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I watched myself walk away now I try not to think about it every day
Cause I don’t wanna be another guy complaining about it that way
The way I watch yr taillights fade and the look that’s on yr face
Makes me think I don’t know what you’ve been trying to say
And we’ve been talking unironically but what if this doesn’t work out for me
Is there a fallback or do you fall back to yr old ways
Every time I wake up it’s dark outside half a year later I’m still towing the line
And when I see you I don’t rewind but I remember when you were a good friend of mine
I need some light on the inside cause every time my old friends and I
Get back together it seems like we only remember the bad times
I watched myself walk away now I try not to think about it every day
Cause I can think of a million better reasons to stay
And there’s a cave beneath LA more fossils get stuck in the tar every day
You never told me I was only ever in the way
There's a duffel bag full of my things and it’s what separates you from me
Cause I convinced myself it’s a better view from yr bed talking to myself in the dark again
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Again Whatever
02:40
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I’m tired of new situations yr tired of always feeling alone
Stopped asking questions when you stopped giving answers yr still waiting on a dial tone
And it will come for you at night from the barlights I'm always stuck between
Somehow both sides are always the same for me
And I had this dream last night where all my old friends were getting together
I’m always falling apart or to pieces and not getting better
I’ve just been wasting all my time you tell me nothing feels good anymore
Nothing ever goes the way we planned it you found me face-down on yr bedroom floor
Isn’t this the part where everything gets easier isn’t this the part where everyone understands
Isn’t this the part where you crash yr car for no particular reason
Isn't this a gross exaggeration
And there’s no back to the old me or my old ways cause I don’t think I’ve ever really changed
So you get medicated and the feeling goes away or we both just break cause i couldn't hold the weight again
Whatever
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...And Now The Weather
02:16
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It’s getting hard to get out of bed but today I did
It feels like I'm always taking the same hits
If I’m in love with you then I don’t get to say that anymore
I don’t think I’ve processed this but it’s not like no one’s survived this before
So every now and then I think I catch myself walking through the east part of town
And I sit at the bus stop to convince myself that I’ve got stuff going down
And maybe if things were a little bit different I’d get off scot-free
But people like you are the people that see that the only thing going down is me
They said “if you don’t let it out, yr gonna let her under yr skin”
And I kept things under wraps for so long that when she pries me open i don’t know where to begin
And here I was thinking that we would be fine and we would meet up cured somewhere down the line
But the line is done, the track is cut short it’s the same as last time you saw me: nothing new to report
And maybe this whole thing was romanticized
It’s all hyperbole and I’ve got better things to do with my life
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Quit Yr Job
04:08
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It’s been a tough couple of years you could say
Makes you think about getting out or about running away
But where would I go and how do you pay
Can’t make rent working at the sandwich shop can’t live on minimum wage
I don’t live near water so there’s no baptism metaphor to make
But I think that’s okay
Cause if this is the new religion
Then I hope that i never get saved
Cause if the president is pious
Then the dictator is a saint
So back is too far to go
When the silver spoon is a fork in the road
So what are we gonna do with all this?
I know you want to let go
Nobody here plans on getting old
What am I gonna do about this?
Makes me wanna get robbed at knifepoint
And not give the mugger what he needs
Cause I’d rather be put in a coma
Than deal with this reality
And all I want is someone to love
And by “love” I mean inherit my debt
Cause if there’s no hope for the rest of us
Maybe the end of the world is the best you can get
I just threw out two years in a dead sprint towards a yellow light
And the bags under my eyes are gonna split since you know i don't sleep now at night
Cause there’s no such thing as a good man with a gun
In the country that I live in or the city where you grew up
There’s no such thing as a good man with a gun
As if parents with dead kids wasn’t reason enough
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Other/Happy People
02:28
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It’s not as bad as it is in my head
Everything’s probably gonna be fine
But some days just to get out of bed
Is like walking a tightrope line
And I know something’s wrong with me we all find out eventually
A pocket knife and a notebook and you cover up what the years took
It’s been pretty hard to believe that we’re not coming apart at the seams
I see these other happy people having fun and these folks who just know that yr the one
And I don’t see myself at all in any of this
And we are out of time but we’ll be alright I can hang out with you I can burn another night
I’ve got nothing going on anyway what I put off gets closer every day
And I know it’s not as bad as it is in my head
But I know it’s as bad as the tightness in my chest gets
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6. |
Animal House, Part 2
03:34
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At the liquor store I’m waiting in the car and I just cut my only pants into shorts
And it feels so strange to be so melodramatic but I don’t know whose ghost I’m crying for
So whenever we’ve been talking my hands find a new way home
And I bite my nails but ever since I met her I’ve pretended that I don’t
At this point I’ve been gone so long sharing a bed is like sharing a grave
No matter how many state lines you cross it will never be far enough away
And I can hear you call from a mile under my bed I’ll watch the greatest minds of my generation die in debt
Turn it over again stumble out of a stupor wake up on the floor and then get back into bed
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Needle Teeth Athens, Georgia
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