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the color code

by Scott French

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1.
the colors of the buildings are in your head i know one day you'll understand the color code its blue you're just not breaking through not like you wanted to you left that dream back a long time ago easy go, easy come, you know you left your heart on the side of the road if you keep looking back you'll see yourself attack the things you learned but you already know you'll go too far, you'll miss your only star the only light leading back to your heart you've got time to study, study microbiological things you could make some money money micromanage all of your dreams you're just not breaking through not like you wanted to you left that dream back a long time ago easy go, easy come, you know you left your heart on the side of the road if you keep looking back you'll see yourself attack the things you learned but you already know you'll go too far, you'll miss your only star the only light leading back to your heart
2.
come on, come on show me something i know it's waiting in the chamber like a loaded gun we've got no reason to be holding on the things we love cause everything we love will soon be things we let go of let's just keep waiting for the perfect time to speak up let's just keep waiting for good things to happen to us let's just keep waiting for the inevetable let's just keep waiting for whatever will come say that you want it let's just keep waiting for the perfect time to speak up let's just keep waiting for good things to happen to us let's just keep waiting for the inevetable let's just keep waiting for whatever will come say that you want it
3.
we live in a rowhouse, we live in a town where all we do is move around and every single street has another street turning you around we live in an apartment, we live in an apartment far, far away from natural decay we live in a hotel, we live in a hotel all we do is pay, we have to leave someday i'll push anything away we live in a complex, in a paper house where all we do is drive around and everything we need is in the fortress that surrounds we live in a toy house, we live in a toy house where everything is made to totally decay we live in a hotel, we live in a hotel all we do is sleep, wake up and repeat i'll push anything away
4.
you're halfway between a knife and stitches, such electrical dreams where life illuminated such honest belief that everything changes when you change your routine it doesN'T it doesN'T i doN'T get it spell it out please write it speak it doN'T just dream it god is is shining over lightning i saw ex- ploding cars and buildings you're halfway between a knife and stitches, such electrical dreams where life illuminated such honest belief that everything changes when you change your routine it doesN'T it doesN'T i doN'T get it spell it out please write it speak it doN'T just dream it god is is shining over lightning i saw ex- ploding cars and buildings you're halfway between a knife and stitches, such electrical dreams where life illuminated such honest belief that everything changes when you change your routine it doesN'T it doesN'T
5.
good karma 03:05
oh, let's take another way all of the signs say "warning" whatever takes us longer whatever takes us longer and i i can tell it's getting colder i'll put my jacket on your shoulder and if you see me shaking just look away good karma, be good to me a little more, a little more just give me just a little good, karma dont freak out just give me just a little more a little more, a little good karma, be good to me a little more, a little more just give me just a little good, karma dont freak out just give me just a little more a little more, a little good oh just try an look away cause i am only just nervous the wind is blowing through my heart i've got the darkness pulling my mind into a place that i remember where i got lost and couldN'T find her and everybody is a stranger a stranger good karma, be good to me a little more, a little more just give me just a little good, karma dont freak out just give me just a little more a little more, a little good karma, be good to me a little more, a little more just give me just a little good, karma dont freak out just give me just a little more a little more, a little good
6.
(is this all the time) we've got to change everything (is this all the time) so take off all of your rings (is this all the time) we've got no time to relax (is this all the time) we've got to change everything half of the the people in your little earth are only half of what you think they're worth what goes around comes halfway down the other half is all around if you're going to spend half your life filling yourself with romantic lies its over something's tearing our hearts right out it must be words put in your mouth we wear that thing out everyday we've got to change everything half of the the people in your little earth are only half of what you think they're worth what goes around comes halfway down the other half is all around if you're going to spend half your life filling yourself with romantic lies its over
7.
i'm all you see, i'm all you see we're all the same, we're all the same we're rolling out just like a storm over the sea and when we rain, we'll do anything i could follow in your footsteps where they lead, when you leave you've been walking through the roses again let's make believe that if i followed all your footsteps where they lead when you leave no matter how pretty a rose can become they'll make you bleed like a rain falling in a dream like a razor cutting through a seam the dead dont lie it's a moment just to take you a whole life just to make you the dead don't lie if i'm all you see, i dont know what i want to be the dead don't lie you hold my hand so much tighter than you can the dead don't lie i could follow in your footsteps where they lead, when you leave you've been walking through the roses again let's make believe that if i followed all your footsteps where they lead when you leave no matter how pretty a rose can become they'll make you bleed
8.
poison fruit 03:16
pull me out of the water its freezing cold and im under a foot of ice can you see me scratching on the top like a kitty my heart is slowing down dont stop my head is spinning like a top needles and pins oh no oh no oh oh oh oh oh oh oh and you'll do anything to stay dry, you bit the apple in the back of your eye you chewed it up and you spit out the seeds in the soil of the desert where you cant grow trees and there they'll lay dormant for a thousand years until the rain comes down like a million tears and there will be an orchard of poison fruit poison fruit, poison fruit... just keep pushing me down head first to the center of the middle of the bottom of the earth just keep pushing me down, keep pushing me down keep pushing me down and you'll do anything to stay dry, you bit the apple in the back of your eye you chewed it up and you spit out the seeds in the soil of the desert where you cant grow trees and there they'll lay dormant for a thousand years until the rain comes down like a million tears and there will be an orchard of poison fruit poison fruit, poison fruit... pull me out of the water its freezing cold and im under a foot of ice can you see me scratching on the top like a kitty my heart is slowing down dont stop my head is spinning like a top needles and pins oh no oh no oh oh oh oh oh oh oh just keep pushing me down head first to the center of the middle of the bottom of the earth just keep pushing me down, keep pushing me down keep pushing me down
9.
volim te 04:01
she had a sister she carried her home through the backyards through a foot of snow she had a sister she left her alone and she froze she had a mother that she didN'T know she carried the baby through nine months of snow and then it was summer time to go and we'll go. she really gets me, oh. she had a country she had a home they took it away in a cloud of smoke they gave her a new place that she didN'T know she'll go so after the bombs stopped and after the snow she came to america why? i'll never know and after my heart stopped she carried me home real slow. she really gets me, oh.
10.
i wish i had that state of mind all the time a place to lean this boulder on i wish i had it in the palm of my hands instead of wishing it was gone i felt like. i almost died. i wish i had that state of mind all the time a place to lean this boulder on i wish i had it in the palm of my hands instead of wishing it was gone i felt like. i almost died.
11.
$$$$$$$$$$ 03:32
i see it in your heart a broken path to start which way do you want to go? in one direction love, the other dangerous when they do it for the money. i'll do it for the money. would you die for the money? we all do it for the money. is anyone out there where you are? counting change out on the bar the exact same place where everyone goes when they do it for the money i'll do it for the money. would you die for the money? we all do it for the money.

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released December 5, 2010

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Scott French Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I played everything on these recordings. And also recorded them myself. Mostly because I'm poor and have no friends.

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