1. |
don't try
00:29
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open wide
throw me off the side
keep me out of sight
take me out tonight
shut your eyes
try to feel your size
put your eyes away
say i'm not gonna stay
don't try.
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2. |
run me with wire
03:35
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take a seat
enjoy the show
this is a happy death
I'll be glad to go
'cause I've been up at night
tossing side to side
dreaming of a salt water suicide
misuse half truths
so I could look at you
without thinking you're the one I'm supposed to die beside
I wish I told a more convincing lie
tie me up on the tide
tie me up swim beside
run me with wire
I wish I told a better lie
Take off your socks and shoes
And the glasses you misuse
If it feels good does it need to be true
Take me up stairs take me off
Climb inside your handcuffs
Let’s write of romance but call it lust
Pretend that this will someday be enough
Take me outside let’s dog walk
And cross the street to avoid the chalk
Where children wrote of hopscotch
Don’t move your lips to talk
We’ve got the keys but can’t find the
no exit
no gag reflex
when you shove your fingers down my throat I won't wretch
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3. |
music to my deaf ears
02:16
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hey
do you wanna sing a song
to the rhythm of the fire alarm
I always wanted to sing a song
in the back of an ambulance
so could you try just once
to maybe not convince me otherwise
and let me actualize
my self destructive novelties
don't lie
you and I both know would love to see me die
let me die
you and I both know that you love to watch me lie
let me martyr myself to my youth
in some kind of phony search for a pseudo-truth
something, nothing, etc
don't lie
you and I both know that you would love to see me die
and years later
when I face the firing squad
it'll be music to my deaf ears
don't lie
you and I both know that you would love to see me die
let me shout
yeah the oceans are gonna boil
but I guess I'm just kinda bummed out
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4. |
mea culpa
04:00
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she stole my best
and broke my breath
fixed my tie said damn the rest
she took my best
and broke my breath
she made my bed and told me
lie in it
we laid in it
we laid awake
I wanted out for her sake
she stole my best
and broke the rest
wrung out my heart and left it wet
she stole my best
and broke my breath
she set my place and told me damn the rest
she ticks like a clock
she crumbles like chalk
she whispers mea culpa while trying to walk
she never died,
she's still alive,
and so am I,
or so I think
so I'm sinking (chorus chords picked)
past forgotten bets
past cold and lonely lifelessness
through parts I thought I could forget
I still taste you on my breath
I found a strand of your hair in my coat
today, and I played with it until it broke
she cannot hear
she can't be gone yet
all my life is buried here
heap earth upon it
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5. |
power cut
01:51
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the lights went out for six days straight
you tried to kill, you tempted fate
I called you in the hospital
you said I love you but it’s getting late
can you feel your size
can you feel your size
can you feel your size
the lights went out for six days straight
downtown looked like a wilder place
dark windows and and sleeping machines
in everything, I saw a reflection of your face
can you feel your size
can you feel your size
can you feel your size
won't you lay beside
for I am small
don't you see my eyes
I tried it all
can you feel your size
I tried to fall
and got it first try
are you out there?
are you in the air?
are you scared?
do you still care?
are you out there?
are you scared to breathe?
are you still there?
are you scared of me?
when I was kid I had the strangest dream
a train horn followed by a scream
almost every night
most every night
I hope you get well
hope you get clean
hope it wasn't foreshadowing
for what would haunt me at nineteen
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6. |
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can you taste the normalcy?
I think it's tasting fine.
Won't you watch the flames a little while
before you run in and jump in the fire?
can you taste the normalcy?
I think it's tasting fine.
Is this what you thought you'd be
when you were just a child?
may I speak to the machines?
may I sing to them please?
may I speak to the machines
and ask them what they think about me?
so don't just sit there taking your pulse
talking to something on the shelf
keep pretending your someplace else
or watch as your brother unwinds himself
alright miss thanksgiving
smoke away your face
are you really ready
to come out from behind all that lace?
alright mr sweet and low
take me out tonight
tell me why I should write more happy songs
I think I might
may I speak to the machines?
may I sing to them please?
and what about the trees?
what do they think about me?
alright miss metonymy
drink away your voice
keep avoiding the question
did you make the right choice?
may I wipe my record clean?
would you speak to me please?
I'd burn sage, but the smoke alarms might disagree
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7. |
ad nauseum
03:08
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the air wicks the the warmth from your skin
and time wicks the guilt from your sin
a town built on stilts is buried by wind
and the sense in it all starts to spin
the air wicks the warmth from your skin
as your ineptitude grins
at the life that you've found yourself in
and all the words in your ears start to ring
doo doo doo
he says you are criminally thin
you don't have much left except skin
you won't lose too much except skin
you go round and round, leave your mark on some towns
just before they are buried by wind
time's just chalk on a wall
the longer you live, the further you fall
some men make habits of marking up stalls
and some try to study the sense it in all
and most find there is none at all
some men wear habits to make sense of it all
but most find there is none at all
and you'll find there's nothing at all
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8. |
it has to be tonight
00:55
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i think it might be time to say goodbye
but i don't know why it has to be tonight
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young adult fiction Ypsilanti, Michigan
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