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Empire City States

by Mark Alan Dooley

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1.
Thin Blue Arc (free) 03:37
You must consider yourself A brilliant genius Undisputed ruler of Your own planet Venus Uptight, alone in the nick of the night You look in the mirror and You look at the world and You take control In the dawn of a saint All the people know you Have the fight alone to you One truth you deny Two knows what you find The doomed is in time and I know that’s you Met a shooting star With a thin blue arc Say who the hell do you think you are? Rulers up high You take the sky Loud and wrong What you say The black till dawn What you deny I’m the one who blindly dies One truth you deny Two knows what you find The doomed is in time and I know that’s you Met a shooting star With a thin blue arc Say who the hell do you think you are?
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Indecision (free) 03:45
Feel Alive All along the fence I walked to you Cannot decide which side I am on All along you liked to smile at me, no no no Decisions of the nights are gone One hell you cannot atone Feel alive All the nights alone I felt your presence there I am not taken away with you, no no no Decisions of the nights are gone One hell you cannot atone It's here inside you know I'll decide my indecision I'll let you know Why choose the lie Accused you know Decisions of the nights are gone One hell you cannot atone It's here inside you know I'll decide my indecision
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Fragments (free) 04:01
Living in a seedy hotel by the highway in a desert stone Where gambling is a state of mine its my disease Gonna head on to Vegas, to my home among the desert snakes A shady deal where the grass is dead and the swimming pools empty Walking with a breeze of a salted sea behind me To the zone where I never could see clear, be clear Never could see clear to you Once you’re fractured what will you do These are the fragments of your life Lots of distractions all of them gone These are the fragments of your life Make a stew from the bone an amount of discontent I’ve captured and secured a new throne By a dirt road, by a dirt shack, with a ricochet machine gun With a hook on windshield from my rickety unit of el police You know the bullets spray the mourning glass around you Time for losers to leave the field getting rid of the delirious ones first Don’t you know all is said and done? Once you’re fractured what will you do These are the fragments of your life Lots of distractions all of them gone Will you deny what you've done? Fractured
4.
Another Time (free) 03:45
I realize that I have made my bed No good reasons only excuses to give That I am teary eyed and I am seeing red I’ve been trying to answer All of the questions in your head Now my senses they are telling me That its time to let you go let you go free Because of what we’ve known We're better off alone What we’ve known before Heading out the door Silence in the night Is growing deeper in your sight I don’t know what matters anymore Don’t even know what this means Another time I will love you Another place could you erase Our love so true
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Receive A Better Day (free) 03:31
We’re stuck in a rut From the bottom of my foot To the top of your toot Free fallin’ in a vacuum space What it is to coin a phrase Another’s here to stay That I cannot understand Always has no meaning When its fear you take Receive a better day Action verb will disturb Feel perturbed locked in word Falling down into town There’s no sound I cannot end this day again They coin another phrase As we rise up to this haze There will be one more stand Falling into place Receive a better day Feel fine for a while While I’m sickened to death You’ll be walking on a cloud With my head across the sand From the foot of my bed To the back of my head I feel fine for a while While I’m sickened to death Been a long time since I walked this way Don’t you see the signs at all? When will you understand? Falling into place Falling into place Receive a better day
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My Hope (free) 03:41
Oh long it is evident The truth is right before your eyes Who will look to the skies? There is no surprise If you look in those eyes You’ll know One great hope alive! All along you knew What's inside of you is not wrong We’re not here for long The power beyond you One great hope alive In here you know We strive to believe Power beyond you All too soon You wither like the grass For this too shall pass For your life is so short We’re not here for long One great hope alive In here you know We strive to believe beyond ourselves You knew all along That your time would come Power beyond you One great hope alive In here you know We strive to believe Beyond ourselves
7.
Over and Out (free) 03:37
I don’t have to read Between the lines Your point of view Is precisely defined Oh I know We'll get around in time Oh baby you know It's been so sublime There is no doubt In my mind Roger wilco Over and out Roger wilco Over and out All the years We've left behind All the children We raised so fine And now its time We have moving on Now it's time It's a new dawn Understand it's a new dawn Understand so perfectly Roger wilco Over and out Roger wilco Over and out There's no doubt Left in my mind I don’t have to read Between the lines I know that we have Run out of time Baby you know You have been so sublime Baby you know You have been only mine Only Mine Roger wilco Over and out Roger wilco Over and out
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Empire City States (free) 03:12
All through the sidewalk cafes I look for you for days And I cried (Silence like the phase of a moon) Yes I cried for you (I look for you for days) Where have you been my darling? How could I care about you? When I could not care for myself That silence like a phase of the moon I saw your image on the TV the other day And I thought to myself this was a big mistake Tried to face it all alone (Empire City States I can relate from dusk to dawn) I can relate the Empire City States I can relate the Empire City States How could I care about you? When I could not care for myself That silence like a phase of the moon How could I care about you? When I could not care for myself
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Out of the Dark (free) 03:24
so hard to find someone who's got the same mind willing to leave the past behind looking for some understanding from you tonight this desperate feeling's got me reeling again i want you love straight from the heart i need your your love to bring me out of the dark i want you love straight from the heart don't you realize its tearing me apart we don't have to play these games steal your heart or put you in chains i need a lover who'll be my friend by my side till the end we dont have to play these games or criticize or rearrange love given so perfectly can last from here to eternity i want you love straight from the heart i need your your love to bring me out of the dark i want you love straight from the heart don't you realize its tearing me apart
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We Are The Fools (free) 02:48
Can’t always figure it out I my dream you were there And we became one in a dance with the stars As the vision begins We no longer can pretend Like so long ago We are the fools So strong you know Like hand in glove The vision begins We’ll open our hearts As wide as they sky The way that I feel lover for you Gonna’ give it one more try We have the chance I’m not one to flee Because love has gone past I can be strong We are not meant to be All alone so empty Trust must come No more fantasy for me Finally like so long ago The fools, fools in love We are the fools in love It’s so strong you know We’ll open our hearts As wide as they sky My lover for you Gonna’ give it one more try As wide as the sky
11.
Orion's Help (free) 03:18
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Velvet Touch (free) 04:20
Oh no here she comes again I went out today walkin’ the dog By the hotel entrance I stumbled along Fell into a lake with my Dockers on Gotta’ glimpse of my fate She was laughing at me Is she a cold freeze underneath that tropical tan Is she a black, black hole? That does not even understand This game You could be so right Think Ill get to know you tonight Velvet touch Babe you meant so much Oh no here she comes again Well she got on down And pet my dog in the lake Its a sign she’s not a total fake Was not too long till I applied my game Got on tight till the night was insane Wonder who will take away all these blues It will be all right, be my thief in the night I will give you the ride that will get you inside This game You could be so right Think Ill get to know you tonight Velvet touch Babe you meant so much Velvet touch

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This album is a collaborative effort with artists around the world whose dedication to their craft humble and amaze me.

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Retro Jazz Rock Alternative Blues Pop Space Jam in 3D, weird but cool, freaky but fluffy, not naughty, not nice. The Lo-Fi Technicolor Dream Edition.....of sweet streaming consciousness musing from guitar guru soupafreek.....Mark Alan Dooley

Sweeping landscapes of emotional harmonies to heal and hope, to bump and grind, to rock and roll. "I have to strike a balance between trying to achieve perfection and capturing the happy accident".

Mark started playing guitar at the tender age of 7 in Richmond, Kentucky after hearing the Beatles song "Revolution". He knew what he wanted to do from that point. "I had not heard distortion on a guitar till then and I loved it". The rest is a myst..I mean history!

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Mark Alan Dooley Monroe, Louisiana

Artist, musician, audio engineer and producer, social media tinkerer, Graphic design and photography nut, Web dev dude, Raconteur. Weird but cool, freaky but fluffy, not naughty, not nice. The Lo-Fi Technicolor Dream Edition of sweet streaming consciousness musing from guitar guru soupafreek...MAD! ... more

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