understated but powerful love the melodic guitar and the vocals ..hauntingly sweet tune

Artwork by Vladimir Kush

Written 18 years ago.... is what I'll say in ten years.

I’ve been an addict all my life long
to games I can’t win and puzzles I can’t solve
It’s been some kind of sick fascination
to find myself in impossible situations 
-
and this one is one of those
I’m a deep sea fish reaching for a desert rose
I’m a parking lot, hoping that a garden grows
I’m me and you’re you and my only way through is to divide by zero

you don’t like me much but I promise you this
if you knew me better you’d like me even less
If you could see what goes on in my thoughts
I think you’d personally lead the firing squad

but even though I wouldn’t agree
I’m so flawed, I’d assume I deserve it for something
this song just needs to be worthy of suffering 
I just want you to want something you can’t get anywhere except from me

It puts me out of sorts, but I think you’re my twin
and I ought to sue you for copyright infringement
but i’m sure at the court you’d have this winning defense:
my best is your ground floor, you do all I do and more, you’re improved at the core, so I’d best be out the door, with my obsolescence 
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but you don’t know the thing you’ve offered
for a minute my sadness has an object
before this it hung shapeless as fog upon me
Now it’s fenced in a daydream that I can keep and smother by slow degrees
(And I guess you'd call that "sorrow laundering")

so even if it’s been in your mind
and even if there were enough time
and even if it’s true, what I swear I have seen
what you’d have to do would split you at the seams
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it’d never be worth the risk
a dream gambled for so much less
just come clean, a daydream is all this is
some scene, from a movie we probably all saw as stupid kids

I’m sure you can tell most of this is an act
It can all go to hell, as a matter of fact
If I even thought this one could be solved
If I even thought the words could be carved
If I even thought I had something you want 
I’d ruin my life for those lottery odds.

Sorrow Laundering (Acoustic Demo)

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Fading.9

Be appreciative of the people in your life.

Voice outro

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Is this your stop?

Sterling! (14)

Verse 1:
In a world that shifts like sands below,
Colors swirl, where time seems slow,
At the corner of mystic and sweet reverie,
Sits our haven, the Kaleidoscope Café.

Chorus:
Through the stained-glass changes,
In the maze of mind's wide ranges,
Everything moves, but you stay,
My constant star at Kaleidoscope Café.

Verse 2:
Walls that breathe and chairs that dance,
In this corner of chaos, we find our trance,
Sipping dreams poured out so free,
Each sip, a toast to you and me.

Chorus:
Through the stained-glass changes,
In the maze of mind's wide ranges,
Everything moves, but you stay,
My constant star at Kaleidoscope Café.

Bridge:
Where the world spins in vivid hues,
Lost in echoes of infinite views,
You're the anchor, in the flux of day,
The soul's compass at Kaleidoscope Café.

Verse 3:
As the prism bends the light of night,
Our laughter melds with the neon bright,
In every reflection, I see your face,
The constant in every shifting space.

Chorus:
Through the stained-glass changes,
In the maze of mind's wide ranges,
Everything moves, but you stay,
My constant star at Kaleidoscope Café.

Outro:
So let the world twist, let it turn,
Among the kaleidoscopes, this I learn:
All may change in the cosmic play,
But my heart's home is at Kaleidoscope Café.

Fading.9

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