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Easy
05:51
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EASY
Heart-rate drop
Pressure stop
The sun still comes up
When the heart rate drops
And the pressure stops
But the sun still comes up
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I didn’t think it’d be easy, I didn't think it'd be easy, I didn’t think it’d be easy, I didn't think it'd be easy,
I didn’t think about it
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The stars all talk
Untying knots
But the sun still comes up
The stars all talk
Untying knots
But the sun still comes up
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I didn’t think it’d be easy, I didn't think it'd be easy, I didn’t think it’d be easy, I didn't think it'd be easy,
I didn’t think about it
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The coma-crop
The “oh my god”
The sun still comes up
The coma-crop
The “oh my god”
But the sun still comes up
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2. |
Hell is Life
02:49
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Rewind glass moon
The end is coming soon
In our own home
Temple unknown
We are just kids
Living in a half baked market idea
We are just kids
Living in a half baked market idea
Hell is life without you, hell is life without you
And hell is life without you, hell is life without you
Rewind glass moon
The end is coming soon
In our own home
Temple unknown
We are just kids
Living in a half baked market idea
We are just kids
Living in a half baked market idea
And hell is life without you, hell is life without you
And hell is life without you, hell is life without you
And hell is life without you, hell is life without you
We are just kids
We are just kids
We are just kids
We are just kids
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Learn to Love
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Matthew Heller
lyrics
Its impossible to learn to love
Its impossible from up above
Its impossible to learn to love
With a wall between us
Everytime you look into my eyes
Its always a wall between us
Everytime you look into my eyes
It’s a wall between us
Sittin at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
I don’t wanna go
To another funeral
I don’t wanna go
To another funeral
How do you know where your really from?
Chronosynclastic infundibulum
Its impossible to learn to love
With a wall between us
Its impossible to learn to love
Its impossible to learn to trust
If you can't look at me in the face,
What's the point of anything?
Sittin at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
Sitting at the VA hospital looking at a man looking at his hands
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4. |
Arms Held Ferocious
01:43
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Orange Cup
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Matthew Heller
lyrics
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Orange in my cup
Gonna tell them all whats up
Try to sing so sweet
Hope the bullets and I never meet
Its okay to fantasize about the world in plaid
gonna have no fear, except for all this fear I have.
Pan across the great white way
Black faces on the pavement,
Welcome to the USA
Orange in my cup
Gonna tell them all whats up
Gonna sing so sweet
Hope the bullets and I never meet
Its okay to fantasize about the world in plaid
Gonna have no fear, except for all this fear I have.
When we walk to the water,
standing side by side
even through the slaughter -
Love, it cannot hide.
Pan across the great white way
Black faces on the pavement,
Welcome to the USA
Pan across the great white way
Black faces on the pavement,
Welcome to the USA
Pan across the great white way
Black faces on the pavement,
Welcome to the USA
Pan across the great white way
Black faces on the pavement,
Welcome to the USA
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6. |
I Can Turn It
05:10
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Written by Matthew Heller.
Produced, recorded, mixed by David Pollock.
Matthew Heller - vocals, piano, guitar, keyboards
David Pollock - drums, guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Anthony Meade - horn composition, trombone
Cory Palacios - trumpet
Alex Misar - saxophone
Ian Christensen - saxophone
Douglas Detrick - trumpet
Luke Ydstie - bass
Ian Millhollen - bass
Lily Breshears - vocals, backing vocal composition
Jeff Evans - backing vocals
Assistant Engineer at Sonic Ranch: Mario Ramirez.
Recorded at Fortress Galaxy in Portland, OR, and Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland OR.
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Temple Moon Desire album & single artwork by: Jodie Beechem
Cover T-shirt artwork by: Shannon Kidd
Matthew Heller photo by: Jov Luke Photography
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Heller High Water Records
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7. |
Remember
03:06
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Don’t you remember
Days of unending war,
Don’t you remember
Nights of terror and nothing more
Don’t you remember
Kissing under the bomb-raids, under the bomb-raids, under the bomb-raids!
And all I want to be is love, love, love, love, love, love.
And all I want to see is love, love, love, love, love.
Don’t you remember,
Hunger in the fingers of despair,
She was our only,
Born under rockets red glair,
Don’t you remember the village
We tried to repair, yeah, we tried to repair, yeah, we try to repair
And all I want to be is love, love, love, love, love, love.
And all I want to see is love, love, love, love, love.
Don’t you remember,
The wreckage of my heart breaking
Under the siege of the soldiers
Take away everything
Don’t you remember
Death calling to gently
Don’t you remember bathing in the Dead -Sea
Don’t you remember kissing under the bomb-raids, under the bomb-raids, under the bomb-raids
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8. |
A Ringing Bell Finger
02:06
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9. |
Bomb
04:05
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She’s unstable
Put it in quotes
So to kill this bummer
Drowning hearts flow
Soon to oblivion
I lost some blood
But a doctor put it back
On and on and on and on
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
She’s unable
Trapped in Kabul
I am the bus,
Carrying you.
Stuck in my need,
Mujahedeen
It goes on and on
Maybe I’m jus a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m jus a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
I lost some blood,
Carried unsung
Sounds from oblivion
And I want to be
Nothing like me
Trail the cusp
Forget the sentiment
Maybe I’m jus a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
Maybe I’m just a bomb
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10. |
Under The Stalks
02:52
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Under the stalks,
If they find you, they will shoot you.
Better not get caught,
Quien eres te quiero.
Maybe another G,
Maybe take six or seven,
Anything to not be me,
Anything to not be tarred and feathered.
She wants blue or green,
But she cant decide,
How to be how she seems,
But in time she'll sure decide.
And I wanna be me
Maybe I could go back home,
Peel back my family,
Sit and watch it all come undone.
Now he's got a passport and TV
In a tiny wreck the size of this,
Everything that he needs,
Just to watch her OD.
And a child who thinks
He's a prince floating down the Nile
With everything, that he's never going to need, oh well.
Now its in English,
But this time there is no-one
To hide under the bed with,
To tell you just wait and they'll be gone
Just wait and they'll be gone.
Now They're all gone.
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11. |
Disaster Years
04:43
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Well you're sitting in your silent space
Wishing the world were a better place,
And you cant change it right now,
But if you will it you will, somehow,
Singled out in the setting sun,
Driving by with your shades on,
And you think you saw someone,
But now she's gone, she's gone, gone, gone.
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
Small town and what can you hear,
When I see you everyday in the mirror
And I feel like a twisted tide, in the wake of one great wave.
Fusion center - USA, from Chicago to the San Francisco bay
If you turn to my back page,
It'll say I still love you.
It'll say I still love you.
It'll say I still love you.
It'll say I still love you.
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
I can see the disaster years, yeah it coming coming
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12. |
Back to B.C.
07:21
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All my friends will be missed a bit,
If they ever even existed, to begin with.
And all the ones she has kissed,
Will be the first,
To dismiss her, in the end.
And why do I still love you?
Back to BC, suicide machine.
Back to BC, suicide machine.
Table it comes, on top.
But the legs are just basses that can not be held without help
And if you go outside,
They will see, what you are really like.
And why do I still love you?
Back to BC, suicide machine.
Back to BC, suicide machine.
Information underneath
The protection of disbelief.
What they think is, nothings free.
The judge is blind and he cannot see,
He cannot see anything.
But why do I still love you?
Back to BC, suicide machine.
Back to BC, suicide machine ...machine.
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13. |
Outro
01:49
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Matthew Heller Portland, Oregon
Meet Matthew Heller, the Portland-based troubadour who fearlessly confronts the harsh realities of life in his
music.
His latest single, "Goodbye & So Long," is a driving force of evocative storytelling, taking listeners through a kaleidoscope of sounds, emotions, and textures. .
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