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Life Imagined

by Everything Turned To Color

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So it goes... Youthful ecstasy and hope Adoration no one knows Age and coping as the children grow older still Fleeting roses and rainbows Photographs of seeds we’ve sown Technicolor vows for the unknown For the future shone in you When you wish me there I will be there As footprints in the sand Just one step behind 'Cause when you wish me there I’m already there Just a whisper on the wind And ashes in time Memories of mine What a ride for journeymen The rush of blood’s adrenaline Diving deeper still it’s ever close, there it goes Life and laughter, lust and love Friends you still know nothing of Illicit energy renewed with sight of the dying light When you wish me there I will be there As footprints in the sand Just one step behind ‘Cause when you wish me there I’m already there Just a whisper on the wind And ashes in time Memories of mine
2.
Gone halfway to the moon and back Supersonic but falling fast Seems you can’t outrun your fate in the stars Just delay the inevitable Wrought with worry and what we were Only of the subconscious mind and the ether Fallen from ether You give me something to live for Slipped and fell through the stratosphere Still you caught me without a care Told my mother I’d always obey, but in secret... Up the stairwell and out on the porch In the schoolyard our innocence lost Means are ends to the nth degree but in number The devil is 3; the devil is me You give me something to live for From opposite horizons To adjacent tidal waves We topped the highest heavens Yet you forget what we all gave So farewell dear resolution Farewell to the faithless hollow heart I want no part You give me something to live for
3.
Sleep soft in lament ‘cause I’ll be just fine Seems I’ve been waiting forever to die But love run its course, my life ran its course In unpublished manuscripts, bourbon and wine So if it’s too late to ask why Just go on old friend like the stories you told Keep blissfully floating on by The sun and the moon, their beauty betrays Tempting like sirens my wishing to stay So long overdue and long undefined But hey if we’re lucky we’ll soon reunite Gently, just across the divide So go on old friend like the promises owed Keep blissfully floating on by ‘Cause wishes aren’t denied in the afterlife Sleep soft Soft in lament Sleep soft No need to dissent Sleep soft For you I repent in good will So go on old friend like the stories you told Keep blissfully floating on by
4.
Once upon a time in New York City Once upon your life The world you wished and hoped for cracks wide open With just a roll of the dice From everything to none at all You were the crutch I never saw ‘Neath the ghost light hiss Always only yours I was hoping I could steal a little time To chew the fat and flush out all the lies ‘Cause once upon a lifetime you were mine Wasted days maybe but by good fortune The memories are nice But ‘neath the ruins of that old back porch swing You were just killing time Lost everything yet I absolve You were the fixer of my flaws Future gone amiss Always only yours I was hoping I could steal a little time To chew the fat and flush out all the lies ‘Cause once upon a lifetime you were mine I’ll see you soon I hope my friend Your soul’s the beacon light that guides us home Trust me this day is not the end But the birth of effervescent love that I’ll transmit to my own I was hoping I could steal a little time To chew the fat and flush out all the lies ‘Cause once upon a lifetime you were mine
5.
Invisibility 03:25
When I saw you dancing in the nude I knew we was gone Far too long to reconcile the demons That we’d muted out with alcohol self-prescribed for the pain Took years to find but finally I’m believin’ There’s more inside There’s more in life for me To the fortunate few I plead Can I be fortunate too? I caught a little lullaby like a halo in my hand A rainbow through the seasons of deceit While forlorn at first by second sleight I knew the grievance game It’s who you know and how you can deplete them For more in life But you need more inside for me To the fortunate few I plead Can I be fortunate too? Oh and when you break you’re like a child Oh and when I break I’m like a child too Reborn in your open arms ‘Cause in your arms there’s more for me To the fortunate few I plead Can I be fortunate too? For me, to the fortunate few I see, hey I’m fortunate too
6.
Come with the blood moon Through the whispering pines A stranger among us A soul for the shining Cut from the same cloth We left him to die He ain’t of this town No son of mine But “love and be loved”? Just another lie Spun from the inside It’s all just posturing Stole me some nectar And with it their gold The loveliest gesture They come and they go Hung from the rooftops And sprung from the vine Another escapee No son of mine But “love and be loved”? Just another lie Seen from the outside It’s all just posturing We all want the same things To love and be loved Love and be loved Before it’s too late
7.
Adelynn 03:25
Damn boy been faithin’ on a shooting star so true While you been creepin’ low just around the bend He gone deaf, dumb, blind, and mute for faithin’ he the fool But we all will get our due in the end Won’t we Adelynn? You may reach the stars But you can’t change what you are Purveyors of empty hope hold the gentle hand of fear For blessing the timeless needs of ten thousand sons While daughters who should rule this world are broken and rebuilt in tears Well me I subscribe to the gospel of none Hey there Adelynn You may reach the stars But you can’t change what you are ‘Cause one day the sun will turn to black And that day there ain’t no going back Once you lift up the veil and disarm But then you will be disowned you say But I would bet on better days Better ways to heal an ailing heart Just a lonesome heart led astray You may reach the stars But you can’t change what you are boy You can’t change what you are
8.
Deep beneath the ocean blue True love awaits for me and you In Polaroids, an old shoebox The souvenirs we never bought They call me home again, thy heart an ocean child Then you send me overboard but I can only smile ‘Cause all the while Everything turned to color I seen ya first on foreign film Your native tongue and crimson skin Seduced me sweet as fates aligned Now in my bones your lover’s cry It calls me home again, thy head a desert stone Then you send me waterless to walk the land alone And all the while Everything turned to color Along that country mile
9.
Don’t wake me now for I’m sleeping Don’t chase me out when I’m dreaming I came upon a quiet tree To root me to my ground And here the wind she speaks to me In whispers so profound For years I strayed, lost in a maze Not always brave and tempted by the haze Then I came upon a bright winged bird She gave me my first flight And though the clouds they rain on her Still she glides with might Leave me now, I know the way Let me be because I forgave You’ll come upon a laughing stream He’ll tell you tales of dreams And I hope the earth she’ll give you strength A song to help you breathe
10.
Bless me father bring me peace The time has come; I swear I’m now at ease Knowing where I’m going, knowing where I been I ain’t asking nothing but release Nothing but release Somewhere somehow Hung atop the heavens you cut me down, this I know Somewhere somehow Drowning in the ocean you pull me out Still I let you down Oh I let you down Mother many times deceived No explanation for the reasons you believed This boy in shadow, a man in flames No room left for love to be received But love will be received Somewhere somehow Hung atop the heavens you cut me down, this I know Somewhere somehow Drowning in the ocean you pull me out So pull me out When your heart’s cracked open wide When your head’s blown through the sky When only love can heal Love will heal Love will heal Somewhere somehow Hung atop the heavens you cut me down, this I know Somewhere somehow Drowning in the ocean you pull me out But I let you down Oh I let you down
11.
Smile because somebody loves you Because, blue skies above you “The grass is greener babe on the far side of the sea Somebody loves you, it just ain’t me” Hitched a ride down through the Everglades To bide time from the cityscape Swear I saw your ghost floating high upon the breeze Nobody loves you, not even me Paris before the war then utter disbelief Love lost for the forlorn, was it all hypocrisy? Somebody loves you, somebody loves you, somebody loves you It just ain’t me It just ain’t me

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"Life Imagined" is the debut album written and performed by Brooklyn-based trio Everything Turned To Color. The eleven track LP was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Blake Morgan at ECR Music Studios in NYC.

Inspired largely in part by two of the band members' foray into parenthood, the songs on "Life Imagined" play heavily on the bittersweet dualities of life and the big questions we all must ask. While much of the music exudes a whimsical lightheartedness in mood and melody, the lyrics dive deep into the fragility and innocence of childhood, the significance of enduring friendship, and the inevitable moments of love and loss that haunt us all.

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released June 23, 2017

Written by Everything Turned To Color (Serenka Music, BMI)

Neha Jiwrajka - vocals, piano, ukulele
Bryan Weber - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Kyle Weber - electric guitar
Blake Morgan - bass guitar, piano, percussion
Jonathan Ellinghaus - drums

Produced by Blake Morgan
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Blake Morgan at ECR Music Studios, NYC

Art Direction by Everything Turned To Color
Cover Photo by Neha Jiwrajka
Band Photo by Taylor Ballantyne
Cover Design by Torrey Paquette
Production Design by David Cloyd

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"Poetically pop and artfully serene", Everything Turned To Color is the unlikely but serendipitous musical partnership between veteran songwriters Bryan and Kyle Weber and Neha Jiwrajka.

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