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Dreaming is for losing
02:11
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Set it down hard
Lift it up
You test the weight and balance
Of your love.
If your stuck in the car
Traffic jam
You can’t pretend your way out
Without a plan.
Chorus:
Dreaming is for losing 2x
Looking straight up
Face to clouds
Imagine which number you have won.
Coins in the can
Adding up
Dreaming of that day you have enough.
Chorus:
Dreaming is for losing 3x
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2. |
How do we stay alive
02:06
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Faces change and rearrange
it's not hard to kill and point the blame away
chorus:
How do we stay alive 4x
Present in a passing tense
abuse of willful ignorance
chorus: How do we stay alive 4x
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3. |
How are you
02:04
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I can heal
From a bruise on my shoulder
But the stitches from lashes take longer
To dissolve.
Chorus:
How are you?
Seven years
To clear up mistakes
From decisions you made with the things
You didn’t have
Chorus: 2x
How are you?
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4. |
It doesn't matter
02:20
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I’m home, you didn’t move at all.
I could scream you wouldn’t flinch in inch
I’m a stranger to your existence
Where am I now?
It doesn’t matter to you
I lost touch with every thought of you
It’s not much with such a distance to
The love that left your heart when it was new.
It doesn’t matter to you
Bridge:
A fainted drop of rain
Hit my eye
I have I found my place
Distanced from your hate.
It doesn’t matter to you
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5. |
Screaming Cat
02:22
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Clear the table from the mess your living in
I can’t handle this no more
In a cage where all the bulls are cornered in
The color red will free them all
chorus:
Why do you hit so hard
Like a hammer to the wall
Why do you love so hard
It won’t ever be enough
Tend the garden where the dead are buried deep
And the weeds are overgrown
Nothing stays forever, an eye is for an eye
To make you feel balanced and still end up alone.
chorus:
Why do you hit so hard
Like a hammer to the wall
Why do you love so hard
It won’t ever be enough
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6. |
I have
02:39
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I have what I want
I’m never alone
I make what I want
I’m never alone
I’m telling you all I can’t fall
I made up my mind I will solve
Anything in my way
Today is far but not too late
I’m closer to the future days
chorus:
I have what I want
I’m never alone
I make what I want
I’m never alone
I opened my mouth
And shut my mind
The consequences where my teaching moment
There’s no way to know until
Fuck things up a little more each day.
chorus:
I have what I want
I’m never alone
I make what I want
I’m never alone
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7. |
My Voice
02:54
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When my voice was strained
And I couldn’t sing
Someone’s sickness had weakened my strength.
I let myself down walking all over town
thinking nothing could penetrate me.
Who am I
Not the catcher in the rye
I was patient as a fox
Climbing down from sharp rocks
adding weight to the pains in my throat.
How I longed to be free to be me and come back
and deliver the voice that I am.
Who am I
Not the catcher in the rye
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8. |
The Snippets Vol.6 #93
02:21
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I apologize for being myself
To please you and everyone else
Now I know my part to take your abuse from the start
Why should I be free when you can own me
I apologize for being myself
To please you and everyone else
Respect comes with pain that few are offering
Attitude means more that color to the core
I apologize for being myself
To please you and everyone else
Why would I be you
Insecure and rude
Why would I be you
Ignorant and blue
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9. |
The Snippets Vol.13 #200
01:44
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More than I hoped for now
I built upon times that fell out
Be there for one for now
Right now it’s hard to get out
chorus: No way, No way to rise 2x
Metal is harder than glass
Like a fatal heart attack
Remove all sense of doubt
I’m working harder now.
chorus: No way, No way to rise
Bridge: I will feel crowded in With no other chance to win
The spit that drenched my face In a form of disgrace Not will but when will I stand And become whole again.
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10. |
The Snippets Vol.11 #170
01:57
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It’s looking like the moment came and went.
I never thought that this would come so fast.
I got burned enough to lose my grip.
At six and sevens and I started to slip.
Chorus: Stone cold doubt
I built a life that kept me up all night. I was so damaged l forgot how to fight.
When nothing changes but the words you say.
I’m planning how to take your time away.
Chorus: Stone cold doubt
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11. |
The Snippets Vol.3 #66
01:36
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Through a mountainside I drive alone I grew to recognize I climb with no rope We are we are waiting to see We are we are 2x I can’t believe I’m here, dragging along I found a place to hide until it’s gone The fear of losing it all. We are we are waiting to see We are we are 3x
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12. |
The Snippets Vol.13 #211
01:54
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Working for you
Down in the ditch
Bleeding for you
Ain't life a switch
chorus:
Heavy and hard
I know how it is.3x
Too many drinks
After your shift
How does it feel
To be someone’s bitch
chorus:
Heavy and hard
I know how it is. 3x
Solo
chorus:
Heavy and hard
I know how it is. 2x
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13. |
The Snippets Vol.9 #139
02:00
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I’m feeling nervous since I wrote that letter. A strong reminder I need to do better. . I will end where I begin I will end where I begin There’s truth in the jokes I’ve made. Some were hateful and made them run away. What I don’t know can hurt me Steal my breath and make me go blind. I will end where I begin A crackling light above my head. I woke from a dream my best friend was dead.
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14. |
We Are All
02:33
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Water always finds its way
It carries us all and leaves nothing in its place.
Sometimes we lose who we want to be. Destroyed by the storm and blocked at the gate.
Chorus:
We Are All 2x
All of the youth that we toss away
Forgetting our time and all that we missed
Brave is the weapon to point us north
With all that we are and who we become.
bridge:
What am I to do
What can I say
To lift off the weight
and make it all go away
Chorus:
We Are All 2x
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Mike Borgia New York, New York
A blues rock singer songwriter and guitarist, known for his 5 octave range and unique translation of blues, and rock.
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