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Still Lifes
05:34
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We crossed a bridge like water droplets racing off of the windshield
We defy the gravity that holds our feet down
We borrow the excess, survive another day
We live in the future, we find another way
Now we sit in a daze on the riverbank
Soaked in pain that we don’t even have yet
This ancient spring and the sweat from heaving, a celebration
We borrow the excess, survive another day
We live in the future, we find another way
Pulled by still lifes, hope for steady ground
Pulled by still lifes that we left behind
I want it all more than ever before
This perfection is crushing my rib cage
I want it all more than ever before
This liquor’s lost all it’s soft glow
Pulled by still lifes, hope for steady ground
Pulled by still lifes that we left behind
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2. |
Pale Amber Glow
02:59
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Like a wave over me, this pale amber glow, it’s deafening
I’ve been afraid to touch it
Like it might just crumble, vicious and cold
If I look away too fast
I've been afraid to see you
Afraid you might just notice that I can't carry you anymore
I’ve been afraid to taste it
So deep so bitter, covered in scars
This change is everything, yeah I know
I've been afraid to feel it
This fear, this losing, dead in the eyes
Between the sunrays, I squint in the dark
Held you in my arms as you left here
The walls we built around you out of cloth and cheap veneer
I see you in the seams, I stare at empty space and your picture on the mantle
Like a wave over me, you were young, now so cold
You can let it go
Held you in my arms as you left here
The walls we built around you out of cloth and cheap veneer
I see you in the seams, I stare at empty space and your picture on the mantle
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3. |
Don't We All
03:45
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Don't we all recall and we hate what we say
When we don't hesitate we wait to replay
I call out in the night, November in the rain
The summer was so warm but tonight, tonight I shake
There's a bur in my side and I can't pick it out
I have learned to live with this pain and these weighted eyes
I'm a rip tide, I’m an island, I'm a god, a parasite
Trying to squeeze just a little bit more night from this day
I call out in night, November in the rain
The summer was so warm but tonight, tonight I shake
There's a bur in my side and I can't pick it out
I’ve learned to live with this pain and these weighted eyes
There's a bur in my side (Is this what you want?) and I can't pick it out (Maybe take some time)
I have learned to live with (You torture yourself) this pain and these weighted eyes (Hell, not for my sake)
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4. |
Breathing Under Water
04:04
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So done, I’ve come and the day just broke
My head’s underwater but I’m breathing fine
I can’t see and I can’t feel the yolk between our bodies
I’m reckless, so reckless and undefined
I used to watch horizons, now I watch my back
Can we talk it out in the morning cause right now I’m lying on my back, breathing under water?
I feel this strange connection to
a man who died too soon across the ocean
Feels just like home, and nowhere at all
Like there is someone else in my reflection
I used to watch horizons, now I watch my back
Can we talk in the morning cause right now I’m lying on my back, breathing under water?
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Beautiful Mess
03:50
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I had a dream, I wasn't me and you weren't you
I couldn't believe that I could feel what someone else knew
When I look back on it, what was the point? What does it do?
I had a dream, I wasn't me and you weren't you
We had mixed up body parts that belonged to someone else
Borrowed sentiments of strength, disembodied higher self
What an antidote, beautiful dissonance
What a promise to this beautiful mess
I was awake, I looked at you, you looked at me
I think you could tell that what I'd seen was only a dream
You put your hand on top of my hand, I felt you breath
I was awake, I looked at you, you looked at me
What an antidote, beautiful dissonance
What a promise to this beautiful mess
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6. |
Snaggletooth
04:44
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Everything I say about it just comes out all snaggletooth
It's never quite good enough but it's never quite wrong enough
They cut me up just enough and the demons came rushing out
The wicked teeth, the wicked tongues, It's all I need
A foot in the mouth, a foot in the door
I am just a broken man in a broken world
A foot in the mouth, a foot in the door
I am just a broken man in a broken world
When I look up in the rear view mirror
there's a road that heads up into the sky
But when I turn the car around, it's never really there at all
They cut me up just enough. The demons came rushing out
The wicked teeth, the wicked tongues, It's all I need
A foot in the mouth, a foot in the door, I am just a broken man in a broken world
A foot in the mouth, a foot in the door, I am just a broken man in a broken world
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