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Promise Land
02:48
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Promise Land by Ezra Vancil
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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A SONG BEFORE I GO by Ezra Vancil
no one there to help you walk that final mile
when all you want is just an ordinary smile
the mountains rest
the forest and trees
older than i'll ever be
so i’ll wander this extraordinary road
to lose my way
I don't mind
someday I'll lay this burden down
and everything I know
I was fine
to wear this dreamers thorny crown
glad you made the show
heres a song before I go
for many years I just forgot I was to be
something more than what you might expect for me
the ocean is bound
by the shore, it's not free
yet rains in down over me..
nevermind I ain't got time to think I know
philosophy
I don't mind
that no one knew this man at all
oh you’re busy though
I was fine
to watch a child learn how to crawl
glad you made the show
and heres a song before I go
I don't mind
I never understood this world
or anything I know
I was fine
Just to love that southern girl
glad you caught the show
I don't mind
that god don't answer when I call
oh he's busy though
I was glad
to walk beside you all alone
I'm glad you made the show
here’s a song before I go
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3. |
Galveston
04:52
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Galveston by Ezra Vancil
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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4. |
Take Me With You
04:42
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Take me with you by Ezra Vancil
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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5. |
Road to Zion
03:47
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Road to Zion by Ezra Vancil
Like a church you’re a maze
dark halls draw lines on your face
You’re a child in a race
with your future fallen grace
Ya You're blind but you see
the man you'll never be
Just a clown try in vain,
to where your paint in the rain
So just go your way
we don't want this kinda faith
That’s ok if you shine,
burnin down the road to zion
Draw a crowd on a street
so they magnify your weeping
Crown it’s a pound,
of your hate you love to venerate
Your mind like a phone
calling god’s holy angels home
It’s a loss to be found
when you think your glory bound
So just go your way
we don't want this kinda faith
That’s ok if you shine,
burnin down the road to zion
And it’s love and its grace
not a war of hate politic debate
So just go your way
we don't want this kinda faith
That’s ok if you shine,
burnin down the road to zion
So just go your way
we don't want this kinda faith
That’s ok if you shine,
burnin down the road to zion
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6. |
Opium
04:41
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Opium by Ezra Vancil
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
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
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
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If I Didn't Know God is Good by Ezra Vancil
If I didn’t know God is good
If I didn’t have that understood,
If I didn’t know God was good
I’d just lay down in my box of wood
If I didn’t know there is something more
than this life everyones dying for
I would be swimming of the deepest shore
All these lines in my face
something seems so out of place
like we were meant for something better
but i know that’s just the way of faith
the innocent cries
and all the incidental lives
if I didn’t know better
Then i’d wonder why we even try
If I didn’t know the shape I’m in
If I didn’t know this heart of sin
If I didn’t know the shape i’m in
I would sink down into my shallow skin
All these lines in my face
something seems so out of place
like we were meant for something better
but i know that’s just the way of faith
the innocent cries
and all the incidental lives
if I didn’t know better
Then i’d wonder why we even try
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8. |
Error of Days
04:39
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ERROR OF DAYS by Ezra Vancil
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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9. |
Paper Sky
04:08
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Paper Sky by Ezra Vancil
Paper sky
plastic moon
built my world and nothing true
except regret
even rain ain’t wet
years will change, poverty, fame
but rescue me love
when it all looks the same to you
calling angels
across invisible telephone line
Pushing tables
Like i'm a ghost that I want you to find
And shine your love
glitter stars, Styrofoam
toy cars we’re driving home with open doors
see the sawdust shores
all that shines is cold and dark
so rescue me love with your beating heart
I’m through
calling angels
across invisible telephone line
Pushing tables
Like i’m a ghost that I want you to find
And shine your love
Paper sky, plastic moon
Built a world I thought would keep you close to me
But you lost the key
Life is long tell me I’m wrong
but rescue me love before I am gone
see me.....
calling angels
Like i’m a ghost that I want you to find
And shine your love
I want you to find
And shine your love
I want you to find
And shine your love
I want you to find
And shine your love
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Songbird by Ezra Vancil
She wonders through a meadow
The chamber plays the cello
deep and wide the strings are making love
I stand and watch here bending
as a flower’s life is ending
in her hair
the clouds watch from above
and now the fire beginning
truth is it’s never ending
heaven flow the darkness is her body in the light
Her lips are tasting bitter
her hips don’t seem to fit her
like a puzzle in the dark
there’s a tracings of her heart
I see a storm inside
As if I told a lie but she won’t know
the storm is making love
I taste her drifting finger
the potion seems to linger
drunk in tough
what was it made of
And now I’m feeling dizzy
As if the world is in me
All that I poured in her heart
was eatin by a hungry shark
She lays down in the medow
beneath me calm and mellow
Oh to touch her poison eyes
looking through me only lies
Songbird leaving
Now she’s gone
Songbird leaving
Now she’s gone
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11. |
Desert Town
03:09
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Desert Town by Ezra Vancil
dripi'n down like honey
music on my mind and soul
life a lot like money
spend it all and you want so more
god don't make no dummy
by i might be an imbosol
It might be funny
oh but the joke is getting old
everything i wanted
everything i wished were for
why you gonna light me up a spark
to watch me drown
in shadows
all that i did ask for
why you gonna build me like an Ark
in desert town
take your temperature honey
you ain't sick but you might be old
damn the big mans money
talk'n bout the bitch of soul
ching ching ching
that Big o'l ass is solid gold
talk'n bout money
that Big o'l ass is solid gold
singing like a god song
everything i wanted
everything i wished were for
why you gonna light me up a spark
to watch me drown
in shadows
all that i did ask for
why you gonna build me like an Ark
in desert town
Big o'l ass is solid gold
everything i wanted
everything i wished were for
why you gonna light me up a spark
to watch me drown
in shadows
all that i did ask for
why you gonna build me like an Ark
in desert town
everything i wanted
everything i wished were for
why you gonna light me up a spark
to watch me drown
in shadows
all that i did ask for
why you gonna build me like an Ark
in desert town
Big o'l ass is solid gold
Everything right now
Big o'l ass is solid gold
talk'n bout money
Big o'l ass is solid gold
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Valentines Day Song by Stéphane Amaté & Ezra Vancil
Well Everybody got a little box that they hold
a diamond in the rough in the corner folded,
underneath the valentine that remains for a girl
or a guy that never
found that holiday
now it seems so far away
and you’ll never find a place for traces of that kind of love
cause it’s buried deep beneath the years of blood and gold
and searching for the truth just to find it sold
to a taller man and a bombshell girl
who is thin and cheap with natural curls
and I want that holiday
and I promise I’ll be brave
walk to the box with roses painted in the snow
fold it up and let it go
everybody got a little shrug in the shoulder
thinking of a love that left them cold
or wandering the street steeping a beat of a heart
oh it makes you feel so grey
and I want that holiday
when lovers celebrate
snow on an open road
and chocolates sold and making love
now it’s buried deep beneath the hopes of broken souls
and meeting in the truth that love grows cold
for a waters deep in a man’s deceit
and a women's hum drum mystery
and I want that holiday
and I’ll promise I’ll be brave
draw me a picture of our hotten fall in a row
fold it up and let it go
and I want that holiday
and I’ll promise I’ll be brave
walk to the box with the roses painted in the snow
fold it up and let it go
signed your valentine
to my love divine
and I want that holiday
and I’ll promise I’ll be brave
walk to the box with the roses painted in the snow
fold it up and let it go
and I want that holiday
and I feel so far away
draw me a picture of our hotten fall in a row
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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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God created eve by Ezra Vancil
God created eve with a sin in her heart..
the garden was good, but she wanted art
Van Gough beside her, as she took the bite,
now we all have to bleed for what the poets write
God created Eve, and said it was good.
Then he rented a snake a house in the neighborhood
Van Gough beside her, when the serpent called.
I’ll give you tears at the louvre, but every man mud fall
God created Eve, from the side of man.
Then he told her a secret, she couldn’t understand
Van Gough beside her, as she hid in the woods.
So the painter could cry out: it is good
God created Eve, with a sin in his heart
A people of light, I will put in the dark
Van Gough beside her, she hid in the nude,
oh I wish I could paint you, and put you in the louvre.
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15. |
Patience
04:08
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Patience by Ezra Vancil
Patience
like a wave in the ocean
where’d it come with a notion
the shore would be the end
Patience
like a father's devotion
and a motherly potion
now we’re starting to began
Patience
god colored a rainbow
we can practice in slow mo
while we learn to love again
Patience
loving you is like plants grow
vines tangled the leaf show
when we’re starting to begin
And when the morning comes
there’s the sun rise
Just for our eyes
You and I
and when the night is full
there’s the blue skies
moon light your eyes
you and i
Patience
like a wave in the ocean
where’d it come with a notion
the shore would be the end
Patience
god colored a rainbow
we can practice in slow mo
while we learn to love again
And when the morning comes
there’s the sun rise
Just for our eyes
You and I
and when the night is full
there’s the blue skies
moon light your eyes
you and i
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16. |
The One
04:11
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The One
Lyrics and Melody Ezra Vancil
Music by Marcus Janus
We grew up in the same big city
south of the mexican line
I always knew that she was pretty
and I dreamed that she’d be mine
I was the quiet one
I was the sad son
she was the valentine
and while the boys play
I just drift away
hoping she’ll read my mind
You want to play
I’m your fire
you want a song
I’ll be sung
You want feeling
I’m your desire
cause everything i do I always done
trying to make you the one
Her folks split
she took a hard hit
and traveled with the drunk’n bum
I asked about her but I didn’t want to know
just married with a baby son
but twenty years
and a lot of tears
I was broken down and left undone
she came to my door
like the girl before
hiding out on the run
You want to play
I’m your fire
you want a song
I’ll be sung
You want feeling
I’m your desire
cause everything i do I always done
trying to make you the one
She bought a white dress
man I was still a mess
drinking up the things I’d done
A perfect honeymoon
but trouble came soon
and we both had a feeling to run
and I disappeared into oled fear
searching for the boy I was
She was beside me but she wouldn’t lie to me
a man is only what he does
but if You want to play
I’m your fire
you want a song
I’ll be sung
You want feeling
I’m your desire
cause everything i do I always done
trying to make you the one
We have a house in the same big city
south of the mexican line
our children in the yard
ya our life is hard
but I know you're mine
You want to play
I’m your fire
you want a song
I’ll be sung
You want feeling
I’m your desire
cause everything i do I always done
trying to make you the one
You want to play
I’m your fire
you want a song
That I’ll be sung
I’m your desire
trying to make you the one
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17. |
Paradise
04:41
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Paradise by Ezra Vancil
It’s another day in paradise
it’s another day to shine
but I don’t feel so nice
and I don’t feel so kind
but you know me,
can you help me understand
it’s another day to shoot the breeze
with some of my old friends
but all those memories I don’t wanna
bring ‘em up again it get me thinking
of a better time
But I’ll keep on running till I’m through
when the sun is burning
and I’m feeling blue
I’ll keep on running running
till I’m caught up with you
Someone needs to turn me over
and get me out of bed
cause I could sleep a thousand years
and you might think I’m dead but I’m dreamin
it’s just a nice place to be
Sometimes I wonder why
I get up my friend
for something else to come along
and knock me down again
but it figures,
cause it’s a rotating world
But I’ll keep on running till I’m through
when the earth is turning
and I’m longing for you
I’ll keep on running running,
till I’m caught up with you
And if nothing comes about
in twenty years I’m all worn out
how can I give up on the truth
I’ll keep on running running
till I’m through
My responsibilities grow heavier each day
and all these thoughts and dreams
keep getting in the way
but I’m dreaming,
I’m still dreaming of your face
I’ll keep on running
till I’m caught up with you
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18. |
Winter Girls
05:08
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Winter Girls by Ezra Vancil
All those winter girls with fresh made hair
walking around with their movie stars
they could never be what I have found
deep in your arms as you lay me down
And all those summer boys they talk so well
with shiny new cars and ships to sail
they could never be what you have found
deep in my arms as I lay you down
And you’ll be my lazy summer lullaby
and i’ll walk against the wind just for your eyes
we’ll harvest memories in season time
and i’ll be your shadow and you’ll be mine
Oh the grass is green right where I am
wrapped in your perfumed golden skin
and your silhouette is all I see
deep in your arms, will I always be?
And you’ll be my lazy summer lullaby
and i’ll walk against the wind just for your eyes
we’ll harvest memories in season time
and i’ll be your shadow and you’ll be mine
yeah yeah...........
Oh those winter days are soon to pass
and you know summer never last
but there will always be what we have found
deep in these arms, as we lay down
you’ll be my lazy summer lullaby
and i’ll walk against the wind just for your eyes
we’ll harvest memories in season time
and i’ll be your shadow and you’ll be mine
yeah yeah.............
yeah yeah.............
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Halli says
03:44
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Halli Says by Ezra Vancil
Halli says were gonna shine
like the sun in bloom before it’s decline
But I say what about this hunger in me
and what about these feelings
and what about these troubles I’ve built in my mind
But Halli says it’s all in time
All the dreams float off just so we may climb
But I say what about my failings
and what about this emptiness
what about this spirit I no longer find
But halli says that I’ve been found
that she could picture me before the world was round
but I say what i just ruin it all
and what If I just build us a wall
and what if this man’s history and future is bound
And fear just let me go
some things no one should know
dark places we hide
songs sung alone in the night
But Halli says she’s gonna try
to travel farther than the answer to why
and I say, maybe I’m no good for you
and maybe you’ll be through with me
and maybe all loves poetry was written with wine
But halli says we’re gonna shine.
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20. |
Mortal Days
04:10
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Mortal Days by Ezra Vancil
It’s a traffic jam 8 a.m
and i’m singing every song I ever heard
and up in the distance I see a river flowing
and something in me stirs
and whoever said nine to five
that’s like seventy percent of my waking life
in the hands of another man’s plans
beneath fluorescent lights
If I could break away
from these mortal days
If I could find a place
where time would wait for me
time wait for me
Well it looks like it’s gonna be another one of those nights
working late beneath fluorescent lights
and I’d much rather be
in bed…
with my lover resting my head
telling stories till the morning light
and we wonder why our father’s don’t know their sons
and we wonder why our children play with guns
and we wonder all these things
in front of our TV’s
and then we wonder when the next show is coming on
If I could break away
from these mortal days
If I could find a place
where time would wait for me
Someday we’re going to see
blue skies
waiting, above the lights
Someday we’re going to see
blue skies
ahh, above the lights
someday we’re gonna see
blue sky
If I could break away
from these mortal days
If I could find a place
where time would wait for me
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21. |
This House
05:31
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THIS HOUSE by Ezra Vancil
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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22. |
Holiday
04:21
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Holiday by Ezra Vancil
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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Nothing Under the Sun by Ezra Vancil
So what's the point then if what you say is true
(Nothing under the sun)
Why not sleep all day or better take a few
(Nothing under the sun)
If the sun is burning and the monkeys yearn
(Nothing under the sun)
Nothing lost nothing learned
Undercover all the thoughts in our head
Find another multiply in our bed
Self discover .. Live your life for the dead
You're my lover.. Predisposed in my head
I'm living i'm learning I'm burning out for something
Nothing under the sun
I saw a preacher on late
He said we could all be free
His teeth were perfect
I wanted to watch the news
But his teeth just held me there
And I believed
Boys and Heroes lay awake in the night
Dream you may go have a turn in the fight
Ones and zeros future looking so bright
Fly a space probe into infinite life
I'm living i'm learning I'm burning out for something
Nothing under the sun
Nothing lost nothing learned
Nothing under the sun
Nothing real nothing to returned
I'm living i'm learning I'm burning out for something
Nothing under the sun
I'm going to go to sleep and get an education
And join the Oprah book club
(Nothing under the sun)
Ones and zeros future looking so bright
Fly a space probe into infinite night
Nothing under the sun
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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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