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We Create (5​-​song EP)

by The Jinxes

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1.
My Butterfly 03:50
VERSE She wakes, scrambles eggs and smoothes the bed She laughs, as I yawn and scratch my head and she slides a brand-new princess comb through the knots in my hair She holds my hand as we walk there First day, screams and spit balls fill the air and I cling, but she nods and I climb the stairs She waves, til the school bus pulls away, disappears then sings a song to quiet her fears: CHORUS Spread your wings and fly outstretched to the sky Spread your wings and fly My butterfly VERSE Ten years, and then another ten go by and I move, find a job and find a guy and I call, with a spring in my step, tear in my eye "Mom, we set the date for July." She brings, somethin' old and somethin' blue, and we talk, with an hour left and nothing left to do, and I've got ... a stomach full of big butterflies, but she takes my hand and looks in my eyes: CHORUS BRIDGE VERSE She takes her grandkids' pictures from the wall on her last day, she cleans her desk and walks down the hall Looks both ways and, wonders what to do now, what happens next... When she asks, I know what to suggest: CHORUS
2.
VERSE This situation's takin' us the other way Takin' us down to places that we've never been before The glass is flying here, the words are cutting deeper now As we keep slipping sliding into our own holy war, hoping for more CHORUS Do you remember me? Cause baby I'm still standing If this how it has to be... Take the ride and see it through, Find something old and something new VERSE The laundry's crying' and the laughing bills are stacking up The jealous Mondays with their empty paycheck promises The quiet worries whisper things aren't going fast enough So we keep running racing to the phantom finish line, hoping for time CHORUS BRIDGE Inside the fire Inside the wheel It's hard to see It's hard to feel But don't forget How hard we've tried And don't you dare forget I'm on your side VERSE This situation's takin' us the other way Takin' us down to places that we've never been before My heart is pounding but you're standing here beside me So come on baby maybe this is what we bargained 4, hopin’ 4 more CHORUS/VAMP OUT
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VERSE Across the fields and through the woods In industry and in the hoods From the top of the highest mountain to the bottom of my street From the pages in the towers to the hungry hills of wheat From the huddled masses yearning before a golden door To the homeless and the tempest-tossed on the flooded shore From the purple robes of prominence to the eagle pose of dominance the prisoners stand a-starin’ while the bugle horn’s a-blarin’ CHORUS Can you hear it ring? INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE VERSE Through the years and through the days Through all your means and all your ways Let the band play for you As you rise, as you fall In the silence of the struggle with your back against the wall With all the muster you can wrangle from that star-spangled jangle that clash, boom, drum cry And try, and try, and try, and try CHORUS
4.
We Create 04:24
VERSE Throw your hands in the air stomp your feet on the ground throw your body around you can dance, you can dance, you can dance Start with a scream just hum along tra-la-la la-la you can sing, you can sing, you can sing Put some paint on the page rattle the cage open a book now you can dream, you can dream, we create... CHORUS we create VERSE When no one believes and the fear comes to stay but you can’t walk away from the empty page, empty page, empty page AIt starts with a seed a happy mistake which direction to take all the open doors, open doors, open doors watch it flying away bound for distant shores it’s not yours anymore on paper wings, paper wings, paper wings INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE REPEAT VERSE 1 CHORUS
5.
VERSE: Hey, are you going my way? The stars are alignin’ and the sun is shinin’, Are you game for a day? One step is it all it takes If we were 21, headstrong, We wouldn’t think right/wrong, Free to make our mistakes CHORUS We thought we’d be there by now Somewhere we got turned around Which way do we go now? VERSE Hey, it’s a lemonadin’ day Holding hands on the pier eating cotton candy, laughing While the tall ships sail away One kiss and here we go Catch a cab on the corner, tell the man California, Heading West on the open road CHORUS BRIDGE VERSE Throw all the maps away They didn’t get us any closer to the things we wanted most they just take all the fun away So where’d the hours go? I lost track of all the miles While I was countin’ all your smiles and we’re humming every tune we know CHORUS

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released April 2, 2014

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Indie folk pop duo from Monterey Bay, California.

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