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Gimme Some Light
02:23
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Gimme Some Light
by Emily Shane
Gimme some light
Gimme some clear blue sunlight
Shinin’ on through the cool,
Cool white sheets and you
Gimme a time, yeah
Make it a good hard-rock time
Dancin’ on down the road,
Huggin’ on you
I wanna feel like someone needs to be with me
Gimme the sense to know
It depends on how my soul
Surrenders in me
Gimme a love, yeah
Make it the real-deal big time for me
I wanna care enough
To lose my heart to you
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2. |
Darkness
04:04
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Darkness
by Ash McDaniel
One day, I looked out through my window
and everything that was there yesterday was gone
There was nobody standing out there in the snow
but there were shadows on the surface like angels
I saw darkness hugging darkness and
shadows coming from the sky
And laying there with my face on the ground
I realized there was nobody all around
And laying there, I stared up through the grayness
and I prayed to some god I'd never seen
Please let me wake up from this nightmare
Please give me something to keep living for
I want to live…
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3. |
Skin Tite
03:52
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Skin Tite
by Giovanna Sgarlata
What’s the matter your skin too Tite?
Sticky situation makes
Skin Tite
The last bash
The mad dash
The last clash
You’ll have with me
Seems like your troubles are many
Though you feel you're telling
Some truth
Blown-up out of proportion
The things that started so smooth
You said you like things to go easy
Though you feel you're selling
Some truth
You're the solemn pretender
Strength with each shot of Vermouth
(Chorus)
The love you cherish is empty
Though you think you're selling
Some truth
Fragile piece of deception
The trick is playin’ the fool
(and babe I’m a fool)
(Chorus)
What’s the matter your skin too Tite?
Sticky situation makes
Skin Tite
Come a little closer
Just come a little closer
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4. |
Dervish
04:27
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Dervish
by Giovanna Sgarlata
Seems like these days
Spending a lot of time
With myself
Retrospective
I don’t know who I am
Who I think I am?
Who do I think I am?
There are questions
Things that I cannot
Foresee
My heart's in danger
I’m open to vulnerability
Who you think you are
Who do you think you are?
Sooner or later
You must face the truth
Concentration
Lost my thoughts
Can’t keep my mind
On anything
It’s a Whirling Dervish
My feelings are all
in a spin
The air is getting thin
The spinners never win
Sooner or later
I must face the truth
Just like missiles
Chasing after you
Hot pursuit
No betrayal
Baby when you tell the truth
When will you tell the truth?
Sooner or later
You must tell the truth…
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5. |
Simple Answers
03:17
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Simple Answers
by Ash McDaniel
Simple answers theoretically speaking
should turn up easily but I am so confused
I turn this over and over in my mind
All the implications all the time
But I can't seem to put it all together
The picture I see could just be fantasy
Am I fooling myself?
Simple answers used to turn up easy
Used to be I knew what I was looking for
I turn you over and over in my hands
Look from every angle, where do I stand?
But I can't seem to put it all together
The picture I see could just be fantasy
Am I fooling myself?
Simple answers maybe one will never come
Always to be hidden, or nothing to be found
But still I'll look you over with every word
Try beneath the surface of what I heard
But I can't seem to put it all together
The picture I see it must be fantasy
I'm fooling myself
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6. |
Chinatown
03:15
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Chinatown
by Giovanna Sgarlata
Sailing on the sea
There’s the Statue of Liberty
What a day, what a day, what a day, what a day…
Seascapes make for dreams
Manhattan’s not what it seems
From afar, from afar, from afar, from afar…
Chinatown
Is a secret paradise
Sitting in my eyes
Ancient gods
Cradled in the arms
Of ancient
Future lives…
Sitting in a cafe
The setting, quite blase’
In a room
Sweet perfume
Why am I
Always early?
Looking for a job
Who’s happy with what they’ve got?
Makes no sense, to pay the rent
Money’s spent, and it makes no sense!
Moving electric sea
Something occurs to me
There’s a place
Where this stays
Just a secret memory
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7. |
Another Chance
03:42
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Another Chance
by Ash McDaniel
Another chance lost again
Oh, sometimes, I think I was wrong
But one more time, how could it be?
After all, it's been so long
Another time, another place
Oh, what do you think of me now?
Another hour, another day
It's hard not to think of you sometimes
Would I be happier if you were here?
I don't know, I'm so afraid
All I know is my decisions seem
to draw me nearer to you
Will we find each other again?
No, I don't think we will
'Cause could we trust it if we did?
We can't know that we won't fail again
Would I be happier if you were here?
I don't know, I'm so afraid
All I know is my decisions seem
to draw me nearer to you
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8. |
In Your Way
03:05
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In Your Way
by Giovanna Sgarlata
Every time
I look at you baby
I can see you
Looking at me
And every time
I look up from my book
I can catch you
Catching a glimpse, of me
I know you're thinking about me baby
I can feel you floating
Floating, baby…
I can feel you floating through me….
Anytime I think of you baby
I can hear you talking to me
The vibes are good
And I wished that I could
Send a message
To end this mystery
I can feel you floating through me baby…
Same old story
Different year
Same old mask
Just a different fear
I can feel you floating through me baby
In your way
In your way
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9. |
Love's Irony
04:24
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Love's Irony
by Giovanna Sgarlata
Wave bye-bye
to the things that we’ve known
A long drawn sigh
From the end of a phone
Hey that’s my line
To insist no one's home
Sometimes my feelings materialize
Oh I, don't want to push things
If I plan to gain now
In time, I go from radical to smooth
Like some vintage wine
I use logic
Think of all the good things
A little theory can sometimes prove
In time, these three words betray me
Next time, I’ll use only two…
Oh I, have a reputation
For my heart of glass
How soon one heart could shatter,
How much longer
Till illusions pass?
One-sided, she came here uninvited
How was I to know
Things where never squared?
One question
Where went all the justice?
You were mine
As I am standing here
Still I remember
You were standing there
Waving both your wings
No one seemed to care
I turned to you
And in love's irony
I could only think of one thing to say…
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What I Think I See (I Saw)
by Giovanna Sgarlata
What I think I see I saw
Turning on the time
Did I really see at all?
I know
What do I know?
So deep
All my feelings
Lined up in a row
Passion
Is it passion?
Somehow
My reaction
Baffling to all
(Chorus)
Forget
I don’t think so
Defuse
I don’t think I
Can do that at all
So light
Is it night time?
Reach out
And with blind eyes
No one there at all…
(Chorus)
My first
Inclination
This odd
Deviation
Fills in all the gaps
So lost
Is it that far?
So far
It’s a high price
Seeing
What I saw…
(Chorus)
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Chant/Polyester Mama
03:31
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Polyester Mama
by Emily Shane
Polyester mama in a chartreuse suit
Gettin’ her kicks at the laundry chute
Throwin’ her clothes on down that hole
Other folks end up with ugly clothes
Polyester mama, hey hey mama!
She got a turtleneck sweater with a hot pink horse
It’ll look real good with Bermuda shorts
Hey hey fool here’s a pair of plaid slacks
And a wild wild shirt with birds on the back
Polyester mama, hey hey mama!
She got bellbottom pants with the paisley trim
And a purple leather bag to put ‘em in
Struttin’ down to Kmart she looks so fine
Everybody stares when you stand in line
Polyester mama, hey hey mama!
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kokokutheband New York, New York
At the height of NYC's mid-80s "fast-folk" club scene alongside artists like Suzanne Vega, acoustic trio kokoku arrived with
sparkling harmonies and tight rhythms .
Along with Tracy Chapman and Indigo Girls, kokoku emerged just as "women's music" became more mainstream. Some called kokoku the female Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Discover the origins of queer acoustic in these lost tapes from 1984.
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