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Ephemeral
02:53
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Where were you?
We looked for several hours
And where were you when the clouds had finally parted?
We were just bending our hours into years
But where were you in the broken walls of time?
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Sharing Lungs
04:07
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I am reeling as tired wheels turn beneath my skin
And every time it happens I hope I’m not as broken as I feel
Our airways twist into one, spent the last few years sharing lungs
As we speculate on what we’ll become
All that we wanted
Was enough to see this through
It’ll all remain unnamed
In the walls that you thought you had made
When my body rests my mind escapes to find another plague
And all secrets kept behind aching cheeks for days
What if I could never find a way to live this down
Scared you’ll find the part of me you’d wish you never knew about
What if all of my best years have somehow passed me by
And all that I have left is the sound of an old life calling out
I’ll speak softly find the words you think you need to hear
To finally make that sound that echoes in your mind disappear
I’d kick up the dust but I fear too much
That every time we look back it’s just blinding us
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Keep Quiet
04:08
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A son without a conscience, a teacher with no wisdom too, I went searching for some answers and some truth
Came back empty handed, couldn't lay my thoughts to rest, but these sleepless nights mean little when you know you're already dead
I'm just a liar, with a borrowed soul
And I'll just keep my mouth shut till I've got something to say
We are leaves that come and go, grow and fall as we get old, and drown in a river with no name or mind of its own
But we just lay with splintered love and words that held no place with us and I'll just find somewhere to keep quiet till I've got something to say
You said that you'd let go if you knew what it meant, cause falling is all that you've ever felt, but we kept our eyes shut from the faults in ourselves and half of the world behind each back
I'm just a liar, with a borrowed soul
And I'll just keep my mouth shut till I've got something to say
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Dash! Be Quick
05:38
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I am holding out to watch you walk away from this cause, it’ll never mean a thing
While I am starry eyed and you are clinging to the past, and we’re both lost for words
I know that you wanted something more but I’ve pulled the thread and we’re starting to come apart
I’m sorry if I wasted your time, erase me from the back of your mind and go on living like we never even met
It’s only in my dreams I really see what my friends need, too lost in my own mind
But I am breaking ground, I see what I have lived without and I’m willing to change
I need to spend some time and think about the changes in my life instead of letting them float by
I’m worried about my mental wellbeing, letting all of this get to me and wear me down, can somebody pull me out? Cause I’m drowning in the flood
Deconstruct your mind and start again, you’ll be alright
Was it all that bad, were you behind or left alone?
This time I’ll come around and drag this mess we’ve made into troubled light
The words we left unsaid, they just pull apart our fragile mind
And all the nights spent inside my head, believing I was an empty ship and nothing that I did would ever bring me home
But sometimes we break through immovable walls, the person who loves you you learn to love too, and all of your fractured love it finally starts to heal
And as for the lives that I’ve never lived, just alternate timelines made up in my head, I’m learning the value in peace of mind and how to lessen the pain over time
I know that you struggled to find your way back through this and make some sense of empty promises
I’m never sure which way my heart’s leaning, just lay back and stare at the ceiling and wait it out, I am trying to wait it out
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5. |
Long Grass/River People
05:19
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In the tall grass where the river starts to bend, we held our lives in our hands
Tangled in a kelp bed with nowhere to swim, drowning at the bottom of Lake Michigan
Can worn out hands build on broken ground, can they find what they need?
Cause I will follow you when I’ve lost my home, into the depth of your care
Are your hollow bones wearing thin? Do you keep it all lingering in the back of your mind?
I will push apart the space between days, just aching to give you more time
Hiding out by Nine Mile Lake
But we were already gone, still holding tight to our wounds
Your pale blood turns cause this distance is such a force that
We tore the blinds down, starving for light
But we couldn’t quite shoulder that weight
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6. |
Lovers
07:13
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So we slept in the bayou and dreamt of what’s upstream
Burning blood and marrow as you were blushing to your bones
Counting accidents of your heart and the fights you lost that you’d start
Hoping all your empty words would find some ground
With lovers you didn’t know, lovers you left alone
So as we start to break, it comes apart why we’re made
And in the words that you speak tiny parts of your life let slip
To lovers you didn’t know
Creaking walls whisper words that keep me up at night
Adding to this weight on my chest I helped create
But was all your trust misplaced, will my potential go to waste?
Cause I cling so tight to words I cannot speak,
To lovers I didn’t know, lovers you left alone
But hearts will mend and start again
And in the streets that you walk, other people you meet are just as lost
She was fighting for pulse, but her nerves had turned to string and her eyelids were lead
We are born to endless night, fighting to make it through, but there standing in the clear, was you
(It’s always you)
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Post-Career Depression
02:06
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8. |
The Drifter
04:24
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There’s a part in the back of my head that could have sworn that I was getting better
Just a moment of reform
I’ve been waiting for you to carve your name into the back of my eyes so I can see you
Even when I sleep
I’m all but broken again
Just driftwood floating endlessly
The price I never paid for letting all of this slip by, when I just needed something to hold on to
Still trying to figure out what I can work on and what I’m stuck with, feel so misdirected
Will it be okay if I’m not who we thought I’d be, fears of getting stuck here and never moving on
Every time I think that I have got this figured out
Just left with swallowed pride and all the rest that comes with it
Time slows, the night goes on and on with no result
This happens every time you pour your heart out into mine
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Tired of Ourselves
02:57
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You finally caught me out, cause I’ve been hiding but I know it’s not enough
In the back of my head there’s a voice that says “I never was good enough”
You slept, I just let my shoulders rest
We all get tired, of being ourselves, we all get tired
It just takes some time
I’ve been digging up bones for the last year but I’m running out of dirt
And I still hold tight to sentiment which is why I feel so hurt
I’ve been having trouble trying to navigate the difference between actions and what I say
Even though I’m breathing I still feel your grip it just took a bit of time for me to shake loose
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Whirlpool
03:21
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Shadows creeping out while your eyes shut tight, swallowing everything whole
Words that weighed like lead that would keep us from running to higher ground
But still we sit in these structures, made of the guilt that weighs on our mind
And I've been trying to dig myself out, but I'm not that strong
Am I torn apart just waiting for this fire to burn all that's left cause there's nothing worth that risk
Ten years dead and everything you said feels like it'll bring me back to life, like there's a storm that's slowly growing in my head
You felt the bite of my every word cutting you down to the bone
Your tongue is bitter and mine has no taste left from spitting out all these lies
And I don't know what it feels like, too busy wrapped up in my own world, but I'm getting beat up and broke down, time for me to step aside.
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Saturate
00:56
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12. |
No End, No Beginning
04:57
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Is there anything keeping us afloat?
I can hear it now, but the signal is cutting out
No one comes to visit when all of your time is spent just devising lives out of tiny lies so you don’t feel anything
I’ve wasted so much time picking up the threads of an old life I should have left to fade away
Let it out, it’ll be alright, the storm will pass with time, just find somewhere safe to hide
The common lack of common sense, mistakes we make again and again, and all this time I never told you how I ever really felt
This energy can fuel another fire
There’s a part of me that’s best we leave behind
I will shed all likeness to the person I was before
Such a pity we met when all these thoughts were still running through my head
Another name etched out in stone, a heart that will beat long after I’m gone, still we walk the places death won’t go
Now and then I stop and think about the different paths we take and hope that someday soon I can learn from my mistakes
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