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IV

by Dean Reed

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1.
North Hollywood 05:02
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Freeway drive. North Hollywood. A polluted sky on the sunset side. I try to find some parking by a little coffee shop with smiling faces. Patiently awaiting a California dreamin' personality. She smiled at me, and we exchanged the so-and-so's of introductory speech. We must have talked for an hour or two. She told me where she finished school, and about what she wants to do. A new beginning for me, it seems. Could my future be decided by a smile from cheek to cheek? Golden light on a January night. She's just fine. Yeah, we're all okay. So it ends. It was just pretend. I get a glimpse into a future of rejection and regret. Just a weathered soul, who would be so bold as to search for someone new, and somebody to hold. Golden light, come down from your place tonight. I'm not fine. No, I'm not okay. Because, this bird is bashful around women. Saddle up and drive, because its time to go.
2.
Gold Coast, Fading Hearts 06:36
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So, you colored your hair. You packed up your everything their, and drove across the state line. If I were to think about you everyday, would you think about me? The gold coast, fading hearts. Always loving apart. You said you needed to work on yourself, because you hurt. you're bleeding from the inside out. Just a phone call away. I'm wising on everything you stay, but you just deny. The gold coast, fading hearts. Always loving apart. We are broken in shards. The foul things we do to harm, but we we wont let things end this way. When things got hard, you had your mind set on going the distance of a bird. Flying away from the cold.
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Zuma 03:09
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Unsteady as the ocean current, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder we call "friend." I walked out on the sand, and I met you there. Our heals touched the tide. We watched the sunset fall behind the horizon in your camera lens. You tried to photograph it, and you missed it then, but we got something back instead. A moonless sky above us. Only stars and satellites. They will guide us from begin to end. I guess that we decided when you took my hand. Let's sink into the sand, and listen to silence of the waves, and sirens of the freeway cry. You pressed your shoulder on mine, and I touched your spine. Everything. It will be fine.
4.
Driving 02:46
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Futile Decision 05:17
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All your devices in your conviction. Did you ever wonder how we ended up here? Do you think it'd be alright if I stay here. Show some temperance. A futile decision. And I don't think that I'll be going back there. And I got a lot of friends who I love there. But Oh! You Kind of dragged me down. You turned me into a fool who's taking action on the fails of his tired heart. Oh vain existence! I'll show some resistance. Dear God won't you bail me out of this? Because I think that there's a point that I might have missed. Because I never want to have any fun! I only cling to what has been. Reflections in this glass. And I think if I got out in the sun to catch some rays, that holy ghost will come to bring me back again. But Oh! She kind of dragged me down. She turned me into a fool who's taken action on the failures of his tired heart. Of the first to sever me. I am changing now. On this cold December's eve, will she hold me now? But Oh! She might have found me out. I've been turned into a fool who's taken action on the failures of his tired heart. And Oh! I'm tired of dragging down. I'm tired of being a fool who's taking actions on the failures of his tired art. A new love. Oh, this carousel.
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December 06:28
7.
L.A. Clown 04:16
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Oh potential blushing bride. I am capable of lies. So I've painted on this smile. I have hatreds to disguise. Quietly I wait inside this imaginary box of mine. Mimicking the movements of the passers by. Won't you come and catch my eye. Circulating through this circus town. And my feet won't fit these shoes I have found. Still I try to move around. Still I fall and hit the ground. I'm tired of lies. I'm tire of lying. I Hope that I won't disappoint you now. This satirical invention. A minor character's reflection. And I'm still holding so much tension. So I have some apprehension. Underneath this face of white and red I believe I'm still alive and well.Though sometimes I still despise myself, know that I still have some pride in myself. So blushing potential bride. I am capable of lies. So I've painted on this smile. I have hatreds to disguise. I'm tired of lies. I'm tire of lying. I Hope that I won't disappoint you now.
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January 01:05

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From the Valley has been an on and off project in introspective experimentation.
IV is the latest manifestation of these experiments, which deal in ongoing battles with depression, solitude, letting go of the past, understanding the self, and the process of learning to love again.

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released May 19, 2019

Written and recorded by Dean Reed.

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Experimental works in lofi recordings, ambient, and classic american folk. Meditations on memory.

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