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Tiny Dolphin- Try

"The Equation" is the second single from Tiny Dolphin, Alex Fisher's latest musical project. This track features bass by David Sandler and violin by Rachel Warden. 
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Lyrics:
Where do I begin?
I should have sunk my nails into your skin
Into your cherry blossom elbows
Into the dimples on your back, and held you so close 

When it’s all said and done
Will flooded eyes characterize
What we could have become,
What we would have become,
What we should have become?

Well here’s to jet black hair against red metal. 
To drained white rooms
To lightless halls
To eyes that still unsettle 
To cold evenings 
Of your burned skin on mine
The slats of sun 
On pillows of sand 
The slip into a waste of time 

Nobody ever knows these things for certain
That’s what I told myself when we closed the curtain
But are ebbing tides this slow?
Are we Alvvays’ "In Undertow"? 
Do we really want to find the equation,
Or did I feel reconciliation?

Here’s to the night that felt like you’d always be here  
Death Cab and wine was a trance that never disappeared  

I'll take my mind back to that space
We were young, I was bolder
I just want your subtle grace
Just want your head upon my shoulder 

Truth is that, I'm terrified 
of coming new your wounded heart
But tell me if there's time to try
Tell me if this has come apart

Here’s to the night that felt like you’d always be here  
Death Cab and wine was a trance that never disappeared  

If that is what you want, broken prize
So if that is what you want, almond eyes
I’ll set out to find 
Yeah, I’ll set out to find
The equation for soul separation, separation

And I know that I’ll sail on
I know that we’ll both be fine
But you write the equation
That redirects our storyline   

And I know that I'll sail on
And I know that we'll both be fine
But you write this equation 
That redirects our storyline
You'll always be here

Tiny Dolphin- The Equation

Lyrics:

Can’t you see you paved my road 
With sturdy slats of green and gold 
And in the hours where I felt cold, 
You were shelter
Hard to see the sun get old
But you and I can still be bold
For now I’m down and can’t unfold 
But it’ll be better
And as my spine slides down the door 
On to cold tiles on the floor
I think of what you said before
I can’t produce a letter
And as you turn your head to mine
I see new wrinkles every time
You wear them well
But I can tell you feel you’re next in line

If you turn this darkness into light 
Maybe you’ll learn
Nobody has the time
Nobody really has the time

To share our lives
Through little screens
As your fragile bones
And forestalled dreams
Slip into a room of machines
With medicine and magazines 
Would be too heavy for this man
I promise you I’ll have a masterplan 
Let’s go around the world again 
And keep on dancing until then

If you turn this darkness into light
Maybe you’ll learn 
Nobody has the time 
Nobody really has the time

Nobody

Lyrics:

Take me to the Appalachians
Where you’ll find the parts you lost
Set apart from these equations
Of broken hearts and ones you should have tossed
[Oh we were, we were one]

See I thought of black ocean waves between a lucid room
And elegant skyline views
But it sent me in circles
It sent me in circles It sent me in circles It sent me in circles

Like crisp white peaks 
This will always be 
Above the scenery

And if a past love does move on
Well I’ll simply carry on through 
Cause it’s fine for them to come and go But in time, you will too
And when I find someone,
I hope you know
That I could never give away my whole heart 
No order too tall
No detail too small
I’ll show you that I care before this falls apart

Like crisp white peaks 
This will always be 
Above the scenery

[Oh we were, we were one] [Take me to the appalachians]

So take this, take everyone, in the now 
This is all that we have, somehow

Appalachian

Lyrics:

You usually visit me
when my thoughts are free 
When I’m lying in bed
So, I fixate my sight
on the flickering green light (instead) 
Of the smoke detector
As a sort of shelter
And imagine it’s the earth
As seen from the moon
I rise up in a tiny balloon

I sink into the sheets
Finally, off this rock
Miles from where the air is too sweet 
And you always need to talk
I’m just an observer now, as I’ve always been, 
I don’t think about us now, as I had been

Well I hope that when I wake soon 
A man on the moon
Will have wiped my memory clean 
Like a pure shot of heroin
And I’m invisible now, as I had wanted to be
You wouldn’t recognize me now, you’d look right through me

See I used to lose sleep with excitement 
Soft skin, cold air in my lungs
I felt it all so sincerely
Soft skin, cold air in my lungs
Now I lose sleep
Cause I can’t stop thinking
About who I’ve bee, and who I will become 
Now I catch myself frowning all the time 
Nothing pushes me too far outside my standard state of mind

Oh but I keep on rowing
For the magnificent contemplations 
But the further I go
The sharper their hollowness becomes

You see, I thought the moon
was an arm’s reach away,
In reality, it was the moon’s reflection 
Trembling on strange marble waves Unkindly, disquietingly,
In cold silent light

So let me see you at your worst
I need a reason to forget you
Let me see you do your worst
Or else there’s just now way I will forget you
Oh Lin
If only I knew then 
What I do now

You see, I thought the moon
was an arm’s reach away,
In reality, it was the moon’s reflection 
Trembling on strange marble waves Unkindly, disquietingly,
In cold silent light

Man On The Moon

Lyrics:

Do these cabernet clouds feel heavy? 
It’s been years of trying to be recast 
Or are you starting to feel steady, 
To feel ready,
At last?

Do you pause when your beat’s unsteady? 
Do you wait for for it to pass?
Have a sip of something heady
And you’ve slipped into the past

We can change
I know that it can be tough 
When you feel estranged 
Don’t submit to being tough 
It won’t be enough

You’ll have to take it day by day 
But you will be a white tiger
Just move whichever way you sway 
And you’ll be feeling higher
You’ll have to take it day by day 
But you will be a white tiger
Just move whichever way you sway

You’re skipping class
Cause your composure is made of glass 
When the world couldn’t be more crass 
Just lay your head on the grass
You’d rewind at any cost
You’d erase those lines you crossed 
Your diffidence does exhaust,
But you may find what you lost

You’re gonna have to take it day by day 
But you will be a white tiger
Just move whichever way you sway 
And you’ll be feeling higher

You’ll have to take it day by day 
But you will be a white tiger
Just move whichever way you sway

White Tiger

Lyrics:

In heels and jacket I see
You shivering, standing upright 
And you walk up to me
Under unsure moonlight
We wandered around the commune 
I followed the eyes on you
We talked about whatever
Would lead me back here with you

Stained purple lips
Hesitant fingertips
Tell me this could be the real deal 
Tell me this could be the way you feel

Stay the night, and every night after
Is your heart alright, cause mines beating faster 
Stay the night, it’s just love and laughter
This feels right, this is what I’m after

I woke up to that kind face
You didn’t want to go
When I drove you back to your place 
You looked out the window
And in the reflection, were you alone last night? 
Did you think twice in the morning light?

Is it wrong that it felt so right?
Young fox lungs underneath my frame 
Is a song going to reignite a flame? 
Well I don’t even know your name
Is it wrong that it felt so right?
Young fox, the suns under again
So stay the night
So this feeling never goes away

Stay The Night

Lyrics:

I wish that like you, I could glide through life
I only seem to drift through the days
Somehow I still wish that you'd run you knife 
Through the string that guides these shadowplays

Trouble stays, it sways, it stings
It's untouched by messengers with wings If your vision bends and realigns
You'll still have friends as lifelines

You were looking up, I was looking ahead
We were always breaking up, it was just unsaid

Can't begin to understand
How you spend all your days 
Making each move with your hand 
On a book that you like to rephrase

Your adulation had me paralyzed
Watching you glamorize made up resurrection I was hypnotized
This was a nice ride, but this was my station 

You believe in the afterlife
You believe in a rift from wrong or right
I can't glorify your sociopathic satellite

You were looking up, 
I was looking back 
We didn't need a spirit or the zodiac

Can't 'begin to understand
How you spend all your days
Making each move with your hand
On a book that you like to rephrase

You were looking up, I was looking ahead
We were always breaking up, it was just unsaid

My Station

Lyrics:

Your heart goes anywhere
And you don’t know where it should be
So you practice laissez faire
Put on records you handpicked in Tennessee

These cigarettes and wine
Aren’t enough to get you by
So you hide away in time
Close the blinds, let out a heavy sigh

So you swear off men
And in a natural way you ask yourself As the flask itself is filling up again

Would it be too late to try?
Well I can’t get it out of my head 
No, I can’t let it out
Learning to get by
But I can’t get out of this bed Without stumbling about

You used to criticize the ones who tried 
Well its getting harder now to justify 
Your shattered, finished pride
You see them snickering from their throne 
Your friend says that you’re only skin and bone What is it that went awry?
You’re always home alone

And everybody’s gone
In a spur of doubt you think about how 
The clout in your mind might drag on

Would it be too late to try?
Well I can’t get it out of my head 
No, I can’t let it out
Learning to get by
But I can’t spend a night in this bed Without tossing and turning around

And you find him again
At the bottom of your glass

Lyrics:

I heard that everything you want in life is on the other side of fear
And everytime I’m around you I think
How am I going to keep you near?

And I’ve learned that we can’t have one another 
We just share our bodies, we just share our time

When my arms are numb,
I wanted you and me against the world 
But it’s you and the world against me

I wouldn’t want anything more 
Than to know that
You’ll never look at someone else 
The way you look at me now
And I could tell you the conclusion you’d arrive at If I told you what I felt
When my arms are numb

Did I turn in all my calm for some color? 
I’m overwrought like coffee,
Jubilant like wine
Feeling blind and dumb

[Every innocent smile you get
Is an unassailable threat]
A harmless glance from him is a blade, 
When my arms are numb

I’m a loaded gun 
Aware of everybody 
Waiting for a crime
You’re my one home run
And I just want to wrongly tell myself you’re mine
Don’t mind gentle melancholy
But I’m breathing dread
And I don’t know how to keep you here 
Through the wintertime

Did I turn in all my calm for some color? 
I’m overwrought like coffee,
Jubilant like wine,
Feeling blind and dumb

[Every innocent smile you get Is an unassailable threat]
I wanted to appear unafraid, But my arms are numb

Calm For Color

Lyrics:

From the very first drink, Like a blade on rink,
You circled about this mind day in, day out
Thoughts surrounded my head 
Wish I could freeze them instead 
Wish I could carve out my mind 
But instead I just find

That I shook on this reality 
And now I feel the gravity 
Of walking by your side 
When I am crumbling inside

And from your welcome kiss 
Did you feel something amiss? 
I’d be only an experience
I didn’t know

So you will wait for me to come apart
From the shore to the abyss,
We’ll sink with heart
Till the day you’ve had enough, I’ll play my part But I called it now- you’ll see
Right from the start

You were curling a smile
As he whispered in your ear
And just like that I’m in my head 
Now you’re in my bed
But I’m in my dread
I pressed my nose into your spine
As your little warm body lay next to mine 

And tried to forget all the reasons I have 
For you to leave this behind

So you will wait for me to come apart
From the shore to the abyss,
We’ll sink with heart
Till the day you’ve had enough, I’ll play my part 
But I called it now- you’ll see
Right from the start 

What if one day
This is not enough for you?
I don’t, I don’t want to want you like I do 
I don’t, I don’t want to want you like I do

Come Apart

Lyrics:

Where do I begin?
I should have sunk my nails into your skin Into your cherry blossom elbows
Into the dimples on your back, and held you so close
When it’s all said and done
Will flooded eyes characterize
What we could have become,
What we would have become,
What we should have become?
Well here’s to jet black hair against red metal. To drained white rooms
To lightless halls
To eyes that still unsettle
To cold evenings
Of your burned skin on mine
The slats of sun
On pillows of sand
The slip into a waste of time

Nobody ever knows these things for certain
That’s what I told myself when we closed the curtain
But are ebbing tides this slow?
Are we Alvvays’ "In Undertow"?
Do we really want to find the equation, Or did I feel reconciliation?

Here’s to the night that felt like you’d always be here
Death Cab and wine was a trance that never disappeared

I'll take my mind back to that space We were young, I was bolder
I just want your subtle grace
Just want your head upon my shoulder Truth is that, I'm terrified
of coming new your wounded heart But tell me if there's time to try
Tell me if this has come apart

Here’s to the night that felt like you’d always be here
Death Cab and wine was a trance that never disappeared

If that is what you want, broken prize If that is what you want, almond eyes I’ll set out to find
Yeah, I’ll set out to find
The equation for soul separation, separation And I know that I’ll sail on
I know that we’ll both be fine
But you write the equation
That redirects our storyline
And I know that I'll sail on
And I know that we'll both be fine But you write this equation
That redirects our storyline
You'll always be here

The Equation

Lyrics:

Blood keeping 
Our hearts beating
Salt forms on our cheeks tonight
Eyes meeting 
While she's heating
Everybody in the desert light

Take our clouds and turn them all
Into nothing, into nothing, into nothing
You know that we’re tired from always
Thinking something, thinking something, thinking something

I feel a fire burning
When I’m dancing by your side
As long as this world keeps turning
I’ll be here

I want to try a new lens
To see through with you
I want to shake the shellfire off our shoulders
Why don’t we leave our lightning 
And head to 
The treetops and the quiet boulders

Couldn’t see them
Couldn’t hear them
Thoughts that we push aside
My mind was feeling like a colosseum 
With a black battle brewing inside

Take our smiles and turn them all
Into something, into something, into something more
I’m thinking that we’ll do this again
When we’re twenty something, thirty something, fifty something

I feel a fire burning
When I’m dancing by your side
As long as this world keeps turning
I’ll be here

I want to try a new lens
To see through with you
I want to shake the shellfire off our shoulders
Why don’t we leave our lightning 
And head to 
The treetops and the quiet boulders

One night to be free
Swallow the air and feel the beat
Let’s shed our anxieties 
Through our feet
Through the heat

One night to be free
Swallow the air and feel the beat
Let’s shed our anxieties 
Through our feet
Through the heat

Shellfire

Lyrics:

So you got a good way
You got a way to turn a heavy day
From a heady heaviness too dense
To a scatter of some shackled cents on your neck 

Well now you do
Emanate a warm elation
And if you were no good 
She wouldn’t see a constellation
When her eyes move across
Your speckled limbs
Like a drop of dew on moss
Your heart’s afloat again

Dove for it like an arrow
Found it’s set in stone
It’s deeper than the marrow
Sitting in your blameless bones
And you will break the mirror
Just trying to make it bend

Gently like a river
See the things that you can’t mend
Yeah gently like a river
See the things that you can’t mend

I know you thought you’d rearrange
The parts under your skin
But it’s a wilted art
What’s within stays within

You sink your stones into her neck
But drain out some of the honey
A tender tone, a velvet peck
The air stays thick and muddy

You have her heart
She won’t have to wait for you to come apart
As you are 
As you are

Dove for it like an arrow
Found it’s set in stone
It’s deeper than the marrow
Sitting in your blameless bones
And you will break the mirror
Just trying to make it bend

Gently like a river
See the things that you can mend
Yeah gently like a river
See the things that you can mend

Marrow

Lyrics:

I got a mind full of questions
But I won’t ask you none
Gonna find out someday
Where they’re coming from

I want them gone
I want them gone

I want to be your cowboy
I want to have your hand
But every time that I look at you
There’s snakes in the sand

I want them gone
I want them gone

I would breathe
If I could believe
That I (Tied a knot round my arms again)
Was sought (We’ll be rugged when this fever ends)
That I (Until then seize my spattered skin)
Was sought (Curl your crown into the space beneath my chin)

You’re in a lasso
And I’m a million dollar bandit
Yeah I’m a million dollar bandit

Far from a buffalo 
Tell me that that’s what you wanted
Tell me that that’s what you wanted

And when our cheeks become a canvas
For our muddled salty strokes
I feel the floor grow thin below us
I dread the color it evokes

If you want me gone (She doesn’t want you gone)
Then I’ll be gone

I would breathe
If I could believe
That I (Tied a knot round my arms again)
Was sought (We’ll be rugged when this fever ends)
That I (Until then seize my spattered skin)
Was sought (Curl your crown into the space beneath my chin)

You’re in a lasso
And I’m a million dollar bandit
Yeah I’m a million dollar bandit

Far from a buffalo 
Tell me that that’s what you wanted
Tell me that that’s what you wanted

Struck by an arrow
Little time to understand it
Still don’t think we understand it

Tomorrow tip toes
But today I live this moment
But today you live this moment

Tiny Dolphin

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