the music asked to exist.
so i let it.

— sand martin

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Good Times

Just another step
If you can keep up
It's just another day
If you can sing again
This is a note for the next life
Where are we born again
Free to fall with the wind
Light as we've ever been 
This is the note I'll leave
A photograph on your wall 
Just another beat
If you can feel it
It's just another one
If you can dance with me 
This is a note for the next life
Where we are born as planes
Free to fall with the wind
Light as we've ever been 
This is the note I'll leave
A photograph on your wall

A Note for the Next Life

Cigarette moons on the ceiling glow,
Burn slow, burn slow, burn slow.
Ink on my skin where your name should go,
Burn slow, burn slow, burn slow.
A lighter flick is how we start, A silver tongue, a borrowed spark.
You draw a window on the glass, Say, "Climb through, don't look back."
Cigarette moons on the ceiling glow,
Burn slow, burn slow, burn slow.
Ink on my skin where your name should go,
Burn slow, burn slow, burn slow.

Cigarette Moons

It won’t be long before it all gets too hard,
If you break down, if you can’t stop now.
It won’t be long before the night falls,
I’ll disappear into all you fear the most.

I led you to believe,
I led you to believe it all.

But these walls
Were never meant to keep me,
And your eyes
Were never meant to see me.

It won’t be long before it all gets too hard,
If you break down, if you can’t stop now.
It won’t be long before the night falls,
I’ll disappear into all you fear the most.

I led you to believe,
I led you to believe it all.

But these walls
Were never meant to keep me,
And your eyes
Were never meant to see me.

There’s not enough light,
I can’t give in to these fights.
You can’t reach me
There’s no space left.
There’s not enough light,
I can’t give in to these fights.

Walls

They move like spirits
Like these secrets
Haunted by feeling
But this feeling never lets me down
It's the sea
It's the space in me

Nothing ever makes me cry
Nothing ever makes me laugh
Nothing ever makes me wonder why
It's all waves in the air
Waves in my hair
It's all waves in the air
Waves, clear.

Branches
In the sand
Cerberus is in the back seat
Holding my hand
Distant
Either side
We reach

First to land
I promise I won't sleep

Buried
I've got to get you out of there
Slipstream in flight

Nothing ever makes me cry
Nothing ever makes me laugh
Nothing ever makes me wonder why
It's all waves in the air
Waves in my hair
It's all waves in the air
Waves, clear.

Nothing

I see my old self walking beside me
Wearing a mask, I don’t remember putting on
He turns his head to speak
But only moths leave his mouth
His arms are made of apologies
(He whispers)
You are loved, (if) you are real
(if)  You are loved, you are real
You are loved, (if) you are real
Each corner turned is the same corner
Each corner turned is the same corner
it sounds like love, if you’re tired enough
it sounds like love, if you’re tired enough
(The fog is not weather. It's memory.)
(The fog is not weather. It's memory.)
(He whispers)
You are loved, (if) you are real
(if)  You are loved, you are real
You are loved, (if) you are real
You are loved, (if) you are real
(if)  You are loved, you are real
You are loved, (if) you are real

You Are Loved

I don't need saving, 
Said the man to his master
Smurky little bastard
I fed you like my own sun 

I don't need saving
He said while he turned away
The devil had made his move 

You were always the one
One day you'll see 
I did it for the both of us
I did it for the both of us

You were always the one
One day you'll see 
I did it for the both of us
I did it for the both of us

And all of our friends and foes
They need to believe 
In all things changing
In all things changing

I don't need to save
He said while he turned away
The devil had made his move 
The sea rose, and the moon blew

You were always the one
One day you'll see 
I did it for the both of us
I did it for the both of us

And all of our friends and foes
They need to believe 
In all things changing
In all things changing

You were always the one
One day you'll see 
I did it for the both of us
I did it for the both of us

I Don't Need Saving

Speaking eyes, void of light
Fractured compass in the night
Drawn to silhouettes, undefined
Adrift on waves, we cannot find

Your breath, a memory fading fast
As fingers trace what cannot last

Silent tears form but never fall
From skies too empty to recall

It can wait
In a suspended state
Time betrays itself
The world decays in stealth

Speaking eyes, void of light
Fractured compass in the night
Drawn to silhouettes, undefined
Adrift on waves, we cannot find

Your breath, a memory fading fast
As fingers trace what cannot last

It can wait
In a suspended state
Time betrays itself
The world decays in stealth

It Can Wait

Your unkind embrace
beholds a smile,
Like my altered face.
Like my altered face.
Like my altered face.
and my altered taste for love

Across the water, there's you
a witness of my past
With no regrets
With no regrets
With no regrets

I hang in the air.
I hang in there

Call me when the choir stops,
So the wounded heal their loss

All the Fish return to their homes,
freely
freely

With no memory
of the giant waves
I see the cleanup crews
Fill the sea,
to find your tears
to find your tears
to find your tears
of love
to clean up
clean up
clean up

Fish

This is the end of the world 
The end that keeps happening 
at every turn 
at every turn 
This is the broken jar of hope 
The one that I wake up to 
every night 
every day 

Where did the good times go 
You wanted to go too 
I said Wait, I'll go with you 
where no one bends the rules 

This is the last dance 
for all the romance 
for all the soap and showmen 
For this is the end of all trends 
 
Where did all the toys go 
Who drives the yellow cars 
Who smiles like they never knew 
What's about to hit

If they come for me
And they might
Don’t run to me.

Don’t scream.
Don’t fight.
Don’t throw anything.
Just go.

Run to the woods,
where the trees still remember our names.
Take the cassette.
Take the water.
Leave the photograph.
It’s not who I am now.

If they ask,
tell them you hated me.
Say I was wrong.
Say I lied.
Say I left.

But remember
I’ll be in the smoke
that rises after their fire.
I’ll be in the static
of that broken radio.

I’ll be a voice in the pipes
When you wash your hands and..
I’ll be nowhere
but near.
And you..

If they ask,
tell them you hated me.
Say I was wrong.
Say I lied.
Say I left.

But remember
I’ll be in the smoke
that rises after their fire.
I’ll be in the static
of that broken radio.

If they come for me
And they might
Don’t run to me.

Don’t scream.
Don’t fight.
Don’t throw anything.
Just go.

Run to the woods.

Runaway

Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.
Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.

The road is a ribcage, the trees whisper names,
Something in the air is calling again.
I swore I'd turn back, I swore I'd stay clean,
But the hunger inside doesn't listen to me.

Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.
Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.
What if the ghosts were just waiting to dance?
What if the forest was never by chance?
What if the danger is really the cure?
What if the howl is the sound of a door?

What if the ghosts were just waiting to dance?
What if the forest was never by chance?
What if the danger is really the cure?
What if the howl is the sound of a door?
Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.
Take me where the wolves go, let me find the dark.
Teeth in the moonlight, bones in the bark.
What if the ghosts were just waiting to dance?
What if the forest was never by chance?
What if the danger is really the cure?
What if the howl is the sound of a door?

Wolves

I'm planning an uprising
From my tiny room 
And my tiny chair 
With my tiny papers 
I'm planning to survive 
for another thousand years 
With a pen and paper 
With a song to remember 

If I ever get past this
I promise I'll come to you 
And I'll spend all the time 
And we'll get old together 

I'm planning to sink ships 
In the bathtub, I filled 
With a few plastic toys, 
It will make a loud noise 

If I ever get past this
I promise I'll come to you 
And I'll spend all the time 
And we'll get old together 

If I ever get past this
I promise I'll come to you 
And I'll spend all the time 
And we'll get old together

We'll Get Old Together

I woke up where the highway bends,
where faded lights still stain the glass.
A radio calls me by my name,
but I don’t listen, not today.

The wires are humming, soft and low,
a quiet song beneath the smoke.
I take the back roads, past the signs,
where no one’s waiting for me.

Tell me something, I don’t know
how to run without the weight,
how to leave without a trace.
Tell me where the lost ones go.

Tell me something, I don’t know
how to run without the weight,
how to leave without a trace.
Tell me where the lost ones go.

Tell me something, I don’t know
how to run without the weight,
how to leave without a trace.
Tell me where the lost ones go.

I woke up where the highway bends,
where faded lights still stain the glass.
A radio calls me by my name,
but I don’t listen, not today.

The wires are humming, soft and low,
a quiet song beneath the smoke.
I take the back roads, past the signs,
where no one’s waiting for me.

Tell Me Something I Don't Know

Made your coffee like I always do
Two mugs, but only one pulled through
Made your coffee like I always do
Two mugs, but only one pulled through

I opened the blinds, but you weren’t there
Just light where your body used to care
I said your name out loud. It broke.
Felt the room exhale. Just smoke.

You turned into smoke
Right between my hands
One minute, we were forever
Then the wind changed plans

You turned into smoke
Right between my hands
One minute, we were forever
Then the wind changed plans

You turned into smoke
Right between my hands
One minute, we were forever
Then the wind changed plans

You Turned Into Smoke

Please come to your senses
It's already too late
The train has departed
What was it you said on the way?
When the hopeless wind blew
"I’m a southern storm," you said
But can you make it better?
Can you make us disappear?

'Cause you’re my saviour, my queen
In this concrete world
You’re my TV, my radio
For so long I've dreamed of you

Now I close my eyes
All I see is one truth
I’m not a King, I’m not a fool
All I hold from our lives
It's beautiful and plain
I’m not a fool, I’m not a king

I’m failing like a flat balloon
Words spilling up, I’m doomed
California dream, come take me
Your golden hours, they can't break me

'Cause you’re my saviour, my queen
In this concrete world
You’re my TV, my radio
For so long I've dreamed of you

Now I close my eyes
All I see is one truth
I’m not a King, I’m not a fool
All I hold from our lives
It’s beautiful and plain
I’m not a fool, I’m not a king

Sand Martin

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