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City Lights
02:59
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We can never let our lives become mundane
So we leave today on a jet plane
So ditch our jobs and throw it all away
Based on a whim that we might stay
We can be anyone tonight
Underneath these city lights
Let's stay up late and watch the sunrise
With another bottle or two of red wine
Our silhouettes dance atop the skyline
We can be anyone tonight
We can be anyone tonight
Underneath these city lights
Baby if we can't live in Paris,
London, Amsterdam, or Brugge
I'm happy to live where all our loved ones can
As long as I wake up next to you
We can be anyone tonight
Underneath these city lights
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Free (Remaster)
03:23
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Never worked a day in my life.
It's what some people might say.
I think about all those sleepless nights
When I walk off the stage.
My hands are blistered and torn
from all the songs that I've played.
I piece together a living
from the tips I've been paid.
Do what you love,
and you'll always be free.
Let me ask you a question,
And don't you dare lie to me.
Do you still think that I'm living out my dream?
I won't make enough money
to afford good health care.
When my knuckles start to swell
and I lose all my hair.
I spend my days by the phone
waiting for someone to call.
For someone just to give me my chance
just to sing my songs.
Do what you love,
and you'll always be free.
Let me ask you a question,
And don't you dare lie to me.
Do you still think that I'm living out my dream?
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Happy
03:27
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I wanna take a walk down to the sand
And build a castle for a home for me and all my friends.
I wanna live just like a kid again.
And fly a kite so high we'll sail the sky on summer wind.
I wanna be a kid again
Invent a world where we can hide away,
Where you and I aspired to set the world on fire.
I'm learning to be happy.
Remember summer days when we were ten.
With shaggy hair and baggy clothes in our play pretend.
I sold my baseball cards to buy guitars
and pissed off the neighbors while I fantasized that we'd be stars.
I wanna be a kid again
Invent a world where we can hide away,
Where you and I aspired to set the world on fire.
I'm learning to be happy.
I'd rather stay here in my reverie,
and put down the news and power off my TV screen.
Dim the lights and bid the moon adieu,
and live tomorrow as a chance to reconcile my youth.
I wanna be a kid again
Invent a world where we can hide away,
Where you and I aspired to set the world on fire.
I'm learning to be happy.
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Photograph
03:45
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Dream My Life Away
03:26
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Erol Oz St. Petersburg, Florida
Erol Oz is a classically trained guitarist who teaches classical and popular music at the University of South Florida. His
folk-inspired songwriting is an amalgam of colorful jazz chords, fingerpicking, and altered tunings.
After receiving his Doctorate in 2014, he returned to songwriting and released his debut EP in 2019.
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