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Full-Time Hobby
02:53
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There’s beauty in searching
Searching for something
A sound in your mind
A feeling worth trusting
If static’s coming from
Each radio station
Take a little time
Catch a vibration
Thicker skin, thinner skin, heavy tape
Lighter strum, brighter strum, darker shade
Part time job, full-time hobby, full-time hobby
Play music with your friends
And play along with records
Try to hold some heat
From radiating embers
Deeper the well
Cooler the water
Turn the sprinkler system on
Invite over the neighbours
Thicker skin, thinner skin, heavy tape
Lighter strum, brighter strum, darker shade
Part time job, full-time hobby, full-time hobby
Emptied out your piggy bank
Looking for a sonic space
You could call your own
Couldn’t get off of the ground
Engine troubles kept you down
And now you just got time
Thicker skin, thinner skin, heavy tape
Lighter strum, brighter strum, darker shade
Part time job, full-time hobby, full-time hobby
Full-time hobby, full-time hobby
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Diamonds
03:13
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(Diamonds) Mommy's ring
(Diamonds) Glittering
(Diamonds) Mommy's string
(Diamonds) That she wears
(Diamonds) Around her neck
(Diamonds) Sparkling
(Diamonds) Daddy goes
(Diamonds) Digging
(Diamonds) On your mind
(Diamonds) In your eyes
(Diamonds) Never quite satisfied
(Diamonds) In your dreams
(Diamonds) In the seams
(Diamonds) Of your every thought
(Working) For your pride
(Working) Double time
(Working) Husbands home
(Working) All alone
(Working) Till it’s done
(Working) Moon and sun
(Working) On the hunt
(Working) At the front
(Diamonds) On your mind
(Diamonds) In your eyes
(Diamonds) Never quite satisfied
(Diamonds) In your dreams
(Diamonds) In the seams
(Diamonds) Of your every thought
Once a green grasshopper in a helicopter
Sitting on her Daddy's knee
Now she’s Lucy in the sky, the queen of magpies
She’s a vision, a mystery, on my shoulder whispering
(Dreaming) Sitting at
(Dreaming) The hotel bar
(Dreaming) Mind is slow
(Dreaming) Distant stars
(Dreaming) Milky way
(Dreaming) Ice on mars
(Dreaming) what’s your name
(ok)
(Diamonds) On your mind
(Diamonds) In your eyes
(Diamonds) Never quite satisfied
(Diamonds) In your dreams
(Diamonds) In the seams
(Diamonds) Of your every thought
(Diamonds) Diamonds
(Diamonds) Diamonds
(Diamonds) Diamonds
(Diamonds) Diamonds
(Diamonds) Diamonds
(Diamonds) Diamonds
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Glitterball
03:20
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Birthday party ended, Dad was running late
saw a crowd gathering, ‘round lane #8
Reversible sequin, one-piece suit
Written across the back, in plastic jewels was
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
Strike, Strike, Strike - Wait
She takes a sip of, a strawberry shake
There's something so familiar, Like a dream that you’ve worn
Like a word on the edge of your lips, The vowels taking form
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
With Janet Jackson singing,
The disco ball spinning
Light scatters across her face
Eyes I know, a shape I’ve seen before
Standing at the door, putting us to sleep
That was way back, In 1983
Now I’m playing 10-pin, with the boys, every other week
There’s a pink ball that still glitters, she must have left behind
It moves through the rotation and she’s still on my mind
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
Glitter-ball
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Joke Is Story
03:06
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Joke is story that’s funny to create laugh
Laugh is sound from body of person who’s happy
Happy is state of being is opposite sad
Sad is sorrow and sometimes shown with teardrops
Teardrops are fluid from eyes caused by emotion
Emotion is powerful feeling in persons brain
Brain is home to self to thoughts to dreams
Dreams are movies you watch when you are sleeping
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Frustrating Tears
02:44
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Frustrating tears, frustrating tears
Frustrating tears
Move across my face
Feeling inside body, heavy
Looking for some space
Frustrating tears
Fall into my hands
Looking for reflection, but then
They fall through again
Frustrating tears, frustrating tears
Frustrating tears
Duophonic gumdrops
Sympathetic monsoon
Falling in slow motion
Percolating fears
Pooling in your tear ducts
Empathetic typhoon
Coming in sideways now
Frustrating tears
Pooling by my feet
I know love’s the answer, some days
It feels just out of reach
Frustrating tears, like in country song
Lady leaves the cowboy
Cowboy has nowhere they belong
Nowhere they belong
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Peachfruit
02:59
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Gentle, approach slowly
Speak softly, be calm
Tender, when touching
Like a peachfruit, in your palm
Time and attention
Care and connection
Love and affection
Is all we really need
Be generous in spirit
Protective of balance
Accepting of weakness
Supportive of talents
Time and attention
Care and connection
Love and affection
Is all we really need
A glowing abstraction, grows all around us
A winning subtraction, limitless, boundless
Gentle, approach slowly
Speak softly, be calm
Tender, when touching
Like a peachfruit, in your palm
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Revisiting Revisiting
03:14
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Hello dear friend, glad we meet again
Why are we here, in this gymnasium?
A high school reunion felt like a, safe environment
To ask you how you keep
I fear the worst, confidence has burst
Am I off track, can I make it back
The burrs of your twenties have covered your, sweater and blue jeans
The weight will surely lift
A mirror to the stars
The same lines you’ve drawn between us
Treating those and that
Which surrounds us, surrounds us
With love
Goodbye old friend, see you in another ten
Thanks for the chips and for checking in
I love you/me, me/you and trust that you’ll, learn to again
Do stay for one more glass of punch
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Vapeking
02:40
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There’s @_vapeking
Outside Taco Time
Blowing fancy smoke
At his cellphone camera
It’s a diorama
t-shirt says
ladies man
in comic sans
Still has a snowball in the freezer
From 1999
It doesn’t snow in Sacramento very often
There’s @_vapeking
Sweats and flip flops
Ebike on sidewalk
Pockets full of knick-knacks
And a gas station kit kat
Earpods blasting
Sublimes “doin’ time”
Coasting through the red light
Still has the plush dog his dad won him
At the fall fair
He didn’t come through Sacramento very often
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Love, Abound
03:32
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The ashtray is brimming
In stardust we’re swimming
No strength can pull it back down
The night’s warmth embraces
Weds and encases
The tender refrain “love abound”
The band cradles and floats
Their songs paper boats
Each bobbing carelessly by
Hearts slowly ballooning
Swelling and swooning
Fluttering up through the sky
Spools keep on spinning
Cocoons of unpinning
Glorious puddles of wool
Seems each pore emits
A gold transience
And richness is realized in full, in full, in full
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Matthew Bailey Toronto, Ontario
Matthew Bailey is a musician and producer living in Toronto.
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