1. |
Wholly Hollow
05:15
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Clear your throat and conscience
Shake the hand of fate
Tomorrow may bring sunshine
Tomorrow may bring rain
Faded like old photos
Worn by the roles we wear
And though we're blessed with the breath of life
We're left choking on the air
Joy takes it's dive
In brain wave high tides
Youth gives in to age
But the growth's benign
Thoughts spread like plague
My heart stabs like spades
I'm ashes in a vase
Burned by a warm embrace
God took away
Now I'm trying to make some headway with overwhelming odds against me
I can't hear the voice within
It just voiced a vacant anxious cadence, never one for conversation
Well, I never listened in
We could have climbed a mountain
But we slept in catacombs
You weren't awake at the reception
So I got in tune with the dial tone
Joy takes it's dive
Backwards to find
The soul lays bare
Despite its' leathered hyde
The grief begins
My blood runs thin
Doubt's glistening
The world's still turning
It's a cardinal sin
That I hear my heart scream
Tearing out its' own strings
They say all things do pass
But it's all of you that I have left
Joy takes it's dive
Angel flew too high
See you in the mourn
Or when I turn at night
To dream your face
To dream some grace
I'd run to you
But I'm wide awake
Outside heaven's gates
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2. |
Carrier Cloud
03:58
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She's looking down from a carrier cloud
Words in her mouth that won't reach the ground
And in her mind she's opened her eyes
She's only blind, disabled by light
Because we've lost ourselves
Lock the geniuses in cells
Faith's covered up, ya it's got a mask on
In God we trust but reading history books wrong
This candle light, it widens my sight
Says the girl with the bloodshot eyes
"Where are we going? I don't know
It seems we're stuck here in circles"
She's like a sun dial put up on trial
Hurtful and fake yet worth my physical while
So come fire, burn down her empires
Smash the serpents, lift your people higher
Because we've lost ourselves
Lock the geniuses in hell
Sometimes I stay up at night
Look out my window and ask myself why
It can't be the way that it seems
When I'm awake as it does when I'm asleep
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3. |
Different Kind of Joy
03:31
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Drained
Wallowing in Rain
Falling from your brain
Thoughts that lead your soul astray
In this depth of feel
I can see what's real
Still, no comfort comes my way
Like a blackout ball that's reached light of day
Where everyone's leaving but I've stayed
To toast my tequila to the dawn
I don't get hungover I just hang on
Down in our common ground
Buried in ourselves
Lies the sweetness
That we sell
For a crumbling will
Some secrets that will spill
Because it's the season
For cheap thrills
This pillow talk's screaming
In my ear
"She slept with a lie"
Now, that's sincere
But I swear
She gives the sweetest head
Been stuck in a year long
Lost weekend
Undress
To impress
Civil unrest
If it's politically correct
She swears I'm a leech
But keeps me feeding
And nourishment's not
What I'm eating
I drown in the sound
Of her sunshine swoons
Because I just find an excuse
To howl at the moon
Oh let's give up the ghost
Drop dead, gorgeous
I'll drink up that ice cold
Damned soul in distress
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4. |
Exodus
06:14
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I'm living here as a resident
In the hold of a false palace
Wondering if I'll ever be free
If I'll see with open eyes
But I close my ears as I hear them shout
They laugh aloud as I bathe in doubt
Tell me now do you feel clean?
What does that mean?
Well you tell me
I'm on an exodus to the castle in the sky
I don't know why they won't let me in
I'm on an exodus to the castle in the sky
I don't know why they won't let me in
Upon your dirty knees you crawl
So how is it you're ten feet tall?
Don't feel protected by your walls
Because some day they all will fall
They once were sweet like porcelain
Now she's cracked and broken
That's okay because I am too, I'm just like you
And you're just like me
Oh sweet unity
We're on an exodus to the castle in the sky
I don't know why they won't let us in
We're on an exodus to the castle in the sky
I don't know why they won't let us in
I saw a statue of the concubine
I said "Precious friend of mine
How you live is how you will die"
She said "I'm a living suicide anyway
But what have we learned today?
Don't you dare trust snakes
And though they may give you a fruit
Only you can choose to eat it."
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5. |
Isaac
04:00
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I'm a child sent on my way
To that cruel coming of age
Falling further from a fate
Worth living in
So I'm trying to understand
Life's much more than mortal man
And though time slips right through your hands
It's still worth grasping
Isaac eats breakfast for dinner, dinner for lunch
And though he knows he ain't got much
What he has does make him smile
It keeps him happy for a little while
Now there's not much I can afford
I watch the sunset when my soul is poor
Because if life does start right out that door
Its' end is unexpected
I've found life's a symphony
Played out of time and out of key
But it makes you cry when that sweet organ sings
Its' good intentions
He says "Boys think with their hearts, men think with their heads
But you don't have to die to end up dead
So when days ain't clear look in the mirror
And hope that boy didn't disappear"
The day's a gamble, the night's a fear
Sometimes I wonder if tomorrow's further than near
But I'll play the hand I'm dealt, I'll roll the dice
Because if things are for certain, no yearning, I'm learning
That just isn't life
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6. |
Song for Sierra
02:13
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You, the sun, the sky
Everything you hold
Inside your eyes
Could drown an ocean
But the sun escapes the tide
Every morning
So you're hoping that this life
Is more than suicide
But what if it is?
I mean,
What if it is
Something more?
Under the streetlight
Kiss and ignore
The oncoming headlights
You said it was alright
Because the sun escapes the tide
Every morning
So you're hoping that this life
Is more than suicide
So what if it is?
I mean,
What if it is
Something more
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7. |
(Interlude)
00:58
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8. |
Mutual Understatement
04:42
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Now come fertile flower, sour soul, sweet body
I'm not your lover, though I lie in your sheets
Our touch may not know honesty
But it's a truth true enough to believe
So turn with the motions for a cure or disease
We adorate the poison to endure the poisoning
You would stay if I would just leave
The birds, the bees, they make each other weak
For the weekend
I know this fear defeats you
So hold fast for godspeed
Pray it don't mistreat you
Love is not like sanity
Some do see it's so cheap that it's free
No ties, no strings, just an appetite
A mutual understatement, but if you want that, well alright
Until you or I fall out of line
Arrives the night to justify demise
So can I get a rise dear?
There's freedom or there's shelter
We can't have everything
Love doesn't count the hour
And there's a clock ticking
Unveiling a masterpiece of absences
Unveiling a masterpiece of bad timing
I know this fear defeats you
But hold fast for godspeed
Pray it don't mistreat you
Love is not like sanity
Neither's its' grief, neither's its' relief, neither are we
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9. |
China Girl
05:58
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I love your freckles, your sweet lips, your porcelain skin
I miss your laughter, your soft hands, our love, and sin
Though at times I seemed to have forgot these things
Because I broke what I once held close
My China Girl
My China Girl
Well, on top of a ferris wheel, I sat close to you
You touched my face and you let me touch you
And as the sun went down you pushed against my mouth
With those innocent lips, you said you liked the way I kissed, you said it was different
But then that fair left town
And I laughed as you frowned
Then those parties you went to, you danced with mannequins
You started growing, but drowning in sweet sedatives
Meanwhile I lost myself, I became someone else
Someone ruthless and mean, someone you shouldn't have had to meet, someone you shouldn't have had to see
But remember that letter I wrote you begging you back for your love?
You read it, and smiled saying "I'm sorry, but I'm talking to someone"
And oh like hell that hurt, but your's was probably worst
So I will whisper an apology and I hope he's not like me
You know you hope he's not like me
But when my head starts spinning fast
That's when I wish that fair would come back
Just one more time
Does he touch like me?
Cuss like me?
Kiss like me?
Does he get pissed like me?
Does he change like seasons
For no reason?
Or commit treason?
I hope he's there when you need him
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10. |
Biko
03:04
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An open mind and highway drives
They coincide like railroad lines
The somber in those lost weekends
Love that's been, self image
To the wind they are going
With your fears they are blowing right away
Now we plead the fifth to innocence
And in winter we wear summer skin
Live in grinning jaws and smokers coughs
Morning talks, late night walks
Hear the cops? They are coming
Hurry now, let's outrun them my dear friend
Because it's now or never
Old road, please make it so much better
I need it
Now my soul's devout to sea and sound
And last night we fell in whiskey wells
Warm with delight, for freedom fights
And I'm enticed, quite obliged
To reside in the wonder
Of the birds', breeze, and busker's blissfulness
With the moonlight leading
Into the heart of the evening
That's freed it
I watch the shoreline breathing
As if the tide's a feeling
Assures your mind and being
What we are is a meaning
To believe in
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11. |
Sunrise
03:38
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Broken glass and arguments wrapped an anesthetic shroud
Around my mind, but I feel it's time I colored in what's been blacked out
Those years of fear and souvenirs left from a childhood home
A boy with his dog on a green grass lawn watched the whole world fall foreclosed
You know he'd sleep deep in sweet dreams
But he awoke to become me
Kid, I sincerely apologize
But I've reserved a space in the back of my mind
For you
And as that child I walked a while along a desert song
I lived and laughed, I sang and swam in shores of Babylon
Now I go on a bus ride home to see a lake glow neon blue
As the sunrise burns, a windmill turns, and life begins anew
And the horrors of a pitch black night
Are transformed by morning's sweet light
The child smiles as he's no longer replaced
I know we are one, we are one, and we share the same fate
Always
We share sweet laughter too
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12. |
Exhale Slowly
03:46
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If air is life and life is death
Then hold it in a tantric breath and exhale slowly
For when I'm buried deep within the ground
The world, it still will spin around as I decompose a symphony
For every thought I've had before has forehand been foreseen
For all the oxygen that I inhale somebody else will breathe
Life's mystery and tragedy, they flow through you and me
Eternally
But I don't want to live this life like a man who hides his head beneath the sand
In fear of what he can't control
His kind, do you know they walk for days on broken paths in this crooked maze?
Wearing holes in their mortal souls
Well I must toss these thoughts that haunt and rot and fry within my mind
Because I dream too much and I think too much yet still can't say I'm wise
Although my insight is that life ain't blind, though we spend it opening our eyes, that is alright
Because we all just want to be alright
Well when I die, lie by my side to hold my hand and say
"Don't worry friend, nothing truly ends, there's a tomorrow for today"
I don't know where heaven's placed, if it's a hymn or face
But I hope it's somewhere safe where you'll be okay
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Vista Point Los Angeles, California
Vista Point is the songwriting project of Richard Rauda, featuring a rotating cast of talented musicians. With the release
of their debut album, "Different Kind of Joy" in 2018, Vista Point's lyrical content is on the forefront and influenced by the great songwriters such as Stevie Nicks, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, and Paul McCartney.
Born and Raised in Southern California.
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