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Wonderland
05:01
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We could live anywhere
But we choose wonderland
It’s so familiar
Still we can’t know what we could have
We could have more than we ever wanted
More than we considered
But nothing like we expect
And aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
This isn’t easy
We don’t have the freedom that we crave
But there’s a lesson in those mysterious ways
We could find more than we ever wanted
More than we considered
But nothing like we expect
And aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
This isn’t easy
We don’t have the freedom that we crave
But there’s a lesson in those mysterious ways
Let’s live in the present
We can’t live in the past
We can’t keep looking back
Let’s make a decision
Why put off happiness again
Gratification
Is the opposite of sin
And aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
Aren’t we having a good time
by Josie Diels (bouva), bouva music, c. ascap
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2. |
Stay With Me
03:25
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In my dreams, you are here with me
I know the secret
But I can see you breathe
So I tell you, I’m sorry for those ways
Then we travel away
Saying what we should say
How do I keep you with me?
How do I keep you with me?
Stay with me
Where was the warning?
What could I have done?
Could I have let go and said you were the one?
To give me everything you could
And do it all for my own good
Even if it wasn't always so
You gave me all the love you could
Even if you did not know
But you forgot about yourself
And it's never easy
But I appreciate
I tried to change you
But I had to separate
So How do I keep you with me?
How do I keep you with me?
Stay with me
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3. |
Drop
05:06
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This morning’s coffee has become a chore
And I regret the look I used to adore
When I see you today
So I breathe an internal sigh
And ask the question why
We perpetuate
Chorus:
We don’t care enough to fight. Enough to try. One world. Two separate lives.
We don’t care enough to fight. Enough to try. One world. Two separate lives.
Do you listen to what I say?
Or am I background noise like the CD plays
And the egg shell breaks.
Oh. This is loneliest I hadn’t planned.
But then, you are not the perfect man
Though you had me believing
Chorus
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4. |
Got Me
03:16
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Too good for this to be true Should I cut myself from you. I am falling in love with you. And I can't stay away. Just try to deny what you feel pretend none of this is real. go back to life unfulfilled. go our separate ways.
Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey You got me where you want me.
If I choose ambivalence I'll have to pay the consequence can't you see how scared I am of this. But I can't walk away.
I don't know what to do. I have warned myself about you. I am falling in love with you. And there's nothing I can do.
Cuz you you you got me. You got me where you want me.
Hey. Hey. Hey hey. Hey hey hey you got me. You got me.
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5. |
True North
04:32
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Everything that you hate
Is everything that I love
All the things that you make
I want made undone
And every word that you say
I can never relate
The path that you are on
Is not the path I want
But like the magnetic force
That points us to true north
Your pull I can’t ignore
I can’t stay away
You bring on the frost
When I want to bud
You bring on the clouds
When I turn to the sun
To the color that I see
Your blind eye is turned
In all the lessons you teach
There is little I have learned
But like the magnetic force
That points us to true north
Your pull I can’t ignore
I can’t stay away
I can’t stay away
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6. |
Different
05:06
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Close the door shut the lights I’ve had all I can take for one night you want in you want out will you make up your mind.
Did you think I was weak? Did you think I would not leave? I have had it up to here.
Everything is different. Everything has changed. I don’t feel the same.
Make me laugh. Make me cry. Make me promises that you can’t keep. You don’t rest. But I won’t break. Though you try to twist my mind.
Did you think I was weak? Did you think I would not leave? I have had it up to here.
Everything is different. Everything has changed. I don’t feel the same.
Take the good with the bad. Is that what I should do? Manic moods. Silence screams. I’m not here to be abused.
Did you think I was weak? Did you think I would not leave? I have had it up to here.
Everything is different. Everything has changed. I don’t feel the same.
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Denial
04:24
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I made a habit of you.
I grew dependent on you.
My denial made it all just fine.
Why should I make a change?
There was a time when it was true
In every sense that I would want
But my need to feel I was not alone
Shadowed what was really going on
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I couldn’t be with you
So enraptured with the ideal
I didn’t see it was not real
No more fun was being had
Spent my time convincing we had more than we had
Too many lonely nights to which I did not want to return
I made a sacrifice
Calling you the one for the sake of calling anyone
Real love pushed aside
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I couldn’t be with you
Nothing’s wrong. Everything’s perfect
Nothing’s wrong. Everything’s fine
Nothing’s wrong. Everything’s perfect.
Nothing is wrong.
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I didn’t want to face the truth, cuz then I couldn’t be with you
I couldn’t be with you
I could not be with you
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8. |
What M I 2 U?
04:51
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Do you ever get the urge to hold my hand
Do I come up with things you don’t understand
Do you find the things I say interesting?
or am I just your play thing?
What M I What M I What M I 2 u?
What M I What M I what M I 2 u?
I cannot afford indifference
So don’t break my heart with ambivalence
Cuz if you think this is a game
You think too much
How I wish
I wish I was the girl that I love
What M I What M I What M I 2 u?
What M I What M I what M I 2 u?
I am not gonna let a good thing end
But don’t think you should be more than friends
Cuz I can tell by the way you look at me
Oh come on baby take a chance on me
What M I What M I What M I 2 u?
What M I What M I what M I 2 u?
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Josie Diels New York, New York
Josie Diels and her six-piece band brought a unique style of pop/rock with a melodic, eclectic, insightful trip-hoppy meets classical meets blues bent that Newsday noted as a “welcome addition to the area’s pop scene.” Bouva’s music was featured in several t.v. shows and indie films and they performed regularly in NYC and throughout the US. Josie is now releasing a new project as a solo artist. ... more
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