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Lobbied into existence by my younger brother and accompanied by my older, the overture starts off the album by combining lyrics and elements from each song to follow. A little messy but it was a fun musical exercise! Lyrics below.
lyrics
Purple door, where do you lead?
I guess I want more
Where would you take me, purple door?
Of hope and love, there’s so much more
Plum colored nails on a hand
I don’t think you know me
Cuz I don’t give you clues
I tell myself I like this
But it's like staring at the sun
I’m burnt out but I am still on fire
Can you see the flames as well or is this just the way I’m wired
I’m burnt out but I am still on fire
I never feed the flames
We’ll keep spinning if we can
One day after the next if we decide to
Round and round which way is up
Round and round in a spinning teacup
I-I-I…I miss the mark cuz I don’t throw a dart
Five years ahead in the future
Are things better or worse or the same?
Are you tired of opening up, or do you long for more of it?
(Lifelong imaginary friends, maybe our time won’t have to end)
How many times do we have to be told?
(I’m stretching thin, and reaching out)
Everyone’s special and no one’s alone?
(Conflicting instincts, laugh or pout)
How long will it take, until we’re how old?
To understand what it means to share
The app inside my mind, my little curse tool toy
You pass through my mind on occasion
(Is it safe to be stupid?)
And I hope that I will grow
(Is it stupid to be safe?)
Into someone who doesn’t have to just keep adding
(Is it good to be a little bit bad, or is it cowardly to be brave?)
To the list of faces she might like to get to know
(Is it safe to be stupid?Is it stupid to be safe?)
To say that I would like to fly
Is it good to be a little bit bad? Or is it cowardly to be brave?
What if most of the good kids are bad kids?
What if most of the bad kids are good?
Round and round and round we go
My castles, they melt in the water
A camera lens is better than eyes
(Get off of my phone, and out of my head, and into the city)
I can taste it, I reach out, I can graze it
Just barely, I can feel them on my face
So cut me open, clean my veins out
Fix me up and sew me back together
(The answers keep changing because I never stop looking)
Please be careful, I’m so fragile
Scrub my bones, make me fit for bad weather
(Why is it, that every time, I think it’s getting easier
Sometimes it feels brand new again, it only makes me queasier?)
When I reach high school and there’s no more room for daydreams
I can feel you making room inside my brain
Mother Earth, I can see that you have every right to stop spinning
But round and round and round we go
We continue to kill all the things underneath our shared sun
(Over, over and over again I think that I’ve found the ingredients
Over, over and over again, I make a plan and I promise obedience)
But every day the sun comes up and we are there to meet it
Everything feels scary and I’m barely there
I wish I could find a way
credits
from Purple Door,
released September 7, 2019
Piano by Evan Bode
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