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Seven days in quarantine
So much longer since I’ve even seen you well
But it’s all that I can think about
Stay inside and isolate
Imagine if we separate ourselves
It’s all that we can do now
Now all those problems that felt so big
Seem like trivialities
They really got the best of us
But confined and far apart
I still feel the pulse
Of your midtown, lockdown heart
Thirty days in quarantine
Meditating on mortality and life
It’s all that they can talk about
So consumed as the death toll climbs
I think of you and I’ve never felt so alive
It’s fucked up to even say aloud
I wanna break my quarantine
I can’t ignore the externalities
It’s the only thing that’s stopping me
But confined and far apart
How can i find your midtown, lockdown heart
How did we reach the end?
We never missed a beat
It’s a far out, full-on comedown
How did we reach the end?
We never skipped a beat
It’s a knockout
A goddamn fallout of a year
Love in time of quarantine
In a month what will that even mean?
It’s all that I can think about
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Strada
03:52
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Gone away are days
Of dreaming wide awake
Freehanding the borders
Of the reality you shape
When all the things you can’t explain
Were just the way of gods
And all you did was want
Now the sum of those desires
Has conveniently conspired
With all the sins and swears
And compounded to despair
Everything it seems
Is the division of those dreams
You know the ones that blend in with the truth
Do you remember happiness?
Like driving down an empty street
On a summer’s eve
When streetlights ‘lluminate
Atop the lamp posts with their beams
(through the haze with their beams)
Well I remember happily
That happiness
But that happiness escaped
And we’re left out on the chase
I’ve tracked it all around
But I can’t seem to pin it down)
Even as a boy
I had known the Thief of joy
But defied his many-faced charade
Now his faces look the same
Just like cities from plane
There are giveaways sometimes
Like the skyscrapers on high
They all see to say one thing
It’s time that you should leave
Just as quietly as you came
Did you remember to be kind?
When you rent a tape, rewind
Something in those spools may come around
And at the end you’ll see
If you remembered hopefully
To be kind
If I make it to a hundred
That might not be enough
If I make it to tomorrow
That might be too much
I want everything and nothing
All at once
Do you remember happiness?
Like sitting carefree in a car
When the night is dark
But streetlights radiate
Through your eyelids into your dreams
Well I remember happily
That happiness
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Before I Came to You
02:35
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Like a summer tempest
A sudden temptress came
Timely, swift, and temperate
To wash my blues away
I came down from miles of missteps
And lost and founds
But i do not regret
The many roads i traveled through
BICTY
Days of old
Doused up in flame
In the naked cold
I burn up in your gaze
A warmth i sought but never knew
BICTY
The trail is long
And wound with sidestreets
But I’ve traveled on
To find some heartsease
I’ve seen mountains, valleys, oceans blue
BICTY
Intrepid, we
An ampersand
Walk a path unseen
I can feel
And understand
This way’s for you and me
And so we ride
So free and easy
‘Gainst the vice of life
The road unreeling ahead
Evermore and always true
Now that I’ve come to you
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Some Kind of All
02:39
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Once we had a vision, I remember
Maybe this is it
Or something different altogether
I’m not sure
It’s really all too premature
We’re marked with scars of love and ones of hatred
From moving way too fast
Or from sitting ‘round and waiting
Either way
We all bear our yesterdays
Oh oh, there is nowhere left to go
Oh oh
Apart from everywhere to go
You wrote off your most fugitive longings
The intentions were so grand
But the outcome left you wanting
Yet you remain
Lest your movement be in vain
Well I'm aware we’re heading somewhere better
But if we question the direction
Then we’ll spoil the adventure
That's alright
Let us roar into the night!
Oh oh, there is nowhere left to go
Oh oh
Apart from everywhere to go
Me and all my friends
We will aim a little higher
Our restless intersections
Are trafficked with desires
Coursing through our veins
Like resurgent tidal waves
That weaponize
Every urge to feel alive
So don’t forget today
In some unlikely way
We really have some kind of all
And in these desperate little moments
We all thrive
So together let us rejoice in the ride
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Big Caesar Nashville, Tennessee
Big Caesar is an independent music project, with all songs written and recorded by James Viega.
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