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The Way Down

by Van Plating

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1.
Bird On A Wire Some days i tried to lay it down One more trip til the sun comes round Too tired to move too tired to quit Like a lonesome dove Heavy on the wind Oh my love Oohhhh yeeaahhh Oh my love Let it go Moved for miles across the waste Underneath it all i could feel you fade Still holdin’ your hand Don’t fall my love Too scared to sink Too weak to hold you up Oh my love Oohhhh yeeaahhh Oh my love Let it go (bridge) You could open me up'n take a look inside I’m just a homeless heart chained to the night In my dreams i set the world on fire Then hang from the moon like a bird on a wire Oh my love Oohhhh yeeaahhh Oh my love Let it go Oh my love Oohhhh yeeaahhh Oh my love Let it go I could breathe you in like the breath of a choir I’m still hangin’ from the moon like a bird on a wire
2.
How Lonely 02:57
All the way gone You gave me the moon Hold me If You Want Only one more round, and I’m down With you With you If I never felt it, never fell in love If I, never felt it, when we fell in love So alive, when I felt it, we fell in love So alive, when I felt it, we fell in love Oh how lonely I am Hold me in the fire Burning up It’s heaven wearing skin With you With you If I never felt it, never fell in love If I, never felt it, when we fell in love So alive, when I felt it, I fell in love So alive, when I felt it, I fell in love With you With you
3.
Dirty Frame 02:53
Dirty Frame I wanted to please God and my mother I prayed my shoulders would grow wings My long brown hair tangled in a curtain While my mind learned to dream of safer things Chorus1: The years were tender and now they're tough My arms are heavy, legs gone numb My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold I'm flying up higher Closer to home (Falsetto) I wonder what would have happened If I'd learned how to fly back then A cosmic flame In a dirty frame A symphony in teenage skin Chorus 2: The years were tender and now they're tough My arms are heavy, legs gone numb My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold I'm flying up higher Closer to home I called my daughter. She held my hand white like sugar On burning sand started singing through crooked teeth Found our fire On shaky knees Come on daughter Hold my hand Flames get higher burning sand Mirror’s broken and they can’t see My body is grown now My heart doesn't know The flames' getting higher She's a phoenix of gold The years were tender and now they're tough My arms are heavy, legs gone numb My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold I'm flying up higher Closer to home called my daughter She held my hand white like sugar On burning sand started singing through crooked teeth Found our fire On shaky knees Come on daughter Hold my hand Flames get higher burning sand Mirror’s broken and they can’t see We found our rhythm on shakey knees The years were tender and now they're tough My arms are heavy, legs gone numb My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold I'm flying up higher Closer to home My body is grown now My heart doesn't know The flames' getting higher She's a phoenix of gold I called my daughter She held my hand white like sugar On burning sand started singing through crooked teeth Found our fire On shaky knees Come on daughter Hold my hand Flames get higher burning sand Mirror’s broken and they can’t see We found our rhythm on shakey knees
4.
The Way Down 02:53
I love my love's light I left it alone Who are you? Banging on the door Don't turn around Hold me now, alone, by my belittled light Put it out put it down All the way down I don't want to fight or win I ain't nothin' But I'm feelin' cool Are you feelin' cool? I ain't nothin' But I'm feelin' cool Are you feelin' cool? I lost another fight I left it alone Who am I? Leave it by the door Don't turn around Hold me now, alone, by my belittled light Put it out put it down All the way down I don't want to fight or win I ain't nothin' But I'm feelin' cool Are you feelin' cool? I ain't nothin' But I'm feelin' cool Are you feelin' cool?
5.
Fallin’ angel, where’ll you make your bed? Will you stretch across the horizon with the sun to hold you hand? Alone Broken lover, where’d you leave your heart? Is it black, under cover, filled with cracks and holes and scars? You’re alone, alone Fallin’ Angel, where will you sleep? Will you steal a cloud for your pillow with your back against the sea? You’re alone, alone, alone You’re alone mmmmmm
6.
New York 02:44
I touched the rain I was heading nowhere Your whiskered cheek and the morning window frost Scaffolded art I left my coat in the hotel closet (My) heart down there in a broken locket That I always wore You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too? You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too? It was wild and white (a cloud of violence) salted rain, and my new boots, so cold on the ground But you--you couldn't help but light it up (Your) mahogany eyes and the streets of New York You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too? You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too? I was running all night (you didn't notice) Trains up high while you slept with your head in my chest We danced and dreamed never knowing Didn't miss a beat didn't care for nothin' more Baby you're a work of art You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too? You could beat my heart If you wanted to Do you want me too?
7.
Oh I'll shed my skin Like a ghost in the garden Eden on the wind Oh I'll leave my bones I'm a dead man walking Phantom on the run And I had to give you up I had to give you up And I had to give you up I had to give you up Oh (you were) chasing wind With scarlet matter All lacey on your hands Oh I took my shot Left your heart in your teeth Death watchin' in the walls And I had to give you up I had to give you up And I had to give you up I had to give you up You held your demon Yeah, you loved her smell My last arrow killed her A soft, black, velvet sound And I... I had to give you up And I had to give you up I had to give you up
8.
Shade 02:37
Oh the river's frozen over My heart stings like a fire now Hands cold and under cover You chased the fox again down Coward taking away The honest line of lovin' ways Stranger changing your face Left the truth behind ya throwin' shade And we're crashing down You didn't think twice Told me pretty lies Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right Leaving me low In fire and cold Scared to find your demons on that nightmare road Oh snow is falling softly Hushing over footsteps in the field You found your shiny lover And you're falling under water now Brother coming away From what our mother said to always hold Friend I wish you could stay I'm standing still with fire in my veins We came crashing down Oh, with a hush to the ground You didn't think twice Told me pretty lies Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right Leaving me low In fire and cold Scared to find your demons on that lonesome road Bridge: You win some you lose some When you keep running your mouth Yeah you win some you lose some You didn't think twice Told me pretty lies Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right Leaving me low In fire and cold (space)
9.
Oxygen 02:53
V1 Oh hollow breath I hate to see you go Are we brave enough to face what we're unsure of? Pre 1 Hanging on Against the undertow and I'm slippin' Scraping ground my shoulder bruised My mouth is full of sand V2 Whose side are you on? My wings were made to soar Cut the silence 'cross the night Freefall from the chord Pre 2 Oxygen Scrapes against my forehead, eyes shut Whole again Carried on, a wave assaults my wounds The stars are Ancient babies ever new Alive Chorus And the waves break And the night comes And the day light We won't run from And the waves break And the night comes And the day light We won't run from And when I woke up I was alive And when we broke up I couldn't hide And when I woke up I was alive And when we broke up I couldn't hide I'm alive Alive

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released November 19, 2021

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Critically acclaimed indie americana artist and multi-instrumentalist Van Plating has a rugged vulnerability uniquely hers ─ fermented in the orange groves and hot verdant summers of the sunshine state.

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