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Play The Room

by Thomas John Cadrin

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1.
Somewhere in the steam of that victory march that rolls round my head, I've found the secret and I'm earning a smile the longer I keep. Somewhere in that steam a rolling victory march fills everyone's chest with rhythm and a secret and they're earning a smile the longer they keep. Black boots in my mind make me feel all right inside and I know that If my mind and my mouth don't coincide I'll never make it out of town alive.
2.
I need some separation from the situation I'm gonna lay my life out in front of me Cause its the problem with proximity that I can't deal with. Take your lust tactics to the window and show them what you want to be all that's through the glass is deceiving, filing lines up your nose. so let me step away, just being so close makes me narrow sighted and in a sense I sense a certain degree of immediacy that i shouldn't deal with when making these kinds of choices. I'm off and out to find the next thing that moves strike a conversation about anything but you and i what we were was a lie, or so it seems right now. Now do you believe in me, ms sweet denise? Caught by the moon with audience of stars with her mother and father's car she won't get as far as she'd hoped she'd be.
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Off and on now on off and on I’m Sleeping with the songs and Some are getting jealous now The others aren’t getting along and One offers another piece of the puzzle that’s Soggy from the struggle and There’s a mandolin in there somewhere I’ve got to Pull it out, before the rain starts to flake, I’ve got to pull it out. Make things look nicely when Looking for an inference and Live life with your eyes closed and Try to tell the different. Now my Mind and memory are projecting in front of Me like Polaroids in the sky and I Like to stare at what isn’t there or at Only the things that of which I am aware ‘cause I’m watching it all Happen from the back of my head. Everything’s so alive with the wantingness to die.
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Just bite your lip and hold your tongue see what's ahead of your cause fore too long you might know someone else in your shoes. But now I'm so floored by your simple melodies and interminglings, and your eyes tell it all. you're losing a better place and myself along the way now that you're gone i've got no need for these calls or awkward stumblings through our past cause they mean nothing at all. so stay to whats true, the honest truth, not what they say to do use your heart as a compass and you can have it all you're losing a better place and myself along the way. i was so concerned about what you were that i didnt seem to learn that your heart was an offer that i just ignored. nothing's as bad as it seems when you take this whole thing apart to see what it means. you've got your whole life ahead so live it while you can. just bite your lip and hold your tongue and maybe we can have it all.
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Let the world slip away and push back the colors invading your mind's stay; you know they're nothing but an ordinary waste of time. Streak the sky with you fingers high and drag the clouds like an electric phantom mouse; you know they're not really there. Breathe until there's nothing left strive for depths that have drowned the rest and cherish the release of letting go & join the ranks of the thoughtless saints I've found my way back home and I know that I'll never make it alone unless I find myself back to a place that's known.

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Simply put, this is me in a room playing some of my songs. None of them are perfect, but I think all of them capture the room well.

Recorded from 12 midnight - 6am in live one-takes on June 25th, 2013 @ The Record Company, Inc., Dorchester, Mass.

All music & lyrics by Thomas John Cadrin
Engineer, mixing & mastering by Andrew Nault
Cover Art: Union Press, Somerville, MA

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released July 16, 2013

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