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There’s a comfort in these tears
It’s just another regular night
This time though my hands are up
I’m ready to engage in the fight
Ask you where you disappeared
Spent weeks hoping you were alright
It’s as though you don’t have ears
Brush past me saying I’m being uptight
Was that a bad idea?
Hell yeah!
I’ll tell ya what I think
I was so caught in your spell, ha!
Clearly I need to rethink
You said you’d help me get well, now
I’m drowning in the River Styx
The last memories of safety
With me are starting to sink
Know you’ve got a lot of friends
Don’t worry about being alone
I’ll be fine too, I know that
I’ll happily jump into unknown
Territory, think I’m property, I’ve got a mind of my own
Goodbye, please cry, don’t try to find me
I’ve got my own kind of flow
Was that a good idea?
Hell yeah!
I’ll tell ya what I know
I shouldn’t have waited so long
To ask you to go
You said you wanted to be sure
Before sharing a home
That’s fine, but for four years
You preferred sleeping alone
Was that a bad idea?
Hell yeah!
I’ll tell ya what I think
I was so caught in your spell, ha!
Clearly I need to rethink
You said you’d help me get well, now
I’m drowning in the River Styx
The last memories of safety
With me are starting to sink
Was that a good idea?
Hell yeah!
I’ll tell ya what I know
I shouldn’t have waited so long
To ask you to go
You said you wanted to be sure
Before sharing a home
That’s fine, but for four years
You preferred sleeping alone
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Adverbial
03:02
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Reaching, reaching
Falling, falling
crashing, crashing
Calling, calling
There’s something about you
Even though you know I love you
There’s something about you
That fills my mind with things you don’t do
Working, working
Crying, crying
Screaming, screaming
Lying, lying
There’s something about you
Even though you know I love you
There’s something about you
That fills my mind with things you don’t do
Didn’t wear that dress again
Didn’t clean the house again
Didn’t pay the bills again
Don’t forget the kids
There’s something about you
Even though you know I love you
There’s something about you
That fills my mind with things you don’t do
Didn’t wear that dress again
Didn’t clean the house again
Didn’t pay the bills again
Don’t forget the kids
I’m reaching, reaching, falling
Crashing, crashing, calling
Working, working, crying
Screaming, screaming, lying
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3. |
How to be Alone
04:23
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How to be Alone
There’s an urgency now
Draw your path to tombstone
Perfection upheld for indefinite procession
Not one breath overblown
Dissatisfaction now
Fascinating unknown
Excited whispers travel with persistence
Ache with collective drone
Tell me it gets better when we’re grown
But I just don’t know how to be alone
In the future problems melt away
But it’s in the known that I feel safe
Love to daydream now
End up far far away
When I’m missing home
You’ll be glad that you stayed
There’s a vacancy now
Pass the ghosts on the road
Memories that tug at you form in the moment
Sink inside like a stone
Tell me my horizons will expand
Will I celebrate without your hand
In the future problems melt away
But I’m still bound by the grip of this place
Love to stare at the wall
Can’t tell the time of day
When I’m missing home
I’ll still carry this weight
These nights are idolized
These skies are plagiarized
These nights are idolized
These skies are plagiarized
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4. |
80 Windows
04:09
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Clusters of
People talking
Secretly
To each other in a bar
You cannot talk openly
To anyone you don't already know
Four-year-olds, they have got the right idea
They jump the line and hit it on the nose
When we sit
And we get quiet
Then we look
And see who's home across the way
There are 80 windows we can see
It's Christmastime
And they all have the same tree
You tell me
the patterns you already see
I wonder
If they see us in our bed
You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights
Because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun
Than I am to anyone
When we sit
And we get quiet
Then we look
And see who's home across the way
You said you like the one
With the father who always eats with his son
I like the rows of lights
Because they keep me calm
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun
Than I am to anyone
I feel far away from you, so what else is new?
The moon is closer to the sun
Than I am to anyone
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5. |
Wikileaks
02:52
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It knocks you down, it picks you up
It knocks you down, it picks you up
It knocks you down, it picks you up
Wikileaks
Never know if it’s
Fact or fiction
Never know if it’s
Bullshit
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The Edukators Queens, New York
A melodic indie-everything four-piece with a powerhouse lead singer & some dudes. Available to play for large sums of money, except during finals week.
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