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The Way It's Always Been

by Paul Ventura

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Sybel
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Sybel I've been listening to you for years now. Looking forward to this! Favorite track: If You Go (Bonus Track).
Josselyn Faris
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Josselyn Faris Really pretty. This was a nice surprise. Favorite track: Kept Inside.
CaityT
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CaityT LOVE your acoustic stuff! Favorite track: Footnote.
TobiaFun
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TobiaFun Wow this is great! Looks like I missed that last album. I'll have to remedy that situation... Favorite track: We Live Alone.
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Tyler I'm still waiting on some more from your trophy kids, but this is really great too! I love that outro on Fashonista's Party! Favorite track: Fashionista's Party.
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1.
is there any way anyway that you can see this maybe turning out right they took my bridge and my car no thought if i could move on i found some lightning that was there to grab me and i remember when remember when you came back when everything around me was lost you told me stay where you are you took a seat at the bar and told me well that we'd be staying up late (prechorus) i never preach but when their chemicals ignited it dropped me right back in my life just for a time you had to be there when (chorus) love, love, love and everybody's talking about me now love, love, love but you can just drive me right there into the ground love, love, love so i can feel the other side if i come out is there any way anyway to see this for anything but what it is he's falling down in the world just like his father before just like i know it's gonna take me someday but i remember when remember when you were there when all the lights they disappeared and now the roles are reversed and every word feels rehearsed ain't even known you since we named the lake (prechorus) i rarely see just what i need so it stays with me so keep me crying keep me whining keep me high up life in shambles when i say (chorus) (bridge) some people stayed and some drove away and some can't be raised that's nothing that new now some people made it others are jaded the others say you're fool for waiting some people changed and some stayed the same and some are afraid of something new now some people made up some people gave up some people cut you down to get a boost now (chorus) love, love, love and everybody's talking about me now love, love, love yeah i can hear them all from under ground love, love, love i wanna feel the other side when i come out
2.
stereo was calling me around the time that i that i was meant to leave drifting in and out an awkward proximity to argue the pop scene if i was somewhere greener drive them to their knees (chorus) we caught a fashionista's party just to break up our demands i got too stoned in the bathroom you were drinking grander plans and when you found me in the pantry tried to make you understand saying no i'm not your family but i might just be your friend when this ends they planned their words for weeks the reference complete the black hole that is me you fought them off valiantly and quite needlessly cos you won't ever leave the odd word over dinner drove you to your knees (chorus) we caught a fashionista's party just to break up our demands i got too stoned in the bathroom you were drinking grander plans and when you found me in the pantry tried to make you understand saying no i'm not your family but i might just be your friend saying no i'm not your family but i might just be your friend singing no i'm not your family and i'll never be your friend (bridge) and you said please take my hand you've been hiding from our children finding shelter in the math then i said please understand you've been running from a failure that you never gave a chance then we danced (instrumental) (coda) drugs right through the winter drinks til summer's end we only poked our heads to find we lost our friends settled there on Park street settled til it ends there must be someone who deserves calm more than this so don't take this the wrong way get out while you still can remember me don't stare at me through what is left not like this
3.
get me up i won't be forever wired why does stagnating leave me tired all along they want to talk but not with me it's been awhile since i saw them all them kids have piled up (prechorus) and i bet more than, i can ever answer for yeah yesterday was the same i've been here before waiting for the end of winter holding out for something bigger i've held it all let's just pretend you're not my only hope (chorus) we live alone in silence hoping for a chance to be best friends we live alone in silence it's what it is give it up cos you just miscalculated it's an hour from the couch to out the door and they'll want to talk about everything you're missing thinly veiled as a description of what they want (prechorus) and i bet more than, i'll be ever asking for yeah drinking faith from a paper cup on the floor not self aware enough to call it always on the right side of something your glass is full no need to measure when you made the rules (chorus) (solo) (bridge) in our sleep we're never gonna cry or dream no silver scenes on the screen they leave us behind the strangest things will keep us going we've gotten good at being broken we carry on it's just the way it's always been (chorus)
4.
Kept Inside 03:20
give me sweet mornings where we call out late dropping everything for a look that tells me that the world can wait give me sweeter nights don't turn out the lights they all end too soon every finite moment that i'm staring into you (chorus) give me all your light that you kept inside give me all the dreams that keep you up my first sight when i'm waking up and i'll give you all my life give me afternoons with nothing to do sunset afternoons where we share a glance to say let's never leave this room (chorus) give me every fight just to make things right just there to remind us there will never be another you and i (chorus)
5.
friends a word for dead ends at one point i needed lists to keep my ties these days can count on one hand can just count to five and shoes once had a use once had a need an urge to tell the truth now i i can't be bothered for a lie (prechorus) the only time you cross my mind is when i check the time and drink myself to death on what could have been (chorus) maybe on the way down maybe when the wheels all come off on your life then maybe we could be friends maybe we could reach the end of my life we just might deserve a try/no it doesn't hurt to try you, you could be you but not the you that's falling short for you the you that could be bothered for the time and i, i could be me in all the brilliant ways i want to be your dream, your manic pixie like you for me (prechorus) the only time you cross my mind is when i'm aiming high and trading out could be with what could have been (chorus) (solo) (chorus)
6.
Street Signs 03:38
so long you made it or maybe not but hey they're not complaining you you got nobody you can lose you messed up won't say it but one by one you saw them graduate from you you kept your smile for the room (chorus) i didn't mean to let you fall so far without me i didn't mean to make you walk so far alone find a light a street sign any kind of clue to buy us some more time that's all i didn't mean to let you fall so far without me your best friend you meant it a face that meant the world in that small place and time don't ask you what they've been up to exploded and scattered so put some noise on over what's the matter you you got so much work left to do (chorus) (bridge) and now the fork's in the mirror can barely make it out remade for who now belongs here think what you'd think of you now (chorus)
7.
Footnote 03:31
riding in the simple summer the one i'm gonna call forever when times are darkest, counting hours i'll put me in your grandma's foyer and it's all downhill from here they must have spied us through that window yeah it's all downhill from here we only didn't cos i got yellow (chorus) and there's nowhere to go from here your mind has turned months into years i keep on driving any change could end it i leave me blind so i can keep pretending but there's nowhere to go riding through the tinted summer that honeyed air won't let you sober with days below ground, O.G. theater and nights you're watching me live up there it's all downhill from here we found a spark in a west coast winter yeah it's all downhill from here we stayed up early and broke some records (chorus) (solo) but i, i'm barely a footnote and i, yeah i know (chorus)
8.
Waste your time but you don't check the second hand Not quite right But you give me the benefit i Could spend this one with you Don't sing sweet Cos they'll run all away again don't have much just keys and a couple grand i don't use this rented room (chorus) i won't be your light you won't be my stars in the sky we won't be what you you saw through your child eyes one five four i'll write you a simple tune won't be much but each word is just for you nothing's quite complete so we got a reason what's it for as if everybody cares about it 500 don't make break Much anything i Could spend this one with you (chorus) i won't be your light you won't be my stars in the sky we won't be what you you wanted with child eyes one five four i'll write you a simple tune won't be much but each word is just for you nothing's quite complete so we got a reason (Bridge) we took the 101 tonight and found ourselves new space and time We gave those hours right up So freely most every night yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Chorus) one five four i'll write you a simple tune won't be much each word is just for you nothing's quite complete so we got a reason four one five i don't know another way to save our life been this since the salad days be my queen take me vienna to venice beach we're right for the first time
9.
was it in the little things A look that's only for you Or was it in the simple things was just the first love you knew but make no mistake about it now yeah he can love you like i can't and did i only want that when you're all that i've seen no i gave myself more credit then but you were right in front of me But you're all that i wanted You're all that i need do you see me hiding well i've been dancing with myself do you see me hiding for no one else well i don't think about it now (instrumental) do you see me hiding well i've been dancing with myself do you see me hiding for no one else Stay up with me one time and i can show you something else you'd have that yellow dress on and i'd play a days away song then you said i came with somebody else
10.
when i show you my work through i throw you off you don't know what i mean how have i made such an age and not know what to say (prechorus) and i know you like what you see and i know you get what you need but still sooner or now i'll still lose everything just know sooner not later yeah sooner just (chorus) stop shutting down at everything why is my mind tunnel blind every time for anything cover your eyes i've got something to hide i'll just miss you am i better or worse off to know just which year's on repeat why can't it be a bad moment not me see one more's on the way (prechorus) and i know you and just what you'll say is there value in hearing the same (full stop) my expectations have poisoned my chances but aren't no expectations a sign of a... (chorus) (solo) (chorus) stop shutting down at everything why is my mind tunnel blind every time for anything why is my mind tunnel blind every time for anything sooner or now it'll catch up to me it's my mind making matter with my soul under siege set the science aside it's been no good to me save for drowning out voices surely wearing from me there's no sparing of senses when you see it coming so i'll cover my eyes i've got something to hide i can't win every time but could change my reply but still don't be surprised when i'm quiet tonight i just miss you
11.
(chorus) will you come along and i'll sing you a song like when we were both young and the world was all ours could you once not let on just once don't let it happen to you happen to you june came on like a boss as if to whisper that all is not lost but i waste it just blaming horizons the moment is gone i don't track much the days of empty rooms and a band that still played with the flower that blew out i shrank down with no way to pay (prechorus) when i'd wake you with hammers and strings when i'd save you not from anything just so sure you should be smiling when i'm gone (chorus) will you come along and i'll sing you a song like when we were both young and the world was all ours could you once not let on just once don't let it happen to you but you sent them along cos you're still holding on swore the words were all wrong and the colors all gone cos you can't once let on no you won't it happen to you here's a two sided town where dreams are lost but where nothing gets found and i spent what i meant to get out to get you to swoon and i'm drinking all night i missed my twenties so i'm living them tonight in the seconds between bad and worse i'm chasing them too (prechorus) and i'll make you with chords and with strings i'll replace you with crowds who will sing the good of you i'll swear you're smiling when you're gone (instrumental) (chorus) + but you sent them along cos you're still holding on swore the words were all wrong and the colors all gone cos you can't once let on no you won't it happen to you
12.
and if you go i'll leave you all alone i'll teach myself to not look for you anymore someday things they will settle down if you don't it's on and on again i'll complicate your life if you would let me in i need you to not stand for it when (chorus) summer takes you i need you to find your way back to me through this storm tell me that you'll come back down soon i know you're not sure anymore and if you go just leave me all alone convince myself to not rely on you so much when i can't explain myself why you're gone and everything will drip the lines i tried and failed to catch more than your feet i want you here not sympathy (chorus) summer takes you i need you to find your way back to me through this storm tell me that you'll come back down soon i know you're not sure anymore

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"The Way It's Always Been" is my third full length record. It was written and recorded on and off between 2019 and 2020.

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released February 19, 2021

All songs written and recorded by Paul Ventura. Copyright 2021 Paul Ventura. All rights reserved.

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