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The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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Adam Young
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As many times as I blink I'll think of you tonight.
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Owl City
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The spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly
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Owl City
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When weβre apart whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish weβd fall in love?
All the time, all the time
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Owl City
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I'll watch the night turn light blue, it's not the same without you cause it takes two to whisper quietly
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Owl City
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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
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Adam Young
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..bright eyes and subtle variations of blue...
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Owl City
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Dear God, I was terribly lost
When the galaxies crossed
And the sun went dark.
Dear God, you're the only North Star
I would follow this far.
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Owl City
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I'll dissolve when the rain pours in,
When the nightmares take me,
I will scream with the howling wind,
'Cause it's a bitter world and I'd rather dream.
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Owl City
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I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid.
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Owl City
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But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist deep in thought because when
I think of you I don't feel so alone
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Owl City
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I've been sleeping with the night light unplugged
With a note on the rocking chair
It says I'm dreaming of the life I once loved
So wake me if you're out there
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Owl City
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I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest
The trees keep the tempo and they sway in time
Quartet of crickets chime in for the chorus
If I were to pluck on your heartstrings, would you strum on mine?
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Owl City
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I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope, and that makes me feel brave.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you too.
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Owl City
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Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history
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Owl City
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I'd rather pick flowers instead of fights.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Whenever we leave the ground
And take to the sky
I'll smile as I'm gazing down
Cause I've always wonder why we won't need feathers to fly.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,
And tell me when it rains,
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins...
'Cause your heart has a lack of color,
And we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later,
'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3
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Owl City
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This peppermint winter is so sugar sweet
I don't need to taste to believe
What's December without Christmas Eve.
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Owl City
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I've been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won't feel dead anymore.
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Owl City
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I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.
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Adam Young
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Tell me again was it love at first sight
When I walked by and you caught my eye
Didn't you know love could shine this bright?
Well, smile because you're the deer in the headlights.
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Owl City
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Oh telescope,
Keep your eye on my only hope,
Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road,
Hercules, you've got nothing to say to me,
'Cause you're not the blinding light that I need.
For He is the saving grace of the galaxies!
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Owl City
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Home will always be here
Unseen, out of sight
Where I disappear and hide
I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye
So I'll spread out my wings and fly
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Chills run down my spine as our fingers intwine
And your sighs harmonize with mine
Unmistakably I can still feel your heart
Beat fast when you dance with me.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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Dizzy love turned a star lily pink,
And hung above our lids too flushed to blink,
But icy blue froze the fairytale cold,
Though I treasured you and you sparkled with someone to hold.
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Owl City
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When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
"Oh darling I wish you were here.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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You make my frown turn upside down and now my worries are gone.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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There's a realm above the trees
Where the lost are finally found
Touch your feathers to the breeze
And leave the ground.
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Owl City
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When the sky fell in
When the hurricanes came for me
I could finally crash again
And that's how I became the sea.
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Owl City
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The end is uncertain and I've never been so afraid
But I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope
And that makes me feel brave.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Living close to the ground
Is seventh Heaven 'cause there are angels all around
Among my frivolous thoughts
I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts
Wake me if you're out there.
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Owl City
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The silence isn't so bad
Till I look at my hands and feel sad
Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly
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Owl City
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I twirl through the driveway with angelic grace
Till I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my face
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Owl City
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Circle me and the needle moves gracefully
Back and forth, if my heart was a compass you'd be North
Risk it all cause I'll catch you if you fall
Wherever you go, if my heart was a house you'd be home.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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If I look back when I begin to leave, will they remember me?
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Owl City
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I'll watch the night turn light blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly
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Owl City
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Dear God your the only north star I'd follow this far!
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Owl City
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I was never in love with someone else
I never had somebody waiting on me
'Cause you were all of my dreams come true
And I just wish you knew
Taylor, I was so in love with you.
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Owl City
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I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I wish I had covered all my tracks completely cause I'm so afraid
Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel or just the train?
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I forget the last time I felt brave, I just recall insecurity
Cause it came down like a tidal wave, and sorrow swept over me
Then I was given grace and love, I was blind but now I can see
Cause I found a new hope from above, and courage swept over me
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Golf and alcohol don't mix
And that's why I don't drink and drive
Because, good grief I'd knock out my teeth
And have to kiss my smile goodbye
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Owl City
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The snowflakes start falling and I start to float
Till my mean older brother stuffs snow down my coat
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Owl City
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I sang my princess fast asleep,
'Cause she was my dream come true,
Oh Annmarie, believe me, I loved you.
But now those lonely lullabies,
Just dampen my tired eyes,
Because I can't forget you.
Because I can't forget you.
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Owl City
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Your spirit is sweet
So pull off your sheet
And give me a ghost of a smile
Show me your teeth
'Cause you're teddy beneath
So just grin and bear it a while.
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Owl City
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Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere.
Reality is a lovely place but I wouldnβt want to live there.
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Owl City
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I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications revealed. That few of us realize life is quite surreal
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Owl City
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The curtains decayed
The daylight poured in
I was never afraid
Of the darkness again
My burns were third-degree
But I'd been set free
'Cause grace had finally found its way
To me
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Owl City
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I survived
A dreadful accident
In the car crash of the century
My shattered hopes
Collapsed on cold cement
But in the back of the ambulance
I'd never felt so content.
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Owl City
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Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
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Scott Snyder (Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls)
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Birds-eye view
Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue
Chase your dreams
And remember me, sweet bravery
'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind
And take to the sky
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Owl City
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I'll travel the sub-zero tundra
I'll brave glaciers and frozen lakes
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
I'll do whatever it takes
To change
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Owl City
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I rip off the wrapping and tear through the box
Till I end up with 45 new pairs of socks.
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Owl City
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My captain on the snowy horse
He's coming back to take me home
(He's coming back to take me home)
He'll find me fighting back the terrible thwarts
'Cause I'm not afraid to die alone!
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Owl City
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This picnic will soon depart
Real life, I'm sad to see you go
I'll miss you with all my heart
But I'd rather be alone
'Cause I couldn't live without
Sunsets that dazzle in the dusk
So I'll drag the anchor up
And rest assured, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
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Owl City
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I've been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill
I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair
But somehow I still get the chills
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Owl City
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Peer over the edge
Can you see me?
Rivulets flow from your eyes
Paint runs from your mouth
Like a waterfall
And your lungs crystalize
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Owl City
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I'll be out of my mind
and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.
So let's spend the afternoon
in a cold hot air balloon.
Leave your jacket behind.
Lean out and touch the tree tops over town.
I can't wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back down.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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A city sparkles in the night
How can it glow so bright?
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
Designer skyline in my head
Abstract and still well-read
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead
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Owl City
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You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. 'Cause they'd fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare.
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Owl City
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Where was I when the rockets came to life
And carried you away into the alligator sky
Even though, I'll never know what's up ahead
I'm never lettin' go, I'm never lettin' go!
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Owl City
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It makes me smile because you said it best
I would clearly feel blessed if the sun rose up from the west.
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Owl City (Ocean Eyes [Deluxe Edition])
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Boy I need a hug (boy I need a hug)
'Cause my heart stops without you
There's something about you
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Owl City
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Roller coaster through the atmosphere
I'm drowning in this starry serenade
Where ecstasy becomes cavalier
My imagination's taking me away.
Reverie whispered in my ear
I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid
Roller coaster through the atmosphere
My imagination's taking me away.
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Owl City
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Home is a boxcar and it's so far out of reach
Hidden under umbrella beach
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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All this holiday cheer
Heaven knows where it goes
But it returns every year
And though this winter does nothing but storm
The joy in my heart is ablaze and it's keeping me warm!
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Owl City
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How close is the ending, well, nobody knows.
The future's a mystery, and anything goes.
Love is confusing, and life is hard.
But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.
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Adam Young
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Where was I when the rockets came to life, and carried you away into the alligator sky.?
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Owl City
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
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If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.
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Adam Young Owl City Cave In
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Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
'Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'Cause we wasted all our free time alone
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Owl City
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Tell me again was it love at first sight
When I walked by and you caught my eye.
Didn't you know love could shine this bright?
If love was a game, you would never play nice.
If love was a beam, you'd be blind in both eyes.
Put your sunglasses on 'cause you're a deer in the headlights.
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Owl City
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If we dissolve without a trace, will the real world even care?
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Owl City
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We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us.
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David Almond (My Name Is Mina (Skellig, #0.5))
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From the green belt balcony, the wildfires look so pretty
Ponderosa canopy, Iβd never leave if it were up to me
To the ruby redwood tree, and to the velvet climbing ivy painted all mahogany
Iβd never leave if it were up to me
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Owl City
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A high-speed collision gave a new sense of sight
To me
And now my vision can render the scene
A blurry image of wreckage and roadside debris
Happiness returned to me
Through a grave emergency
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Owl City
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Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met... <3
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Owl City
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Hoddies are pants for your arms!
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Adam Young
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Home will always be here, unseen, out of sigh, where I disappear and hide
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Owl City
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And when the leaves return, and their whisperings fill the night, they'll freeze and burn, where fire and ice collide
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Owl City
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My rock candy passion is bittersweet
And armed to the teeth
Cuz she would rather fall in chocolate
Than fall in love.. Especially with me!
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Owl City (Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
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Owl City
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A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching rats they were no match for the wildcat or the weasel - this refers to a difference in skill. The horned owl catches fleas at night and can spot the tip of a hair, but when daylight comes, no matter how wide it opens its eyes, it cannot see a mound or a hill - this refers to a difference in nature. Now do you say, that you are going to make Right your master and do away with Wrong, or make Order your master and do away with Disorder? If you do, then you have not understood the principle of heaven and earth or the nature of the ten thousand things. This is like saying that you are going to make Heaven your master and do away with Earth, or make Yin your master and do away with Yang. Obviously it is impossible.
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Zhuangzi (The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu)
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I saw the autumn leaves peel up of the street, Take wing on the balmy breeze and sweep you off your feet
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Owl City
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We don't even have to try, it's always a good time
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Owl City
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With a starry brush, paint the dusk Venetian blue
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Owl City
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I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.
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Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht Club
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I'm a guy who likes cake. I'm just throwing it out to you guys, I eat lots of cake. And when people take my cake away, it makes me mad. It makes me mad!
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Owl City
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Home will always be here, unseen, out of sight, where I disappear and hide
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Owl City
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Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town.
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Adam Young (The Black Heart)
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Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it
from βStarlings in Winter
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Mary Oliver (Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays)
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Beyond the wall of the unreal city β¦ there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then β
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.
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Edward Abbey
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Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.
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Adam Young
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and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
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I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams. My whole being could now be summed up in my voiceβan insane, absolute record. The force that, out of loneliness, brings two individuals together to procreate has its roots in this same insanity which exists in everyone and which is mingled with a sense of regret, tending gradually toward death...Only death does not tell lies! The presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary. We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life.
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Sadegh Hedayat (The Blind Owl)
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It was almost twilight, long shadows of oaks and chestnuts crossing the unpaved road leading away from the village. This part of England had not yet been deforested to feed the fleets and factories that had sprung up in the major cities. The woodlands were still pristine and other-worldly, scored with small cartways half-buried by overhanging branches thick with leaves. In the gathering shade the trees were wreathed in vapor and mystery, like sentinels for a world of druids and warlocks and unicorns. A brown owl glided over the lane, mothlike in the darkening sky.
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Lisa Kleypas (Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4))
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It was the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, he reminded himself. He had heard many people say that on TV and on the outrΓ© video clips floating in cyberspace, which added a further, new-technology depth to his addiction. There were no rules any more. And in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, well, anything could happen. Old friends could become new enemies and traditional enemies could be your new besties or even lovers. It was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections. A woman might fall in love with a piglet, or a man start living with an owl. A beauty might fall asleep and, when kissed, wake up speaking a different language and in that new language reveal a completely altered character. A flood might drown your city. A tornado might carry your house to a faraway land where, upon landing, it would squash a witch. Criminals could become kings and kings be unmasked as criminals. A man might discover that the woman he lived with was his fatherβs illegitimate child. A whole nation might jump off a cliff like swarming lemmings. Men who played presidents on TV could become presidents. The water might run out. A woman might bear a baby who was found to be a revenant god. Words could lose their meanings and acquire new ones. The world might end, as at least one prominent scientist- entrepreneur had begun repeatedly to predict. An evil scent would hang over the ending. And a TV star might miraculously return the love of a foolish old coot, giving him an unlikely romantic triumph which would redeem a long, small life, bestowing upon it, at the last, the radiance of majesty.
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Salman Rushdie (Quichotte)