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Bigger Fish

by Hoffman

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When you've got nowhere else to go Will you be calling me on the phone Like you did not so long ago When I said alright baby yeah you know Yeah you know But I didn't even get what I had come for When I have you what you wanted, you always want more And you don't worry about mine, well baby heh That's just fine 'cause I won't be back around for the next time The next time When you've got nowhere else to go And you call me up on the phone But I tell you that I won't come through And you've got the nerve to say I'm rude Well I'm sure that you've got a new squeeze to drain Just let me be so I can relieve 'Cause I'm finally letting go of the pain Like all the other times when I was left out in the rain In the rain
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Empty Shore 03:56
I saw her from across the water (x2) So I tied up my boat and I went to say (x2) Never had I seen such a pretty day Then she turned her pretty head and she looked my way (x2) And I couldn't even think of a word to say The green in her eyes, just like the fields back home Her hair blowing in the wind, like tendrils of pure silk Blowing in the wind (x2) Tell me how did I get so lucky (x2) Her voice, like a choir of angels singing just for me Her voice, like a thousand angels, singing just for me Tell me how did I get so lucky To wake up and see your face To get to see you sleeping To get to see you in your grace Now she's going so far away And that's how it goes, or so they say Maybe I'll see you another day Maybe Just maybe I saw her from across the water (x2) But when I got to the shore She wasn't there anymore She ran away to a distant land Where she is holding another man's hand
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Duality 02:24
Well you know I'd rather be sitting beneath the trees Not a care in the world, just doing exactly what I please All the love in the air's got me thinkin' 'bout the birds and the bees Sometimes I wonder if you ever even really loved me Well you can't have light without the dark Like the dance of the sun and the moon Like yin and yang, separate but the same Like hot and cold, cold like you soul Well we use these things as measurements for our souls We are all born with capacity for evil and good Don't tell me that you have not ever harmed 'Cause we're all just human, to the end from the start
4.
I know my feelings show through (x2) Through the sound of my silence The Sound of my Silence bleeds through Feels like I have known you all my life But there's so much in the way
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My sweet, sweet Lily She's so darn pretty With her mother's eyes It's no surprise That I love my Lily, oh yeah The days go by, and you keep on growing up Where has the time gone And can I do enough For my sweet, sweet Lily I'm standing up Things aren't the way I want Mais c'est la vie But that is life My sweet, sweet Lily it'll be alright Alright
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Homesick 04:20
When I'm at home There's a feeling I can't shake When I'm alone I'm homesick, when I'm at home (x2) 'Cause my soul does not have a home (x2) Some people just want a place to lay their head Some place that they feel safe When I'm at home There's a feeling I can't shake I'm homesick, when I'm at home (x4) 'Cause my soul does not have a home (x2) Maybe one day, I will find my place Maybe I'm homesick again I'm homesick, when I'm at home (x2) 'Cause my soul does not have a home (x2)
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Always 03:45
If I could show you what you mean to me Would you still go? If I could do it all again Every up and every down You know that I would I'd cross an ocean, just to see you One more time I'd walk the desert of a million Sun's To make you mine It's clear to me why things had to be so temporary There was snow on the ground When I came back around To help your friend One small gesture to show, that I am here To hold your hand But I guess I didn't make the cut When I fell into a rut And I'm sorry for falling away Into myself But it's always been this way I won't try to hold your hand anymore Because you're trying to move forward While I'm still here But now I'm waking up to see That there is so much left for me And I'll see you 'round the bend Said I'll see you 'round the bend I'll see you 'round the bend As a love and a friend Always Things just keep on changing It's just the way it goes my friend
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Weeping Moon 02:32
Baby steps are what we take Learning to walk again After your legs were broken Under the weeping moon Sharing the light Of the sun (x2) Under the weeping moon, sharing the light (x2) Of the sun (x2) No, we shine on borrowed light We are all just another's light Baby steps are what we take Learning to walk again After your legs were broken Under the weeping moon
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Back in the days when we were young And in between the simple things When nothing really mattered as much Well, I can still recall All those times All those times All those people All those things I took for granted Took for granted, yeah Took for granted No more
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Echoes 03:29
Don't waste all of your time 'Cause you won't get it back Echoes from the future are warning me Don't hold on When I came back home yesterday You were gone You were no longer here to tell me everything that I Needed to hear (x3) Now I sit here by myself, all alone But it's just a choice that I have made Along the road And you know it's paved with heartbreak And moments I've lost Try to keep my heart open, but It might bleed you dry Bleed you dry
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Wake up in the morning Have myself a cigarette Wake up in the morning Coffee and a cigarette Woke up this morning, didn't know where I was at And I sure don't know how I'll be getting back Just don't expect me The walls were painted red Smoke hangs heavy in the air Woke up this morning, didn't know where I was at I don't know where you are, and I sure don't know How I'll be getting back Back to you, my friend Wake up in the morning, have myself a cigarette
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Dmitri 05:42
Reality divided Saw through the veil In a room full of distant travellers Sharing time and space Balanced through inevitability On a plane higher than me They showed me something, something To let me know, that I'm not alone Not alone The music fades away My hands they shake How can I look at anything the way I did before When magic seems real, when the children I said magic seems real When the kids come out to play The crashing waves The red-orange flames The crescent moon The pinhole sky The crashing waves Fall over me
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released December 23, 2016

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Hoffman Memphis, Tennessee

Hoffman is the moniker of the solo projects of John Heirigs, a singer-songwriter hailing from Memphis, TN.

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