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PLAY
00:58
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If a picture is worth a thousand
Then I wanna shoot you an entire album
Just a few songs, just a few rhymes
Just a few ways I can let you into my mind
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Ice Pick
03:42
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Sometimes at night I find myself staring out the window like I've lost my
My head stays in bed every morning when I wake up & I feel
Dead
So I stay in bed
Late nights on the freeway forge a feeling much like flying
It's moments when we feel the most alive we lose our fear of dying
Busting brakes I never thought I'd see the end of summer
And so it took me by surprise and now
Just in case I ever thaw out from this endless bummer
I'll learn to look through my demise somehow
Cause I am six feet underwater, frozen in a block of ice
Don't know how I got here but I've been down here for most my life
So now I'm picking my way out with everything I have inside
Salt water on my face when I break through would feel so nice
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Seeds & Stems
02:00
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Been working on these
Calloused hands
And being less of a
Callous man
Been reassessing everything I am
In hopes that I'm inventing someone I can stand
I'm looking harder now
For the pieces of myself that I lost somehow
And trying, more and more,
To learn all the things that I should have known before
I told myself I met you at a strange time in my life
But I'm beginning to think that my whole life will be strange
To rearrange myself is all I've ever tried to do, to be through
With losing pieces of me in anything that ceases to be new
I left your heart to rot
In a place that I forget
When all you ever did
Was water the garden that grows between my ribs
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Window Shopping
04:46
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I'm in love most when I'm in pain
Tell the doctors that this feels unique
Walk through puddles after rain
Window shopping : french boutique
One cliché after another
In one ear & out the other
Why can't we go back to summer?
I don't think I'm thinking right
'Cause I'm always worried I might die
Talk me down & stay the night
Stay in bed, the day just passes by
I know that now & then
Things just won't go my way
Woke up alone again
After you said you'd stay
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Home
02:16
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Going home to the place I feel the most alone
Up in my room, in the bed I used to live in with you
Do you remember how we'd walk home through the snow?
We stayed in 'cause you always had to go home so soon
I wonder if you miss it like I do:
Not like a night you can't remember
Or a dream that you'll forget,
It leaves a hole inside your chest as though it
Somehow were beset by truth;
State of being: being with you
The snow falls so slow
When you turn around there's no one there to hold
Summer's never soon
It's an endless bummer alone inside my room
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6. |
Different Times
03:45
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Who was I last December? I wish I could remember
What you said when you picked up the phone
No, I don't really love her, but her lips taste like liquor
And everything feels worse when I'm alone
I feel the moment slipping, I hear the pages ripping
Starting over is inconceivable
Some trees we just could not climb, maybe in a different time
These feelings will be imitable
Magnify my emotions
Blow it all out of proportion
Yes, it's nice that you're observant
But the silence is unnerving
I get the strangest feeling that everybody is dreaming
But when I close my eyes there's nothing more
It shouldn't sound so crazy, in garden blooms of daisy
Bones will bruise from pounding at the door
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7. |
London
03:50
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Boys in foreign countries get to buy you drinks
I'll drink myself stupid just so I can think about
All the promises we made when we were seventeen
We stayed in your bedroom, it was quiet,
Except for when the music played
In my head
I'm in your bed
And you're naked
And I'm faded
The hardest thing that I'll ever do is watch the seasons change
Winter reminds me of you, but this time it feels strange because
I'll sit and think as I drink alone
How my lips are numb & my hands are cold
Blame the weather, blame the silence
Because the music hasn't played
In my head
I'm in your head
And I'm naked
And you're faded
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Stitches
02:27
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Like a needlepoint's backside
A mess of hanging twine
Oh, I'm in stitches
Did you not get the punchline?
The common thread
The one that keeps me hanging on
The one loose end
I wake up everyday hoping to fall for someone new
'Cause everyday it hurts to still be loving you
Like I'm sleeping on couches
And waking on the floor
Oh, I need stitches
Do you hear them at the door?
Incessant knocking
So I shut my eyes and listen
The key unlocking
So I'm picking up the phone & now I'm trying to get through
To tell you all the ways that I'm still loving you
Patching up the present
Remembering the past
Sowing you a promise
To build something that lasts
Tearing out the sutures
Letting all the pain
So maybe in the future
We could love the same
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9. |
Today's Kids
02:57
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The palette of autumn at the start of its calendar
Paints a picture so vibrant as I sit and reread Salinger
There's a stain on the cover & a tear down the spine
And as I lay there I wonder if I've fallen down out of the rye
Excuse me for speaking but I must be excused
From this pool, I am sinking, I'm drowning & being used
Don’t try to tell me what I like or what I might not
Or what you think I should spend all of the money that I don't have on
Lost in a nostalgic haze of sentimental thinking
Trapped in this electric maze of detrimental linking
A machine of phony people whose thoughts all approach homogeneous
You won't find an essence if you all exist anonymously
Well I thought I'd tell you what real people like
It's opening doors, not knowing what's inside
It's long conversations, stretched through the night
It's songs & the ways they make you feel alright
It's the creeping quiet of the morning light
It's saying "I made this" & being unequivocally right
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10. |
Alright
02:39
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Just come inside, standing out in the snow 'til my feet ache
Sit by the window watching amber smoke under the streetlight
I said "I love you" but you already knew that was a mistake
If you forget me, I hope you remember what we felt like
When things were alright
I'm drinking whiskey & she's having a smoke, it's every weekend
She said it's funny when I talk in my sleep, she likes to listen
Apologize for the behavior I can't defend
So wake me up 'cause I feel her slipping through my fingers,
The feeling lingers
Now nothing's alright
Now something's alright
Everything's alright
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11. |
Different Reasons
02:35
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In the midday heat
The sun illuminates the wire grid of the screen
Across the window in my bedroom reminiscent of the
Waves of the sea
The way they peak
The way they travel underneath
In endless parallel horizons
And maybe looking closer helps you see farther away
The lives we'll live tomorrow are the lives we live today
So hold fast to living slowly, hold fast and have no fears
And remember every day when this was just another year
I want to get all my friends together
Tell them all how I'll love them all forever
At different times, for different reasons
But all so fiercely in their season
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12. |
STOP
01:32
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Since a picture's worth a thousand
I went & shot you an entire album
Stagnant moments, now in motion
I'm just trying to stop my mind's erosion
Press record and see what happens
Flip the tape & then fill the label's caption
Store the old ones for another time
I just hope you'll remember to hit rewind
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Floor Hockey Boston, Massachusetts
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juvanescent dreamrock
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