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Spin Again
03:24
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Girl, did you think you'd done something special?
Life falls apart, pick it up again
Do it, you've done it once, took your chances
Grabbed hard and fast at the vast intangible darkness
Doing what you have to just to go on
Isn't something of your own invention
Brokenness is something you expected
It doesn't mean that you are broken
Life can't catch you if you never did fall
But someone will always be there to reach out
The known presence of anything at all
Is a comfort when you can't see
Don't know the face of your enemy
How did you get so sad?
Where did you go when it all went black?
Did the pain turn you bad, or was it always within you?
No amount of distance can erase you
You'll always have your teeth stains
and the new holes in your brain
Will remind you who you were to them
Breathe easy again, taste the cold wind and don't shiver
Feel the salt on your skin and hair, don't dare stop, not for a second
What if I could try, turn back, won't make any difference
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2. |
Dream Life
02:01
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betcha woulda just loved that
if i stayed hangin on a hem the skirt of darkness
played out, bite your fears
in the mirror, choking on mentholated pocket lint
I don't wanna lose this sight again
fever dreams take me to the place
see your face
soon as i got it then i lost it
did ya really just say that
ouroboros what a bore
upon the floor a mess of tangled flesh
guess i didn't account for something good
coming from rotten wood
next in line for the incinerator
so long see ya later!
come and capture this disaster
what you're after is a curse
hold my hand now what you planned
it never matters, doesn't work out
I die every night for a chance
I don't wanna lose this sight again
it's all done, choke back the fall
it's all dull
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3. |
Sliding
03:39
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damn it all, curse the wreckage
everything was fine until it wasn't
nothing's worse than what you're left with
it's a shell of who you've been
reinventing self reflection
drowning all your thoughts in vice and sin
isn't that how you've always lived
ever since you met them
and I don't want to get fucked again
somewhere along the long walk home
I lost the feeling in my toes
and I don't want to love again
I'm not sure if I even could
I lost its meaning in the cold
planned it all, oh, so foolish
never set your expectations
might as well ask to have 'em dashed
and ruin your brand new doc martens
but it's too late for that, you've passed it
there's no time for recollections
leave with what you're left with
get the hell out of California
and I know I can't be trusted again
said myself I can't make promises
I'm a new person every minute
and I've forgotten what love is again
I'll go find it in a stranger's smile
if they'll stay long enough to give it
your kiss wasn't enough to stop me sliding down the hillside
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4. |
Like Rain
04:48
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time's got me facing the door again
is it the air that's changed, set a switch off in my brain
I'm passing by just like the fall of rain
never loved a town the way that I loved you
can't stop looking 'round, don't know what to do
every day's a small town I'm just passing through
but it's only shiny when it's new
it would be better if you could remember
but you don't so I won't keep going on about it
can't keep myself from going down the line
everything seems better when it's far behind
I'll just keep moving til you're off my mind
better to get going while the wound's still fresh
the monsters that I've lived with are breathing down my neck
I'm the only one I'm trying to protect
is it safer to deny the lingering fear
a presence been haunting me day by month by year
no matter how fast or far I run it's always near
that fateful whisper ringing in my ear
can't keep myself from going down the line
repeating to myself that it'll all be fine
am I running to or from, or is it all the same
am I just another pawn in life's unending game
a means to sing a sad, sorry refrain?
it's passing by just like the fall of rain
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5. |
All That We Do
04:22
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some people say people don't change
some say it's all that we do
yesterday I had sided with the latter
but today the former is true
I can't shake the feeling that I've only done wrong
and it's all I know how to do
I can't seem to do it, though it's all that I want
to want to be close to you
fake it for a while, sometimes it feels real
but I just can't trust the way that I feel
too beat down and broken to accept your love
and I just can't place what it is I dream of
I want to be special and needed and good
through all my empty endeavors
try to sit still, to laugh and smile
and happily discuss the weather
a wild existence is looked down upon
so I'll take my heartache and put it in song
boil down my passions to neat little doses
carried in a satchel next to my neuroses
some people say people don't change
some say it's all that we do
yesterday I had sided with the latter
but today the former is true
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Collecting Rocks
02:25
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could it be that I'm only as big as my own thoughts
how many pebbles are in the pail
count them one by one
endless pacing between points
of have and have not
is it true that me and you are tipping all the scales
how many troubles will send me back to hell
watching myself fall
endless pacing between points
of is and was
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7. |
Kinda Like
03:22
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remembering all the times I've dreamed of you
how it always seemed to break me in two
I need someone to tell me if I'm crazy
and all the sleepless nights I've laid in bed
wrapped in linens woven with a golden thread
nobody better ask me what I want
I never find the time to sit and think about
what's on my mind or in my heart
I must be broke down looking for a fix
a patchwork to last me as long as I need to feel safe
I find I'm peeling back the panes of time
peering into an older frame of mind
half lit by candles, slipping out of scenes
whenever thoughts of you come flashing
peace of mind goes crashing and I try to cope
familiar friends begin to glow
downward I go
water is rising
guess I'm the fool now, and have always been
the last one's the best one until something else comes around
and it's such a shame, 'cause we could have been
some new kind of love
a different spin
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8. |
Some Kind of Poison
05:50
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looking back I can see all the things I'd hoped I'd be
funny but I had been then all I wanted in the end
now I'm here and so unsure of things I thought I knew before
in my mind I am free to contain myself eternally
I'd been looking to escape from a self inflicted state
of battery and fear, the way out was always near
bring me back, how can I explain
I don't know where I have been
it's clear from the look you've got you don't know either
and I can't remember feeling light as a feather
but I'm sure I did back then
I'm sorry, I can't talk right now
your voice still makes me cry
all it took was fifteen minutes to cut me down to pieces
and I can't remember what happiness feels like
without the use of some kind of poison
set me free, I don't want to be the way that I was before
set me free, I don't want to be ashamed of this anymore
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