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What Are You Afraid Of?
03:42
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There wasn’t much to say
There wasn’t much to do
I watched it fade away
And finally saw the truth
And in that glaring light it wasn’t hard to see
Those words that we held in reflected back at me
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
What are you?
Do you think we knew?
Do you think we knew?
Go slow
We wrote
Do you think we knew?
Do you think we knew?
Moved all the way uptown
The sunlight streaming in
And every dappled beam
Lights up the flaws we hid
I knew that we had died
I couldn’t live with it
Ready to eulogize
The things we said and did
What am I afraid of?
What am I afraid of?
What am I afraid of?
What am I?
It’s the things we know
It’s the things we know
Go slow
We wrote
It’s the things we know
It’s the things we know
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2. |
These Days
04:25
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I've been out walking
I don't do that much talking these days
These days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to
I had a lover
I don’t think I’d risk another these days
These days
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long
I stopped my rambling
I don’t do too much gambling these days
These days
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them
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Champagne and Fires
04:08
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Wild ones
Wounded ones
The ones who never found a home
Each with a host of our own fevered ghosts
And things we’d never quite outgrown
And oh, now weren’t we a pretty sight?
Those wounded birds hell bent on getting back in flight
And oh, that voracious appetite
We’d burn it down but somehow always stay entwined
Consummate opposites
Blissfully ignorant of time
I guess the truth is that all of that youth
Is wasted on us in our prime
And oh, now weren’t we a pretty sight?
Swallowing pain like it was nothing out of spite
But oh, how it caught us, oh so slight
With no foundation, it’s so easy to unwind
Relative
Sister, kin
The hollow words we try to find
Oh how I staggered
From each of your daggers
The truth is all of us were blind
And oh, now weren’t we a pretty sight?
Each one that ended in a catastrophic fight
But oh, that’s the thing I keep in mind
Champagne and fires just distract me from my life
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4. |
Climb
03:29
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There was a thunderstorm every night that we were there
We wandered round, different coasts, ocean salt in our hair
Faces of loved ones, we feigned that we just didn’t care
You knew and I knew that change was abound in the air
Find nothing more, nothing less than the sum of our parts
Everything falls, our souls open, embrace a new start
And embers make fire, and fire will open our hearts
You know and I know that change is a difficult art
So tell me your secrets
And I’ll waste your time telling mine
Faced with a burden I fall to the ground every time
Summits loom steeply
And this one is deep in my mind
You know and I know that change is a vertical climb
You know and I know that change is a vertical climb
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Kol Haolam Kulo
02:33
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כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלוֹ גֶשֶׁר צַר מְּאֹד
וְהָעִיקָר לֹא לְפַחֵד כְּלַל
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Taali New York, New York
Born in NYC, taught worldwide, Taali is an electric musical force and community builder. Her music, described as "a beguiling mix of tropical pulse, chamber pop, avant-electronica, and quiet storm," addresses identity, love, and overcoming trauma. Taali weaves a landscape drawing from the empowering culture passed down from her family and the fierce women she surrounds herself with. ... more
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