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Summer Never Ends
06:54
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THE SUMMER NEVER ENDS
Music Mark W. Costoso
Lyrics Michael McKasty
I see your body glistening as you walk along the beach
I feel my heart start pounding just as our eyes meet
I struggle with anxieties as I try to say hello
And then I see that smile, just enough to let me know
CHORUS
We were only just beginning as we walked along shore
But I knew you were the only one and I'd never want for more
You are the best of lovers, We are the best of friends
Long as you're with me, yeah, you know the summer never ends
Awkward conversation, ocean sand beneath my feet
Massive perspiration, was it nerves or summer heat
Every glance and every word like it was just yesterday
I get that same old feeing when you look at me that way
CHORUS
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Negative Energy
05:42
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NEGATIVE ENERGY
Music Mark W. Costoso
Lyrics Michael McKasty
It's a self involved and empty stare
t's evil wrapped in I don't care
It's in your useless attitude, Wasting Time
It's in your useless attitude, Wasting Time
CHORUS
Negative Energy
Keep the stuff away from me, keep it all away from me
It's a self induced injury
You turn your poison inwardly
Like a dark cloud over the sun, losing time
You kill each dream before it's begun, losing time
CHORUS
I can't, I can't
I won't I won't
If you must turn it on yourself, go ahead and do it
If you must turn it on yourself, just don't expose me to it, NO!
If you cannot love humanity, then whatever could your reason be
For breathing in and out each day, wasting time
For breathing in and out each day, wasting time
A vicious raging ball, losing time
You build yourself a massive wall, losing time
CHORUS
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3. |
Passion From A Distance
04:46
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PASSION FROM A DISTANCE
Lyrics...Michael Ellis
Music...Mark Costoso
Everybody tells me
That we should never be
Love will complicate things
In ways you cannot see
But I can't stop these feelings
They're too strong to deny
That's why I keep living
This solitary lie
CHORUS
Passion from a distance
Love felt from afar
Can time shape the circumstances
Keeping us apart
When I see you hand in hand
It tears me up inside
I have to find a quiet place
Until my tears subside
Though I hold a flame for you
I keep it hid so well
All the things I've longed to say
I've kept them to myself
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Some day soon, who knows
The truth may see the light
And I will be the one
Who'll finally set my whole world right
CHORUS
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Mountain Of Rope
04:20
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MOUNTAIN OF ROPE
Lyrics Michael Ricotta
Music Mark W. Costoso
When I needed to love, I gave you special faces
When I needed to hate, just went and took them all away
When I needed a drink from my bottled weather
I turned you into a corkscrew and I gave you a spin
When I feared the winter, I threw you into the fire
When I filed away my hours, I made you work off the time
When I was losing my sight, I made you my eyes
When I lost sight of myself, I made you into a mirror and counted my losses
CHORUS
So I've got a mountain of rope
Still you keep on feeding me
I've got a mountain of rope
Until you've got me tangled up and tied down to you
When I wanted to grow a garden of cyanide flowers
You went out in the midday planting where you found fertile soil
When I wanted to make a knot of my past
I looped my history around your finger and clipped the end with a rusty razor
CHORUS
When I needed to love, I gave you special faces
When I needed to hate, just went and took them all away
When I needed a drink from my bottled weather
I turned you into a corkscrew and I gave you a spin
CHORUS
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SMALL SACRIFICE
Lyrics Laurie Costoso Coen
Music Mark W. Costoso
Anywhere, USA, a perfect warm and sunny day
Safe and sound, far from the fray, kids like dandelions grow
Somewhere, a suburban street, children play on lawns so neat
Grinning gleeful, sticky sweet, the ice cream man they did just meet
CHORUS
Somewhere half way 'round the world another bomb is quickly hurled
And what was one a little girl is blown to smithereens
In some distant far off place, a nameless boy now has no face
An old man cries "it's a disgrace"
Small sacrifice to The Human Race, or so they say
Families driving everywhere, seemingly without a care
Off to every country fair while tensions mount and flow
Driving 'round in SUVs mindless of government decrees
Or other peoples' miseries and caring not to know
CHORUS
Collateral damage is what it's called and all the while, we're at the mall
Feel the anger, taste the gall, resentment isn't sweet
Someday soon our time will come, an answer due to everyone
It's we who'll be under the gun and promises to keep
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6. |
Your Eyes
04:48
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WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES
Lyrics Leo Gonzales
Music Mark W. Costoso
When I look into your eyes
You hear me talking in my sleep
I guess in time I'd realize
Because of you, I found my needs
I've held a candle in my heart
That someday you would be with me
And when the lights would trickle down
I'd wipe away your misery
CHORUS
And when the angels play this song
You feel my love still going strong
But when I look into your eyes
I see the pain in your disguise
When I look into your eyes
I took you home and said goodnight
You held my hand and kissed my cheek
Thanks for the good times that we had
You walked away, you set me free
Now years come by, I'm still alone
Remember way back when
I found you standing by my door
Feelings come rolling back again
CHORUS
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When Lovers Part
03:43
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WHEN LOVERS PART
Lyrics Michael Ellis
Music Mark W. Costoso
Why does it always seem some people never learn
When they give love away, it never is returned
When they are seeking love, they lead first with the heart
That's why I always cry when lovers have to part
It starts out with tenderness and ends in bitter pain
Love that was so logical now seems so insane
So messy at the finish, so loving at the start
That's why I always cry when lovers have to part
To some they seem so wrong, the worst they've ever seen
And they both act so vain, all they do is preen
And people always try, upset the applecart
That's why I always cry when lovers have to part
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8. |
Love Is The Hunter
04:49
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LOVE IS THE HUNTER
Lyrics Michael Ricotta
Music Mark W. Costoso
Fortune and glory is half the story
pages of rages and melancholy stages
Her life is foretold in teen mag centerfolds
She is a stranger, an idle at an early age
Glitter and fame give him a different name
His personality is the media's game
But no one is there to share in his name
His words dissolve or carry in vain
CHORUS
Love is the hunter, fortune strays it's idle reign
Love is the hunter, love is the game, the hunt is vain
Silent and screaming, living and dreaming
Fantasy is their reality
His songs mold her stories told
And underscore the fallacies
Corporate star or starlet scar
Two lives in one great odyssey
From state to state, a road not straight
Through towns and crowds, no amnesty
CHORUS
His love is the hunt, the hunt is her role
The only true love is the love of the world
Love is the hunt that will never cease
Love is the nomad that never finds peace
Love is the fallacy that makes the real
Love is the vault in which the soul is sealed
Love is the game, the hunt is vain
Fortune and glory is half the story
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Twisting The Knife
05:20
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TWISTING THE KNIFE
Lyrics...Michael Ellis
Music...Mark Costoso
The two of us decided
to end our married life
I'd no longer be your husband
You'd no longer be my wife
But we didn't bow out gracefully
We took our parting shots
We couldn't just let it go
We were too busy
Twisting the knife
The pain still lingers on and on
It mingles with the strife
Trying to smash the prison
That boxes in our lives
And if we stay within the walls
We've already drawn
Instead of just walking away
We are too busy
Twisting the knife
This aint no solution
Too wrong to be alright
Can we try just one more time
To stop twisting the knife
And the pain still lingers on and on
And mingles with the strife
The first step to letting go
Is to stop
Twisting the knife
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The Kiss
11:36
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THE KISS
Lyrics Laurie Costoso Coen
Music Mark W. Costoso
Now that we've reached this fork in the road
Which way should we turn, how to lighten the load
Divergent paths threaten lonely days
Do we split the road, go our separate ways?
To continue on seems a bit hard pressed
Tp endure the pain, suffer the stress
But to freely roam and wander all alone
Is the toughest truth I have ever known
CHORUS
Kiss me once before you go
If it's meant to be, the kiss will know
How could we begin like a fairytale
And then end in dust, miserably fail
Can't we share the road and ramble on ahead
Find our one true path, please don't say we're dead
CHORUS
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11. |
Say Goodbye
05:18
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SAY GOODBYE
Lyrics and Music.......Mark W. Costoso
It's like a game this charade you keep on playing
Guess I've been playing the fool
You never told me that you were keeping score and
You never gave me the rules
I must have failed 'cause I sit here in a corner
A snow cone cap and a stool
May be required, this course in love forsaken
I think I'll drop out of school
You said that you loved me, a little white lie to get your way
Now you say that you're lonely and that you'd like for me to stay
Well, baby, no way
CHORUS
Say goodbye to your good time, lady...Out the door with one final impression
Say goodbye for the last time, baby...No more tears over hollow affection
(Thank you for this invaluable lesson)
You know I'm looking for someone to believe in
I thought I found it in you
Pull down the shades 'cause I wanna keep on dreamin'
Abruptly wakened, so rude
I guess I must have been crazy to believe it
Was just too good to be true
I hope you know that I can't forget the feeling
Of being inside of you
You said that you loved me, a little white lie to get your way
Now you say that you're lonely and that you'd like for me to stay
Well, baby, no way
CHORUS
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