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Sweet Dreams
06:29
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I’m not sure when
It started seemin’
Like maybe things for me
Were all through changin’
But ever since then
All I’m findin’
Is this rotten sour
Bitter feelin’
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
I don’t know
There’s still that part of me
That wants to believe
Things could be different
I should keep trying
But then I look around
And I just come back down
There’s nothin’ here for me
But trouble now
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
Where did all the sweet dreams go?
I don’t know
Sweet dreams turned to tears
Sweet dreams left me here
Sweet dreams, it feels so bad
Sweet dreams, please come back
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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Now It's Strange
04:52
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Now it seems so different than it was
When tomorrow was some dream bubblin’ with fun
That laughin’ feelin’ and the butterflies
You woke to find that they had passed you by
Now it’s strange
You’re just here
With your face
Etched in years
All the wonderlands you travel in your time
Just to settle for a little peace of mind
And look back at how far you’ve grown away
From everyone and everything you came
Now it’s strange
You’re just here
With your face
Etched in years
Do you ever get thinkin’
What have I been doin’?
My whole life has passed me by
Like I was never even here
Isn’t it so weird, gettin’ old?
How it happens before you know
And then when it starts to seem
Not so far to where we’re going
Now it’s strange
You’re just here
With your face
Etched in years
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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Saddest Thing
05:41
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I heard you say the saddest thing
Maybe you’re not worth your own dreams
You believed a long time ago
But nothin’ came of them and somewhere you got old
It was so clear and then you lost your way
Was it The Call you heard or just a sound you made
Does it really matter either way?
Try as hard as you can things don’t ever change
There is no path or sign that shows
You can’t turn back, where would you go?
Will you get there? You could never know
But giving up is saying you won’t
I know it makes you mad how phony things are
It’s a fuckin’ joke and you got no chance at all
You say, ‘whatever it don’t get you down’
But you’re just lookin’ for a reason to stick around
There is no path or sign that shows
You can’t turn back, where would you go?
Will you get there? You could never know
But giving up is saying you won’t
You find yourself where dreams turns to fire
Black smoke rising off the pyre
You find yourself where dreams turns to fire
Black smoke rising off the pyre
Nothin’ says you’ll get a fair shake
So let the work you do be the take
And though it may not seem like it now
The only thing can stop you is your own doubt
There is no path or sign that shows
You can’t turn back, where would you go?
Will you get there? You could never know
But giving up is saying you won’t
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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Alive
03:52
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Who knows how long I’ll be around
Or where at last my heart will give out
But till then, I think I’ll have some fun
Let nothin’ hold me back from what I love
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
People tell me that I’m crazy
But I don’t care what they’re saying
What makes it sad is that they think they’re free
While all I’m doin’ is just bein’ me
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
I feel so happy
I feel so happy
ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha
I feel so happy
I feel so happy
ha ha ha-ha-ha-ha ha ha
It’s so borin’ playin’ by your rules
I’d rather be a freak than one of your fools
You wanna hold me down, but you can’t now
I’m past your reach, chasin’ dreams without a doubt
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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5. |
Mountain Is Tall
05:34
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The mountain is tall
That climbs to the call
I’ll try for it
Though my means are small
Oh it’s so hard
Like I might fall down
But I’ll do what I can
Until my legs give out
It’s like there’s less you can know
Than back there
Just you’re on your own
And that you may fail
But I won’t be afraid
To lose as I am
To lose with my heart
To lose with my hands
It’s so heavy
The whole way along
But it won’t break me
I’m gonna be strong
And even when I cry
‘Cause how it’s tough
I won’t quit goin’
I won’t ever give up
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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6. |
Brother To War
04:36
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I sent my brother to war
But I sent him to hell a long time before
You looked around
Saw your only way out
And now, you ain’t here no more
There’s a door opens for some it seems
I can hear you there, knocking
But it don’t open for you
No matter what you do
‘Cause it’s locked, and I have the keys
I could have loved you
I could have loved you
I could have loved you
Better than I did
I think of how much we’re the same
But the breaks I caught never came your way
Still you were happy for me
Gettin’ kicked to your knees
And I just watched your heart break
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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Uh Oh
04:29
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Set Me Free
05:03
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And then, like a fog broke, I could see
I was exactly where I was supposed to be
I could not believe
That through all
Of my searching
I was never lost
Then I turned, and you were there, by my side
And I understand how your love had been my guide
Every turn I took
You seemed to tell
There was no path but
What lead to myself
You set me free
You set me free
You set me free
You set me free
I saw all directions revealed like sunrise
But I was only looking in your eyes
And I knew
There was no fear
Nowhere to get
I was here
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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God Skulls
06:04
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Are we really nothin’
Without our gods?
Lost once we wander
from the altar hall
Hail
Hail
Hail
Hail
Will our eyes only open
To see what they do?
Are there none others left to find
Than their truths?
Hail
Hail
Hail
Hail
If we’re lucky maybe we meet
Someone who reminds us to believe
But when in return we trade ourselves
We lose sight of what they fought to teach
For all our heroes are
They don’t mean a thing
When the limits of their love
Are the furthest that we reach
The Ocular Audio Experiment
@2016
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