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All I Wanted
(Words: Sarkissian; Music: Sarkissian/LoPresto)
If you ask me what the future holds
You bet my story's sold
You probably saw it on the news
I finally found the truth
It was hidden in my youth
But I always found the right words and the right excuses
'Cause it's been there all along
I finally found the right words in this sad, sad song
Chorus:
But all I wanted to say
Is I need you here in this way
So tell me in my dreams
and oh I'll Pray
I found intrinsic worth
when you were the very first girl
to look me in the eye, and tell me that I'm strong
even though I might refuse sometimes
Sometimes it's hard, admitting you might be wrong
Chorus
I'll never have to say
(You're coming back again)
I don't see you
'Cause you'll always give enough for me
(Let the rain fall)
I see you
Chorus
I'll never have to say goodbye
Another Day
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
I see you there
Your eyes are like fire
We have no choice here
Our worlds are colliding
For better or worse
Both seeking completion
The gods have ordained this
Unloved and lost
And then I look in your eyes...
What is this coming to
What about me and you
I don't know what to say
Because when I do my thoughts start to betray me
Brother, brother, sister take my hand
Let's take the time we have to understand
I say to you… my love
It's coming through now… my love
Could make a change... my love
So why does this decision have to be so hard
I say to you now... my love
Could make a change... my love
Just wait until another day goes by
I catch your gaze
Hint of a smile
What if I see you
What if I see through
What if I had to do this all over again
Would I still not see
I see you there
You're off in the distance
So why does it feel like
You're looking through me
And if this is
Not meant to be
Why can't I tell that
You're slipping away
And then I look in your eyes…
What is this coming to
What about me and you
I don't know what to say
Because when I do my thoughts start to betray me
Brother, brother, sister take my hand
Let's take the time we have to understand
I say to you… my love
It's coming through now… my love
Could make a change... my love
So why does this decision have to be so hard
I say to you now... my love
Could make a change... my love
Just wait until another day goes by
Better Off... (Wonder If)
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Two girls eighteen, an ocean's difference
One's acting as a martyr, one's dancing like a fool
They know no other way
Is there any hope for understanding?
We pray to different spirits, saints, and Sons
With no end in sight
We dream ourselves a future of 'happily ever after'
Seems it's the only way to fly
Away from all this conflict
Away from all this hate
What can I do?
I can't see you
You're not my kind
If I could know you
I'd understand
So with different ways and different faces
We all find ways to prolong the hate
I know no other way
Than to view the world around me as divided
When buildings crashing down around us are justified somehow
I turn to the TV
It spins me in any direction but the one I should be facing all along
I turn to my neighbor
My neighbor's full of rage
I'll never know
I can't see you
You're not my kind
If I could know you
I hope that you can live to see the other side
I wonder if you wonder if you'll regret this all
I don't think that you really care
I wonder if when this is said and done
I'll be better off
You'll be better off
We'll be better off
I can't see you
You're not my kind
If I could know you
I'd understand
Christina
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Tale as old as time
Boy meets girl
Who turns out to be crazy
He should have seen it coming
She said she was a princess... and meant it
Seems she's pathological
She's got some strange obsession
With bending truths and spinning tales
Her fiancée's her dealer
Once he's out on parole they're gonna get married and run away
Chorus:
Tina she's lost in the land of make believe
Where her prince will come
Everyone knows she's dancing
To the tune that's in her head
There's nothing real Christina says
Different story different day
She flirts with some strange disaster
Something clever something cool
There's ecstasy and heartbreak
Such bittersweet extremes
Or so she says
If she controls her world
It's for her own protection
If she thinks it could be cool
She could be my angel
She could be my soul
She could be my long lost best friend
Chorus
Is this really happening to me?
I can't see through all the smoke and mirrors
Where fiction bends reality
Chorus
Circles
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Selling your days won't help
Your search for absolute truth, music, and laughter
I know I am... free for fifteen hours
And four miles run away
You can run, you can run and hide, go seek while you can
Seek a better song to sing
While you can hear it
But if you wait
Too many nights go by
This fluorescent world
It's blocking out the sun
Not putting on heirs here
Just trying to justify my dreams
Act as if I'm living them
It's holding me down, dragging me down
Does anyone hear me as I'm screaming out inside?
Pay your bills, pay your dues, mind your "don't"s
If you don't get away soon
You will never get on
But if you wait
Too many nights go by
This fluorescent world
It's blocking out the sun
I'm running around, running in circles
Leading nowhere, getting nowhere fast
Just me and my big ideas
I swear I'm bigger than this town
Just angry at the world this morning
Covington
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Feel like you're trapped inside
And there's no way out
Just want to run and hide
But there's no room for that
And that it's no one's fault
Makes it harder still
No one to project upon
They offer up to you
Pop psychology
But that's not gonna do it for you
No…
You say you're feeling down
Is situational
And you accept this all
Just how it is
But have you ever thought
That there's more to this?
Just how much do you let yourself see?
'cause when you look you find
this uncertainty
and you're only what you make for yourself
Chorus:
Take the time to open up your mind
To a new sound that pulls you right on through
The troubles that you're seeing now
Move to a new question
Is it worth it knowing what you know now?
So look both ways
as you step outside yourself
and see these things
as they really are
You'd be surprised
That you create
What affects you the most
'cause when you look you find
this uncertainty
You're only what you look for anyway
Chorus
If there's black and white
You see grays and blues
There's no other choice
But the path you choose
You may ask yourself
How things got this way
But are things this way?
Either way you lose
If things are looking up
But you're looking down
You're only what you make for yourself
Chorus
Disappear
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Once upon a Sunday evening
Two lovers say their last goodbyes
They're parting as the moment chooses them
For love is risk and fallacy
Not bound to become bound to any girl or friend or fantasy
Yeah...
Once they danced around under the moonlight
Once they shared a kiss that all would envy
But it disappeared
Chorus:
No… not now she says
As the window closes to her soul... tinted gold
And he'll say
"I'll be your ending
Your alibi for all the dark places
That you will go no more"
No more
Flying with abandon
Towards all that's bright and shiny new
Her mantra is that all is fair in love
For love is pride in paradox
Sacrificing that which made him burn
Lost in yesterday
Yeah...
Once they danced around the truth that stared them in the eyes
Eyes will always wonder just how much they cannot see
It all disappears
Chorus
He questions smiles and promises
These whispered truths are damned
As consequence of ending
Is it better loved, infatuated, lost than never known?
She says that she would do it all again
Chorus
Elevate Me
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
The piano makes it not pop punk
But it's the instrument I know
I sink these hooks
I drop these beats
Can't you tell that I'm terribly moody?
There's nothing deep about this song
Elevate me anyway
Hang on every word I say
I could speak about the world
But all life's subtleties are lost on me
I'm an icon, an emo accident
Now an authority on angst
I play guitar
As I rebel
Did I mention I'm terribly moody?
I see no world beyond my own
Elevate me anyway
Hang on every word I say
I could seek a deeper truth
But all life's subtleties are lost on me
I could speak about the world
If I had a message.
My point is I don't have a point.
I could speak about the world.
If I have a message
My point is I don't have a point.
Elevate me anyway
Hang on every word I say
I could speak about the world
But all life's subtleties are lost on me
Foolish Pride
(Words: Sarkissian; Music: Sarkissian/LoPresto)
I hear the rain falling
but who cares if I'm wet
'cause tonight my voice is calling me
to place a final bet on this feeling
Explain the way I feel
And the direction that I take
And the choices I make
This love has got me reeling in a feeling
and I'm feelin' it's surreal
Chorus:
These eyes they're on me
They can't have what they see
Though I am a man
You always have my hand
You walk along this road with me
And on and on we go
While I try to look inside
I'll try and hide this selfish pride
I can't let it slip away... (It's lonely here)
Take the time
To hear me call
Can you hear me screaming through these solid walls I've made... (It's lonely here)
It's lonely here I lie awake
Fearing there's temptation in every breath I take
Thirty thousand feet above the ground
You're bound to have a bumpy ride sometimes
But you stick it out and you suck it up
'Cause the turbulence is always what
Makes life worth the carnival rides
Chorus
This song's to reassure you of the love I finally found
She keeps me on the ground, when skies are threatening
So heaven knows no worry here, these words are written clear
You gotta keep on listening
Chorus
Goodbye
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
First I'd like to say hello
Wondering why the time it goes
and what took you away from loving
more than ever asked for
in this world that we live
we never know for certain
but as I try to understand
why questions go unanswered
I see you right here, but you're not beside me
and as I start to look around
my mind tempts me to wonder
how things could have played out into tomorrow
Chorus:
Why is it now all I think is you
and why is it now I know what to do
and suddenly life takes a different look at you in the eye
There's no way out of here
You move the ones you love the most
Look around, you've touched us in a way
that I know you'll never be forgotten
General, vague, confusing lines
of worried hearts and troubled minds
stare off into a vast horizon
We never got to say goodbye
but your smiling face, your smiling eyes
burn brightly in my vivid memory
Chorus
But I'm holding out for something I can't see
And yet I know that somehow this is...
somewhere this is...
I know this is right for me
Chorus
If You Were Here
(Words & Music: Sarkissian)
Which way do I turn now?
Because I’m tired of life’s equations
They’ve left me down and out
With this force-fed contemplation
I’m terrified to fail...
I’m terrified to change my ways
Can I call upon these hails of angels?
To somehow come and save my day
Chorus:
Will you be my guiding light?
Is it safe to say you’ll tuck me in at night
‘Cause I need you here with me
There’s roadblocks on this highway
Distracting me from what I dreamed was my way
But I’ll find it someday, and I’m guessing that’s what you would say, if you were here.
It’s amazing how these thoughts arrive so fast
Right before time’s erasing, every thought you ever used to have
I spent too many nights crying,
Spent too many nights here losing sleep
I’m gonna seize this opportunity, even if it kills me
Chorus
Speak to me in tongues and rhythms this world often ignores
But I hear you loud and clear, knocking right outside my front door
There’s roadblocks on this highway distracting me from what I dreamed was my way
But I’m finding my way...
I’m finding my way...
In the End
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Tiptoe into another day
Not sure what it will bring
I know I am one step closer to the end of me
But there's nowhere else to go
Tell me this
Why cry for someone
Who isn't there to see your tears roll down?
You may feel so down and out right now
But I know you'll come up in the end
Chorus:
I gotta say
In the end it always seems to come around
Take one step closer into my arms
Where you can see
There's no tomorrow
Step into another day
Try it on for size
You never know what's coming on down the road at you
But there's no turning back
For moments passed
The time was then
There's no use dwelling in regret, my friend
You'll wake up right on the other side
Will things look the same as they do now... in the end?
Chorus
Why go to sleep if I will only dream of things?
Of better ways for things I have already done...
There's no answer
Chorus
Inches Away
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Don't want to lose you
But if you must go, leave with this
Stumbling through our lives we find our stories twisted
So many lies... so many games we play
We live in fear of memories we can't trust
You say you've had bad times and I've got bad timing
But that shouldn't change what we're feeling inside
You've got to teach me to dance in anticipation
Could I see you another day, my friend?
For we have so much more to say
I see your face inches away from mine
And I know I want to be back here again
Tumbling through our dreams we find the wildest romance
Not knowing if it's real or pretend
You could be so happy
You've got so much love to give away
How could someone hurt you? You're so beautiful.
Your eyes sparkle even when they're closed
I never thought I'd meet a girl so sweet and so sexy
But here you are
Could I see you another day, my dear?
For we have so much more to say
I see your face inches away from mine
And I know your looks are becoming a problem
Don't want to lose you
But if you must go, leave with this
If you run away from the arms of a stranger
You'll never know what love was there
If I never know you
I'll never be the same
(You deserve the world... all I'd do for you...)
Could I see you another day, my dear?
For we have so much more to say
I see your face inches away from mine
And I know your looks are becoming a problem
Don't want to lose you
But if you must go, leave with this
Jade
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Fear raining down on her
It hurts to breathe in the pain
Of yesterday's wounds
Rain... she's fearing more to come
She says it happens all the time
It will happen again
Chorus:
I see her hopes falling with these tears
I see her dreams drowning in these fears
So forget these wicked ways
The memory torments the heart that stays looking back at it all
And when you feel that it's all gone wrong
Then I say, Won't you please hold on to me?
Seeing the world as through a blur
It hurts to see what once seemed right
As suddenly so wrong
Fate handed down to her
A chance to take... a life to live...
To understand why
Chorus
She knows everything about everything
She knows just what's on my mind... I never said...
She's got her world on a string
But she forgets it every time
Melody
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Just a fleeting glimpse of what's inside
I'm drawn in and pushed away
Both at the same time
You're nothing if you're nothing if not confusing
Seven seasons in a world gone mad
We've seen our pleasures drown our pain
In such passionate love
Don't fear the energy or all we'll wish we hadn't said
Twice tempting fate and none the better man today
Will time and circumstance ever pass?
As the melody fades
What is this? Now starts the questioning
Does it have to be like this?
And yet it feels so fatalistic
With stars crossed
You never see the ones I run away from
Nothing more than just flashes
In the night sky
Gone before I even realize
All these questions I've got running through my head
Will they matter anyway?
As the melody plays
Tell me, is this really happening?
Someone should write it down
Could I have fallen any harder
In love?
As life succumbs and art unfolds within your kiss
There's nothing and everything left to say
Midnight Diamond
(Words & Music: Sarkissian)
A melody rings
as a spirit it sings
her suffering is over
we gather together for this solemn goodbye
A life that has passed to a bright generation
has been there and back
far above all of earth's limitations
but it happened so fast
She'll be my midnight diamond
and shine through this darkened sky
and glide right through this midnight horizon
to be with me tonight
It hits at home when you lose a friend
and you wonder where he might have been
did he thank you Lord, for the time he had
And there's mysteries and there's puzzles in time
It's hard to find the perfect rhyme or the reasons why.
He'll be my midnight diamond
and shine through this darkened sky
and glide right through this midnight horizon
to share a drink tonight
It happened so fast
I only wish I had the words to say right now
It happened so fast
I only wish I had the words to comfort your pain
how I wish I could say..
He'll be our midnight diamond
shine through this darkened sky
and glide right through this midnight horizon
to be with us tonight
My Eyes
(Words & Music: Sarkissian)
I'm hoping, I'm trying, I'm keeping up the pace
Waiting on, relying on, the verdict in this case
but you can't see, no you're too blind
the answer just hit you in the face
Why do we struggle? Can't we hold on...
Can't we make it on our own
Chorus:
All you try to hide the secrets and the lies no you're
you're so confined, your world it seems to deep for you and I
but I'm too strong, you waited too damn long, I'm going, I'm going now I'm gone
the day will come, when you look back and see the damage that you've done
My eyes, they are burning with desire, but this mile high wire you got me
dancing on it's much too long I'll never be that strong
Chorus
My eyes they see the future is much clearer now
but maybe some day or maybe somehow
you'll see my pain runs deeper then you ever thought it would
I wish I could but I'm gone
Chorus
Only Acting
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
She walks through life
Not knowing just where to begin
Throws not a care... throws not a care behind her
She's anything to anyone
That won't stop... she's only acting
I know... I say there's something to be said
She wants nothing more than just a smile
From anyone she meets
But look at her
And she just turns away
I know things aren't always what they seem
I've had people turn their backs on me
But you know we've got to love
Don't turn away... run away... look away
It's all the same to me
If to forgive is to forget
Then I say she's only acting
Tough times... mistakes
God knows I made a few
But it's not my place to judge her
No person ever should
If she'd do the same
We'd all be better off
What is the point of this?
My words fall on deaf ears
And a story's not a story
If it isn't heard
Just don't say that I never tried
I know things aren't always what they seem
I've had people turn their backs on me
But you know we've got to love
Don't turn away... run away... look away
It's all the same to me
If to forgive is to forget
Then I say she's only acting
Red Roads
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Here's to us tonight
As we celebrate life and love
Here's to all we have
May it never go away
What have we come to?
Life measured in bottles
Given up to spirits untold
We lead our lives so blindly
Running from day to day to day
Never asking where we're going
Or why we live by passion today, our reason tomorrow
Never even stop to think
Tomorrow could turn out to be a day too late
We drink to forget
To run, run away... run from our troubles
Here's to all our tragedy
Pray the irony's not lost
These red roads we travel on
Lead us from day to day to day
Never asking where we're going
Or why we knock our world out of rhythm
Taking life we are not given
The end was supposed to be so far away
What have we come to?
Life measured in bottles
Given up to spirits untold
Reflecktion Song
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
I'm finding it hard now
To think past today
I'm stuck in this moment... right now
You see where you're going
This happened so fast
Just know I will always love you
Revealed
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
What are you doing here?
You're not really supposed to be here
You might see what you don't want to see
And you might hear what you don't want to hear from me
I'm not so sure about things...
It's beginning to show
Chorus:
I don't think I can say to you
What you think you want to hear
For if I did I'd be revealed
And I don't think you're ready for that
I really don't know what to think
I still can't believe how we got here
I don't want to hurt you
Because I don't know what's going on
I'm not so sure about things...
You need to know
Chorus
I think I could say...
Maybe some day...
I think I can say...
Maybe some day...
I think I will say...
Maybe some day...
Running From
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Hey now my time is running low
It's almost unbelievable
When will I ever realize
That I will never have you
Every time I allow myself
To be fooled and think that I have you
I'll soon be run around again
I hate that I don't have control
I'm hopelessly in love with you
Only now can I start to see
Overdue disillusionment
I know you've done a lot for me
But really you've done nothing for me
I wish that I could forget you
Chorus:
What are you running from, that brings you here to me?
How can I hold on to you when you're already gone?
It won't do you harm, but it won't do you any good
This hiding from yourself
But I still see you
You hold your power over me
I hope that I can forget you
I think you're finally losing me
If I can turn away from you
Why do you do all this to me?
How can you do this all to me?
Right now I can't believe your love.
Chorus
I don't understand how you think
You justify all the things you do
You expect no consequence
You're blind to all the pain you cause
I don't think you realize what you've done
I don't think that you'd like to know
It's time to start again
I will not repeat this
Something I don't deserve
I did not see you then
No outside perspective
Why question it happened
And now I understand
Time passes I move on
And now I start again
Chorus
Something I Said
(Words & Music: Sarkissian)
You say you might be wandering
I caught you in a daze just then
This clock it clicks, the time it ticks
And it's weighing on my mind
This life seems like it's out of my league
But what league am I playin' in
When my dreams are either sink or swim
Can somebody find me a place to hide?
Chorus:
These thoughts in my head, they weigh on my heart
And sleep in my bed
That's coming apart
These dreams are so close, yet so far away
I'm telling you now
This could be heaven on earth
If it only came true somehow
And I can't help but think... this could be the real thing
This life sounds like it's calling me
But my dreams, they are falling freely
I'm drawing up this plan, I'm doing the best I can
These things are gonna take some time
It's a cruel world, when you're all alone
And you feel like, you gotta face the world on your own
These things are constantly on my time
Chorus
And yeah, we'll make it you see
These dreams are a part of you and they're a part of me
We travel as one, and when it's all said and done
I'd do it all, I'd do it all for free
Chorus
Something This Precious
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
I don't know why I try
There must be some reason why
I use some words to guess
What I know they can't express
It's just that you need to know
That I could not ask for more
Would not have another way
Don't know what else I can say
But I'm trying for the day
And I'm waiting for the way
I don't even understand
What I know I want to say
I don't know how I am so sure
I know I've said it all before
My love for you is strong
Something this precious can't be wrong
Chorus:
Let me hold you
I love you, too
We're blessed with this
Something so precious
As you look into my eyes
I feel my hopes begin to rise
Knowing that I am with you
Knowing you are here for me
It's what I'm feeling now inside
My love from you I cannot hide
That you are my dreams come true
I'm so blessed to be with you
You know me like no one else
No need to explain myself
As I look into your eyes
I feel you - I know you
I've never known something so strong
In you my dreams belong
And I'm hoping now today
That we'll always be this way
Chorus
So I'm trying for the day
And I'm waiting for the way
But I know you understand
What I know I want to say
I don't know how I am so sure
I know I've said it all before
My love for you is strong
Something this precious can't be wrong
Chorus
This Time Around
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Lord, this is tough right now
I'm not sure that I can understand
To let someone enter this world half the way was meant to be
Oh I hope I have the strength to bear this child's burdened mind.
As I turn to you, my child
Why is it so hard to say these calming words to you?
'Cause we've been waiting for so long
But the answer's not the answer we've been looking for
I wonder how you feel
I wonder what's inside that precious head of yours.
I wonder if I'd want you to have to deal with what we deal with here
Oh I know… but still I pray for you.
To think you'll never know my thoughts right now
Or a million other thoughts that flood my mind and rack my soul
To think you'll never know my love for you
Makes me want to take the world and turn it upside down
Right now…
I guess that's just the way this time around
And believe me I know...
It's hard not to feel down…
when there's nothing coming up your way
And it's hard not to feel alone…
when no one seems to understand you
And it's hard not to lose faith…
when there's nothing worth believing in
But just let it all fade away
There's nothing to compare
Different doesn't have to mean anything less
(I tell myself to tell myself this)
These words ring… hollow but true
Why am I supposed to stop myself from asking "Why?"
Are my plans and dreams all washed away
(I tell myself to tell myself it's how it's meant to be)
My worst concerns all realized…
where do they go now?
When all the children go outside to play
How am I to keep from laying blame where there is none?
My Lord…
Is this how it has to be this time around?
And believe me I know...
It's hard not to feel down…
when there's nothing coming up your way
And it's hard not to feel alone…
when no one seems to understand you
And it's hard not to lose faith…
when there's nothing worth believing in
But just let it all fade away
Thrust
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Would you like to hear a story
That you've already heard?
It's nothing new, but just the same
It caught me by surprise.
I was minding my own business
When she came into my life
and turned me inside out,
put me right into a daze...
I know you've heard all this before
But I'll tell you anyway
I know I want this,
I know I need this,
Can't you see?
Chorus:
Look out, down below
I'm not quite sure how this is gonna go
When I'm with this girl
I lose my way with words
But I don't really care
Not quite sure why that really is
My mind is running circles
And playing tricks on me
I'm looking in her eyes
As these lyrics fall apart
If I were to tell you
She's everything cliché,
One look from her could last me all day long
I know you'd say
"Don't wanna hear this tired love song"
Well I'll sing it anyway
I know I want her
I know I need her
Can't you see?
Chorus
I know I've said all this before
But I'll tell you anyway
I know I want her
I know I need her
Can't you see?
Chorus
Trick Of The Mind's Eye
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
This is something that I'm not so sure
That I want to say
Why I do this is why I ask this
Just a question that's been on my mind
Everyone knows that everyone wants that
Someone who wants him
True or False
It's never quite that simple
Chorus:
Do you know what you're asking me
You ask me for deliverance
Oh even your best words can't convince me, girl
'Cause you know better than I
I'm a trick of the mind's eye
Why do we want that something we don't just
Look but do not touch
A good thing. Why is it a bad thing?
I heard it was a bad thing.
There's a story that all these stories
Somehow sound the same
Nothing's perfect, if you want perfect
But it's really not that simple
Chorus
Passion dancing, music playing
These walls are closing in around this prelude to a kiss
I just want to breathe a breath of fresh air
So you can save yourself
Chorus
Your Worries
(Words & Music: LoPresto)
Your worries got you down, now they take over you
You're seeing what's not true, now, with your tired eyes
You know there's nothing of your fault in all of this
But pain is pain regardless, despite all truth
You're beautiful you realize that in all of this
You shouldn't have to fight, then, just to show your face
You deserve so much more than you knew before
There's a pain you shouldn't have to know
Take your time
I'll wait for you
I know you need some time alone
Just close your eyes
Don't think right now
You shouldn't have to worry like this
Tomorrow brings a clearer mind and point of view
Things all change, now, as your perception does
Leave behind a broken heart in harder times
That's not you, now, in better times
That perfect smile
Is missing you
It shows that you're not as you should be
A face like yours
Should have no tears
You're nothing else but beautiful
Just try to see
There's good in you
Even when your world seems to crumble
I'm here for you
Just look around
There's you; there's me; that's all we need to know
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