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It's A Movie It's A Dream

by Josh Caress

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It's a Movie It's a Dream 08:35
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IT’S A MOVIE IT’S A DREAM It’s a movie, it’s a dream There’s a screen Where today becomes tomorrow There’s a car and a plane There’s a train Making stops at all our sorrows There’s a fountain in a truck stop Where the kids stop To make wishes with their quarters While we wait for the shower Every hour Another trip across the border I came in Through the screen door Like I knew where I was going Ran down the sand dune To the water Just in time to see it glowing There was sadness In the sunlight As I threw the final pitches And I looked up In the window To see someone washing dishes It’s a movie, it’s a dream In this scene We’re not sure what’s gonna happen There are choices to be made In the shade I could swear I saw her laughing As she took off all her clothes And then she rose And took another bite of apple And I saw I had one too And then I knew We were kneeling in the chapel On the platform We were waving As we squinted in the sunlight As the faces Brushed before me I knew all that wasn’t done right Little children Making faces A their laughter turned to crying I said, “Cheer up It’s ok now It’s not like anybody’s dying” I walked slowly To the basement And I could only beg for mercy I found water In the kitchen And I drank ‘cause I was thirsty At the table Sat a family With a glow upon their faces And I broke down Drawing pictures Running round and round the bases I could see him At the old house And he looked like he was taller We took the back way To the drugstore Clutching tight to our last dollar We ate ice cream In a spotlight As the sunset hit the canyon And the bike path Led to beaches And the rocks where we were standing And we looked out At the lighthouse As it stood upon the nightstand Put the bookmark In the story ‘Cause I don’t want it to end I came in Through the screen door Like I knew where I was going Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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As This All Passes Away [feat. Christa Gniadek] 06:08
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AS THIS ALL PASSES AWAY Hey, been trying to find you Walking up and down this beach Searching for a fire still burning O, this place O, it reminds me I can't recognize your face It's not glowing in the moonlight And so close that I could kiss you I am young and I am old I am swimming in the starlight And I splash into the sunshine Eating sandwiches on sweet rye I am little, I am happy Holding on to something that we know The sand is always shifting As we watch these children grow Riding on our bikes into the sun It's all changing when I see you Where have they all gone There was never anyone Hey, you know I've missed you Come and open up the house Did you think this all was over Put your feet upon the cool floor Does it feel like it's still sandy Are you falling from the front door It may be that season left the world We may have missed each other Or any other girl This may be a movie or a dream But it's as real as anything you've ever seen As real as you and me Hold me in your arms As this all passes away Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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In the Mountains 03:19
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IN THE MOUNTAINS I can hear your voice Ringing out so true A melody more pure Than anything that I could do I can smell the campfire The chill air in my nose I follow you at night Along a path that no one knows Spend the night up in the mountains Resting underneath the trees In the morning we wake up to a sunrise More beautiful than any one I’ve seen And I want so much to tell you Everything you mean to me How your eyes are so wide open Like I always wished to see And I can see you flying With that smile upon your face And I know that you are wrapped up In an ever-loving grace And I pray this song will take you Home to mountains you’ve never seen With the flowers and the sunshine I wish I could see the wonder in your eyes Like you’re waking to a dream Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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On the Road 08:23
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ON THE ROAD It’s getting on towards evening The dusk is falling late The summer pushes back the veil of time Passed through all the construction Now it’s been clear on the interstate All the way from Cleveland to the Indiana line It was hazy in the morning Baking hot in the afternoon If the evening cools at all I’ll be surprised It’s all so familiar Or it feels like it’s too soon Like the future’s waiting just over the rise And the white line’s before me Stretching out into the night And I’m speeding with the windows down Looking for the city lights And I feel the engine turning With all that came before I swore that I was leaving I’m not going back no more I’m on my own now I’m on the road Running every red light on memory lane From 95 out to the 101 Under a sky so starry that you can’t feel any pain I pull over and just wait for the sun Coming in to Flagstaff and the San Francisco Peaks I wonder if I’ve ever really known someone Tucumcari to Tallahassee Telluride to Tennessee Maybe I’ve always been a little on the run And it’s all there before me Everything I’ve ever seen And as much as I keep looking I still don’t know what it means Where the mountains meet the prairie Where the gravel meets the stream Where the stars go on forever And everything that's in between I’m not alone now I’m on the road I dreamed a highway That cuts across the years From the first time I saw mountains To the last time I was here I dreamed a highway Turning green and gold I am wonder, I am wisdom I am young and I am old Now the white line’s before me Stretching out into the night And I’m speeding with the windows down Looking for the city lights And I feel the engine turning With all that came before But this is somewhere else now I’m not going back no more I’m not alone now I’m on the road Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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Los Angeles 06:33
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LOS ANGELES Did you find Los Angeles Did you see the end of the road Did the sun set in the west Did the evening sky explode Did you cover up your eyes Or were they open wide Did you learn anything from this Did you find Los Angeles O, all the words You tried to name it To catch every butterfly Pin it down, get it right O, an answer So clean you couldn't stain it Watch it fade away with the coming of the night Did you find Los Angeles What did you see along the way Did a morning full of mist Turn to the green and blue of day Did the mountains turn your face To the outpouring of grace Did you take in all of this Did you find Los Angeles O, let me see the things that matter Embracing all of it is the only way to heal No matter how many illusions must be shattered Love is broken Love is damaged Love is real Did you find Los Angeles Did you meet someone out there Did you feel the sweetest kiss Did you learn to care Did you lay down all your pride Did you have nothing left to hide Did you give it all your best Did you find Los Angeles O, do you see The sky is open Do you see everyone crying out The same as you O, detachment is a lie when we're all broken And it takes the human touch to make love real Did you find Los Angeles Did you leave it all at home Does that person still exist Is there more you haven't shown Does it even matter now When we've broken every vow Should we learn to live like this Did you find Los Angeles O, see the lights spread out below you See the lights above scattered all across the sky There's an ocean in the blackness of the distance There's a black ocean in the distance between you and I Did you find Los Angeles Can it even be believed Can love cross this abyss Would it even be received As the ocean teems with life As the stars fill up the night As we look out just like kids Did you find Los Angeles Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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On the Night 03:59
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ON THE NIGHT On the night And the blood is rushing I can feel Everyone is in this city is moving Everyone in this city Is alive Can you feel it Like a rhythm, like a thunder Like a train rolling under the ground Can you feel it I wanna come together I wanna come Together And it’s only a put-on You don’t need my explanations This could be tender This could be revelation On the night And this isn’t a movie Reaching out For some kind of connection Looking for any kind of connection Reaching out For a spark To feel alive Can you feel it Like a rhythm, like a thunder Like a train rolling under the ground Can you feel it Getting faster, getting closer Like we’re crashing into each other We’re gonna crash Does it have to be so insecure, love Can you really see me Do I really want you to I only want to hold on to you To feel the way you feel me To feel what you feel To feel you as real Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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Come In 03:17
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COME IN Come in There’s a place for you Pull back the curtain I know what troubles you Lay down your burden O the dark isn’t gonna lay down And the light isn’t going out Oh no, the dark isn’t gonna lay down And the light isn’t going out It’s time To look at what you’ve been carrying around It’s time To look at everything You were a child You had a hold on something You were running with the wolves You were a fire You were a dancer You were a bearer of love in this world When you woke, everything had changed It’s never gonna be the same again When you woke, everything had changed It’s never gonna be the same again Take a walk up to the house It’s gonna be any minute now Take a walk up to the house Everything is different now Nobody’s gonna tell you that you’re not good enough Nobody’s gonna tell you that you don’t measure up No more hiding who we are No more covering the scars It’s all coming in It’s all coming in In this unholy mess It’s all coming in It’s all coming in This is forgiveness O the dark isn’t gonna lay down And the light isn’t going out Oh no, the dark isn’t gonna lay down And the light isn’t going out Come in There’s a place for you Come in Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)
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Broken Love 09:57
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BROKEN LOVE Broken love Broken love Is all that I can give you It’s not enough But it’s enough It’s all we’ve got to hold on to We’re stuck in time With stars that shine Through an atmosphere of air And the colors of our hair Joy remembers joylessness And joy kneels All of this is real And all that we can feel Is broken love There’s a glow in the kitchen From the microwave light When you get out of bed In the middle of the night And you walk through the summer And you walk through the snow And we’re holding hands now Like we know where to go And the dusk it is falling On these quiet streets There’s a light from the house Like we know where to meet There are voices and crying And a stinging of pain And the hurt is so real Now it’s starting to rain The washing of water The smell of a place The smiles and the love Like a stream down your face In the gathering twilight The gathering storm Beyond the walls of the city Where hope’s being born And the night is so silent The night is so wild O the fear and the trembling Like the eyes of a child I’ll take on your burden And I’ll watch you go When it all comes together It’s all made of broken love Broken love Written by Josh Caress (C)(P) 2020 Josh Caress / Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)

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released August 27, 2020

Written, Performed, and Produced by Josh Caress

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Peter Koeplin - Drums (Tracks 1,2,4,6,8)
Christa Gniadek - Vocals (Track 2)
Noah Caress - Trumpet (Track 7)

2020 Beach Bonfire Music (ASCAP)

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