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Bright Again

by Andy Klingensmith

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Bright Again 05:31
Save it all for the morning Everything will be bright again and my eyes, young as they open And I won't keep me from seeing everything I want to see just as long as she sees it too But tonight I'm alright Ask me again when this ends Through the time it takes to realize you were kidding when you smiled I am not in on the joke For a while this is goodbye But nothing ever ends like we wish Just begins, over and over And I know I can't be idle Everything I want to feel I can't hope that one day it comes Though the grain gets its rain I don't deserve to be served Stop me if you have heard this one before Man walks into the world, stays a while What’s the use of a mind? What’s it good for? When everything is erased with her smile
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No Control 04:39
Something in the words we choose makes the things we say come in twos Which do you wish that I prefer? Somewhere in the things I do lies a little tiny piece of you But I am sweeping up my mind And suddenly I am speechless I try to know, but I just guess For anything I remember is just a dead fire's ember Now raise your hands to the heat And yet as though we both met because we were let Allowed to forget I think if I had just blinked the chains wouldn't link But what do you think? I have no control, over me and we do as we're told, why do we? And suddenly I am speechless I try to know, but I just guess For if I still see the sunlight then everything will be just right Now raise your hands to the heat There's fate but that's just a wait A key with no gate A line much too straight And though the things that we know are not fading slow There's one place to go But I have no control over me and we do as we're told, why do we?
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I'll write a few words with water from the fountain But, soon as it's done, it dries There's word on the wind a gale sent from the mountain throwing all of my thoughts to the skies Did I really think remembering, such a tiny little thing would make her love me? To me, memory, to her, happenstance All of the dust, floating like solar systems Do I breathe it in, or close my lungs? I won’t decide today for the clock’s turned back again I’ll see you in spring Oh miss no name, perpetual love Feels just like we are hand in glove I’m just musing, remove the “m” Now just using my mind ‘til then
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The Parade 04:17
In the early morning after all the sounds of the parade gently fade I can smell the leaves are burning I imagine something nice I think twice and carry on I am sick of all my memories They are barely even me I can see, can see, but oh, who could that be? In the country I will feel the land come and place itself into my hand In the morning I will watch the sea come and lay itself in front of me And I would ask the sky to take a seat if it wasn’t still under my feet
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Listen to the cicada outro as the leaves start to shift to brown Glisten within the turning sunlight that quickly envelops the town Yesterday in the trees fell the shade as it plays on my knees and then fades into the fast moving nights and the melancholy lights with you And I'm watching the woods build a mosaic for their coffin And I'm watching them both fall in and out of control But the flowers they bloomed and so are doomed to be the penultimate color we're allowed to see And so how long will nature still pen its overture Where will the notes fall in the dark without us knowing?
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I was on the hill, standing high for years until, she walked by A blade of grass, in the green The chance has passed, and it seems Just as I start to think and feel like the world was just a rind already peeled… I forget just what I was, waiting for A thousand days, out the door Do you understand my point of view? Every day I asked for her and what do I do? Not a thing, not a thing I'll wait here for the sun River, pass the time I won't ask any one for my peace of mind There is a light I see it now Dim as it might When I start to inch my feet on the edge of miserable defeat I will lay my armor down Take my hand, I’m yours without a sound!
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Pangea 03:12
Glory to all still in need Those who must stop to bleed, else exceed Bring me a drop of the sun Smold'ring in a cup, then on my tongue I was the one who broke Pangea Continent, shift, and ocean be a fill of my glass, drinkable mass This is the last call of a dying king Reborn in an instance of doubt Self-inflicted the clout, and found out The jeweled crown was bent to form around the head of another in the line, so take my anodyne I thought me the only one The naivety, the smoking gun So bring me a drop of the sun Shimm'ring in a cup, then on my tongue I was the one who broke Pangea Continent, shift, and ocean be a fill of my glass, drinkable mass This is the last call of a dying king
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The actress' kiss staged upon my lips Our love's tragedy, just a display placed in a play But I hide my heart deep behind the art though I feel as I do there on the page, here on the stage Truth, truth is just a line memorized Sweat awaits my eyes as her lips close on mine Truth, truth is just a thing we enact How should I react, when it's all just an act? Every night I'm forced to love you again Dramatize the honest feeling and then Take a bow for what they think is pretend Every night I get to watch as it ends But who can complain when who you love is a role planned and feigned? Please understand that I kiss you in hopes that you can see through my act, through the theater, and the disbelief
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Untitled 01:07

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Bright Again was written in the fall and winter of 2013 by a window in a small East Lansing dorm room. It's about the changing of seasons, idleness, and the coming of age in a culture of arrested development.

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"...Bright Again would signal the arrival of a major artist had the full-length Pictures Of not already done that in 2013. The sky is the limit, and the limit is endless and just around the corner. Andy Klingensmith, once again and forevermore, has arrived." - PurePopRadio

"In a stunning efficiency, Andy Klingensmith records everything in him." - Piggledy Pop (France)

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released January 14, 2014

Andy Klingensmith: Vocals, guitars, triggers, production.

Riley Smith: Drums, vocals, additional production and instrumental arrangement.

Jay Gummert: Woodwinds, additional instrumental arrangement.

Mastered by Joel Boyea and originally released on compact disk by Futureman Records in 2014. "Untitled" was a bonus track to the double A-side single "Pangea/The Actress' Kiss," released May 17th, 2014.

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Multi-disciplinary artist concerned with place, pace, and tape since January 2020.

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