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Now the time is near
Start to take a toast
Welcome to my wonderful show
For it all will end
Eyes stapled again
Welcome to my wonderful show
Welcome to my wonderful songs
Welcome to my wonderful tears
Welcome to my wonderful life
Now turn this glowing tely off again
For I say to you are going to end
And I say hello
One more drink or more
Welcome to my wonderful life
Take my sign and say
Closed for all to hear
Welcome to my wonderful show
Welcome to my wonderful songs
Welcome to my wonderful tears
Welcome to my wonderful life
Now take me back for its all going to end so soon
So take a toast for this host will dial in soon
Slow down with ease, glitter in my seas
Take this thinned out bear glass and see
Heroes are dying on a rope of glee
Turn off my soul so I will breath, So I will breath, So I will breath
Take another toast
Dance once again
Welcome to my wonderful show
Welcome to my wonderful songs
Welcome to my wonderful tears
Welcome to my wonderful life
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Change These Raisins
02:40
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Turn and face the wedding of trash
Don’t you think that it’s alright
Wishing for the romance that died
Shall we dance this one last dance
Keys strokes gentle without a breath (What are you saying tonight)
No time left for my sigh (Can I breathe tonight)
Leaves change with your colored moods (Spring seems so late this year)
Hoarse voices change, with your skies, with your skies
Complexions of spinning static
Bold are we when it’s too late
Thoughts disappear with a glance
Drain your eyes full of green
Keys strokes gentle without a breath (What are you saying tonight)
No time left for my sigh (Can I breathe tonight)
Leaves change with your colored moods (Spring seems so late this year)
Hoarse voices change, with your skies, with your skies
Don’t sleep my darling, you’ll never wake up
When cards turn to smiles, don’t be fooled
It doesn’t mean anything, when I never believed in the start
Grab what you can, for I’m slipping away
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Paper Stains
03:21
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Plan no beginning for the laughing will continue
The time ticks with no remorse like the people around me
With no responsibilities they seem to smile at me
Forgetting how it all began
Once the thought of relief came
And something kind seemed to emerge
Only to turn into the same screaming
That shouldn’t have reappeared
That shouldn’t have reappeared
The neon glows right past me with the pictures fading
As the beads keep piercing my mind
The time should be so near as my thoughts reappear
Instead I shut my eyes and remember it disappear
Once the thought of relief came
And something kind seemed to emerge
Only to turn into the same screaming
That shouldn’t have reappeared
That shouldn’t have reappeared
The paper stained with my emptiness
As I soak all that was never there
Now it’s time to say I will disappear
Now it’s time to say I will disappear
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Smooth The Time
02:36
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Think that you’ll ever kiss me tonight
But the belief has gone for good
Drinking every night to forget my loneliness
Reality seems so much better with the haze
I can take control
But it doesn’t seem to be real
If she opens this lock one more time
I think I’ll stay home to avoid these games
So do I have the right to be heard tonight
Should the leaping and dancing end once again
For the fog lifts and time is back in motion
But I’m happier when all reality is gone
I can take control
But it doesn’t seem to be real
If she opens this lock one more time
I think I’ll stay home to avoid these games
Smooth the time with a drink
Smooth my tears with a story
Take this reality and make up my own
For it’s time to curl up in my dreams
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Morning Rain
02:25
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Just don’t leave without hearing me say you’re so beautiful
Hand me down has been the theme for the past 5 years
So dance with me all night, dance with me all day
One more memory sneaks by, but that’s alright for
Reflections of blue and blonde will turn a smile
Reflections of blue and blonde will turn a smile
Rose gardens made from peace, I’ll still have a heart made from the sands
People step on, people walk on, people drive on, don’t drive away
Softness in all the right places, I can’t help but to get lost
Into this gateway to your soul, into your warmth for
Reflections of blue and blonde will turn a smile
Reflections of blue and blonde will turn a smile
Mantras recited with care, don’t you know it lights me with a flare
Kisses so gentle like the morning rain, love handed out with none to spare
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Winged Ballerina
02:10
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Turn like a ballerina with your wings that match
I have consumed my mind with an angel that turns all night
Burn brightly and keep touching me, keep touching me tenderly
Feel the air beating loudly, with a breath so sweet
Have you seen this love lost, for years and years that pass me by
For it’s back with golden lines, that step so alive
Baby I shed these tears so lost, for awhile thought they’re gone
Admiring what dreams may be, admiring what dreams may come
Don’t hand yourself down to the dogs, cause darling you’re so sweet
Cause darling you’re so sweet, cause darling you’re my angel tonight
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Woman
04:10
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When you see it happen, it’s the satisfaction
Lying in your head, lying in your head
When you see it pass you, it know it could go right through you
Chances are gone, chances are gone
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Polo Robots
04:28
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Block your head and find two little birds
Don’t know how to play your kind of game
Grease has formed a wedge between your ears
It won’t hurt you when you’re deaf, dumb, and blind
The hardest thing to see is goodbye
The hardest thing to see is goodbye
Don’t you look back when you’re gonna bleed
Don’t you look back when you’re gonna bleed
Take five lame excuses when she’s down below
Don’t worry it won’t hurt with a scream
Real jocks like their meat red and their women none existent
Flatulence never seemed so appealing
The hardest thing to see is goodbye
The hardest thing to see is goodbye
Don’t you look back when you’re gonna bleed
Don’t you look back when you’re gonna bleed
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The Only Introduction
03:40
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Living In Stereo
03:49
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Forever turn sweetly with no whispers for I hear this wind with no desperation
Your face is just an illustration, snow drops from your mouth
With your beauty crashing in my mind, stop talking any longer
Cause every minute you turn a bit sincerely with your smiles and solitude recedes quickly
The scene has collapsed my mind into a seed ready for
This long awaited renewal, a spark went off to be left as an
Unanswered cry with your constant gaze
Transfer your love lightly, replace with this melancholy laugh of the lost
Are you just an illusion filled with spirals smiles, funny how your cheers speak so
Loudly with living in stereo with spastic eyes, press down lightly
When parting again, even though you’re not the same the driving will feel so unchanged
The scene has collapsed my mind into a seed ready for
This long awaited renewal, a spark went off to be left as an
Unanswered cry with your constant gaze
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Golden Tapes
02:57
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One last goodbye as the dog turns
As you know that car goes away
I just wanted to know when you say
Goodbye
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
Watch those scenes as they get replayed
On those golden tapes when they take on
How do you feel when I say hello
And you say goodbye when you turn on
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
When you look away, look away, yeah yeah
When you look away, look away, yeah yeah
See those golden tapes just hide up
And I see those bottles just fall
Take one last glare as you see those tapes, just
Crumble as you die away, yeah
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
I just say forget what happens in the past
Cause it comes again and again
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Ithsettap
01:03
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Give a scraper to the stranger who spilled the sea and feeling the crowd
And I’ll sketch the scene for the night, crack that shell so all will be free
And I will be angry tonight, take and fill my thoughts
Relaxed again and 60 is gone, so Ginger I will call again
Mirrors reflect your lie
Take my care one more time, the night will end with that find
Stay sober for awhile, and see that all is fried
Put your head out again, I’m feeling like a wire again
Taste that air so stale, for it feels again down a hole
Now stick your head out and take a hundred and run when it all is done
Wasted away with a smile, enter again with no fault
Gone and out of sight, feel the mirrors reflect nothing tonight
The scenes are sketched for awhile, crack that shell
Take my care one more time, the night will end with that find
Stay sober for awhile, and see that all is fried
Put your head out again, I’m feeling like a wire again
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A Touch of Wet Ink
03:11
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Hey folks, I’ll see you, when the pasts turns in my memories
Smile now, for the thoughts will be with me
Take my hand, my friends, when you will disappear
For these pictures will never lie
Take the stage and I will tell you about these people who were beautiful, when I laugh with tears I miss them so
Two more is gone, no more tears, I will rejoice in what I learned
From all the nights ending with a grin
Remember now I’ll love all in Frisco or Minneapolis
The time spent was not alone
Take the stage and I will tell you about these people who were beautiful, when I laugh with tears I miss them so
Turn again, one more time, and write a page in my life
For Tally, will remember them all
I’ll see you again on the tely running in my thoughts tonight
It always seems to end with a smile
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Lone Resistance
02:18
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Now tell it how it was one more time
Maybe we can take a smile
Take the picture that we want to see
The images are so clear now
These symbols seem to be
All we hear are the chimes
The tuners have lost the tone
Cause the conversations are so worn
Maybe I have to laugh
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And I see the rainbows coming through the screen
And I look for the time to filter these screams
Seeing that it’s all going to come back up
And pleading one more time for all to hear
Posing Naked for all the photos so all can see
Taking this ride when the bottles are so empty
Sitting next to the porcelain as the shapes fall away
The attention span has fallen to the cold
The waters are spinning without any sound
Has all the mighty fallen without any tone
Posing Naked for all the photos so all can see
Taking this ride when the bottles are so empty
And I see the filters coming through the screen
And I look for the time to filter these screams
And I see the filters coming through the screen
And I look for the time to filter these screams
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Forever turn sweetly with no whispers for I hear this wind with no desperation
Your face is just an illustration, snow drops from your mouth
With your beauty crashing in my mind, stop talking any longer
Cause every minute you turn a bit sincerely with your smiles and solitude recedes quickly
The scene has collapsed my mind into a seed ready for
This long awaited renewal, a spark went off to be left as an
Unanswered cry with your constant gaze
Transfer your love lightly, replace with this melancholy laugh of the lost
Are you just an illusion filled with spirals smiles, funny how your cheers speak so
Loudly with living in stereo with spastic eyes, press down lightly
When parting again, even though you’re not the same the driving will feel so unchanged
The scene has collapsed my mind into a seed ready for
This long awaited renewal, a spark went off to be left as an
Unanswered cry with your constant gaze
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The Afrosheens Boston, Massachusetts
The Afrosheens is a solo project by multi-instrumentalist Afshin Beheshti, creating an atmospheric musical journey into what he calls his one-man empire of sound. Afshin creates atypical arrangements with arrangements that complement deft songwriting, introducing experimental elements without losing accessibility, and is unencumbered by any specific style, yet is cohesive in perspective. ... more
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