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Cages - EP
3rd release for Jeff Carl - transitioning into alt pop
- Released
- March 2018
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
Description
This bittersweet track is about reminiscing on the past yet still being hopeful for the future.
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“Comeback Song”
V1:
I hate songs that start with “here I am again.” What are wrongs if we’re never righting them? Enemies make for better friends.
Usually, it’s cause we’re just like them.
Why have roads? I seem to only know one. Heaven knows that I’m not the only one Who needs a light. I try to be my own,
But tonight, I need a hand to hold.CH:
Here’s another comeback song
For the summers come and gone.
I’ll keep believing that the cycles of our sleep
Will keep on leading to the winters that we need...V2:
I’m alright. Nothing ‘bout this is new.
There is light always surrounding you.
It’s only night, ‘cause the caves we choose
Seem more right the further in we move,
But there are friends, and there are mothers.
There are men who become lovers.
There are mountains, and oceans, and flowers to hold, Movies, and music, and books we can know.CH:
Here’s another comeback song
For the summers come and gone...CH:
Here’s another comeback song
For the summers come and gone.
I’ll keep believing that the cycles of our sleep
Will keep on leading to the winters that we need to know, To the waters that we need to grow.
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
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This track is about finding freedom and finding a place where you can be yourself.
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“Roam”
V1:
It’s amazing to me that I lose myself When nobody’s around.
I’m the tree that falls in the woods, But no one hears the sound.CH:
I’ve gotta find somewhere to call my own, I’ve gotta find somewhere to roam,
I’ve gotta find some peace of my mind, I’ve gotta find somewhere to roam.V2:
Takes a river to see that life carries on,
Whether you do or not.
Takes a man to understand that the cards in his hand Aren’t the only ones he’s got.CH: I’ve gotta find...
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Here we go, here we go again. We end where we begin,
And I know I will fall again
And pick myself back up again.CH: I’ve gotta find...
OUTRO:
I’ve gotta find somewhere to roam I’ve gotta find somewhere to roam. -
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
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This song, while pulsing and energetic, is actually asking listeners to stop and think of all the dreams they won't reach, of all the places they'll never see, and of all the people they have hurt. It asks listeners to accept the decisions they have made despite their regrets.
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Think of all the things you will never do
all the places you will never go
Think of all the right moves you will never choose
all the lovers you will never knowThink of all the knowledge you will never learn
all the problems you will never solve
Think of good intentions you will never yearn
all the walls that are too resolvedDo these horrible thoughts make you sad?
Me tooThink of friends and family you have written off
all the bruises that have not lost blue
Think of your fears building up dust
all the dreams that you let haunt youDo these horrible thoughts make you sad?
Me tooYou could spend all your life being sad
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
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In this pop rock track, Jeff Carl describes breaking out of cages, opening doors, and finding freedom.
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“Cages”
INTRO:
I wanna leave a trail of all my cages. I wanna be real, lose all my faces.V1A:
In a world built on strange exaggerations, Boys and girls are told to believe
In the hope of their highest aspirations. “There is nothing that you can not be. You are something, born to be free.”V1B:
So you run in the race with all the others. Everyone seems to know where to go.
In the maze, they see ways, you just see colors. “Is there something they have that I don’t?
I could follow their paths, but I won’t.”CH:
I wanna leave a trail of all my cages.
I wanna be real, lose all my faces.
I’m tired of the floor. I want more. If I’d just open the door, There is something inside of me...
V2:
Feel the wind. Let it wind it’s way around you.
Breathe it in. Try to ask yourself why
You make it all about a million reasons.
Does a bird ever ask how to fly?
Only one way up to the sky.CH: I wanna leave a...
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That just needs to be free. (x4)OUTRO:
I’m tired of the floor. I want more.
If I’d just open the door, there is something inside of me... That just needs to be free. -
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
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This is an empowering track about carrying on and finding yourself even though you might not always succeed.
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“Carry On”
V1:
This is it, a glimmer. Dim lit, a shimmer. Just sit, do not move. Feel it, the empty,
Fill with the mess we... Let it all pass through. Let it take you.CH:
This’ll be the chorus that I choose,
Finding purple from my red and blues.
I think it’s a heart that can not lose that carries on. There will be some rhythms that are lost,
Some highs with higher cost,
Some roads you’ll never cross,
But carry on.V2:
Trouble is, I wander.
I live like water,
Finding all my lows.
But I’m on the brink of something I don’t know. It could be nothin’, but I’ve gotta go.
I’m on the battle lines of an ever-changing war. CH: This’ll be...BR:
Back to where I started,
This is where my heart is.
Now I know.
Some say broken hearted.
I say I’m just starting to let go.
I’m on the brink of something I don’t even know. It could be nothing, but I’ve gotta go.
I’m on the battle lines of an ever-changing war.CH: This’ll be...
OUTRO: This is it, a glimmer. Dim lit, a shimmer.
Just sit, do not move. -
