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Wait, a thousand tries to waste
A lifetime going missing
Late, finally stepped into myself with no one else
For an instant
Shout it out loud & listen like a lover
You’re one in the crowd with what you whisper under covers
Penetrate me in my skin
It’s safe for two, come in, I’m listening
Fate, just a rumor to explain how our bliss is made.
I’m glistening.
And I’ve finally found a way,
When you’re lying next to me,
To make a peace with this body, I might never be the same.
I hope you’ll wait.
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Mind reading is my best bet
They’re staring through my windows again
It’s all trash in the apartment
It’s all trash on my skeleton
Don’t have the wherewithal to,
Don’t have the drugs that I’m used to,
Screamed at the walls but they don’t scream back.
I meant to call you Mary Lee,
Haven’t been myself lately
And you know how it goes everytime that we chat.
“What was I gonna say?”
It never mattered anyway.
These conversations, they’re quite contagious
I’m right back here where I wanna be
Do I got the shakes or do they got me?
I’m right back here where I wanna be
Hold fast hope that I’ll never leave.
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Regardless
03:40
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Out of bodying just to get time up to speed
Takes a little more each day.
I’m not losing any sleep.
Sleeping in in all my clothes and
Posture has become atrocious
Dragging days for years on end,
It aches but I’m not listening.
You haven’t learned anything at all, regardless of symmetry.
Hijacking your sympathies and drowning in your grief
Asking not for forgiveness, it’s the company I keep.
I’m keeping track of every lie and crossing t’s and dotting i’s
And it’s hard to say how this one ends,
To the top we’ll start back up again.
You haven’t learned anything at all regardless of symmetry.
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4. |
See the Light
03:01
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Don’t, if you see the light, if you wanna try.
Don’t, if you see the light intensify.
All the stars are leaking out tonight
Begging to put up a fight.
Don’t, when you see the light, if you wanna try.
Don’t, you should stay the night to pacify.
Owned when you learned to lie, when you learned to hide
That all the leaves are shaking in your life
But all that leaves is everything behind you, for some good news.
Only lovers are left alive
Only are we all star crossed in the night
I don’t expect you to understand, I didn’t think you would.
But just don’t.
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Technicolor
03:23
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When you heard your own voice on the answering machine
filled with tape and hiss and without body,
I know what the feeling means, i know what it means without you. It was never meant to last.
Between the shadows and ghosts there’s proof when you see your own breath
and alternative reflections on VHS.
I know what the feeling means, I know what it means without you. It was never meant to last.
Isn’t there somewhere I ought to be
Isn’t there anything on TV?
Isn’t there someone I ought to be, so strange so strange, hanging phantom holds on me.
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Monogamy II (Bad Actor)
03:38
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I’m lost in the lines I’ve memorized
Tired cues betray my liar’s eyes
And I’m suddenly aware of transparency
I shudder to think that you could see through me
But you can say what you mean to me, you can say anything
It’s cowardice, that’s all it’s ever been
How convenient, wrapped in the warmth of myth
I’m struggling to unlearn, to forget
I’m struggling to speak but now I’m listening.
And you can say what you mean to me, you can say anything
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Only
04:19
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As with all things fleeting and prone to evaporate,
I’m clinging on with every shred of musterable strength
Hovering between past and future perfect tense, I’m irrelevant,
Without conflict I don’t think I could exist.
And I was looking for someone, your only.
So please don’t say it’s over once we’re already off the ground
I’d chase the sun around the globe if it meant never coming down
If everything between us is just chemicals and math,
It’s no less tragic - nostalgists chasing down what they already have.
So stop looking for your only.
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8. |
White Noise
04:29
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Do you remember falling face first
Into that cinematic dumpster?
I am the calm inside your shaking bones
Saying, “don't go.”
These crushing stones, I'm never free
From fate rebuilding my misery.
Just hide away in my bedroom and
Stare at a screen.
“Don't go.”
But I just can't stay awake and
I don't know why I bothers me.
I know I said I wanted to be alone
But in that slightly sarcastic tone.
Forever seems like a long time
When you're waiting on a telephone.
Saying, “I don't know.”
But I just can't stay awake and
I don't know why it bothers me.
“May the days be aimless.
Let the seasons drift.
Do not advance the action
According to a plan.”
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Marigold
03:11
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Carried away by minutiae in the tedious array
of the outside world. Make believe in their affections and accords.
It’s here to stay or it’s all falling away
you’ll be dreaming under marigold anyway
So the church bells ring. is it a wedding or a funeral that they sing?
Only saints can say but piety’s a shit act anyway
it’s here to stay or its all falling away
but you’ll be dreaming under marigold anyway
I wouldn’t say that nothing gold can stay
but you’ll be dreaming under marigold anyway
last nights
last rites
long rides
wrong sides
it’s here to stay or it’s all falling away
but you’ll be dreaming under marigold anyway
I wouldn’t say that nothing gold can stay
but you’ll be dreaming under marigold anyway
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10. |
Viva
03:33
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You could say it was accident.
You could say it just got out of hand.
You could say it's what you really want but you're caught in the guilt and the shame again
When all the parts they just didn’t fit,
well they might one day but they haven’t yet.
You could tell them that you’re sorry again and we can all pretend to forgive and forget
Fucking viva, fucking assholes
I don't need a thing to thing to atone
You had to be there to let it happen
Fucking viva, look out heaven
It’s not all bad It’s just truth hidden
Matter of fact you’ll get used to it
You’ll be warmer than you’ve ever been and
You can thank me later when we meet again
Remember feelings until they all turned hard?
Remember ideals and purpose until they fell apart?
You could say the engine just wouldn’t start and you’re stuck and stalled in the carpark
Fucking viva, fucking assholes
I don't need a thing to thing to atone
You had to be there to let it happen
Fucking viva, look out heaven
Of course it's empty
And hell is freezing
I never listened
or paid attention
I guess it figures
You’re bored and leaving
Fuckin viva, deleted.
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