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normal
02:15
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Drowning myself in some bottom shelf liquor
As a way to repent
I think all the time I spend licking my wounds
Is poorly spent
Smoke in my lungs makes me feel a bit better
I'm every day
I blow all my money on that shit
For a quick getaway
Now I'm quite alive
I'm satisfied
Emotionless and blind
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2. |
smoke
02:01
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3. |
arid eyes
03:41
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There's a wall between us
More like a mountain
What's the rush?
I'm sure they'll move it soon
There's the wall we painted
With our very own imagination
Colors faded now for good
Do you remember
When we were young radiant embers
Whose hands were oh so cold?
Look at us now
More than children
Though we still act out
And make false promises
Arid Eyes
Color gone
To my surprise
They were ours
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4. |
try (2.14.18)
02:54
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In a moment, you'd gone
In a moment, no more
Your love was bright and warm like a torch
I'll try refine
I'll try to be more
But right now I'm high, alone on the porch
I felt welcome and humbled at your side
So why'd you let me stumble from your stride?
Have you eaten today?
We ask back and forth
We both just don't feel much like eating anymore
We'll try to refine
We'll try to be more
To live and live knowing that your mine and I am yours
I felt welcome and humbled at your side
So why'd you let me stumble from your stride?
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5. |
love is nothing
03:32
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I see you growing old
You can feel it in your bones
The end is nigh
The room you're in is cold
You're dying all alone
Your mouth is dry
Thoughts race 'round your skull
The pain begins to dull
You see yourself
Sitting in your room
Barely the 3rd of June
When you had your health
And love is nothing else
I see you lying dead
Grey hair on your head
Smilin' wide
And love is nothing else
And love is nothing,
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6. |
lilith
02:59
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I inhale every word you've said
Anytime I smoke cigarettes
I swallow them with tar and formaldehyde
You said I still lack a sense of self
And that I'm no good for your mental health
Why did our timelines have to intertwine?
And yet you still can't say goodbye
I think about every word you've said
Lying next to me in this bed
Things you'd whisper so God can't hear you speak
You pulled the blanket out from my feet
Where you revealed a bed of snakes
We lie in sin and bask in your deceit
To see what this moment makes
I lost my breath when your eyes went red
Like an animal that's not been fed
Your shape shifted, I don't know what you became
I just know your not the same
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7. |
jury
03:50
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No I'm not the greatest man around
I still have my merit
Then again the jury's out
Now that my life is changing
I want to keep you around
Solve this growing problem
Make myself feel proud
Maybe I'll find something greater than myself
Or maybe I'll find nothing
Use memories to measure wealth
Take one look about me
Do I even look well?
Spare me all the judgement
Happiness is hard to sell
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8. |
strangers
06:04
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I'm fighting 3 days of no sleep
Don't know what I'm saying or who I'm supposed to be
Delirious visions plague me
Like the one's where I die all alone
While strangers bury my bones beneath the earth
I loved to hear that sad girl sing
There was pain in her voice and pain underneath
I wonder if she sings about me
And how I left her there all alone
As though someone had stolen the home that was never hers
I wish I could pretend
That she made me happy
It was only in the end
That I felt incomplete
So desperately she tried to win my love
With vinyl records and an undying lust
But nothing she did was enough
She said "all you can see is yourself"
And something like "there's nothing else to live for or to love"
We brought ourselves down from our dream
Looked on as we both fell apart at the seam
Like ships cast out to raging seas
There's no guarantee you'll return
The same person you were before the storm took you away
I wish I could pretend
That she made me happy
It was only in the end
That I felt incomplete
I'm fighting 3 days of no sleep
I've seen how I'm changing to a man I don't want to be
And to tell the truth, it scares me
I fear that I'll die all alone
While strangers bury my bones beneath the earth
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9. |
multiplied
03:05
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I wonder what you say went wrong
When somebody asks you
Where does the truth begin and when does
it become attractive?
I know it's falsified, you'll say you tried
But I kept trying need I remind you?
There's no sense telling lies
I wonder what you'd say if we had
the misfortune of meeting
How many times can apologies be made
before they lose their meaning?
I saw myself divide, my ego died
I wasn't someone I recognized, dear
These thoughts have multiplied
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10. |
we were poison
05:18
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It took you a month
To root into the back of my head
Less than that to find your way to my bed
And there's been nights that I wish you were still there
If I'm all the wiser then why do I still care?
I never said "love"
Though you prayed that it would fall from my lips
Maybe something could be salvaged from this
I swear that sometimes I can smell your perfume
And I could follow it straight to you
But now I'm reeling from the mess I made
I know there's no way I could have stayed
We were poison for each other
I was scared to let go
I was scared that you would take your own life
If I didn't take you as a wife
Some time has passed now and you seem to be fine
You've found your peace I guess that I'll find my mine
But now I'm reeling from the mess I made
I know there's no way I could have stayed
We were poison for each other
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