1. |
Over Time
04:15
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Taken in haste:
Pictures,
Moving away,
Letters,
Moments in place
Fragmented dreams:
The sirensong peace,
Waters,
Time was on lease
I know this comes back around
Deeply the roots lay underground
The pre-life has faded away
Leaving all in its place
Tremble though you're not alarmed
Hollow the fears and their barbs
The little moments, I'll take
It isn't all at stake
I know this comes back around
Deeply the roots lay underground
The pre-life has faded away
Leaving all in its place
Miles mean so much over time
Lifestyles always on the line
Brilliant pieces never stay
Sedentary all in place
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2. |
The Fool's Poison
03:52
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Tell me
You're skirting the issue again
You're fighting the missing, your head
And you might be losing
You endearing fool
But still you hold them in
The words now your poison
Excuses weak and thin
But I can't help
Until you...
You've been a fool
You've let it rule you
Why simply make do
I could have pulled you through
But you won't
Tell me
But still you hold them in
The words now your poison
Excuses weak and thin
But I can't help
Until you
Tell me
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3. |
Sophia
03:26
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I was thirteen
How could I know what love was
But I knew I loved Sophia
I wrote her name
In dreams and wrapped her hair around my throat
Soft and still we stood
But when I saw her
A decade old heart in a notebook
Her ripples caught me
And tripped up my words
Just light enough
To see the roses rise in my cheeks
But I went up anyway
Only one in
I thought too much for my good
As I said, “Hello Sophia”
And when I saw her
A decade old heart in a notebook
I thought I ought to
Tell her what she used to mean
Silver tongued fantasies
Vanished in
Fantastic awkward form
Pervaded by movie teens
A child's dream that
Felt like something more
So when I saw her
My decade old heart in a notebook
There wasn't much for
Me to say to my Sophia
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4. |
Fall Through
04:37
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What no one sees
Could not be true
And I don't know, I don't know
I don't know what I'll do
If I fall through
I'm throwing games
I'm out of breath
I'm a wall, I'm a wall,
I'm a wall I've got secrets left
Come on try my steps
Cause I have a questioning heart
Left to myself
I find the seams
And the holes, all the holes,
All the holes all the in betweens
The silent killer dreams
Waning and spent
I'm feigning pride
But I feel small, oh so small,
Oh so small I feel open wide
And terrified
Cause I have a questioning heart
Trip lines never taught how to start
I try but the questions tear
Questions tear me apart
What no one sees
Could not be true
How can I breathe
I think it's true
Don't look at me
I'll overwhelm
Worry and freeze
I'll overwhelm
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5. |
All Of Me
04:49
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There's the fumble
Always coming in time
Conversational stumble
Walking away “have a nice night.”
Was it fear or hope this time?
There's the thought
Feeling like a matter of time
You're limp and lost
Confidence, man, Jesus Christ
And you know it's both this time
I overthought
Again I'm caught
Stupid, I fought
And it hurts me most, your sigh
Soon you'll see
All of me
Can you see
All of me
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I am sick of writing this goddamn song
I drove you off and pulled you back,
And every moment in between
You were still as stone
Full of love and never faltering
Deserving more than a silly bird
Too happy for a spring migration
A fall reunion
I think I hope you've found more now
I know I hope you'll never know
How happy
How happy I was
How happy
How happy I was
To not see
To not see you
I know I made the most right choice
Not that it's done me any good
But I like
I like to think
That I did
Alright by you
That you
You don't look back
The least I
The least I could do
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7. |
Once
03:34
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Once it sounded like reform
The honey on your door
The promises of more
Once I thought so much of you
But you showed us something new
And I'm frightened and confused
Is this you?
Then a silly selfish act
Once resolute now slack
Again you're way off track
So when violence erupts
And drives out one of us
You seem broken and corrupt
Is this you?
If you could hide this from me
How am I supposed to see
Just who I'm talking to
Is it the mask or is it you?
Is it you?
Is this you?
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There's terrible things on the television
But what hurts more is dust in your eye
A strangers remorse is a sad thing of course
But, with you, you just wanna lie down and die
Cause it's hard to remember this
I've gone too far into the abyss
The ocean came and stole me with a kiss
I wanna deny that I'd dare falsify
My reaction when you were laid down
Your parents cried, and I still wonder why
My heartbreaks have seemed to make greater sounds
Cause it's hard to remember this
I've gone too far into the abyss
The ocean came and stole me with a kiss
I tried and I tried, I won't leave behind
All the memories I have of your life
But I cried and I cried, and I could not deny
There always was too much of me on my mind
Cause it's hard to remember this
I've gone too far into the abyss
The ocean came and stole me with a kiss
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9. |
A Delicate Balance
03:58
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What a delicate hand you need
In preserving a memory
Where words had no place
Where cars and dreams and bright winter scenes
Meant too much to waste
What a delicate balance then
Finding time just to live again
And though it's already done
The edges seem incredibly clean
For people so rough spun
What a beautiful scene
We let the music overwhelm
Saying more than our words could tell
No one minded at all
These simple times weigh light on my mind though soon this era will fall
Unassuming brilliance
Colors shifting but so intense
The last grain of the light
Has given me more than I could absorb given all night
What a beautiful scene
Ain't it funny the things you'll find
Hung round the corners in your mind?
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