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Only Game in Town
(Mario / Cliff)
Win, Lose
Rise again
Fail again
Beat a man till he falls
to please a crowd
You get paid pretty well
Day will come when you get
beat to hell
pretty well
And when you get beat to hell, Bro —
that’s the end
you just disappear
Say goodbye to friends who left
me behind
Out of sight, out of mind
[Mario & Cliff]
They’ll kiss your ass, they’ll flatter you
while they bet on you to lose
For every winner in the lottery
[ Cliff ]
a thousand suicides in the news
I own things I’ve never seen
I burn through other men like gasoline
It’s all part of the game
if you want to win
Fate has invited me
to make or break the rules of play
and end up winning either way
In this joint where
the wheel’s rigged
all the dealers are pigs
and the art of the con is the law
but it’s the only game there is
So get ready to throw down or bow down
if you wanna stick around
I am only here
for the money
for my pride
for the power and control
if you question anything you see
your compensation
is humiliation
and getting rolled
You’ve been warned
as you’ve been told
This is the game
the only game
the only game in town
[ Mario ]
Destroy a guy
with broken hands
to win a prize
Ain’t no way to live
I am born today
and gone away
surrendered to
the better part
of what I’m gonna be
__________
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Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Dirty River
(Lila)
Dirty River, whispering your secrets
Dirty River, leaving me behind
Rubbing my mascara eye
crying pointlessly
with this dirty river running to the sea
My man’s not here he’s there
and when he’s there
leaves me 30 stories in the air
He gives me money then he takes it out in trade
devours me until he’s satisfied
Cuts his guilt with cold dead charm
leaves me floating in a ruin
And when he hits me with a
double-barrelled blast of precious stones
there’s nothing left to do but the undoing
Then I'm left here
With something in my hand
to try and take the edges off this frame
My expensive wilting orchid flower face
planted in this toxic river mud
Some days I never see the open sky
Drifting, drifting in this haze
Some days I can’t see the open sky
I think the sky is on its knees
The sky is on its knees
and anyway the clouds are not my home
Dirty River, I am here
I am home
inside a crystal serving dome
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Candyce
(Candyce / Mario / Cliff)
[Mario]
Interrupting
a hundred conversations
when she walks into the bar
Her eyes meeting yours
and yours can’t look away
Sink into the shadows
Anonymous
where you gaze crazed and amazed
[Cliff]
We are ravenous
Starving
[Mario & Cliff]
with our spotlights
on that woman
[Candyce]
We are walking on air
expensive and rare
above a divided city
Living
this experience
in the ghetto of the night
Lovers of many sexes
bartering embraces
this is my home
have I ever had another?
My eyes like fireflies
of dancing joy
until the opulence boys
come to take my love away
Bring me the heat and the fury
Gift me a pyre of flaming flowers
Sparks from their embers
upwards and upwards in showers
Blinding you, guiding me
We are what we’ve never seen
in a world we’ve never been
so mad and mysterious
My orbit out of round
Invisible from the ground
Seductive, inviting,
beguiling, bizarre
and through any lens you select
I’m a star
[Cliff]
Bring me your heat and your fury
For me to own, for my glory
Name your price
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Power Plays
(Cliff / Candyce / Mario)
[Cliff]
I’m your man
I’ll be the architect of your master plan
I’ll be the source from where your riches flow
I’m the only man you’ll ever need to know
[Candyce]
So many “I”s
and these “I”s you advertise
invade my ears like
swarms of poisonous lies
Is this the way you flirt?
Is this the man you want to be?
Is this the way you think
you’re gonna get anywhere with me?
[Cliff]
Ah – you’re such a strange hypnotic queen
A tornado all wrapped up in velveteen
Give yourself to me
and I’ll give you the world
just take it, honey
it’s yours if you love me for my money
[Candyce]
Wealth is cheap
When what you want the most
isn’t for sale
You’ve got to impress me with your mind
if you want to undress me, or you’ll find
you’ll end up with your plastic cup
back at the end of the line
[Cliff]
My mind?
My mind tells me
any woman looking for a big time score
takes one look at me
and doesn’t have to look around any more
[Candyce]
Or they might just look at you and see
another brogrammer looking for a screw
and every one of them have had lovers
much wealthier than you
[Cliff]
I doubt it, I really doubt it
I run a money machine like you never seen
All my MBAs finding new ways to amaze
A million liquid, free and clear
Swipe right on my phone and it all disappears
[Candyce]
Well I suppose
you could support me in style
See, I could never be degraded or abraded
but it could be a lot of fun
being persuaded
Hello
Who’s this stranger
So shy and high and dry
with a face like a morning sky?
[Mario]
Who’s this angel for sale
to a creep on the cheap?
I never seen anyone so amazing
so excited to fail
[Cliff]
You don’t have to put a name to the face
to see you’re way out of place
[Mario]
Oooh, I’d like to stick around and fight tonight
But I got better things to do
than put a man in the hospital
just ‘cause of you
I’m outta here
[Candyce]
Hey Mr. Serious…
don’t go away mad or anything
___________________
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Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Don’t Go Away Mad
(Mario / Candyce)
[Mario]
Hey woman
You don’t need to say to me
‘Don’t go away mad’
I won’t go away mad
‘cause money’s nothing to me
but I know – If I had the money
I could be swimming in your beauty
and you’d be on my arm
Everything would be
like it’s meant to be
we could take a dive
while we’re still alive
grooving to this crazy chemistry
But I don’t have the money
And I don’t have to be ashamed
If you’re not strong enough for me
And I’m not rich enough for you
But still — I won’t go away mad
You need someone watching over you
Your wheels are spinning round
better stick around
save you from this
mothafuckin’ looney bin
[Candyce]
You’re crazy, you know that?
Got no crystal ball
but it could be written on the wall
that we just might meet again
sometime
without logic, or a plan
[Mario]
If you wanna put things right
Text me your number
just to remind us of
tonight
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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©2023 Pava Music
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In A Dream
(Lila)
Ear against the wall
Strain to hear the words
Laughter and gossip and
amazing sex until
they explode!
into silence
Everyone on every side
of this loft seems to have it made
Or could they all be playing scenes
and going mad just like me?
Small blue pill
Big fat joint
Ease me out of madness
Bring exhilaration
Kiss me between my unoccupied hips
Show me a light in the dark
Show me an end to this eclipse
Sweet distraction
takes possession
Homeless in the home
Speechless on the phone
Sparks are flying from my diamond
Peer into the stone and
Wake up in a dream
Wake up in a dream
Open up your eyes to find you’re blind
in a dream
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Jewels
(Cliff / Candyce)
[Cliff]
In a dream…
That’s where I first saw you:
In my dreams
The night we met
you were just glowing
Ever since then
we’ve been going and going and going
out there every night
spending all my money
You’re a jewel!
That’s what you are – a jewel!
Looks like I bought myself a jewel
A subterranean treasure
Usually a man has to move mountains
to find one single jewel
And this one – this one is mine
Another year, still here and king of the street
playing the high rolling alpha man bedroom athlete
When you take your place beside me
I feel your energy
I feel your anger
I feel your rage
when you put those scratch marks on my back
that scar me when your light becomes shadow
and camouflages your attack
So vicious
So delicious
You’re my sly,
wild, overstyled lascivious bitch
looking fine
looking fine, even finer when you’re mine
when you shine
in my mind
so divine
in my hands
you'll recline
and I’m never gonna
never gonna never gonna never gonna never gonna
let you go
until I’m through with you
Got a jewel, I got the crown jewel
just like I said
Got the jewel, I got the crown jewel
when you slide into my bed
With someone else I could play it safer
but having you feels like pulling off a caper
Got what might just be the most expensive jewel in the world
on display in a setting made of favors
You tell me I can be pretty sweet
when I’m bringing the charm and putting out heavy heat
But when I hit the room it’s easy to be nice
cause on my arm’s a bird of paradise
and that room’s full of players
with billion dollar prayers
and eyes that advertise
envy, admiration and acclaim
[Candyce]
All of your staring looks like silent swearing
And all of your talking sounds a lot like stalking
Just keep on talking trash
throwing cash
from your stash
and in a flash I’ll slip
through your hands
I’m a jewel, a precious jewel
more than any you’ve known
When you come on like a loser
or a coked-up yakuza
to me you’re just a double-drag fool
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Dark of the Sun
(Candyce)
Shining precious metal
reflected in a blinded eye
You’re caught in my magnetic field
a hunger-kissed spider’s fly
Your planet’s off its axis
spinning out of control
Whenever your laws are broken
you’re burning to your very soul
As I capture you with fascination
Tempting you to come undone
Holding you in separation
reaching for me
You’re craving the midnight shade
I’m throwing down on you
looking up at me
in the dark of the sun
Crawling in a petal storm
Come to me
with your backwards-facing confidence
craving these silent fingers
Expect my favors to fall like dominoes
when the money flows
Your wide hands overflowing
nails slicing into my skin
You say you wanna trade your tattered nerves
for my glowing acid angel rags
As I enrapture you with no possessions
Temptation alive and rare
You’d tear me open if you could only
claim what you will never dare
Because you’re captured with fascination
midnight shade fascination
Paralyzed and starving
in the blinding white hot
dark of the sun
In the dark of the sun
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Inside Looking Out
(Mario)
Neon shining on my ride
Driver waves to me to get inside
Sets his GPS and all at once
the city busts out into a carnival
A multicolored motion blur
alive and looking just like her
All the life
all the music
All her heat
all the chaos of all that passion
Ah Candyce
You got me mixed up and mesmerized
hung up and hypnotized
Woman you’ve transported me
taken me far away
From the man I was yesterday
Wishing on a song
wishing to be where I belong
Inside looking out with you in your world
Guess I’ll tough it out
hang around, stand my ground
I know that we could rise above
another useless dead-end love
You’re stuck with him
I’m stuck on you
I know he’s gonna break you if he can
Our pathways crossed on the horizon line
When they finally meet again
it’ll feel so right and play so fine
This is my wishing song
Wishing to be where I belong
Inside looking out with you in your world
Drift away, float away, move on down
from all this doubt a mile above
to hope and joy and light and love
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Tool
(Lila)
If you
are used by someone
Then you
are needed by someone
You offer yourself
in sacrifice
The ultimate prize
at the highest price
I remember you said
you were nobody’s tool
Now I am the tool
one that belongs to you
A tool of pride
A tool of joy
Can you feel me in your hands,
feel me holding you?
A tool
Feel me in your hands
Yours
and mine
Your hands and mine
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Gravity, Gravity
(Cliff / Lila)
[Cliff]
All the people down there
see me in the air
Working my fame
in the finance game
Testing my reach
Fighting my fights
from an eagle’s nest
at the highest heights
[Lila]
Madman’s gold
out of control
Trading all day
Molly all night
Still saying
‘what’s mine is yours’
to a woman you’re trying to ignore
[Cliff]
You got problems, baby
Can’t let your problems
become my problems
Especially when I’m
giving you the money to solve ‘em
Huffing that stuff
Smoking that kill
This ain’t love
it’s a test of will
and right about now I’ve
had my fill of this
[Cliff & Lila]
Gravity, Gravity
[Lila]
Pulling down on me
[Cliff]
Resenting your insecurity
[Lila]
You’re forcing me to my knees
[Cliff]
Emasculation by degrees
[Cliff & Lila]
Too much
Gravity
[Lila]
Now after the silence
that follows the fighting
here come the flowers
[Cliff]
Turning up your nose at this ivory tower?
[Lila]
You give me wealth and then take my soul
[Cliff]
I give you the world, you swallow it whole
[Lila]
That prenup deal was a con job steal
[Cliff]
It’s keeping me from underneath your heel
[Lila]
Loving your looks and erotic energy
[Cliff]
Hating your sorority girl placidity
[Lila]
Used to be addicted to your virility
[Cliff]
till you said the only thing I bring is instability
[Lila]
Nothing’s real
[Cliff]
Bets are off
[Lila]
Running in place
[Cliff]
Losing face
[Lila]
Anesthetized
[Cliff]
Pulverized by
[Cliff & Lila]
Gravity, Gravity
Pulling down on me
[Lila]
This oppressive gravity
has got me tethered once again
[Cliff]
You’re born to be sad
[Lila]
You’re unglued, raving mad
[Cliff]
The controlling, needy
[Lila]
oppressive, crushing force of
[Cliff & Lila]
Gravity
___________________
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Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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To Be Alone
(Candyce)
To be a pawn
to be a star
To be an outlaw on the run
in some rich man’s bar
To be nothing more than
an ornamental jewel
possessed by a lover
superficial and cruel
To flee the crowd and be alone
like you would kick a drug
or abdicate a throne
or ghost a friend
who mocks your tears
and ignores the silence howling in their ears
I carry fire, fire in my mind
to light the way to find
another life
another face
another name
another anyplace
to be alone
To be alone unrestrained
take the world into my open veins
Away from these tiny scenes
and my body double libertine
To break away from my crowd
and all their weird demands
so many clutching hands
never satisfied
You don't have the right to ask
for an alibi at times I stay away
from your flat
from this hell
or disappear into my shell
So take a look at who you see
and ask yourself again:
Do you send me on my way
or destroy us both forcing me to stay?
Watch me grow more distant and
detach from everything that fails
Alone from soul to fingernails
Silhouette against the sun
beyond the reach of anyone
Invited by the sky
to finally fly
Watch me fly
___________________
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Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Heart-Shaped Box
(Mario / Candyce)
[Mario]
We’re floating
[Candyce]
in the light
[Mario]
We came so far
[Candyce]
overnight
[Mario]
you took my wrists like handlebars
[Candyce]
The guardrails and the white lines were a blur
[Mario]
We’re singing
[Candyce]
our hunger song
[Mario]
This electricity
[Candyce]
can’t be wrong
[Mario]
Our bodies solved
[Candyce]
a mystery
[Mario]
The key
[Candyce]
and the lock
[Mario & Candyce]
Opened the heart-shaped box between us
[Mario]
The slowly moving sky above
[Candyce]
Our ribbon of road below
[Mario & Candyce]
and everything in-between in afterglow
[Mario]
Through the alley in the rain
[Candyce]
Kissing droplets off of your face
[Mario & Candyce]
Away we flew so high
[Candyce]
up the steps to your place
[Mario]
A thousand moments
[Mario]
with a thousand hands
[Candyce]
Our hair entwined
[Mario]
in a thousand strands
Conversation
[Candyce]
without a word
[Mario]
Gossip from the sheets
[Candyce]
is all we heard
[Mario]
Our fascination
[Candyce]
burning bright
[Mario]
Our heart-shaped box
[Candyce]
full of secrets and light
[Mario & Candyce]
Our parade float came down
when we climbed these apartment stairs
and we lost the weight
of being lighter than air
When the chains of the day
[Candyce]
All fell away
[Mario]
Test my faith inside your flame
[Candyce]
Melt my fear inside your strength
[Mario]
From our fire
[Candyce]
comes the steel
[Mario]
Toxic guy in your past
[Candyce]
Means nothing to me
[Mario]
I’ll steal you from him
[Candyce]
Yes steal me from him forever
[Mario]
And if he tries to steal you back
[Mario & Candyce]
separate us even for a day
[Mario]
I’ll raise this fighter’s fist
drive him body and soul away
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Crazy Tree
(Cliff)
Who’s been sleeping here?
Know someone’s been sleeping here
I can smell him, I can feel him
I can see it in your eyes
The look of panic and surprise
You can’t hide anything from me
Everywhere I got eyes
Helping to discover your evasion and lies
Underestimate me and pay the price
You wanna bet against me?
Just roll the dice
Understand right now –
I’m sane when I wanna be
Like when I’m in front of the pack with a BSD
or I'm flashing my 1000-watt grin
for the men of the press
and the small contributor bourgeoise
The rest of the time watch out for your man
cause he’s kray kray crazy
right outta the crazy tree
Don’t fuck with me woman
Don’t ever forget your debts
and don’t turn your back on me
I’m keeping tabs on everything
from top of the crazy tree
Yeah I’m one of those guys
Call me macho, call me crass, unwoke, sadistic
Just watch out that you don’t end up another statistic
You’re my woman like I told you so
You’re my woman until I let you go
Start something with another man,
EMTs will take you away in the van
I’m here to tell you honey
how good it feels to be me
Whippin’ it out and pissin’ on everyone
from the top of the crazy tree
You’re just another possession
And here you’re gonna stay
unless I find a younger edition
and then maybe I’ll toss you away
Till then I’m running this show
with a mind like a polygraph,
and my eyes all fixed on you
like white hot interrogation lights
Playing around with some guy on my dime?
You must be stone outta your mind
Laugh behind my back with him
and you better learn how to pray
Night will become your enemy
and you’ll fear the light of day
You’ve got
No path forward
No way to win
Don’t fuck with me woman
Don’t take me out of my depth
Don’t fuck with me woman
I can throw down a lotta living death
from on top of the crazy tree
I’m outta the crazy tree
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Candyce, Act III: Abused
01:54
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Defiance
(Candyce)
I’m weightless, fateless, numb
The hands of a man
were assigned to me
just to remind me
of what I’ve become
Choices killed by voices
in my head
Screaming
‘Down, woman, down’
I was a baby
teething on barbed wire
I was a fool
toying with magnesium fire
I was a gambler
who should have known
that she would have to pay
When trading her kiss for money in fists
with her life in those same greedy hands
Couldn’t admit it was wrong
even when it was so, so wrong
for me to play along
Thank you for the education
in flesh for capital gain
The credit for that wisdom is yours
though I cannot speak your name
Rising in my bloodstained gown
on graduation day
The ballerina dancing on your blade
is now armed and unafraid
This malignant spite
dissolving in my sight
I defy your terror
ruthlessly
Your cruelty screams
to no reply
You must know now that I
I with no defense will taste
sweet victory
Hatred for you
is my benedictory
and now I
I with no defense
will taste
sweet victory
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Strange Contradiction
(Mario)
Who abused you, precious woman?
Who did this to you?
Your hypnotic eyes are swollen shut
Bruises on your long slender neck
A gash down the curve of your shoulder
I kneel to kiss your bleeding lips
What man who ever loved you
could do all of this to you?
Such a strange
contradiction
to want to destroy
your most amazing
treasure
And yet through all the damage
your beauty still shines
Perfect as a child
A phoenix new and wild
blinding splash
of fire, smoke and ash
arise!
For the man who brought this
harm to you
I promise more pain than
he ever knew
He’ll pay his debt in blood
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Payback
(Cliff / Mario)
[Mario]
I saw what you did
Witness to a hit-and-run
I saw you through her eyes
Now I’m here to equalize
what is to be
with what’s already been done
What you gonna do
what you gonna do
What you think you’re gonna do now?
How you gonna make it right
How you gonna pay?
Where you gonna go?
How you gonna get away from me
and live to see another day?
Just another big money man putting hurt on a woman
Blood sucking freak
only dealing on the weak
You just shortened your lifespan
put the law into my hands
and vengeance will be mine
[Cliff]
Well look who’s here stripping his gears
The tall drink of water with the cauliflower ear
The fighter in the ring
who couldn’t win a thing
Now he can’t stop playing a cop
on patrol in the bed of another man’s woman
You saw what made me lose control
All she had to do is everything she was told
you chump fool sucker
dumb motherfucker
jumping like fleas when a woman begs please
the craziest bitch money can buy
stuck in your throat and caught in your eye
[Mario]
What you gonna do
what you gonna do
What you think you’re gonna do now?
How you gonna make it right
how you gonna pay?
You did it but you won’t admit it
and as long as you live
I'll make sure
you're never gonna forget it
You punk ass fake
look at you shake
got a big fat mouth
and busy little hands
that beat on women
you chicken shit man
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Finally, You Need Me
(Lila / Cliff)
[Lila]
Honey, what happened?
Who ruined your face?
Your pain hurts me too
What happened to you?
[Cliff]
Candyce…
[Lila]
Don’t call for your mistress
Cause I doubt
she would help you
even if she could
[Cliff]
Lila?
[Lila]
Yes It’s me
You need me now, don’t you?
You unpack me from storage
from my luxurious container
As you’re helpless and hurting
After all this time
you finally need me now
How does it feel?
Your whore isn’t here
She only wanted the money
While I wanted to give
Give you all of the things
that you would only buy
from someone else
Fuck you!
Go to sleep
Sleep now
Sleep
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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©2023 Pava Music
Music ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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What Have You Done?
(Candyce)
Where have you been?
What happened there?
What have you done?
Did anyone see you
escape from the scene?
Did you kill that man
who left me beaten
and bleeding?
You did that for me?
Clean the blood off your hands
those passionate hands
bring them to me
and take me away
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Hideout
(Mario / Candyce)
[Mario]
When I fought my final round
The KO blow that laid me low
made me stronger than I’d been
And I realized if I were to rise
I wouldn’t stand over someone in victory
but serve someone relentlessly
You are the light of my life
one that I will fight
with everything I have
to keep alight
All my power in your name
devoted to keeping alive
the magic of your brilliant flame
Simple things won’t be complicated
our words will never be ignored
or left untranslated
[Candyce]
Stay my lover, be my guide
When we leave it all behind
[Mario]
We’ll travel where we wouldn’t go
We can be who we would not know
[Candyce]
Wrap you in a lush embrace
Rest your silent angel face
[Mario]
No turning back now
Shit gets real now
I’m all in
lose or win
[Candyce]
We’ll hide out here awhile
cut the lights and buy some time
Sleep lover
Wake to discover
I’m all in
to live again
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Getaway
(Candyce)
History
traveling too fast
too fast to know
another past
My story
I can only tell you
when you’re asleep
and lost in dreams
A mother’s keeper
a wedding band
The enemy within
his dirty hands
The look of terror
his blood on my bed
How I ran away
to stay alive
Like you I killed
to survive
Now’s the time!
Get away now!
Escape from here somehow
Get away from all the scum
Away from disloyalty
and who I used to be
The little girl with the mark of Cain
justifying her pain
From a stepfather swinging his fist
enforcing martial law
and a mother hiding in the night
pharmaceuticals in her claw
Get away, get away, with you my lover
I ache for our escape
Now that I am finally awake
Getaway, getaway now!
Escape from here today
through this forest of decay
See new life appear
Reverse the verdict here
that god and man brought down
and seem to so enjoy
Reverse the verdict here
Run away and start again
I want to win the prize
of your starry eyes
Run away and start again
when we make our getaway
make this getaway
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Assisted Suicide
(Lila)
Did you think you’d bury me
inside your pyramid of lies?
Were you afraid to be there
to know me
grow with me
or confront the longing in my eyes?
Did you tell her how pathetic I was
when you were laying in her bed?
and laugh along with her
as my crippled image
played inside her head?
These mysteries died with you,
my dear departed
If you wanted to be shed of me
and never once bled for me
and wanted to be dead to me
then why would I
not take the steps
to provide
assisted suicide?
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Radiant Light
(Lila)
When you find that you’ve sunk so low
you’re nothing but a worm squirming in the dark
through the caverns and the caves
of ignorance
Confronting how sad
how base
how pitiful
how low you really are
When your soul has been savaged
but confusion surrenders
giving way to rage
and the battle gets you high
If you’re looking for something in someone
that just ain’t there
You end up with a fistful of nothing but
Facebook hopes and prayers
Then a narrow opening appears
a sliver of sun blinding you
beckoning you
to come on up to the surface
if you want to live
Breaking your fingernails
crawling for your life
No one remembers your face in the dark
so you tunnel towards the sun
remind yourself that you’re the only one
who’s sanctified, holy and ready for the
Radiant light
Radiant light
Shining ahead of me
Where my sunshine will expand and explode,
to bless and illuminate the bones of the road
and baptize me to save my damaged soul
I feel its hands upon me now
bathing me in a river of liquid gold
Surrendering to the power of the
radiant light
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Candyce II
(Candyce)
Escape with a stolen beginning
with the mirror ball still spinning
Slip away
into the ether
to find we are
walking on air
inexpensive and rare
outside of this divided city
Everything new in all directions
See distant mountains swaying
Hear oceans breathing our names
Still got no crystal ball
But who cares at all?
Abandoned bags at the station
Where we shed our skins for souvenirs
Scored a ride, jumped inside
and just disappeared
with our enemies in confusion
Electricity crossing the fields
thunderstorm lovers head over heels
Wild and delirious
All of us
everyone
learns it all
on the run
and when it’s all
said and done
we all are stars
___________________
©2023 Pava Music
Music & lyrics ©2023 S.Fairbank / Studfinder Music (BMI)
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Released/Finale
(Candyce / Mario)
[Mario & Candyce]
Dazed by the sun
We can’t see
we can only try to be
the She in shield
the He in hero
Now that we
are finally released
[Mario]
We’re in a world
[Candyce]
so very strange
[Mario]
Let’s run the race
[Candyce]
strong and furious
[Mario]
and break the tape
[Candyce]
in rags, victorious!
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S.Fairbank
S.Fairbank is a composer, producer, musician, and writer with a long history as an innovator in alternative musical
performances involving electronic music fused with video, film and theater.
In live performance he has appeared on bills with a diverse array of artists including Annie Lennox, Karen Finley, Gus Gus, Nels Cline, Jane’s Addiction, The Minutemen, Carla Bozulich, and Holger Czukay.
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