1. |
Tell Me I'm Still Alive!
03:13
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We can measure our ambitions
In your mom’s bathroom mirror
Where she learned to grapple with her decisions
It makes it all clear
Staring back in your hazel eyes
I’m waiting
Tell me I’m still alive
You can’t escape from me this time
Seems like you lost me in the crowd
So bury me six feet underground
I think that I might die alone
I think that I might die alone
I think that I might die alone
Let me listen to your bullshit
And you can listen to mine
I’ll come meet you on the third floor
Just give me time
I’m searching desperately
To try and find
Someone to say
“Stay alive”
Tell me what it is
You want to know
So I can tell you
I don’t!
Seems like you lost me in the crowd
So bury me six feet underground
I think that I might die alone
I think that I might die alone
I think that I might die alone
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2. |
Cellar Door
04:21
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He flew first class this morning
To a beach in San Fran
In his private cabana
With his feet in the sand
She says he smells nice
But he's wearing his own cologne brand
She leans closer and closer
Tries to hold his hand
But he's too busy thinking 'bout
What he'll wear to Cannes
She asks to come to, he says
"You're far too pretty for France"
But you know
It's all a lie
When he says
"You're mine"
Do you think of me
With his hands around your neck now
And when you're in his sheets
Does he worry that I'll find out
But you can't get free
'Cause he knows you inside and out
He told her that her lips
Were the first that he kissed
But they're the third pair this week
He just adds to the list
In memories she'd like to imagine that
He'd always missed
Supposed high school sweethearts
It's been seven years
Since he said "I love you"
And was making it clear
Do the trips block commitment
Or is that an excuse out of fear
'Cause you know
It's all a lie
When he says
"You're mine"
Do you think of me
With his hands around your neck now
And when you're in his sheets
Does he worry that I'll find out
But you can't get free
'Cause he knows you inside and out
Interlocking lips
And he's grabbing her hips
Her skin white with his grip
And through all of this shit he can't see
She's scrambling and squirming
Head temperature's warning
With smile performing
Like siren's song warning at sea
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3. |
A Dark Forest Hypothesis
03:49
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As you talk
Into the ground
You plant your words
Into mistake
Something was lost
But never found
Defiled and laid
To waste
Breathe again my friend
You cannot drown
For you are far
Far too plain
A dark hypothesis
Gives you out
And a dark forest
Becomes your grave
And now you are
So gone away
And now you are
So gone away
Now you are
So gone away
So gone
Away
I never thought
Past my inflections
I want
I want
I never thought
Past my mistakes
It never hurt
To push it further
I want
I want
And now it's
All so gone away
As you talk
Into the ground
You plant your
Words into mistake
Something was lost
It was lost but never found
Defiled and laid
To waste
Say your fate don't go away
It's nothing like it seems
Everything's a
Part of you and more
Lives they fleet but souls they stay
A heart held at your feet
Everything's a
Part of you and more
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4. |
artisan bread.
03:39
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Could
You ignite
Just one light
You can pick any spark
You like
And
We can fight
In moonlight
If the stars would
Align
You can choose
What you hear
As long as it makes this
Clear
I’m
Just your ex
Not your friend
Don’t tell me how this one
Ends
Come and meet me
On the ground
Of your first floor apartment
With my hands bound
I bet that you just
Could not care
If we pass
In due time
Look just short
Of my eyes
For you romanticize
Each starry night
Anew
Maybe you changed
Or maybe I just never
Fucking knew you
Come and meet me
On the ground
Of your first floor apartment
With my hands bound
I bet that you just
Could not care
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5. |
How to Kill an Ostrich
03:37
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You can take back your memories
If they hold something true
‘Cause your hands are tied
All your friends have lied
You’re just ostracized
And it’s new
You can search for a remedy
And you’ll end up back here
When your life is a wreck
With the hearts you collect
And when we reconnect
It’s all clear
So just take what you need
From me
‘Cause you just can’t say what
You mean
Oh I’ll see you in seven years
With a ring on your hand
And a veil ‘cross your eyes
So they don’t have to meet mine
As you profess all your lies
Maybe this is the time that you
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
So just take what you need
From me
‘Cause you just can’t say what
You mean
So just take what you need
From me
‘Cause you just can’t say what
You mean
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6. |
I Know You Want My Life
04:53
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I can feel the blades
Next to your spine
I couldn’t tell if the sharpness
Was your coldness or a knife
But either way
I know you want my life
With every word
Just came gasps of air
Knocking at the door
Don’t want to see what’s there
In the end
I know you’ll make me care
I know you’ll make me care
I know you’ll make me care
You spent your childhood
In a quaint colonial house
Nothing but two decades of privilege
Come from your mouth
And after all your shit
They still won’t kick you out
I stayed for half an hour
And you never showed
Don’t act like you care
‘Cause you just wouldn’t know
‘Cause everytime
You don’t know what to say
That’ll make things right
Don’t tell me you’ve changed
When you’re just the same
Same
Three days, three nights
And still you haven’t called
Scars along my arms
Yet you’re not there at all
But you cry for weeks
With knee scrapes when you fall
So before you whine
Can you check if I’m fine
Why can’t you say the words
Why can’t you say my line
Say “it’ll be alright,”
No, would that waste your time
I can feel the blades
Next to your spine
I couldn’t tell if the sharpness
Was your coldness or a knife
But either way,
I know you want my life
I can feel the blades
Next to your spine
I couldn’t tell if the sharpness
Was your coldness or a knife
But either way
I know you want my life
I can feel the blades
Next to your spine
I couldn’t tell if the sharpness
Was your coldness or a knife
But either way
You can have my life
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