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I’ve been feeling
like I’m bleeding
am I lacking
understanding?
the words I’m saying
they don’t get through
swear I’m not playing
tricks on you
in the water
we are new
if it helps
I’ll be there
if you’ll let me
I’ll be there (x2)
I’ll show up
I’ll be there
if you’ll let me
I’ll be there (x2)
in the sunlight
feeling alright
am I chasing
a new life?
if it helps
I’ll be there
if you’ll let me
I’ll be there (x2)
I’ll show up
I’ll be there
if you’ll let me
I’ll be there (x2)
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2. |
Pearl Diving
04:06
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friends and four walls
are all I need
I can see that now
when there is nowhere else to run
I can see it clear
well I wonder what are people for?
why we kid ourselves and talk to God
will I go to heaven and get bored?
but still wait for it my whole life long?
a walk
a call
a simple touch
we’re slowing down
we’re waking up
to ask yourself
to give enough
still learning what it means to love
and all we have is time to waste
our bodies meet a single fate
a look
a laugh
a kiss
a cry
the sun
the stars
the moon
they sigh
well I wonder what are people for?
why we kid ourselves and talk to God
will I go to heaven and get bored?
but still wait for it my whole life long?
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3. |
Spinning
03:22
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can’t complain about much these days
don’t know what I need
can’t tell you what I need to say
can’t swim on upstream
I’m working overtime
to try and read your mind
can’t make it up
is it a form of art
to hold back
and not turn up your card?
appreciating the air I breathe
won’t be around too long
and all the place I have yet to see
how every time we get it wrong
I’m working overtime
to try and read your mind
can’t make it up
is it a form of art
to hold back
and not turn up your card?
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4. |
Diving
04:58
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oh what a life
oh what a life
to sit here thinking in the scattered light
to sit here watching
a train go by
oh what a life
oh what a life
to tell my favorite people
that I miss them
I wonder if they're ever
going to listen
It's not that I can
see myself so clearly now
but this is how I start
to figure it out
I lived right by the ocean
but I never swam
I set myself in motion
now without a plan
oh what a life
oh what a life
to know the you I know
is no longer you
to believe what I believe
is just what I do
It's not that I can
see myself so clearly now
but this is how I start
to figure it out
I lived right by the ocean
but I never swam
I set myself in motion
now without a plan
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5. |
Moving
03:24
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you’ve got the bustling city
escaped the countryside
you’ve got the metro station
I’ve got a car to drive
I refuse to think about you
when I lie awake at night
your puppet show is over
so I guess this is goodbye
so I guess this is goodbye
I guess this is goodbye
you’ve got the supermarket
I’ve got a garden bed
I don’t earn a fancy paycheck
but I’m playing in a band
It’s been a long time coming
but I finally feel alright
yeah I learn to pull my own strings
So I guess this is goodbye
I guess this is goodbye
I won’t look back (x6)
you’re all set up in Bedstuy
I stayed in the 615
I suppose that means you don’t have time for me
so I guess this is goodbye
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6. |
No Improvement
04:06
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if you
were to come back to that place I called my home
I’d probably just be sitting around getting stone
because what the hell else was there
when I arrive there in the gates of another world
I’ll probably see us just as we were
well i’d have to just start over
I couldn’t see you
In the light
I thought i was supposed to
give me a mythology
that doesn't lose itself in me
tell me the real story
show me what i couldn’t see
if there was a worm
at the core of your heart
and it was diggin on down
and making you cry
would the chain-smoking critics
come claim it art
lock it up in new york
for the public eye
I’m sorry
I’m the first born of a Kentuckian
sometimes I get so bad a listening
to the music that you make
so can we
just sing the song laid down for us
‘cause even though my ears are filled with mud
I can hear a tune
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7. |
Upstream
04:27
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our ship is finally losing steam
under the weight of two
I could’ve been your harmony
your autotune
my vessel must adjust to one
to carry me
it’s tempting to reverse my course
and swim upstream
don’t tell me I’ll be fine without you
‘cause I can’t even get high without you
now I’m sailing sober
now i pretend I’m older
and I wonder what you think about
when you’re apart from your
band-aid crowd
I can’t help dreaming up
what we could be
If you’d relax your eyes
and look at me
I can’t help but tell myself
I’m drifting back to you
these cycles I attempt to make
they just won’t do
I’m stuck here in still water
you left behind no wake
but this story I did author
a collection of mistakes
don’t tell me I’ll be fine without you
‘cause I can’t even get high
without you
now I’m sailing sober
now i pretend I’m older
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Playing
04:11
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each day that I wake up and
check on my phone
I see arguments over
the love that we owe
one another
is there anything
really newsworthy to say
with a seriousness
that might end the play
I am almost convinced
that we’re too far from home
that the darkness is deep
and we’re stuck here alone
we’re bathing in love (x4)
as much as i long
for a one man show
I am learning the hard way
you can’t play alone
It’s a surefire way to
make a fool of yourself
‘cause if you’re playing alone
yeah you’re playing in hell
we’re bathing in love (x4)
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each day that I wake up and
check on my phone
I see arguments over
the love that we owe
one another
is there anything
really newsworthy to say
with a seriousness
that might end the play
I am almost convinced
that we’re too far from home
that the darkness is deep
and we’re stuck here alone
we’re bathing in love (x4)
as much as i long
for a one man show
I am learning the hard way
you can’t play alone
It’s a surefire way to
make a fool of yourself
‘cause if you’re playing alone
yeah you’re playing in hell
we’re bathing in love (x4)
Sailing
sailing
we're going sailing on the sea
drifting
you are just drifting
drifting with me
drifting with me
and it feels like
feels like a beginning
it feels like the start
of a long journey
blue as far as I can see
we're drifting on the breeze
drifting on the breeze
time is passing by it's creeping
creepin up on me
creepin up on me
sunlight
the sun it is our father
he's dancing on the waves
dancing on the waves
moonlight
the moon it is our daughter
she's endlessly in play
endlessly in play
blue as far as I can see
we're drifting on the breeze
drifting on the breeze
time is passing by
it's creepin
creepin up on me
creepin up on me
don't you fear the current
it will take you home
conquer the horizon
you are not alone
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10. |
Storming
05:48
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thunderstorm is coming
thunderstorm is here
unusual, this weather
for this time of year
thunderstorm is pulling
all my friends apart
raindrops keep falling
a simple kind of art
at least it
watered our garden
I think I hear something calling
thunderstorm is coming
thunderstorm is ahead
my dog, she’s hiding
underneath my bed
thunderstorm is shaking
my house’s core foundation
thunderstorm I love you
nothing changes without you
at least it
watered our garden
I think I hear something calling
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11. |
Dimension
05:20
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if i asked you for a ride
would you float me down the river?
I’m not the target in your site
but you still have no arrows
in your quiver
every little obstacle
and interruption of the flow
they’re breaks in a current
if I could ask of you one thing
it’d be a sense of infinite direction
I know the source
from which you came
psychoanalytical dissection
you tried to hide across the sea
you tried to change the scope
of your dimension
and though you tried to bury me
I grew right through the cracks
of your intention
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Casters Brooklyn, New York
Casters is the Brooklyn-based musical project of Andrew Strader, made possible by a rotating crew of friends and musicians.
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