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1. |
Don't Play Dead
03:28
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Don’t Play Dead
Music and lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Did you miss the mark?
Hold for perspective
Here’s a brand new start
Room for reflection (reflection)
We can dwell on things or we can let them go
Listen to your heart and get yourself out of that head
it's ok
None of this matters anyway
we all make mistakes
Hell I made more than three today
So Darling don’t hold back, no, don’t play dead
When things get hard, listen to what I’ve said
because it’s all ok
None of this matters anyways
Alright alright
I don’t know your feelings
But I’ll fight I’ll fight
By your side baby
No matter what obstacle life puts in your way
when the task seems too large
Your strength outweighs mine by far
Just take a bite, stand up, dust off and march on and on
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Comatose
04:34
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Comatose
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Vincent Cellucci
This is the last piece of me you’ll own
just like our final talk on the phone
Bear in mind that means I’ll not be coming home
In part due to you and your selfish tone
Goodbye, this bird has flown
Goodbye, my heart is Comatose
Wait
Hold my beer
There’s so many things I’d love to say if I don’t walk away from here.
You used to be such a good friend, a good friend
So I’ve taken it upon myself to grab things and call this the end
All right this kiss is rotten
OK I know I’m stalling
all right this bird has fallen
OK alright I’m walking
it’s time to say….
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Afterglow
03:57
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Afterglow
Music and lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Cut the lights and afterglow
No need for proof cause I’ll still know
Those curling lips and velvet eyes
The thought alone keeps me alive
Be my beacon, guide me home
When I stumble, hold my bones
Describe to me the love we own
I'm in the dark, but not alone
My life’s not where it used to be
Fading from each memory
But if I'm still, I know I’ll see
Guided by your melody
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Complicated, Confiscated
03:26
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Complicated, Confiscated
Words and music by Matthew Schwartz
Complicated
This picture’s faded
I am all but gone from here right now
Bleeding backwards
Like a failing actor
Who has chosen to forget their lines
Hold me fast
Like the ones before, this cannot last
I’m sure I’ll make it out alive
Confiscated
Every single word has failed me
To be and yet, not to be alone
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“Suddenly / Back At The Start”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
I made a mess that i confess is directly due to stress
I’m guilty as sin in webs that I’m spinnin these days
I’ll take the cake with all of my mistakes
Promises bend and break
But it’s just me with you with me
Suddenly, the ink fades and my words just fall apart
Suddenly it hits me that we’re right back at the start
Watching the sunshine making a b-line scorching this bleeding heart of mine
Cashed all my chips in to block it from shining so bright
Broke the rules running so I’ve got it coming,
Coming back around
But it’s just me with you with me
All these nothings they meant more than me than a million somethings ever could be
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6. |
Move On / V2
03:36
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“Move On / V2”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Complications bait the tease
My heart is heavy on my knees
I need an answer Lord i plead
As i watch the waves as they crash down
I awake drenched in grace I’ve found
So move on move on
It’s all but done
It was over before it begun
I got all my thoughts bound/wound up in one
So move on
Things are clear
Though it seems that it’s been years
Since i’d last say i held no fears
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When We Were Wild
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matthew Wells
Hello my dear old friends
Did you think you’d see us again
Funny how this crazy world does spin
Lord knows we tried to die
Had dreams that bled us dry
Drinking too much poison while we smoked inside
surprises us to think
That we survived the OGE
While sending every cent we had out to cali
How did we get here, Today
these young men turned old and grey
If you blink your life will turn and run away
Burning the Candle at both ends
those nights when we were wild
Chasing days we’ll never get again
those times when we were wild
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8. |
Beautiful
03:22
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“Beautiful”
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Vincent Cellucci
Going out again
Hand me down of friends
To where the lights are dim
Throwing whiskey to the
Wind, within
Wisps up a grin
Turned up volume
Strobe lights and limbs
Tonight’s the night we get break this mold
Pry off complacency’s grip and lonely's hold
Can you feel the bass is thumping
Oh my heart pumping
The dance floor brings me back to life
Where did the music go?
Why is everything so slow?
Passing through the crowded flow we meet
Hips in hands and breath heavy
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9. |
Go Alone
03:21
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“Go Alone”
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Vincent Cellucci
Throw your hands up high
Don’t give it up just yet
Because I can see the sky
No use in blaming light
Because
You’ve got a/the right
You know I/we can’t replace it
But you’ve got your strife/a knife
I don't have to say it
I know I know aren’t we all archaic
I know I know I know I know
When you go out
You need to be the one who
Risked everything you go through
All the times we survived our shortfalls and their calls
Out of the fallout, we go alone
Tied to the mast, reborn
Blindfolds overboard, we go alone
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10. |
The Shadow Of You
03:47
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“The Shadow of You”
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Vincent Cellucci
All of these lights
They sounded so close
When the world was so wrong
You tamed the storm
Hold on
Between every move
When we adopted the holes
We named every leak
I held you close
Hold on
We’ll wait this through
How’er long
It takes with you
All I know is
When the grave hit the ground
And we dug down
Each finding our vice
Slipping ever more close
Hold on
Carrying the decimals
Speaking clumsy codes
Combing online accounts
But we made it out
Cause I don’t wanna wake up
Earth can’t stir us
With all the tragedy
Befallen blood, floods, and falling
You’re the net I need
Keeping me so still now I can sleep
Every day that’s ceased since I first reached for someone or something
Lies lost in the shadow of you
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“The Loneliest Man in the World”
Lyrics by Matthew and Eva Schwartz and Vincent Cellucci
Wandering around again
Oh sweet catastrophe
It took me a while to see
To find a friend in me
Is there escape?
All of the waves that crash
And pull me down for keeps
Holding my breath again
Drowns me down beneath
You said you knew it all
Just how I’d fall again
But if that were true my friend
Then where should I begin?
Here goes nothing
All of the waves that crash
And push me down for keeps
I’ll wait for current’s hold
To pull me up to breathe
For I am the loneliest man...
There ever was
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4.11.15
05:20
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4.11.15
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
I once thought that love was a myth.
Something invented to sell movies to kids.
But if that's true then good sir, what is this?
It happened in one very quick glance
A short burst of coincidence or perhaps happenstance
But I prefer to believe that this, this was planned.
To have not made this decision here today.
Would have gone beyond foolish that's the least I could say.
Best friends like this only come once anyway.
To think that two souls were made,
formed in different languages with an ocean in their way.
Would somehow find each other and the love they each craved.
So when 80 years has come and its passed.
When I can't remember your name, our first kiss or your laugh.
I take comfort in knowing that
just one look, one touch, one kiss, just your presence will bring me back
It's always you
It's always been you
No matter what stupid things I could ever do
No matter what valleys we walk through
I cannot believe my dream finally came true
There will never be another single souls Id rather commit to
It's always you.
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“I've Finally Found What I’m Looking For”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
my heart sings it's bursting at the seams
but i can't read what it means
so if i am right, let me know
but if i am wrong, tell me so
cause i have a right to know
I've finally found what i'm looking for
this must be love
and when my feet don't touch the floor
this must be love
when our eyes met i knew right then, that day
call it fate or whatever you want
but if i am wrong, let me know
and if i am right, tell me so
cause i wanna fight for what i know
i've been detained
So much has changed
i'm not a sane without you around
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Juno
03:30
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“Juno”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
all that i need
is the sun and the breeze
and your cold soft hands
and your reprimands
cast at me
and when it's all done
we will bask in the sun
and i'll hold my pride
keep it all inside
never let it rise
but oh just to hold your sweet hand
i would go back around again
all i know is i can't go on
without you around again
all i know
i"m a happy man
I'm content with what i have
you're the song i sing
you're the breath in me
you're my everything
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“I Wanna Love You Like I’m Sober”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
I wanna know dear what it means
when you left me without a sling
i need an answer to this decay
when will we hold dear the things that we say?
I wanna love you like i'm sober
i wanna hold you when it's over
When will we get through all of this mess?
I can't believe you left such unrest
I need an answer to my heart
hope that we can get back to the start
I wanna love you like i'm sober
i wanna hold you when it's over
What will i see when the light comes for me?
should i let go?
I wanna love you like i'm sober
i wanna hold you when it's over
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Back Track Back To Me
03:35
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“Backtrack Back To Me”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
How did this start?
Oh where do I begin?
I’ve lost all my touch
And I cannot win
Why did we leave
Everything behind?
I know I am lost
But I am not blind
Falling apart
Another false start
Drifting away
I might be wrong
But I feel a pulse
Why can’t my heart just let it go
Come back now
Come back and see
When will we be together?
Come back now
Backtrack to me
Everything’s right
I feel you on me
But I cannot move
I cannot speak
So I’ll hold my breathe
And wait for this to
Come and go
Till i have you
All i’ve ever
Needed ever
Hearts been racing
Minds been chasing
What could I do?
How could I prove
What I need to?
So hold up now
I’m walking after you
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Caroline, Oh
03:28
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“Caroline, Oh”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
It’s a slow ride
Out to see you
And I don’t feel right
When you’re away
Cause in the night when I’m sad and I can’t find my bubble
I’ve got my hands tied back and I think I’m in trouble
All I’ve ever waited for is
Love to come and find my door
Oh Caroline oh Carolina
Hold my hand, don't let me down
I will wait for you forever
So don’t be late
I can’t wait
So don’t be late
Is it alright
If I hold you?
Cause I can’t sleep tight
When you’re awake
Cause in the night when I’m tired and my life is in rubble
I've been gagged and bound and i think that it’s double, double trouble
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Stop!
03:09
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“Stop!”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
We met in lazy summer
Waiting for Autumn’s shade
Things seemed so perfect baby
Then bad decisions came
We fought and we yelled and said things
We didn’t mean to say
You did what you wanted baby
I cannot live that way
You're always first at running out
So come back baby
I want to talk but run my mouth
I know it’s not the way to go
You’re always saying something
While I’m away and running
Why can’t we Stop and work it out
Hold your tongue and listen honey
Things just aren’t working out
Don't say what you want to me
I cannot hear that now
No matter what’s going on and
No matter where we are
I know that we can make it
No matter where things fall
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17th & Something
04:09
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“17th & Something”
Music and Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz
Here it comes
The fear
It’s near
I can feel it there breathing
On me
Oh please
Let it be
If for just one night I could learn to be open
Sorta normal
Maybe learn to cope with you
and them
oh when
Will I get to
17th and something
I can’t believe I’m going
Out again all on my own
It comes in waves
They crash
I cave
Beneath insecurities
It’s these
Things like this that keep me from just
Going on out and saying something
I wish that being there was good enough
for you
And them
Oh when
Will I get to
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Ms. You
04:15
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“Ms. You”
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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21. |
Shake It Up
03:53
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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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22. |
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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xMultiplyx
03:21
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“xMultiplyx”
Music by Matthew Schwartz
Lyrics by Matthew Schwartz and Matt Wells
Come down / Breakdown
Wake me up / We’re falling up
Keep me moving / A victory song
I cannot stop / It’s not enough
And get things rolling in my head / Believing everything you’ve read
Well, I’ve been
Wondering / Flickering
When we would / Shedding light
Get things right / From left to right
And get things moving like you said / Barely breathing but not dead
But i can, and I will, and i want, and I’ll try my best to follow him / But I know, and I can, and I will, and I’ll try my best to follow him / And it’s said and it’s done and this army of one as we march into the sun
Oh, when will we
Will we just see / Be finally free
What we want / Chained to who
We want to see / We used to be
The revolution’s up ahead
I know / With closed eyes
We need / We’re capsized
What you’re / We’re blindly
Giving / Living
We just need to look around / We sink and hit the ground
Everything is coming down
Time
When will I ever be found?
I know it’s only
Time
I’ve just got to get things right
I know I can just if I try
We won’t die we’ll just multiply and take over
This is our time to / This is our time when
Share the faith and carry the weight of our brothers / Cold air stings on these new found wings as we fly over
This is our only time
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24. |
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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25. |
Joe Goes To France
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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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