Album
The Elephant and the Seahorse
Alex Wong's beautifully cinematic debut record
- Released
- February 2020
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Elise Hayes (ASCAP) 50%
Description
BPM - 74 A warm, atmospheric acoustic guitar and vocal pair about learning and dealing with the wonders and paths of life.
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Show me what you've seen
What did you discover
On the other side
Before we met each otherEvery time you see the stars
You’ll remember what you areDon't you cry my dear
The plan is set in motion
Gather all your tears
Drop them in the oceanAlways staring at the sky
Now I know the reason whyOooh
Go to sleep my love
Before the night grows colder
And I will ask you more
Maybe when you're older -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 75% / Micah Dalton (BMI) 25%
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BPM - 139 A beautiful, building song about running back to someone's or something's love. This song sounds like finding home whether that be within a place or a person.
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Beyond the blinking city lights
We search for signals in the sky
We all look up alone together
We scan the faces in the crowd
For something we can’t say out loud
But we’ve followed it forever
Wherever you are
I am racing through the night
Wherever you are
I will make the stars align
And I promise we’ll remember
Even if we don’t understand
Wherever you are
I’m coming as fast as I can
Old friend what if we’ve always known
That theres a map that guides us home
We’re all returning to each other
So look up look up look at the ancient lights
There is one you recognize
I’m coming back for you my lover
And after the bones dry out
After the treasures have been found
After the sun goes down
Darling we’ll change our names
And start this game again -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Korby Lenker (ASCAP) 25% / Ron Entwistle (ASCAP) 25%
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BPM - 77 A heartwrenching song lead by atmospheric vocals and piano that continues to build musically and emotionally the entire time. The song has a sense of pain, confusion and self-loathing.
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If it’s a crash
let it be quick
gone in an instant
no time to think
I hope I never see it coming
only bright light filling up my eyes
If its a crash
Let it come right on time(CHORUS)
I don’t wanna know too much
Just enough just enoughIf it’s a fall
let it be fast
into the darkness
where the future meets the past
I wanna feel just like I’m flying
I wanna sleep before my body hits the ground
if it’s a fall
I don’t wanna make a sound(CHORUS)
(BRIDGE)
I keep having the same dream
Is it a message or a memory
It's a photograph
of a Cadillac
somethings happening
People gather round to see
Is it me?
Is it me? -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Josh Benus (BMI) 25% / Matt Kass (BMI) 25%
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BPM - 76 A dramatic song that builds from start to finish that touches on childhood and trying to find where you belong in this world.
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I close my eyes and I count to ten
You vanish just like you did back then
Beneath the branches of the banyan tree
Oh why do you still hide from meThe sun is low in the Southern sky
Our shadows stretch into the night
I close my eyes and I count to ten
Do we have to play this game againShow yourself
Show yourself
Come out come out
Wherever you areThe monsters we keep out of sight
Still scratch at the door go bump in the night
But wild things will not be tamed
Until we call them out by nameI miss the sound of my father’s Chinese
Fading in the suburban breeze
Why do I run from what I used to be
Why am I hiding from my historyAnd ready or not the morning comes
It shines a light on everyone
And ready or not you see the truth
There is nobody chasing you -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 100%
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BPM - 95 A hauntingly beautiful instrumental including piano and orchestral elements. The music leads you through a story of a nightmare that includes beauty as well as fear.
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Tyler Lyle (ASCAP) 50%
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BPM - 86 A soft acoustic guitar and vocal song about Los Angeles, and the lack of feeling of time passing by, and feeling lost because of it.
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In LA there are no shadows
There are no shadows in LA
Our memory’s written backwards
Getting shorter every dayHere in a city that doesn’t talk back
Sing for the future run from the past
Oh the water’s rising fastWe followed the sunlight as far as we could
Were looking for heaven we found Hollywood
Where nobody’s selfish they’re all just misunderstoodWell it’s still so hard to tell you
Oh telling you is so hard
We’re as empty as the sidewalks
On Venice blvdOh I heard the angels singing
That Spanish siren call
Her flowers bloom in winter
If you survive the fallHere in a city that doesn’t talk back
Sing for the future run from the past
Oh the fires fading fastAnd we tried to concentrate
But the warmth of the windshield made it hard to stay awakeWe followed the sunlight as far as we could
Were looking for heaven we found Hollywood
And the Japanese maple that watched patiently
As we lost our voices as it lost its leaves
And we followed the sunlight as far as we could
And I’m sorry the sun didn’t set where it should
But nobody’s selfish here we’re all just misunderstood -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Amber Rubarth (ASCAP) 50%
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BPM - 104 Atmospheric vocals surrounded by different levels and textures of strings, a song about memories, and wanting to keep them hidden and safe.
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You’re the smell of the toast you made in the mornings
You’re the page in my book I keep to myself
You’re the unlocking sound when I turn my door key
You’re the scar that I have from the time that I fellI can’t describe the faces
And I can’t recall the names
But you remainI keep you in the creases
I hide you in the folds
Protect you from the sunlight
Shield you from the cold
Everybody said they were glad to see you go
But no one ever has to knowYou’re the part of the moon that blends into blackness
Even though we know it’s really still there
You’re the song that I sing and I don’t need to practice
You’re the green shirt I keep though it’s too small to wearThe things that I refuse to see
And all the nights I still can’t sleep
I curl between the sheets
The creases where you used to beOnce love wakes it never sleeps
Even when you love a dream -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 100%
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BPM - 173 A song that challenges one's own memory, on whether or not we truly can recall events the exact way they happened. The compelling strings and quick piano create a mystical world that almost sounds like a dream.
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It used to be a movie now it's a script on a page
I could describe every color could replay every scene frame by frame
The way that the orchestra swelled all around every word that we said
Now all I see are black and white typewritten lines in my head.It used to be a movie now we’re just frozen in place
Golden Toyko morning as the Japanese light licked your face
I barely remember the words that exploded outside of the frame
Now only the shot of your smile and your faraway eyes remainsDid it ever really happen
Did it every really happen
Did it ever really happen at all
I’m sure I would recallSometimes I catch myself remembering part of a dream
And I can’t tell the difference except that you're still there with me
The scientists say it all looks the same inside of our head
Maybe someday i’ll only remember this version insteadWhen I think of your picture
That we hung by the stairs
I can still smell the ocean
and the breeze in yr hair
I can still taste your laughter
and the salt in the air
And I swear I remember
But I wasn’t there -
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Alex Wong (ASCAP) 50% / Amber Rubarth (ASCAP) 50%
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BPM - 71 A song that goes through multiple levels of strings, piano, and vocals about someone searching for something, or finding peace in something.
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My sacred heart swells
Through cathedral bells
A lover forsakenThe carousel drones
Down the cobblestone
And something awakensI hear you calling, I remember, I remember
This feeling follows me forever, me foreverThe sidewalks I’ve known
Play an undertone
Of memories escapingThey echo down the canyon walls
As the streetlights dissolve
Into shadows I'm chasingSomebody told me I've been here before
But I’m not the same anymoreThrough the starry night a younger light is racing
Could it be a sign or a satellite we’re chasing
The signals never fade away -
