1. |
Tiptoe
02:51
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The mess and the clutter shows
we tend to live quite long lives.
Sunburns and cracking lips,
you're getting unpeeled.
I can tiptoe
but i can't hide
i can whisper
but i can't lie
don't stop in the desert,
there's no tidal waves 'round here
just keep talking
'cause your secrets I've already heard
I can tiptoe
but i can't hide
i can whisper
but i can't lie
i can't lie
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2. |
Spiders
03:23
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When I wake up and scream it's not because I'm scared
and I sure don't mean to scare you.
I have these recurring dreams that line up with recurring realities,
parallel lines i trade back and forth.
The more I sleep the more they start to meld, I'm afraid
the two infinite lines have grown so close they have collided.
there's no way to right the ship.
I want to feel guilty,
I want to feel guilty, but all i feel is calm strangeness.
I'm next to you, I watch you sleep.
I peer out the window, see a flash.
a meteor shower up close to the glass.
Memories spiraling, mine and yours,
future and past in a chaotic dance.
We're falling in love in universal collapse.
I dance with the shadows in my room
And spiders climb the walls,
I'm scared, so I dance.
I watch you sleep, i know you.
I know you will be there in the last moment we share,
Your spidery fingers through my hair.
Your shadowy breath behind my ear.
A look in your eyes - a look of relief, and now i know
you were here to calm me in this last frantic horror.
In the end, we get to know there really is an end.
A swift decay... sublime relief.
It took forty two seconds for the bomb to drop.
We want to feel afraid but all we feel is calm strangeness.
I dance with the shadows in my room
and spiders climb the walls
I'm scared
I dance with the shadows in my room
and spiders climb the walls
I'm scared, so I dance
It took forty two seconds for the bomb to drop.
we want to feel afraid but all we feel is calm strangeness
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3. |
Worried About Katie
03:19
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She goes out at night
Never know where she goes
I'm worried about my friend Katie
She moved out of state
and now she goes by a different name
I'm worried about Katie
Don't you ever feel alone
with all the love that you command?
Don't you ever feel alone.
My friend Katie says
you can become anything
how you charm my mind, Katie
Do you realize
that what you could be would blow someone's mind?
I think you do
So why are you in your room,
getting high and getting alone?
Do you need more friends, Katie?
Don't you ever feel alone
with all the love that you command?
Don''t you ever feel alone.
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4. |
Cry
03:30
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I don't lie when I say I'm dreaming today, oh
my suggestion is you move along
California made me quiver
when the only way I could leave was to get drunk
and cry on the flight
I don't know if i can get along and sing along with
all those people you like, if i try
but i'll be on your mind
when i decide to message you around some odd hour
there's wisdom in our bones that we're alone with
Colorado made me shiver
when lying helpless among the lightning strikes
I was reminded of love
I'm not balancing this like i used to
the smile on your face is weighing down
admit it, i make you cry
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5. |
Hello, Monkey
02:21
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Tripping on a hill of red rocks in the heat
Alone with buzzing bees but then you were next to me
when I turned around
Walk then wait aside for me, before we reach the trees
'cause you know I'll have to come down to you
I couldn't focus when I typed, I never got it right
the sun in Spain was just too damn bright
When I turned around
hello, monkey
shotgun in my car
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6. |
Stories
03:03
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What gives?
Makin' that case you're finishing sentences
Repeat
Dazzle 'em up you got your focus
But I will not light
your cigarette
when you're on those
accelerants
Stories... would you let one write itself
Go years
Hiding from love, at least you're not a dove
No pain
need no one, you got your head right
but I do not buy
your toughness
when you're on those
anesthetics
Stories... would you let one write itself
'Cause right now you're trying kinda hard
Stories... give someone else the pen
Stories... take your fiction off the shelf
'Cause these days who's buying that stuff, anyways?
I will not light
your cigarrette
I do not buy
your toughness
Stories... tell
Tell stories.... tell
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7. |
Khumbu's Song
01:26
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Khumbu, how are you
this morning in your spot by the window?
Khumbu, how do you
always find the sun when it's shady?
Khumbu, how did you
keep walking when it got dark,
and world disappeared from your eyes?
I wish I was more like you.
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8. |
Your Side of the Story
06:09
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You were looking at me
And I was looking away
I want to do better
Tonight I'll dress up in white
and stand in the corner, a perfect canvas
at which you can throw all the colors you like
'cause i want to hear your side of the story
as painful as that might be for me
I told you I was too busy driving
when I had something to learn
I want to do better
Tonight I'll dress up in white
and stand in the corner, a perfect canvas
at which you can throw all the colors you like
'cause I want to hear your side of the story
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9. |
Don't Look at Pictures
02:40
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You could run a thousand miles in your head
still you feel just like a criminal
take a second to forget what they said
'cause you don't look so pretty with those thoughts in your head
Don't read the news, buddy
it's not nothing to do with you
You shouldn't care so much about all the little things
that happened last week
and don't look at pictures
You could go by a different name every night
the total freedom of a canvas that's painted white
but then you'd have to murder the things you were
'cause you can't be these people when you're thinking of her
Don't read the news, buddy
it's got nothing to do with you
you shouldn't care so much about all the shitty things
that happened last night
and don't look at pictures
don't look at pictures
don't look at pictures
don't look at pictures
don't look at pictures
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Sometimes I cry
'Cause I can't hide, but you can't read my mind
I like the night
it covers us each and every time
You remind me of a storm, you're strong
and blowing me back sometimes
Take me so far from my home
and back to what I know
In my command
is a fragile thing, I try to understand
I make demands
and when I walk, demons hold my hand
And they remind me of a storm, they're strong
and blowing me back sometimes
take me so far from my home
and back to what I know
............
You and I, we should spend some time together
I don't mind walking a lonely trail with each other
You and I, we should spend some time
You and I, we should spend some time
You and I
You and I
You and I
You and I
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When I wake up and scream it's not because I'm scared
and I sure don't mean to scare you.
I have these recurring dreams that line up with recurring realities,
parallel lines i trade back and forth.
The more I sleep the more they start to meld, I'm afraid
the two infinite lines have grown so close they have collided.
there's no way to right the ship.
I want to feel guilty,
I want to feel guilty, but all i feel is calm strangeness.
I'm next to you, I watch you sleep.
I peer out the window, see a flash.
a meteor shower up close to the glass.
Memories spiraling, mine and yours,
future and past in a chaotic dance.
We're falling in love in universal collapse.
I watch you sleep, i know you.
I know you will be there in the last moment we share,
Your spidery fingers through my hair.
Your shadowy breath behind my ear.
A look in your eyes - a look of relief, and now i know
you were here to calm me in this last frantic horror.
In the end, we get to know there really is an end.
A swift decay... sublime relief.
It took forty two seconds for the bomb to drop.
We want to feel afraid but all we feel is calm strangeness.
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At times, the world is like the tides
if you bottle your message, it throws it around
There's nothing to fear, no vas a morir
just try not to worry, and quarter those waves
It's time now, we're through the trees
you got scars on your knees
you've torn off your sleeves
you're wounded and weak
but you'll heal and you've learned how to be where you are
It's nice to stay up all night
dining on rainbows and burning the forest
but the stars are the eyes
of whose who'll surprise you
by what they might know about you now
It's time now, I have to leave
won't you go back to bed
with a song in your head
i'll see you again
some day, somewhere in a dream.
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