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Lover

by Noah Gundersen

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1.
Robin Williams 03:01
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One way or another, it’s gonna make its presence known From one monkey to another, you can’t lose what you don’t own It’s ok if you get anxious, just please don’t call the cops There’s a couple things I’m sure of and a whole lot more I’m not There’s a sentimental value to the memory of love It’s a pretty looking rainbow, what does it remind you of Is it somewhere there’s a heart of gold that’s never gonna rust Or it’s a hard rain honey but it’s never gonna flood Despite all my reservations, I’ve been doing this for years Hoping that some magic touch would finally make it clear But when it all comes crashing down, I’m still standing here Looking at the same face, in the same place, just a different kind of mirror Nothing lasts forever and every other trope I guess it just depends on how much DMT you smoked But when I think of Robin Williams at the end of his rope It makes no difference what you’re making, the reaper makes the final joke So I gather my impressions of the universal sigh And hope that someone’s listening to their radio tonight Though it doesn’t really matter with so many come before And who the hell are we fooling, no one buys records any more
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Crystal Creek 02:21
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Is this everything you wanted? Now that it’s everything you have Just a simple little sadness Is it wrong, is it bad You were looking for a meaning Out in the crystal in the creek When you saw it creeping up… Just wanted to be somebody Just wanted to understand Why you had to be so lonely Did you have to be? Do you have to be? Now you’re running on empty Now you’re running out of time You used to be so hungry How’d you get so tired? What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take, baby
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Lover 04:08
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I don’t need no lover I need a mother to come to my room I don’t need no father I need an ocean to carry my mood i need your love I don’t need no one else around i need your love i need to get the hell out of this town I don’t need no lover But I sure like keeping you around I don’t need no lover I’ll try not to let you down I don’t doubt it I got a feeling I’ll keep seeing you around I don’t need no lover But I sure like keeping you around I don’t need no lover I’ll try not to let you down I don’t need no lover But I sure like keeping you around I don’t need no lover I’ll try not to let you down
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Watermelon 03:18
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It’s not easy to please me, I know I wish that I could give you some good news But my heart beats like a tattoo on an old tin drum Rolling down a grey gravel road From a house that used to be my home Before the hard times I got sick and threw up in my mouth At the thought of ever missing out On the bright blue world and all the beautiful girls in it But you were something sweet enough to stick A jolly rancher wet against my lips And my teeth are digging into your watermelon skin And I don’t know what to do now I get this feeling every goddamn time Line up all my failures in a row At least I’ve got some things to show A lot of good love A lot of good luck A lot of good timing A lot of good fucks A couple bad apples A lot of good friends A couple diseases A couple dead ends A whole lot of late nights A whole lot of booze A whole lot of holes you can stick it into But this hole in my chest won’t let me rest So I’m trying my best to fill it with you
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Lose You 04:26
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She was ghosting on a high note Like a halo from a gun She disappeared in smoke In the last light of the sun I was burning my eyelids Trying to stare into the blaze Trying to see around the edges But the light got in my way I’m desperate for a message Calling out your name I’m sending up a raven and a dove Trying to quell the panic Rising in my chest Like a mother at a missing person’s desk ‘Cause I don’t wanna give you up I don’t wanna lose you now Now that we’re falling I wanna follow you down If you’ve got something to say Say it now I’m dying to hear you I don’t wanna give you up I don’t wanna lose you now I found your letter The first one of your name In the bedroom window Where your fingerprints remain They were saying come find me You know where I am So I hop a plane to Paris Each night when I’m dreaming Think about you every day Wonder how you’ve been Wonder what you’re doing now Red wine on canvas The color of your hair Maybe we can make it somehow ‘Cause I don’t wanna give you up I don’t wanna lose you now Now that we’re falling I wanna follow you down If you’ve got something to say Say it now I’m dying to hear you I don’t wanna give you up I don’t wanna lose you now
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Out Of Time 04:15
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Why’d you have to catch me when I’m sober? And offer me a chance to think it through You know I do, you know I do Why’d you have to ask me to come over? After all, I thought that we were through It’s what you do, this is what you do Come down Come down You know you want to You want to Why’d you have to make me remember? Every fucking thing you ever said Get in my head In my bed Is this ever going to be over? History repeats itself again Call me when you’re drunk Call me when you’re drunk Is anyone awake to take me home? Is anyone awake to take me home? I’m out of time I’m out of time
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Audrey Hepburn 03:50
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Megan I have worn you like a blanket in the cold Shivering on your barstool, soaked down to the bone Breaking your attention from across a crowded room Where you pour expensive poison for rich boys to consume Catching every smile in the corners of your mouth You were empty of the future, you were unaware of doubt As you danced around the counter with your lips all painted red Threw your arms around me and got burned into my head First time that I saw you, you were walking up my street Hours after midnight, man you must have been insane To come and meet some stranger in the middle of the night And go speeding through the darkness on the back of his bike But we rode together in the wind, vanished in a dream Where the nights went on forever, the last stand of something free But there was a warning you neglected to receive From your beloved Audrey Hepburn, never love a wild thing I was only looking for shelter from the storm I said I couldn’t stay but then I stayed a little more Tie me down Delilah, just please don’t cut my hair Love is not a contract, it’s a burden we share Darren took that fifth of wild turkey from your shelf Left a twenty on the table, went to party somewhere else As I got drunk and threw up in your bathroom down the hall Tripped and broke the mirror that was leaned against your wall But you didn’t get angry, you just laughed and shook your head Threw back the covers and told me to come to bed Underneath your blankets you were too involved to see There were seven shards of bad luck and they all looked like me
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Older 04:00
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Nothing really matters If nothing’s really real Flying ‘round the corners With one hand on the wheel Probably happened to our fathers Around the time that we were born Something like a nightmare Or, shit, just feeling bored Pull the spoke out of the axle Let the tire spin free There’s no measuring the distance Between you and me ‘Cause we’re all getting older We’re all getting older Changing up our lovers Like we’re changing our clothes Chasing our shadows Fuck, where did they go, where did they go We sit around on barstools We laugh and we drink So caught up in the lights and the action That we don’t have to think, we don’t have to think How we’re all getting older We’re all getting older We’re all getting older We’re all getting older
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Wild Horses 04:20
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Always got a lot on my mind Feels like the net just gets bigger with time Stretching out behind me Trawling the open sea Waste a lot of breath on the bullshit I breathe a lot of air that keeps making me sick Or maybe just lazy A little bit hazy It’s ok if you don’t have the answer The questions remain the same There’s a whole lot of people claiming their team But nobody knows the game So give me a minute To come to my senses To look out the window And stop building fences All the wild horses Just want to run free I want to know you I just want you to know me too Point your finger at me I dare you to stick it between my teeth You just keep putting up crosses and sharpening nails As you wait for the cultural priest To hand down a confident sentence To anyone accused of a crime There’s a thousand ways to blow it So don’t even think about speaking your mind Maybe you would rather be angry But I’d rather sleep at night There’s a fraction to every outcome There’s a spectrum of wrong and right So give me a minute To come to my senses To look out the window And stop building fences All the wild horses Just want to run free I want to know you I just want you to know me too
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So What 03:12
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No one said it would be easy No one said it would be this hard I thought I’d get it right after the first few tries But I just keep coming back to the start There is a lesson in motion Gripping the wheel as you steer You gotta look through the turn as you’re starting to swerve ‘Cause nothing burns faster than fear So slow down And look up Stop acting so tough Say I love you Way too much And if it kills you So what Thousands of tiny explosions Are keeping this thing on its wheels But it’s a limited metaphor You gotta give it a minute or you will never properly heal Someone’s deciding my future Someone decided my past Somebody said man it’s all in your head You’re the only one that’s making this last So slow down And look up Stop acting so tough Say I love you Way too much And if it kills you So what So slow down And look up Stop acting so tough Say I love you Way too much And if it kills you
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Little Cup 02:24
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Little cup Sugar baby spoon Staying up With a werewolf and the moon Hanging’ tough Just please don’t ask me where I’ve been Playing rough Fragile little bones Staying up In the smell of your new home Where you come And unravel like the fabric of our song Say you won’t ever leave, ever go, always stay Through the changes the heart stays the same Same as it’s always been What can I say? I melt upon the altar of your grace My mouth is pretty desperate for a shape So I can say That I remain Forever yours
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All My Friends 03:18
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Live it up You and all your girlfriends Live it up Like it was a weekend You’re walking back to the table with a handful of shots I guess these were for someone but i guess they forgot Twenty-eight years just to lighten up Now you’re closing down the bar getting high school drunk Just dance Nothing lasts forever Just dance Try and relieve that pressure There’s a boy from back in high school crushing a rock Did a little in the bathroom and liked it a lot But it doesn’t really hit you like you thought it might You’re getting busy with this girl like it’s Friday night Live it up Go ahead and live it up Live it up It’s never gonna be enough My and all of my friends gonna live forever
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Kamikaze 04:48
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Wait She said I can’t wait For your payday For your love Wait More problems Now I’ve got ‘em And I’m so fucked A scarecrow Hanging from a wire Silver and gold caught fire Pump me full of drugs ‘Cause now you’re Asking for an anchor A suicidal savior A kamikaze love Send me A dirty picture And say it’s over One more time You are Above all others Under covers My favorite one A scarecrow Hanging from a wire Silver and gold caught fire Pump me full of drugs ‘Cause now you’re Asking for an anchor A suicidal savior A kamikaze love Now you’re Asking for an anchor A suicidal savior A kamikaze

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released August 23, 2019

Producer: Andy D. Park and Noah Gundersen
Mixer: Andy D. Park
Engineer: Andy D. Park, assisted by Samuel Rosson
Mastering: Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound, NYC

℗ © 2019 80BPM LLC under exclusive licence to Cooking Vinyl America LLC.

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For a musician just a few years shy of 30, Noah Gundersen displays a remarkable sense of self-awareness. He’s not really an “old soul,” so to speak—but someone who conveys a keen sort of cognizance of himself in the way one does when the act of questioning belief, of questioning the world around him, has been ingrained from childhood ... more

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