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Dreaming A Universe
04:07
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We take it on faith, night turns to day
And trust will come with the rising sun, there’ll come a brighter day
And, oh the innocent dreaming a universe
With time and God’s eternal love, showering the world
So I breathe in, then I breathe out
My heart is broken, wide open
To learn the bitter lie
How can we forget we’re of the same flesh and blood
I have your dreams, you have my heart, we both live for love
So I breathe in, then I breathe out
My heart is broken, wide open
To learn the bitter lie
Is that the sun coming up, is that the sun coming up
Is that the sun coming up, is that the sun coming up
So I breathe in, then I breathe out
What is to survive burning in lies
How do I save my kids
So I breathe in, then I breathe out
My heart is broken, wide open
To learn the bitter lie
So I breathe in, then I breathe out
My heart is broken, wide open
To learn the bitter lie
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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2. |
Passengers
04:58
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We were born of the night, we were raised from dust
We will burn it down or it’ll turn to rust
Waiting for a messenger, hoping it gets better
We’re just passengers
Watch the rat race fly faster as you slow
Never let them slip by, you’ll never make it home
Waiting for a messenger, hoping it gets better
We’re just passengers
I’ve been hardened by the bridge of sorrow
Under spell of self loathe, taken in by shadows
Searching for the sunrise, I seek liberation
Linger 'til I find one, I’ll wait in the shadows
Can you feel the strain, easy on the slack
One bad move, knock it off of the track
It’s safe in the shadows, no one knows your name
No one points a gun, no one there to blame
Waiting for a messenger, hoping it gets better
We’re just passengers
I’ve been hardened by the bridge of sorrow
Under spell of self loathe, taken in by shadows
Searching for the sunrise, I seek liberation
Linger 'til I find one, I’ll wait in the shadows
I’ve been hardened by the bridge of sorrow
Under spell of self loathe, taken in by shadows
Searching for the sunrise, I seek liberation
Linger 'til I find one, I’ll wait in the shadows
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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3. |
Invisible
04:18
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California, land of hope
Pacific Highway, end of the road
Where every runner comes to find a home
Never more alone
So east on 10 down to New Orleans
Got a graveyard shift up Magazine
Closer to heaven than I’ve ever been
But never more alone, never more alone
It makes you feel invisible
It makes you feel invisible
New York City, fast and hard
A million strangers yet I confide in the stars
Everywhere I stand up or down this boulevard
Never more alone, never more alone
It makes you feel invisible
It makes you feel invisible
Life is hard, but you can take the heat
Chances are good you’ll survive on your feet
And if you should buckle under defeat
You, you are not alone
So it’s back to California, land of hope
Pacific Highway, that’s the end of the road
Where every runner comes to find a home
But, never more alone
It makes you feel invisible
It makes you feel invisible
It makes you feel invisible
It makes you feel invisible
Makes me feel invisible
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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4. |
My My Caroline
03:44
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Let us find a little corner
Of our lives to call our own
Let our hearts grow a little warmer
Let our love light glow
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
Let me tell you a secret
I can tell you everything
Take my hand, take this token
To remind you of my love
No matter how far I may be going
You're the one I'm thinking of
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
Let me tell you a secret
I can tell you everything
Now we’re a river flowing on our own
Setting our own course, searching for a home
Where there’s forever, count on the unknown
Bet on a wild horse, hope you’re never thrown
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
You did, you did, you brought it on big, my my Caroline
Let me tell you a secret
I can tell you everything
©1991 & 2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW) & Ben Arnold / Favourite Redhead Music BMI (USA) / Meer Publishing GEMA (RoW)
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5. |
Bookshop Mary
04:51
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Mary stands at the window
Lifts the blind to the morn
Candle for a devotion
Eyes her dusty pearls once more
Winds her way to the bookshop
Past the bars, raising her hem
Sideways glance at the steeple
She’s a queen of the pages
As she lays her body down, to a world of rare delight
Only dreams will show her now, holy loneliness divine
mmmm
Father’s left her his pension
Taught her well of men’s guile
She stands aloof and alone
Sees the gray for the first time
As she lays her body down, to a world of rare delight
Only dreams will show her now, holy loneliness divine
mmmm
And the years they pass
Floating by under the ice
Silence wears a warm embrace
For bookshop Mary
As she lays her body down to a world of rare delight
Only dreams will show her now, holy loneliness
As she lays her body down to a world of rare delight
Only dreams will show her now, holy loneliness divine
mmmm divine, mmmm divine, mmmm
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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6. |
Dreams We Dare
04:30
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Through the fires that bow us down
Into the deluge that lifts us up to highest ground
Through the fear of love and loss
We fight with hope and hope these tears won’t flow for long
Dare to dream, we are here, you’re not alone this time
Take a chance in your living years, lift them up so high
Dare to dream, let them fly, reaching out to tomorrow
Raise your hand and reach for the sky
Before daybreak, into we struggle
We work our dreams to skin and bone, carry on brother
To you sister, they push away
We bend your dreams until it seems they all but break
Dare to dream, we are here, you’re not alone this time
Take a chance in your living years, lift them up so high
Dare to dream, let them fly, reaching out to tomorrow
Raise your hand and reach for the sky, for the sky
You can’t tell me it’s not worth the fight
You can’t tell me dreams are a lie
Oh, the dreams we dare
You can’t tell me it’s not worth the fight
You can’t tell me hopeless or blind
Oh, the dreams we dare
Oh, the dreams we dare
Oh, the dreams we dare
©2014 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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7. |
Daring To Fall
03:43
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We could take a little walk by the lazy Rhone
Have our fun in Avignon or further up in Lyon
You’re good at hide and seek
But what makes your French heart skip a beat? (Coeur de France)
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
Like a man on a tightrope in a storm
Holding on to thin air ever daring to fall
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
We were true this time, our secret rendezvous
Lost and found, Marie’s gone round like children at the zoo
You’re good at hide and seek
But what makes your French heart skip a beat?
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
Like a man on a tightrope in a storm
Holding on to thin air ever daring to fall
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
From the moment I walked through your door
Couldn’t understand a word but was sure
I could ask you everything
I could tell you everything
Could you be my everything?
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
Like a man on a tightrope in a storm
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
Like a man on a tightrope in a storm
Holding on to thin air ever daring to fall
I don’t want to be in love with you alone
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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8. |
Forever Yours
04:27
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Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
A man sees through eyes, salted wounds
When he leaves behind all in ruin
His regret he wears, a coat of scorn
The martyr without his thorns
Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
He will come to the day when all seems lost
He will see clearly then what pride has cost
His life echoes through a ghostly fog
Upon his fading breath
Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
You see, the king he’s the man that you cannot trust
For he carries your heart as a weapon
But the jack, he’s the one that you can trust
For he carries your heart for love
Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
All the way, all the way, ‘til there’s no place higher
All the way, all the way, ‘til our soul's on fire
All the way, all the way, ‘til there’s no place higher
All the way, all the way, ‘til our soul's on fire
Say you will be mine tonight, I’ll be forever yours
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music (BMI) / GEMA (RoW)
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9. |
Full Moon Tide
04:49
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I’ve been here so many years
I never had a second thought
Though I made the great escape
Still, I miss the ones I've loved
Frozen in time, motionless
I hope that this will never end
Year after year bound us here
Blessings from a well
Let the waters rise, full moon tide
For all the love that I've found
Such a lucky man never stood on land
So little left to hide
When you’re in love, give all of you
Until it’s the last thing you’ve done
You hold your breath, you count your stars
Until the last setting sun
Let the waters rise, full moon tide
For all the love that I've found
Such a lucky man never stood on land
So little left to hide
I remember we would say
Time will surely slip away
Let the waters rise, full moon tide
For all the love that I've found
Such a lucky man never stood on land
So little left to hide
Let the waters rise, full moon tide
For all the love that I've found
Such a lucky man never stood on land
So little left to hide
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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10. |
Thankful
05:31
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Wasn’t surprised by the look in your eyes
Couldn’t be sure you saw through my disguise
After the rain we made our peace
Your forgiveness came at 98 degrees
Wasn’t surprised by the look in your eyes
Darkness around me, I have failed
Only meant to hide what was betrayal
I was only careful as careful could be
When you carry a secret you are un-revealed
Darkness surround me, I have failed
I was no longer the man I thought I was
I have no title to those I once loved
I sold out for fate, sold my good deeds
My heart was empty as my integrity
I was no longer the man I thought I was
I can take the bait, hand grenades
While truth it lives a world away
Am I the man who turned your sunny day
Your sunny day
I am surprised by every single day
Things I think are real are no more real than haze
Now, I am thankful for this breath I breathe
I don’t have much I don’t have many needs
Gave up my ghost, gave up my shame
My heart is good, not many complaints
I am thankful for this breath I breathe
©2022 Joseph Parsons / ThenThen Music BMI (USA) / GEMA (RoW)
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Joseph Parsons Berlin, Germany
Long a fan of multi-dimensional recording productions, Parsons writes distinctive songs that often defy categories. He
weaves genres as he fuses traces of Emo, Soul & Folk to create his own unique style of Rock & Roll. Always emotive and energetic on recordings, his live shows are a spirited and at times deeply personal experience.
Joseph Parsons is a European based artist.
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