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The Collaboration Experiment

by John Nolan

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1.
i see the lines that connect me to you i see the lines that divide us into groups i know the ways that we'll stay the same and i know the ways we'll pretend that we can change i see the lines on your face i know there's a toll this takes on you i don't want to be the one who breaks you or weighs you down i want to tell you that i'm all right i might slow down or sigh sometimes i'm just shaking it off i'm just telling myself not to let go i'll stare out at rooms that used to be full i'll weather storms and sleepwalk through the lulls i'll close my eyes and do what needs to be done shut my mouth and just try and have some fun it's not a question of what anyone deserves i don't know what you've seen or what you've heard i've never had any reason to believe that we get what we want or even what we need but i'm all right i might slow down or sigh sometimes i'm just shaking it off i'm just telling myself not to let go i'll be holding on and i'm all right i might slow down or sigh sometimes i'm just shaking it off i'm just telling myself not to let go
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This Is How 04:04
the sun starts to climb in the eastern sky brings a quiet sleeping town back to life the lights turn from green to yellow to red the sidewalks start filling up again a man in a black suit stands alone on a bridge wishing for a woman that'll never be his the cars that pass him by have different shapes and names they were made by different people in a thousand different places and the people who drive them don't know those names but they know where they're going because it's always the same and the sounds that they make wake the people who live in the houses along side the over crowded highways and this is how we'll get what we need, what we're wanting we'll close our eyes and shoot up at the sky until we hit something as the earth turns the sun seems to move higher in the sky eyes, mouths, and doors keep opening wide an old man takes a seat in the chair on his porch to watch the young men on their way to do what they think is important and the school teachers, ditch diggers, criminals and cops take their places at the bottom and their places at the top and whatever they'll do is based on what they've done they'll live to get old or they'll live to die young and this is how we'll get what we need, what we're wanting we'll close our eyes and shoot up at the sky until we hit something
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i was under the impression that i was right i was thinking about what wasn't mine i was wondering about the bering sea about the history of the worlds geography i was asking myself what it's like to be you if living in your skin was something that i could get used to we were talking about the relativity of feelings how there's no way to know if we're experiencing the same thing it's always 2 am that i feel alive again and i decided that people were programmed to survive and now survival's too easy and we don't know what to do with our lives too much time on our hands, not enough on our minds we keep looking for problems and so that's what we find in over my head, you were under the sea basking in the deep tranquility and somewhere down deep at the ocean floor we started talking about what it was we needed more of it's always 2 am that i feel alive again i've been thinking about how things could be about laughing out loud, about absurdity and side by side into the night i can't help thinking that maybe everything is going to be all right

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In May of 2009 I asked people to send me music that I could collaborate on with them. The three tracks I chose were instrumental tracks. I rearranged them and added some instrumentation of my own and then added lyrics and melodies.

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released July 20, 2009

Not To Let Go - Written and performed by John Nolan and Nathan Jones
This Is How - Written and performed by John Nolan and Cody Moser
The Bering Sea - Written and performed by John Nolan and Sam Stauff

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