Name: From Amidst Oasis
Duration: P00H02M10S
Description: Colin Gilbert basically edited the first verse while I spouted every idea I could come up with.

From Amidst Oasis

from Bad Life by Old Man Charlie

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Colin Gilbert basically edited the first verse while I spouted every idea I could come up with.

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You would have wanted to see it vanish.
You would have wanted it gone.
We took the hard road out of Eden,
Through razor-wire and guards.
The kitchen floorboards screamed beneath the circling of your thoughts.
We told white lies in stereo and disbelief, but kept on.

From amidst oasis, I know the desert a mirage.

You could have waited ‘til something happened.
You could have waited at all.
No little tower could have reached up to heaven,
Be it a speck looking back from the moon.
The trauma of tomorrow blurs its ghost into today’s kiss.
There’s a threat in the promise things will always be like this.

From amidst oasis, I know the desert a mirage.
With my dying breath, I’ll swear the desert a mirage.
Alive with a spirit of vengeance, lucky to live in a dream of a garden of wonders,
From amidst oasis, I know the desert a mirage.

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from Bad Life, released November 6, 2012
Machine Daydream - electronic arrangement

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