1. |
Alive
03:07
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Spin
Inside your head
Lost
You’re lost again
I spent a year with the curtains closed,
ceiling fan and a garden hose.
On your own feeling heavy and low
You’ve got nowhere to go. You’ve got nowhere to go.
Yeah, come on
‘cause at least you’re still alive
Here until you die
Even when you’re sick of it all
Come on
Mistakes we’ve made plenty
We fucked up our twenties
So now we’re starting over again
Lie to all your friends
Shed your skin again
Best of luck to the worst of people
If you’re crying while they’re fast asleep will
Their ears be burning, are they tossing and turning?
Are they even concerned?
Or did they never learn a thing
Did you never learn a thing?
You never learned a thing.
Yeah, come on
‘cause at least you’re still alive
Here until you die
Even when you’re sick of it all
Come on
Mistakes we’ve made plenty
We fucked up our twenties
So now we’re starting over again
We’re starting all this over.
We’re starting all this over.
Stuck in your head
‘cause you’re starting again
You lost all your friends
But you’re making amends
You’re stuck in your head
‘cause you’re starting again
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2. |
Wrong Way
03:07
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I tried to stay gone
When you asked me why I walked away
I couldn’t find a good enough reason to stay
And even if you knew what I’d say
You’d still take it the wrong way
I tried to write songs
Thought it might help me clear my chest
Get me through when I know I don’t feel my best
If at first I don’t succeed
I’ll lie to all my friends
Til it takes me
Til it breaks me
This has happened before
And it’ll happen again
The worst part is
We don’t know how it ends
We’re better now
not wearing ourselves so thin
Found peace of mind
And comfort in our skin
We figured out
A better place to begin
Found peace of mind
and comfort in our skin
This has happened before
And it’ll happen again
The worst part is we don’t know how it ends
I hope it never ends
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3. |
Grief
03:42
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It’s only fair I tell you how
I found myself where I am now
I let myself and others down
Buried my head in the ground
The feeling that you’re losing control
Of things in your life that you can’t hold
In such high regard because time goes on and on
You say that you know but you don’t know
You tell me to go where you won’t go
Ignored me for months cause they said so all along
If love is patient love is kind
love is our hair intertwined
If love is lost, then loss is grieved
Grief isn’t what I had believed
A makeshift noose that let me down
Cut myself loose and I skipped town
I’m not sure how to accept
I have fallen out of step
The feeling when I lost all control
It scared me to death that I couldn’t hold
Together as we fell apart
It went on and on
Emotions I felt but I couldn’t show
I hoped you would go but I didn’t know
How to say that I felt lost and alone all along
Time is passing
Faster, past me
Time is passing
Faster, faster
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4. |
New Medicine
04:05
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I fucked things up again,
Got lost in my own head and then
I tried new medicine with friends
It threw me off the end
I got fucked up again,
Got lost in my own head and then
Felt my depression hit
And jumped right in..
Do you feel what I fail to feel?
There’s nothing here, this isn’t real.
I need you to tell the truth
We both know where this goes and I hate it
I’m thinking of ending things
It’s been this way for a while it seems
Unlikely that this will change
And I don’t think that my head can take it
It’s been a long time since anything felt right
I don’t care what you say,
I’m not stayin’
I fucked things up again
Got lost in my own head and then
I tried new medicine with friends
It threw me off the end
I got fucked up again
Got lost in my own head and then
Felt my depression hit
I saw the void and jumped right in
Do you feel as weird as I feel?
We’re watching films and I think they’re real
I need you to tell the truth
Cause I don’t feel myself and I hate it.
I’m sinking into this chair
I’m seeing things that I know aren’t there
There’s no quick fix for how I feel
And I don’t think that my head can take it
It’s been a long time since anything felt right
I’m in over my head,
I’m not playin’
I fucked things up again
Got lost in my own head and then
I tried new medicine with friends
It threw me off the end
I got fucked up again
Got lost in my own head and then
Felt my depression hit
I saw the void and jumped right in
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5. |
Dandelion
03:36
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I turned up late
With a bouquet of nettles
And a thorn in my side
In a summer sky mist
Like a butterfly kiss
you saw something in my eyes
Like a wildflower
Overpowered
You picked me up from the weeds
That’s when I told myself
I’d never settle
You seemed to carry me
(I’m a dandelion)
Simply exist
To break apart
then start back over
If I got one wish
This would be it
it would be this.
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6. |
Sour
04:15
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Do you hate me?
If you saw my face today
Would you blame me
For the things I didn’t say
You tried to save face
and bury it all under sound.
Did the words taste
Sour coming out?
If I get lost do you know
Right where I’ll be?
Drowning in my own thoughts
Till I can’t breathe
Suffocate the sadness
inside of me
Fill the space with thoughts of
where I want to be
I don’t hate you
Even though you walked away
And said I’d have to
Shoulder all the blame
If I get lost do you know
Right where I’ll be?
Drowning in my own thoughts
Till I can’t breathe
Suffocate the sadness
inside of me
Fill the space with thoughts of
where I want to be
and it’s not that
I would end it
but I wondered
how much worse things
could get before
I would mend it
If I get lost do you know
Right where I’ll be?
Drowning in my own thoughts
Till I can’t breathe
Suffocate the sadness
inside of me
Fill the space with thoughts of
where I want to be
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7. |
Compliment
03:15
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You said that I was good at hiding my feelings
And when I smiled you said it wasn’t a compliment
“Can we try it again, from the very start?”
I wondered how much worse it could get
I was holding out for a kinder heart
It’s a choice I didn’t regret
You said that I was good at hiding my feelings
And when I smiled you said it wasn’t a compliment
I’ve never been too good at dealing with
Confrontation
But I said what I really meant
And we’ll never talk again
I said the winter months had me down again
You said “what did you expect?”
That time you told me you wanted more
Was about the time I left
So it goes
Every time I’ve hurt myself
was a result of having hurt
somebody else
You said that I was good at hiding my feelings
And when I smiled, you said it wasn’t a compliment
You said if I’m depressed, you don’t wanna see me
I never smiled, could you see the significance?
Are you finally hearing this?
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8. |
Blue
03:35
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9. |
Caught Fire
03:43
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Dreams from yesterday
fade to grey
There’s so much to say
delayed, dismayed
We set fire to the things that kept us here
We didn’t care if we burned ourselves
I decided to learn from past mistakes
You decided, too
and pushed the blame away
We set fire to the things that kept us here
We didn’t care if we burned ourselves
I could scream in your face
And still I know
That you wouldn’t hear a thing
People change all the time
I’m here to show
I won’t let the darkness win
Too fucked to fail
Burn the old, embrace the new
Trying for a better ‘you’
Burn the old, embrace the new
Try to find a better ‘you’
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10. |
Stargazer
03:50
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(this is the end)
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