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I’ve been sleeping
I’ve been sleeping
I’ve been sleeping with the radio on
cos i’ve been dreaming
I’ve been dreaming
I’ve been dreaming bout terrible things
and I won’t hang around
and I’ll try not to be down
But I’ve been walking
I’ve been walking
I’ve been walking round the neighbourhood
and I haven’t seen
I haven’t seen
no, I haven’t seen you around
and I know I ought to let it go
and I know I ought to go home
but I’m not sleeping
I’m not sleeping
I’m not sleeping at all tonight
cos I’ve been thinking
I’ve been thinking
I’ve been thinking bout terrible things
and I wish you’d see me now
and I hope you drown
It's so cold this close to the sun
sometimes I'd rather be alone
And I’ve been dreaming
I’ve been dreaming
I’ve been dreaming bout burning it down
and if I ever see you around
I’d hope I'd let you down
and I wish that I could breathe
long enough to scream
It’s so cold this close to the sun
sometimes I'd rather be alone
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Flight Risk
03:29
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I blocked you on Instagram
you unfollowed me on Goodreads
you keep turning your lights off when I come near
we know each other’s passwords
but I don’t go to the cafe that you used to go to
anymore
you haven’t changed your password
I haven’t changed my pin
you could rob me if you wanted to rob me
I’m not saying that I miss you
but who could have guessed
that we would be so unkind
you and me, some day
I’m not saying that I miss you
but if I was on a plane
and the plane was going down
and I only had a minute to text someone
well.............
I took your CDs to the op shop last week
I still have the Spotify playlists, though
and who could have guessed
that we would be so unkind
you and me, one day
I’m not saying I still think of you
but if I was on a plane
and the plane was going down
and I only had a minute to text someone
well.............
I'm not saying that I would think of you
I'm not saying that I would think of you
I'm not saying that I would think of you because I wouldn't because I wouldn't even be thinking about you if I was on a plane and the place was going down real fast and if I looked out the window and all I could see was smoke I wouldn't even be thinking of you I wouldn't even be thinking of you so I wouldn't even be thinking about texting you if I wasn't thinking about in the first place to begin with
I'm just saying
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
01:54
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I went to the movies but they kicked me out for spoiling the ending
I went to the opera but they kicked me out for singing
I have so much love and nowhere to put it
I’ve been leaving it in unforgiving places instead
Mount Kilimanjaro is full of bones
and pretty soon they’re gonna see the light of the day
until then I’ll try to stay alive
and be nice
and be proud
and be a better friend
I’ll give up my dead
button up your coat
it’s gonna be a cold one
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The day I called it quits
I was manic at the sex shop
and spent all my money
on things that reminded me of you
It was nice for a while
to be a shadow of myself
I found comfort in not crying
when I ought to have done
I was waking up hungover
I was stone cold sober
I didn’t miss any of your shit
I was a real tough bitch
I put on a sun-bleached shirt of yours
that looked better inside-out
just to feel something
I was waking up hungover
I was stone cold sober
I don’t miss any of your shit
I am a real tough bitch
but at the end of the day
when the concrete is still warm
I put on an old shirt of yours
just to feel the chill
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Bones
02:53
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oh, you taste like bones
oh, you taste like bones
dug up from the yard
we hadn’t thought about since January
where our clothes hung sun-bleached
and days turned to evening
and the dust made us sneeze darkly
searching for cover in the shadows of one another
and oh, the smell of bones
rouses me sickly in the morning
like milk for a moth you embrace me
and oh, you taste like bones
oh, you taste like bones
if it’s good enough for the dogs
it’s good enough for me
if it’s good enough for the dogs
it’s good enough for me
if it's good enough for the dogs
it's good enough for me
oh, I'm so hungry
oh, I'm so hungry
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You Used to Live in Me
02:39
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I’d said I’d let you make a woman of me yet
and nearly I did
And I could carve a fine resting place
from the shadows in your face
if you’d let me near
and could you find me here?
would you dive in after me
if you saw me gaping like a wound?
cos you know I will go on dripping blood and foam
over across the roads
til I fall down at your door
cos I don’t wanna die alone
I don't wanna die alone
in the backstreets
without knowing how close I’d come
I don't wanna die alone
all alone, all alone
I have to know
are you here with me?
are you here with me?
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I'll be fine in the left lane where you left me
and I'll be fine when I remember the way back home again
the way back home from here
I'll be fine in the left lane where you left me
and I'll be fine when I remember the way home, home from here
The view from here isn't much
The view from here isn't much
but it'll have to do
it'll have to do
Riverkind
riverkind
riverkind
riverkind
riverkind
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8. |
Bad Faith
05:10
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So I’m here again
it’s no coincidence
are you here on your own?
I’m not gonna stay
and I didn’t meant to say what I said
I’ll leave the key on the doorstep
and walk away
I walked away and I cried
I cried the whole way
Home
oh, home has changed places again
changed faces again but I’m still the same
I just don’t fit anymore
I’m so much bigger than I ever was before
So I'm here again
what a coincidence
I’m in my corner and you’re in yours
And I’m looking like I’m not looking
But I’m looking, baby
I’m looking at you and yours
Good luck with your loneliness
I’ll be right here on my own
and I’ll be happy on my own
I’m on my own
I’ve been sitting on my phone
for too damn long
giving myself panic attacks
from breathing too hard
Sleeping makes me dizzy
staying up makes me sad
try to wake up in the morning
got the blues so bad
Getting closure for my bitterness
still don’t make me sweet
but I’ve given up on vengeance
put my anger in the back seat
I’m telling you it’s a rollercoaster
micro-dosing trauma
it’s a trauma just to miss you
when I just wanna forget
and I’ve been asthmatic
need to give my lungs a rest
worried about talking too much
with my own damn therapist
I get nervous every morning
can't shake the feeling
that it was bound to happen
now it’s just me and all the healing I’ve done
I used to tell you that I loved you
all the time
and you used to smile
but it never reached your eyes
These days
you smile all the time
but it never reaches
your eyes
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9. |
Jar
03:04
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All the good songs have already been sung
and the good poems already written
and all the good paintings that haven't been painted yet
will be painted by someone else
There's nothing left to say
but I still can't be quiet
god gave me the will to sing
just not the voice for it
and god gave me a life
just not the will to live it
and I'm so restless
and I'm so tired
I have nothing left to say
but I still can't be quiet
I'm terrible at endings
maybe I'll think of one tomorrow
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