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Mine Would Be The Sun

by The Suitesixteen

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1.
Start At 13 03:26
Do you wanna find a way that you could talk to me? And do you wanna see the things that mean a lot to me then just look back there Start at 13, I owe you something- Thanks for all the times you made me cry and realize I’ve always been alone. For the longest time I’ve known that wouldn’t always be there and now I finally know the truth—That you can live without me. Because I know those things you said they were not about me You said you were so sad. Left and wondering why I just stopped calling And how every time you’d try to find out I was not around. Well that’s a lie. I’ve always been at home. I thought that if I stayed alone you’d know I wanted you there But you never called and so you don’t care. It’s easy to say, “gone and forgotten” but I have to sleep and I dream about you. Often. There’s not much I am sure of everyday, but I can say this will never stop I have to sleep and dream….
2.
Bob Greene 02:01
What am I doing here tonight? I don't know anyone but I'd heard you'd be around. Will you be around? Finally everything just feels alright and that song that we both like gets played all night. I looked up and there you were don't you wanna be the one to go around and around? Well come on (whoa whoa) If you're in love you're gonna know don't stop now ‘cause my whole world is upside down That song plays in heaven never ending --endless like this September Forever dyed Fall Remember ‘cause someday that's all.
3.
It seems like there’s plenty of time to do what I want And I know what I wanna do… Winter rained so we stayed inside. But now its summertime. I wanna help the sun shine on you. And every sign I see says I could be the boy One more glance and I’m shouting out. Just one more touch and I’m shouting out. You’re more than a friend to me and you know it. Way past dark it’s still warm outside so I stay out all night And hear songs that remind me of you (I wonder who’s cryin’ now) A time where all seems to us tied, where even the scars that we share may mean more. You’ve gotta feel somethin’ ‘Cause god, I feel somethin’. It’s like I’ll hang out, down to do anything that involves you. You don’t have to ask twice Just ask nice and I could be your boyfriend.
4.
The List 03:01
The List I’ll tell you one thing, they were wrong to get in my way. And just ‘cause you can’t see me now that don’t change a thing. See, school is over so I’ve got all summer long to wait for your reason. Like that means anything. What do they know? I love you more than your parents do. Because they know who they are and I’m just lost in you. I write your name for days and buy records to play I wait in the park or I watch your front door. I see you at the mall and pretend that I don’t care at all When all I really wanna do is stay, look at and talk to you. I thought I’d stay inside to mourn the week that you were gone away. Now you’re back- it didn’t change a thing. At Poltergeist it was like you didn’t even know my name But did you know I’d could hear everything that your friends were saying? Well, what do they know? I should mean more to you than your friends do ‘cause all they know is who they are and I’m just lost And you didn’t know you meant so much to me. I was so weak that it showed. God, now what am I gonna do until we’re back at school? Then I can see you ‘cause I can’t help but be around you… I’ll write your name for days and buy records to play I’ll wait in the park or I watch your front door. I’ll see you at the mall and pretend that I don’t care at all When all I really wanna do is stay, look at and talk to you. I list the way things will be when we’re married.
5.
We were impervious. Yesterday nothing could come between us. Long talks I remember what you said, and what you wore… God, I remember everything about you. What changed? Who got to you? Who taught your heart to change the way it’s feeling overnight? Deny me and you’re idolized. I can’t believe this. You’ve got to know you’re wrecking everything You’re going downtown and you don’t ask me to go I don’t wanna be the last one to know You said that you loved me… It seems strange avoiding you when usually I’m devising ways to see you. Reject. Ignore. Pretend. ‘Cause if I can’t see it its kind of like it’s not really happening. But it’s happening. You’re going downtown and you don’t ask me to go I don’t wanna be the last one to know You said that you loved me… Down in the new library blues You just couldn’t wait to say I won’t refuse So you wrote it on the wall: Your name + my name = no more It’s a very well known secret that we’ll never go out again.
6.
You ask me if I know just how you feel? Yeah, it’s little less than the way I’ve always felt for you. And inside you know I’m right. Some people sway but I’ll never be the one to change Sometimes things just make me wanna cry. Is it wrong the way I love you makes me feel so sad? And how I think about when I wasn’t there and all the fun I never helped you have? Now what I gotta know--what I’m begging, please--is why don’t you leave? Something’s just not right about this. And then I lost control And I was down on my knees… Anyone could see that this was just to good to be true except me. I was weak. I don’t want your love. Now that’s not true, made more so every time I’ve waited for you endlessly. Are you listening? I don’t want your love. It’s not true It’s funny, I think, how I’ve changed my mind in time but not my heart. It never listens to the things I’m sure you said, or my head. Things like “It’s not me…” “We can’t feed…” I don’t want your love 'cause it’s not true
7.
There's this girl I saw as: Day. The embodiment of grace. My wife. Doom. Singular. Fate. I didn’t know what it was all about. But when she looked into my face she would wish for someone else. Helped undone inside that house See, I didn’t know what it was all about. But that’s all changed now. No wishing wells, no change at the ball. Love stung. I thought I learned a lot. She reassessed me. As time went by I seemed like home to her And maybe I had grown out of the boy who took our love too seriously. But that’s me. I take things too far. So when I heard them liken love to a flame for someone I vowed mine would be the sun and she would be the one. She reassessed me. As time went by I seemed like home to her The fact she sought me out again meant the chance to live my dreams out. But I lost myself and I let her down 'cause I didn’t know what it was all about.
8.
It came on when we were young and I knew what I had to do. Yes, I had to win your love at any cost. It took me four years to do that and still I never won. But with you it just was so much fun to burn and cool… Or even to just go to school where I’d learn what was important to me: Where you’d be in block C. Inevitable. The day had come. We both knew that I had to move. But I held on to your love at such a cost. And within four years you came back. Now what was I supposed to do? I never could say no to you. And I should’ve. I put all my faith in love. No one should say the things you made me pray were real and then just leave like that. Did you think you could take it back? Well you can’t. …At any cost…
9.
On My Shore, Worlds Apart Why’s it always so cold when I come here? I don’t know. On my shore—worlds apart But I’m breathing the same air as you now. Do you think about me? 'Cause I do… I think about you. 10 years ago for the 2 of 5 times you took a hold of my heart at a party. I’d been dreaming so long it seemed untrue now, But the five words whispered to me came from you: “I think about you…” And it’s always the same when I come here or see pictures of this place yeah, then I think of your face, in your different life, cold, flash-frozen in time and dying… I guess you’ll never know because I play in places you don’t go. Still, I see life as sweet where dreams that die live at least for a while. I don’t need reminding but if I do I’ll think about you. And how I know you. I loved you to tears.
10.
Do you think that it’s right that I’m here with everyone else tonight? It won’t do. I always thought I would be with you Well things change. I’m not the same I’ve gone and promised things that never came quite true I prayed so hard I would never lose you and it did no good My childhood taught me a lie and it changes how I feel now I used to be so much fun, now I’m no one You talked and I believed everything. You don’t mind at all that I used to live to see you. Well that’s the same as how I feel now. I couldn’t wait just to be with you But that’s how I spent all my time: Yeah, I would wait in line for you. And that’s the same as how I feel now.
11.
You know, I never cry. I cried a lot about you though. I always thought I’d die if I lived without you. But now I know that that’s not true 'cause I’m waiting in the sun. I was so sure you were the one but I wasn’t right I got so far without you, watching time fly by I forgot all about you. And now to find out that’s not true… Last night after my having not seen you for 10 years you slipped in my dreams and everything stops the second you talk. You asked me to do the things that would please you It seemed so sick I couldn’t believe you—are you insane? And as I tried to explain you laughed at the truth: My heart was made for you.
12.
Add It Up 02:22
Why do you wanna come around here for today? ‘Cause I don’t wanna see you no matter how wrong everything has gone. I put you in a box and I’d hoped that’s where you’d stay. God, I just can’t be happy And every time I’m sad I wish I’d never had you. No. Our love is dead You’d think that you’d be sick of living in my head. You know it’s true that I can do nothing to change how I feel about you. When I’m home, all alone, I go and add it up. Imagine blocks of memories, made up of her and I, that I’ve piled so high sometimes I can’t even see you. Why do you wanna come around here for today? I don’t wanna see you.
13.
Girl, today nothing’s gonna be the same Because you’ve lost your heart and that’s just the start of it. That sweet ache is never gonna go away. And I feel for you ‘cause I fell too. Hard. My baby left a long time ago And I aint found nothing to fill that hole. Goodbye…. Now I don’t wanna bring you down But I wish someone had been around to burst my balloon. Well that’s not really true But it’s all a lie. Every dream they’ve ever made you buy. And at the same time it’s all true. Now whatcha gonna do? Don’t ask what I’d give to live through it all again. I’ve lost the faith that that takes, turned my back on the place where it’s born And said goodbye to that baby. Goodbye…
14.
The 27th 03:23
On that January day we were in town to play. That was just before everything went wrong, but I felt it coming on. I snuck into your room. Told you secrets that no one knew. And before the first gray had streaked the day I gave myself away inside your parent’s house. You were like no one else And I’ve never felt that happy again. It’s funny but I didn’t know that in the years to come, Rho, I would use that exact same night to measure what I lack in life. I came back cause I do I wonder what became of you And I stood on our street, stock still, and gazed at where the 27th took place Inside your parent’s house... You were like no one else And I’ve never felt that happy again. A skinhead got on the mic he said he’d put his foot in my ass. Dan ordered a shake containing grains of glass. Your dad downstairs, so drunk he set the couch on fire. You had to guide me home…
15.
When I first met you, you weren’t hip to the set-up but you’d been groomed for years for a space inside I didn’t even know was here until I saw you Pretty blue eyes Cheekbones cut high This part’s us, in pure sound Pretty blue eyes Cheekbones cut high Plus your hairstyle’s Belinda Carlisle’s. Don’t underestimate it, I was 12 when I saw “10”. A false ideal I’d aspire to. By the next year she’d look just like you Pretty blue eyes Cheekbones cut high This part’s us, in pure sound Pretty blue eyes Cheekbones cut high Twice your hairstyle was Belinda Carlisle’s. Now, I’m not trying to deny you—you’re funny girl and you’re still my friend. So beautiful.. But beyond that, where’s the exception? It’s in my heart. It makes no sense but sense can’t change what you are to me. Pretty blue eyes You shouldn’t make me cry This parts us, in pure sound Your pretty blue eyes and my pretty blue eyes
16.
I wanna tell you why I love you and I did ‘cause all I seem to sing about is how I feel you let me down and that’s not fair Here she comes Butterfly… Blue eyes… Neptunes... She’s the prettiest girl in the neighborhood. And now I want you all to bear witness to the birth of my life’s obsession. Based on nothing but sensation And the abundance of charm in her possession I wanna sing about your face and leave no doubt that it’s the measure I have placed on each girl I’ve gone out with since you were found. I don’t know how they live it down but I know it’s not fair. Well, neither is what happened to us. It doesn’t matter whose fault it was, or who didn’t call That’s not what this is about at all. I love: Your eyes, your hair, your mouth, your voice. The way I never really had any choice in this Following you all around to hear the way your tongue made old words sound brand new The ache of spending a whole night wondering if the way I held your hand was right And now because of you I love Jean Nate even though I haven't smelled it since 1988 Swim meets, Collie dogs, the accent of Scots and dads who are cops

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"Mine Would Be The Sun" is the culmination of 16 years of work.
Every element personally touched and realized to the highest possible level of quality and sensory impact.
Its execution is a mirror of obsession. Infatuation reduced to intellectual explanation. The examination of which reveals the indescribable nature --and depth--of emotion itself.

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released January 27, 2020

All Songs by Rob Nesbitt (Snivel Music - SOCAN)
Except track 5: by Rob Nesbitt (Snivel Music - SOCAN) & Andrew Molloy (Monster X - SOCAN)
Produced by Rob Nesbitt and David Carswell
Engineered and mixed by David Carswell at JC/DC Studios, Vancouver BC
Rob Nesbitt Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers, Drum programming
David Carswell: additional Guitars, percussion
John Collins: Bass - Tracks 13, 14. Plus additional percussion and synths
Sean Drabitt: Bass - Track 8
Rob Chursinoff: Drums - Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16
Connor Wadell: Drums - Tracks 1, 2, 7, 11, 12
Graham Watson: Drums - Tracks 5, 10
Jamie Willis: Drums - Track 15

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