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Fire (free streaming)

by Green Paper

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1.
Fire 00:56
2.
April 27, 2004 03:31
lyrics
heartbeats like footsteps are scaling the stairs and making their way to the room where she sits like a deity used as an ashtray with the pile of clothes she's removed and how she breathes, an august breeze sounds like the starving song of summer and now he breathes the new disease sounds like the sweating song of sickness and now the spines divide and now the spines align and now the night's divine and she turns on the light because it's over. i've spent half my days in a film canister scared by the thought of the sun and then came the day when she turned me to gray now i'm no use to anything or anyone and i've found my place in the burning taste, that calm cool, crystal clear chemical bath or that steady hand down Manor Ave kept from falling off of the beaten path and i'll take this to my grave there's nothing you could save i'll nod my head and wave but that's no way to behave in front of a lady
3.
Good Morning! 03:12
4.
The Still Waves 04:21
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in a cell with twelve rotating closet doors nine ghosts rummage quietly through locked drawers twenty-four cent rings exchanged in construction paper walls playground without a sound a line down the hall the two held hands and grew alone they shed a light where it was never shown they hid inside part of the sun he told her all his secrets but one jealousy ran rampant through the room and clueless adults still told us what to do but i know i know i know i know i know i know how to read what they won't see and then he met her at the fair skylights cinderella pinwheels everywhere he stripped his fingers sang a song he lit the fuse, she dropped the bomb
5.
Summer 05:40
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April came and we buried our conversation, when we were through we stuck our adolescence in the ground records would skip our favorite song seven minutes in we’d sing it loud to repel the ghosts that swarmed around. Spring it fled so quickly and we waged a war between our lips. My only artillery were those several words that made you sick. There's a room i spent my summer and it's stuck in my brain I remember every color, recognize every shade but I fear every floorboard has forgotten my name so i doubt i'll be back there again these feelings don't translate, these words don't resolve there's traces of your grace that i am yet to have robbed there's some of your memories that just won't dissolve so you bleach them out instead and what was it that happened to that thing you call love? did it fit you too loosely, did it fit like a glove? did it fit you too tightly, did it push did it shove? or did it slip away unseen? did those boys love you too much for the way that you kissed? did they love you for all of those meals that you missed? did they love that you'd never ball up a fist or stand up and say no to them? Well it’s much too different now but we’re still just as dumb and blind, you bite your lip I hold my tongue when they ask about a second time. But my clock is stuck at 6:37 and your mind is stuck on something you can’t have. Erase our words, avert our eyes then laugh it off and wrap it up and bring it back to the beginning.
6.
Carthage 02:02
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An empty bottle’s good for nothing, an empty bed is just the same Yeah that’s what my sweetheart told me but I can’t recall her name She said ‘at first it hurts then burns you worse than thirsting after fame Because the fire of animal desire is the beast you cannot tame’ It’s an age old epidemic, it’s eternity’s disease Drives a full grown man to drinking and a young man to his knees The sultry sirens stoop to sinning when they torture and they tease For when they grow they moan the oldest note, the starving summer breeze But in a way we all change and it feels so strange to be ourselves And if we try at all to fight we find the loneliest nights, our private hells
7.
Silver Linings 03:32
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Oh dear I’m getting sick off silver linings, There’s a homesickness that burns beneath my skin Leave me to all my cheap and quick devices But turn me over when I’m purging all my sins. Three days without you I’m helpless as a child Three days your name remains to plague all of my dreams I understand what you meant when you once said ‘I’d rather die with love than never die without’ Cuz all useful parts have corroded yeah They’ve all gone away So let’s mourn our loss and sing to ourselves The songs that we were taught for better days One week and I should probably break the habit Find myself a cheap cut and just go for full effect Maybe I should just join that sorry crowd That sit around and drink their time from paper bags Seven nights my walls they miss your weary whisper Clock makes no progress and my bed feels incomplete Honest to god last night I swear I heard the moon cry Cuz it could not find a star to steal light from So just run on back to the places where they Know all your names The ones that you love and the ones that you hate And the ones you wish you never heard me say
8.
The Waltz 04:12
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You keep to yourself when your loved ones forget all their lines The sore sadness of sugar in coffees consumed by the night With the old Queen of Hearts the lamentable passage of time So you chainsmoke till morning to scare off the dark from the sky And no one will know what you’ve seen in those Carcinogenic collections of magazines And the Sun Will Rise. It’s the sneaking suspicion these stars I’ve been wishing on burned out many a long year ago But you hoard all the harmful thoughts, drown them in eyeshadow, bleach out the doubts and then call me tomorrow You’re broadcasting sadness, a mono lament with consciousness running at fifty percent All these trivial timetables Christmas displays, the wind keeps on whistling the deepest of grays and you’re stuck in the haze so you learn how to pray, you learn how to pray, you learn how to pray mon cher salome. So we spoke of the lake effect and Battery park how the lights chase the shadows fluorescence of afterdark the flaws in the filament deep in the heart that preserve the enigma of night And if the sun were eternal we’d never make fire in the dearth was the birth of your harmful desires the leaves stain the ground as the trees soon retire to their solitude of Inverness
9.
Folgers 02:45
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each sip tastes more like mud than the last and if the mug wasn't so warm, then i don't think i'd keep on sippin, but you keep talking, and i quit smoking, so i need something to do with my hands
10.
Puzzles 03:08
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each night we curl up tight to fill in the crossword clues if we try to speak we cross our words, nothing is ever new A clean page, cubic space, thirteen down a proper noun. He won states back in 98, the evening train November rain the straightest lines that we’re to small to change.

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Fire is Green Paper's debut album, the first in a series of 5 medleyed concept albums based on the Tao Elements: Fire, Water, Metal, Wood, and Earth.

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released February 12, 2011

Tomm Hart
Jeff Lane
Mike Mendonez
Natalie Newbold

Lyrics by Tomm Hart, Jeff Lane, and Stacey Balkun
Mixed and Recorded by Bad Dad Doctor Chris Baglivo and Rad Lad Sheriff Evan Bernard
Produced by Chris Baglivo, Evan Bernard, and Green Paper
Additional instrumentation by Chris Baglivo, Evan Bernard, George Boff, James Brehm, Derek Kiernan, Charlie Peck, and Sarah Pisano

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