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First Sight

by Nectarine

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1.
01 Undermine 03:07
you measure everything with your middle finger. belief is coiled behind your eyes. and all of those things you're thinking. they never happen all the time. maybe someday you'll find the things you undermine. maybe there's more to you waiting for it to come in view. sometime you feel just like a stranger here. but where else is there for you to go? a head full of photographs a heart full of red shards and broken glass maybe someday you'll find the things you undermine. you measure everything with your middle finger. not that you ever show your hand. every year you pass the day when your fire will wave goodbye... before then I hope that you find the things you undermine. maybe there's more to you waiting for it to come in view.
2.
she looked down at her phone he looked up the building and they walked right into each other both colliding and unwilling two different worlds had been sharing the same planet and this was the beginning of the end of those differences the rattlesnake chatter of the jackhammer was like music to them as they dusted themselves off they had just met God, incognito two different worlds had been sharing the same planet and this was the beginning of the end of those differences everything changes in a New York minute everything rearranges everyone / seems normal / until / you get / to know (them) two different worlds had been sharing the same planet and this was the beginning of the end of taking that for granted.
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you don't know friend or foe shadowboxing in a soul doubt show don't you remember when when you weren't a statue When you could move with the swing of things. come closer, over here it's not over, it's not even close, my dear don't you remember when when you weren't a statue when you could move to the swing of things. I think you're looking in the wrong place your frozen daylight, your sleepless nights escape into a warm embrace and thaw that cold inside don't you remember when when you weren't a statue When you could move with the swing of things. It's close quarters when you're the king you close the borders you don't give up anything oh hello your highness F minus your ego is blocking the light show come closer, over here it's not over, my dear don't you remember when when you weren't a statue When you could move to the swing of things.
4.
You're a monkey at a typewriter, but... no Shakespeare there
5.
looking away from the monitor nurse Bethany smiled she had the same rare blood as the boy in the file and as the needle pierced her skin she saw something coming it was like nothing that she had come to expect she swam away into night joining other moths to light searching for a place to call home and the rest of the world, turning nurses talking quietly concerning concerning she swam away into night joining other moths to light he opened his eyes to the sunlight through the window outside cherry tree limbs are tapping in morse code and his heart is where her blood flowed
6.
the town cryer's crying loud down at the bar the world reeled from the shock yeah. I know. same. old. same. and over there the village idiot's publicly holding court... oh but it's OK he swore everyone to confidence shift change and I'm out of here shift change talk about bad chemistry as much fun as self dentistry just be yourself just be yourself (yeah) unless your self is no good just be yourself just be yourself (yeah) unless your self's annoying unless your self's destroying unless your self's upsetting me (and my) bowl of cherries I'm just waiting here for your endless stream of consciousness to dry up and I'll try to make some sense shift change and I'm out of here shift change talk about bad chemistry as much fun as self dentistry just be yourself just be yourself (yeah) unless your self is no good just be yourself just be yourself (yeah) unless your self's annoying unless your self's destroying unless your self's upsetting me (and my) bowl of cherries
7.
first light, last day when you catch a plane the dark clouds from yesterday give way to rain I can't explain the tidal wave that's crashing in my veins Sarah I'm not good with goodbye Sarah there's gold in the green of your eyes first sight, love at I never believed in that. until every atom in me changed I can't explain love at first sight I can't explain that Sarah I'm not good with goodbye Sarah there's gold in the green of your eyes just one thing that I never told you I was sent here to watch over you wingless angel blind to this not coming with you just one half of a great love that wasn't meant to be and silently she'd left my room before I told her what I knew That's her plane climbing into the blue Sarah I'm not good with goodbye Sarah there's gold in the green of your eyes Sarah I'm not good with goodbye
8.
feeling good is not a problem to solve don't break the spell when the moment is gold here's the thing don't miss the first day of spring you feel like a mime forced to perform your show to the blind and chloroformed can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf we'll improvise our own paradise we'll improvise paradise spring in my step a green traffic light day after day the sun chases the night here's the thing don't miss the first day of spring
9.
I woke to the sound of a footstep pausing outside my door a soft creaking floorboard and then a presence in the room and your face illumined by the moon you'll always find me it doesn't matter where I move an orbiting heartache a cut down flower in a vase and your face illumined by the moon Love this will be our secret waking from a dream kept alive alone your tiny coffin it's the hardest thing in the ground alone in my bed the blanket shifts as someone sits down a sudden presence in the room and my child illumined by the moon
10.
These There are my formal sweat pants I'm wearing them for you Let me escort you to our very own living room The one with the napping dog Pearly girl Eyeing my breakfast With her giant nose sharply focussed on my toast Time for breakfast music Time for me to wind up my music box Time for me to wind up my music box
11.
no, you don't know me but i've been watching you you mask every restless move trying to be understood more or less i've seen your passion muted by pointless distractions where anything can happen in the opposite direction more or less you're too complicated for a simple kindness turns out less is more took me a while to get that your brushstroke metaphors they'll paint you in a corner more or less you're too complicated for a simple kindness
12.
footprints in the sand going home rippling light swallowed up in memory the steady rhythm the pulsing waves the last time I saw her she was swimming further out to sea here in the waiting room of eternity it's your turn a figure eight falls on its side the last time I saw her she was swimming further out to sea diving into the surface underneath the great blue nowhere she's been to the corners of this round earth

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This album was written over a 9 month period. Enough songs were written to make two albums. The best were cherry picked for this one. This album has more emphasis on the rhythm section than the first one.

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released July 6, 2014

All songs written by and all parts played by Paul Ellis.
Vocals by Terry Eaton.

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Nectarine Portland, Oregon

Click the album cover to hear the songs. Clean acoustic recordings with atmospheric production. Miniature Pop Nouveau slice of life songs that reward repeated listens in both the music and lyrics. Inspired by the Baroque Pop and Chamber Pop counterpoint, textural and harmonic flows of the 60's styles to Acoustic Singer Songwriter song forms and Art Rock textural production techniques from the 70 ... more

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