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Only Love
02:04
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Life can be an avalanche of dealing with the aftermath
Sorting through the rubble for your way
The less you can make sense of it
The more you need the assurance
And only love will get you through your day
Only love, only love, only love
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Green Screen
03:40
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If I lived in front of a green screen
Where else would I choose to be but here?
Would I stand in front of a mountain?
Would I move on to a new frontier?
Travel far like ancient Romans
Like Magellan sail the oceans
Like a nomad wandering in the sun
Would I be a fugitive on the run?
Do we need some picture postcards
To tell the stories we have held so dear?
If we stood in front of a green screen
Would our lives flash fast then disappear?
Walk among some ancient ruins
On the trails, through some hoodoos
It don’t matter because it’s all so clear
All our roads have led us back to here, back to here.
Imagine if we could travel through ages
Would we turn backward or rifle through pages?
Looking ahead, to see what comes next.
If I could live in front of a green screen
There’s nowhere else I’d choose to be but here
When my time has reached conclusion
Press my life in a photograph album dear
Take the souvenirs acquired
And keep them with the picture postcards
So you can keep the memories so near
Of all the routes we traveled through the years
How every road led us back to here
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June
04:00
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As Stevie said, “I see us in the park…”
We talked from dust to dark
And leaving you alone
In driving to my home
I called you on the phone
Each year it turns to June I think of you
Remembering you professin’ your true confession, your true confession
Once you said it I did believe it
Once I had you I could not let you go
Every time that the days start to linger
I do remember, I do remember
Each year it turns to June I think of you
Remembering you professin’ your true confession, your true confession
And under the tree we found it, we found it
What we had believed was missing, was missing for us
Come the first day of June I think of you
Come the first day of June I remember you
Come the first day, come the first day, June
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Beauty is a Beast
03:30
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Sleep walk through a routine haze
All seems to be just gray walls
Stumbling through a maze
Glory, in a blaze of glory
Colors flash before me
As a gift for me, for me, for me
Suddenly I’m stunned
A vision from above
Beauty from beyond
Knocks me off my feet
Grabs a hold of me
Beauty is a beast
Be bold, let it take ahold
Of your heart and soul and
Look for your natural energy
Ignite the fire we all have inside
It’s all been planned by design
To wake us from our sleep, don’t sleep, don’t sleep
Suddenly we’re stunned
A vision from above
Beauty from beyond
Knocks us off our feet
Hearts skipping a beat
Beauty is a beast
Beauty is a beast
A clear blue sky
A dragonfly
A fleeting symphony
A bed of snow
To water flow
Bring blossoms to the spring
Glory, in a blaze of glory
Beauty comes before me
To take its hold on me
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Spinning
03:46
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A garden in the backyard, chives out in the sun
Basil in the window and violets just for fun
You lie with me in the night time
And when the morning comes
Flowers in the front yard and hanging by the tree
Water on the stove top and honey for the tea
You’re always there in the chorus
Always in my song
Keep my world spinning, spinning, spinning…
You listen to my lyric before the story’s done
Listen to my music and clap when no one does
You’re always here right beside me
Keeping me aground
Keep my world spinning, spinning, spinning
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So Enough
04:02
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Seven ten A.M.
Comfort in the wind
The last birds of spring still singing
Throw away the key
Listen to us breathe
Feel the rhythm, two hearts beating
So enough, it is so enough
It’s so enough for me
And it will always be
Even if we lay
In this room all day
It’s enough to stay together
If the universe
Is just our own small world
We can flourish here forever
So enough, it is so enough
It’s so enough for me
And it will always be
While I’ve been digging in
Your hearts been wandering
And I never saw the trees through the forest
Seven ten A.M.
Lying here again
Hear the mourning dove is singing
Reaching out one hand
The vacant side of bed
It’s been empty since your leaving
So enough, it was so enough
It was so enough so soon
Not enough for you.
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Phosphene
03:42
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I’ll live inside your head
I’ll live inside your heart
You’ll feel me in the heat
You’ll see me in the dark
Close your eyes
Close your eyes and slowly notice me
And I’ll burn into your dreams
In the night as you’re drifting away to sleep
See me
Logic lives inside your head
Love lives in your heart
Sunlight saves you from the cold
And I live in the dark
Close your eyes
Close your eyes, slow life down and breathe
And I’ll swim through your blood stream
As you sleep I’m free to roam
Invade your body and soul
Close your eyes
I’ll live inside your head
I’ll live inside your heart
You’ll feel me in the heat
You’ll see me in the dark
Close your eyes
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I’ve heard you say before
I’m an open book
Yeah, I’m an open book
But you just close the door
And won’t allow a look
You won’t allow a look
What happened to you looking back
That you can’t look past, that you can’t look past?
What happened to you looking back
That you can’t look, that you can’t look?
You want to be understood
If you’re a blank slate
How do I get you?
There’s barriers on the road
To feeling the empathy
That you want from me, and so I ask you
What happened to you looking back
That you can’t look past, that you can’t look past?
It took so long to realize
There is just a single side
Relationship of only one
And only one who keeps herself shut down
What happened to you looking back
That you can’t look past, that you can’t look past?
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Forsythia
02:01
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Hanging on through winter cold
Hanging on, just barren bone
Sure as spring blooms into gold
It’s all much more than we can know
Rescue comes rekindling
Or it arrives with second chance
Surely spring blooms into gold
It’s so much more than we can know
Take heed of forsythia
There really are true miracles
When all seems lost there’s always hope
That barren field will bloom to gold
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Forever Forsythia
02:13
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Every second spent in love
Life goes on
Every time we get to nest in love
Life goes on
Developing our chemistry
And squelching petty jealousy
Are just a couple feature of the game
If euphoria’s suspended
You can still feel the contentment
Of living with a steady burning flame
This is just love and all that comes with it
Yes it is love that gets you through the storm
And shields you from the wind
With love you can deal with it
Yes you can deal with it
Every moment we’re alone
Life comes on
Even as our love grows and grows
Life goes on
There’s the messes carried from our past
And good health’s not a thing that lasts
But we can hang together through it all
And every happily ever after
Comes mixed with tears and laughter
So we’re here to catch each other should we fall
This is just love and all that comes with it
Yes it is love that gets you through the storm
And shields you from the wind
With love you can deal with it
Yes you can deal with it
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Tom Alter Detroit, Michigan
Tom Alter is a singer-songwriter based in Detroit. The influences of jazz, folk, pop, and Latin genres are found in his
original compositions. Tom's lyrics mix world events with the affect on his personal ideals. He has released 3 EPs and 2 albums since 2019. His work can be found on digital and streaming music platforms. He is also a member of the duo After Blue.
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