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Enough
02:58
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Tires pumping to your place
and I feel my heart will break
just to see this moment pass,
become something else.
Some memory that fades with the rest.
I can’t bear to love you this much
when there’s no way not to fuck it up,
there’s no way to thank you enough.
What if I don’t wanna go anymore?
Haven’t I done enough to just grow old with you
instead of getting up and leaving to come home to you,
if you’re still there?
Pulling tarot, hanging on
to the signs I can find
to not be so scared of a good thing,
of the future, of our lives all intertwining.
But what if I don’t wanna grow anymore?
Haven’t I done enough to just grow old with you
instead of getting up and leaving to come home to you
if you’re still there?
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New Growth
04:07
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Nothing is simple right now. I feel so small, I feel so small.
Not looking for protection when I find my back against the wall.
What’s love without possession? What’s love without a breaking point?
Looking around and I found structure come from friction and inversion.
Tetrissing universe of faith and water channels and bad timing.
There was no promise made or held out into the empty spaces that lay about me.
Cuz then there’s the fire, and then there’s the new growth, and the water it requires.
And if I’m on my knees, will you get what you want?
And if you get what you want, will I get what I want?
And if I say please, and say thank you a lot, will it grow and invert into all I want?
What’s love without possession? What’s love without a breaking point?
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Honey
03:01
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Wheel of fortune spinning ‘round,
I'm not ready to win more than I’ve got.
I try to give it away, but it’s sticking to me –
this love and this lot.
I try to melt away,
but I’m sticking to me with each sickening thought.
I sink down and pray,
but it only feeds me, glutton for all.
If I give myself away, will I be free to complain?
Will I be free to feel all of my shame,
and the warmth of the sun on my face?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
And the warmth of the love I forsake?
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4. |
Like This
02:18
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Restless night, kick the covers off.
I'm alive, and I watch you breathe in,
and I watch you sleep within the hallow light.
And I want to go home, and I want to rip my mind out.
I’ve never known the stakes of my limits before to seem this tall.
And there’s nowhere to go but turn my face back to the wall.
I’d just never been loved like this before.
And you wake up, and we keep going on,
somehow alive to the pain of moving on.
From what I see in myself, there’s no turning back.
I’d never been loved like this before.
I’d never been loved like this before.
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Good Company
02:20
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If you’re gonna leave me,
I wish you’d do it already.
I can’t stand this loss of good company.
If you’re gonna see me
and then go see somebody,
Im not stupid, I know what I can never be.
Yeah sure, I’m sitting pretty
when you’re there next to me,
except I go crazy a couple times a week.
But don’t you worry baby,
I’m as good as I’d ever be,
and I can handle your finding better company.
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6. |
Interstate
02:55
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If I was good, would you stick around?
Would you set your hackles down?
Blazing through the interstate,
Feel your hand on my face,
headlights bleeding out.
I want to be the flock before dawn.
The small bird muscles on, commonly.
I want to scream, and let it all out,
be the storm that wrecks the cloud, unfaltering.
Half-myself on the interstate,
the rain hits the wiper blades relentlessly
If I was good, would I swallow my pride?
Take you in the slanting light…
I want to be the best thing you’ve found,
the penny on the ground, sparkling.
I wanna scream, want not make a sound.
Be the sky, the earth, the crowning sun from behind me.
Warming us commonly.
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Running
02:37
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Well I never thought I’d make it this far,
count my blessings one by one.
And I never thought I'd be where you are,
but I’m here and I’m running.
Find the staircase, and find the sun,
hear my heartbeat thumping.
And I can see just as far as your arms,
so I’m running.
Time got slow, it spread out all along
every inch of my body.
And it had moved so fast just moments before,
working hard on becoming somebody.
Well I never thought I’d make it this far,
count my blessings one by one.
And I can’t say that I know where we are,
but I know I'm here in your arms.
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Second Sight
02:44
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If I saw me the way you do,
would I see that I'm someone?
Would I see it like I see the sun?
If it hurts your eyes, look away.
Sometimes it’s easy like that,
finding pain’s just bad.
I don’t want you to be lonely anymore,
so I gotta look right at what I don't wanna look at.
Then I gotta look right at what I don't wanna look at.
If I saw the world the way you do,
could I learn to be more fun?
Move lightly in the wind, in the sun?
Or would I find a way to stay stuck through and through,
even with a second sight, keep hold too tight.
I don’t want to be lonely anymore,
so I gotta look right at what I don't wanna look at.
Then I gotta look right at what I don't wanna look at.
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9. |
The Next Band
02:51
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Nothing I could have said would have done the moment any justice.
My friends wait down the hall, laugh and it reverberates in my skull —
so heavy now, with shit they wouldn’t even dream of being into.
Hanging after the show, on the sidewalk, hand around my throat.
I ask you why I’d ever try to do this with my life,
and down the street, I hear the cymbals from the the next band
banging on their drum kit,
touring from Oklahoma, and getting up to fun shit, from the look of it.
I swore I wouldn’t be one of those people
strung out on the crowd and their attention
when they’re clapping for the next band coming on now.
I sneak out back and I whisper my mantra.
Breath in, they’re not listening.
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Obedience
03:07
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All I wanted
was a little more time
before I thought it died.
Paranoia,
unable to decide
if what we’re holding is alive.
That sweet moment
stretching out
like an open hand.
Caught in movement,
buckle down,
find the good work again.
Obedience cuts at intractable knots.
If I could understand you,
We could solve anything.
Find that God work again,
if it’s owning ourselves,
if that would do us some good
God, how I’d simmer down.
It’s such a long ways from now
before you’d settle down,
before I’d earn any comfort,
doesn’t help I’ve been this way
for a long time now.
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11. |
Ouroboros
03:25
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Look you in the eye,
I don’t want to fight it —
I’m changing in the light
of your attention,
just how I wanted it.
Shedding my old life
faster than I expected,
and on the other side
all I see is an ouroboros.
On the phone
with my friend from back home,
I remember that I used to feel just fine being alone.
And I wasn’t patient,
I was building expectations
I never get it right
grasping at a shadow
It fades out every night,
it lets me go
On the phone
with my friend from back home,
I remember that I must have let something or two
come and go.
Cuz my faith is shaking,
but but despite myself I’m changing,
and my faith is shaken
but I see that clarity comes slow
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12. |
Surrender
04:14
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All this time I hadn’t realized
all the things I’d leave behind
for the way that you watch me
I surrender a sense of time
All the things I hadn’t known about
all the things I would gain
from surrender
I’ll surrender how I can
I’d leave the city if it got us free,
I’d raise some sheep in the yard
All the fear wouldn’t get to me,
if I surrendered my alarm
Wake instead from the morning light
I’ll forget the pieces of myself I get to leave behind
Getting lighter all the time
Wake instead in the morning light
I’ll forget the pieces of myself I get to leave behind
Getting lighter all the time
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