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Joe Goes To France
03:03
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“Joe Goes To France”
Music and lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Don’t know just what i’ve done
Don’t know where I’ve been
I feel excited in just knowing that you’re real
I know that I can do
Nothing without you
Don’t know just what i’ve done
Don’t know just where I’ve been
I feel excited in just knowing that you’re real
I’ve seen you once before
You coming around my door
And I feel excited in just knowing that you care
Back to the story line
And yes I’m feeling fine
I finally got my best friend by my side
It took me ages just to accept that my life was in a mess
I don’t know which way’s up or down
I’ve got my feet back on the ground
I’ve got my head up in the sky
I know i’m lost I must be found
I need to wake up
I need you here again once beside me
Every night as sure as every day
I need you here again to help me on my way
I want to fly to France and take a chance to make romance it’s true
I want to sail a ship across the sea only if you’d come with me
I can do nothing without you
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2. |
What Else Can I Do?
03:21
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What Else Can I Do?
Music and lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Come around to push me down
Is this finally love that I’ve found?
Or maybe it’s just in my head
Round and round and round we go
Will this ever stop? I think not, no
But will I stay or will I go?
Days go by and weeks have passed
I thought this’d be the one that lasts
Oh how I wish time weren’t so fast
More and more and more and more each day
I wish I’d called or I wished you’d stayed
Oh what does it matter anyway?
Wait another minute
What else can I ever say to you?/do my love?
What else can I do?
Wait another minute
What else can I ever do, my love?/What else can I do for you my love? / Why can’t I just get you off of my mind?
What else can I do?
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3. |
The Knockdown
03:23
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“The Knockdown”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Wipe that liner from my eye
Cause wearing heartache’s not in style
And in due time I might find
After all it’s not so bad
You’re the best I ever had
Playing it over and over
Stuck in a song
Humming along
Sounding like a chord that won’t belong
Guiding light it shines so bright
In the middle of the night
Showing symptoms we can fight
And it hurts to be held tight
Two wrongs don’t make a right
I can’t believe my eyes
Moving around
My heart on the ground
Tipping hats to lonely nights I’ve found.
It’s all or nothing baby
Knock down every door
And if love means something
Knock down every door
I’ve been waiting here for you
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4. |
Kick It Round
03:20
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“Kick It Round”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
More or Less
The weight it off my chest
A simple test
A method to the madness
Walking around
Tripping on your underground
I type in all bold, break the mold, picture of the soul you sold
I want to snap that crooked record straight
This time around
A throwback that will never ever last
Kick it round and round
Kick it up and down
With the brand new sound
I never hear you talking
Well then
My patience and my soul pen
Won’t bend, revel in, bidding in the scene again
Well, another night
You and your mind fight
Because you’re uptight, downbeat, too afraid to move your feet
Come on and skip the broken record shake
The music goes all night
A throwback that will never ever last
It just takes takes a little time
In the end you’ll find
Things aren’t the way they used to be
You’re right behind me, sign me, write me off tonight
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5. |
Walking Away
03:59
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“Walking Away”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
I woke up when I lost you
My hand it somehow slipped through
yours as crowds passed by
This town it hates to love you
And my plans always fall to
pieces I can’t place
The mystery still thrills me
I stretch the lines just to see
how far I can go
Break my legs I beg you
Replace my heart with one new
love for who you are
Sundays they used to be/seem so long
But now you’re gone
Cause I’m walking away
I’m walking away
Ive never been this far away from you
And I must say I don’t know what I’ll do
all I need is you
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6. |
Overrated
02:56
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“Overrated” (Version 1 and 2)
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
First we made
They over played it
Sounds outdated
So overrated, now
We’re back again / I’m back again
Bleeding skin / with Bleeding skin
You’d think each time that’d i’d listen
But it’s too late now
A party foul
This tattoo Says I’m through with you
An unlocked cage is all the rage
We’re/I’m making up for all those mispent days
So let the sad song(s) play misinformed DJ
Because requested radio says I’m better that way
It’s now my turn to crash and burn
Yet each day another lesson learned
I said I’m up in smoke, a second hand joke
Sweeping up the pieces of the heart I broke
So overrated
Infatuated / exaggerated
Miscalculated
I should have changed the station when I had the chance
I should have stopped that song before we started to dance
I should have paid her off with my record advance
I should have stopped
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7. |
xMultiplyx
03:21
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“xMultiplyx”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Breakdown
We’re falling up
A victory song
It’s not enough
Believing everything you’ve read
Well, I’ve been
Flickering
Shedding light
From left to right
Barely breathing but not dead
And it’s said and it’s done and this army of one as we march into the sun
Oh, when will we
Be finally free
Chained to who
We used to be
The revolution’s up ahead
With closed eyes
We’re capsized
We’re blindly
Living
We sink and hit the ground
We won’t die we’ll just multiply and take over
This is our time when
Cold air stings on these new found wings as we fly over
This is our only time
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8. |
So, So Radio
02:29
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“So, So Radio”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
I took a spin through space with rock royalty
To all the places I was too young to be
I’m seeing bright lights, late nights, feeling alive, dead in a new york dive
Put on your makeup, wake up, ready by three, hello BBC
So, So come on radio
Hold on tight so I can just let
Go, go come on radio
Hold on tight so I can just let go
Soak up the stardust with a sultry stare
Christine’s just sixteen playing truth or dare
It’s a lifestyle, nail file, wearing you down, nose dive to the ground
I’m trashing hotels, no tells, bucking the trends, making brand new friends
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9. |
Ex's & O's
03:34
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“Ex’s & O’s”
Music by Matthew Schwartz and Joel Walker
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
I’ve been around this town and I’m not coming back
Your smell it overwhelms from the perfume bottle crack
I lost the words I finally found to say
And days of throwing my i love you’s away
I've been down
I’ve heard nothing is for sure
Or so they tell me
If less is really more
We’ll never ever know
Cause I don’t let it show
I can’t go on this/that way
If less is really more
You don’t deserve me
Lately I’ve spent days in dreams and dirty jeans
Doing nothing alone is harder than it seems
And I can’t dot your rolling eyes
Or trace my way back through your tangled truth and lies
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Lacklustre
04:02
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“Lacklustre”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
This liquids helping but I’m hoping for a better way
So I can open up your head and figure out which day
Somethings crossed with a spark you forgot my name
This morning’s gory with no story on what made you change
I’m sick of hearing sirens steering me to what seems right
While I feel left all alone to drive around all night
Well maybe call with a line so contrived you’ll scream
Devise a plan blast your name just to cause a scene.
Well since you tasted today
It’s hard to swallow yesterday
So choke it down you say
You loved me yesterday
If this is better than forever then I’ll stay in line
So i can spit out all the kisses that I thought were mine
So i was wrong, just move on when you trip and fall
Just think of me and we’ll both agree that you’ve lost it all
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“3 Out Of 5 Ain’t So Bad...Baby”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Red mean nothing
When we’re tearing up the open road
Being colorbind is fine with me
Get in the car let's go
We’ll paint this city
The darkest shade of midnight
But nevermind the time
Just stay with me and we’ll be alright
I’m known to fight but not tonight
Instead, instead I’ll sign the dotted line
I said I’m
I’m known to fight but not tonight
Instead, instead I’ll sign the dotted line blind
And share my piece of mind
Pick my pockets
It’s empty cause I pay my dues
Now i’m betting everything on me
And everything on you
Were poisoned by the barrel
You said I’ve gone crazy
I love to taste the pleasure and the pain
Small town kids in low class lifes
So blinded by the flashing lights
Slow down kids the time you keep is rare
This town never sleeps
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12. |
Until It's You
03:23
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“Until It’s You”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Caught a thought on a cross town train
In the dark though it sounds insane
I’ve lost it, I’ve lost it
And it felt like a shotgun shell to the heart
Though it burned like hell
I missed it, I've missed it
All in all it’s you
All in all there's nothing left to lose
All in all it’s you
All in all is never all that much
Until it’s you
Made a wish that i'd like to kiss goodbye
Though i still insist on thinking
On dreaming
Of a smile fresh faced and far away
I can’t replace by drinking
I’m faking
I’ve looked around there's nothing left to lose
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A Day In The Life (Of The Living Dead)
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
For dramatic touch I’ll pose
You can stitch me up in roes
Cause i’m covered in cuts i know
It doesn't hurt that much
In your winter white
Still dark in any light
Cause if the blood don’t show no one will ever know that
Can't you see
Clearly
You’ll be the death of me
Lost and i’m found
And I’m down
And we come from underground
Well, back on my knees
Oh please with the third degree
Can’t breathe
Cause im cover in sunk
I know it’s hard to believe
Now that it’s all been said
And I’m the living dead
A day in the life with my beautiful wife and kids
Tripping over stones
The small of roses says I’m home
Now send my wishes and my kisses to the ones i’ve left alone
So tell me, where's a guy to go?
Maybe six feet down or so
To bathe in mud and all a sudden
I just wanted you to know
Just a day in the life of the living dead
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Ms. You
04:15
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“Ms. You” (Version 1 and 2)
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Ms. You
You said goodbye and / I said goodbye and
Soaked our past in low grade gas and left
New flames
They always seem to
Burnout quick but this one lit me up
For all the times
I wondered about life outside of you
So i tried, I guess I’m wrong
Lately
I’m sick to death cause she
infects my second guessing, troubled/troubling mind
Revenge tastes so sweet
You lick your lips and crack you whip
And laugh while I just sing
I’m coming back, I’m coming back
Around
I found that I’m seeing things better when
Face down
Through all the injuries and memories / memories and injuries
I miss you
You live and learn
Burn, baby, burn
Knee deep in what I’ve done
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15. |
Me, My Disaster, And I
04:18
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Me, My Disaster, And I
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Forced fed these lines for all my life
You’ll never leave alive
I said why lie?
I had to try
Haze breaks and blurs my crystal clear
I swerve it's only nerves
The learning curve is hard to steer dear
It’s just me, my disaster, and I
Oh, let it fly, do or die, bye bye
Don’t ask me why, black eyes, and compromise
Just watch the sky it’s falling fast
With western stars that couldn’t last as long
As I am wrong
Just watch the sky it’s burning bright
With every word you couldn’t write or say
To make me stay
I’m miles away
Three thousand miles from saving face
Of freeways and judgement days
A dead fall from a so called grace that's all
My sad romance with suicide
Of past and future lives
A made mark in part that seems so sick i know
I can’t let go
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Shake It Up
03:56
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“Shake It Up”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Let’s Go
Radio
Strike now for total control
I said radio
Stand clear for all systems go
Smoke hangs low everywhere I want to go
The neon glow exposing scars i didn’t know
Radio
Stand clear for all systems go
So sweetheart attack
You’re never ever coming back
Shake it up
Shake it up
Shake it
Shake it up
Just enough
Shake it
Shake it up
Just enough
Shake it
I've found hands down you just gotta shake it up
When love gets you down you just want to shake it up
Miles away
From ok but i'll find a way
I said i’m miles away
From sad states and wasting days
White hot nights lose on the street
From the dark dead days inside from heat
I said I’m miles away
From sad states and wasting days
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Fantasy (In B Minor)
03:29
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“Fantasy (In B Minor)”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
When you’re asleep I’ll soar
Feed my hungry heart through open doors
It’s my mistake, it’s fake I know it
To have my share of cake and eat it too
Well what can I do?
Cause I believe
We were meant to be together
Fantasy
Has now wrecked all of the reality
Of love
An everyday eyesore
That begs a blinded heart to look for more
It’s my mistake, it’s fake I know it
To watch me give and take and take from you
Well what can I do?
Picture perfect
It’s not worth it
A thousand words that shoot right through you
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Eleven-Fifteen-O-Three
02:58
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“Eleven-Fifteen-O-Three”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Couldn’t write an ending better standing speechless with your letter
You penned it perfectly
I think the weather had my hands too cold to hold her for the better
So i let go of you
It’s been the best, it was the worst, i thought at first this space was great for
My bloated sense of style
After a while it just grows wild in the sun or when it’s watered
It’s watered down
Cause It’s quiet out and I don’t want to be alone when the sun comes up
I’m finding out that I don’t want to be alone when the night is up
No i don’t wanna be alone
My saturday's your sunday i know early august was your birthday
I know it missed it girl
I’m really sorry this pacific time is hardly any excuse
For what I put you through
I take it back, blue and black, on a track of a train wreck
I did this to myself
A power surge, a clever word, i feel the urge for a come back
So come on back
Cut my tongue out for bad taste
Said my piece, rested my case
And hung the jury one by one
I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna be alone when the sun is coming
I don’t mean to be absurd
Chasing all these action verbs
Breaking everything
I’m dying for trying to deaden the feeling
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19. |
It's Over
04:51
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“It’s Over”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
I’ll part the sea and drown
And sing without a sound
With cigarettes and sin keeping you around
Enough to let me down
It’s over
The sharpest hands of time
Cut the ties that bind
When walking arm in arm means dragging me behind
A failure by design
It’s over
With a will still too strong
To say that I am wrong
I’m burning down
I can’t fan the flames of change
You said it’s over I know it’s over
Why did I ever pray for rain?
The deadliest wish is a kiss on the lips cause
I always knew it’d end this way
I’ll play with broken glass
to slice a better half
of a seven letter word to redefine the past rewind what played too fast
It’s over
I see this comforts killing me
So here’s goodbye
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Pacifico Atlanta, Georgia
True, it is the musical journey of singer/songwriter Matthew Schwartz, but Pacifico is more about the music than one person. Pacifico started in the summer of 1999 and since has gone through many changes but has always remained a solid outlet for great music. ... more
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