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Nothing In My Head
03:01
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When will you come home
You can talk to me you know i’ll never say no
So baby don’t you go
Oh won’t you hear me out
We can should about it or we can lay low
A hot loving in tow
Underneath it all lies the same old reasons
It never lasts long
Don’t turn around and walk
And when the night rolls in
Under all the blankets our shivering skin
Don’t let it ever end
Found me standing around with nothing in my head
Mind up in the clouds you needn’t get offended
And in the darker times
Communicate what is on your mind
So baby I can know
So I can help you to believe the words I so often use
So that you know I’m true
My heart is set on you
I can’t get enough of the things you do
Of everything that is you
Our bodies float around
To avoid the pain of a falling out
The one we talked about
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2. |
Open Up That Heart
04:50
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I don’t know what to do
I don’t know what is real or true
I can’t seem to break through what’s in the way
I don’t know what to say
Every hour that I wait
I’m working to get closer to the root
I get caught up in the motion
I feel so out of control
And I can’t understand why I’m waiting
I don’t know how you feel
When you’re not sure of your next meal
And no one seems to care at all
In the dead of the night
I can tell the hour by the blazing light
From the fires that continue to burn
I get caught up in the motion
I feel so out of control
And I can’t understand what is taking so long
Can’t get out of my head so I’m scrolling
Path which we’ve been led won’t let us out
No more wasting time
Put it on the line
Feeling the weight of the season
There’s not much further to fall
Is there anything left to believe in?
I hear the sound of the beating
So I know I’ll open up that heart
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3. |
Work It Out
03:13
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I can’t seem to work it out
You and me we’re in it now
Hard to feel the passing days
Hold me close I’ll drift away
Got it don’t you get it
won’t you try to hear me out?
Got it don’t you get it
I won’t let it bring me down
Got it don’t you get it
won’t you try to hear me out?
Got it don’t you get it
I still listen for the sound
listen for the sound
I can’t seem to work it out
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4. |
Back To The Start
02:50
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I’m chewing on my tongue
Been grinding down my teeth
Either way it’s okay I saw nobody today
Cause I’m leaning into a painful feeling
We’re kneeling on the ground
It’s not our violence in the streets
Such illumination, a clear sun and shade divide
A jagged line in the direction of the light
And when the vetting’s done
A long coming goodbye like the setting sun
It’ll clear my head to walk along the dry river bed
And back to the start
What could your love mean now?
And how can I let it go?
A wasted way of life
Take a break from lying down
And staring up at the ceiling
Still trying to slow it down
I thought I had it figured out
Every time I’m feeling smart
When I go back to a drawing
And blur all the edges
And tear it all apart
And when the vetting’s done
A runaway goodbye like the setting sun
It’ll clear my head to walk along the bone dry river bed
And back to the start
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I can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Trying to see
Through the thick of it all
Watching as you scream through the wall
It’s all an illusion
Way back
Born of an original thought
Hoping to read
Between the lines
Caught up in the gleam of your eyes
All the confusion
We had
Even when I see I feel blind
I can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Parting the sea
Beneath a thought
Something in a dream I forgot
Another delusion
Put down
Cutting at the weeds that won’t stop
Cutting at the weeds that won’t stop
I can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
I wanna be the one
I call and you come
I wanna be the one
I call and you come
I never know what to do
How do I know that it’s true?
I never know what to do
How do I know that it’s true?
I can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
Can’t stop thinkin of you
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6. |
Too Late
02:31
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In the dark night reign
Let it bring me joy help keep me sane
In the bitter trial
Let it pass so graceful and unafraid
How can I be sure?
In the natural light it’s so obscure
Any honest cure
Not to numb the pain
Of the passing shadows
None to blame
I choose to stay
Is it too late to get it straight?
Is it too late to leave this place?
Well I don’t know if it’s true
Will it pass if I open up to you?
Is yours the silent type?
Would you like the room to yourself tonight?
Have you had your bath?
Rose petals rest against your thighs
Having tender thoughts
Cultivate an understanding quiet
And simply sit beside
Looking deep inside
At my own desire to satisfy
I’m so unkind
Is it too late to get it straight?
Is it too late to leave this place?
Well I don’t know if it’s true
No I don’t have a clue
It’ll pass when I open up to you
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7. |
Feel It Without Trying
03:32
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I want to believe
What I’m taught what I’ve seen
But I feel it as I’m walking down the hall
My beliefs
As they twist into a dream
And they’re leading me right up to take a fall
Can I heed
My intuition without greed
What would I need to control?
When I feel it without trying
My ego’s a steal
As my shadows take the wheel
And they’re tearing at the lining of my soul
Where I hide
There’s a child left behind
It isn’t hard to let go
When I feel it without trying
Again
Taste my blood through the wall
Go from running to a crawl
As my ancestors are screaming down the hall
Behind a door
One I locked so many times before
But I’m picking at my scabs
Till the blood will fill the lining of my heart
But will it last
Is it another truth I’m buying into
who I thought I was
Can I just feel it without trying
again
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8. |
I'm Waiting For You
03:47
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Walk around in the yard
Finger pricked by an angel wing in the dark
Back to school in my room
Went for a smoke but I just choked on the fumes
In my head I’ll picture you in the light of the moon
Any day now you might say how our love is true
I would give most anything
To spend the day just us two
I’m waiting for you
By myself without a doubt
Lit a candle but the flame flickered out
Took a walk, stepped away
I’ll understand when I close my eyes for the day
In my head I’ll picture you in the light of the moon
I would give most anything to just lay there with you
Any day now you might say how
There’s nothing that we can do
I’m waiting for you
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9. |
Turn Up The Heat
02:52
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All the days are passing on into an endless night
It’s a mess in holding onto what is wrong or right
Meet me in the field between em
Tragic everlasting tumble where the compass pulls
Keeping up’s exhausting when compassion’s on reserve
What’s the future that we’re aching?
Carbon into plastic all this destruction’s absurd
Everyone’s a fasctist and our president’s a turd
‘21 it should be breezy
The sun’s a bloodshot eye and fires smoke a starless night
Won’t be giving up so easy not without a fight
Politicians we’re coming for you
I wish we had this down
Take this world apart
Cruising through the haze of tear-gassed apocalyptic streets
The wake of rising tides are turning up the heat
Turn up the heat
Turnin’ up the heat
Turn up the heat
Let go of what you hold onto
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Get A Grip
02:46
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I just can’t help but feel so sad
When I see the way she hangs her head
I can’t continue to pretend
That it’s not all the mean things that you said
But I suppose she knows
She doesn’t let it show
And you don’t wanna go through the trouble
Of bursting your bubble of total control
Sit with yourself a while
And put yourself on trial
Get it through your head all the teasing
The hurt that she’s feeling
It’s something you said
If she was perfect you could live with it
You want her wrapped around your finger tips
You’re gonna have to come to grips with it
And be more kind to her
First you say that you choose her
Then you go and abuse her
Think about it or lose her
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11. |
Miles Away
03:03
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A silver sky
Fresh guts in clay
A rotting eye in beach foam
And razor bones’ll keep from floating away
I got you on the line
You’re going swimming today
A dagger in the heart
I had a feeling it would end when I forgot to pray
I can’t feel what the eyes are saying cause I’m miles away
I don’t wanna know what the others think cause I’m a mess today
Cause I know that the love you give to me will have a price to pay
I don’t wanna hear what the heart is saying cause I’m miles away
I’m crying for your love
And in the starless night I see the light from your house
I’ve been awake too long
I can feel your pain
I know you’re thinking of me
But I’m still pretending to believe
There’s any need for an apology
I’m miles away
From your living room
A dimming light
Where all the answers to all of our questions came in the night
We sit outside in the midday heat
Smoking a cigarette but you won’t share one with me
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12. |
Ash
03:05
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I’m moving closer to myself
The gravitation’s pulling hard
I’ve been locked up in my own personal hell
The walls up
You know I feel the triggers pacing
Braced to catch me on the draw
And I’ll contract into my solitude
Shroud the me I saw
The pattern’s tracing I can see
Stuck in a trench dug by my past
But I’m stepping into who I could be
Born out of the ash
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13. |
March
03:44
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A tasteless mind
No strength of character
A hopeless child
A real ticket to nowhere
Ride the one way line
I messed up
I didn’t go to school
I don’t do anything
Except lie and cheat and steal
And corrupt young minds
So give it up
Go make your way
Maybe practice in medicine
It’d do you good to have a little something in the bank
So rest up
With the clampdown imminent
We’re dying to see how you’ll improve your prospects now
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