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Sunburst Chaser
03:40
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A soft knock on the door is the starting line
The gun fires off and someone counts the time
But it's hard to run when you're dead on the floor
If we coulda just danced a little bit more
Bullets shoot into the sky
Blazing trails all left behind
Falling down, down, down
To the finish line
The sky is streaked with purple red
And you swore that it would never end
So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone
There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight
Broken up by the winter's wind
So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun
Someday I'll be older see
Then my hands won't fail me
I'll forget to watch the crowd
Then you'll slow down
The sky is streaked with purple red
And you swore that it would never end
So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone
There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight
Broken up by the winter's wind
So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna leave
If I have to go
I won't get to be
I don't wanna go home
It’s so nice being able to breathe
There’s a world outside and home isn’t home anyway
The sky is streaked with purple red
And you swore that it would never end
So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone
There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight
Broken up by the winter's wind
So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun
I don't wanna go home
And I don't want you to leave
Sit with me and watch with the world
Show me how to chase the sun
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Wanderlust
03:29
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Wanderlust and stone cold gaze
Love is but a passing phase
Break me in and wear me out
Then take my home and lay about instead
Scribbling notes down
My tongue is tied
Another year down
Never satisfied
Technology breakdown
Or so she said
Communication
It's all in my
What if you speak of the devil and he doesn't appear
Where do you turn when the times get too weird
Write me an alibi and stow me away
But get ready a stand-in just in case
I'm gone
Your eyes are traveled and your heart’s unfurled
Hopping fences left your sensibilities curled
Your holy teachings can only guide you so far
Until somebody’s lover pins you up like a game of darts
Corners bend so you can’t hide
Was my last comment much too snide
Maybe this time I won’t be the one who huddles up by the fireside
What if you speak of the devil and he doesn't appear
Where do you turn when the times get too weird
Write me an alibi and stow me away
But get ready a stand-in just in case
I'm gone
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Lights
05:21
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All these girlfriends are looking past our fantasies
They’re chilled out in reality
Could be I’m just losing touch
And their boyfriends are looking past legality
Seeing no point in longevity
Getting drunk doesn’t solve much
At all
In theory he’s hers
In practice we’re independent
I think that I might lose it
It’s been said too many times
Like recycling worn out rhymes
I think that I
I think that I might
I just might
The lights are all too bright
I can’t believe you’re already going home
Come on stay a while
Don’t fear
There’s no room here for romance
To pass the time we’re standing still
The precipice a windowsill
With eyes wide open still can’t see
The bottom of this endless hill
Looking past our fantasies
How far to fall we never need
To know that just complicates things
In practice no hypotheses
Turn the lights off turn the lights off turn the lights off
What do we deserve what do we deserve what do we deserve
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4. |
Whatever I Say
05:26
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Hey
I think
That I've got something to say
To you
About
What our friendship
Is really
All about
Cause there seems
To be some kind of confusion
In the air
I
I just want
I just want to let you know that
I'm fine
And I'm done
With thinking you're the one
Is that a crime
That I
Thought for a moment that I could make
You mine
So please let me know
If there's something I can do
If I need to step back
Give all my space to you
And I'd do it in a heartbeat
Or a vicious heart wrench
Because I know that I'll be fine
I'll be fine
So is
It alright
That I think we could still
Be friends
I don't want
To hurt you and
Drag you
Till the end
End of me
Cause I don't know
What I'm gonna be
So please let me know
If there's something I can do
If I need to step back
Give all my space to you
And I'd do it in a heartbeat
Or a vicious heart wrench
Because whatever I say it's alright
I'll be fine
I'll be fine
Could it
Could it be
That I'm doing it all
Just for me
That I'm desperate
And afraid
Of letting go
How did I let it go
So
So
Wrong
I need you to see
That it's not just for me
It's the great pretend we
That I've pictured to be
So perfect and grand
How did I let it go
So wrong
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53 Weeks
10:21
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The sun shined on my face
And you saw my absence
There could’ve been anyone under those rays
My feet ran me away
That’s become the new cliché
What was meant as an escape in both ways
Is now just another trope of the stage
I inhabit 52 different characters a year
Everyone of them working on a deadline
But I’ve never been good with deadlines
And I’ve yet to find a persona that is
So I’ll keep looking
They didn’t play the song that I wanted them
To play at the dance it was just the same old trash
But somehow it’s popular
The people voted and got what they wanted
And then complained all through the night
About the music from fifth grade
But it was all from this year
Someone started a conga parade
The sun shined on my face
And you saw my absence
There could’ve been anyone under those rays
But this time it was me
And you saw your reflection in my eyes
I’m urbane; I’m not boorish
Debonair; not churlish
I’m smooth; not classless
I’m suave; not clownish
I’m Mark Twain; I’m not Congress
My friend’s gone; I didn’t know him
I’m witty; I’m not funny
I’m together; I’m discarded
I’m a brand new book and I’m open
But my pages are worn together with age
A invalid trapped behind a younger face
I knew from the moment I met you
But I met you seven years before becoming friends with you
And now I don’t remember how we became friends at all
Pouring out my secrets is the only thing I can recall
You fell hard for a genuine human
I don’t know that genuine‘s the right word to use
Cause I’m too honest with myself to ever be
Truly objective on anything else
I couldn’t see but my skin was see through
I couldn’t hear but my cries were amplified
I couldn’t speak but my cries were amplified
I couldn’t feel man what could I do
I couldn’t see that your skin was pulsing
I couldn’t hear that your cries were for me
I couldn’t speak but your words they saved me
I couldn’t feel man I shoulda fallen too
I should've fallen too
It’s too late it’s too late it's too late
It’s the perfect time to be in love
It’s too late it’s too late it's too late
There’s no better time to be in love
It’s too late it’s too late it's too late
It’s the perfect time to be in love
It’s too late it’s too late it's too late
There’s no better time to be in love
No one ever looks good walking out of the water
Says everyone to the mirror
And who can pull off that look anyway
Says everyone to themselves
Things are looking up on the other side
Says everyone in front of the mirror
I can make it through 53 weeks in a year
Says everyone to themselves
(It’s too late, it’s too late, it’s too late
It’s too late, it’s too late, it’s too late)
(Whatever I say it’s not alright
Whatever I say we won’t be fine
Whatever I say it’s not alright
We won’t be fine but we’ll make it this time)
I’m gonna get myself down
I know it’s not your fault
We can take a trip out of town
Skin our knees on the worn down asphalt
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