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Saccharine
04:08
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Picturesque view up here
The middle of the day
I missed how summers taste so sweet
Was that your point of view
Or just the stain of wine?
Don’t like your love too saccharine
The souvenirs of you
Dead roses on my wall
But now there’s joy I can recall
I have become the hawk
You’d see on all your walks
Through wind or rain I’ll find my way
So you ran away
How’s life alone?
If God herself gave you a diamond
I don’t think you’d be satisfied
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Birthday Cake
04:12
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Teen Idle - Birthday Cake
Running away and back again Raising the stakes, hoping you’ll win Sign of the cross
Gin on the rocks
One little sin will do you in
You like the chase At night you pray
That something great is on the way And in a day you’ll come to me
And you will hear just what you need
If you think it’s a game
You should learn to play right Now, go on, and leave the state You’re still chained to your mind
You hid away for thirty days
And now you’re home to state your case
You like the taste of birthday cake
And all your friends singing your name Born with a spoon between your lips Where it will stay until the day
You think it’s a game
You should learn to play right Now, go on, and leave the state You’re still chained to your mind
Since you think it’s a game You should learn to play right
Now, go on, and leave the state You’re still chained to your mind
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Norway
04:46
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I would like to go away
To far off places like Norway
Take my hand, I’ll show you where
To hide from the monsters down there
The world is big but there’s no space In New York City or L.A.
You just need to get away
To dye your hair and change your name
You know that this place
Is with you until the end of your life And you’re leaving today
On a ticket that you barely could buy
You sped across the interstate Away from the mess that you made To an unfamiliar place
Two thousand miles away
You just had one or two days To fix up your resume
To cut your teeth around this town You‘ll have to be the party clown
You know that this place
Is with you until the end of your life And you’re leaving today
On a ticket that you barely could buy
And then out of the blue
You'll be back here on the earliest flight And I’ll know I was right
Thinking you were always terrified I would like to go away
I would like to go away
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Things You Say
04:40
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The things you say
Will always stay in my mind
You’ve become someone I can’t recognize
The monsters they’ve been creeping in every night The fog sets in and wraps you in a cloud of grey
Darling you’ve slipped
Right through the hands of time
The souvenirs will disappear by next year
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Epigraph
00:50
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Spiderwebs
04:42
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You have a way with words Got me wrapped inside of them Trap me in your web
And watch me start to spin
Say I’ll be alright
Get me through the night Or at least pretend
And all the same again
Now when you come around I’ll just have left the town
You’re casually late, but early to escape
Stuck in spiderwebs Can’t wrestle out of them
Would you like to see what will become of me?
Maybe I’m trapped inside Slipped into a little trance Cause in my mind I tried to find
A reason why you’d give it a chance
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Dance Inc.
04:14
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I’ve been surviving so far on my own
In the world of the blazers
And blood-hungry headhunters
By now I would’ve thought I’d be taken
And so inundated
With corporate occurrences
I’ve been surviving
I’ve been surviving
I’ve been surviving
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8. |
Every Night
04:44
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You’ve always been good at fading to black
In the background you stay, so far away
You dye your hair cause
You’re afraid to show your colors
Locked in the bathroom, running for cover
Every night I used to wonder why
The planets never did align
You want to be in a band
Cause you play the people around you
I reached out my hand
It’s been a slow burn
You’d drink yourself to the grave
Just to forget the pain
Of all that was taken
The day your mom passed away
Every night I used to wonder why
The planets never did align
The questions that once plagued my mind
Have been answered with time
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Stranger
03:32
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I lie here awoken by the sound
Of a thunderstorm
It welcomes me home with open arms
Another New York night
Hopped off a flight with bloodshot eyes
This is not goodbye,
I’ll see you down the line
These little moments in time
Years from now, what will remain in our minds?
It’s just another starry night
Let’s paint it like Van Gogh
I feel like a stranger
I’ve seen stranger
I’ve seen stranger
Stranger things
Sun-kissed memories
Sudden goodbyes
Embrace me one last time
Before I fly home tonight
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Winter
06:12
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I’ve been searching far and wide
I don’t know how to play your game
It’s Sunday morning,
And Lou Reed tells me
The whole world is way behind me
For you, words roll right off the tongue
But mine get stuck in the back of my throat
And in the winter nights
It’s so hard to see the light
But I know there’ll be a day
You will find the reason why
I built my life on a hollow feeling
That you would come running to me
I painted phrases in the sky
Hoping you would be outside
Now I know why you like December
Your heart is cold, just like the weather
And in the winter nights
It’s so hard to see the light
But I know there’ll be a day
You will find the reason why
And when the summer’s done
I will still be holding on
To your memory so far gone
Like red wine, stain my mind
The door is wide open
The door is open
The door is open
The door is
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11. |
On Fire
05:17
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Burning so bright, she burned out too fast
The show must go on even if this is the last
She is all the colors
And she used to be the one
Now she’s washed out with the girls downtown
Her second in the sun
From a bed of flowers
She would pick them one by one
Waiting always for a man
To help her come undone
She could only live her life as it went along
No concrete plans
Except that she would run it to the ground
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