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Promising
05:14
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I write awful poetry with overcomplicated words for every waking moment that's worth noting
My notebook's filled with gibberish; the sentences, they don't make sense, I tried to keep them tame, mind's still overflowing
But I have yet to find a word that tells the world how much I like you
Cheesy, though it's shocking, that's for sure
Is that not love? I'd have no clue, and if it's love, I'd owe it all to you
Dress my feelings in disguise and sit inside a pretty lie
I'd rather lose a chance then lose a friend
Though something calls your name in me, a hopeful glimpse of what could be
I'll love that little hope until the end
I shed a tear, I blind an eye and pray to God I won't be shy when
Fate decides to make you know my truths
I swear to you I'll try to be the kindest man you'll ever meet
You've come too far to love someone uncouth
I will keep you in my heart until the end of time
I will keep these promises no matter what we find
I hope no matter what I do you'll let me love you through and through
I dedicate each breath out to your name
Your teenage soul has full control of what I do, me as a whole
In years and years I'll love you just the same
I want nothing more than just to love you to the core
No one in this world's as bright as you
An early ray of sun that I meet when the day's begun
Keep that little light shining through
I will keep you in my heart until the end of time
I will keep these promises no matter what we find
I will write these songs for you as long as I'm alive
Give me something to hold onto that I know is mine
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2. |
Spirit Slinger
07:10
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There's a ghost inside the house and she's calling out my name
I think maybe she wants things to stay the same
End of summer speaking spirits from afar
Singing ballads, knowing who we really are
City lights fading out on the highway
It's not the things that you have done, it's what you don't say
Burning sparks along the stars in flashing colours
Forgetting what it's really like to have one another
Feeling fear from the start, I don't remember why
And the room's caving in, I sit there with a sigh
Why's your blood on my hands? I've never seen your face
You don't know what you've done and you're gone without a trace
Sometimes the suffocating sky peels back to let me use me eyes
To see the swirls of stars and all the things we think we are
It's such a shame that things weren't fair for us before the world fell down
I didn't want to see you crying, screams are such an awful sound
It's the beauty of it all, the heart that's buried in the woods
I didn't really know what love was and I didn't know I could
I'll try to purify my point of view, a catalyst of
Hoping that one day I'll figure out how to control things
Let me sew up your heart
And I'll let you tear me apart
Keep me in the pocket of your sweater vest
And I'll suffocate to give you all the air I breathe
Feeling fear from the start, I don't remember why
And the room's caving in, I sit there with a sigh
Why's your blood on my hands? I've never seen your face
You don't know what you've done and you're gone without a trace
It's an awful and a Sisyphean lifestyle that you've led
But stability and family are the things that I have read
In your cards sop if you keep on knocking bricks out of the wall
Maybe one day you'll overwork yourself to the point you have it all
Or have to fall?
Feeling fear from the start
And the room's caving in
Why's your blood on my hands?
You don't know what you've done
Feeling fear from the start (I don't remember why)
And the room's caving in (I sit there with a sigh)
Why's your blood on my hands? (I've never seen your face)
You don't know what you've done (And you're gone without a trace)
Feeling fear from the start, I don't remember why
And the room's caving in, I sit there with a sigh
Why's your blood on my hands? I've never seen your face
You don't know what you've done and you're gone without a trace
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3. |
War Paint
05:34
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You're here 'cause you're forced
It's November 4th and the clock just hit 12
I've forgotten the covers upstairs in my room but you tell me, oh well
I'm freezing and staring at you and you're looking but you don't look back
You're ruining everything, I'm taking your joy 'cause I'm too out of whack
My fist hits your face and the corners are laced with beryllium and lead
I melt to the ground and we both believe somehow I'm already dead
There's formaldehyde stuck in my brain and I think that it's stopping my heart
Pathological liars are surely inspired by lovers falling apart
Smoke in my lungs and apricots between my teeth
First impressions never show what's underneath
Keep an eye out for the cracks around the core
Summer heat ain't givin' nothing to the poor
I look through my memories of you and I see something there in your eyes
It wasn't there when I first met you, it seems that this look slipped my mind
Your face like a bird in a glue trap, your face like I'm doing you wrong
I still can't find any good reason I thought I could keep going on
Smoke in my lungs and apricots between my teeth
Second guesses kill the joy in being seen
Keep an eye out for the cracks around the core
Summer heat ain't givin' nothing to the poor
Smoke in my lungs and wildfires in my hair
Third time's the charm but devil's advocates don't care
Keep an eye out for the cracks around the core
When the sky falls will you open up your doors?
There's something outside that I can't put a name to, it's making me sweat
'Cause I don't know how long it's been there, or what it'll do to my head
I sharpen my nails and my teeth and I get myself ready for war
And all of this damn summer heat still ain't givin' a thing to the poor
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4. |
Collar
06:23
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I get mean when I'm nervous and I'm nervous all the time
And I can't seem to help it, it's just part of my design
Bare my teeth like a werewolf, I will tear you into shreds
Standing over your carcass, you'll tell me your love is dead
And I can't even notice where the dream ends and begins
'Cause I've already said it, how the game's done and you win
But there's something inside me festering, growing bits of mold
And it tells me get angry, make them reap up what they sew
Keep a lock on the kennel, make me bite at my own paw
'Cause I'm nothing but trouble and you're sure that's what you saw
Still, I'll bark at the window even though you've left for good
Screaming, 'Don't be a stranger', maybe I've misunderstood
There's a crack in the windshield
There's a slug in the garden
There's a fire on the stove
I can smell myself burning
I won't rise from the ashes
'Cause this time I'm alone
Hurricane on the skyline, swirling, feeding on the fear
I don't know if it's coming close or if it was just here
So I'll sit on the curb and let the birds take me away
'Cause if I sit here and wait for you I think I might decay
There's a girl who looks just like me who's filed down her claws
I didn't know that you took her in 'til I was just a thought
With her nice little collar and her dainty emerald gowns
It's no wonder you chucked me out and left me at the pound
There's a crack in the windshield
There's a bug in the pantry
There's a storm on the coast
And I'll run to the beaches
Let my destiny take me
'Cause this time I'm alone
And I'm fraying the fabric
And you're cutting the phone line
And I'm sick of the stove
And I'll wait for the sunset
And I'll sleep with the headstones
And I'll never come home
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5. |
Smoke Pit
04:14
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(Let's get out of here...)
After all this time I find myself falling
There's something deep inside my bones calling
The devil for a new idea, I'm done
I'm sorry mama, I'm so sorry I'm your son
I'm laying in the field, I'm looking up at God
I speak in serpent's tongues, I hate without a thought
And maybe all they said about me then was right
At least I'll know I was strong enough to pick that fight
And the mountain stands strong all by itself
It survived the tumble, it survived all the hell
It was given in years gone way with the wind
And I know that the time surely passed, but the memory's still in the
Cliffs and the overhangs
Everything I've sang
I'll sit and watch the world around me start to change
He'll take the building blocks of all that keeps me sane
And I'll lean on the wall when the headrush starts to hurt
And he'll go with someone else and leave me in the dirt
I'm tearing up my ribs to find what's underneath
I'll show you something bad that no one else has seen
I'm made of oil spills and plastic shopping bags
I'm something beautiful that turned into a drag
And I have bled
Guess I'll fall from grace instead
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6. |
Maddog
06:47
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Feed me kibble from the cupboard
Don't let me in 'cause you're too stubborn
Cut my tail and kick my ribs in
Make my living feel like poison
Can you keep a secret from your brother?
Forget what we had with each other?
Pretend I showed up at your doorstep
Call me back 'cause you're not there yet
Don't blow your smoke out in the bedroom
Never wanted to have met you
Hooked on petrol, fear, and phonics
Make the damage catastrophic
Dig your brains out to soothe your soul
I'll take the weekend off 'cause he won't know
Angel eyes behind a crack pipe
Vicar's son spitting sinner's lies
It's coming from the house
Don't let him hear my name come out your mouth
Mad dog
With a wire 'round his name
All talk
With no toil and no trek
That's all the world will hear from me
When I swim into the backwash of the unforgiving sea
And that's all I want, a hand to take my teeth
And to beat me 'til I'm black and blue and say it's what I need
A broken psyche ain't worth fixin'
It's only good to keep you wishin'
But if all he wants is to bark and bite and spit
My instinct has to be to like it
Baby cut into my heartburn
You've hurt enough and now it's my turn
I'll sit here in your corner waiting
I miss when things were suffocating
I miss the eruptions
I miss the destruction
Mad dog
With a wire 'round his name
All talk
With no toil and no trek
That's all the world will hear from me
When I swim into the backwash of the unforgiving sea
And that's all I want, a hand to take my teeth
And to beat me 'til I'm black and blue and say it's what I need
Mad dog
With a wire 'round my neck
Don't talk
Just keep kicking 'til I'm dead
That's all the world will hear from me
When I give into the madness and I fall down to your feet
That's all I want, I want them to love me
And if I can't get it otherwise
I'll sink into the sea
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7. |
Corinthians
05:56
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The overhead lights in your apartment flicker and fail
We stand in the kitchen and whisper nothings, to no avail
I can feel that the end is coming like the ebb and the wave
But you tell me, pay no mind dear, just look the other way
The sludge from the sewers looks like rivers in the night
I can only see your face in the orange of the streetlights
This gloomy mid-march has given me nothing but hives
Praying to whoever will listen that they won't take me alive
I keep all the cancers I covet in heart, not the flesh and the bone
But I'm sick of waiting for someone that
Said that they'll never come home
It's 13 o'clock and I'm losing, you're 15 and ready to die
It's 14 degrees in the windchill and 16 is plenty of time
I'm seeing the spiders above me, they're telling me all I've done wrong
But the flies that live deep in my brain tell me they don't deserve going on
I'm crumbling beneath the weight of all the confessions I've heard
But I can't say a single thing, I wear a muzzle that I don't deserve
Oh, keep it up, keep on surviving
Keep running from things that aren't there
And I'll find you somewhere in the headlights
And ask if you've got change to spare
Oh, let me be fully dishonest
I wish you the best and I care
'Bout the karma that hunts you like dogs in the snow
Oh no, darling, it's truly unfair
I'm breathing out fire like a dragon, I'm digging holes into my throat
With cigarette burns and I'm lacking in things that I don't even know
These unstable hands hold their glasses in skewed around shards on the floor
The love-stricken folly of Orpheus is almost like asking for more
I'm counting on something to happen, I'm counting on houses to burn
And pale sickly faces to cave in and evergreen heartaches to turn
There's three and a half ugly people that stand in that kitchen and pray
For that half-ugly person to quit it, salvation is coming his way
Oh, keep it up, keep on surviving
Keep running from something you made
Let your watch sit at 13 o'clock
Just don't search through my fountain for change
Oh, keep it up, live off the lying
And dig yourself into your grave
And the message is heard by nobody like you
It's the ones who've already been saved
(Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and we will be changed.)
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