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Before The Fire Is Gone

by Dan Saulpaugh

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1.
Before the Fire's Gone Love is not What we thought Before we fell this far We were both Too young to see If love would trap or set us free So please don't make me wait too long Because without you I'm not that strong And please don't make me believe That love has passed us on Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please Before the fire's gone Before the fire's gone The stillness in The air we breath Solidifies, won't let us leave And the silence that We've learned to need Holds us here, won't set us free So please don't make me wait too long Because without you I'm not that strong And please don't make me believe That love has passed us on Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please Before the fire's gone Before the fire's gone And I love how your words taste sweet As you whisper them into my mouth And write a book where our sheets form The pages of our love I love how we fall asleep Kept warm in each other's arms And I read your words in my dreams Until we have to face the break of dawn So please don't make me wait too long Because without you I'm not that strong And please don't make me believe That love has passed us on Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please Before the fire's gone Before the fire's gone
2.
Ghost 06:35
Ghost I don't pray These days Because I'm scared That God will hear And I don't say These days That I've not faith To disbelieve Your love Is the shackles that Keep me moving through Your walls 'Cause I'm Just the ghost in your attic, Love Waiting just to hear you call So shut the windows and the blinds Because there's nothing left I want to see Just let me know that you are mine And I don't want to leave I wait for the come 'cause I want to know if I was ever free 'Cause these bones, they feel like a prison where I'm not sure I'm supposed to be So shut the windows and the blinds Because there's nothing left I want to see Just let me know that you are mine And I don't want to leave So Love let me sleep tonight Captive in your arms And Love let me haunt your dreams tonight Prisoner to your charm Because I'm just a ghost Hungry for your love And I move inside of you Wanting just to know your touch So Love let me sleep tonight Captive in your arms And Love let me haunt your dreams tonight Prisoner to your charm
3.
Mother 07:09
Mother Wake up oh sleeper, what have you done? Mother behold your firstborn son Rise arise, The Kingdom has come But the battle is lost before day is done Maybe I'm the chains that shackled you down To Mary your mother and her blessed crown So you hide it in your heart, you don't make a sound It's cold not wearing shoes on holy ground And if there's salvation in this It comes after days in the ground And if there's peace in life It's not in the love that I've found So I no longer believe We're heaven-bound He told you you were lovely, he said you were light And he wed you in a church in dresses of white Now you're praying evening's over, dear God it's alright Lonely sweating blood in the garden at night And why have you forsaken me Lord? Set my children against their mother, set devils at my door? There's incense on the alter there's tears on the floor I asked you for less but you gave me more And if there's salvation in this It comes after days in the ground And if there's peace in life It's not in the love that I've found So I no longer believe We're heaven-bound So I no longer believe We're heaven bound
4.
Lovers At Dawn We were both baptized by dawn As the sun it crept down Christopher And washed us of each others hands As I watched you walk away Evening hides our shadows as The candles burn in cheap cafes Drawing all our senses close As our silence falls away But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets Because I don’t think that we’d still be Lovers at dawn But listen I don’t feel that we should regret All the things that we could have been had But didn’t need From each other Dear We were both here for a moment And we’ll return from time to time Because it’s not the end that we crave But the spark And the first time that you crossed my mind But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets Because I don’t think that we’d still be Lovers at dawn But listen I don’t feel that we should regret All the things that we could have been had But didn’t need From each other Dear If your words were a sacrament Well Honey I’d be blessed Even as we leave For our separate beds And if your touch was a prayer I’d fast for days Even as we go Our separate ways But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets Because I don’t think that we’d still be Lovers at dawn But listen I don’t feel that we should regret All the things that we could have been had But didn’t need From each other Dear
5.
Fingertips 03:32
Fingertips Morning light steals through my window, Crawls up into my bed And fills up the space Where you should have been Slept too late to see you go The door’s slam was my alarm My ears are ringing I taste cigarettes In the darkness of our room But last night the world was a word Spoken softly from your lips And when it stopped the world, it didn’t burn Or freeze, but fell Slowly from your fingertips I’ve never woken in another’s bed But that’s not to say I don’t know want I’m just glad you can’t see my heart Or the lovers in my head But last night the world was a word Spoken softly from your lips And when it stopped the world, it didn’t burn Or freeze, but fell Slowly from your fingertips

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released April 12, 2018

DAN SAULPAUGH - Guitar & Vocals
KELLON ANDERSON - Tenor Saxaphone
DYLAN KAMINKOW - Bass
SEBASTIAN “C-BASS” CHIRIBOGA - Drums
RAYE ZARAGOZA - Background Vocals
STEVEN PARDO - Background Vocals

ALL MUSIC & LYRICS BY DAN SAULPAUGH

Recorded October 2017 at Teaneck Sound, Teaneck, NJ
Additional Recording at 4D Audio, Queens NY
Engineered, Mixed, & Mastered by Steven Pardo
Produced by Steven Pardo
Co-Produced by Dan Saulpaugh

Artwork & Design by Ali Aslam

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Dan Saulpaugh New York, New York

New York based singer-songwriter Dan Saulpaugh exists at the nexus of indie-folk and modern jazz, blending the emotional immediacy of Jeff Buckley's folk-as-art-music aesthetic with the harmonic richness of Wayne Shorter's '60s compositions. This acts as a jumping off point for his songs that explore the complexities of being in love and finding one's place spiritually in the world. ... more

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