Ryan Koriya - The Demonstration EP - Lyrics

1. Mirrors Don't Work In The Dark
2. Wish
3. Ballrooms In The Sky
4. Cupid Love (Interlude)
5. Heatseeker
6. Lone Star Transmission
7. Exsouliation
8. Gemini

 

Mirrors Don’t Work In The Dark

Knock on my door
'Cause I don’t even know
Know who’s home
I can hear the echo of your desire
And wonder to myself
Is your heart a liar?

Everybody knows
Your mirrors they just don’t
Work in the dark
And so the saying goes
That nobody chose
To soothe your scars

It’s not your fault
And girl, it’s not mine
We’re tired of running all the time
We're tired of running blind

Just need a reason
To make it through another day
In your company
The fact of the matter is
This handshake you give to me Is burning my skin

And everybody knows
Your mirrors they just don’t
Work in the dark
And so the saying goes
That nobody chose
To soothe your scars

It’s not your fault
And girl, it’s not mine
We’re tired of running all the time
We're tired of running blind

I see your face
And I wonder to myself
Is your heart a liar?
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Wish

Make your wish tonight
The city angels might
Hold back the light
I’m holding onto you
Till the sunrise golds my view

This feels familiar
I’m trying to understand
What it is you do that keeps blowing my mind

I’m doing all I can
I’m trying to be the middle man
I’m doing all I can
I’m trying to be the middle man
Between you and life

Shake your fears tonight
Our demons they just might
Fade out of sight
I’m looking into you
And I can see your thoughts shine through

This feels peculiar
'Cause people do the things that show you

They’ll never understand
Who’s trying to be the middle man
I’m doing all I can
I’m trying to be the middle man
Between you and life

I’m doing all I can
I’m trying to be the middle man
I’m doing all I can
I’m trying to be the middle man
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Ballrooms In The Sky

City girl is broken on the sidewalk
She doesn’t really know which way is home tonight
She’s lost her breath to the dance floor
And found more scars than she can account for
And love is unkind

She’s dreaming of ballrooms in the sky
Believing in the day she’ll feel alive
She’s dreaming as the world trips by

There’s a boy on Gabriel’s Wharf
But no one really knows what he’s singing for tonight
He’s lost his breath to the landscape
And found more stars than they can appreciate
And his love is one shy

He’s dreaming of ballrooms in the sky
Believing in the day he’ll feel alive He’s dreaming as the world slips by

Let’s paint the world a different colour To see if anyone will notice at all

As we’re dreaming of ballrooms in the sky
Believing in the day we’ll feel alive
We’re dreaming as the world slips by
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Cupid Love (Interlude)

Put your arms around me
Wrap your arms around me
But do ever so gently, (gently)
For there is an arrow stuck in my shoulder
From when love took my breath away
And I didn’t have the heart to show her

Oh ooh way
Oh woah oh

(Cupid love)
[Tacita: ...for there is an arrow stuck in my shoulder
From when love took my breath away
And I didn’t have the heart to show her

(Cupid love)
... any better?]

(Cupid)
(I want you to hold me)

(Cupid)
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Heatseeker

The rain is falling down again
Summer residue is on my mind
And it all now depends
On which closed hand you choose to open, hun
Your seasons will burn out in the end
And it's up to you on whom you depend

Who's going to dance with you
When the spotlight is done with you
And moves on?
The rain clouds they seem to take away
More than they bring to you
And your rose garden.

And I still dream of you
As if there's nothing new
To take this imagination on
And you're inside of me
I can't seem to shake you
I can't spit you out

Your reasons will turn out in the end
And it’s up to you on who you defend Now

Who's going to dance with you
When the spotlight is done with you
And moves on?
The rain clouds they seem to take away
More than they bring to you
And your rose garden

It looks like we've started to rediscover
Discover me and you
Playing hide and seek with each other
We’re playing in full view
We're hiding in full view
Playing in full view of you

Who's going to run to you
When the dark nights have caught up with you
And the light's gone?
The rain clouds they seem to take away
More than they bring to you
And your rose…

Who's going to dance with you
When the spotlight is done with you
And moves on?
And the rain clouds seem to take away
More than they bring to you
And your rose… now

Don't you hide away now
Don’t hide away now
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Lone Star Transmission

I turn myself inside out just to see what it feels like
And I’m a different man when I’m with you
But I still can’t figure out which one is real

What is this feeling that you leave in me?
Do you see what you are doing to the shooting star in me?

When I smile in your name, smile for you, from this far away
Do you feel the overwhelmed urge to smile for me?
Though I’m not the one who’ll be there to see

When I sing in your name, sing for you, from where I lay
Do you stop to dance a while wherever you may be?
Do you stop to sing a song for me?

What is this feeling that you leave in me?
Do you see what you are doing to the lonely heart in me?

And I hate the silence that you can do something about
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Exsouliation

People come but do they know
That when they go
Not all the things they have will follow?
So don’t retake your steps of life
They’ll never make the same footprints
Under same skies

Feel free to look at me
'Cause I’m just trying to be myself, I…

We’re speaking to each other
But say nothing at all
We’re counting on one other
As the numbers fall
Exfoliation of your soul

Feel free to look at me
'Cause I’m just trying to be me

Everybody knows my name
Everyone likes to play the game
As long as you give in

People always love suggestion
By always speaking the cue
But not playing the part
Well who’s supposed to start?

Everybody knows your name
Everyone likes to play the game
As long as you give in
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Gemini

She holds her head up
To a cloudy sky
Thoughts are heavy
Tears are dry

Running to the ocean
Gemini, swimming away
This flooded dream’s run dry
She’ll wish she could be
Floating free

Her hair bleeds colour
Her faith is dry
And words are pointless
As feelings die
Feelings fly

Running to the ocean
Gemini, swimming away
This flooded dream’s run dry
She’ll wish she could be
Floating free

Drunken behaviour
On sober days
Friends are weightless
In balls and chains

Running to the ocean
Gemini, is swimming away
This flooded dream’s run dry
It looks like she’ll be
Floating free

© Ryan Koriya 
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