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All the lights they are turning green
Well that means go for you but it means stop for me
You hit me like a ton of bricks
I saw it coming there was nothing I could do about it
I grabbed my heart but im bleeding from my head
The blood filled my mouth turned my chewing gum red
I clenched my fists and spit broken teeth
Stepped into the water to try and be clean
These thoughts keep me up at night but that don’t make them right, It aint right and
This place is a mirror of my regret because I cant forget what wasn’t said
Lesson learned it was my mistake
I shouldn’t stay tonight in this haunted place
But when I threatened you with leaving you said “either way”
Like all that time, what a waste
Little runaway. Run away.
Spinning circles my heads dizzy now
And I am standing by while you are falling out
I know what I know and I see what I see
You treated me so bad and I was so mean
And its been too long now and theres nothing left of us
Just some greener grass and a guilty conscience
Like watching our story on a movie screen
Being horrified by the scene
But your face filled me up with honesty
And youre still all I see when I cant breathe
And when all those words were not pouring over me
I was always willing to believe them
Lesson learned it was my mistake
I shouldn’t stay tonight in this haunted place
But when I threatened you with leaving you said “either way”
Like all that time what a waste
Little runaway. Run away.
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harbor greens
02:39
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Yesterday was fun
Yea we have a twisted sense of right and wrong
But at the end of the day why were we awake
Conversations pass and fade I never knew what to say
I always said something anyway just to fill the silence
I hope you never took offense. I think I might have sounded rude.
We spent that time asleep I don’t remember anything.
I was looking for something to dream about
I found that you don’t dream when your nodded out
Yesterday was then
We can never go back to it… im sure I don’t want to?
But at the end of the night why are we alive
Maybe we weren’t we never could decide
We didn’t own a telephone
Anyway we don’t answer to anyone
Getting high on the side of the freeway in the sun
And we had a plan to exist on a diet of heroin and cigarettes
We were fine it is fine were just skinny and young
Laid out on the side of the 110 in the sun
Yea we spent that time asleep
I don’t remember anything
I was looking for something to dream about
I found that you don’t dream when youre nodded out
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how to live
02:18
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When I was younger I thought Id never end up like this
I thought we’d change the world or that we’d die of it
But now instead of getting drunk and hating everyone
I just wish id stop using paper and plastic wrapped products
Am I afraid am I alone
Do I even know how to live
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first song
02:36
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In the backyard in the dirt
Breaking it down wearing me out
I buried it 6 feet deep
And I covered it up with concrete
You planted it there, a seed
You watered it I crushed it
Underneath my feet
I broke it tho its coming back for me
Its coming back for me.
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this is not a love song
03:58
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Its cliché im ashamed to say im sorry
So I wont say another word today
And I don’t mind the silence at all
It all sounds the same
They crash, the waves
And they get to change
I stay the same
Awake and afraid
Hey where are you anyway
I know what you are I know what youre not
Youre water and salt greed and guilt sorrow and fault
And youre sorry just like me what else could we be
Oh youre just a black balloon and ill see you soon coming down
Cause I miss you and love you
Over and over again
i miss you and i love you again
My heart it breaks my hands they shake
Like my will and faith
And my feet they stay miles away from you
What else could I possibly do
Youd have to tell me if you want me to do anything else but stay away
Oh ill stay away its what I do best its all that im good at and
Youre just a black balloon ill see you soon coming down
or hanging around...
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13th sign
04:04
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Well im always hungry but whats food to a ghost
I don’t know how I feel or what I want the most
And I don’t know what is real
But I memorized my bathroom floor somehow im sure that Ive been here before
All alone again with my back against the door
But hes my only friend so I guess that’s why Im always running back to him again
Breaking it down, im breaking down
Is that me? Is it really me?
I don’t think that I want it to be
Staring back from the dirty water in the kitchen sink with a
Face full of regret and a mouth full of expletives
And that night you said fuck the stars theyre jealous
Anyway they never have anything good to say
Theyre desperate and old and they are dying all alone in a cold black hole
And your horoscope was an empty threat
Why don’t you make good on your broken promises?
Im coming to collect
Is that me? Is it really me?
I don’t think that I want it to be
Staring back from the dirty water in the kitchen sink
With a face full of regret and a mouth full of expletives
Oh and nervous energy. You’ve got some nerve.
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dgaf minor
02:57
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Through the window like a frame
Perfectly centered an image of my disdain
I think its snowing but the trees are red like blood
Their bodies falling from the black and blue sky above
I saw hell on earth I saw the world in a shallow grave
Its not worth our time trying to save
We’ll build a ship to sail away
Oh what have we done now
Drown it or bury it burn it down
It’s the nightmare I have every time that I sleep
It is waiting for me in the shadows between my sheets
And the palm trees outside that dance in the breeze
Quietly humming their song it goes
We don’t belong I don’t belong you don’t belong here, no no
What have we done now
Drown it or bury it burn it down
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memo
02:13
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Hey statue you move when the change comes in
Or you find yourself buried beneath it
Like a body lying in a road side ditch
Hes been there for five days no ones missing him
His eyes are open and the smell made you sick
Well don’t be so materialistic
Baby im feeling blue and Im leaving it up to you
Just find me something to do
To change my name and change my mood
Im begging you
Well ive got a little birdies eye and a castle in the sky
Im climbing up there to get high
And ill be falling down when its time to say goodbye
Im leaving on a midnight train to the summer sun
Im gonna wake up where I owe nothing to no one
I know ive made a bed where I should lie
If I make it back alive
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cemetery giftshop
04:10
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Now ive taken all the mirrors down from the wall
So I wont see you when we are passing in the hall
And when I see you on the street
Youre always staring at your feet
Like the reasons to be found
In the cracks in the concrete
I remember when you followed me home
You picked the lock
You brought me roses from the cemetery gift shop
You always saw me as half dead from the start
I guess you thought you’d finish me off
Like blood our bond was thick
And our secrets made us sick
The roses that you brought home for me turned out to be
Poppies mostly
I saved them all and I made you tea dear
I remember when you followed me home
You picked the lock
You brought me roses from the cemetery gift shop
You always saw me as half dead from the start
I guess you thought you’d finish me off
And you couldn’t wait to. Could you?
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diminishing returns
01:57
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You flip through lists of laundry and other things to do
Oh there are a few there are a few
But a few less than we’d really need to make a difference
We make no difference
But we regret what we consume
Its empty now fill it up its going down
An absent concept of right and wrong
Getting up again and falling back down
Everything we find together you and I we destroy
But I give a fuck so maybe you can turn the tv off
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Oh coyote where’d you take my dog
Was it a quiet place when the sun was gone
Oh coyote where’d you take my dog
Was it by the stream were the shadows long
Can you tell me did he cry
Did you see sadness in his eyes
Can you bring him back alive
Bring him back to me
Sparrow in the tree tell me what did you see
Was he hungry was he starving was it bitter sweet
I want to think it was easy
Id like to think that it was quick
And I have hope that he feels bad for being such a prick
Can you tell me did he cry did you see sadness in his eyes
Can you bring him back alive
Bring him back to me
I want to think that he went easy
And id like to think that it was quick
And I have hope that he feels bad for being such a prick
And I hope you made him sick
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stolen property
02:14
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A heartless affair
And a blank stare covering me
And the space between
What you’re looking at and what you see
But we’ve kept a fire going steadily for a couple weeks
Burning up stolen property
Everything we didn’t sell yet and what we couldn’t eat
In the corner of the room where we go to sleep
We’ve laid needles on the ground
Bent to catch our feet
Tripping on them, coming down now
Well these things can seem pretty heavy
Like a hot air balloon
Getting up, drifting across the room
Your eyes are wandering mine are too
And we’re expected to know just what it means
And what we should do
But there’s nothing we can…
We keep a range of temperature
Between our cold, cold air and our warm water
For comfort. whats comfort. its all we need
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igaf sequoia Los Angeles, California
igaf sequoia is a 5 piece indie band born out of the Los Angeles folk punk community. Self described as “love songs for anarchists” they explore the sad sounds of heartbreak, loss, addiction, and reconciling idealism with growing older in a broken world. Bethamyann (VOX), Adam (guitars), Paul (Keyboards/Sounds) are founding members with Steve (drums) and Sean (bass) joining the line up in 2023. ... more
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Old friends that make amazing music
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we played a show with them. probably the best band we have played with.
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