1. |
Empty Space
03:19
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2. |
Nevertheless
03:12
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I’m waking up on my own to find nothing has changed
Same shadow on my toes same bookmark in my brain
Same facts I’ll never know same thoughts of right and good
I’m waking up all alone wondering if I could
Be strong enough to fight
Be well enough to write
Words someone else will find and pick up when I’m gone
I’m walking now asleep
Flipping through memories
To find a glimpse of me to try to prove myself wrong
I never said I was fearless but nevertheless we are in this
And we don’t know what’s next
I wake up to hot blooded veins
A world that’s turning to ash but I can taste the rains
I’m breaking up on my own all thoughts of don’t and should
Constraints I’d somehow grown so that I never would
Be strong enough to fight
Be well enough to write
Words someone else will find and pick up when I’m gone
I’m walking now asleep
Flipping through memories
To find a glimpse of me trying to prove I could
Be strong enough to fight
Be well enough to write
Words someone else will find and pick up when I’m gone
I’m walking now asleep
Flipping through memories
To find a glimpse of me to try to prove myself wrong
I face the world with my eyes closed but I face it nonetheless
I never said I was fearless but nevertheless we are in this
I live my life with my eyes closed but I live it nonetheless
I never said that it wasn’t a mess but it’s all I’ve got left
And I don’t know what’s next
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3. |
Parts Unknown
04:37
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All these parts unknown as
Gravity takes hold
My broken heart once cold and dark
Those promises you told me
Burn just like a sole in
Open streets streaked gold in heatwaves
Can you hear it?
A silent refrain is taking me higher
I try to maintain
But I’m on fire and you’re on fire
Just waiting for the next train
And with your heartbeat pressed against my lips
Come even closer we can whisper it
And you may think I’m just insane saying
I feel it: a secret singing in our fingertips
Of fictions weaving
Twisting through me leaving
Traces of a place I’m grieving
They say snakes shed skins and
May say I’m no different
Rivers in my slithered footprint
And all these facts I know
Melt from me like snow
Do you ever wonder how a hope burns like a star?
Something in the air
When I saw you there
Makes me start to wonder what my life has meant thus far
Far enough along even when I am alone
I swear, a thought can take me there
Enough away, become just energy
Heat signatures surrounding me
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4. |
Smoke
03:33
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Carried our packs straight to the edge
Saw the future burn the past
Saw strip mall sketches stretching skeletal
We knew it wouldn’t last
Through dark heat
Smoke in the street
But I see you clear
Pulling you feet farther from me
But i know that you’re near
We read the same words
Forget what we heard
Two meanings diverging from the same verse
Our insides churning just to learn from ourselves
Reverse what we rehearsed
The lights will bend between the trees
But I see you clear
It’s up to you and down to me
And I know that you’re near
And what do I do now
When I promised that I’d get to you
but now I don’t know how
I’ve got you always
Your words in my head
I’ve got you always
Your heart in my chest
And I won’t rest
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5. |
The Gap In Between
05:24
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I’ve been a fell tree
A hurricane afraid to fail
Digging for who I used to be
I’ve been the dirt under your nails
Our eyes a neon sign
Our hearts a swept front porch
Our hands scraping in the sky
Our mouths shouting for more
Oh there’s colors that you’ve never seen
You don’t need a name for everything you do
I say “I don’t know who I’m supposed to be”
You say “There’s no such thing as ‘supposed to’”
Just out of view outside
They wait for you you’ll find
Impatience gets the best rebuke
No rest when you’re hanged up by your shoes
Our eyes a neon sign
Our hearts a swept front porch
Our hands scraping in the sky
Our mouths screaming for more
There’s colors that you can’t perceive
You don’t need a name for everything you do
I say “I don’t know who I’m supposed to be”
You say “There’s no such thing as ‘supposed to’”
And what do I know what do I say when they come asking?
Every equation incomplete
Every sentence fragmenting
Like the gap in between where we’re standing
And all that I have left are words trapped in a void
With echoes keeping company to thoughts that I avoid
The colors start to bleed and now all that I see
are the stains of my days as they pass me
And how should I know what’s actually happening
When I can’t discern what I see from in a dream?
It’s all in my head, try to keep it open
But now that seals been broken through
There’s colors that you’ve never seen
You don’t need a name for everything you do
I say “I don’t know who I’m supposed to be”
You say “There’s no such thing as ‘supposed to’”
And what do I know what do I say when they come asking?
Every equation balancing
Every sentence fragmenting
Like the gap in between where we’re standing
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6. |
Get Away
03:14
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We might be natural born escapists
Strapping broken hearts against our chest
But I think that nothing can shake us
We’re just tired of waiting for what’s next
So tired so tired of failing first
So tired so tired of the original curse
Of trying my best and feeling worse
Can we just get out? Can we get away
From pretending everything’s ok?
Because we hold back tears
And i see my face reflect distorted ways
Close my eyes turn up my headphone
Turn you up so i can hear the sound
Trips me up because i think you’re with me
Talk aloud even when you’re not around
There’s no time no time for giving up
Because our time our time is not enough
Should we take it slow or take it up?
Can we just get out?
Can we get away
From pretending everything’s ok?
And all that we’ve seen just clings to us
All that we know is growing rust
All that we’ve done has gone to dust
All of it seems to be too much
And when it comes will you turn away from it?
Would you rather be safe than sound?
It’s gonna happen someday won’t it?
Don’t be afraid of what it is found
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7. |
Moon
04:46
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The moon
Comes out in the daytime
Turn the radio up
But it’s too
Late I can feel the shifting tide
Churning up my insides
A sound I found resounds inside of me
I flipped a switch to find the frequency
But there’s not waves that I can see
Nothing just left and wandering
I wish I was born a planet
Or a comet
Just me alone with a moon in space
Or burning out breaking up watching my past disintegrate
At noon we wake
Like we got nothing to be
No one around that we can see
And it’s true
No present, no past, no you weighing down on me
Just surviving
And I can see I can see
There’s nothing wrong with my heart
Just atrophied and maybe falling apart
But I heard this one echo through my head
It’s the same song rearranged from what you said
I wish I was born a planet
Or maybe a comet
Just me alone with a moon in space
Or burning out breaking up watching my past disintegrate
And on my block the lights burn out
Feel the stars pressing down
Feel myself untethered from the night
Living like now
Or never’s whenever you like
Moon.. moon..
I wish I was born a planet
Or baby a comet
Just me alone with a moon in space
Or burning out breaking up watching my past disintegrate
Moon.. moon..
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8. |
One Of Us
04:40
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And you could say
Every word I’ve ever written spells your name
But there’s not time for stealing glances
Spending chance that you take
Stick to your guns
Stick with me
Air sticks to your lungs
Wait til you see
The whites of their eyes glow
That’s when you know
That’s when you know
You could be one of us
Think you might be one of us
Everyone’s one of us
Why would you ever want to be one of us?
The sun goes up
The buildings go down
But you can’t see it because we’re underground
Running faster than your radar guns
You say they’re coming well
Just let them come
And you could say
Every word I’ve ever written spells your name
But there’s not time for stealing glances
Spending chance that you take
Stick to your guns
Stick with break
Air sticks to your lungs
Wait til you see
The whites of their eyes glow
That’s when you know
That’s when you know
You could be one of us
Think you might be one of us
Everyone’s one of us
Why would you ever want to be one of us?
The flag goes up
The buildings go down
But you can’t see it because we’re underground
Running faster than your radar guns
You say they’re coming well
Just let them come
You could be my breed
You could be my breed
I see your face and I can’t breath
(enon interlude) Ah ah..
The sun goes up
The buildings go down
But we can’t see it because we’re underground
Running faster than your radar guns
You say they’re coming well
Just let them come
You could be my breed
We could be happy
You could be my breed
I see your face and I can’t breathe
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9. |
Another Timeline
04:51
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Sun leaks in through my windowpane
But this heat doesn’t feel the same
Wind rattling through my ribcage
A vacant heart and an occupied gaze
Progress in unlearning
All the rules you used to know
Carved in trees and heavier than stone
But you’ll always be the same to me
And all the things we used to do
In another timeline when it was me and you
On your hardwood floor pulling the demons from our chests
Never knowing they could be all that’s left
Or that your fear can be your friend when you’re on your own
Cuz even when you’re by yourself you’ll never be alone
And there’s
And all that you’ve got
Are circular thoughts
Keeping me up
I wind up depending
On all these hopes inside my head
I wind up drowning deep in them
And you struggle and shout
Your lungs filled with doubt
I’m not gonna find my way out
I’m not gonna find my way out
On your fire escape steps squinting into a crowded sky
The constellations lit by satellites
And I tried to put it down in words
My thoughts are a small town
And you’re a universe
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10. |
How We Begin
04:28
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Close your eyes and feel it breaking through
The kind of nightmare that you get used to
The kind of outrage that could wear you down
Til you miss it when it’s not around
And wandering
I feel my self defeat
The best of me
And I get so caught up with how it ends
What matters
What matters ishow we begin
Are we lost and found?
Our voices a silent shout
With our words entwined
Remind me that I’m alive
Inside my lungs the air I felt the rush
Of trying not to care but it was all too much
Too much to feel too much to think too much to touch
Somehow still just not enough
It’s all just me
I feel my chemistry
Is fragmenting
And I get so caught up with how it ends
What matters
What matters in how we begin
Are we lost and found?
Our voices a silent shout
With our words entwined
Remind me that I’m alive
The songs don’t sound the same
It’s like the key has changed
And I would rather be lost
Than something that I’m not
Are we lost and found?
Our voices a silent shout
With our words entwined
Remind me that I’m alive
What matters is how we begin
What matters is how we begin
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