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The Desperation Club - A Cloud Tribute Compilation

by Various Artists

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Original Lyrics: now misery has hooked you an unstoppable reel and you tried then you cried but you still feel what you feel and your hands on your head surrender to your room on the walk home from your place felt every car hit my body and reasonless brokenness hope that it won’t stay phantoms fly through your eyes soon fly away cars and it’s autumn sometimes you get scared and I won’t be okay until her hands in my hair and sometimes though it’s futile I fight the ghostly commands and I’ll scream at you, Nothing I’ll sing loud with my friends! I know it’s not right you say “get a grip, kid” but if I had the option then don’t you think I’d pick it? what I need is to be alongside my band funny how I’m happy now singing about my sadness
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Original Lyrics: I fell so low some things you’ll never know how odd to pray tried again the other day c’est la, c’est vous got work in the afternoon born to die a thousand days and, oh, to see what life remains ‘cause losing is a way of life and building is another way of life says the man with his two hands bound says it all with his two hands man made me a wage slave time made me a gelatin a day so nice you can shake it off sometimes and love is good mostly misunderstood like how we talk talking is also love born to doubt and see what it’s about and, oh as I dance I help myself to live and if I don’t to keep my self from loss I lather a friend, a vial of peppermint! says the man with his two hands bound says it all with his two hands man made me a wage-slave time made me a gelatin time made me a bitter one an animal an animal is what i’ve become
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Original Lyrics: frére jacques & me laying on couches asleep and these pillows took all of your youth does the phantom wake you up or do? soeur jacques please leave on the light when I sleep cause these dreams make it hard to get up in the day but I swear I’m trying waste life half tied to pacing and waiting I know it’s not right but I do it all the time maman jacques when you found what it all meant to you did you cry when all you had was your golden thread? is there more than that? and I know it means nothing but I love all these people I met in my life you know we’re all meeting up on some later day if the ghosts say our bodies can stay grow in entitlement and I said what I said and I’m proud it’s a shame how I worship myself do you remember when we’d smile, oh brother jack? before all the pride and the embarassment when we’d sing “oh joy”
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Original Lyrics: go with me now to the end of the day we can go for a walk I’ll hold onto your things making out with my girl on the green line swapping spit like a kid on the green line stay with me now till the start of the day we can take off our clothes till the city’s awake making out with my girl on the green line swapping spit like a kid on the green line you don’t have to be alone all in time patience sees that your hoping’s not for nothing all in time comfort waits hope he’s calling out my name wishing on a new years grape hope he’s calling out my name come with me quick to the deep in the night summer day cherry dip then I’ll roll you up tight making out with my girl on the green line swapping spit like a kid on the green line you don’t have to be alone all in time patience sees that you’re hoping it’s not for nothing all in time comfort waits hope he’s calling out my name spent last new years on twelve grapes hope he’s calling out my name
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Magana - Tastes Bad (free) 04:32
Original Lyrics: wash cloth notice tongue-tied tastes good focus car night teeth glow tastes right go to grocer drink wine moonlit feel me honest learn how lighthouse tastes bad sure mind far from tired eyes light switch big noise closed blinds tastes bad feel good honest light heart savage nowʼs bad tension roll through taste it blueboy air france fearon pop kiss so hard to feel normal tastes good tastes bad tastes bad tastes bad
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Original Lyrics: when cindy spun out on her go cart watch as my eyes melt and bright celebrate celibate stranger I made you mine then Frank shoots me dead with a laser martians are half of my size now that I’m well versed in misery see me smile the trick- it is between patience and waiting and waiting impatiently now then he points to orion notice my heart fills your room and I wish and I wish and I wish little fish but what’s to do? the trick it is? (music!) grudges are never worth it picture me dead on the road you stole my purpose but you’re too cute for me to be cold
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Original Lyrics: of course your heart fluttered she is everything you need if she’s your true love let her be now down in the valley we are anxious for your way with a hope that a spell it breaks well yes you are fucked up you may always be this way but the trick is to know when it’s okay and now you are naked and you’re shaking like a kid and she asks, “if you’ve ever done this?” you say you did and no it doesn’t matter oh, what ever could that mean? but in that grand lack you are free and now’s your big moment as she’s taking off her dress it’s your chance to perpetuate the human race!
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Original Lyrics: if I was on rainbow road then I wouldnʼt be so far from home I want to make you laugh Iʼve got to make it all better try to make it last you know iʼve been practicing my breathing but I overthink and end up missing the moment got to make us laugh going to make it all better cause Iʼm-- trying to be okay with everything but all my hands grab on way too tight to all those things that once had made me happy oh no, let go breath by breath iʼve been trying to be okay with leaving every room I step inside been slowing moments when I get the chance to see my friends sometimes if I was on rainbow road then I wouldnʼt be so far from home I want to make you laugh but end up missing the moment try to make it last you know iʼve been practicing my breathing got to make us laugh Iʼve got to make us feel better but I over think Iʼm going to make it all better cause Iʼm-- trying to be okay with everything but all my hands grab on way too tight to all those things that once had made me me and oh no, let go breath after breath iʼve been trying to be okay with leaving every one that says goodbye been slowing moments when I get the chance to hug my friends sometimes I like when our house is full of life and friends you call the best I like when our house is full of life
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Original Lyrics: You don’t know this but I used to wait for you to take the elevator so I could ride with you now I’m overdressed in a suit and tie lingering at your door trying to make you smile cause I love it when you smile and a pumpkin seed for my sister little sprouting bean; grow forever rain is calling me saying “come outside” hide under my hair like a camouflage but you found me didn’t you? so you can cry to me I won’t say anything you know you can cry to me I never told you about how I always knew from the magazines how I felt for you so hold an open door make a stranger smile oh well at least for for a little while and a cauliflower for our growing old do a luau dance and I know you know lore’s staring out at the lettering what’s she seeing there in that window pane? oh tell me you can cry for me I won’t say anything I won’t tell anybody you said that you felt as if you shaved your head and I don’t think you know about how much it meant and I know where time goes to the flowers on the side of the road where the car came and took his young life so I’m saying Maria lets give it a try because you’ll lose everything eventually on the day that you die and i’ll lose everything eventually on the day that i die so why wonder? oh you don’t it but sometimes I wait for you inside that elevator I love to ride with you
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Tell - Appalusion (free) 04:55
Original Lyrics: Wait for it boy The very next catch Seaside in silence with your eyes open And a blip could make your loudest voice into a mistake So sorry all my actions made were to hurt you bad And she's got a real grip on me She went from a dream to a pretty girl in my passenger seat One night With songs we sang so out of key Like kids in cars with memories That kiss in front of movie screens I never thought I'd hear you sing The tune of my generic first name The one my parents gave to me And wait for it boy She'll come around again As I sit with friends Comparing girls to fish But in a dream she's more than that She's everything but I have to laugh Because I knew her not and that's too bad Beautiful one, oh how you glow The seaside's been silent before I knew you so But maybe my ears turned away And love’s not blind but deafening At least I can still hear you say my generic first name The one I wonder ever travels your brain And you'll go on Oh as you should If I could wreck your home I think I would And I know what you want and it's not me And I could sing my songs way out of key And I know what it takes to be happy But it's more than me Like a fisherman to the sea
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Original Lyrics: lovelow knows me now I’m sad-eyed blue controls me tell her I’m tired there’s too many colors, man how do you keep up with them? there’s too many fuckers, man how do I compete with that? and I forget sometimes the things my brother can say to me like “I love you, Ty” where does that place with everything? cause it made me shake bed laying, brown eyes love-high smiling rug fixed hold it keep from crying the endless fear that gone is gone my ears pressed to your telephone my pocket friends are nearing far they tell me that I’m not alone but don’t forget you are alone in this world, Ty did you forget you were alone? but that’s alright but I smell like Daisy your scent makes me blush oh, where do my arms go when I’m thinking too much? when I move past my prime will the light in my eyes shut ? the day I grow so dishonest I’d rather be nothing at all well there’s too many colors, man how do you keep up with them? there’s so many fuckers man I know I’m no exception my fear will end when you’ll be gone don’t tell me that I’m not, Alone my pocket friends are moving on our ears fixed to a telephone home; give up and go home
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Original Lyrics: call until i hope it hurts your second life to hide the first keep me away from my computer for it only disappoints me in the car I felt your lightness but I can only be so heavy the blue I hate that paints your bike In this life how I lived by the symbol signs keep me away from my old lover yeah the one who went cold I know it’s not your fault, babe how beautiful songs get old we might have trailed off but who’s to say that I’m too far gone? you lean so much and you’re bound to fall and all these norms stuff my nose and I can’t breath with my mouth cause all my words have been said for me by somebody else I know I’ve seen you before in other cultural norms I stood there shaking nervous in my conventional clothes but now the rocket awaits me all of these tangles I’d needn’t to quell double mirror surrounds me can’t see past that cell I was hopeful at one point didn’t work out so well kept my eyes in my pocket where sun never fell but now the mirror yells “I think I’m ready to love myself!”
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Original Lyrics: Lost in doubt been there Down and out I know it all too well Feel like dying hold it got to go so go to-- --that place where // it’s getting bad all your nerves can lie // i feel it coming on undisturbed by brush // is it getting bad? oh the worldly kind // ‘cause my breathing feels wrong it’s all right As long as you’re alive she’s all right there she lies in my mind it’s all right just do the math trees all right cause I said it is lost in fear feel it shaking now now it’s passed so good safe for now lost in doubt it’s all right
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Original Lyrics: first I step with my left then I step with my right feel my breath see my palms as I wander like my mind to be a tree ainʼt my plan but to be a better man and while Iʼm here keep my cool find my way like people do you know itʼs all just some dream but only in the way it seems is in your mind- even still Iʼll make peace with this I will or lick your teeth through your lips in some act of defiance I havenʼt loved you since we were kids but now Iʼm lost in Los Angeles the isness song
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Young Yin - Redwood (free) 04:10
Original Lyrics: stay with me now till the start of the day we can take off our clothes till the city’s awake making out with my girl on the green line swapping spit like a kid on the green line you don’t have to be alone all in time patience sees that your hoping’s not for nothing all in time comfort waits hope he’s calling out my name wishing on a new years grape hope he’s calling out my name come with me quick to the deep in the night summer day cherry dip then I’ll roll you up tight making out with my girl on the green line swapping spit like a kid on the green line you don’t have to be alone all in time patience sees that you’re hoping it’s not for nothing all in time comfort waits hope he’s calling out my name spent last new years on twelve grapes hope he’s calling out my name 4. Cauliflower You don’t know this but I used to wait for you to take the elevator so I could ride with you now I’m overdressed in a suit and tie lingering at your door trying to make you smile cause I love it when you smile and a pumpkin seed for my sister little sprouting bean; grow forever rain is calling me saying “come outside” hide under my hair like a camouflage but you found me didn’t you? so you can cry to me I won’t say anything you know you can cry to me I never told you about how I always knew from the magazines how I felt for you so hold an open door make a stranger smile oh well at least for for a little while and a cauliflower for our growing old do a luau dance and I know you know lore’s staring out at the lettering what’s she seeing there in that window pane? oh tell me you can cry for me I won’t say anything I won’t tell anybody you said that you felt as if you shaved your head and I don’t think you know about how much it meant and I know where time goes to the flowers on the side of the road where the car came and took his young life so I’m saying Maria lets give it a try because you’ll lose everything eventually on the day that you die and i’ll lose everything eventually on the day that i die so why wonder? oh you don’t it but sometimes I wait for you inside that elevator I love to ride with you 5. Slow Dancing feeling funny it’s my fault that you’re loved by me but I’ll take the fall I’ll sleep it off for you 6. Lovelow lovelow knows me now I’m sad-eyed blue controls me tell her I’m tired there’s too many colors, man how do you keep up with them? there’s too many fuckers, man how do I compete with that? and I forget sometimes the things my brother can say to me like “I love you, Ty” where does that place with everything? cause it made me shake bed laying, brown eyes love-high smiling rug fixed hold it keep from crying the endless fear that gone is gone my ears pressed to your telephone my pocket friends are nearing far they tell me that I’m not alone but don’t forget you are alone in this world, Ty did you forget you were alone? but that’s alright but I smell like Daisy your scent makes me blush oh, where do my arms go when I’m thinking too much? when I move past my prime will the light in my eyes shut ? the day I grow so dishonest I’d rather be nothing at all well there’s too many colors, man how do you keep up with them? there’s so many fuckers man I know I’m no exception my fear will end when you’ll be gone don’t tell me that I’m not, Alone my pocket friends are moving on our ears fixed to a telephone home; give up and go home 7. For My Friends dizzy head / a best friend I pinched the skin on my stomach and though I tried I couldn’t cry coaster track with a camera flash photograph, it’s all us three and dad grasp and release it’s easy right? grasp and release you squeezed me tight so who knows how to keep from falling down? guess I’ll find out just keep saying out loud “won’t let that green eat at me” oh hold on let go and be grateful you were held so close older now “it’s always been” doesn’t mean it will always be won’t let that green embody me who am I kidding with the suit and silver watch why do I crush myself when comfort’s all I want? but I’m glad each day is another chance and I’ll always be there for my friends grasp and release don’t let your soul sink to your feet 8. Someone Said someone said that it’d all go by I smiled it off and I closed my eyes and I’m still living in the present time until someone says that it hurts a lot I’ll keep em pinned and I’ll let go not I’ll wear my belt with all my pride I’m a victor chimp of a cage fight and I know your knocked out somewhere on the other side so if I die I’ll turn to light illuminate you through the nights where in your bed you coil yourself and you’re laughing at jokes on the phone with someone else and I don’t care if I’m forgotten this time I don’t care if I’m forgotten just wait until I die I thought someone said that they’d meet me here and I’m waiting still for her to appear so I fell for it, the oldest trick to take account a skeleton I guess I’ll keep my pen but what good’s a song if it don’t mean shit to anyone? then come the eyes of “are you alright?” and you ask me this but you know I’m not tonight cause somewhere’s growth I know it’s near (and I’m still waiting for her to appear) but it’s not here then comes the shame oh it’s something else that same old shame that makes me hate myself and I know talk is cheap when you beg your lord oh yeah well sometimes talk is all I can afford like when you fell for it the oldest trick saying “I’m only human” and I guess I’ll keep my pen but what good is a song if it don’t make me into anyone if it don’t make me a better person a song can’t make you a better person and my songs won’t make me a better person and if someone said they saw in my soul I’d laugh or cry I still don’t know 9. The Way She Wears Her Hair can you stay, rainy day? I’m inside it’s okay saw your face on the big screen sissy squeaks “rewind please” now I am realizing that everyone’s gotta be something can you stay bird in gray your name fits with my name rolling off my tongue sometimes I say it just to myself dnuora era stsohg ylno nehw I’m sorry i can’t kill my craving for you I’m sorry i can’t cease my thirst when I see you if I could I’d swallow the rain up! saw them walk caught an eye jewely shines right on by all their feathers are in order but I’m not buying it everybody’s trying too hard and then there’s you you wear your feathers how they fall do you think once or twice at all? I’m always seeing my face inside your mirror when there are two of me which one do you see? and which one will I be? 10. After Oddsac did you like the movie? I don’t know yet mothers eyes and I’m alive cause I can see them for me to feel alone when no one calls my phone oh man did you like the movie? I don’t know yet fathers eyes saying “I’m alive” and I can see them for me to feel alone cause no ones hearts my own oh man Now I’ll never take for granted this time when everyone I love is still alive did you like the movie? I don’t know yet 11. Redwood one day I will be a redwood how could it not be true? because I want so bad to cause when I spilt my guts you kissed my mouth so now I could grow to blue one day I will be a redwood how could it not be so? cause I want so bad to grow so when you spill your guts I’ll hold your arm and now I could grow to blue
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Original Lyrics: Don't forget your first love he will not Rainy walk to a golf course in the dark Your sister read the letter while I learned your ceiling Silence and the paper between her fingers When I looked up she was crying And now I am on a rock in your college I could not find the words they were in my car Your first love don't forget the nose you always have the last touch With the fix of a smush and the look that you give to yourself in the mirror When you see yourself as the world will see and the Listerine you swoosh When you found another It was my idea But now it plagues me so Such is life I let you go
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kino - Melting Cassatt (free) 03:09
Original Lyrics: And I need a song to calm me down or a friendʼs hand to grab at David Weldʼs and I fear to go too far on my own so now I need a song to calm me down or a mental map to roam David Weldʼs sometimes I need a song to say; Singing in sunny tones even when I am alone laughing at no oneʼs jokes even when I am alone and I told myself that I wouldnʼt cry with a backpack glance and a cardboard eye Iʼm just happy now that I know for sure itʼs gonna be a girl Now I need a song to calm me down or a friendʼs face to touch at David Weldʼs what a mess to find your way on your own you always need a song to calm you down and youʼll never ever be somewhere else we both saw the renoir sky but I got some shit still on my mind; want to be far from home oh no, now I am alone so far safe from sunny tones even when I am alone and I told myself that I wouldnʼt cry you can tell yourself but itʼs up to your eyes Iʼm just happy now cause I know for sure sheʼs gonna be a girl well I need a song to calm me down and or maybe ashʼs lap to lay at david weldʼs likely all this wantingʼs gonna psych me out and Iʼll need a song to calm me down and whatever so it goes is there a safe zone? Thereʼs no safe zone Iʼll find a safe zone singing with sunny tones even when I am alone laughing at no ones jokes even when I am alone and I told myself that I wouldnʼt cry you can tell yourself but itʼs up to your eyes Iʼm just happy now that I know for sure sheʼs gonna be a girl itʼs gonna be a girl
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Original Lyrics: One more song before I leave, Nicole it’s only right in the way it feels right in the dark of a sin as still as I ever wanted it and it’s dark and it is well dark is night and it’s wild and your eyes are blue and they’re wild too no more staying on the other shore for a wish that we’ll all be all right but you know it’s fine you say, “it’s only night time”
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Original Lyrics: late enough in the night if you want come and sign on my back and I’ll try all I can to ease you into your rest hold my hand you can lay in my lap and I’ll smile you won’t see cause you’ll be sound asleep late enough in the night when our legs are aligned on your back I imbibe as I suck out the blue from your neck so when I shake and there are no words to say sometimes it’s too much to look at you looking at me too late enough in the night when your eyes are nearest to mine
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Original Lyrics: Light shines beautifully between my bedroom blinds Though I planned to sleep Night time, when I see my friends in a parking light and they're mine to keep And when they're gone I know I'll want them back Want to fill the sky with photo-filled balloons and keep me to see Beauty in everything Sunrise a frequent phenomena Where'd you find your permanent sea? Temporary everything And in the day the people strange they whip and turn their awkward backs away There's no cure for being only one but you can make it surely I know you can I know I can And when the day is finally done I see light in everyone And when my days are finally done Will I know life in anyone?
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Original Lyrics: man, where’s comfort now? I’m alive somehow man, where are you now? pacing and waiting around for that sweet old remembering sound
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Original Lyrics: ooh rocket, take me high ooh rocket, take me where I can’t fly
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Original Lyrics: greg: in the land of winter there’s cold talks and white walks hanging on strange weather we’ve been having huh? in the land of winters there’s dead trees and dead leaves ty: man, where’s comfort now? I’m alive somehow man, where are you now? I’m alive somehow and the paintings in the museum made me feel nothing so I whistled and wandered around and my egos still climbing, it wants me on top and I’m sorry to push you all down it’s just this bad trick where my eyes see with my body and I feel like there’s only me need a habit or some company or to do something for someone who is not me and the girl who wore your perfume made me think too much so I whistled and wandered around and my egos still needs me to be number one but I think that I figured it out that I only wish to be a positive force and I don’t wanna be the main character of my own life anymore
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Original Lyrics: who am I now? I’m not the young punk rocker and far away is the day that Damon played in his punk band and I was tightrope over sea of green if it gets rough just keep close to me can’t forget oh not this time no roller-coaster on my thigh to pack you up- that’s not my place but I came all this way just to kiss on your face so who am I now? and what’s my silence saying what am I trying to say? does it say “I love you?” is it saying “I’ll be true?” does it say “I want you?” hope it’s saying it all hold her keep it keep her hold it holder’s keeper smile while you can nothing lasts for forever
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Raw Paws - Mantra One (free) 04:17
Original Lyrics: Mantra one is Donʼt worry, Ty through slack jaws and those spyglass eyes see Ken predicted wonderful flow and it shows I was dancing on the plateau what was I so nervous for? and Steve said how it comes in waves I hang ten closes those eyes they say to just breathe Mantra two is to hold the pen a dagger for those pessimists but I learned all the wonderful words - itʼs hard at first donʼt forget the wonderful words! Rich said that he “gets to work and breathe” So you lie and they take When you pull, they pull it all away Mantra three is to let it be
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Original Lyrics: hey, i caught you smiling and the way that I need you feels so juvenile now we’re taking our clothes off and the way that I need you is the force of mankind hey, she barely watched my guts pour out and the way that I need her, it led to my life now I want my face in marble and the way that I need it is so juvenile.
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Original Lyrics: did you like the movie? I don’t know yet mothers eyes and I’m alive cause I can see them for me to feel alone when no one calls my phone oh man did you like the movie? I don’t know yet fathers eyes saying “I’m alive” and I can see them for me to feel alone cause no ones hearts my own oh man Now I’ll never take for granted this time when everyone I love is still alive did you like the movie? I don’t know yet
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Original Lyrics: Blurry & Bright: kiss me, sweetie know I’m all yours now heard someone say that everyday we become someone else hope that’s a lie now what I know’s my home how could I make you my make you my home without the light? hold me, honey know I’m all yours now someday you’ll crave for somebody else I’d rather die and I call you mine that’s an illusory phrase and I call you mine keeps me on my feet well so I lean a bit on your loving face and I was told to win but I won’t step near that fucking plate when I’m afraid do I bring the light; when I sing about depression all the time? am I bringing everybody with me down? how could I think to possess somebody else? possess less and I don’t care much how I spend my days know they’ll all seem bright in nostalgia’s gaze and it kills me bad I know you won’t stay but you’ll always be mine in a nostalgic way you’ll bring the light it’s so easy when it’s easy rise above when it gets hard Underwater: when we kissed in the pool underwater, moon was bright and I felt cool
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Original Lyrics: Keep your elephant shoes on Skins turned to glass with artificial skin on the other side I know that our faces lit by LED screens four and a half hours away won't keep you warm Keep your irrelevant shoes one You've got distractions I'm only one of them But I love you with all four chambers Now
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Original Lyrics: the passerby knows not my name our ant-like shells move on when telomeres do what they must my loved ones please come home so soon we’ll sing our songs for you like children pure and gay a choir so strong we haven’t a chance to shy our eyes away suddenly I’m not me; is this really happening?; stomach pit; where’s my friend? lonesome in; ocean spinning song; hurts a lot; camera click; then forgot; guess I grew up too fast lonesome in; ocean I walked alone my hood was high the concrete’s shining face we clicked our heels a thousand times I‘ll miss you anyway so drunk on heaviness we brewed inside our hoping heads I saw true light. it’s blinding I’ve waited for it since coffee kick; florida sun; caring less; discipline; self explore; shave your head what’s it for?; gotten mold me now; monolith; ferris wheel; ever since; sleevy stretch; hide my hands; now she’s dead; oh man leather palm; secret tears; whisper “get me out of here”; wish you well; eyes are red lonesome in the ocean I walked along the Charles today a lovely lady passed I’ll carry mine- a heavy life may a light heart beat in my chest
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Original Lyrics: I felt an awful big size oh joy to glow with my friends all by my electrical sides on my electrical mind and Now sit along the state line tall grass or molten on either side and my electrical smile let it beat on other oneʼs eyes I felt awakening light clear lake projected upside my oh my american eyes now all my mornings can be light I say to stay open wide enjoy the grass that lies on your on side and your electrical wish let it be discovered in foolishness I felt an awful big size I felt an awful big size I felt an awesome recline one love is more than I need but Iʼll say “I say I donʼt mind” donʼt leave my narcissus side cause I felt an awful big size thought greg said “donʼt worry” in his song now my electrical pain has seeped to grass and made fade away i say to stay open wide oh joy to glow with my dad all on my electrical side shares my electrical eyes and now sit along the state line california mountains creep up on on our imagining day when all the clutter has gone away i felt an awful big size i felt an awful big size
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Original Lyrics: hold on tight your magic mind will take you high and drop you down Iʼll admit it makes no sense the stigmas we give our home towns cause I like when our house is full of life and when friends stick around but go your way Iʼll smile today my muddy feet grow flowers now youʼve got to make it work to make it work oh my heart that sunʼs gonna drop but sheʼsʼ grateful just to be alive and I exist and spoil it by hugging stories in my mind but I like when your mouth is full of sunny words or kissing mine but say it, friend, over again Iʼm alright! youʼve got to make it work to make it work
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Wait for it boy The very next catch Seaside in silence with your eyes open And a blip could make your loudest voice into a mistake So sorry all my actions made were to hurt you bad And she's got a real grip on me She went from a dream to a pretty girl in my passenger seat One night With songs we sang so out of key Like kids in cars with memories That kiss in front of movie screens I never thought I'd hear you sing The tune of my generic first name The one my parents gave to me And wait for it boy She'll come around again As I sit with friends Comparing girls to fish But in a dream she's more than that She's everything but I have to laugh Because I knew her not and that's too bad Beautiful one, oh how you glow The seaside's been silent before I knew you so But maybe my ears turned away And love’s not blind but deafening At least I can still hear you say my generic first name The one I wonder ever travels your brain And you'll go on Oh as you should If I could wreck your home I think I would And I know what you want and it's not me And I could sing my songs way out of key And I know what it takes to be happy But it's more than me Like a fisherman to the sea

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Following Cloud's recent final album, Plays with Fire (musicbycloud.bandcamp.com/album/plays-with-fire), we're excited to share this tribute to and celebration of ten years of Cloud.

This is a collection of songs written by Cloud over the past ten years. The recording project by Tyler Taormina has always been in his own words, “an amateur effort, meaning one done of love and not of careering, amongst a group of friends who feel too much and can’t get enough of each other. The records were made amongst loved ones and the only people who listened to them for a long time were my best friends, those are the people I was writing for.”

His 2013 album, Comfort Songs, featured a manifesto entitled the “Desperation Club” written for those who Taormina felt a kinship with in the aforementioned “feeling too much.” After ten years of Cloud, the band has decided to bring it to a close the way it began, in basement recording studios with a revolving door of friends and local heroes laying down the tracks on Cloud albums each summer. What better way to bring the chapter to a close than to hear the Desperation Club in song, all together, celebrating a suburban community bloomed to become so much more.

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"This has been an incredibly warming and strange experience over the past few months for Jamie from Audio Antihero and I to hear covers from our friends coming in. Each one brought to me a sense of nostalgia for the song being covered, when it was written/recorded or simply remembering the fact that the song had existed. And laced with that feeling was the comforting presence of a friend who was singing the new version, their interpretation of the tune many times actually better performed than the original versions, some of which date back to when I was 18 old. I’ve heard all of the covers once and had a really intense experience nearly every time I heard them. I’m not sure if I can hear them all again but I know the impressions they’ve left on me are enormous and speak volumes to the talent of the friends that I’ve made throughout the years.

I’m quite glad we did this for a few reasons, and I must say the main reason is to prompt these friends of mine to keep making as much music as they possibly can before we all get old and boring. <3

Thanks everyone for contributing and for listening and supporting Cloud over the years. For new listeners, I hope that this compilation can serve as a guide to some of the tunes we’ve been brewing up over the years." - Tyler Taormina / Cloud

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Previous praise for Cloud:

"Astoundingly accomplished…taking his black parade out of the basement and into the streets.” - Pitchfork

“The brevity of the album, condensed from several years’ work, actually renders it utterly enigmatic, like a lifetime reduced to a random clutch of snapshots. On Plays With Fire, however, Taormina’s songs are blistered but precious polaroids, glue barely holding them on to the pages of a family album." - Gold Flake Paint

“Glossy dream-pop production with deeply confessional lyrics” – Stereogum

"A gorgeous tour de force.” - Indie Shuffle

"There are certain records which manage to replicate, musically, serotonin release. Then there are records that contextualise this physical rush within the throws of human experience: friendship, love, memory and the swathes of melancholy that embrace our lives like a sleep. (Plays with Fire) falls dreamily into the latter category." - London in Stereo

"Keenly characteristic of the current season...begins with the picturesque opaqueness of its predecessor, but quickly blows over into a sunny spring morning, exposing a field’s worth of indie-pop blossoms that teem with vibrant colors and exuberant lifeforms. There’s not a cloud in sight." - The Alternative

"A madcap romp through far-flung styles and psych-addled planes of existence." - The Line of Best Fit

“Reminiscent of Panda Bear or Toro Y Moi, the gentle arrangement is matched to a delicate vocal which hints at something darker.” – Clash Music

”Bright-eyed, wondrous…he sounds like he possesses the keys to another universe.” - DIY Mag

"Cloud has been, and always will be, a project about navigating conflicting, hefty emotions, and this process just can’t be done without the help of close friends. “Two Hands Bound” brings four friends into the fold as Taormina explores the burnout that can accompany overworking oneself, but it doesn’t sound labored-over at all; instead, it’s about as effortless as psychedelic music gets." - POST-TRASH

“It's the sound of someone facing up to the age-old problem of growing up too soon and all the trials and tribulations that come along with that.“ - Drowned in Sound

"Tyler Taormina & friends work their music machines of endless wonder..." - IMPOSE

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released June 14, 2018

Cover photo by Greg Salwen
Cover design by Ken Korb
Tracks 2-35 mastered by Benjamin Shaw

**ARTIST LINKS & CREDITS WITHIN THE TRACKS**

"Plays with Fire" & "Comfort Songs" available here: musicbycloud.bandcamp.com

"Rocket", "Elephant Era", "Zen Summer" and "Patience Through the Storm" available here: cloudmusic.bandcamp.com

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