The Puzzle Border

from Ashes by Lost on Purpose

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8/1/2011 - Ashes is now available as a physical album! This is a limited edition, hand-numbered package featuring some beautiful pictures of Asia and Ohio (if I do say so myself). Only 100 available. Enjoy!

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lyrics

this is a piece of the puzzle border
a frozen lake in minnesota
second guess everything you told her
an old motel off the beach in florida
burn your eyes with a four leaf clover
i want to be a better lover
the box you bought in the czech republic
impossible to be a mother

turn your heart into an iron
steam away the babies crying
calm as a policeman's gun
who thinks he left the safety on
believing all the things i've done
the eighteen year old me would blush
turn tail and hide in a white girl's arms
i'm not afraid of being wrong

lose yourself in other's arms
keep the ones you know best far
kill a fly til blood runs cold
raise your glasses to kyoto
utter silence on the mountain
broken by tornado sirens
leeching through the can tho shade
born to lead the dead parade

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from Ashes, released June 23, 2011

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Lost on Purpose Tokyo, Japan

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Five song EP out now!

(Almost) all songs on youtube:

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I live in Japan. I sound like Beethoven conducted by Beethoven the St. Bernard (look it up). ... more

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