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Words From Boxes

by Ali Suhail

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1.
DreamThang 02:31
(Instrumental)
2.
Day 03:21
All i see is colored shapes and memories And clouds having fun in the sky As we jump around in slow motion on white sheets The wind picks us off into the night Sparkles bounce off the surface in the eye Every crystallized moment Sculpted to a simple perfection Light shining color into my eye If this is all a dream than don't wake me up Don't touch, Don't breathe, Don't move a hair Let me go as i fall to experience The endlessness of what i feel Let me go as the wind possesses my all This seems so real Pick out the pieces and rearrange them as you like There's no such thing as wrong But i knew this was way too good to last The sounds have begun to shatter the glass
3.
Celebrity 02:43
Find a way to colorize your darkest black and white memory So you can televise All the reasons why you came to be And if you're still ashamed With all your might just throw away the keys And stay locked inside The mirrored room where they check your bones And stare faithfully as they count your teeth They made you the enigma That you had always thought yourself to be The unsurity Has become your home i'm sure you can see And stare faithfully as they tether them away The cards on which you built this house of clay
4.
Strangers 02:42
Long winding road where have you taken me? Far from cities Far from civility No one's offered to help tote these heavy memories I don't know where what goes These don't belong to me This wasn't supposed to be The spirals in your hair were just a guise i see In with the new Out with simplicity I fear everything That coaxed away your purity Such a lovely word Never what it means. How did it come to be?
5.
Colors 03:49
This world is not a place for dreamers And i know how It feels to be led astray So i'll hold your hand and show you the way No place is right for the likes of me And i can see the way Your eyes look at me now So i'll hold your hand and tell you what to say There's gotta be another way, another plan I've got no flags to show, I'm just trying to be a better man I'm looking for the few i need out of all the things for which i asked we've got alot of miles to cover so follow me, take my hand I'm looking for the tired minds With shoulders that keep up the glow whose multicolored picket fences were beaten into monochrome by them. I wanna take you far away from where art is judged and compromised by the same suits that eat your dreams whose hate is covered by their plastic hair There's gotta be another way, another plan I've got no flags to show, I'm just trying to be a better man I'm looking for the few i need out of all the things for which i asked we've got alot of miles to cover so follow me, take my hand Just throw away what you've been told and get down on your fucking knees And try to salvage whatever pieces left of all those broken dreams right now There's gotta be another way, another plan I've got no flags to show, I'm just trying to be a better man I'm looking for the few i need out of all the things for which i asked I know we've got alot of miles to cover I know there's gotta be a better way a better plan just take your cross, wear it proud make the shit hit the fan you've already got everything you need just grab your shoes and run with me we've got alot of miles to cover follow me and take my hand.
6.
Lights 04:44
Grapevines growing on the walls of time. They're leading to somewhere I don't know but can call mine. And I'm just watching the show And I can't tell where to go It's all just colors and haze With fog on the looking glass I know exactly what it is I just can not describe it And I miss my friends. The ones I should've kept Untill the end Till we begin Till all of what's Broke will mend I will follow Through all the secret pathways That trumped the ordinary roads (that)Led to the pleasant disarray That i could sometimes call home And I just can't beleive If this is it, or was it all me? Untill the end Till we begin Till all of what's Broke will mend I will follow Through to where these Lights will take me
7.
Favors 01:52
hello my friend we meet again just the usual or new frayed ends? what else have you gotten into this time? I see you've gone and made new friends With charming smiles and sharpened ends but we're still here repairing your smile so what can i do for you this time? We'll never run out of sympathies For your paper cuts and skinned knees I fear you'll have to stop for the night You have to leave to find your home But you built a house and now you're gone This blanket won't keep you warm all your life So just brave through the night come on home
8.
Attics 02:24
We stood atop our hill Looking down as the valley fills Never knowing what it was like Never knew what we had Making failures out of little plans Far away from worldly plights Boy, Do I, Miss that time. Marking all the streets and trees Never knowing boundaries... Yellows in a room full of blue Never could associate With their agendas and their hate One and the same, me and you. Boy, Do I, Miss that time. And I, could not believe That you could see Everything beyond the eye Could not believe No one could be So simple as you and I When we were the heroes, like in my mind When no doubts could survive. Boy, Do I, miss that time.
9.
Baaten 03:18
Baaton ka maqsad nahi Matlab agar pata nahi tou bus Shor hai Jhootay lafz aur jhootay chehray Boltay rahengay ke tu kamzor hai Kya tujhay pata nahi? Uski haqeeqat koi na jaanay Tere andar gum aik qayenaat hai Yaad nahi kya tujhko ab kuch Aik raat main bhoolgae ke woh tere Saath hai. Jo tu chahay Sab kuch tou tere paas hai Tu ab bhi uska khaas hai Tu jhooti baaton say dill ko na rula Jo maanga aur jo na mila Kyun bhooljata hai istarha Ke jo de sakta hai woh tou hai tera Raaz abhi khula nahi Bus apne aapko khona nahi Aankhen band karke karle bharosa (Kya hai Woh cheez Jo tere Paas nahi Kya hai kami?) Sab kuch tou tere paas hai Tu ab bhi uska khaas hai Tu jhooti baaton say dill ko na rula Jo maanga aur jo na mila Kyun bhooljata hai istarha Ke jo de sakta hai woh tou hai tera Raaz abhi nahi khulay Asliyat ko pehchaan le Aankhen band karke karle bharosa.

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This album is a very personal project that is (or atleast seems like something) very different from the sort of music I normally make. I made these songs to make myself happy and gain some perspective over what matters to me. I hope it can accomplish something along the same lines for you.

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released May 21, 2013

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Ali Suhail Karachi, Pakistan

Hi, I'm Ali. I make music in a room in a house in Karachi in Pakistan. In fact, that's most of what I do. I've been making music since I was a teenager, learning from The Beatles, The Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Freelance Whales, Pomplamoose etc. These albums that I've written are an amalgamation of my experiences and perception of the world and life. I hope they make people happy. ... more

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