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Cruel Art

by Canopy Space

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Until the Music 03:15
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Until the Music I visualize the music; I feel it in my bones. The melody runs through me I'm no longer alone. A visceral reaction When the notes begin to rise: Reverberating, steady, Heals me deep inside. There's no life, There's no love, Only darkness and pain. There's no dream, There's no beauty, Until the music makes me clean. The warming purr Of vibrations in the air Give meaning to my world And substance to my cares. Within these lines Lies honesty A quiet beat, a warming glow And truth and harmony ‘Cause it's in the music Where my true self comes to be It’s only in the music I’ll let myself be free
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Auto Shutdown 04:12
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Auto Shutdown This roller coaster Is on auto shutdown And every single part A quick collapse This sunny afternoon Rosy bright and sweet Sinking stinking Decomposing down I'm tied to the track And there's a train a-coming And you can save me But you won't even try Hands bound Face to the ground And you could save me But you won't even try you won’t even try Auto shutdown When the screen goes black No more apps For that The surreal sun Felt so clean But then it was gone Like that Chorus You turn away So easily Like you've nothing Nothing left to lose And shut me out So totally Exhaustedly I keep the ruse Chorus How would it not hurt? Completely powerless, I fold my paper heart How do you shut me out? Cowardice will tear Tear me apart Seems like you don't care When I open up to you Then everything's laid bare You shut me down Chorus you won’t even begin to try you won’t even lift a finger… I’m on auto shutdown…
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Grace 05:19
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Grace I was halfway across the sea When I knew I’d lost my way Sailing along without a compass I was flying always away I was stumbling in the dark I’d lost myself in my dreams I was reaching for some solo part In a play without scenes Grace She can’t cook and she won’t sing And she’s shy at parties Grace She’ll never interrupt And she tears up at everything Grace When she smiles, Light fills the room And when she laughs There’s music in the air I’ve been gone without leaving I’ve been a poet with no rhyme And like a dog chasing her tail I’ve run in circles this whole time And I don’t know why I keep running I don’t know why I’ve missed your calls Just staring at your picture Just staring at these walls Chorus But my life’s become a hole And there’s a voice calling me home Sometimes I feel I’ve gone too far Sometimes my heart’s a stone
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How Can I? 03:30
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How Can I? How can I write a song that goes deep enough to cover my broken heart and shut the sadness off And how can I swim so far that words’d never reach the distant horizon the bottom of the sea And how can I be so lost the sun’s disappeared confused all direction- fog's covering eyes and ears And how can I lift you up and soar beyond these clouds feet tightly grip the earth dragging us down How can I love you…? And how can I hold you? How can I love you? How can I… And how can I hold you down heart in my hands fists wrapped too tightly knees too weak to stand And how can I / be so careless treat your whispered love like some pretty / spring caged bird searching for a song How can I love you…? And how can I hold you? How can I love you? How can I... And how could I have ever missed the longing in your soul reaching for some fragile light on a frail, distant shore How can I love you…? And how can I hold you? How can I love you? Keep, lose, lie to you, How can I love you? How can I hold you? How can I...love you enough?
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Holding On 03:44
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Holding On Woke up thinking about us Sound of geese calling And the sky was gray The leaves were falling Too much loss Too much time unseen I need a new storyline Wipe my life clean Love and soup and complications Hopes and dreams and missed communications Love and soup and holding on Keeps us holding on, holding on Walking in the evening Holding hands We navigate through swirling words And try to understand And the tears will fall Like autumn rain We’ll avert our eyes Soft touches through the pain Chorus And we all stumble in the dark And we all say what we say And we’re all guilty of love And we’re all guilty of grace And so it’s love and soup And smiles and tears Hopes and dreams And the warmth of our years
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Cruel Art 05:08
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Cruel Art Lost Frozen in time Out of rapport On my own Gradually hiding, hiding away Cold Layers of pain Secrets held Words left unspoken Unbreakable silence that echoes away Oh,But I don't know how to fix this Oh…I don't know where to start Oh…I don't know how to fix us I don't know this cruel art Stripped Fears in the light Shame forced open You're always right And I'm sorry for all that I am Busted We guard our sadness We grow it instead We push from each other We nurture and cultivate our pain Oh…But I don't know how to fix this Oh…I don't know where to start Oh…I don't know how to fix us I don't know this cruel art Oh, we’ve both been naive Oh, victims of our needs Oh, trapped by our own hearts Never knew a promise could be so cruel Silent The furnace kicks on The wind rushes in The rain washes downward We have to break this knot in our souls Lost Layers of pain Fears in the night Guarding our sadness And I’m sorry for all that we are Oh…But I don't know how to fix this Oh…I don't know where to start Oh…I don't know how to fix us I don't know this cruel art
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One Perfect 05:42
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One Perfect We burn our way through life We wish away the weeks By the hour We spend our lives away And span our afternoons Lying to ourselves We spin our nights in silence Pour through forgotten pictures On our phones Why can there never, never be One perfect rainstorm? Why can there never, never be One perfect cloudless day? Why can there never, never be One perfect landscape? Why can there never, never be One perfect plum Picked from a perfect tree? We sit in separate rooms We watch romantic comedies All alone We seek our stars by day And itemize our triumphs On our own We keep grinding on and on We keep chasing that same old song Chorus Emptiness fills our days In silence we cry out Yearning in our hearts We blindly find our way We go and then we stay Seeking different parts And we dream of better days Taking little along the way Except the stars Chorus
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Soul & Feet 05:04
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Soul & Feet We’re different and the same We’re heading different ways Carry everywhere we’ve been I’m a better me because Of all the things I’ve seen Colors my identity You’ve given me new life You filled my lungs with breath You inspire me to another path And when your roots reach deep Your branches stretching wide I’m learning to trust in my past There are places yet to go Fresh winds to try and breathe Sea to shining sea My soul and feet How does one small heart beat Grow feet into wings? How do you grow hope? And how can I be different? And how can I be me? Always seeking to know? There are seeds yet to grow Fresh winds to try and breathe Sea to shining sea My soul and feet I’m thinking all about you How you’re a part of me I’ll never let you go We have a history Distinct geography Of love and care and family But there are faces yet to know Fresh winds to try and breathe Sea to shining sea My soul and feet
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Night Driving 04:36
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Night Driving I’m night driving With one eye closed White Knuckles Eye-strained focus Heart skipping beats The radio loud I’m night driving With my eyes closed I’m falling down Toward oblivion Blood rushing My life’s in tailspin I whisper your name Into the dark I’m night driving With my eyes closed I reach to grasp Anything at all A truth, a plan Even a desire to fall I’m floating through nowhere seeing stars I’m night driving With my eyes closed Hands on the wheel Feet push through Rubber on roadway Grasping for you Launching to hyperspace feeling the earth I'm night driving With my eyes closed Feeble headlights Fail to pierce the tears And this ribbon of road Stretches through the years Shadows in the dark Haunt my waking dreams I’m night driving With my eyes closed I’m night driving With my eyes closed…
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Fly Away 04:18
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Fly Away we once chased the sun to feel the warmth in our hearts we once caught the rain hoping love was not too far we once reached for stars to wrap ourselves in light we once held the clouds whispered sweet good night and we’ll fly away… we sailed beneath a rainbow the colors filled the sea held diamonds in our hands until they faded free we walked beneath the trees in the shadows of the day fingertips touched the breeze no words could we say And we’ll fly away... and we’ll fly away far across the seas and we’ll fly away disappear across the years and we’ll fly away off into our dreams and we’ll fly... away
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Why I Can't 03:29
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Why I Can’t This song is all about you And why I can't I can't write about you anymore It's turning me blue Sweet baby I can't write about you anymore. You're asking me why And I'm searching You're tearing me down And I'm reaching And I'm so tired Sweet baby I can't write about you anymore. My soul is spilling over And I'm aching And your sweet words They leave me quaking And I'm left with this feeling Baby I can't write about you anymore. You’re driving me crazy You’re turning me inside out You’ve got my head spinning You’ve got me living in the clouds And I still wanna try To find you And I still want To love you But I know I can't Sweet baby I can't write about you anymore You’re driving me crazy You’re turning me inside out You’ve got my head spinning You’ve got me living in the clouds This song is all about you And why I can't I can't live without you anymore It's turning me blue Sweet baby I can't live without you anymore.

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Recorded by Dan Nugent in Spare Room Studio, Pentwater, MI
All songs written and recorded by Canopy Space

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released March 15, 2015

Rick Magrath & Annie Hudson: Guitars and Vocals
Andy Henley: Bass
Dan Nugent: Percussion

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