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The Wild Card
03:55
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Staring at your phone screen
Borderline lonely
Long drives, short sets
Small talk and cigarettes
Soon you’ll have a family
Can’t keep losing money
Everything is slowing down
But I just wanna keep running
I keep running
San Francisco’s dead
Taken over by the internet
All the clubs are closing
After all the artists left
The tickets won’t sell
Everybody’s moved on
Maybe you can wait it out
Everything comes back around
Everything comes back around
Everything comes back around
Buying groceries on credit
Royalties forget it
IRS on my back
And I ain’t even made shit
Staring down the barrel
Of another four years
Nothings changed same debate
Between fantasies and fears
Falling farther into fascism
We need a revolution
Murder porn glued to your screen
Sedated in a debtor’s prison
Every year the fire’s worse
This technology’s a curse
This problem’s too big for me
We’re evolving in reverse
Some try to deny it
Others try to fight it
Some simply accept their fate
Other tries to buy it
Move to the suburbs
where you feel safe
Send your kids to the schools
Where they all look the same
Everyone looks like their friends
Now I feel like one of them
Skinny jeans, plaid shirt
Beard and bun, converse
Bawling my eyes out
At the Pixar movie
That opening scene in “Up”
Really fucking moved me
You’re the wild card
You’re the wild card
You’re the wild card
You’re the wild card
Staring at the second hand
Feeling like a grain of sand
How am I supposed to finish this?
My attention’s like a goldfish
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Past Present Future
03:59
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Leave the light on, I wanna see ya
Put the record on, just like we used to
Take your time, we’ve got all night
To do it right
We can go slow, I’ll wait for you
All I know is I’m gonna savor you
Times are getting heavier
So I’m just going to keep loving you better and better and better
I don’t want the world outside
To come between you and I
Give you all I have take my whole life
Under a blue moon be my wife
I’m going to keep loving you deeper
You’re my past, present, future
You’re my past, present, future
You’re my past, present, future
You’re my past, present, future
You’re my past, present, future
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Golden Shore
04:15
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We weren’t born with hatred
We were taught it as kids
We were born with loving hearts
But hate tore us apart
Fear no more on that golden shore
This is where you’ll find us
We’ve been here all along
This is where we’ve always been
It’s where you belong
Fear no more on that golden shore
Stretch your wings and you will soar
All that’s lost is found
The second time around
You know I love you know I love you
know I love know I love you I do
Another trip around the sun
Waiting for your time to come
Battered and bruised
By a barrage of bad news
Fear no more on that golden shore
Stretch your wings and you will soar
All that’s lost is found
The second time around
You know I love you know I love you
know I love know I love you I do
The moments you live for
Are the same for which you die
Flashes of brilliance
Across the night sky
All that’s lost is found
The second time around
All that’s lost is found
The second time around
All I ever do, is dream of you baby
All I ever do, sing it right now baby
All that’s lost is found
The second time around
You know I love you know I love you
know I love know I love you I do
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Maybe if it’s magic it must be real
Time keeps turning like a whirling wheel
Life keeps spinning like a disco ball
The brighter you burn the farther you fall
Baby I’m begging set my spirit free
The dying of an age I need relief
How do I become more than I am?
There’s so much more I don’t understand
Don’t lose this dream
If it costs everything
The more you don’t the more it means
Otherwise why are you living?
When better than most ain’t good enough
You played your hand they called your bluff
Compromise until you believe the lies
But everyone’s soul has a price
Don’t lose this dream
If it costs everything
The more you don’t the more it means
Otherwise why are you living?
Everything’s a game
Different but the same
Call it by another name
Is it fate or is it timing?
Stitched in that silver lining
It’s the worst it’s the best
Everyday put to the test
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Helmet Stone & Sand
04:21
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When the last God is gone
That’s where I belong
When the last God is gone
Beyond the setting sun
When names and faces
Dwell in forgot song
When the last God is gone
Beyond the realm of death
When the last God is gone
Will be as if it never has
When hopeless sinners have forgotten fear
The endless will be here
Endless time, dreamless nights
Lonely lies, I’ll get by
With a pouch full of sand, a helmet and a stone
I poured my being into all I own
Taken from me a lifetime ago
But I have all the time in the world
Endless time, dreamless nights
Lonely lies, I’ll get by
I’ll get by turbulent times
Paying for someone else’s crimes
All that you are, all that you’re told
All that was, and will unfold
All that I am, all that I own
I will get back, In this world or the next
Endless time, dreamless nights
Lonely lies, I’ll get by
The last God is gone
When the last believer has forgotten
The last God is gone
Banished beyond the bottom
Will be unwritten after the last stand
But I will still be here helmet, stone, and sand
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Return to Zero
03:41
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Golden handcuffs
In my rearview mirror
No matter where I go
I could never leave you
California
Spend your whole life
Searching for
Blessed am I to have been born
In a place like this
Omnipotent
Square one, full circle
Deja vu
I return to you
Old and new
Ooh ooh ah
Ooh ooh ah
In a half life
I return to zero
Square one, full circle
Deja vu
I return to you
Old and new
Waves of dew
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You're Doing Fine
04:02
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Are you leading a life worth living
Do you stand for anything
Are you contributing good energy
Who can answer them my friend, honestly?
One track mind running blind don’t look back
Are you doing it right or have you lost sight?
Whatever gets you through the night
Settle down my friend honestly, you’ll be alright
Aimless drifter shape shifter
Love your life
You’ll be OK as long as you stay facing the light
You can answer them my friend, honestly
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Many Moons Ago
04:51
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When you feel like hope is gone
There will always be a song
Telling you to hold on
Telling you to hold on
When you feel like all is lost
And all your rivers have been crossed
May this light through the frost
May your love light through the fog
Many men have been below
Where you stood many moons ago
When you feel the tides have turned
And all your bridges have been burned
And all your lessons have been learned
And all your spirits have been spurned
All your love shall be returned
All your love shall be returned
Many men have been below
Where you stood many moons ago
You can trudge right through the snow
Spring will come as sure as day
So they say, so they say
Many moons ago, many moons ago, many moons ago
Many moons ago, many moons ago, many moons ago
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King Dream Bodega, California
King Dream is a Bay Area psych-rock project from longtime songwriter and musician Jeremy Lyon. With roots planted in the golden era of California psychedelia, and a wry, playful energy that places him firmly in the 21st century, Lyon charts a path through timeless themes: disillusionment with oneself, with adulthood, with one’s country — and that there’s still plenty worthy of a love song. ... more
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