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The Brighter Side of Me
06:48
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This years's going by
The words I find are lies
Your distance going strong
Tomorrow you will be gone
If one wasn't three
Then four isn't more than me
I keep going back
Holding this one true fact
This is the Brighter side of me
I feel disillusioned
You fed this illusion too
Couldn't climb too high
Falling through the sky
Wake me in the morning
Tell me something I don't know
Curtains constant shifting
Wind is coursing, where the hell did you go?
This is the Brighter side of me
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For Your Own Good
04:00
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You came in from the darkness
Drunk on some whiskey
You laughed at a witness
Can you face yourself and me
I wish you werent ever written into this play
I wish I could cut you right out of my mind
I wanted your medal, I wanted your stone
You gave me reasons to go home alone
I'm sort of a pessimistic
For an old kind of lover
A ruse for a purpose
I watch you light a fire
I wish you weren't ever written into this play
I wish I could cut you right out of my mind
I wanted your medal, I wanted your stone
You gave me reasons to go home alone
Underneath the tires that brought you down
But you don't move
You're still very still
Just a deer in headlights
A ghost in the shade
A light that'd best fade
For your own good
For your own ..
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Walking outward on a cold and rainy day
Just keeping time to myself, nobody else
No worry's, no one to call my own
Sometimes a loner is the worst thing I could be
I have no one to worship, I'm fine with that
I have some friends with me, and that's that
Sometimes I open windows, catch chatter from next door
Sometimes a loner is the worst thing I could be
Happy to be elsewhere and I'm happy to be here
You were always set on business, I had my mind on games
Sometimes we’d clash, sometimes again and again
Sometimes a loner is the worst thing I could be
We laugh, we fight, you’re always up all night
You keep your tower guarded, and keep the bed warm
When life is getting heavy, we start to drift apart
Sometimes a loner is the worst thing I can be
At night time I was living, in day time I was dead
The workload the carnage was always in my head
I know I'm not the best, but I do the best for me
Sometimes a loner is the worst thing I could be
I miss my misconceptions that kept my hopes so high
Believe it, or not, I was a confident guy
But truth showed its ugly head, and knocked off my toes
Sometimes being a loner is the way it goes
If I died tomorrow, if I died today
Yesterday would stay the same, it wouldn't change a thing
I meant every word I kept to myself
Sometimes being a loner is the worst thing I could be.
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Carry Me Down
05:06
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I do not want your eyes
I do not want your face
I do not want your hands to grace me now
I do not want your pen
I do not want your plee
I do not want your plan to shake me down
You do realize
I can see your lies
You can try as you might
Only one of us will die tonight
I can not be your lamb
I can not be your martyr
I can not be your hostage to win the crowd
I can not be your victim
I can not be your poster child
I can not be your reason to be so loud
You do realize
I can see your lies
You can try as you might
Only one of us will die tonight
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Guilty
04:30
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I'm guilty of these crimes I have no witness
I have stolen love from someone unpermitted
I've taken for granted a person's contributions
I've stolen cash my mother's purse behind the cushion
I'm guilty
I'm guilty
I'm guilty of hurting myself in dark
I stole some pills and a razor, I shall disembark
I've got some bad reservations of my story arc
I want this final bow to really leave a mark
I said I'm guilty
I'm guilty
I'm guilty and honestly I'm ready to go
I've so many things you don't even know
I'm bad and I'm worse and below the barrel
I'm ready to go, so sing the Carol
I'm guilty
I said I'm guilty
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Dust
07:48
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Cuervo Quivers
04:07
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Cuervo quivers, nasty breath
Heads a-pounding, feeling close to death
Lungs are heavy, can't catch my breath
Only your love can bring me back
Phone is ringing, I'm late again
No one there who understands
Legs of concrete, don't wanna move
Only your love gets me in the groove
Only your love
Rays of sunlight through shades of grey
Praying only for one more day
Broken pictures of shattered dreams
Nothings really quite as it seems (except your love)
Only your love
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Father Time (6/21/20)
03:49
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Hello my father, what are you having today?
Have you had enough self-deprecation?
Please come back, this pincer attack was never meant to sway
My opinion on you, you always came through just to throw it all away
Father Time, I miss you all the time
What is the point of talking to empty shells of man?
The silent reveal behind the curtains, made me want to run
Hello my father, did you reach the bottom of this can?
The hollowing gaze, the free-floating maze, the sign of things to come
Father Time, I miss you all the time
Fathers Day, why did it end this way?
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ALVU Lansing, Michigan
hi, my name is alex and this is alvu. this is my solo endeavor where I pretty much create whatever music i want to. theres some acoustic singer-songwriter stuff, and theres some heavy music as well. i hope you enjoy some of my tunes and just enjoy the overall vibe. have a good day. ... more
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