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Dearest Echo
04:19
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Dearest Echo
My dearest echo please sing for me today
All the ones I’ve loved have gone away
My dearest echo please sing for me again
You’ve come to be my most endearing friend
Spiraling infinities envelope me
Carried to the bottom of a frozen sea
I can see you carried away
What could have been so beautiful
My dearest echo please sing for me again
You’ve come to be my most endearing friend
Spiraling infinities envelope me
Carried to the bottom of a frozen sea
I can see you carried away
What could have been so beautiful
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Idiot's Guide
03:31
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Idiot’s Guide
Do you take advice from a stranger?
Oh, what a fool you are
Trade-ins for brand new sets of anger
And some old new face will take the reins
Where is your coat?
Stay warm
Where’d you put your hat?
It might storm
So you drove cross-country
To find a city where you could forget yourself
But you got to that place
Like a kingdom falling
Parked car reflects your face
In the sheets of rain
Is it wrong to lose at a game you didn’t choose?
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Rainwater Mixing With Oil
Rainwater Mixing With Oil
On the street
On the street
To the drain
To the drain
I hear you tell me
You used to be happy
On a cell phone
Static louder than your voice
Alone now we’re shining
But, we mixed constellations
And a universe was born from chaos
Swirling out
We used to make love
And try to not wake your parents
Late for school and joking about dirty knees
I remember you dancing in my father’s orchard
The sunlight split through the trees
You were bending the air
Bending the air
All I could do was stare
Oh, stare
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4. |
Blue Jay
04:29
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Blue Jay
Oh, blue jay
Set sail today
If things get too cold
You don’t have to stay
When I go too far
I get away
Behind a wall of sleep I go
The place I go
When I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
Then I reach the bottom
It drops down further
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5. |
Exodus
01:16
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Exodus
All is well here
We’ve got all we need
I’m feeling fine
Oh, you know
I can’t breathe
In this city
But I try to
Let you know I’m fine
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6. |
To The Sky
03:49
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To The Sky
You keep your eye on me
Who you are I can’t see
Sent to me
Why?
I don’t love anything
I don’t need anything at all
The weights of this life
Thrown away
To the sky
For evermore
The weights of this life
Cast away
To the sky
For evermore
I get away to find the exit
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7. |
Past Lives
05:31
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Past Lives
I’m walking city streets alone
Returning to all I have known
Faces, memories repeat
You’re tired on your dirty feet
Tear down these walls
Break free from you
I’m walking city streets again
Ever-present evil twin
Faces, memories repeat
Stars revolve
Exploding heat
Stare at it all
Break free from you
Tear down these walls
Break free from you
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8. |
Virus Mindless
03:13
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Virus Mindless
People like us weren’t meant to breed
Because the world it turns by burning greed
The virus mindless spreads to choke the host
And a fever grows like a holy ghost
Are you sure you know your own name?
Cities like this weren’t meant to live
Because the walls we make
They bend, they give
Seas grow restless in one crashing wave
Drown the world so that we may be saved
Oh, I never really knew my own name
What a shame
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9. |
Dreaming of a Place
03:38
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Dreaming of a Place
I’m dreaming of a place
Where there is no death and no pain
We can be with the ones we love
Everyday
Where the sky is pure and blue
And you walk through the grass with no shoes
The ground is cool and wet
And you laugh with no regret
Let’s just stare into the clouds
Take my hand
We can go there now
Close your eyes and disappear
Between nowhere
And right here
Right here
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10. |
Ocean
02:40
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Ocean
The ocean
Bare and frozen
I am not alone
I am not alone
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Broke Wing Bird
Fly Away
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Jesse Jay Allen Tacoma, Washington
From Metropulse.com
On Dearest Echo, Allen matches thick, ambient guitar and synthesizer with
Britpop melodies for an approximation of Radiohead, or Wilco at its most expansive. Allen’s solid voice has a forlorn quality that works with the music’s depressive tone.
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