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22-23-24-25
02:35
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Do you remember my 22nd Birthday?
We all went out and we had a good time.
I made some joke about us being alone together, and you laughed.
And I died a little on the inside...
and in 22 days now I'll be 23
and it's clear that you probably felt the same as me
cause now your clothes are laying all around my room
and you're silently sleeping on my side of the bed
It' been 24 hours since I saw you last, 24 till I see you again
and all the places I've been, and people I've seen
Can't compare to the places I'll go with you
I feel at peace on the inside, for the first time
And I'll rap all night about suicide
How I'll kick it in the head when I'm 25
Speed jive, I want to stay alive
cause I've got you.
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Courtney
04:30
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You still haven't figured out how nice it is to know you
and I still haven't figured out why these feelings till feel new, but they do.
And I do, know you....
I know you like your best friend knows her mans bright blue eyes
and I love you more than the stars love the nighttime sky
Now don't let the typical metaphor, take away from anything I said
cause I love you more than I've ever loved anything
So shut up and get in my bed.
That's not death, that's the love of your life.
With a laugh that could turn the day into night
That's not a life, just any excuse to fight
But as always with love you know you're right.
And you still haven't figured how it is I see you
and I still figured out just what I mean to you
but I do see you, in such light
And I do, mean something to you
I think you're a beautiful as the cold driven snow
and you told me you'd love me forever, Oh I know.
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Would you love me more if my nickname was my name, but only mispronounced
or if my eyes were forever scarred?
And this morning I brushed the grass from your heels
cause last night we walked through the graveyard
and all the whiskey and helium and vodka couldn't get us home any faster
so I thought we should just lay down quietly like the bodies that lay all around us
Cause they're just boxes of bones and we're just floating particles
wit our head in the clouds trying to convince ourselves Love is something tangible.
Would you love me more, if we had a history or t least on that made sense
or if I didn't look the way I did?
and last night you drunk so much and said so much that I didn't want to hear
as we walked through "the cat-way"
and all the Balkan and whisky and laughter couldn't get us home any faster
but that's where I want to be with you
Where we can rest our bones, these floating particles
kiss softly with our head in the clouds
Try and convince ourselves love is something tangible
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karaoke Pages
02:19
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You said it sounded like sentimental bullshit
When I said we fell asleep listening to Owen
So I closed my eyes and thought back to the night before
In the darkness where over-whelming feelings were growing
and I tried to think of what I'd say to her- listening to her breathing
but I'm no good with words so I lay there like a fucking heathen-
Waiting for lightning to strike
or someone to pass me a mic
So I could explain it up here on the stage
or I could go to your front door and find a page with words to a song dear to your heart
and maybe we could make this love start
and last summer I died a slow, and lonely painful death
but I brought it on myself. What did I expect
but now when I close my eyes I don't see darkness I see you
and all the super shit-hot awesome stuff you do
and when I reminisce of those few lonely summer days
it's just- hair products, texting you, JD in some fucked up haze
Some times I thought I could have lived that way forever
Hey! That's probably why I warned you off
cause I'm really FUCKING CLEVER
But I wished I could take it all back
Roll up my sleeves, there's my heart it's oh so black.
In this nightclub we could talk the night away
How did something that feels so right, stay under my radar for so long?
I don't really care now.
But it sure makes a fucker of a song...
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Blink
02:25
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This time last year I cried my eyes out listening to you sing
Drunk and alone in the city, trying to find someone to talk to
Stealing kisses in the drinks queue. So happy It wasn't you
And my only friend was that sinking feeling
That I was gonna do something wrong.
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You brought to yearn runaway, so I ran away
Brought up not knowing what to say so...
And every Friday night we'd drive through the darkness to the city
Bruce Springsteen blaring from the car stereo
As you chase the lights 101 miles and hour
me, and my brother slept in the back seat
and when we awoke, my mother was there.
and when we awoke, we could see how much you cared.
Then we learned to runaway, runaway
and that we always had something to say
and every Sunday we'd drive through the morning to the city
The one that me and my friends all call our home now
And as you'd pierce through the sunshine
you'd tell me of all the records that you were gonna buy
and as you rambled along I'd look on from the back seat
Oh we could live in some moments forever
And when we awoke, our father was gone
But we know in so many ways that he lives on.
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Urban Legend
02:50
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There's bird calls every hour and I'm falling from this tower
We usually climb it together but today I fight alone
and these bathroom tiles feel cold, I'm pretty sure I threw up my soul
It used to be so elusive but now you can have it to hug and to hold
It's yours now.
There's nothing on your wall, but that doesn't matter at all
You know that I love you, you can see my heart beating through my chest
and we've heard all these stories before, the blood and the guts, the sex and the gore
As long as you keep protect my heart, we'll be fine
It's yours now.
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8. |
Loss
03:15
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I remember when your best friend's mother said
She was glad that you had someone like me.
She said she couldn't imagine a young girl going through this alone.
Your friend said she overheard her saying it on the phone.
And I thought I could be your savior.
You asked me "who's gonna Save the day?"
Surely not me in my girl sized t-shirt.
I'm too used to running away.
I remember when two strangers stopped
And hugged me in the street.
They said they were sorry to hear about my loss.
But I could show them nothing but defeat
As they stopped. Stopped and hugged me in the street.
And I wished right then that I had you there.
Cause you'd been so strong through it all before.
But the last time we really spoke.
I just showed up at your door
And I wanted you to be my savior.
Wanted you to save my day.
I'm standing here crying in my girl sized t-shirt.
Wanting to run away.
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The Power of Acceptance
03:23
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She said Lover come over- So I did
But I didn't say anything that mattered no,
I just hid in my cousins basement with the cool air blowing hard
and we talked way late into the night but I didn't say anything that mattered
cause your boyfriend said he'd crack my head open.
Broken. Shattered.
But we were just kids back then.
Never felt love, only loneliness
But you should me I could love someone
So I thank you and I will confess
I still think of you from time to time, I do.
She said come back and visit me, promise me you will
I said darling I'd do anything for you,
you know for you I'd kill
But it's been so long since we spoke
It's starting to sound like some bad fucking joke
Yes it's been so long since we spoke
Yeah, it's been so long since I missed my opportunity sitting on the porch that night
But first loves always mean this much, so shut up and top putting up a fight
You gave me power of acceptance
You gave my power in myself
Gave me power in my heart
and in hope in some way I helped you to...
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10. |
Ask for More
02:40
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Am I finally me now? or am I still becoming
Everything I thought I'd be when I was 17
and can I finally see now or have I finally gone blind?
I've probably gone blind from all this fucking drinking
but
You're only young once so you should make the best of it
Don't lock yourself away in doors
Who could ever ask for more?
And am I finally free now? To be who I want to be now?
Cause I spent too long just answering to you..
And is this one for life? Well no one can really tell
I don't know if you'll still be here when I am grey and old.
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Lovers Turn to Monsters Glasgow, UK
Lovers Turn to Monsters is a long pale man, slowly falling into middle age.
He wishes he
could be one of those guys who tours all the time, but he likes baths far too much. So instead he stays in his room and makes lengthy albums of emotive lo-fi nonsense.
... more
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