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When did the world start ending?
When did you feel it change?
Or were you always waiting
For something to rearrange?
When did the nights get longer?
When did we lose those days?
When did the world start ending?
Or has it always been this way?
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
You with your gentle spirit
Brilliant and unafraid
Somehow uniquely suited
For all of the games at play
You were the one who held me
You were the one who stayed
You were the one who told me
That we could get through this day
So let the winds come crashing
I'm ready to see it through
Love, if the world is ending
I'll build a new one with you
So let the winds come crashing
I'm ready to see it through
Love, if the world is ending
I'll build a new one with you
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I met you on a midway at a fair last year
And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear
You were playing on the horses
You were playing on the guitar strings
You were playing like a devil wearing wings
Wearing wings
You looked so grand
Wearing wings
Do you tie them to your shoulders just to sing
Can you fly
I heard you can
Can you fly
Like an eagle doing his hunting from the sky
I followed with the sideshows to another town
And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds
You were betting on some lover, you were shaking up the dice
And I thought I saw you cheating once or twice
Once or twice
I heard your bid
Once or twice
Were you wondering was the gamble worth the price
Pack it in
I heard you did
Pack it in
Was it hard to fold a hand you knew could win
So lately you've been hiding
It was somewhere in the news
And I'm still at these races with my ticket stubs and my blues
And a voice calls out the numbers
It sometimes mentions mine
And I feel like I've been working overtime
Overtime I've lost my fire overtime
Always playing one more hand for one more dime
Slowin down I'm gettin tired
Slowin down
And I envy you the valley that you've found
Cause I'm midway down the midway
Slowin' down
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Someday you'll turn the lights down low
Then you'll know
In the darkness these wounds will show
Deep in afterglow
And you'll show your own scars to me
I'll choose you
For each etching that sets you free
And lets your strength shine through
Come to me broken
If that's what you are
Our bodies littered
With battle scars
I want you open
This is all we are
So I'll take you broken
My wayward star
And we'll open our eyes to see
Love so true
Like a perfect storm on the sea
So weak so strong so new
Come to me broken
If that's what you are
Our bodies littered
With battle scars
I want you open
This is all we are
So I'll take you broken
My wayward star
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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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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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You’re everything I wanted
You’re everything I’ve got
You’re all the love I needed
Pray that it never stops
Oh first it felt like dreaming
Oh but our love won’t stop
Know every time you need me
Oh I’ll be there
To be with you
To be with you
I’ve been down and defeated
Thought I’d lost the last good part of me
I’ve been stuck in a moment
Everything I had I couldn’t see
Didn’t know that
Love like this could bring me back to life
Girl I’m letting it take me high
You’re everything I wanted
You’re everything I’ve got
You’re all the love I needed
Pray that it never stops
Oh first it felt like dreaming
Oh but our love won’t stop
Know every time you need me
Oh I’ll be there
To be with you
To be with you
I was lost I was falling
‘Til I found someone that set me free
Every day now we’re growing
Know I find a brand new part of me
Now I know what I want
You’ve opened up a deeper side of me
And I know that I’ll never leave
I’ve been here before
Baby now I’m sure
Please don’t close the door on love
We’ve been through it all
Every fight and fall
Do all this and more for your love
You’re everything I wanted
You’re everything I’ve got
You’re all the love I needed
Pray that it never stops
Oh first it felt like dreaming
Oh but our love won’t stop
Know every time you need me
Oh I’ll be there to be with you
To be with you
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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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The mist came down on Los Angeles
I watched the city bloom
And in the midst of all the elements
I said goodbye to you
I said goodbye to you
And oh, it wasn’t really hard for me to go
And leave behind everything that I know
I’ve always been a lover of a show
Lift up your eyes to meet them
And let them know just what you're worth
Sing until you believe it
Raise up your voice and hear it first
Raise up your voice and hear it first
I'm always looking for an answer in places I shouldn't be
In empty alleys and in people who want something else from me
Want something else from me
But oh, it wasn't really hard for me to go
And leave behind everything that I know
And when I shine, you know they'll say
I told you so
I told you so
I’ll raise my eyes to meet them
I’ll let them know just what I’m worth
Sing until they believe it
They’ll wish that they had seen it first
But only I can see it first
Yes, only I can see it first
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לי כל גל נושא מזכרת
מן הבית, מן החוף
מן העצים יפי צמרת
וזהב שלכת בת חלוף
הנשאי, ספינה, ושוטי
מה רבים הכיסופים
לי נערה יש ושמה רותי
המצפה באלה החופים
תכול עיניה כשמיים
מבטה כלהבה
לו אך נשקתי השפתיים
אז ידעתי מה זאת אהבה
סער הספינה חורקת
תקפץ מגל אל גל
אלי עם רעם היא צוחקת
ועם רוח לי תפרע תלת
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Taali's “When Did The World Start Ending?” is a necessary relic of a fraught time. A songwriter in the truest sense of the word, Taali confidently connects the dots between the urgency of the late 60’s/70’s folk explosion & the modern cutting-edge expression of artists like Sufjan Stevens and St. Vincent. Deeply immersive, thoughtful and poignant, Taali’s sweeping live album rises to the creative & energetic pitch of 2020, expressing both the deep pain of a city’s loss & an optimistic path forward.
