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Something Brighter

by Cumulus

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I only smoke cigarettes A couple time a night I mean a week, I mean a month I mean a year I’m getting by One day I will quit All these bad habits That wrap themselves around me When I’m lost in the darkness There are times that I, I crave you like a drug But I know that I need a better kind of love Better kind of love (x2) I only think about you A couple times a night I mean a week, I mean a month I mean a year I’m getting by And it gets so complicated When our hearts rearrange Who matters most and what we need And what we want to change There are times that I, I crave you like a drug But I know that I need a better kind of love Better kind of love (x2) Better kind of love (x2) I woke up this morning in a home that wasn’t mine Sleeping on the couch I was bathed in the sunlight I watched the dust slow dancing Right before my eyes I dreamed of different endings And the things we never tried Remember we said we’d run away Put together our last names Laughing the whole time because We knew that it would be too long For anyone, anyone to say There are times that I I crave you like a drug But I know that I need a better kind of love Better kind of love (x2)
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Sunbeam 02:58
When you met me I was Lost in a spinning wheel Staring at the cracks that lined the wall I couldn’t find the light to Illuminate it all Spinning tired in my own mind I still go there from time to time When you’re next to me It’s like I’m sleeping in a sunbeam Oh the way you love me It gets into my bloodstream I thought growing up that Love was supposed to hurt I thought I had to fight for every word Then you walked right in and Made it look so damn easy I didn’t know what I deserved I didn’t know what I deserved When you’re next to me It’s like I’m sleeping in a sunbeam Oh the way you love me It gets into my bloodstream I don’t need that much anymore Let’s just lay here on the floor
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Sitting in the house on a Saturday night Unpacking boxes to ease my mind Found a ticket stub and a diary I’m lost in a fog of memory I miss all our teenage plans Sneaking out in your mom’s old van Donuts in the parking lot before the show Singing every word in the front row Ohhhh Can you please, please slow it down? It’s too much change to take If we’re riding this hill down I’ll keep one foot on the break My brother had a baby she’s the prettiest thing Now we’re counting down seconds like a bolt of lighting Turn around once and a year is gone Wishing she could just stay forever young When everything’s right the world moves too fast I’m looking for a crack in the hourglass You once told me there’d never be Enough time To do all the things you want with me By your side Can you please, please slow it down? It’s too much change to take If we’re riding this hill down I’ll keep one foot on the break Can you please, please slow it down? It’s too much change to take If we’re riding this hill down I’ll keep one foot on the break
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Every day I wake up Trying to let the light in My head, my heart Cannot stop the fighting When the world is feeling upside down I turn it up and take a look around... I want that dancing in my underwear Risky business feeling If it’s foolish I don’t care / It’s how I get my healing I want music in the air / The only thing I’m breathing Dancing in my underwear / Risky business feeling When I’m looking in the mirror Sometimes I see a stranger A stranger's eyes, looking back at me I take my shadow and we step onto the dance floor Feet are footloose tapping to the beat I want that dancing in my underwear Risky business feeling If it’s foolish I don’t care / It’s how I get my healing I want music in the air / The only thing I’m breathing Dancing in my underwear / Risky business feeling (I want my 3 chords and a beat)
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Slow Motion 03:39
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I Never Knew 03:47

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Gratitude and the bittersweetness of learning from the past are in the undercurrent of every song on "Something Brighter." What a beautiful thing to make mistakes and learn from them; to heal wounds, to love deeply, and to dance in your underwear. Despite being written and recorded during some of the scariest and darkest of times, these songs unequivocally reach for the light.

credits

released October 21, 2022

Produced and Mixed by Andrew Vait at Hall of Justice and all of our homes!
Additional Production from Mike Davis and William Cremin
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Audio
Album cover art by Elisabeth Krause
Layout by Bradley James Lockhart

All songs written by Alexandra Lockhart © Paper Scout Publishing (BMI)
Except:
Get Your Love
(Alexandra Lockhart & William Cremin)
Risky Business Feeling
(Alexandra Lockhart & Andrew Vait)
I Never Knew
(Alexandra Lockhart & Mike Edel)

String arrangements on What A Beautiful Thing, Get Your Love, Risky Business Feeling, Slow Motion, and I Never Knew arranged by Emily Westman and performed by Anita Perkins

Pedal Steel on I Never Knew performed by Ed Brooks
Drums - Tom Fitzgibbon
Digital percussion - Andrew Vait
Marching Snare - Emily Westman

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Cumulus Seattle, Washington

Cumulus is the indie pop songwriting project of Alexandra Lockhart. New record "Something Brighter" coming out on Share It Music 10/21/22!

publishing and sync: laceys@subpop.com

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