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Normalcy, Please

by Paul Ventura

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TobiaFun Just grabbed this and your latest, can't wait to go through them! Favorite track: I'm On To You.
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crazypumpkins I have a lot of favorites on this album. Keys in the car reminds me of a personal moment so I have to go with the unconventional choice here. Great album and a great display of Paul's musical talent. Thanks man! Favorite track: Key's In the Car.
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Jolene Spec This might be my favorite thing you've done! Favorite track: Can't Afford to Lose.
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1.
and to the west always knows best it knows the truest you and i am right before your eyes and still without a clue oh i can see your mind go it's mapping every road for you the only one where you don't win is staring back at you (chorus) give my love a chance tomorrow give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will fix our life again tomorrow you know there's nothing i won't prove i can't be the life that you made up i can't be what you left behind i can't see the traps that you're making i'm just shaking off peace of mind (chorus) give my love a chance tomorrow give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will fix our life again tomorrow you know there's nothing i wouldn't prove no one can be everything to you (solo) (chorus) give my love a chance tomorrow give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will live my life again tomorrow but i'm on to you
2.
I Would Cry 04:13
i want my brooklyn city girl to save me from my life only if you can't be the girl who's living in my mind (prechorus) who you once were a different place in time but lately you're just trying to survive and i'm still caught on your last call each night no i don't know what i would do without you (chorus) i'd cry i would only stay here for the night then i'd die i would only hang on for a night i want my brooklyn city to love me for these lines only if you can't be the girl to keep me up at night (prechorus) but lately you're just trying to survive and you've no time for selfish thoughts of mine and they'll all love you from the day you die no i don't know what i would do without you (chorus) (bridge) <ooo ooo ooo ooo> that's the way that you'll let go that's the way that they will call that's the way that I'll lose my life (solo) (prechorus) now lately you're just trying to survive but all i want are selfish thoughts of mine and they'll all love you from the day you die no i don't know what i would do without you (chorus) X2 + that's the way that you'll let go that's the way that they'll find out that's the way that I'll lose my life
3.
i'll pack the key's in the car don't you worry bout' that go meet your lifelong friends i will keep all your dreams if you ever look back least i can give you that (chorus) at least all the work is done at least i'm here if they're gone at least i can offer you that at least i am still good for that once in the sea there were monkeys that dreamed on the bed tell me again bout them how they got there or breathed these were secrets you kept would never betray your friends (chorus) at least all the work is done at least i'll rise with the sun at least i can offer you that at least i am still good for that (bridge) lucy's on the telephone she's saying that she just got home if you wanna come around you cried when i caught her and she spilled all the water now i can't breathe it out so why's it so dry i guess i love by now you only call me when you are down i'll pack the key's in the car don't you worry bout that
4.
i've been awake throughout every disaster i started and watched as they'd take but you're stranger to me while i'm pulling alarms you followed the smoke so calmly i couldn't say whether we were worth saving or left at the floor of the lake you wouldn't need any promises written to keep waking up next to me (chorus) my sweet release is waiting for me to pick up every piece left of me my sweet release is waiting on me and turning every cheek all for me things i believe are the sounds of my voice and that clock that won't quit chasing me my fall from grace it's never measured in hours my friends see it worn on my face you wouldn't see all the bad blood i kept inside me you wouldn't say all the bad days that broke you and told you to look other ways (chorus) my sweet release is waiting for me to pick up every piece left of me my sweet release is waiting on me and turning every cheek yeah my world always handles the worse sides of me yeah my love is the plot that's not worth following you can't stop wanting something that you'll never need you're just talking yourself out of the air you breathe (bridge) just stay close to me and we'll lives in the weeds they won't see just stay close to me sooner or later yeah sooner or later we'll settle on something we'll settle on something let's settle on something on something that we'll never need (chorus) my sweet release is waiting for me to pick up every piece left of me my sweet release is waiting on me and turning every cheek yeah my world always handles the worse sides of me yeah my love is the plot that's not worth following you can't stop wanting something that you'll never need you're just talking yourself out of the air you breathe for the record you'll never be lonely with me
5.
You Shoot 03:36
you read my mind, you can't be that far behind i know my rights, you changed nine worlds with a light (chorus) you shoot i'll write this lie means everything all right you're right but if you're away from me you know it'll be all right you speak your mind, they color it left or right we fall behind, the needle moves for a time and in a minute we'll forget we're fine can't fight for what we cannot find (chorus) X2 but if you're away from me you know it'll be all right
6.
a pair of lights they slowed outside you'd think that after all this time i would know you but still i have to check the blinds yeah well i still need fuel for all this fire that rewrote you and i've heard every voice meant to sway but i'm perfectly happy to stay (chorus) on the days i made you laugh on the days i made you laugh i won the days i made you laugh i want the days i made you laugh a song come on the radio and you found you start to write a note as you smiled but you caught yourself in time and you stopped you from sending a line i might construe and you've turned those well meant words away and you fought every instinct to stay (chorus) x2
7.
someday i will get too high on all the life and lines that we been drinking but we aren't mine we fly through the night with no regard for everything beneath it (prechorus) i'm seeing less the warnings i've been letting go now i'm seeing more the stars that guide me straight to you but i (chorus) i can't afford to lose can't afford to sing the blues can't afford to fall for you so leave those sweet reminders home with you reminders of what we can do one day i will fill my life have time enough for one last look inside it there were places i knew better by far so why's your room the part that won't stop showing (prechorus) i'm seeing those anomalies that they been selling i never asked just once to raise the curtain (chorus) (bridge) we bend the light to coincide with with everything we think no know is right i kind of think if we had broken there'd never be a point we'd know it (chorus)
8.
walkin down the line i must have seen you once or twice so i sat alone with space and hopes that you could waste my time and i held an extra can i must have been an awkward sight and you you saw right through but played and asked me what i'm doin now and you told me out you warned at every turn for my own sake but i can't walk away from you because i know what it would take and i know the water only water only water now i see you walking through me yeah i see you walking through (chorus) and i'll carry you over the dunes by their house and i'll carry you over if words won't come out and i'll carry you over you never found out and i'll carry you over the world we couldn't live without ignoring all the signs but you must have seen me once or twice while i'm sleeping in my best waves handing down my worst advice and you'd never known a dream could leave you out of reach and dry but i i see that look in you yeah i see you looking through it all and you come around to me you tried to feign some sympathy but you can't walk away from me because you know what it would mean and we're only water only water all the water now yeah it sees us coming through again it sees us coming to (chorus)
9.
grace start over new in the absense of a better man i work my hands to bone all for you faith all but failed you with the patience of a bitter man you held the words you don't make your move and she's the prettiest drug there will ever be and she just walked out on that movie screen all for you all for you and you carry that weight you stack it up in you to prop up that smile it's all that you can do almost blue almost blue and the rain is closing in it's just a matter of time until you're free from your sins so pad it out with days all spent in our life is simple if not predictable here it goes now: friday night one more try you try to fit a red in blue friday night one more time you try to fit a red in blue friday night you are overjoyed you try to fit a red in blue friday night i will watch you try i am this time half pulling for you hopeless for you grace won't walk out for you and i can't wait to learn which way you'll lose i can't go this way so finally truth all of the whispers i shouted were not meant for you
10.
ami wears her childish fits like a star that walks to violins while i been raising hell just at the sight of me just kinda thought that it'd be different (chorus) but i've been days away from brooklyn and i can't feel the light that shined on me but i can see now how a life ends without two rooms where one still asks for me ami takes her vitamins and she stumbles to the party and in a sea of shaking heads she's now my responsibility (chorus) ami tastes like violets and she can't be more than a memory but she just missed the last bus heading west and she turns her hopeful eyes to me (chorus) but i've been days away from brooklyn and i can't feel the light that shined on me but i can feel well how a life ends inside these eyes that are staring back at me
11.
going out or staying in the pop scene's where we start and end we're gonna live in 22 and when that day comes to take we'll look the other way or call it in for a drink or two cos i want you to feel this too it's all i want from you but in the end you'll crush me with that look like i'm crazy and i'll double down before i'll join you (chorus) race the day i wanna see your heart break race the day i wanna see you cool race the day i wanna feel your heart break it's your only move it's your only move come on "friends to the end" i wanna drink until the sunrise i wanna see the way you move cos i stayed in bed on the days that you conquered something that something that i couldn't do and i'm driven by the day that we'll feel different when a week is too much time for us to lose and i know there's a distance that we won't say exists 'til one of us makes it formal and moves (chorus) (bridge) and with her i swore so sure i did the right thing but it just drove me farther from you so if there's no use to think straight i'll drink the walls you made no consolation at hiding those clues (chorus)
12.
it's a cold one when you will that pride away with a tail between some knees you'd sooner find your head and aim it's a problem that i can't find the remedy always let's talk about it one more time and i'll find a melody when that cold wind sang it froze you some place made of worlds and distant memories that since changed a million ways but you stood in place and you drank in faith that you'd find yourself that missing clue in a life that don't remain it's a game you're a drunk man who's never seen for sure she's gone you just repeat the words until the world just hums along or an old man in that honest kind of way wouldn't blame it on the reverie sooner blame it on the rain (chorus) it's a cold one when it brings you round my way never said out loud you needed help never set the traps you made it's a cold one and there ain't no other way when you found something worth waiting for you never thought it was your place in the time since you put you away we found that love that filled and covered up that drain we found your chance was never gauged in months or days it's a shame (chorus) you're a cold one who never found another way had a year or two of better luck just enough to keep you trained you're a slow song with a heart to love and blame when you heard that distant melody it took you too far away you're a cold one

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"Normalcy, Please" is my sophomore release. After my debut, this is the first album I created which was written together as a cohesive whole rather than a collection of songs.

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released September 21, 2018

All songs written, recorded, and produced by Paul Ventura. Copyright 2016 Paul Ventura. All rights reserved.

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