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Honey
04:59
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This week's end is a godsend
I am bruised and weathered with tar in my feathers
But it's fine
I said it's fine
Photogenic folks flock and flash around me
As I fake a smile as a feeble attempt to fit in
But it's fine
I said it's fine
There's probably someone out there just like me
And they're existing so quietly
In the corner of this dark lit room
A timid beacon of lucidity
Wasted grace on painted faces
Feigned conversations and full drinks fall on empty ears and stomachs
But it's fine
I said it's fine
There's probably someone out there just like me
And they're existing so malcontently
In the corner of this dark lit room
A timid beacon of lucidity
Loneliness is not a state of mind
It's a geographic association
Of me to you and you - you to him
Like a tangential alientation
Cuz you're here one minute then you're gone the next
Leaving my hands tied and my mind vexed
So I find myself at a party with a 70's theme
But it makes me feel like I'm 17
Cuz my slurred speech makes me misunderstood
It's time for me to leave, and all of you should
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2. |
First Mate
03:02
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Conversations with the stranger
Breathing down my neck
You spend too much time checking the time
Looking over your shoulders, keeping corners checked
I feel him stepping on my heels
He's clinging to me like a backpack
I don't need to take black flak from a whack crack
Who doesn't need my secrets to stab me in the back
Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around, FACE ME x2
Face the face pacing your racing thoughts
The voice inside your head
Forgive your conscience, forget your consciousness
Trace the vine back to your planted thought
Sewing seeds of dread
Take precaution and leave your cognizance
Linens spin 'round a spindle in wind
As my nerves are winding thin
What do you want from life but to feel sadder?
Spinning mundane dreams, you mad hatter
He's filling up both of our heads
With inconsequential chatter
As sweat begins to glisten, as I begin to listen
Slick quips from honest critics are a thing that we're all missing
Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around, FACE ME x2
Face the face pacing your racing thoughts
The voice inside your head
Forgive your conscience, forget your consciousness
I don't mind being your marionette
As long as I can't see the threads
Take precaution and leave your cognizance
You're an unwanted guest to every pedestal you've been on
You're the punch line to the joke that everyone is in on
They're all afraid to tell you, so I'll be the first to say
You'll be this way forever 'less you break out of this cage
And you
Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around, FACE ME x4
Face the face pacing your racing thoughts
The voice inside your head
Forgive your conscience, forget your consciousness
Trace the vine back to your planted thought
Sewing seeds of dread
Take precaution and leave your cognizance
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3. |
Dog Person
04:12
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My dad was so forgetful in the head
"Think before you speak" mom always said
Adjust the volume knob for the third time today
I let my running mouth get away
They told me you can't change the wood you're cut from
I've always been a dog person
But I could use a cat to catch my tongue
When it gets too close to my foot
My loud mouth begins to widen
And I can't help but be high strung
I need someone grounded when I can't stay put
My dad was so forgetful in the head
I forgot to wash behind my ears like mom always said
Adjust the bunny ears for the fifth time today
All of the white noise is driving me insane
They told me something else, but I didn't stop to listen
I've always been a dog person
But I could use a cat to catch my tongue
When it gets too close to my foot
My loud mouth begins to widen
And I can't help but be high strung
I need someone grounded when I can't stay put
White noise, white lies
My quick wits will be my own demise
Wide mouth, wide eyes
This overconfidence is just a disguise
So send someone to exonerate me
If I hurt your feelings, please don't berate me
Mom always told me ignorance is bliss
And Captain Backfire can't prepare me for this
My sharp tongue cut me again just for fun
I'm not one for stitches, so I'll let it run
I've always been a dog person
But I could use a cat to catch my tongue
When it gets too close to my foot
My loud mouth begins to widen
And I can't help but be high strung
I need someone grounded when I can't stay put (x2)
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4. |
Entropy
03:43
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An urn earns itself anew as a terrarium
As atrophy swallows me inside the planetarium
A celestial body is swaddled in white
Crying rage against the dying of the light
We have, we have, we have made a mess of ourselves x2
For every sunset follows a sunrise
For every day until the sun dies
Even so, we still have its light
Warming memories through a cold, dark night
We have, we have, we have made a mess of ourselves x4
Can someone lend me a hand?
Fingers slip through my grasp like sand
Bottled up like an emotional hoarder
I'm not crazy; it's just disorder
The sky opens up as I start to cry
Write it off as star dust in my eye
Supernovas torching broken homes
At least I know I'm not alone
I'm not crazy; it's just a disorder
I'm not crazy; it's just disorder
I'm not crazy; it's just a disorder
At least I know I'm not alone
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5. |
Chili
04:19
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6. |
Hawthorne & Rose
05:04
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The girl who always brought flowers to town
I loved her red hair and the way she frowned
Her hair wore the sunshine just like a crown
And I knew from the start that I'd get her in gown
The pair of us meshed like fingers in clay
I was a soldier called by the beret
I told her I'd write each day I'm away
In in the flower field, I asked her to stay
So I clung to my Scarlett like paper and ink
It was no short order out fighting the shrink
Ways apart, never struggled to think
Of the taste of her lips echoed "back in a wink"
I was off fighting wars that didn't exist
Little toy soldier ran off to enlist
Employing dark rooms and medicinal scripts
And my babe, she got lost in the rain and the midst
So came the man with diamonds for eyes
On a gold-plastic pedestal, she was his prize
He promised the world, and he promised the skies
And my beautiful Scarlett, she fell for his guise
And when I returned to the field in the rain
There was nothing to see but a wilted daisychain
Running to the ground my battle scars stained
As my Scarlett was stolen by sugar and cane
Judging by the way he plays his cards
I'd guess that diamonds and clubs stole her heart
In rib cage Colosseum, I dropped my guard
He took her arm in a Cadillac chariot cart
Take a shot of espresso to start my day
Take a shot of whiskey just to numb the pain
Too little, too late in rear view of July
There was nothing to change; he ran my Scarlett dry
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7. |
Urban Country
03:19
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8. |
Jet Lag
02:56
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You could evaporate my mind up from any crowd
And take me off to a world beyond the clouds
"It's not often you watch the sunset above the skyline," she said
I couldn't tell whether the sun or her blue eyes shined
I found myself up here lost in condensation
The air alleviates my internal complications
But it's thin up here, and I need resusitation
Please lend my lungs your liberating inflation
It wasn't long before the sun set and took its hues
Leaving nothing but ambiguous shades of black or blue
It took a moment before I realized I was on my own
Dethroned from my floating perch and plummeting alone
I would have given you myself, no hesitation
But I'm nothing to you but flirtatious complications
I can't help but blame you for my frustrations
Even though I created our miserable deflation
Who deserves my last words and I fall from the sky x4
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9. |
First Date
03:11
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The candlelight is warm
To the beat of the music, she's caressing my arm
And then we witness a mugging outside and it
Totally kills the vibe
She's telling of how her uncle died in a
Skydiving based suicide and then
Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" comes on
And the situational irony gives me indigestion
I have never hated myself half as much as here and now
Cuz I have never wanted something half as much as you or the sound
Of you telling me you wish this night would go on
She's so gorgeous I only
Find myself capable of choking
On my laughs as she tells of her high school gaffes
And I realize that she wasn't joking
Making out in my car
Turn on the radio just to set the mood
Then a Viagra commercial comes on and it
All seems kinda crude
I have never hated myself half as much as here and now
Cuz I have never wanted something half as much as you or the sound
Of you telling me you wish this night would go on
If I bite my tongue hard enough
Maybe this fall for you won't hurt
And hopefully you won't notice the blood
Coming from my mouth and ruining my shirt
Don't let me lose you please x2
Don't let me lose you please x2
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