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The Other Life
03:31
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There’s time to burn letters
there’s time not to talk
time to steal glimpses in Pandora’s box
There’s time to run reckless
through yellow-turning lights
a time to speed headlong into the other life
The other life is just like this one
more of me and less of you
the other life things happen easily
but they’re harder to undo
My friends said ‘take it easy, try it for a year or two’
They grew up hearing stories about what the other life can do
But we both knew better
and we moved too fast
Not gonna give that other life a dying chance
And now we are together
so close we could touch
I know just what you’re thinking, I think too much
And as we lay dreaming
half-spent is the night
Is this just a foothold in the other life?
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Never Been Lonely
04:25
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Sit by the lake
Listen to the wind
The water laps at the shore
A raven flies by overhead
I’ve never felt lonely like this before
You left in your car
Headed for home
A 4-hour drive or more
I walk the same loop again and again
and I’ve never felt lonely like this before
It’s been a few miles and a few little whiles
Children around us, my how they grow
A night on our own and now I’m so alone
I miss you more than you know -
Night has come on
The cabin is lit
Young ones bring echoes no more
The wind sounds the same as I whisper your name
And I’ve never felt lonely like this before
Yes, we are one we make heat like the Sun
The days they float past and I thought
I was stronger alone
Did you cry, too in that space that we knew
When the children were young
And the sunsets could not come too soon
The space in my heart
Big as the sky
The quiet, a deafening roar
Tomorrow is dragging its feet
and I’ve never been lonely like this before
It’s been a few miles and a few little whiles
Children around us, my how they grow
A night on our own and now I’m so alone
I miss you more than you know
As you drive south with my kiss on your mouth
And I just keep watching the door
I’ve never been lonely like this before
Like this before
The moon has come out
Behind the clouds
The end of this dock an emotional clock
That strikes when my heart hits the floor
And I’ve never been lonely like this before
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Do We Have Now?
02:42
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Sunset lakehouse
I'll sit without
I feel your love
We grow above
Do we have now?
De we have never?
You sit slow smile
I walk for awhile
Old hands tight skin
time sands do begin
Do we have now?
Do we have never?
Do we have now?
Do we have never?
We sit we smile
So good this while
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This Could Be Our Night
02:46
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It’s been a week, the end is near
The time to feel is finally here
A glass of wine or maybe a flight
This could be our night
We separate & plow our fields
The work is hard, there are no deals
The past is gone but the future’s bright
This could be our night
The way you come up behind me
and touch my back it remind me
That we are more than friends
Let’s see this to the end…
I’ll take my time, we’ll paint that town
You set ‘em up, I’ll knock ‘em down
There are no losers in this here fight
This could be our night
The way you come up behind me
and touch my back it remind me
That we are more than friends
Let’s see this to the end…
Come on baby, let down your guard
It doesn’t have to be that hard
Play your hand or show your cards
This could be our night
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World Without You
03:50
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Go slow
Let the Lord take over the reigns
Fly low
Flying too close to the sun runs in your veins
You’ll know
When people cry that means they’re in pain
Just go
I can’t track your footsteps in this rain
Oooh, I can’t imagine a world without you
Grass grows
& I pray yours would grow nice and tall
Sky snows
Soon after the colors bleed in the fall
Love glows in the shadows
Where hope soars through closed doors making better men crawl
We know
That it all adds up to nothin’, but that’s more than nothin’ at all
Walk light
Right down the middle of your heart’s open road
Tonight
I can see you’re walkin’ alone
We fight
What’s wrong and right disappears behind faces of stone
And when you come home, mama
Gonna cut loose all the fire I got locked up in these bones
Oooh, I can’t imagine a world without you
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Mark Schirmacher Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mark Schirmacher is an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. For information on bookings or collaborations, visit www.markschirmacher.com.
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