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Electric Tears
02:22
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I saw you while sleeping
You let my demons out
I woke to find you weeping
Electric tears made these eyes burn out
To the sound of thunder
We’re torn asunder
O, Dulcinea!
So sweet the vulture
The main offender
The plane descender
O, Dulcinea!
Redeem the culture
I tried hard to reach you
Smoke signal, code and flag
The power of love will teach you
Pale skin in sunken rags
To the sound of thunder
We’re torn asunder
O, Dulcinea!
So sweet the vulture
The main offender
The plane descender
O, Dulcinea!
Redeem the culture
We fall together
And live forever!
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In Between Worlds
03:49
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Hey
I saw your face today
And the terror in your eyes
Gave you away
I only had to let you know
I think your thinking is deranged
I see the sadness in your soul
Morbid, bent
And strange
How you still fail to see
That these changing times
Are not your enemy
And now we’re headed for the brink
But is it day or is it night?
I think you think I think you think
You know wrong from right
The sound of thunder
Is bound to stir you up
Wide-eyed as we wander
In between worlds
Damn
Am I the only one
Who has watched their sense of humor
Come undone?
Whatever happened to the love?
I thought that we were family
A wounded animal in pain
Drunk on power and greed
Now if that sounded mean
Well the judgment you display is more obscene
I only had to let you know
I think your thinking is deranged
I see the sickness in your soul
Morbid, bent and strange
The sound of thunder
Is bound to stir you up
Wide-eyed as we wander
In between worlds
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Imitation Life
02:36
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Sad eyes
You shouldn’t waste your time
Realize
It’s no imitation life
Come to me
My long lost child
Your ways are weak
But your heart is wild
Let mute tongues speak
Cast out the vile
The sullen and the sad eyed
You shouldn’t waste your time
Realize it’s no imitation life
Realize this is no imitation life
Where you are
And where you've been
In and out and in between
Tell me everything you’ve seen
Now
Sad eyes
You shouldn’t waste your time
Realize
It’s no imitation life
Realign
With your inner ray of light
Realize
This is no imitation life
You’re alive
You’re alive
You’re alive
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Something's been sleeping in the back of my mind
No longer, no longer can you go on living blind
I just came back to let you know
The curtains are drawn it's time to go
Your summer soldiers are ready to light up the sky
Drink Starbucks and Folger's and choose the wrong time to cry
I just came back to make you see
The fire you lit inside of me
Oh God that's not normal
Don't let em lay you down and roll you out
And when you're alone and don't know who to trust
Tempted to self destruct
Discarded and left to rust
I just came back to help you see
The fire you lit that made me free
Oh God that's not normal
They'll only lift you up just to cut you down
And when you're alone and don't know who to trust
Tempted to self destruct
Discarded and left to rust
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Under Your Spell
04:27
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Allow me to do the honors
Sound the horn and the vessel sets sail
A journey into the unborn
Beyond the horizon and beyond the pale
How’d you end up on the inside?
How do you know me so well?
With your eyes of fire and your coat made of eagle
Now I’m under your spell
I found myself in fascination
With your mystic fists, your maniacal wails
We’ll speak your name in the summer
Our tongues they had froze when the snows came and fell
How’d you end up on the inside?
How do you know me so well?
With your eyes on fire and your coat made of eagle
Now I’m under your spell
Afraid to be different
Afraid to be kind
Afraid to reveal anything that is on your mind
So scared to be useless
To try and to fall
Scared to be reduced and revealed
To be nothing at all
Now I’m under your spell
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I was afraid
So afraid of my own mind
I believed in you
I couldn’t think for my own self
With no one to blame
All the voices in my head
Led to choices
I wouldn’t wish upon my own worst enemy now
But I know I am
Completely surrounded by love
I was ashamed
So ashamed of all the lies
I believed in
I couldn’t face my own self
Unborn and unnamed
From the breast we’re torn
No reprieve from scorn
Until we stand to reclaim our own divinity
Now I know I am
Completely surrounded by love
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Know My Name
03:37
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Hey
Ain’t seen you in a long time
We were wondering where you went
Where you stood and what you meant
When you would say
The end of the rainbow’s a long ride
For the embittered, hardened man
Oh you lonely planet boy
Don’t look away
And if you’re feeling all alone
No need to wallow in the mire
And if you’re very far from home
You can always reach me on the wire
It’s okay
I know that you don’t really listen
But I can read the light
Emanating from your face
And if you’re feeling all alone
No need to wallow in the mire
And if you’re very far from home
You can always reach me on the wire
Call on love
Call on love
Know my name
Know my name
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8. |
Where the Sunset Sets
07:03
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Lay me down
It don’t really matter
Upon the floor, at the door
To the threshold we turn
Stand up strong
Though you may be in tatters
We’re on the shore and what is more
We may not return
I know you’re losing the eyes to see the truth
Your inner vision is clouded
The ugly feelings remind you of the youth
Which you no longer connect
And all the things that had binded me to you
Has been unravelled or shrouded
And what had been a folie a deux
Is just a memory you forget
Your name
It doesn’t matter
Your face
You will soon forget
Our eyes
Beaming into one another
Leave a trace in anyone you’ve ever met
Your name
It doesn’t matter
Your face
You will soon forget
Our eyes
Beaming into one another
In the place where the sunset sets
Lay me down
It don’t really matter
Upon the floor, at the door
To the threshold we turn
And stand up strong
I know your heart has been shattered
Every day light the way
With the bridges we burn
I know you think you’ve been blinded by the truth
You feel attacked and surrounded
The ugly feelings remind you of the youth
Which you no longer connect
And everything that had binded me to you
Just leaves you sad and confounded
What once had been a folie a deux
Is just a memory you detest
Your name
It doesn’t matter
Your face
You will soon forget
Our eyes
Beaming into one another
Leave a trace in anyone you’ve ever met
Your name
It doesn’t matter
Your face
You will soon forget
Our eyes
Beaming into one another
In the place where the sunset sets
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Jonny Polonsky New York, New York
Chicago born, NYC based musician
profile photo by Jason Robinette
photo with guitar by Julia Sinelnikova
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