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Shallow Eyes
03:37
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So quick to judge, so slow to change your mind
Believe it to be truth, but in truth it’s just unkind
The world has so much to say
But you throw it all away because you can’t accept the gray
Oh, it’s your life vest
Saves you from those greater depths
Shallow eyes, realize
Life comes and goes with nothing in tow
You hide behind your holy Sunday walls
As the stale sermons ring down the inner halls
Condemn any contradiction
With a smile, then a cold and swift eviction
Your soul is good and well
So go through your mundane hell
Shallow eyes, realize
That when they close, there’s nothing to show
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Long Gone
02:47
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My baby’s long gone, she’s long gone
Gone to find some other life far away from here
Ain’t it a drag, such a drag
To think she’d leave so suddenly, oh how’d all this come to be?
Pinch me, hit me, oh I’m cracking up
Just tell me that she is not the one for me
What will I do? So blue
Sitting by the fireside, long and lonesome nights
Oh why would she just leave me?
Don’t my love mean anything? Oh I can’t say a thing
Pinch me, hit me, oh I’m cracking up
Just tell me that she is not the one for me
My baby’s long gone, she’s long gone
And every day she’s gone away I’ll just sit and pray
That one day she might see me
Until that day I’ll think away all the things I meant to say
Pinch me, hit me, oh I’m cracking up
Just tell me that she is not the one for me
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Waiting Game
04:31
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So you say your time has come to grow?
At the casual glance nobody would know
Still, your masquerades are all that show
I’m going to pack my things and leave
Can’t stand much more of Ms. Misery
I won’t play your waiting game
Oh, you seek the words you like to hear
‘Til nobody’s there, then you’re in my ear
Asking “Why am I running in circles, dear?”
Something inside you has changed for the worse
Still, you feel it’s simply luck’s callous curse
But I won’t play your waiting game
Whatever happens in this cold passing of time?
Your dreams of yesterday? Well, I’ll keep them with mine
Oh, the rest is not for me to say
Not that you would hear it anyway
Best of luck to finding brighter days
Something inside you has changed for the worse
Still you feel it’s simply luck’s callous curse
But I won’t play your waiting game
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Hindsight Of Your Gaze
04:26
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Keep me in this darkness, blind to what is real
So many surrounding me, it’s funny how I feel
So alone, but then, so are you
Victims to the things that we do
And it pulls me back to a time
When thoughts of you weren’t such a crime
I could say I was younger then, foolish too
But now I’m a man still hung on just what to do
Oh, this loneliness just won’t end
It’s pitiful to find I spend
All day long, tired and alone
Hanging on to your songs
Such a slave to this crave
It’s sending me to my grave
I could throw on the light and say that I’m through with you
But that wouldn’t save me from these shades of blue
Will I stay forevermore
Caught within the hindsight of your gaze?
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Immobile Dreams
03:38
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When you’re harping on your wind chimes, lost in all your selfishness
Take a minute, give a dime, and try on some selflessness
Recognize me and advise me, but don’t take my point of view
Surely you must know and see
I just need something to do
Oh, I don’t want to waste my life on foolish games
But what’s killing you is that you never did feel the same
Stop this madness that you’re showing
You’re just trying far too hard
Surely you must be knowing
You’re just playing the wrong card
Just drop me an ice cold six pack, throw me a guitar and a harp
While I play and softly kick back, and make this music start
Oh, I don’t want to waste my life on foolish games
Oh, you’re pointing at me, but you know that you’re the one to blame
If there comes a time when I have rectified immobile dreams
I’d be in for having some fun, have a hand in all your schemes
But for now I’ll leave this with you, at the risk of sounding cold
I don’t want to miss or kiss you, less your shaky hand to hold
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I'm Still Here
03:54
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7. |
Tipping Point
04:41
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The autumn leaves colored Main Street
And lit the day for our landmark getaway
A year to date, no one near
And nothing much to fear
Kodachrome memories
Caught in time like the smiles we exchanged for a while
Soon undone
No sign of the cold to come
This tipping point, the wake of all this change
Still, I can’t get around
The beauty of those leaves before they hit the ground
You gave your love with such an ease
And with that ease, started turning away from me
To betray the certainty
You said you had in me
We spun toward the inner track
Sang our song until the final chord
You made your move
And left me in the runoff groove
This tipping point, the wake of all this change
Still, I can’t get around
The beauty of those chords before they ceased to sound
How it all comes back to me
A slightest pause in the day
And I’m swept away
In the sepia shade
Of all those plans we made
This tipping point
The wake of all this change
Still I can’t get around
Those chords we made, the heights we climbed
The beauty of those leaves before they hit the ground
How close someone can be before they let you down
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Alexandra
02:54
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Alexandra, you know that you’ve got me reeling
Such a spender on all of my daytime dreaming
Is it just my misled intuition
That sends me deep reading through your disposition?
Sitting in your chair, just painting to pass the time
It’s never been your care to join in life’s age-old rhymes
Oh, there you go with your playful teasing
And I’ll play along ‘cause it’s oh so pleasing
Alexandra, what is this deep affection
That floats in the air toward me from your direction?
Paint me the words that you’re longing for me to say
And I’ll sing them all so that we can start loving today
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9. |
Why Do You Do That?
03:55
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Why do you do that?
Can’t you see I’m off the edge?
You’ve gone and done an unforgivable thing
Was falling slowly, but I’ve stepped off of the ledge
Now falling fast, but that’s what mistakes will bring
You didn’t know just what was meant when she said,
“Stay for a while” as you crawled into her bed?
I’m burning out
Come on, what else can I do?
I’ll shout out loud,
Try to scream some sense into you
The one I saw yesterday was pure as gold
Now blackened down to a grain of sand
Is there no turning from this life that you now hold?
Can you back down and make this all end?
You didn’t know just what was meant when she said,
“Stay for a while” as you crawled into her bed?
I’m burning out
Come on, what else can I do?
I’ll shout out loud,
Try to scream some sense into you
Is there no turning back
From this life you now hold?
You didn’t know just what was meant when she said,
“Stay for a while” as you crawled into her bed?
I’m burning out
Come on, what else can I do?
I’ll shout out loud,
Try to scream some sense into you
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I’ve known your sadness
It seems to have no end
The kind that darkens
Blinds you from the bend
But rest, honey dear
Comfort can be near
Your eyes reveal a certain sense of sorrow
But don’t you take them off tomorrow
And when it starts to get you down, take a look around
Smiling faces all around to pick you up without a sound
It’s gonna be alright
Worries go with the night
The past has made you
So familiar to alarm
Thoughts you shared
Were turned around to harm
Though it’s easy to say
It won’t always be that way
The past had grown you so much thicker skin
But don’t you let it hide what lies within
And when it starts to get you down, take a look around
Smiling faces all around to pick you up without a sound
It’s gonna be alright
Worries go with the night
And when it starts to get you down, take a look around
Smiling faces all around to pick you up without a sound
It’s gonna be alright
Worries go with the night
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*An instrumental passage for your reflection*
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12. |
Winter Solstice Suite
05:03
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Kathleen, you color each day you choose to grace the scene
Warm, kind, and ever caring to me
You’re one of a kind
The solitude you sometimes feel compels me to remind
Some, they place so little faith in your thoughts
Worry not, for it’s only their loss
A life friend, I know
The comfort that we find in a moment’s silence tells me so
Wintertime 2016; winter solstice dreams
Singing “Someday Soon” to the crowd; cheers rang out loud
For you and me, Kathleen
Saugerties was shining so bright that winter night
Didn’t think to say our goodbyes ‘til the morning light
A life friend, I know
The comfort that we find in a moment’s silence tells me so
Long, sad days since that winter round
Some have gone, others let me down
Colors lost in the gray
Waiting for the day when she comes
Here she comes singing, “Na, na na…”
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Brad Bensko Boston, Massachusetts
Hailing from Mystic, CT, Brad Bensko is a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who plays solo as well as with the likes of Paul Rishell, Annie Raines, and Kathleen Parks of Boston based band, Mojo Rodeo. Drawing from his love of 50s and 60s pop, American Songbook, and American Roots, Brad weaves these influences together to create fresh songs with ties to the past. ... more
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