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Suit Of Armor

by Paul Starling

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what can be done when your baby don't love you anymore? spend your nights beside the radio locked behind your door but i know you're coming back to me i read between the signs oh it really is so easy like natalie wood reciting lines the holy ghost is calling back to you, come and see me soon this doesn't happen every day and now the clock is reading noon oh i'm tired of the darkness let me open up the blinds cause it's time to let the light in while natalie wood recites her lines get into you don't know what i'd do without you here by my side every night get into you baby i couldn't do without your love by my side when i know it's alright, yes i know see vanessa and she's telling me hold on and it's ok says it's hard right now but tells me it will change again someday oh i'm trapped inside a graveyard and i'm reaching for some vines cause you've always been my anchor and natalie wood recites her lines get into you don't know what i'd do without you here by my side every night get into you baby i couldn't do without your love by my side when i know it's alright, and i know, yes i know
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i find your bobby pins all scattered round the world and then i wonder where you might have been but i place them in a rusted tin i bought some 45's from a local sailor with his forty wives i found a matchbook in a drawer of knives we better run before the storm arrives and oh my love i'd walk the endless shores and oh my love i always will be yours and in the middle of the night the middle of the night when the world gets cold every boat needs a light when the shores out of sight here's my hand to hold here's my hand to hold boxcars sit rail to rail two guitars and one short scale we love "a whiter shade of pale" sending postcards through the u.s. mail i listen everyday wishing we were stuck in a morro bay think of all the records we could play i'll read a book and honey you crochet and oh my love i'd walk the endless shores and oh my love i always will i always will be yours
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i saw the stairs crumble under and you tumbled down met your head to the table, its a table crown all the blood and bone now your on your own all the time these walls take you back into the place you knew before the window broke and found your body falling through because this house has eyes and now your ghostly ties have followed you watching the candles burn straight down beside me when will we ever learn time may not hide me have i been deceived? how was i to know? what can i believe? where am i to go? and you can try to decide if i am good or bad or if i turned you around to see the ghost you had but you can never hide all the books inside old and new it seems that you've been written out of every will you've lost every single battle yet you're fighting still tell me mr lloyd now you've been destroyed, what's to do? watching the candles burn straight down beside me when will we ever learn time may not hide me have i been deceived? how was i to know? what can i believe? where am i to go? the devil lay me down, put my body in the ground and i'm over it yeah the devil lay me down put my body to the ground and i'm over it
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and so, so we cross our arms to ourselves and so sorry false alarms to ourselves to ourselves to ourselves we'll be true i'm always calling out for a deal and i pulled away from the hands at the wheel at the wheel at the wheel i saw a sign and we're all becoming policemen we're all becoming lines we're all becoming policemen we're all becoming lines and lines ain't too hard to find ain't too hard to find ain't too hard to find so so whats all this noise about your house? and too many toys leaves your head full of doubt full of doubt full of doubt, i scream you shout and we're all becoming policemen we're all becoming lines we're all becoming policemen we're all becoming lines and lines ain't too hard to find ain't too hard to find ain't too hard to find
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If 02:16
if you love me don't throw it all away why can't we live for another day i don't need nobody elses sympathy all i wants for you to be right here with me maybe tomorrow things will change and you'll understand
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oh i'm calling out to you and though i never could be true i've been wrong once before one sad night oh i'm reading all your words oh i'm breaking down to thirds i've been lost now i've found graveyard nights woah i'm holding on to someone i can love woah i'm holding on to someone i can love i can love i can love i can love someone like you oh i see you changed your ways lost your cemetery days where's your head, manage the dead graveyard nights woah i'm holding on to someone i can love woah i'm holding on to someone i can love i can love i can love i can love someone like you
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do you remember austin where we couldn't resist it much longer you had your boots on, it didn't matter our legs were tangled crashing into each other and it's been far too long now i realize since i looked my look into your eyes stranded in california in someone elses room and colder than alaska i felt the pressure, all the screaming i couldn't fix it so i found myself leaving and i know it's hard but i'm here now cause the bridge has broken backwards and it's clear now so long goodbye i don't know how long but i gave it a try those rooms are full you don't know how about the push and the pull darling i will stay with you every night i must reveal hold my steering wheel real tight no more crying it's all over close the door and rest your head upon my shoulder you love your whiskey, i love my castle you can stay the night with none of the hassle and i love you much more than anything you're the benjamin franklin to my kite string so long goodbye i don't know how long but i gave it a try those rooms are full you don't know all about the push and the pull
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No Reason (free) 03:49
i could hear it in the night those empty steps of reason all around me had a feeling it wasn't right broken branches snapping all around me and she said woah she cried woah i could read it in her voice those distant books were burning on the fire don't look at me i have no choice your salinger is burning on the fire and she said woah she cried woah and it was all around we got no reason to pretend and trees were falling down they got no reason to resend i could see her in the night crossin' me and crossin' you all around it just felt like something wasn't right and no need to be so lonely when you surround it and she said woah she cried woah i heard a gun shot in the woods crack goes whip says he too loudly it just turned out that you're no good oh well good night i whispered proudly and she said woah she cried woah
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standing on the ground that won't bleed turned to all the faces, but they had to leave and if i had it, i'd know it was true instead i'm wearing this broke hand for two so oh me on my oh i'm stuck inside a phone booth with nowhere to go so oh me oh my oh can't afford a call out thought i'd just let you know so many things fit inside this box been staring here for hours hoping this thing unlocks but its so hard finding four walls for two perhaps there's a window for us to look through oh me on my oh i'm stuck inside a phone booth with nowhere to go so oh me oh my oh can't afford a call out thought i'd just let you know stage left the clouds move away got the right idea makes no sense to stay the coffees done, thank john for rain even though it's wet, it's all just the same
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maybe i didn't do things right but i never did you wrong and even a broken mirror reflects the light it's clear our love is strong no crystal ball will do i do not need those things cause my heart it beats for only you just like those "pet sounds" strings i never could walk away from you it's like the pull of the moon to the sea so let me make it a little clearer the moon being you and the sea being me see these days are getting better but what could they be without you and like fire and rain it don't make sense but you my love is true so pack your things together i have plenty of room come and step inside our house across the floor boards and the golden loom together we'll fly south
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she's a burning bush that i brought from the basement a lonely soul too hot for replacement it's not like i'd ever steal her not while she's wearing a suit of armor the milkman comes with the gardeners paintbox cries like a bear next to a lone fox how far can we hear her when she's trapped inside a suit of armor i could tell her all i know living way out west but inside a box she stays unknown you must agree that's best don't the railroad hold all your secrets the rusted watch and the colder it gets time stopped waiting for her buried in a suit of armor the graveyard gate moans empty phrases boots and gold and dogs in cages the captains waiting for her forever in a suit of armor i could tell her all i know living way out west but inside a box she stays unknown you must agree that's best
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inside the roman empire was there another way for things to be falling lightly everything today can there be any other in love with another day thinking about my mother will she rise today it's a day to sit around and wait for me it's a day to sit around and lie it's a day to sit around and wait for me but will you wait for me? i'll try outside an old cathedral a jazz band begins to play i never did understand why you had to walk away the roman streets are paved and empty napoleon has been replaced and now i guess i understand why his water had been laced and it's a waste to be here a waste to be here in your arms we're not the roman empire we're just two bells in love constantly ever ringing from towers high above
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released March 28, 2014

all songs written & recorded by Brian Bringelson
except "The Roman Empire" by Brian Bringelson & Katy Pearson
recorded in & out of Starling Studios 2013 & 2014

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Paul Starling Thousand Oaks, California

Paul Starling writes & records original songs. He plays: guitar, bass, drums, piano, banjo, ukulele, & anything else he can get his hands on. Known for his 60′s vibe with a modern twist, Paul Starling creates what he calls ‘nautical pop’. It is music to sail, float, skip and even dance to. His new band Anchor & Bear is currently on tour now! ... more

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