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It's The World I Love

by Odd Owl

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1.
Sound Check 04:57
I'd like to make a request That in any press No one talks about how we don't look like rock stars We have body issues as it is And I'd like to make a request If your questions aren't funny at all I don't have to give a clever answer 'cuz It's really your fault Everyone's on the verge of a Breakdown At least that will give us something Something to talk about Chorus: #1: We've got it together Let's just show up and play With all the parts that you've added It feels like karaoke #2: It's just not that perfect I can't get up on that stage The kick drum and toms still sound muddy Maybe the headliner will trade? #3: I'm just going to wait 'Til your figure it out As long as you don't decide To change my part This is a sound check Can everyone hear the bass? Drum machine can come down a little Guitar is all over the place This is a sound check Can everyone hear my voice I find it very important That everyone hears my voice Everyone's on the verge of a Breakdown At least that will give us something Something to talk about Chorus I don't want this to breakdown Nothing gets done when we argue I don't want this to breakdown Because the music sounds better, better with you I don't want this to breakdown Nothing gets done when we argue I don't want this to breakdown Because the music sounds better, better with you
2.
We know it's a lie that we'll tell everyone Or at least to your mom when she gets home She was out of line when she called you dumb But she wasn't far off we should've stayed in college Chorus: And if I come back from Cincinnati and find my stuff By the door I won't hate you 'Cuz I can't hate you anymore Whoever is writing this is getting it wrong And the only way he'll move the story along Is pretend the last act didn't happen at all But every plot leads to the same wall so Chorus: And if I come back from Cincinnati and find my stuff By the door I won't hate you 'Cuz I can't hate you anymore And it’s too bad adult lives Are based on decisions Made as teenagers Who were really stoned You learned that you Don't need me I learned that I Don't need a lot of things You learned that you Don't need me I learned that I Don't need a lot of things Chorus: And if I come back from Cincinnati and find my stuff By the door I won't hate you 'Cuz I can't hate you anymore And it’s too bad adult lives Are based on decisions Made as teenagers Who were generally stoned And it’s too bad adult lives Are based on decisions Made as teenagers Who were unusually stoned And it’s too bad that our lives Were based on decisions Made as teenagers Who were really stoned Phil: And the disco started to play As she started to drive away Like a bad idea whose time has come and gone Carmen: You learned that you Don't need me I learned that I Don't need a lot of things
3.
Radioheart 03:36
All the people I know are Faking it through piles of hay Reminded by a needle why They were digging in the first place And all the people I know are Growing up just to grow bored I can feel my hands and feet But I don't know who I am anymore Chorus: My skin and bones still vibrate from a Radioheart Drifts in and out won’t always finish what it starts It doesn’t know how to turn itself off A Radioheart wants to love and to be loved Someone took piles of feathers Mended them back into wings Someone waits in the place I Thought I only made for me All the people I know How happy they would be to see If all their dreams would want them With the strength they want their dreams Chorus (x2)
4.
Is it all over my face? Say the word, we can go, I don't mind I’ve been where you stand and I understand But I can't throw the towel in tonight Cause somewhere there's a place we want to be Or at least where you can make fun of it with me Oh God, I love this record Let's dance until were clean Now I'm a man of action We'll paint up all our skin Every color we can find Bright rose to darkest black While we’ve got energy We'll make our swank new lives For the first time I'm excited Let's dance without a trace Without a trace of grace To hell with work tomorrow, it's all over my... Say you're disappointed, I am too But I don't think either of us want it so quiet What you said has been asterisked To remind me of the times you put up with my shit We will mash potato We will boogie twist If we cannot be happy We'll make up our own bliss I think we're man enough When I can feel your strength We will push our boulder As high as we can climb For the first time I'm excited We’ll dance without a trace Without a trace of grace To hell with work tomorrow It's all over my face I will work every day to live in the light of you Every day I will work to live in the light of you
5.
I'm Not Here 03:22
Old friend if you could only see me Your partner in crime no more Old maps sit lifeless on the TV Like the photographs in my drawer Oh, I keep pressing rewind Oh, To see if something's left to find It's just something that takes time, takes time Before I realized Why you had to say goodbye, goodbye Some days are good and I've moved on Somedays I'm not here and you're gone Old friend if you could only hear me I think I finally understand Would it make a difference if I came back With no new blood on my hands Oh, It took me this long to say Oh, But my pride kept getting in the way That night the moon was sinking low Half empty in the window As you cried below On the concrete steps alone Looking back it’s all I could hear While wishing I could disappear But the path that appeared Keeps leading me back home It's just something that takes time, takes time Before I realized That you had to say goodbye, goodbye If you're in town would you steer clear? And act like I'm not here
6.
I wake and miss the monsters in my dreams I join the clouds in my bitter grey fleece And manage to construct a half-working zombie brain Behind the bar in my green apron He walks in with the new horse he's won Post-parade my fake smile's turned debonair Oh, I’d like to think my hand would rise Through this nonsense, touch a bit of sky And I am alone The island will start here That first breeze is so quiet when I Let go of my hands on my bike I start off downhill I for- Get where I am and where I'm going Life goes on and takes it's course And of course it starts all over Got a drink forced out by my sister She asks why I said I never miss her How can I when she posts her whole life on the web? What she ate? Oh it was sushi Sunday Party pics with every face the same It's a porn of haircuts, bored sighs, and filing taxes While past the glass two queens pull close The kind of close like I've never known And I am alone The island starts here
7.
Sometimes it starts just how it ends An honest truth found on my sleeve But when we strip away our skin I live for moments like these I thought I was never rated Thought you would see right though But when it’s dawn and the world is muted I can see myself in you I spent too much time thinking about How I was going to win But instead of finding a way out It’s about letting people in Drinking stubbies and watching the rain Playing bocci while there’s sun Fun just wouldn’t be the same Without everyone I love I never had a master plan I just know when the world feels right Seeing dancing bodies of my clan Taking on the night Oh-oh-oh-oh, It’s the world I love, (Oh-oh-oooh-oooooohhhh-ohhhhhh) Oh-oh-oh-oh, It’s the world I love, (Oh-oh-oooh-oooooohhhh-ohhhhhh) Inside there’s a little thread That we can hold onto Heart to heart stays tethered With stories weaving through Laughing at the main stage after dark Bouncer eyes us behind the fence Maybe I’m just trying to talk it out Until the world makes sense I never had a master plan I just know when the world feels right Seeing everyone in my clan Having fun tonight Oh-oh-oh-oh, It’s the world I love, (Oh-oh-oooh-oooooohhhh-ohhhhhh) Oh-oh-oh-oh, It’s the world I love, (Oh-oh-oooh-oooooohhhh-ohhhhhh) Lift me up and I'm letting down the ladder Pull me up and put me on your shoulder Oh-oh-oh-oh It's The World I Love

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released April 2, 2011

Carmen Caruso - lead vocals, keys, drum programming
Phil Jacobsen - guitar, backup vocals
Produced by: Carmen Caruso
Recorded by: Frank e. Truncale
Cover Design: Trillian Spencer
All songs written and performed by Odd Owl
Additional Musicians: Preston Havill (bass), Andrew Cohen (trumpet), and the Odd Owl Choir (Frank Truncale, Zoe Marinello-Kohn, Josh Wagner)

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Odd Owl San Francisco, California

Odd Owl is an indie group out of San Francisco, CA that started in January 2010. They enjoy creating and crafting interesting pop structures, insightful lyrics, and catchy melodies.

Carmen Caruso - lead vocals, keyboards, programming
Phil Jacobsen - guitar, backup vocals
Adam Wadenius - drums
Tim Switzer - bass
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