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Cloud Souvenirs

by chris staples

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1.
Nasty Habit 03:21
this darkness knew my name calling out for me when it came maybe it’s that time of year I know I don’t deserve to be so unsatisfied like I don’t appreciate having you by my side I used to do it for a good time now I can’t live without it nobody seems to notice I got this nasty habit I got this weight I wanna let it go I know a place where the the weirdos go I show my face I’ll be ok I got this weight I wanna let it go I know a place where the the weirdos go I show my face I’ll be ok I used to do it for a good time now I can’t live without it nobody seems to notice I got this nasty habit
2.
take your time make up your mind I don’t want anything but the best for you or anybody I learned to let it go a long long time ago it seems to work out fine when I don’t really try I don’t want anything but to do what I am here to do
3.
Souvenir 02:29
dad taught me how to work hard hot summer in a lumber yard I turned a wrench on my first car picked out some chords on the guitar I was afraid I’d be erased if I didn’t leave this place I think about it nearly everyday it’s burned on my brain like a fireplace a thick film on everything the residue of memory storefronts, hotels everything reminds me of something else baseball diamonds, waterfront parks cemeteries after dark quiet places with no name where long shadows remain homes we lived in covered in vine all the things we left behind boxes stuffed with souvenirs what is gone is all still here what is gone is all still here what is gone is all still here
4.
I never tried too hard to understand but I feel safe in this place that I have landed and you cannot change my mind I can feel it in my bones how could I be wrong after all isn’t truth just something you insist upon repeat it to yourself till you believe it hold my hand we’re gonna watch the sun burnout together how can I be humble if I’m gonna live forever hold my hand I love you so much I can’t explain it it burns a hole right through me I cannot contain I lie awake in the middle of the night something they said in a loop over and over in my head I can feel it in my bones maybe I am wrong after all isn’t truth something that you can’t really know repeat it to yourself till you believe it hold my hand we’re gonna watch the sun burnout together how can I be humble if I’m gonna live forever hold my hand I love you so much I can’t explain it it burns a hole right through me I cannot contain it
5.
I felt guilty standing on your front porch I hadn’t been home in a few years I straightened my hair before I rang the doorbell and all of my anger escaped me everything time has taken from us on this sunny afternoon I can see you in my mind it’s been here for a long long time parked in the backyard of my mind I got this ancient artifact how’d this darkness know my name a gentle breeze a hurricane I got this ancient artifact everything time has taken from us on this sunny afternoon I can hear you in my mind everything time has taken from us on this sunny afternoon I can see you in my mind I can see you in my mind I can see you in my mind on a sunny afternoon
6.
at first it was nothing and then it all came out I wasn’t so sure at first and then there was no doubt there was a time when you could change my mind but I can do whatever I want now do whatever I want now do whatever I want now I can still remember when I first arrived young and angry desperate to survive the city climbed like a vine onto the sky turning into something I could not recognize there was a time when I thought it could be mine but I can do whatever I want now do whatever I want now do whatever I want now soft rain rented loft we had the magic but the spell wore off there was a time when our love was blind but I can do whatever I want now do whatever I want now do whatever I want now
7.
what I said was right but it came out wrong now you’re gonna hear about it in a song could you shut up for one minute stop talking sit back and listen could you shut up for once in your life what I said was right but you did not hear now I’m gonna have to shout it just to make it clear why you so scared about some dead air? why you wanna fill it like an éclair? some people want to think let them stand there you got a bulldozer mouth and you don’t care could you shut up for one minute stop talking sit back and listen could you shut up for once in your life
8.
all my dreams come true all my dreams come true but I only got a few but I only got a few all my dreams come true all my dreams come true but I only got a few but I only got a few I want to play guitar in my own backyard I want to drive around in paid off car I want to work for myself but not so hard not so hard all my dreams come true all my dreams come true but I only got a few but I only got a few I want to write songs when the sun goes down I want to make friends in my brand new town I want to get up when I’m feeling down feeling down all my dreams come true all my dreams come true but I only got a few but I only got a few all my dreams come true all my dreams come true but I only got a few
9.
I hold you in my hands into your face I look so many things I see when I look into you you’re looking into me you seem to know some things you must have overheard in the afternoon when I think out loud you’re listening to me show me what I like until it burns my eyes the things I see it makes me want a different life a different time a different place show me what I like until it burns my eyes the things I see it makes me want a different life a different time a different place
10.
we’re all going where we won’t come back take your foot off the gas I want to get lost along the way we’re going to make it there one day early in the morning when the light is blue before the golden rays come through if I get lost along the way we’re going to to meet again someday

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released May 26, 2023

produced, engineered & mixed by: Jeremy SH Griffith

Bulldozer Mouth / I Want to Get Lost produced & engineered by Chris Staples (mixed by Jeremy SH Griffith).

Mastered by: Berlin @ The Loft LA

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