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For Baby Bronco!! 

Dragging you around
Like yesterday's bad news 
Giving me an offer 
You know I can’t refuse

I’ve, tried to smoke you out
Set a fire in my stomach
You bleed into my dreams at night
And I’m becoming 

Tired, say you’re flickering 
"Now’s not it", saw this coming 
I know I 

I hate
That I don’t want you
But I can’t stand to see you look the other way 
Always made
An easy target
Shoot me down again 
Shoot me down again 

Putting up a fight 
Was never my best card 
I’d rather just roll over 
Let you win and move on

I’m, tangled up in you
Where do you start and I end?
Hard enough to pretend
This isn’t messing with my

Mind, give it up already 
Want what you can’t have
But trust me
I know I 

I hate
That I don’t want you
But I can’t stand to see you look the other way 
Always made
An easy target
Shoot me down again 
Shoot me down again

easy target

You didn’t break my heart
I guess that means you kept your promise
But just because you didn’t leave a scar
Doesn’t mean that you were honest 

But I won’t be your left behinds
You ran away didn’t think twice 
Now you’ve got me patching up my bruises

And sticks and stones don’t measure up
To futile words that aren’t enough
The way your lies were hiding what the truth is

Should have known from the start
That you were going to give less
Why is it that I always give my all
Cleaning up what’s left of your mess

Sticks & Stones

this song is about a place that i'm not sure exists anymore outside a dream. it sounds like a river to me.
Creds to About Esme for production and another beautiful electric guitar solo (listen til the end!)

rusorio

Track 7 on my upcoming 9-song album "Daydream". Out 9/9


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Walk in the door
Close your eyes 
Choose a card
You’re guessing my name
Showing off
With a seven of hearts 

I don’t know your friends 
But we get
in the car
Drive through the city 
To the beach
You kiss me in the dark

Do you ever wonder about how
You ended up standing where you are right now?
You ask me 
And it all fades out 
I barely hear you now

I’ve been here before, this scene I know the lines 
I was running barefoot on a different high 
I’ve had this conversation in another life
But not with you 
Hope it’s not the same the second time around 
Have something to say, why can’t you spit it out?
Always seem to show up, when you’re feeling proud,
In someone new

I came with a taste 
For the drinks and the sound
You’re playing on stage 
You don’t know me
I’m new to this town 

Pull me aside 
And we’re thinking aloud 
Let’s leave tomorrow 
Live a dream for a while 
If you’re down

Seven Of Hearts

Track 8 of 9 on my upcoming album "Daydream", out 9/9 :)

Creativity comes easiest out of negative emotions for me.  This is a song about the struggle between light and dark, and the balance I've found by allowing them both to have space in my life.

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Are you far enough away? 
We’re strangers but yesterday 
I knew your secrets, we jumped off the deep end, I sank and you swam
Good for you

Was I too late?
Seems we’ve met the fate 
I’m afraid of, how did we end up on
Two different sides of the room

What’s left 
Of castles we built out of nothing
Can’t tell who you are  
There’s no light and I’m fumbling 
I swallowed the sun 
Now you’re terrified of me 
Chasing the dark
Hope you catch up to something 

Are you trying to read my mind?
I’ll spell it out, read the signs
I bet you’ll miss it, no good at directions
The exit’s a couple miles back 

Were we ever alright?
Maybe you never tried 
To make it through this tunnel of excuses 
I’d glow in the dark and you’d laugh

Chasing The Dark

title track for my new album Daydream :) out 9/9

I spent last summer
Trapped in your headspace
But I’ve never been here before 

Your brother is calling
Forgiven, forgotten 
don’t go by your name anymore

maybe you do
And he’s making a joke 
she’s laughing in passenger side 

Unopened letters 
prescription papers 
the glovebox from last July 

I know where you’re heading
But where is your mind
The river won’t run like it did when I cried 

Slip in and out of a daydream 
I really can’t tell if it’s mine 
Devils get greedy 
And angels are needy
I couldn’t catch lightning 
I tried

Daydream

Reminiscent of one of my first posted songs, "Violet Light"

if you're listening and it means something to you, let me know xx

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Pick me up on a Sunday
Drive me home, I live just below the grade 
Say you’re jaded in love and
You can’t stay
In the same place

Compliance isn’t my forte
Listen but I choose to ignore it
If I keep knocking 
You’ll have to open it 
That’s what I’m hoping 

Come apart in color 
Shades of you 
In better parts of me 
Covered us in deep blue 
While I’m bleeding

Purple haze 
The way you taste 
deep enough to drown in 

Lavender 
The way it hurts 
Love leaves pretty bruises 

Ultraviolet 
You’re still fighting 
I’m certain i just 
Colored 
in your lies

Turn around and you chase me
Swear that you only want me when I don’t 
Like to play Tug of war with my patience 
I can’t take it

This time I know it’s fleeting
The stars align for a while and then they move
Chalk it up as a loss and conceding
You don’t mean it 

Come apart in color 
Shades of you 
In better parts of me 
Covered us in deep blue 
While I’m bleeding

Purple haze 
The way you taste 
deep enough to drown in 

Lavender 
The way it hurts 
Love leaves pretty bruises 

Ultraviolet 
You’re still fighting 
I’m certain i just 
Colored 
in your lies

~~~~~~~~~~~

Ultraviolet

Rediscovered this tune while playing through some old CFBK jams.  This song was written about a couple struggling to make things work with distance.    

@candyforbigkids

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Running through the hallways of my mind wonderin
If there was something obvious I missed
This wouldn’t be the first time
And I guess I wasn’t thinking 
When I said that we could handle it

You’re far enough away that it hurts to reach out
But close enough to make me forget    
Why I’m leaving in the first place                       
Swear I never meant to do this
As I’m staring at your faded silhouette

Cuz I can’t feel you
I can’t feel you at all
I’m only glad that there’s not too far left to fall
Cuz I can’t feel you
I can’t feel you at all
I know you’re crying, waiting for my call

You’re tryin hardest to pull me back here
But I know that I’m already too far gone
Somewhere along the line
I misplaced my captivation
For the way your eyes convince me I’m wrong  
There’s nothing left of me that I have to offer
But ‘til I take the train down, we’ll be okay
Give me two more weeks of ‘not enough’ 
And same old conversations
We’ll pretend that we still have a ‘someday’     

Cuz I can’t feel you 
I can’t feel you at all
I’ only glad that there’s not too far left to fall
Cuz I can’t feel you
I can’t feel you at all
I know you’re crying, waiting for my call

can't feel you

~ A spooky song for a spooky time ~

Does it matter if you mean it?
Feed me any line you ever wrote 
And I’ll pretend 
You never would repeat it 
See right through you 
Every wall lit up in red 

Waxing and waning 
Fear is a mutual friend 
Nothing is sacred 
Redwoods and picket fences 

If all I can do is haunt 
You’ll hide behind a mask and scare me off 
Devil with a different name
Ghost with a familiar face 

Walking through your walls again 
Say you’re someone else,
I’m cautious of it 
Creature with a hidden heart
Echo of the things I lost 

Weigh me down in cycles 
Get to where I think I should be 
How’d you get here first?
Tugging on your shadows
Love your vices 
Like they’ve never left me burnt

haunt

Half my life you come and go
I would follow you right out 
yellow daisies line the road
It’s what’s past them, I wanna hear about 

They say Good things come in threes 
They’re getting louder every time 
Drag my head until I bleed 
To drown them out, I’d give it a try 

Head in the sink
“What did I do to deserve you”
Thorns in my feet 
Cut and pasted in; a tattoo
Don’t want you to leave 
Eden in the backyard 
And I’m liking what I see 
Chloe  
 
Staying close, don’t pull ahead 
Stick to things that are my size
Think I’ll break the rules 
Pin me down 
Ignore my Advice

chloe

Music from a sweeter time, a better love, another life 💜

indie pop/folk rock collaboration comprised of singer-songwriters Barry Peelen & Ashley Turi out of San Luis Obispo, Ca.

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