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you flicked a lighter
and coughed out a laugh
like you were so intent
on telling me all of the things
you had held back
growing up alone always taught me
no ever gets your jokes
but as the bedframes bent into the past
i started to hear you laugh
now i cant even hear you breathe
but it still feels like you are
all around me
you are all around me
and i wait and i wait
but im always falling apart
and i pray and i cave
clutching my hands and my arms
tell myself that im safe
and i'm not gone for good
its another day the earth still stood
but it never helps
i drink a beer to get me to go to sleep
and pretend everyone's not miserable
and its not because of me
holdin out for the moment
for the bedframes to bend to the past
and i can start to hear you laugh
finally be set free
escape from the anger that is
all around me
you are all around me
and i wait and i wait
but im always falling apart
and i pray and i cave
clutching my hands and my arms
tell myself that im safe
and i'm not gone for good
its another day the earth still stood
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2. |
Snesitive
02:10
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im half good at everything i do
and stay up thinking about you
the whole summer i just waited
lost a taste for water and spit out all my food
its hard to talk about who i am
so i put it in a song and hope you cant understand
if i scream so loud
i could bury it all in squalicum beach's sand
and i know st peter will fuck up my name
if i even had a chance at a bronze gate
and i could bang on the door like i did on yours,
trying to beg answers or maybe more
but you dont live there anyway
if i could reach out and bring down the sky
tear off the clouds and look behind
see the space between everything
id never be able to put it back right
i don't wanna change anything
just want everyone to forget about me
i wanna put my hand to the stars and see if i could burn
or if id feel nothing
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3. |
Ranch Rifle Yankee
02:20
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one day you'll wake up and youll miss him
when you cant remember his face
you'll shed the skin you been hidin in
find shit you cant replace
the sun will rise and so will i
once you can realize
there's nothin to run from
down in northeastern vermont
and all the light that filled your eyes
was just the sun tearin down the night
and the loneliness it dont complete you like you want
it's not gonna hurt you anymore
we dont gotta be teenagers
ignore time always heals
all the shit that makes us hurt
we could live another day
hide ourselves from its decay
but you never really wanted that anyway
i could have given you a reason to stay
for all the shit that i fucked up in your brain
well i hope to god that youre okay
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4. |
Marvel vs. Capcom vs. Me
03:13
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it always starts with the smallest of sounds
and in the middle of the night im fading out!
crossing headwinds, no one standing
it will be with you until the day youre found
it always starts with the smallest of sounds
if only you could see it now
you wouldn't worry, well im not worried
im a the last damn person in this whole crowd
im blue asprin with water and bread
and all the things i could do instead
of stay home alone, play guitar and croak
about all the places i could have been
if it starts with the smallest of sounds
could you hear it if i didnt shout
im so scared youll all put the pieces together
to a puzzle even i cant figure out
i drove to the gas station
because its the closest place with signal
i saw through the water, myself playing with rocks
like i did when i was little
i saw his nightmares, his mistakes
like waves writing in the sand
and if i could have right then
i would have left all of this and ran
and i wouldnt have to be here, just waiting
on a day when i feel whole
i wish i could look you all in the eye
and pretend i have a soul
i wish i would stop saying sorry
for things that arent my fault
but i feel guilt for everything
like i am the past and youre untapped
you are the world with out a map
all i want is for you to explore me
if i knew what to say id probably say it now
but i feel like id let you all down
wish i could just let all of this be
waited for you a long time these monsters you handed me
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5. |
Claus (20 Hours)
03:09
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you had seen a dead body or more but been scared of the shade
could have tried to calm you down in the dark edges of the day
i was just 13 and you were angry all the time
you were thunderstuck and the plan b, like you could never get it right
the flowers dying from the roots
i grew my hair and kept quiet, waited to finally bloom
i didnt want it to show
you were all i had from being left alone
but now i just talk shit and wait for the day
you understand the risk and dont doubt itll go away
but the shadows follow you and paint your past
i would hold onto anyone if they would ever tighten their grasp
the flowers dying from the roots
i grew my hair and kept quiet, waited to finally bloom
i dont want it to show
you are all i have from being left alone
it was the white on my shirt being stained red
it was growing up for the sake of stayin in
but in my dreams i still see the eyes of the boy id been
i dont wanna go there again i dont wanna be here again
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and we could all just call it a cop out
but in the back of your mind you know it's true
because without you there is no me
and without me there is no you
i see your heart beats between the measures
and the anger in you, always wanting to fight
but when it comes down to it youre a coward
and im scared how much of me i see in your eyes
but then you disappeared like everyone else
no one left to listen to the lies you could tell
like you were lightness under all the weight
like you were the reason i never got to say
goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
its just me and you
trapped in this room
starin down eachother
like we got a point to prove
its just me and you
me and you
waitin on a day when we can escape its just
me and you
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7. |
Forest Escape
03:36
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like the well that i dropped in when i was 8
like how your home becomes such a scary place
well i just called
to know youre okay
and the black eyed sin that knows where i live
and keeps tuggin at my shirt like its just a kid
well i see it in all your eyes tonight
and it comes to me in bursts
and waits until it knows it hurts
like the times i fell asleep
you there without me
i still dont know all the secrets
but i like to pretend
but its never as bad as it really seems
my father died and passed his red bull to me
and it sucked to be alone but now im surrounded every day
by all the regrets and mistakes that ive made
and i start thinking of the person i would be
if i had never wrote a song or ever tried to sing
if i had tried in my life if i had gave it my all
and what if i already did? went from a walk to a crawl
like the only thing keeping me from my dream
is me
what if you had never died
been ripped from my life
would i have grown into the thing, always a fire inside me
well most days im glad you died
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8. |
Mido Skip
02:14
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there was a cone of light in the vietnam memorial park
and i was waitin for it to take me away
while yr dad drove over to jump my car
and that was years ago but i still feel damp from the rain
we were just side characters to the main plot
but it never felt that way because
they said being 20 was the apex of my life
but even youth wasted on me doesnt feel right
and now i spend every day alone
creating my own puzzles out of texts from you
while the rocks and branches break my bones
and every night i wait for 71 after 10
to sing scouts honor to myself
and wait for the words to come back to me again
they said being 20 was the apex of my life
but even youth wasted on me doesnt feel right
even now i feel so apart from everyone i meet
i am the walls behind the walls i am the early deku tree
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Whomps 9
02:45
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when it's all said and done
and the curse is finally lifted
i'll stop begging for a stage
i'll buy my truck a lift kit
i'll kiss morgan in the morning
i'll get dressed and go to work
i'll look back through the door
and see what honesty is worth
will you still be running?
will you still be running away?
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