1. |
Backwards
02:31
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The last thing I remember
Is a chill in the room
A fire without embers
A symptomless swoon
Dumbstruck on the daily
I was visibly wrecked
Well over my pay grade
Far out of my depth
But it felt good
It felt good to not
It felt good to not be going backwards
It felt good
It felt good to not
It felt good to not be going backwards
The idiots argue in alleys alone
Hung up on the dog days
For reasons unknown
I was restricted and I was re-zoned
Then I got evicted
I had to move on
But it felt good
It felt good to not
It felt good to not be going backwards
It felt good
It felt good to not
It felt good to not be going backwards
It felt good
It felt good to not
It felt good to not be
Everyone talks the same
I had to walk away
But it felt good to not be going backwards
For a moment.
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2. |
Fell Off
02:05
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Watching everyone fall off
I see them all fall off like it’s nothing at all
In a snowglobe of deactivated beauty
Unaware its time has passed
You saw me walking on the ice? Yeah?
You must have had your faces flipped
Watching everyone fall off
I see them all fall off and it’s nothing at all
Misery collects like cobwebs on the ceiling
Like smudges on the glass
There’s no reason on this street.
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3. |
Localism Hours
01:46
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If you come back someday
Like you always said you would
Would it still be any good
When you see how things have changed?
Do you recognize your old block?
Are you sure this was your front porch?
Have you read the new reports?
Have you met the delegates?
Are you waiting for a mention,
Waiting for the light to change?
There’s no intersection
Nothing holds a charge today
Waiting for ascension
Waiting for a tension break
As if you’ll come back someday
As if you don’t already know
Your era ended long ago
Things will never be the same.
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4. |
Ruiner
02:28
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Saw you and you’re feeling happy
Said you’re finally less depressed
You couldn’t tell me why, exactly
But you’ll take what you can get
Things are even kind of quiet now
You’re usually so intense
It’s really good to see you smiling
But behind it, I can tell you’re not convinced
Like it’s only just a matter of time
Before it all comes crashing down on you
Only an elaborate lie
Designed to trick you into feeling new
Nothing ever wants to stay
In a good place for very long
You’ve never found a way to name it
There’s just always something wrong
Actually, you get so restless
If things aren’t falling apart
You’re only ever at your best
If a disaster you’re enacting
Is about to start
Then it’s only just a matter of time
Before you ruin what’s in front of you
Only just a matter of time
Before you ruin it like you always do
It’s only just a matter of time
Before you loosen the adjoining screws
Only just a matter of time
Before it all comes crashing down on you.
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5. |
Quiet Cab
03:38
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Cruel eyes
There’s nothing left to leave behind
The circle is closing, surrender
You’ll never make it home tonight
Sitting in the quiet cab
You want a resolution
Blinded by delusions
I don’t want to fight
Your transit never changed
It stayed the same
Dark sky
It gathers around you
Keep circling the grave
You don’t speak unless you’re spoken to
Sitting in
Quiet cab
You want a resolution
Blind by your illusions
You answer the phone
Your number never changed
It stays the same.
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6. |
Everywhere in the Museum
02:27
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I let the ceiling fade into the blank white walls
‘Til I can see your face in everything
There’s only one reason anyone is ever called
But nothing’s gonna happen anyway
Nothing’s gonna happen anyway
Seven cups of coffee
Ninety-nine degrees
Everything I say is so embarrassing
And we have to pretend that we don’t see
That nothing’s gonna happen anyway
But I still see your face in everything
I can see your face in everything
I can see your face.
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7. |
Die At Night
02:47
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Take a look around you
And tell me what it is you see
Shouts and loud opinions from leeches
Dying to make you bleed.
Pay no mind
To voices of those that you don’t like
Save your time
For friends you love that make you feel alright
Who are they to question your word
When they’ve got nothing to say?
Stay away.
Keep your light bright and watch the leeches die at night
Open up your mind to find
A broken box still holding all your dreams
Take them out and realize
Within yourself is everything you need
Yeah
Pay no mind
To voices of those that you don’t like
Save your time
For friends you love who make you feel alright
Yeah
Who are they to question your word
When they’ve got nothing to say?
Stay away.
Keep your light bright and watch those leeches die at night.
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8. |
Halo Undefined
03:04
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Settle on
What never was
On what you left behind
Once you see it
There’s no looking back
You take what you can find
Southern Cross
Hanging above
A halo undefined
They don’t belong to us
And we’re not like them
The thorn that meets the eye
You don’t need to define it
It wraps itself around you
In your deepest, dreamless sleep
You look but you’ll never find it
It’s a neverending circle
Fantastic, dreamless, daze
You fear surviving
Some empty room
with words, you never spoke
The meanings empty
Like in a dream
It hurts to know the truth
And in your quiet moments
It wraps itself around you
In your deepest, darkest, dreams.
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9. |
Overlook
01:34
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There’s another way
That we can distort ourselves
A different kind of shame
A fragment of the things we felt
There was a part of you
That always knew what to do
I saw you on a plane
Coming back from ATL
Before you had a name
When everyone was someone else
There was a part of me
That could foresee the worst of this
There was a part of me
Ready for a reckoning
It’s easy to say you knew
Easy to say you felt it afterwards.
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10. |
Luck Be Damned
02:36
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One choice you know
One you can’t be sure of
It might be better, though
The night’s moving slow
Feel like I’m gonna watch you
Let the whole thing go
It’s uncomfortable
You think about the one you lost
So long ago
And how the time moves on
Without everyone
Without everyone
It can’t take everyone
You still see through
The vantage of naive feelings
Unregretting wisdom
Does someone see you
Like you’re the only person
That ever existed
Like there’s no one else in the room?
One choice you know
One you can’t be sure of
It might be better, though
It’s all moving slow
Feel like I’m gonna watch you
Let the whole thing go.
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