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Take me with You
04:40
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Take me with you by Ezra/Thomas
I wasn't looking back
I thought your key had locked the door
this time for sure
an angel painted black
and a devil for the cure
each night endure
My ways are writ in stone
and I struggle through the page
each night I pay
and now you're leaving home
if there is no other way
just go don’t stay
But take me with you, I’m not hard to carry
Take me with you, I could be your souvenir
Take me with you take me with you
where ya go from here
The years are all too soon
and too late to ever change these things we do
your rocket to the moon
and my ticket at the gate won’t let me through
take me with you, I’m not hard to carry
take me with you, fold me up and dry your tears
take me with you, I’m not very heavy
take me with you take me with you
where ya go from here where ya go from here
to the place that u go and you know you've always been
from the deepest of dark to the heart you love again
why did I go from the grace of love that would never end
oh I dream of your face and the ?? of your skin
I wasn't looking back
where ya go from here where ya go from here
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2. |
Opium
04:41
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Opium by Ezra /Thomas
(speaking)
Opium a banished heart
cut a knife right through the door
cross the pain and the seven seas
to the land, the land of ease
In the day the cradle fell..
…in the car your heart as well
to the sailor lost at sea
some mail bought poetry
might as well, a world well lost
too high the bitter cost
in a dress not made for you
Opium: the solitude
read a book of poetry
neath the shade of an old oak tree
talk about the verse and rhyme
tell me about it one more time
(speaking)
Did you dream in colors too…
…bright against the world you knew
tender are the tender parts
broken is the broken heart
in the bed or in the wine
looking for something divine
on the cross or in the grave
with nothing left to save
(speaking)
In the eyes of burning green
in the soul left unseen
Opium the banished heart
floating in the ocean dark
make it numb and make it grey
just live another day
walk a mile and find a bed
rest the demons in your head
(speaking)
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3. |
Big Balloon
04:53
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BIG BALLOON by Ezra / Thomas
Love is a big balloon and it feels so high off the ground
A lovely afternoon and the sun is slowly sneaking down
Singing a different tune, with a kiss and a sadness I found
But love is a big balloon and it’s filled with the hot air of a clown
Waking a sleepy moon, with bright colored wintery night
Love is the afternoon, that dreams of a never ending night
Serenity and confused, dancing in time with the wine
But love is a big balloon and it’s filled with just enough to climb
You think you know me, but you don’t know who I am
You’re seeing clouds and just the shadow of a man
So when I float away
You will understand
Love is a big balloon
Singing a different tune is it real or a clever sleight of hand
Hiding the truth of you in a sleeve or illusion understand
Feelings are rarely true, so they do whatever they can
Love is a big balloon and it knows what’s up must come down
You think you want me, but you don’t know who I am
You’re seeing clouds and just the shadow of a man
So when I float away
You will understand
Love is a big balloon
Am I getting through to you
No matter what I do
Am I getting through to you
No matter what I do
Am I getting through to you
No matter what I do
Love is a big balloon
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4. |
Holiday
04:21
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Holiday by Ezra /Thomas
I’m giving up
I’m breaking through
for a moment I was satisfied within the truth
I’m packing heat
I’m on your street
at the corner or the grocery store
you're looking sweet
I’m seventeen
I’m on your screen
ya your daddy’s little favorite whore is waiting here
just for you
Everyday’s a holiday
just waiting for you
Everyday’s a holiday
I’m on the floor
I’m counting change
but tonight I’ll be flying high the golden vein
I need a cure
I need the pain
cause it reminds me that I’ll never be the same
ya i’ll never be the same
Everyday’s a holiday
just waiting for you
Everyday’s a holiday
Give me shelter for my shame
give me demons in my veins
give me fever when I’m breaking up
and love beyond my gain
give me comfort, sex and pain
give me poison in the rain
give me nothing cause this not enough
is something more than I can take
Everyday’s a holiday
just waiting for you
Everyday’s a holiday
just waiting for you
Everyday
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5. |
She's Waiting
03:46
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She's Waiting by Ezra /Thomas
She’s waiting for something
something to fall
got her head on my pillow
and her feet on the wall
she’s waiting for something
some kind of change
got her eyes on the ceiling
big thoughts on her brain
Waiting for something
waiting to fall
waiting for someone
to make sense of it all
waiting for something
waiting to fall
No she’s pulling the covers
and she’s pushing away
ya she’s something for something
but what i couldn’t say
And I’m bringing her supper
she’s lazy and grey
she’s running for cover
and getting further each day
Waiting for something
waiting to fall
waiting for someone
just tired of it all
waiting for something
waiting to fall
Hide away
she’s running all the time
and thats okay
it’s just the way she likes it
Far away but never hard to find
and that’s okay
it’s just the way she likes it
Waiting for something
waiting to fall
waiting for mercy
just sick of it all
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6. |
Suicidal Teeth
02:50
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Suicidal Teeth by Ezra Vancil
Cigarettes, alcohol
place your bets when we’ll fall
but don’t waist the pills
were already gone
Suicidal teeth
biting hard
the chemical relief
leave a scar
but don’t waist the pills,
we’re already gone
we’re already gone
Cuz we’re already gone
we’re already gone
we’re already gone
don’t waist the pills
the world is still
and we’re already gone
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7. |
Galveston
04:52
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Galveston by Ezra /Thomas
I gathered you up in a thousand days
from 17 till old and grey
throwing shells on the Galveston bay
your crying eyes and your heart full of grace
Pain tears and a smile on your face
a mothers scars that never erase
you were so scattered and you felt out of place
so I gathered you up in a thousand days
Lost causes twist of fate
broken hearts and the lies that you hate
long drives on a snowy landscape
and your eyes by the fire at the lake
all that you wanted all that you couldn't’ escape
all those convictions that never would take
colored candles and Christmas lights
I gathered you up on a thousand nights
I pictured you in a life without me
in someones arms I never could be
and you were following the map of your dreams
so I gathered you up and I sewed up the seams
drove you down to the Galveston bay
let you go cause your heart couldn’t stay
the waves were broken and calling your name
I gathered you and I gave you away
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8. |
Sunday Flowers
06:03
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Sunday Flowers by Ezra /Thomas
Show me what you see
teach me how to dream
I remember it slightly
snowflakes and ice cream
Yellow sun like lemonade
slowly turning red
this you dream and lie awake
close your eyes and get to bed
Cowboys and indians
skateboards and lullabies
I can’t get it back again
the endless summer nights
Sunday flowers
and april showers
and rainbow towers
reaching up to the sky
super powers
and endless hours
can I dream through the eyes of a child
Life a river flows bending every turn
but somewhere that water goes
never to return
so close your eyes and get some rest
wake the morning sun
breath deep count the breath
cherish every one
Sunday flowers
and april showers
and rainbow towers
reaching up to the sky
super powers
and endless hours
can I dream through the eyes of a child
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9. |
Promise Land
02:48
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Promise Land by Ezra/Thomas
Well I get up
Start my day
take a moment to erase
every thing that went on
the night before
and I get drunk or take a pill
try to find the place I still
Love the rain
Do that thing I dug before
Are you gonna save me
do you know where I am
everyday a picture fading of the promise land
can you entertain the ghost of who I was
Every day a new day
every way the same old shit
I’m sunk without a tank
no good Karma in the bank
every vice
name the price and I’m the store
For this heart can’t buy a thrill
and my mind already filled
with the rain and sustaining of the war
Are you gonna save me
do you know where I am
everyday a picture fading of the promise land
can you entertain the ghost of who I was
Every day a new way
every way the same old shit
I’m sunk
Every way a new day
every way the same way
I’m just drunk, had my fill
try to find the place I still
Love the rain
dig that thing I dug before.
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10. |
Favorite Things
04:28
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Favorite Things by Ezra / Thomas
Well is there nothing i could trade you for a smile
well can we turn the awful silence down awhile
and talk about the shadows lingering in broken dreams
woven in the seems of our life
I know the years have dropped the curtain on the perfect scene
and it’s hard to see the stage without the light
But i see all of my favorite jewels of pain
but all of our glories hard fought for
as unto gold refined by flame
it’s my favorite things
it’s my favorite things
Time is just a fire we burn inside
bringing out the things we wished could be denied
I know there's blame enough for both of us to walk away
find another day to take a fall
I know the colors all are faded and we both have changed
in the picture frame hanging on the wall
But i see all of my favorite jewels of pain
but all of our stories hard fought for
as unto gold refined by flame
it’s my favorite things
it’s my favorite things
If it were up to me I’d take you somewhere far away
higher than the rain that never dried
then we’d finally see the season of forgotten days
and the cloudy haze would fall before our eyes
then we’ll see all of our favorite jewels of pain
all of our glories hard fought for
as unto gold refined by flame
it’s my favorite things
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11. |
This House
05:31
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THIS HOUSE by Ezra /thomas
well, This house is burning down
we’re moving underground
where silence is the cure
We’ll have a drink or two
we’ll watch the flame consume
all that we've waited for
Because we’ prayed and we concealed
and we fought only to yield
and we lied until it’s true
We’ll save the children first
we’ll watch and rest just burn
we’ll clean up when it’s through
this house i built for you
This house is burning down
I see no need to save us now
though no flame will touch the ground
this house is burning down
I was in the dark
and i might have lit the spark
but you taught it how to live
you probably didn't know
it’s not on the TV show
that teaches us to give
this house is where it is
This house is burning down
I see no need to save us now
though no flame will touch the ground
this house is burning down
It’s burning down
all the pictures and the frames
all the stories and the blame
memories and lazy days
burn it up, lets get away
the hope we ever found
in this world
is burning down
You probably didn't know
It’s not on the TV show …
You probably didn't know
Well This house is burning down
I see no need to save us now
though no flame will touch the ground
this house is burning down
It’s burning down
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12. |
Error of Days
04:39
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ERROR OF DAYS by Ezra /Thomas
If i could keep you here like a pressed flower
with poems and dreams
songs unsung
and to hold would heal me every hour
like potion stings on my tongue
and a smile would pay for all of my shames
laughter of fools, falling in love, the first time again
for the days i feared and held like the rain
finding a seem broken between fall in the drain
If i could keep you here like a pressed flower
on darkest days moon nor sun
in a box of years well i would devor
in lonely ways, made for one
in a book unnamed and hidden in chains
far from the cruel sun that will fuel, the error of days
In a box of things broken and stray
there you would go between the fold never to fade
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The Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Ezra / Thomas
Precious the fool
blessed the hand
for the wise to understand
every day is but a wave upon the sand
who made the spark
feeding the dark
in the dungeon of the heart
who let us go
when all that we know is to pretend
who made the chains
gave us a name
in such an ordinary way
I’m failing in confidence
in all defense of strife
who was this king
burdened to bring
such a temporary thing
to the extraordinary ordinary life
and the stars will fall
all fall from the sky
and the moon to red
christened by the night
got to be strong
to trample on the other side
may you live long
and your defense not be denied
Who can restrain
who can obtain
such an ordinary thing
I feel that I fail a test
that never rest the fight
who was this king
burdened to bring
such a temporary thing
to the extraordinary ordinary life
for the extraordinary ordinary life
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ezra vancil Dallas, Texas
Ezra Vancil is an American singer/songwriter based in Dallas, Texas. While in the past he has written and recorded in the rock, pop, and experimental genres, a more mature Vancil has now found a sense of permanent belonging and connection within the community of Americana artists. ... more
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