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Upward: a quarandream (six songs)

from Upward: a quarandream (original release) by Jessica in The Rainbow

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lyrics

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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from Upward: a quarandream (original release), released April 22, 2020

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~existential dream folk~
~neoclassical lullaby pop~
~care bear stare~

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