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Mr. Sunshine X

by Ian Taylor

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Serendipity 04:18
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I watched you across the gym, it's plain to see you're in love with him so I'll sit on the bench. I don't know what it is yet, it's just a feeling that I get when you're around. Everybody's watching me now I feel so down and so left out Filling in the spaces, another face in the crowd. This old soul needs somebody to hold, I found easy to drift alone but I'm not made for it. Unspoken words too scared to say, there goes my chance as you walk away and my heart is broke. Everybody's watching me now I feel so down and so left out Filling in the spaces, another face in the crowd.
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Beautiful Bones 03:48
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This never ending battle of wits has got me falling into bits and I am beginning to lose control. While my mind conquers thoughts of love and suicide My heart's empty inside. Tell Mr. Sunshine X to leave me alone and let this stickman draw alone. So leave me alone, Beautiful Bones.
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Mr. Sunshine X 04:46
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Mr. Sunshine X, can you tell me what happens next? When you walk around in a perfect circle While I'm trying hard to forget That my whole life's a wreck So step out of my head. The lights flicker in the back, while the floors are stained and cracked. You're too far away to hear me As you shake your head in oblivion Our hearts are distortion Our hearts are distortion. They pretend to feel and understand, to see the world in their hands. Her mind is a symphony Black and blue and green What a sorry excuse for a dream What a sorry excuse for a dream. Hello December talk to me, I need some understanding. Empty party afternoons The sweet vibrant heat Falling from the Christmas tree Has got me thinking, it's not even over yet. Mr. Sunshine X, can you tell me what happens next? When you walk around in a perfect circle While I'm trying hard to forget That my whole life's a wreck So step out of my head.
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Don't Fail Me Now 04:22
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Breathe, don't fail me now. Always saw eye to eye Never once realized what you meant to me. We danced among the dead Held you close and said you were mine Told you that we'd burn the sky up until Heaven falls down. Don't fail me now Don't fail me now Everybody's gone away, I only wish that you could've stayed a little longer. You said that I could hide my wounds Cover them up without a problem Never once saw my heart til you were gone. We danced among the dead Held you close and said you were mine Told you that we'd burn the sky up until Heaven falls down. Don't fail me now Don't fail me now Everybody's gone away, I only wish that you could've stayed a little longer. We danced among the dead Held you close and said you were mine Told you that we'd burn the sky up until Heaven falls down.
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Hello 3am 03:32
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Hello 3am, how have you been? Last time we spoke, I was stinking of Gin. I lost all my friends, were they there at all? But I might be back on top. I can't drown my sorrows cause they know how to swim. I tried hard to lose but I wound up with a win It's times like these where I feel so alone am I really on my own? The shadows are bleeding as they dance on the wall. United we stand, all alone we will fall. Will she come back? I don't know for sure. Cause time is such a bore. Money's a waste of time and beauty's overrated. Each and every day I find myself fading. I wish I could be like a bird in the rain and find a place to escape. Find a place to escape.
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Sweet Nightingale 04:46
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I'll never grasp your concept of Heaven. Angels built upon my destruction. Sweet cartoon character on his throne in Hell Engulfed in my dark opium. Lost another day yesterday ago Finding out fast I'm dying slow. Sweet Nightingale, fly softly. Sweet Nightingale, stop your crying. The sun shines in my Heavenly Hell. I'm quite alright though it may be hard to tell. Static remains of the lost gray daydreams I fade off into the whining of the violin. Tell me now what should I resent? What's the difference in a dream and a joke? How could my beloved sink so low? In a glass I have your pale rose. I'll be your friend when the world treats you like a toy. I'll be your friend when the world treats you like a toy.
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Yellow Nothing 04:46
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The sun likes to crash on my window While I'm peacefully sleeping and weeping, for you. As you paint my world red With your soft chameleon eyes But your love might as well be a ghost Sweet tear in my soul And I feel like dying for anyone. I'm creating love with misery and she's happier somehow I can't imagine. And you fill my head with dreams of pale yellow. And I wear my heart on my sleeve but I hide it from you cause I'm a disease or at least that's what Sunshine told me. And my sadness is foolish and loud And it brings everyone else down So I'll never leave my zone and drown And I never meant to hurt you It's what everyone expects from me Take a seat, and enjoy. The sun likes to crash on my window While I'm peacefully sleeping and weeping, for you. As you paint my world red With your soft chameleon eyes But your love might as well be a ghost Sweet tear in my soul And I feel like dying for anyone.
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Heroin and Honeybuns 03:52
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Maggie makes my mouth numb Maggie says I'm much too young To be worried about anything Cause goodness will surely come my way. To be worried about anything Cause goodness will surely come my way. To be worried about anything Cause goodness will surely come my way. Maggie says I look just fine Maggie says it's all in my mind And I shouldn't say such harsh things Cause one day soon it'll all be better for me. And I shouldn't say such harsh things Cause so many people would love to be set free. And I shouldn't say such harsh things Cause so many people would love to be set free. Maggie says it's all in my mind Maggie says I look just fine Maggie says it's all in my mind Maggie says I look just fine. Maggie says it's all in my mind. Maggie makes my mouth numb.
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Tarantula 03:46
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These empty words can't express my feelings of loneliness. Hairs up, revolver in your robe, a beautiful mess. Okay it's time to go, I'll try my best. The flowers they wilt for me. The hours are full of pain. Quick like a gunshot, tarantula. White walls, soda pop glamor can't save me now. Dead dolls, they call it home but there's a change in the stars. The flowers they wilt for me. The hours are full of pain. Quick like a gunshot, tarantula. these empty words can't express my feelings of loneliness. The flowers they wilt for me. The hours are full of pain. Quick like a gunshot, tarantula.
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Carrie 04:40
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The Queen will burn you to her will and if you don't you'll be crucified just the same. The moon is a fiery blaze, in dark maroon stains they lay. And you don't say a word I suppose. And these tears that fall over blood, are cried alone. With a smile that will take you far away. And a mind that will burn you through her change. And she prays in baby blue, lost and out of tune. And it rains upon her tomb, with flowers wilted and bruised.
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Heart of a Blackbird 05:02
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You lay in their favorite hole to put you in The stares and whispers are ready to begin It screams so loud it becomes your best friend The silence eating at your brain. I can't be caught getting too sentimental Cause I don't believe in anything The comforting fear that comes accidental The large black eyes that scream in my sleep. It's always gray in the heart of a blackbird. High on PM's and fascination My thoughts are beyond my control Down on AM's and desolation Looking for a savior in anyone. The sun's gone black and the trees are frozen stiff The outside world starts to melt again I try to look out but I only see in I try to look out but I only see in. It's always gray in the heart of blackbird. It's always gray, always gray again. I can't explain the haunting face I see. Cause it's always gray in the heart of a blackbird.
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Where She Comes From 11:04
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Mrs. White's lead pipe is down the hall. Professor Plumbs six gun is shooting them all. And I'm with the Joker a man who knows me well. We left together in a beat up Chevy escaping from Hell. So if you see her on the way, give her this message from me Tell her to go back to where she comes from. Times Square is full of stares and faces I can't recall. Cinderella and the Devil himself are leaving for the Ball. I can buy my pain and sorrow but happiness is always free. Antony and Cleopatra they left together and so shall we. So if you see her on the way, give her this message from me Tell her to go back to where she comes from. Venus and Aphrodite are waiting for the sun at night to sing by themselves. They're the leaders of love but they can't find none for themselves. They're singing a song and it might be wrong but I really can't tell. So if you see her on the way, give her this message from me Tell her to go back to where she comes from.

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Mr. Sunshine X is a collection of songs written in the time frame of 2013-2014 around Atlanta, Alabama, and Tennessee.

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released April 30, 2014

All songs written by Ian Taylor.
Photo by William Vickery
Photo edit by Ian Taylor.

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