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Horsey
03:45
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There’s a stitch in you that’s caught up in me
And though the color’s faded,
You called it evergreen
Opened horsey’s head, just to find the right words:
Nothing was forgotten
Perennial hearts, you lay with me in memory
So even though it moves quite slow, we’ll see
Some nights the moonlight hollowed out our living room
And everything seemed perfect,
Your eyes they were in bloom
But I keep falling over, over again
Tongue twisted, made of fabric
Perennial hearts, you lay with me in memory
So even though it moves quite slow, we’ll see
(And you, stay here)
So even when we end up empty,
(Stay here)
It’s not because I forgot to say goodbye
(Stay here, please stay here)
So follow your hands back to fields of dandelion
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2. |
Sleeping Pills
02:59
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You were the first one
You were the one to show me that song
and I still know it by heart
You were the best one
You were the one to show me around
In your hometown
I'm still sorry that it seems like instability
But trouble finds a way of catching up with me
And after Atlanta
I’m sorry if I seemed to much
But it’s never enough
I felt like a turnstile
Thoughts racing without any time to spare
This wouldn’t be a quick repair
It’s just that after hours seemed so much easier to me
So even when we lied, it felt better every time
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3. |
All Old Words
04:29
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You were there when the final curtain
Called on my last life
You were there to see it through,
To keep me safe at night
When it comes to thanks,
It seems so simple now
I don’t know how
Even though it’s been so cold
It still cuts like a knife
Exit strategies were
Floating from our tongues
All old words
You can’t hold the daylight or in betweens
As close as it seems, it’s only for dreams
You can’t hold the daylight or in betweens
As close as it seems, as close as it seems
Someone whispered it’s coming to a close
You can’t hold the daylight or in betweens
As close as it seems, it’s only for dreams
You can’t hold the daylight or in betweens
As close as it seems, as close as it seems
(So whenever you come home,
Please be sure you’re set in stone)
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4. |
For a Starling
05:01
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I forgot how to breathe
On a cold winter’s night
The river was calling me
It goes to show
That even when the wind blows
There will be daybreak
The moonlight fades from underneath
A blanket soft, a warm embrace
Keep good company
And try to fall asleep
I never know
How to say goodbye and mean it
I never mean it
Cause you were all that I could see
Late last night, I dreamt of you
The best of it
The rest of it
The off-white lies
The throwaways,
I let them slip away
A house ain’t home,
You breathe it out
And then you let it all come in
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5. |
Odessa
03:39
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Well, I’ve heard she’s full of secrets, even to this day
Hard to realize, but it’d be better off the other way
And if you see her there, man she glows
Can hardly navigate the way out from underneath the dread
And even when you could, couldn’t find out where it ends
Practiced everything reverse, for all those years, what a curse
The dust from Odessa
Was buried in a sycamore
Casting into light 'til everybody’s heard
That we can’t find her now
Even though it’s time to go,
She lent me something gold
Curse the roots of what I used to say was old
If this was all a dream, what could be said of you?
The dust from Odessa
Was buried in a sycamore
Casting into light 'til everybody’s heard
That we can’t find her now
So as you exit out the front door into light
You, you caused a scene for no one, lips sealed tight
With your distracted tunnel vision, hope to find
Something I cannot define
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6. |
Public Access
04:53
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This is what retreat looks like:
Huddled up in ill-fit clothes
Pretending to renovate my smile
Trying to bring you back home
Miles of pavement in between
Your sheets and mine
I just want to rest my tired back
But I won’t get to that tonight
You wore the saddest songs on your sleeve
Spinning circles in your dreams
Watching dull programs on cable TV
Won’t you sit a spell with me?
I heard your landlines falling back
Into dull arms
And even in my best attempts,
They still fall short
No time for dinner, not tonight
I'm just getting in
Every time you move, it’s hard to figure out
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7. |
Bells Ring
02:40
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As soon as the bells ring
My mind slips into better times
But just as a dream ends
This too falls back to rest its head
I can’t believe you’re here again
Sailing through winter’s open end
Waiting for dusk to settle in
Keeping quiet until then
Never the right place, never the right time
To turn pages, open-ended, overdue
Moving beyond everything in white
Redirect me towards your light
I can’t believe we’re here again
Sailing past winter’s open end
Waiting for dusk to settle in
Keeping quiet until then
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8. |
Approaching June
07:28
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You were standing
Right beside me
Hands in pockets
Holding mostly
Such an angel
I had seen her cry
Like the devil
Kept in inside
Overwhelming
Evidence of loss
Sorry vessels
Never know the cost
Poison arrows
Seem the perfect cure
For a child
Caught up in a storm
Never telling
Of any argument
You were so right
I had missed the hint
Now you see me
Mostly behind glass
If you could just
Make me laugh
Even the smallest ones would mourn for this
But when it’s time to go, it’s time to go
So farewell my friend
Slowly in the back of my room
Slowly, approaching, approaching june
So here’s to you
(This is what retreat looked like:
Was huddled up in all those ill-fit clothes
Now it’s time to come back home)
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