1. |
GUARD RAIL
04:01
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Driving down the freeway following the line
Just a couple of hours before sunrise
$80 ain’t enough to make it right
when i was counting on you
I never counted everything that I couldn’t do
I am focused like reflective dotted marks
Merging into one big highlight in the dark
Floating over every break in the ground
Let the cold air through, windows cracked so i never slip away into you
Tires burn my nose so I wake up
Take-out packages stain the floor
Watching cigarettes blow away
I can’t tell whether or not I’m in the car
You can’t see all my loving
You can’t see
You can’t see all my loving
You can’t see
I heard a story tonight about oregon
On the news while i was heading to a job
They’re recalling all the guardrails on the road
Because they’ll slice you in two
How come nothing ever stops when you want it to
I want see it fall if I wake up
Stand on a treetop and watch it go
Car doors outspread like a dove
Engine burns into a halo
You can’t see all my loving
You can’t see
You can’t see all my loving
You can’t see
You can’t see
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2. |
YEAR AND THIRTEEN DAYS
02:46
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I can't help if i'm the first to fall in love
and i can't help if I'm the last to know your name
I can't stop myself from wondering how you'd taste
I can't stop myself from picking through the words in your book
You think it's a game?
You killed me with a single good look
It hurts to know where you're goin'
Seconds crawl, you're far too quiet
So respond cause I'm tired of waiting for you
I'm fucked up cause I can never let you go, girl
You fucked up when you shut and locked the door, girl
You might be gone
I might be caught
But when the year and 13 weeks is through
I’ll be waiting for you
It hurts to know where you're goin'
Seconds crawl, you're far too quiet
So respond cause I'm tired of waiting for you
It hurts to know that you're not watching
Chemicals could break the silence
So come on cause I'm wired and waiting for you
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NEW CAVES
04:34
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This is the glass in your life that I can’t fill
Stepped on crack a few times, that won’t ever seal
So let it break
Dont try to catch everything dropped on you
How much water will it take
To saturate everything tangled in these parched black roots?
Talking the same way so carefully
Clenching a fist underneath the sleeve, stop these words from
Falling through the air in front of me
Walk the same speed just for one more day
I can’t separate the new from what i’ve never known
I’ll run away until
Dark footprints trace around the earth back to my love
Find us new caves to explore
Can’t keep this pace without you without you
One day we’ll wake up and be free
Unbreakable coils around our feet
(Can it wait?)
Counting hours from the winter to the summer
( Can we make it out?)
Whittle down every tree that blocks the light
Closing every window so we'll never how to worry while we're here
I'll run away until
Dark footprints trace around the earth back to my love
Find us new caves to explore
Can’t keep this pace without you without you
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RED WIRE
02:53
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Hey, i feel like myself
But i know i'm older
Take care not to wilt
Fall to the concrete and
Break this unnatural doubt
Like a lump in my lung could
Build and snuff it all out
I'll still be counting the days
Take the blade
Soft from the fire of
Back pain
Cut the red wire
To college days
Hey, what the fuck do i know
I might be jaded
Cut the sentiment out
And lie to myself til i
Taste the blood in my mouth
Sweeter than water
Fade, and swallow it down
I might be wasting away
Take the blade
Soft from the fire of
Back pain
Cut the red wire
To college days
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GOLD CLOTHES
03:38
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When you’re grown
I don’t expect you’ll be
Still running away
To new cities
In those gold
Spray painted go out clothes
With tiny fractures
Cutting through your arms and knees
Shed some light
Through this morning fog
One more time
I know you think I’m drowning out a song we should remember
And ever beat I’m stepping through is everything you’ll ever need
Broke
Fresh cracks in your steel frame
Survive down every exploded street
And I know that you won’t get too comfortable
Til you feel like death is tapping on your starry screen
Shed some light
Through this morning fog
One more time
I know you think I’m drowning out a song we should remember
And ever beat I’m stepping through is everything you’ll ask me
Kill the light
Let this morning fall
One more time
I know you think I’m counting down with only simple numbers
And everything I calculate can only ever add to you
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HALF THE CIRCLE
04:32
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He saves time drawing half the circle
Makes lines
Reflects the side
He pastes that onto a blank concrete wall
And hits multiply
He makes peace with parts from multiple views
Checks the size
And hits align
Picks out the perfect font we should use
Every time
It's a problem I find they pass it
Back and Forth
Hurry up and Wait
It's a process of
Elimination
And I know
She watches out for noise
That can bleed into hair
And this kid
Will never disappear
Under the lights
It's a problem I find
They pass it
Back and Forth
Hurry up and Wait
It's a process of
Elimination
Give us something we've never seen before
Something like that thing you did before
An orphan child of indeterminate race
Makes friends with a quirky family of raccoons
And inadvertently saves the environment
There's just one thing I would change
Can you make the animal an animal we'd save?
Back and Forth
Hurry up and Wait
It's a process of
Elimination
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7. |
BEACHED
04:57
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The sun goes down
I’m waking up
The tide is low so we can walk where we used to swim
The moon is out, but your like a beached sea star
Crack every time that we move
Wait
Wait
Don’t
Break
Break oh oh
Don't hide your eyes so soon
We dip our toes
Into the inch of life below
This shallow place
Shrinks away
And I don't know
How long those silver fish can go
Left behind
Flopping from side to side
Wait
Wait
Don’t
Break
Break oh oh
Dont hide your eyes so soon
It’s like a life without sun
I’m sure that we would only get colder
It’s like that time you hung up
I keep repeating it over and over again
I cut the circuits all around
Shut all the correspondence down only you can
Sync all the images with sound
And burn the edit to the ground only you can
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