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Plastic Heaven (feat. Will Jordan)
Music & Lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI)
Why are we untying a thousand knots?
While sleeping, connecting all these dots?
Still wishing for that perfect moment
We are, we aren’t ever happy
Those people on my television
Air brushed & flawless renditions
so happy in a model moment
I don’t, I won't ever know them
but We’re all living for that royal grace
that special place
that Plastic heaven
We’re all dreaming of that social status
human madness,
obsessed with others love
Fame is called the ficklest of the foods
but we’d all feast if we could
fall to our baser emotions
we are, we aren’t ever perfect
I’ll just let my followers wash my feet
while broadcasting my own conceit
Thank god we’re all so honest
How did, how did this ever happen?
but We’re all living for that royal grace
that special place
that Plastic heaven
We’re all dreaming of that social status
human madness
So sad and all alone
Now We’re all living for that royal grace
that special place
that Plastic heaven
We’re all dreaming of that social status
human madness,
obsessed with others
but We’re all living for that special place
that royal grace
that Plastic heaven
We’re all dreaming of that social status
constant sadness
Lost and cast a-drift
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Icarus (feat. Shelby Earl)
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI)
You never worried me
you never seemed to be
someone to lose their head
even in the worst of times
with all those best of times
you were a model for me.
But then one day I found
you were so slowly drowned
in insecurity
and dependency
the mold was thinly cracked
but you didn’t see it happening.
Icarus falls of course we know
As the story goes
wax wings that burnt away
in the sun
he was done
All we can do is watch you fall
Into the California Sea
you got too high
and burnt out so fast
this cannot last.
I’m ever worried now
you’re always off somehow
others will see it too
and think it’s all an act
in a way I guess it is
but I don’t find it funny
You dreamt of all the fame
wealth, women and acclaim
ambition breaking you
drug fueled hysteria too
maybe I’m too critical
but I’m scared of what is happening.
Icarus falls of course we know
As the story goes
wax wings burnt away
in the sun
he was done
All we can do is watch you fall
plummet to the sea
you got too high
and burnt out too fast
this cannot last.
So many people never fly like you
but there is more to this confounding life
than the lime light
I hope I’m right
Icarus falls of course we know
As the story goes
wax wings burnt away
in the sun
he was done
All we can do is watch you fall
Into the California Sea
you got too high
and burnt out so fast
this cannot last.
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Spinning Wheels (feat. Eric Anderson)
Music & Lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI)
stop to think about us
if we had just started out
cause innocent and callow
is not how I feel now
no storybook ending
requisite and plain
just a twisted variation
where love begins to wane
but let’s keep rolling this barrel uphill
this shouldn’t be so hard
but You Don’t wanna give up on me
and I Don’t wanna give up on you
We’re better together
Greater than the sum of our parts
But we’re just spinning wheels in the dark
we always end at the start
We cut each other deeply
in the darkness of this room
these little imperfections,
hang like the darkest moon
our spoke is manicly turning
throwing off the mud
The earth will crack and harden
until there’s another flood.
but let’s keep rolling this barrel uphill
this shouldn’t be so hard
but you don’t wanna give up on me
and I don’t wanna give up on you
We’re in this together
even though no one likes the odds
But we’re just spinning wheels in the dark
we always end at the start
We always end at the start
and now we’re back to the start
We’re better together
Greater than the sum of our parts
Still just spinning wheels in the dark
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She's Gone to California
01:33
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Music by Andrew Joslyn, and lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI) & Madison Warnock
I Should have said goodbye
Have said goodbye before I met you
Empty words and empty rooms
Ask for something more
To fill their hollow spaces
Like a frame, a glass, a door.
Building a life together
Brought us more a part
How can we ever fill this room
When we don't know where to start?
I promised you too much
You didn't trust enough
I Should have said goodbye
Have said goodbye before I met you
I should have said goodbye
Have said goodbye before I met you
Dusty little clocks and an empty packing box
As useless as the words:
Love & trust & please have turned towards never
But you're the ghost in my machine
With your ever twisted eyes of green
I Should Have said goodbye
have said goodbye before I met you
You Should Have said goodbye
have said goodbye before you met me
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Music & Lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI)
There’s a black hole, where a home used to be
smoke covered all that was left to see
everything in the neighborhood was sucked right in
into this mine with cigarette skin
Burn Burn, it all will burn
It doesn’t matter how much you earn.
nothings going to cover your love or your grief
another agent or an undercover thief?
we're coal miners, digging through the past of our lives
coal miners, picking through the charred remains
so tell me, how much my life is worth
from this little piece of blackened dirt?
Day in, day out, we dig
Picking up the bits, and labeling
Workers come in and robbers ride out
Scam after scam without a doubt
The canary’s in the coalmine and then goes the cat
few hours time now neither come back
The only real angel that was there that day
removed the carcass, and drove away
Now we're coal miners, digging through the past of our lives
coal miners, picking through the charred remains
so tell me, how much my life is worth
from this little piece of blackened dirt?
Digging through the past of our lives
Picking through the charred remains
so tell me, how much a life is worth
from a little piece of blackened dirt? X2
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Mantra for a Struggling Artist (feat. Billy McCarthy)
Music by Andrew Joslyn (BMI) and Mark Rodriguez (ASCAP), lyrics by Andrew Joslyn (BMI)
I'm Losing the conflict with myself
How can you outlast the dark
But really this business is bringing me down
Oh the talk of the town
Every notes a fight
That's against myself
You'll only hear it when
The battles done
I keep coming back
To the distant love
Hoping that it won't break my heart again
No one else can you pick you up
No one else can make you whole
But really these cynics are breaking me down
We just drown
Every notes a fight
That's against myself
You'll only hear it once
The battles done
I keep coming back
To the distant love
Hoping that it won't break my heart again
again
break my heart again
Ohhh
Ohhh
Ohhh
Every notes a fight
That's against myself
You'll only hear it once
The battles done
I keep coming back
To the distant love
Hoping that it won't break my heart again
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Music by Andrew Joslyn (BMI) & Ryan Lewis (BMI), Words by Max Ehrmann (1927)
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious
to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter, for always
there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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Andrew Joslyn Seattle, Washington
Andrew Joslyn, composer, orchestrator, and violinist is an award-winning musical polymath whose passion for collaboration has led him to work with a remarkably diverse group of world-class artists, touring the world, performing, co-writing and arranging music on over 400 songs throughout his career. Along the way he has amassed an extensive list of writing, orchestrating, and recording credits. ... more
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