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Sugar on Top
01:08
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Sugar on top and something nice...
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Caterpillar
03:03
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A coconut parade
Stillness in the shade
Moment a la mode
The mariachi plays
And beauty is bestowed
In Figueroa phrase
The caterpillar band
Has got me in a trance
All the songs they’re singing
How life can be so simple free from your cocoon
Dreams are yours for taking
Face to face with fear what have you got to lose
At every corners turn
I’m at a loss for words
The rhythm knows my name
My heart it takes a verse
Caterpillars do proclaim
Remember what you heard
And will you join the band?
Well its free from life’s demands
All songs are worth singing
They don’t care if you can’t even hold a tune
To waltz beneath a feeling
To dance with doubt while shouting out that
I’m my truth
Become what you’re believing
A caterpillar spreading hope in the afternoon
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3. |
Butterfly Handshake
01:07
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Well the fireflies
Are in disguise
Their psychology been a part of me that I fossilized
Dig sifting off the artifacts
Fall below
Feel the glow
When the shadow comes
To greet the sun
I get a heart attack and a broken back cause it weights a ton
Bug magic just to peel your way
From the smoke
Greet your ghost
We’re gonna learn to feel tonight
All our love
Well the talking cure
Is so absurd
I need a river swim when I’m wearing thin at a loss for words
A little nature just to feel the light spark inside, catalyze
Like a firefly
Who comes alive
Archeology in the part of me that I localize
But still trippin on the artifacts
Fall below
Feel the Glow
We’re gonna learn to feel tonight
All our love
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A heart of stone won’t feel light
The past will grow in weight
I see right through your fools gold
You ain’t no Hemmingway
You step to blame all sorbet for your shame
I know we’re all in pain
I just don’t buy all your archetypes lies
You fool
Won’t be a fool for nobody
But he’s a fool for you honey
Leave it to love to light the surprise
Compost the walls to spark the flame
You’re growing spells out from eggshells
A saving throw to own your pain
Now dosed in smiles while your dogs all run wild
I know we all can change
The counterplot skipping stones off the clock
Reclaim the fool
Won’t be a fool for nobody
But he’s a fool for you honey
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6. |
Panopticon
02:20
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No one’s immune to its spotlight
They’re policing all of our dreams and soon leaving no room
Pidgeon holed til’ we can’t even take flight
Well I filed for appeal
To collectively heal through our love
Pick up the pieces and learn to feel
We’re spinning 45s up until the sun appears
But down the needle and grab the wheel
Reject the pressure that our culture wants us all to feel
Lock down the Panopticon’s eyesight
Shut down makes hard just to live our truth, I try to break thru
Our connections got to come forthright
Our communities weight
Well you can’t take away from that love
Pick up the pieces and learn to feel
We’re spinning 45s up until the sun appears
But down the needle and grab the wheel
Reject the pressure that our culture wants us all to feel
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7. |
A La Diabla
01:31
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8. |
Tru (feat. Gracie)
01:39
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Welcome to the party jack
and you know that all the records and the sofas shit talkin’
The puppets pose like artifacts with their cigarettes
Your girls gloss tossed to the lamplight
smoke from your lips like snakes catching cases
The five dollars words that you spit to your silhouette
The mannequin crowd
Searches the ground for clues
Their plastic is loud
I turn from the sound to tell you
And you say tru.
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How high is your love?
How high is your spirit?
It’s as high as a mountain
Lead us over the bridge
It’ll keep on amounting
There’s no limit to it
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All Strange Heros
04:20
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It’s hard to know what’s possible
In the subtle wave of an undertow
They look for clout, a hungering
To feed on doubt and othering
They don’t want to see us climb
They don’t want to see you rise
All strange heros step to the light
Share your love the heart is your queen
All you politicians put your egos aside
Let love arrive
They preach the norm as practical
But I prefer the magical
Their lulla-lies like cigarettes
And act as if we’d forgotten it
They don’t want us to unite
They would rather see us fight
All strange heros step to the light
Share your love community is king
All you fake auditions please move to the side
Steep the just and potently we sing
For peace, voice, cauterize the grease
Let love arrive
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Last Call
03:26
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Looks like you played it cool so
Is it everything you hoped?
Your fear dressed up just like your ego
Take you all around in a clown car full of crows
Last call for all you all to take flight
Regret is living in the hindsight
Chance it whispers at the doorway
As soon it comes, it goes
No grace to play it safe so
Better open up the door and walk into unknown
Last call for all you all to take flight
Regret is living in the hindsight
Last chance to take a dance with your fate
Regret has got you in a checkmate
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I fall back into the dream
And still feel blind
Low key still learning to see
Keep both hands up above your coffin
All smiles while the cities on fire
Their smokey ways
Sun fades people tossing the shade
Quick to be kneeling at the alter
You took the honey from the master
Fire in the valley
Come to California, LA
Out on the horizon
Colors hypnotize and fade, LA
Who’s truth to clouded with doubt
It gives me pause
I just can’t figure it out
The smoke sits thick on intuition
Slow drip slip fall into place
Helicopters call
Top down lay buried in sound
Soak in the moments where your heart does sing
Don’t let the reptiles take your wings
All of your money
Honey it’s the price you pay, LA
Driving for the chance of
Dancing for the plastic stage, LA
Out on the horizon
Colors hypnotize and fade, LA
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You can do what you want to
Don’t hold back by what haunts you
Don’t trip, when the hands ain’t clockwise
It’s your mix, watch your powers alchemize
And step into the sunshine
Hang your doubts on the clothsline
Hang tight, and leave behind disguise
It’s your life, hold on
And just lead with your heart
When grief comes to find you
Well don’t let it define you
Spirits are dancing on the lawn
Believe this, they’ve been with you all along
Some people try to steal your light
We all know the type
It ain’t you, they’re coming for their mirror
Stay true, hold on
And just lead with your heart
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Sugar on top and something nice...
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