s true
I know why I am blue
I know why my colour’s all awry
is cause I let you in my life
Night light, night light keeps me company
But it won’t quite, be what you need
When you wake from a book of dreams
With the pages torn so you don’t know what it means
There’s a bully who sleeps upstairs
He tells me things I don’t want to hear
but now I know it’s true
I know why I am blue
I know why my colour’s all awry
is cause I let you in my life
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When I was four years old
we had a burnt black pellet stove
And one day I found a frail female mosquito
And I don’t know if she knew but I thought
she could do with a little more warmth
So I let her go on top that old black stove
And I watched her dance her life away
If her feet hadn’t melded with the metal
She could’ve flown from the lethal
Instead a silent scream seemed to follow
And I don’t know if she knew but I thought
she was going to be ok
So I let her go down her own road
And I wondered if it lead back to me
Yeah I let her go her own road
And I wondered if it lead back to me
Now I’m not as young
I remember what I’ve done
Cause one day I’ll find another one
And I won’t let it go, I won’t let it go
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6. |
Doormat
03:32
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If you want someone
you can walk on I know someone
If you want someone
you can treat bad enough
that they love you more and they hate themselves for it
but they don’t know how to quit
If you want someone
you can count on I know someone
If you want someone
you can leave when its rough
and they won’t call you
unless you call them first
cause to them it’s just another lesson learned
Lie lie lie lie lie lie
Don’t bother with goodbye
If you want someone
you can walk on I know someone
If you want someone
you will give you their trust
and they won’t get mad
if you break their heart
because they don’t think that
they deserve one
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7. |
Only a Microphone
03:09
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He doesn’t think it’s worth it to fight it now
he doesn’t think oh there’s another way out
Cause it’s always around
So with his eyes still closed
he climbs the ferry that takes her home
cause it doesn’t mean much when a pretty thing goes
just let her go
Yeah it wasn’t a camera that stole his soul
only a microphone
It never goes away this meaninglessness
It never goes away but I wish if it did
cause its all that you miss
so with his eyes still closed
He climbs the ferry that takes her home
it doesn’t mean much when a pretty thing goes
Just let her go
It wasn’t a camera that stole his soul
only a microphone
I wanna believe, I wanna believe
there’s no place that could replace
the time you find inside your mind
and though it means I cannot dream
well I want to dream, I want to dream
cause I still love you though I know
I shouldn’t want to I suppose
Its just what I do, and I’m alone
and will be
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9. |
Connectiveness
04:07
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Hello I’m a liar and a beggar and a thief
oh if you let me in your home
I’ll only learn to cause you grief
Yeah somewhere in your sleepless eyes there’s a world that does reside
And as with time with many other things that will soon subside
And if only the earth was large enough
to fall into itself
pull in the stars, destroy the sun
leave us here combined as one entity
alone in time, was darker once
but now it shines
to guide those, that are to come
in search of things
we’d never done before
we’d never done before
we’d never done before
Hello I’m a loser and an outcast of this world
but if by chance I could steal
the wisdom of your pearls
Well my pain and pleasures are conjoined and I could never find a void
that’s large enough for me to store the fears
I can’t ignore
And if only the earth was large enough
to fall into itself
pull in the stars, destroy the sun
leave us here combined as one entity
alone in time, was darker once
but now it shines
to guide those, that are to come
in search of things
we’d never done before
we’d never done before
we’d never done before
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He said so then, lets talk about it, cause I think about it all
more than you can –
She said no Ben, that’s not a good thing, that’s not the only thing
keeping you alive
And, and when I turn my head
a little too quick I see you there
And, and though I’m still awake
I’m terrified and I can’t take
much more of this it hurts my head
why I was, what I was
And then there’s these things I call them wavelengths they help me determine
spaces placed between events
She said I know
but you’re so oh
hard to tell its hard to tell if you are even here at all
And and when I turn my head
a little too quick I see you there
And and though I’m still awake
I’m dreaming of your pretty face
And when I think, I think of you
I’m hoping that you’re thinking of me too
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I’ll find me a way out of here
I tried before but I don’t know, don’t know
and an exit sign is all I’m looking for
First the pressure to burst my skin
then the wounds filled with gin
and I would pass out from this pain
if not for my adrenaline
I was only trying to preserve
the things that I once knew
Protect you from this hell
but I can’t protect you from myself
You dragged me here how long ago
Why you did I don’t want to know
but I’m happy now that we are all alone
I was only trying to preserve
the things that I once knew
Protect you from this hell
but I can’t protect you from myself
And this is all just consequence of loving someone far too much
And all I do I really only do for you
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12. |
A White Boat
04:54
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These words
lift up the whole world
off your shoulders
off your shoulders
This note
turns to a white boat
so you can sail the waves
you can sail the waves
And this line
gives you back the time
you spent with me
spent with me
And this piece
gets rid of gravity
so nothing pushes you down
or around
This verse
knows why you hurt
what you’re worth
and why your tired heart does not work
This chord
the one you can’t afford
takes this air from me
and fills your lungs so you breathe
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13. |
Final Thoughts
08:32
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If I could
only trap one second
of my entire life
to live eternally
I know the one
i know the one for me
for me
And If I could
only look at the entire world
just one last time
I know the view
I know the view for me
for me
Oh maybe I create reality
see what I want to see
and what I see is right
No I’ve never been
stuck in someone else’s dream
I want to find you next to me
Awake and find you next to me
Sometimes I feel
like I am not from here
but a distant star
and I get to go
I get to go home
go home
And when I leave
if I could take just one
thing with me
just one memory
I know the one
I know the one for me
for me
Oh maybe I create reality
see what I want to see
and what I see is right
No I’ve never been
stuck in someone else’s dream
I want to find you next to me
awake and find you next to me
You look so beautiful
from your hair down to the floor
I would lay next to you, if my body I could move
And we will sleep, sleep this off
for eternity
We will sleep this off for eternity
We will sleep this off for eternity
We will sleep this all for eternity
We will sleep this off for eternity
Eternity, eternity,
Eternity, eternity,
Eternity, eternity
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Ben's Imaginary Band Toronto, Ontario
The band is imaginary, but the music is real — I am just making it alone. I write the songs and lyrics, sing, play all the instruments separately, and record and mix the songs in my bedroom/studio. Occasionally I get some help from one friend or another for a backing vocal or instrument part. ... more
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