1. |
Much (Demo)
01:34
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Please, understand
I'd still be with you if I were given the chance to start over,
and rest assured tomorrow
this will all be meaningless.
At the age of 16 this is way too much.
You said you'd drink away your sorrows.
Babe, don't use that crutch
all cause of me.
And as days grow short I'll feel
you abandon the cabin we made,
our bodies too sore
to understand intentions.
But overnight feelings change.
We never delved into something of the magnitude before.
We've got so much potential energy in store.
What if we convert it into something that would mean a little more?
Or maybe that's exactly what I'm scared for.
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2. |
Roswell, NY (Demo)
03:35
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I'm on a need to know basis,
need some friends, some familiar faces,
but autumn scares me away, it scares me away.
Tables turned now,
jk.
Don't know what it's doing or if it's here to stay.
Autumn's drifting away, it's drifting away.
Scientists know more than they say.
There is life on other planets, they're just keeping us away,
quarantining our thoughts, and stunting our minds.
There's more to be known, but they keep it confined.
And I know you hide things behind your concrete walls.
You say I'm digging too deep.
Well, I don't think so.
You're lying through your teeth.
Well, that's quite bold.
You say my thoughts have consumed me,
as if I don't know.
Your lies, your eyes
cut me open.
Scars to fill the space you make
every time you open up your mouth.
I won't hear you
when you try to
make me forget the way you played that game.
Don't you dare blame this on me.
Government's another clever shame.
Deaths of Kennedy and Lincoln were all part of the plan.
(Your words won't trick me again.)
So, you think you're fucking clever?
Spinning webs, bet you can't keep it up forever.
I know your game, I'll play it better.
(Quarantining our thoughts and stunting our minds.
There's more to be known, but they keep it confined.)
I'm on a need to know basis,
need some friends, some familiar faces,
but autumn scares me away, it scares me away.
Tables turned now,
jk.
Don't know what it's doing and if it's here to stay.
Autumn's drifting away, it's drifting away.
Scientists know more than they say.
There is life on other planets, they're just keeping us away.
And I know you hide things behind your concrete walls.
You say I'm digging too deep.
Well, I don't think so.
You're lying through your teeth.
Well, that's quite bold.
You say my thoughts have consumed me,
as if I don't know.
Your lies, your eyes
cut me open.
Scars to fill the space you make
every time you open up your mouth.
I won't hear you
when you try to
make me forget the way you played that game.
Don't you dare blame this on me.
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3. |
Night I (Demo)
03:00
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Nighttime on the lawn.
Trapped beneath a rock, but you caught me
and didn't let me go
till the day after tomorrow.
The first time that somebody didn't leave me alone.
And when you kissed me I could feel your warmth rolling down my cheek.
You said you loved me without telling me so.
I'm not going home.
Maybe if I play a little louder and you just don't let go.
I've got these three songs and your arms around me
and somehow you know all these things about me
but I still make you happy.
You told me so.
I still remember you.
They told me to go.
I still remember you.
I still remember you.
I still remember you.
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4. |
Arson (Demo)
05:26
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July fires grew dim
while you changed the locks on my home.
Now you won't let me in.
And I refused to turn away
as I watched the flames borne from within
slowly burn you away.
You left me with no place else to hide.
The tunnel we built started to crack
and bury me alive.
Please don't stand so close.
You've been watching me die day by day,
I'm done pretending that it's not your fault.
Another numb night in New Hamburg
wishing I had stuck through till the fall.
It's times like this I get the feeling
there's really nothing to get at all.
And you,
you say it's me.
And I
am shaking on the floor.
And I
wish I knew what I felt so sorry for.
July fires burn low.
It gets hard to live in a house
when there's nobody home.
And I stared you right in the eyes
as I dropped the match at my feet,
my own gentle suicide.
I hid between windows. You faded away.
It's a challenge to live in a tunnel when the world's up in flames.
And no, I can't just leave.
I've been watching you die day by day
while the exact same is happening to me.
Another numb night on my cloud
wishing I had stuck through till the fall.
It's times like this I get the feeling
of wanting to feel nothing at all.
And me,
I say it's you.
And you
are what I wish I was living for.
And you,
you were all I wanted, nothing more.
Another numb night in New Hamburg // Another numb night on my cloud
wishing I had stuck through till the fall.
It's times like this I get the feeling
there's really nothing to get at all. // of wanting to feel nothing at all.
And you, // And me,
you say it's me. // I say it's you.
And I // And you
am shaking on the floor. // are what I wish I was living for.
And I // And you,
wish I knew what I felt so sorry for. // you were all I wanted, nothing more.
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Head down, arms crossed,
disapproval finds me.
Cold stone, make a bed of yours bones.
Harsh December strikes me.
And you
try to make a cabin from our bodies.
And you
fall through once again.
Snow falls, March rain
clung to our temptations.
Distrust runs through our veins,
dispend our relations.
And I try to take it day by day, just like you said,
but I can barely take myself
once you're gone
Winter hushes moans and you grow weaker,
feverishly tending to your wounds.
I know it's all in vain.
And I feel as though that drunken night was yesterday,
but I can barely feel myself.
(Numb our senses,
I once knew you.)
(And distance, this petty little ship we call distance.
If only things would turn out okay.)
(I cannot bear it.
We should have ended this earlier
or before it began.)
And you said that this would make us stronger.
And you said distance makes the heart grow fonder.
And you burned down our house in the summer and froze.
Once you're gone
(And distance, this petty little ship we call distance.
If only things would turn out okay.)
(I cannot bear it.
We should have ended this earlier
or before it began.)
(Numb our senses,
I once knew you.)
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6. |
Here (Demo)
00:39
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I spent the summer
writing songs about the way my year went
in the hopes I won't forget.
You spent the summer sorting stacks
the way I did last March.
It's a while before you're gone.
And I'd still remember you,
even if I didn't want to.
I wrote some songs about a place I used to live,
but this new town's starting to feel like home.
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