1. |
Swing
02:17
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Swing back and forth with me
Tell me what it is you see
Is it the skyline
or the clouds we’re underneath?
Lie in the grass with me
Tell me all about your dreams
Are they like mine?
Do they help you stay asleep?
Tell me everything about you
you want me to know
Hell, I’d lay with you for hours
feeling the wind blow
Please, darling, just speak slow
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2. |
Best Laid Plans
04:57
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Fancy seeing you here
all by yourself
sitting in the lowlight,
the fractals in your eyes dancing around
Say, are you lonely?
You look like you could use some company
but I’m not one to make the first move
Then again, neither are you
So make yourself at home although you weren’t invited
Seasons change, feelings stay the same
Incapable of thoughtful, conscious choices
Seasons change, people stay the same,
but I think that’s for another day
So I ask how you’ve been
You snicker and say,
“It can always be worse,
but shit’s been pretty rough these days”
By now, I’ve detected
you’re slurring your speech
You’re grabbing your keys
You’re starting to leave
I impulsively say, “You should come with me”
So make yourself at home although you weren’t invited
Seasons change, feelings stay the same
Incapable of thoughtful, conscious choices
Seasons change, people stay the same,
but I think that’s for another day
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”
Despite all this, I still want you here by my side
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3. |
The City's Our Song
02:44
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You slam the car door shut accidentally
Profusely apologize
You say “That’s not like me”
Stereo lights turn on
They shine brightly
You turn the radio up, say “I love this song,”
like you’re something out of a movie
You say, “The night’s still young
and I really don’t think
we should be going home yet
The city’s our song,
let’s make this a night
we’ll never forget”
“Tell me, do you wanna go out dancing?
Do you wanna feel the weight of the world
lift off your shoulders under the blacklight
as the bodies near us twirl around
like geometric patterns too obscure for us to observe?”
You’re slurring more than I have ever heard
and I’m falling fast and hard for every word
Then you stop dead in your tracks
Every plan you’ve made is suddenly taken back, explaining,
“One day we will die
and only ghosts will be our friends”
I said, “The city’s our song,
let’s make this a night we’ll never forget.”
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4. |
Ghosts
04:30
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We sit in silence,
watch the wind blow,
listen to our fellow strangers
talk about the lives they’ve lived and
whether they were all worth living
Still, I stare
at the people shivering there
in their summer clothes
Where they go when this is over,
no one knows
Death is not a stranger
every life will have an end
One day you will die
and only ghosts will be your friend
Cars are passing, people are rushing on by
They’ve got places to go and things to do tonight
They’re too busy to sit around and think about life
If they’re not worrying, why am I?
Death is not a stranger
every life will have an end
One day you will die
and only ghosts will be your friend
(We sit in silence,
watch the wind blow,
listen to our fellow strangers
talk about the lives they’ve lived and
whether they were all worth living)
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5. |
That's Okay
05:15
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Don’t you think it’s funny how the tables turn?
Retch in the passenger seat,
you live and you learn
Last year, I must’ve spent hundreds of miles
sitting where you are now
Don’t you think it’s funny how
I’m the one driving you around now?
Don’t you think it’s funny how the city’s changed?
The way the light hits your face has been rearranged
Last year, I felt as if I could count all the street lights
on both my hands
Don’t you think it’s funny how
things never quite go as planned?
I turn my head to discover you’ve fallen asleep
Though drenched with sweat,
you look peaceful and happy
I could have sworn you’d changed
But if not, darling, that’s okay
The city’s always tearing itself down
but you have always held solid ground
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6. |
Keep Going
03:28
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Heard you on the phone last night
You were screaming
Later choking up some bile
by the toilet, kneeling
You didn’t tell me what was wrong
I didn’t bother asking
Now all I see in my head
are the red lights flashing
Your mother called you up last night
She was screaming
as if you meant to break her heart,
as if you owed her something
You said, “She don’t sound that fucked up
when she’s only been drinking”
Then you retreated back to bed
calmly thinking,
“Don’t keep going if it hurts you
Don’t keep trying to do things you cannot do
She’ll exercise the blame
You know she’ll never change
You know that it’s no use
Don’t keep going if it hurts you”
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7. |
Burden
04:05
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I’m the zit on your back
that you can’t reach
in the shower in the morning
when you’re half asleep
The pouring water that you’re wavering through
I’m a burden to you
I’m the crack in the door
through which the sound escapes
when you’re trying to be quiet
after you come home late
The narrow hallway you’re stumbling through
I’m a burden to you
My ears can’t bare the noise
Retching in the toilet black
Whiskey is your drink of choice
Oh my god, wish I could take it back
You allude it’s not a problem
if you know the phrase
to describe what’s allowing the choices you make
Can’t you see what you’re putting the person
who loves you through?
I’m a burden to you
A bottle hits the wall
Another trauma I’ll have to unpack
Your friends all warned me, I recall
Oh my god, wish I could take it back
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8. |
Misled
04:27
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I can’t feel safe around you,
not when you’re like this
Foaming at the mouth,
hands balled into fists
When I was young,
my mother’s lover acted the same exact way
But I won’t let that be you,
at least not today
But it’s hard to see the good in you
after hearing what others have said
Now all I want is the truth,
but you’re frightening me instead
You say, “I think you’ve been misled”
Shards of glass strewn around us
is all that I see
Another day in the life of you and me
When you were young,
your father would sing to you
each and every night
How did you get like this?
Is it all out of spite?
‘Cause it’s hard to see the good in you
after hearing what others have said
Now all I want is the truth,
but you’re frightening me instead
You say, “I think you’ve been misled”
Now you’re crying ‘cause it all just hurts so bad
You say, “Baby, please don’t leave me,
you’re the best I’ve ever had
You’re the only one I’ve loved
and I can’t imagine life without you
Why can’t we just go to bed
and forget about this like we’re supposed to?”
But it’s hard to see the good in you
after hearing what others have said
Now all I want is the truth,
but you’re frightening me instead
Looks like I’ve been misled
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9. |
Best Laid Plans II
03:15
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“The best laid plans of mice and men,”
is always what your mother said
“Don’t even think about it
You’re better off dead”
“The love you take is equal to…”
Your father always sang to you
I hope that he meant it,
but I don’t think he had a clue
That one day, we’d be sitting in this hallway,
shards of glass anchored between our feet
Our heads in our hands, our bodies trembling
The both of us aching for sleep
But months ago, I promised you
I would never dare to
let us go to bed angry
Can you feel the resentment building?
So now that we’re sitting in this hallway,
shards of glass anchored between our feet
Our heads in our hands, our bodies trembling
The both of us accepting our defeat
I said, “Let’s just talk about it in the morning,”
and hope you’ll ignore the aggressive way I speak
“Tomorrow, we’ll be much clearer headed
For now, let’s just go to sleep”
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10. |
Sagittarius
03:41
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I wish I could ignore all the bad parts of you
I wish I could love you the way I want to
Kiss until our misshapen lungs collapse
so we don’t have to think of the things we lack
You don’t believe in astrology
but you fit your sign to a T
I long for stability
but I know you can’t give that to me
“Sometimes you can get everything that you want
and still not be happy”
Take your miscommunications
Display them proudly on a shelf
I’d say I would’ve given you the world
but I don’t think that highly of myself
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11. |
Halt
03:31
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Halt
Don’t come any closer
I know I’m walking towards you,
just promise me that you will run away
Halt
My heart is beating faster
Whenever I’m around you,
I feel my insides putrefy and decay
Halt
I said last time was the last time
I would ever call you
but I need you to hear what I have to say
Why is it that the people who hurt us
are the ones we need the most?
The more love I give,
the more I end up feeling like a ghost
Somebody else won’t make me feel at ease
I had to love myself before you could love me
Please, darling, just speak slow
What are you thinking about?
I’m dying to know
I’m still wondering if I’m the one to blame
Seasons change, people stay the same
Why is it that the people who hurt us
are the ones we need the most?
The more love I give,
the more I end up feeling like a ghost
Somebody else won’t make me feel at ease
I had to love myself before you could love me
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Harmony Woods Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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