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Moments in Between
02:50
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Color shades of glass
Faded with the tide
Calls me back
Drifting further toward
Nothing I have known before
Brighter in the morning
Feel it start to calm
You’re taking my hand and you’re pulling me on
Leave the ground beneath me, light ethereal scene
Can you tell me what more are we waiting for?
How long are all the moments in between it?
Dreaming again
But I know that it’s all in my head
Dreaming again
Running, hopping fence
Carrying the thought
Is it all a myth?
Reaching further forward
Never wanted something more
Brighter in the morning
Feel it start to calm
You’re taking my hand and you’re pulling me on
Leave the ground beneath me, light ethereal scene
Can you tell me what more are we waiting for?
How long til you’re taking me there?
I’m growing wearier here
But I know it’s all the moments in between it
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Doomsday
03:29
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Nervous wreck, I play with the thread in my pocket
Avoiding the dread
If we’re honest, everyone’s nervous these days
Who will be left when we get to the end
Terrified I pretend it’s some doomsday myth
Cough in your sleeve
Assure us it’s fine but it’s hard to believe
We’ve lost our patience for sympathy
How’d we ever get this far?
Close the curtains, hide in the darkness
It’s better than being out in nothing
It turns my insides white just thinking
Best forget all that you’re missing
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Underwater
03:45
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Underwater, carried away from shore
Float off my feet, whipping back and forth
Forever adrift
Felt it stinging, washed up against me
Tide turns quickly, slipping back a mile
I’m losing the fight
Will a wave sink me to the bottom, dazed and unstable
When I wind up giving in to the current, lost and labored
Never learned to stay tethered in place
Cause I don’t know how to take it
Always in motion
Away from feeling something
Afraid of exposing myself to be someone else
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4. |
Cracks in the Pavement
03:27
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I start kicking a rock down the sidewalk
It helps, avoiding your eye contact
I’m afraid of what I’ll do if I’m alone with you
You won’t admit the way that you’re talking
With a lit cigarette, it’s making you sick
But it feels nice to laugh
For a moment see my breath as a mist
Lead me down your path
A strange mystery hanging over me
I’m losing myself in it
But nothing is ever as it seems
I count the cracks in the pavement to throw a wrench in it
Distracting my brain wave
Is it alright to joke, humor the thought that we’re real?
But nothing is ever as it seems, until you’re there lying next to me
Lead me down your path
A strange mystery hanging over me
I’m losing myself in it
To dream of you lying next to me
But I know we’d be lying through our teeth
Cutting corners, making believe
If only anything was ever as it seemed
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Youth
04:08
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Walk it off outside, caught me leaving
I tried a thousand times but still it all ran dry
The thought of someone calling out to me
I wish it was something I could believe
Called me on my bluff, always fuckin up
Just want to feel some rush before it comes undone
If I’m honest with myself it’s what I’d choose
But I lost my sense of wonder in my youth
StilI I can’t let it go
It’s a lump in my throat
What was then, let it die
Carry on, cut your ties
Even then I was dreamin
It was a warmth you knew I needed
Try my best to forget
You’re the part of me I miss
Shake my pride to confess that I‘m not the one who left
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Spring
03:10
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Cold under my bare feet
I was standing above the sink, thinking out loud
And I’ve been wishing you were here with me
Never knowing you’re everything I needed right now
So tell me when you fall asleep are you still next to me?
I know you told me then I couldn’t lose you
When colors slowly turn to spring my thoughts are echoing
Another moment passing, well can we slow it down
Before you find me out
Curled up in the back seat
I can read you like scenery
As if I know you still
So we’ll just float with what the tide brings
Can’t stop myself from wondering if you feel it as well
So tell me when you fall asleep are you still next to me?
Another season change we see it from a distance now
We’re never finding out
I hate entertaining the voice lingering in my brain
It was never the same
In a state of complaining, but I’ll love you til the last spring
And let it wash away with the rain
Til it’s all but drowned
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Carrying On
02:57
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Sorry I’ll keep it calm
When shadows scale the wall and I see it coming down
When I lay here out on the floor
Fill the cracks in the boards, hear it clawing at the door
Patterns change in place
Colors paint my mistakes, it’s more than I can take
Now I’m hiding my face in the sheets
Hovering somewhere between, at least it brings a sense of peace
Is it over like that? Was it all a wash?
“Don’t focus on the past”
Are we just fooling ourselves?
It’s a momentary lapse, someday when we look back
But it haunts me that I can’t seem to be carrying on
Oh how many times I replay in my mind the same old dialogue
I try to convince myself we’ll see it through
But it won’t come easy
Is it over like that? Was it all a wash?
“Don’t focus on the past”
Are we just fooling ourselves?
It’s a momentary lapse, someday when we look back
But it haunts me that I can’t seem to be carrying on
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Differently
03:15
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Tell me you need me
Instead of just bottling up
Though I never could be
Someone you wanted to trust
And I wish it all went differently
Cause it feels like losing half of me
Taking me to when
We were just kids in the back of a station wagon
And sometimes I see it
A glimmer of what we could have been
But I guess I left my memory back then
Trying to hide something I’m scared to admit
Kept at an arm's length
Covering your face in your best disguise
Still you left me in suspense
You were just trying your best to get by
And I wish it all went differently
Lines I never learned to read between
And I can’t help wondering, you’re afraid to come clean
When it feels like losing half of me
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Numb
03:41
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Looking out through the glass, my head reeling
Caught a glimpse of the past, it feels surreal
We’re laughing off the drag, it gets easy
To never have to look back again
Follow the crease in your hand, it seems endless
Was it part of the plan to be this near
We’re laughing off the drag, it gets easy
To never have to look back again
Don’t think about anyone
Telling yourself it’s safe to be numb
A drop of sand in the hourglass
Whatever makes the time pass
We re-erase our memory of young mistakes
We rearrange our time and place to make amends
Long to be something
Always running away to point blame
But it’s best to leave it that way
Don’t think about anyone
Telling yourself it’s safe to be numb
Keeping your fingers crossed
Selling your soul but it won’t be enough
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10. |
Otherwise
05:45
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Find you out along the curb edge, I’ll stay a little while
Fumbling to get the words out when I try to make you smile
If the truth is nothing makes sense, it feels cruel otherwise
A drunken daze out on the pavement, trying anything to cover up the quiet
Driving late along the freeway, it didn’t feel right to leave you there
But I can check in once a week and offer nothing to make it fair
If it’s true that nothing matters, wondering what was it all for?
But some things just don’t have their answers
So I don’t ask those kind of questions anymore
Is it true that we have meaning?
I’ll spend my lifetime chasing it
A reason for our inexistence, but there’s no certainty til we reach the end
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