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ttypes - Good Boy Young
03:12
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When I was a good boy young a with my conscience
Run around holdin hands a sellin lemonade
Flippin coins and watch reflected sunsets
On old Abraham or Georgie
When I was a good boy young
I had it all down
Smile and tell em your name.
When I was a good boy young
It was so simple
Tie your shoes and run in the rain
Shoes and run in the rain.
Now I’m older, yeah I’m older
All the lines seem to be gray and faded/shaded
Just a tryin to get through the day- forget her
Oh well anyways that’s over
When I was a good boy young
I had it all down
Smile and tell em your name.
When I was a good boy young
It was so simple
Tie your shoes and run in the rain
Shoes and run in the rain.
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Pawl - Motel
02:55
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We moved into a motel
We didn't know
We moved into a motel
On our own
It changed our family
We had more to do
It changed so many things
And became part of you
Names flowed into our motel
Like twists of fate
They fought and made love
Then drew the shades
It changed our Saturdays
We had jobs to do
It changed so many things
And became part of you
And before you run
And tell our Mom and Dad what I've done
Just know we're one
With love and hate for the business-son
We grew up fast
For those they called white and middle class
We learned it young
What happens to the people on the lowest rung
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ttypes - Colorado
03:47
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Dynamite, I been runnin all my life
But my fuse won’t catch a light
So I’ll wait for the bowl and shockwave
Try as might, it’s been always on my mind
How she cut aeortal vine and just
Just sat and watched it bleedin
Dynamite, Swift please do not sink tonight
How I want it all to right
But I can’t tell the ocean from the
Sky at night
How your moon it is so bright
How I want you in starlight
How I want you on the mountains
Colorado, too yeah.
You want a line?
Safe back in Colorado
You want a line?
You should be kind
And be a gracious lover
Colorado, too yeah
You want a line?
You want a line say?
Dynamite, I been runnin all my life
But my fuse won’t catch a light
So I’ll wait for the bowl and shockwave
Try as might, it’s been always on my mind
How she cut aeortal vine and just
Just sat and watched it bleedin
Dynamite, Swift please do not sink tonight
How I want it all to right
But I can’t tell the ocean from the
Sky at night
How your moon it is so bright
How I want you in starlight
How I want you on the mountains
You want a line? Safe back in Colorado
You want a line? You should be kind and be a gracious lover
Colorado, too yeah
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Pawl - Small Town
03:22
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Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
You left your boot print on our door
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
Then your fist came back for more
We found you bleeding on the floor and that’s for sure.
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
We got calls from your girlfriend
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
She’d been wondering where you’d been
Said check the papers and the pen and there’s your man
It’s such a small town
Everybody found out
And we recognized your face
It’s such a small town
Had to throw your ass out
Cause we recognized your face
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
It wasn’t always like that night
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
Before you got too ripe
Many times we chewed the fat and that’s for sure
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
the last time you checked in
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhh
you were gunning for a binge
and you were stopped short by a hinge-- it did you in
On day I was driving
I saw your sign
I pulled on over and gave you a ride
You said it “Hey it’s time man”
And sung me a rhyme
Your gaze was a thousand miles wide
It’s such a small town
Everybody found out
That I’d recognized your face
It’s such a small town
Everybody found out
That you’d finally found your
That you’d finally found your
That you’d finally found your place
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ttypes - The Shore
03:43
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It's been a long long time since the tide brought me more
Of those dreams where your eyes could see all through my pores
It's been a longer time still since I knocked on your door and you answered, smile wide, 'come and knock me over'
And it's the law man
And there'll be no more comin on the one shore
Oh man
Since we lit that fire and the brush caught under
And your brother got mad and he drew his thunder
And the cops caught bad found him drunk asunder
And they beat him down on the shore
And I remember how you looked with the bees buzzin round you
Suited up, laughin loud, high as a ball
And then you threw the hive up and it landed and sounded
Like a gunshot in your brother's truck aw
And we were gone, yeah
And he was bein bit up like chemical warfare
Aw man
He was allergic as could be but we were too high too care
Ran into the hills, sunlight, and your hair
Made love all night like chemical warfare
And the cops woke us up at dawn
Oh the things in your life that you do when you're runnin
From the waves beatin on, on the one shore
And I blamed everything that we did that summer on you, under lights,
And I made up some more
I was lyin man
And they locked you up tight for the crimes that we blundered
Oh man
I never meant to hurt a soul, but I'm a stumbler
And I keep lovin you like I'm dyin of hunger
As I sit up and night and I sometimes wonder
If you'll ever take me back at all
Oh won't you ever take me back at all?
Oh won't you take me back?
Oh won't you take me back?
My darlin girl
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Coming from the hall
Now I hear ya
Gone noise between us
Egos man they grow ya to fall
You’re my brother, Paul
Begs to wonder
All the years between us
Man, whatever took us so long?
I can see you there
Sitting on a stool like chair
Laughing at the sound
Of the colosseum
Line that hook up
Knock it out of the park
You’re my brother, Paul
Longer than our hearts hold a pulse
Catch it and don’t fall
Love the world you breath in
One more time now
Knock it out of the park
You’re my brother…
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Pawl - Home
03:50
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You walked in the other day
And all the time we spent away
And on a rainy day
Your southwest ticket came
And honestly, you were whispering my name
It don't matter what they say
Well counting yesterdays
And honestly, they keep whispering my name
It’s always
An option
But you'd been
Forgotten
I picture you dancing in the sun
I thought about it, carried it awhile
We can’t go back to it
And on a sunny holiday
We break ourselves before the day begins
Back to the start.
Time
Is a friend and a gift
For awhile
And smile at the rift
And on a rainy day
Your southwest ticket came
And honestly, you were whispering my name
It don't matter what they say
Well counting yesterdays
And honestly, they keep whispering my name
It’s always
An option
But you'd been
Forgotten
I picture you dancing in the sun
I thought about it, carried it awhile
We can’t go back to it
And on a sunny holiday
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ttypes - Captured Light
02:09
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You did it right
Captured light
Put it into their
Open eyed arms
Preach with style
Step to side
Joke around
Tell em 'loves in the cards'
Then a man from the wings
Asks some things
Which to answer are hard
Critical light
Undeceived them
Thought you had 'em wrapped up in your charms
Then the audience
Did not receive you
Left you all alone with telephone cards
What’s the truth anyways?
Cause facts can be opaque
Superstition overlays
Most of every all our days
Crystal light
Burns the night
As your tears
Wave the getaway cars
Friends and life
Say goodbye
Oh and why?
Cause you lied about stars
Then that man from the wings
Says some things
Which to swallow are hard
Critical light
Can redeem you
If you listen to the reason with heart
Don't let charlatans
So deceive you
They'll rob blind cause lyins an art
Oh what's the truth today?
That myths outdated anyway
You'll find another one some day
A lie to make your get away
Critical light
Can redeem you
If you listen to the reason with heart
So don't counterfeit
Truth or you will
Trap yourself inside the lies that you start
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ttypes - Jealousy
05:01
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I was killed by jealousy
A thousand mile long spear shaft through me
She took my heart and she left me a note saying
'Oh we had such fun, casual affair you weren't the one'
Well, you're an animal just with two brains
You're an animal, unnameable,
Unpreventable playing those mind games
She was far from right for me I stuck around cause I couldn't see
How I could fall so down in love with a paper doll that pouts
And doesn't want to talk about
You're an animal just with two brains
You're an animal, unnameable,
Undetectable playing those mind games
Tried to fill your heart but I was alone
Up on the hill singing songs in the cold
With the trees and the light untold
Please let not arm and put your wrongs to side
Please let not arm and everybody wipe your eyes [minds]
It takes a long, long time
Oh to unblind your eyes
From spoke or silent lies
But it'll be alright But wait we-
Please let not arm and everybody run and hide
I laid it on so thick
Her smile was a disguise
Never apologizing
Spun my head- gas light - I loved her-
Please let not arm, Please let not arm
Please let not arm and put your wrongs aside
Please let not arm and take apart your rifle sights
When we expatriate
Sometimes a bit too late
Please try forgiveness now
Please don't hold on to hate- but wait she
This was the harm, balled up in charm
Please let not arm and put your wrongs aside
Call the alarm, but keep yourself warm
Please let not arm and go and take another bite
Oh it's tonight tonight
Oh it's alright alright
I have eleven said
How in you I delight, oh me oh
Please let not arm and put your wrongs aside
With pride undone, the damage it comes,
And love over-runs all up inside my eyes
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ttypes - Building A Life
04:01
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Couldn't believe that I had to go
You wanted me but you would not
Building a life
I couldn't let you alone
Yip yip yip yip yip
I plant some trees down into the grove
You pick the leaves and you burn them
Building a lie
It was the wrong season grown
Yip yip yip yip yip
You don't tell me to go
I know when I do know
I don't know when you lie
I don't know when you right at all, at all
How life is full of clowns
With their smiles upside down
We won but lost the fight
Now violence is alright downtown
What now?
We climb with ease up the red brick row
To see the sky like a curtain
Liftin a glow
And spit at people below
Yip yip yip yip yip yip
I had a reason, a firework show
Love has no season it
Bursts into life
Gives you no choice to be sold
Yip yip yip yip yip yip
Well you better believe that I had to go
You don't tell me to go
I know when I do know
I don't know when you lied
I don't know when you right at all
At all
Cause love is not a game
To later on explain
I loved you til I died
I loved you til my bones were smoke
We hope you choke
And if you didn't believe that I had to go
Well you better believe that I took it slow
To decide
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I’ve been scrambling—yeah
Up all night, left-handed,
Trying to write these briefs for days
So I ramble on now
Tied up in litigation
Telephone wires line my cage
…and I can’t stand it.
Give me a little more time.
My defense is wearing thin…
I know it, but I can’t leave now
Living at the Inn, we begin to grow again
Watching rainbows from the Ottoman
Dense green shrubbery and some apple trees
I have always loved you, will you remember me?
……will you remember me?
They say “it’s over”
And you want to sing along
They say “it’s over”
And you wake up!
Ever since I left Hanoi, boy
Part of me was stranded--
Feeling napalm day and night
No one will ever find me
In these newspaper mountains
There are too many enemies
…and I can’t stand it
Give me a little more time.
My defense is wearing thin…
I know it, but I can’t leave now
They say “it’s over”
And you want to sing along
They say “it’s over”
And you wake up!
Living at the Inn, we begin to grow again
Watching rainbows from the Ottoman
Dense green shrubbery and some apple trees
I have always loved you, will you remember me?
……will you remember me?
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Sky men, sky men
Where do you come from?
Where are you going to?
Sky men, sky men.
When I walked out into the field,
Me and my darling.
We saw a bright light it was standin there still
She grabbed my arm then.
Bright colored lights and the sound danced before us
While out above there sounded a chorus.
And I reached to cover the pores and the
holes in my mind as they called us “Oh brothers the times near”
I see a space light comin, it’s comin for me.
I see a space light comin, it’s comin for me.
Sky men, sky men
Where do you come from?
Where are you going to?
Sky men, sky men.
When I walked out into the field
Me and my darling
We saw us a light
It was standin there til
We started runnin
Taken at night when the silence of dreams
Can obscure and enlighten the words riddles slip.
“I am The Drighlist” he caught up our figures in lies
and endurahs to call back his space ship.
I see a space light comin, it’s comin for me.
I see a space light comin, it’s comin for me.
I see a, I see a, I see a space light comin.
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ttypes - 1924
02:48
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The fall rain on my brain, window pane.
And I remember that umbrella with a you perched below
And a smile. And a laugh. And a car.
As the puddle tide up on us like a wave and we soaked
And inside. And then warm. And then off.
And then warmer than we'd ever been together before
And then out. And away. I said hey.
And then I never saw you again no anymore
Bringin all the songs back from 1924
Don your sequined hats and amble on the dance floor
Knock your knees together like you're far from the shore
Clap your hands together like they're ending the war
The fall rain. Hits my brain. Window pane.
And I remember how your freckles all above me like stars
And the lines. That you cross. When you're near.
Are the ones that we should burn and put the ashes in jars
Then I think. That a drink. Would be fine.
But it's twelve o'clock and that's too long to get me enough
And then up. And search box. After box.
For a glimpse of light that once upon a time your skin touched.
Bringin all the songs back from 1924
Knock your knees together spin around the dance floor
Standin on a sand bank skippin; dollars and chores
Clap your hands together like they're endin the wars
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Pawl - Vacant
03:39
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I said “it’s vacant”
And do you remember me?
I said “what’s shakin?”
And do you remember me?
Ahhhhh isn’t it right?
Ahhhh Ahhhh Ahhh Isn’t it right…
As we sail through the air and sing in the square with you
Understand what you’re given for free
As you run and you play and you live for today
For tomorrow, we die.
It’s a gift in the hand that you can’t understand
A moment in time
Don’t sleep the day away, open the shades, and say
“Thank you” for life.
Will you forever run up the hill for me.
Will for me
Will for me
Will for me
Will for me
The darker the night
The brighter the stars
The deeper the grief
The closer to god—we are
Will for me
Will for me
Will for me will for me
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Room 5
05:41
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And it could go on like this…
In room 5 tonight
I’ve always been there...been here…been there
Got nothing left…
Preachers of the sky mall catalog,
why did they leave it in here?
The light shines on again
Sittin on the arm chair of the universe
I got nothing left
Couldn’t be worse
Couldn’t be my only destiny… in Room 5
In room 5 The light shines on again
It could go on like this…
Somebody somebody
In room 5
Somethin twice as nice
Sunrise, it was the moonlight, sunrise
Would you turn the bring lights on?
Been here
Hot water, where’s the hot water?
Bar of soap, coffee maker…where’s the hot water?
There’s a coffee maker I knew once
Ain’t got no cigarettes, ain’t got no coffee iron
Been there…
A light shines on again
And I want room 5 (it could go on like this)
Anyone could see what happens…
When you leave
Got nothing left (always been there, been there)
Black and white movies play on the TV
Poundin on the walls, pounding on, pounding on
It was the moonlight, moonlight
The light shines on it could go on like this
I can see deep into the freezer
Could you be my?
In room 5 tonight
In room 5…..
I’m going sold
Always been there, been here In room 5 tonight
In Room 5
It’s a summer day/ ice tea
I’ve got the remedy
Brown, is the color that I see
In room 5 tonight
It could go on like this
Constellations on the ceiling….
Been here, been here
Somebody somebody
{I’m on the outs tonight}
Two hours a sleep
Got people to meet
I’m pounding on the door
Don’t wanna leave
I’m pounding on the door, pounding on the door
Got nothing left
In room 5 tonight the light shines on tonight
Don’t wanna leave room 5
Don’t wanna go outside
I tried to throw my love at ya
Couldn’t catch it couldn’t catch it all
….in room 5
Wanna turn the TV on
And see the newscasters talkin to me
And looking me/ looking me in the eyes
I can’t……
Stay in this motel…
But I don’t have anywhere else to go
Turn the bright lights on
Turn the bright lights on
See myself…
Ain’t life a mystery/ ain’t got no history
Ain’t life a mystery/ ain’t got no history
Ain’t life a mystery/ ain’t got no history
In room…………..in room 5
In room 5 tonight
It could go on like this
I’ve always been here/ I’ve always been here
Will you turn the bright lights on?
Will you turn the bright lights on?
Will you turn the bright lights on?
Will you turn the bright lights on?
It could on like this
In room 5 tonight
Turn on the lava lamp
Turn on the sink
Turn on the air conditioning
Back window
Your cable TV
It could on like this/ in room 5 tonight
Got nothing left
Watching all the episodes a light
A light shines on tonight
We’re checking into room 5…
And it could go on like this…
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ttypes Grand Rapids, Michigan
ttypes is a midwest composer and anyone he's collaborating with. ttypes is native to Grand Rapids, Michigan. ttypes is multi-genre and is inspired by personal experience, myth, morality, science, fiction, non-fiction, and dreams.
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