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Wherever Here Lies
03:00
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All of the memories leaking like factory smoke out the side of my head/ written to memories, toy beats, and yellow keys stopped smoking months before you left/ All I can do is get up when you're gone and make up what went wrong in my head/ All I can do is fess up to the songs and hope right won't go wrong once again/ Piles of worn out jeans, dim lit computer screens, framing the place where I live/ Weeks since I last went home, lost beeping telephones, showing what I've left to give/ All I can do is get up when it's dawn and lay back on the lawn holding breaths/ All I can do is work hard to be strong and work hard to move on, not digress/ 50 years of shaking lies will pay off when I realize, one morning, when I wake up, I'm not scared/ and all those nights that I called home just hoping not to be alone, they'll all seem like one leap that brought me here/ and then I'll be glad that I'm here
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Town Fire
01:23
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I had a dream that we were in love/ or at least that's how you made it sound/ as you spoke on the phone to your grandpa back home/ explaining why you weren't around/ And when I awoke my bed was in flames/ so I ran out the door to the street/ where all of the houses were burning the same/ and all of the people were fleeing/ as I stood on the ashes of all that I'd known I remembered the smile on your face/ and for half of a second my body felt warm that night/ for half of a second my body felt warm that night
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Faces
02:42
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I haven't slept since unskinned knees/ have to be back in time for peace/ wish I could call and say "you're right/ I live in a mint extract city"/ The greyest sky I've ever seen/ peaks through my breath at Lovell St/ If she were right, then I'll come clean/ I guess I just never stopped running/ from the risks and from the circles/ filled with pen five long years ago/ Faces take places of faces/ I'm tripping over my laces/ ripping holes in my jeans, splitting lips on the street/ but not stopping to see the knots tied at my feet
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You Never Lost Me
02:38
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You never lost me, no/ And I know you'll never go/ You never lost me, no/ not for a little while/ not as I walked away/ not as the bottle slipped/ and cracked one million ways/ not as I drowned my heart/ in some bad choice I made/ not as I stayed the night/ in some other bed/ not as I drove so fast/ I couldn't hear my head/ you never lost me, no/ 'cause I know you'll never go
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The Heartland
02:33
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This is the second time I've been here/ this time there is so much less flesh/ and through the window where I'm sitting/ I see you no more/ I see you no less/ This is the first time I did not dream/ that you were right here next to me/ so maybe that boy serves a purpose/ maybe distractions set us free/ I'm taking that crown from my heart/ back on my head, back on my head/ I'm taking that crown from my heart/ back on my head, back on my head/ I've been seeing home in fractions/ remembering when wholes turned to halves/ since then I have lived in sevenths/ scattered so far from the heartland/ I'm taking that crown from my heart/ back on my head, back on my head/ I'm taking that crown from my heart/ back on my head, back on my head
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Jes Kramer Grand Rapids, Michigan
Jes Kramer is a one-woman band from Grand Rapids, MI. Using a combination of keyboards, guitar, vocals, and a loop pedal, she weaves her songs layer by layer into something incredibly personal, yet comforting. WYCE named her Outstanding Female Performer of the Year at the 2012 Jammies. ... more
Jes Kramer recommends:
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Lavender
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My favorite album of 2018. Easily.
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The Dance
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Portraits
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“Portraits” is a collection of expertly drawn narrative songs with sharply observed lyrics and rustic instrumentation.
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