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Fading Summer
03:37
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You and me, nothing more
By the fire on the floor
Chasing dreams into the night
Laughing in the firelight
We were invincible
We were unstoppable
I hold your hand under the sheets
In the dark our lips will meet
Well I wish I could let go
But I can’t just yet
I wish I could move on
But moving on isn’t easy
I’m tired of living with my eyes in the past
But you were the best thing
That I never had
Wandering down this open road
Secrets only summer knows
Reaching back you take my hand
And whisk me into Neverland
We were invincible
We were unstoppable
I catch your eyes under the trees
Blue and sparkling back at me
You are the fading summer
You are the changing leaves
You are the space between
You are the mystery
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2. |
Questions
04:22
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Lately I’ve been searching for
The real you, nothing more
And finding you in unexpected places
Like in the bars on Friday night
Or in poetry by candlelight
And it’s leaving me with a couple nagging questions
Like if you want to speak to me
Then why does it so often seem
The conversation only goes one way
With me searching for answers
To my doubts spreading like cancer
While the preacher prays that you will find me soon
So where have you been
And where have you gone
It feels like it’s been so long
Cause I’ve been hoping
And I’ve been praying
But I’m not sure that I can keep holding on
Lately I’ve been thinking
That maybe there’s more to living
Than dying with my bible in a pew
For vaguely I recall
That you came to love us all
And make us instruments for loving one another
But instead we’re building fences
‘Round what we don’t understand yet
And blindly throwing stones over our hedges
Cause I don’t remember hearing you say
Charlatans and whores and gays
Aren’t welcome at your table full of grace
Cause I want them at the table full of grace
So where have I been
And where have I gone
It feels like it’s been so long
Cause it’s been so many years
Since I’ve felt I’m in your arms
And I’m just hanging onto hope that you’re still there
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3. |
Wishing Well
03:55
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I’ve been living in the loneliest places
I’m never around enough to get you off my mind
And I know I need a change
But I never try
I only know myself in intimate spaces
But I’m finding I’m inspired by the noise
And I’m running off to LA
For the second time
So I throw my dime in the wishing well
And I wonder why
my life isn’t telling the story that I wish it would tell
And I wait for a reply
And the wishing well says I’ll take your dime again next week
I hope you think that I’m on top of the world
Cause I’ll take a picture making it come across that way
But I’m a master of pretending I’m someone else
Someone I’d really like to be
So I throw my dime in the wishing well
And I ask myself
“is it worth it putting on this disguise?”
And I look to the skies and wait for a reply
And the wishing well says give me a little of your time
I’m petrified of being alone
But I’m terrified of being known
So I keep my secrets close
I’m not letting go
So I slip into the back row
So it’s time I need a change
I can’t keep acting out this way
It’s time I found me a place to call home
To be my blood and my bone
Instead of throwing dimes in the wishing well
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4. |
This Apartment
04:00
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I’ve been living in this apartment
For seven months now
I wish my friends would fill it
But I think I’m running out of them
Cause I’ve been getting good at
Burning bridges down
Cause though it hurts when I love you
I’m falling deeper still
Don’t even have the courage
To walk across this room
So I wait in the silence
That I had prayed you’d fill
And I come back to the solace
White walls the sing the blues
Been chasing after visions
For fifteen months now
Is it a skyline or a clear horizon
That will make this heart feel new
I’m finding that indecision
Is forcing me to choose
Maybe I’m judgmental
Or maybe it’s a heart attack
Maybe I’m just looking for
A city that will love me back
Maybe I’m conflicted
Or maybe I’m just wrong
Maybe I’m just looking for
A place where I belong
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5. |
To The Sea
04:40
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It was the final flickering hours of the summer
And a somber song was rustling in the breeze
Whispers of a long off dawn
And all the songs I’d left unsung
Of all I’d ever wanted
Of all I ever wanted
As the city lights were glistening all around us
And my beating heart was chasing after yours
It all came crashing and falling apart
like a fragile heartbreak house of cards
Of all I’d ever wanted
Of all I ever wanted
Oh-o-o all I ever wanted was to be wanted
By someone like you
Oh I won’t let you go
If you give me a chance
But I don’t ever want to be
Living in the past
I know that a heart takes time
To make up her mind
But I’m letting go
I’m letting go
I’m drifting off into these waters
Out on my own
And all I ever wanted
And all I ever wanted
All I ever wanted was to be wanted By someone like you
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6. |
Waimea (Bonus Track)
03:15
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Drive by the ocean side
With your hand in mine
Looking at me like it’s the first time
Breeze in the palm trees
With our toes in the sand
Watching the Waimea sunset
I could go all my life with you by my side
All you gotta do, baby, is say you’ll be mine
Eyes, your eyes they come alive
Under the moonlit skies
Looking out at the city lights
Oh my my my,
The way you sway in the night
Is making you even more irresistible in this light
Oh, it’s that look in your eyes
Or your lips when you smile
That bring me back to life
Oh, if I could read your mind
If I could get inside
I’d make you mine
Wait, won’t you stay a while
Stay with me for a while
Girls like you don’t go out of style
Tonight everything alright
In the glowing lights
I wanna make, make, make you mine
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Aaron Rickel Los Angeles, California
Aaron Rickel is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, CA. Pulling inspiration from acoustic acts like Jon Foreman and The Lumineers as well as highly produced indie pop like The 1975 and The Japanese House, Aaron lands in an eclectic middle ground of polished sound and raw performance. ... more
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