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Upward: a quarandream (original release)

by Jessica in The Rainbow

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Upward: a quarandream (six songs) 25:58
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lyrics: 1. (0:00) I write my own rules I write my own play I write my own story Again and again And you can do this too And you can change your mind And you can try to find the good The silver lining It isn't hard to do It isn't hard to say things Before they've come true What do you want to be True? 2. (3:05) You thought you knew The truth You thought you were so realistic You thought you knew The way to make things come true The way to make yourself grow into something Something better But you were only something new Which isn't necessarily better Something new Isn't usually better Fly away Fly away To the sky in your mind Fly away Fly away To the sky in your mind Fly away Fly away into the sky in your mind Fly away Fly away into the sky 3. (6:45) What do you see there? What do you see? What do you want to be? Are there answers in all this time you've spent Looking for answers Is it like wings on a tired bird Reborn but not wanting to fly I guess it's unclear and not your fault, you tried You tried and tried and tried and tried and You learned things here And most of all you learned that Flying and trying aren't the same They're not the same They're not the same 4. (11:07) What can be made of this life When you've run out of air in your lungs dear What can be made of time that's Wandering and climbing in the air Like a seed in the wind Blowing here and there Blowing all around It can't be found It can't set down It can't be grounded At least not here 5. (14:42) People can't control their wants or needs It isn't their fault I see that now The ways I've been so sure The ways I've let you down People can't control their thoughts sometimes I'm finding I've been judging you too unfairly And I'm just as lost as you are too Flying's all I can do with my life Flying is all I can make of my life Flying is all I can understand Anymore Anymore 6. (18:28) I must leave you But didn't know I would need to Go so soon To the clouds But I will wait here In a giant field of light You can see me When you close your eyes And I'm there dear I'm not the light I'm just in the light Well I am the light But you are too The light's inside of you And all around you too And I'm going forward By growing upward finally I'm afraid that I may leave you behind And I'm sorry to leave you behind Cause I never meant to leave you behind me I thought you would come with me Here Dear But you weren't ready Will you ever be? Will you ever be like me? You gotta be brave Even when there's nothin to show You gotta share what's in your soul Even if they laugh or scold or tell you no We don't need you here And it'll hurt like knives in your heart Like pain in your eyes When you open them up You can't help but want to be blind And to fly up into the great big sky On your own Well not alone Cause there's angels all around And they're so glad you didn't want to touch down Well you wanted to But they wouldn't let you Not really They showed you all the ways we can fail at our dreams Here Are they really dreams? Or would it really be a dream To have to do all that work For proof that you don't belong in this world? I know you've been living like a ghost Some kind of holy ghost Just when they needed you the most You couldn't find the strength to give Your time So Fly Fly For you Who cares if they're watching Or if nobody cares except you It's in your heart to fly In your heart to fly Like you've always wanted to Like you've always meant to do But you were too scared to Be You.

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this music and these words were improvised on april 21st 2020...pressed record six times in a row and there it was. recorded on MIDI in protools, one keyboard take copied into many layers, first hunches, whatever sounded good...all written and arranged in about an hour and a half. so, it's what it is. this is how i fly.

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released April 22, 2020

songs by jessica fogle
flight path by jessica fogle
music making by jessica fogle
weird brain by jessica fogle
lost soul floating in space by jessica fogle
help by jessica fogle
support staff by jessica fogle
um, cover embroidery from the 70s or 80s by jane fogle
clouds by God or weather patterns
love worth staying for by bryan ralph
friendship love worth staying for by stephanie bell
niece who needs you by brooklyn bell
kids who need you by lots of kids
dreams of death outweighed by dreams of life by me
dreams of life not filled with to-dos or rules anymore by me
dreams of love not filled with rules or to-dos anymore by me
life by me
life by you
let's live, okay?
(and fly sometimes too)
(that's what i'll do in the end...this isn't prophecy, maybe it's 40 years from now...don't be sad, it's just a dream) xo

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~demos & lofi~
~existential dream folk~
~neoclassical lullaby pop~
~care bear stare~

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