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We've Arrived
02:06
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We’ve arrived, we’ve found our way
Is this how you pictured it?
When the light had faded all away
It was just the curtain call
Cause I’ve been thinking about the answer
And you’ve been kept by the question
Does this have to mean the world to you?
Cause I will always keep the best of you
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Buzzkill
03:43
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This time we’re going down
Trying to get our feet off the ground
Do you feel the grass between our toes as I said
“You’re too high to get your eyes off the floor,
And sometimes you’re not worth fighting for”
Do you know what goes on inside your head?
It’s getting late stuck in this state
I’m wearing thin, my tragic friend
So here we wait another date
Don’t you know yet? You just forget
Get down, get down
You’re too high, too high to realize
Get down, get down
I won't lie, won’t lie to get you by
I lied to keep you out of my life
And I tried, but I just can’t catch the knife
As you stand on the front steps cause you never call ahead
Knock knock, like a terrible joke
The tick tock of the clock getting late
And you smile as I hopelessly unlock the front door
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3. |
Behind Your Eyes
03:59
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We arrive and depart all alone
On our tiny pale blue spaceship we were given as a home
Our solar system looks a lot like a starter kit
To the stars
But what if it’s all in your head?
Oh what if it’s all in your head?
To and fro, dawn to dusk, A to B
We live our tiny little lives like sailors lost at sea
Surrounded by the sea and sky with no land in sight
But still we sail, just on a different scale
But what if it’s all in your head?
Oh what if it’s all in your head?
Lost in your mind, yeah it is time to make a sound
But no one can hear you if no one’s around
You’re one of a kind and it is time to scream and shout
You live in perception and there’s no way out
If we all live our lives in your mind
Then that kind of makes you god, and it kind of makes you blind
Because you live just like us behind your eyes
Behind your eyes, behind your eyes, behind your...
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Slip away your restless behavior won't get you far with me
Can't you hear the calm is calling, so why persist to stay?
Lay awake each night and contemplate the rights and wrongs you did not do
Dreary but not drowsy, this sort of state is lousy, you can't close your eyes
What keeps you up tonight?
Cast away the meds you won’t take pile up behind the scenes
Your thoughts are so unnerving;
What if you are just searching for something you’ve lost?
Does this keep you up tonight?
What keeps you up tonight?
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5. |
Evelyn McHale
04:03
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Turn your back to the light and slip away
The time is now to run and hide from your dismay
I’ve watched a thousand suns they rise and fall the same
Shut down your mind and sleep tonight, there’s no one to blame
Rest is a light that flickers across the dark you bicker
“What could I have done?”
The silence keeps revealing, the things we are not healing
You cannot break free
But this too will end tonight
The wind rushed by from heights that you leaped to avoid the fight
Close your eyes and feel the rush and excitement this time
Is there no shame in defeat as the ground leaves your feet if you tried?
No sympathy will amount to the loss that we felt when you died
The lines of my surroundings became more clear as time passed by
Silhouettes regained their contents as daybreak broke into the sky
Subconsciously revealing the things that you are feeling,
Thoughts that pass you by
In dreams that we give meaning, like shadows intervening
Calls with no reply
Slip away, your free fall is ending so wipe away your tears
Can’t you hear? The calm is calling so why persist to fear
But this too will end tonight
So what keeps you up tonight?
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6. |
Good Day
03:24
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Oh it’s a good day for singing a song
And it’s a good day for coughing up a lung
With the protestors gassed to disperse from their songs
Is it a good day for playing along?
Ye’and there’re ghosties
Oh they like to write books without their real names,
Oh they don’t like how it’d look for and against a war
When it doesn’t take long
From writers writing words to singers singing songs
And we’ve been riding out the rest of our days
And we’ve been giving up and in on all of our ways
We’re being quiet cause other Ghosties they creep
Picking up everything we write say and read
So I am singing to the Ghosts abound
“Have I gathered your attention?”
To the Ghosts around, “why do you take the time for me?”
Was it the several allusions to the Cold War?
Was it the parcels of substances deposited at my doorstep?
I don’t know what you’d go for
Oh I don’t know what you’d go for
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7. |
Waltzy
01:47
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8. |
Carry Me
03:37
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The word `goodbye` with love and sorrow’s what you left with me that day
Two lovers touch was not enough and were there too many words to say?
When we kissed I felt the spark that was escaping from our soul
Each lesser peak on the EKG only confirms that you’re leaving me
Please don’t go, I am not better off alone
Dreams carry me to where our hearts still beat as one
Carry me, this reality’s too cruel to be a part of
And every night the space beside me’s growing cooler to the touch
Out of reach, with slurred speech I mumble, “I miss you so much”
Please don’t go, I am not better off alone
Dreams carry me to where our hearts still beat as one
Carry me, this reality’s too cruel to be a part of
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9. |
Love By Soundwaves
04:15
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Break the silence, your fingers fold the pages of our story ever lasting
Like the oceans, we rise upon our conquest in defiance
So whisper lover, I need to crack the confines of this prison all-eternal
The brazen cages you forged out of the feelings that you deny
I'm drowning, I need you to intercede my rescue
Love by soundwaves love by sound
My heart beats off repeat, please breath your life into me
Love by soundwaves love by sound
You called me blissful,
My ignorance was valued because it told me not to doubt you
These rocks you wore down,
My faith was more than tested, it broke upon the river rushing through me
Imagination, the fictions I create when you digress around the conflict
Your quiet haunts me, the truth I'll never know
There is no bliss in ignorance
Please help me, I’m needing your words to embrace me
Love by soundwaves love by sound
My heart beats off repeat, please breath your life into me
Love by soundwaves love by sound
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10. |
Quite Contrary
03:13
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Drifting to sleep as you wait by the door
You give him a ring, but he doesn’t call back anymore
Escape to your dreams where he’s out with his friends
They’re out on the town but that’s not where these stories all end
Let's pretend
Mary Mary, Quite Contrary
To what he wants you to believe
He doesn’t want you there to see
What he does while you dream
What he does while you dream
And with his maids in a row
He doesn’t want to let you go
But know that I am here
To be your eyes and your ears
Be your eyes and your...
Eyelids are drooping, it’s 4 in the morning
Time and again, oh and with no forewarning
He goes, oh he goes
With silver bells and cockle shells
And so his garden grows, oh it grows
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11. |
Seventeen
04:18
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Been thinking of you lately my friend
Cause moments like these still feel like pretend
Through the night I’m with you again
If we don’t fall asleep does it end?
We go back to the moonlight
Say everything is all right
As long as you’re with me
Love me like we’re seventeen again
Touch me like this worlds gonna end
Back to places where we began
So young and so free but be back by 10:00
Tell me we’re still the ones we have been
That we are not changed for good in the end
We’re still here by the moonlight
Everything is all right as long as you’re with me
Been thinking of you lately my friend
The moments that passed now feel like pretend
Through every night I’m with you again
If we don’t fall asleep, does it end?
Love me like we’re seventeen again
Touch me like this worlds gonna end
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12. |
Winter Boots
03:11
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You say we lost ourselves in our soldier shoes
The wartime trials tested our resolve
And through our efforts yeah I had lost sight
The weathering had worn down on our soles
So lay me down, and close my eyes
You say we left our love in our winter boots
I held on close to you when you were cold
But with the blossoms came the warmer days
And I couldn't bring myself to let you go
So feel the sun, and help me say
Farewell my dear, farewell
I'll miss you dearly while I am away
My heart beats fast, my heart beats fast
So tell me lover, say we'll make it through
You say we lost our way in some distant place
And never really got back on the road
Now you walk a path you make yourself
No room for crooked footsteps by your side
So rarefy, and help me say
A long goodbye as I realize
The past we had could not have been better
My fingertips brush past your hips
As you turn to go, you take a quick glance back and I know
You say we left our love in our winter boots
I held on close to you when you were cold
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The Cartographers Columbus, Ohio
We are The Cartographers! An indie rock band from Columbus Ohio. Our music has elements of the post-rock genre driven by
modern guitar styles and classical piano technique.
Our band name refers to the profession of map making. All of our songs are memories, ideas, places, and emotions that all together make up the maps of our lives.
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