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prime
03:10
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I'm a flat line on a descent
I'll be past my prime
And I still haven't learned a thing
Lately I can't see anything happening
Won't bother to exist
It's just too dangerous
I'd rather stay in bed
If it weren't for the anxious voice in my head
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goner
02:27
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Join the age old game of life and its hypocrisy
Roll the dice with fate until you see it's all been rigged
Give it one more try for your parents and posterity
Give it your best shot and then get up and try again
I see the stoplight and it won't be too long
Until I get there and all my brakes are shot
Tell me i played okay with what I was dealt
Just shoot me straight and say I'm not doing well
I'm hoping for green
Rinse and repeat
Forced myself up out of bed to go to church that day
Swallow down the wine and bread and what the pastor says
Be the last to walk down front with brutal honesty
Remind myself that I want my peace of mind back again
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3. |
laugh track
03:04
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I'd tell you to get off my back, but I'm not very good at that
I guess I'd rather fake a smile and take my cues from a laugh track
Is it really worth my time? I won't ever be satisfied
I thought that everything was alright and then I almost died
I'll sit and read a magazine of illustrated sports
Try and think of a good reason why I always come up short
I'll pay it off over the course of the summer
I'll be fine, but man it's taking its toll
A little solid ground would help, a little bit of faith as well
Guess that they're in high demand, when I went there was nothing on the shelves
I can't say what's on my mind, can't say that I'm doing fine
Guess I'd say that I'm not sure what I'm sure of half of the time
It's taking it's toll
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vomit
03:38
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Vomit. Get it out
You'll probably feel better after
If I'm honest
It's the hundredth time around
I cant get it out no matter how hard I try
Trying to learn how to walk with all that You gave to me
Even though You knew from the start that I'd have negative tendencies
You have to understand why its hard to believe
It's hard to think straight when you're dying
You're still alive, you said you don't care to be
And if it rains, stay inside
Try to sleep, I lose my mind
I'll try to keep it packed away
In boxes on the shelf
Out of sight not out of mind, but oh well
I guess I'm working things out
Trying to be different a year from now
I'll take a box or two down
Open it up and deal with the fallout
Put the other back and ignore it for now
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5. |
twinning
04:35
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Everyone is tired, everything is heavy
I've been trying hard to care, ever since I stopped talking to you
I can't say everything will be alright, the way I always used to
I can't be your lifeboat, I'm not all that buoyant anymore
I can't swim and keep you afloat, darker the further down you go
You hate the light, you tell me that it hurts your eyes
When I pull the blinds
How do you live, when you don't wanna be alive?
Really good at being all alone
But it's not safe for me to stay at home
You panicked when I called you on the phone
I understood and got onto the road
Got to your place so you wouldn't be alone
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skipping town
02:56
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Step up to the plate, shoulder the blame
Should have said no, should have said a lot of things
Could have gone home, could have let the phone ring
Should I have been there in the first place?
Said that I would wait, left in a daze
Let it all fall to pieces in front of me
Should have put it off, like every single other thing
Sorry that I dragged you into this
I will disappear if it doesn't make sense
It'll be too late I'll have missed my chance
I'll be an example in your book of parables
I never knew anything after all
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it takes
02:54
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A dream I can't wake up from
Can't breath, a terrible weight forced upon
Knees fail, laying with you on the ground
There's nothing I can say
I don't got what it takes
I watch my friends pick themselves up again and again
I don't got what it takes
And I've got nothing to say
That I haven't said over and over again
A broken record spinning
In circles never ending down the drain
I couldn't make you feel safe
Only maybe dull the pain
Suffice to say I'll go upstairs and isolate
Come back down and try again
I see the stoplight and it wont be too long
Until I get there and all my brakes are shot
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big bandaid
01:55
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Can you see that I'm sinking?
A hand would be nice
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Thanks for the vague advice
Broke it off in the wound
Only so much I can do
Dig around and push it through
It's just a bandaid to you
Can't say what's on my mind
You can't see past my eyes
Can't diagnose me, right?
When I'm as good as blind
Your vices are my vices
But I'm the crutch you need
I handle them so nicely
I aim so hard please
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engoodening
02:37
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It was pure at the start
We were good for the long haul
And it's been good so far
But I've started to fall off
Poison in the scar
It wasn't so pure after all
I don't want to watch myself die over time
Was getting cynical worth it? Squinting at the light
I'm not going gentle into the dark night
Don't know why I keep on coming round
Yeah, Your friends are still my friends
But I'm still half way in the ground
I try to pull myself on up and out
They just ask me how I've been and if I'm better now
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10. |
full circle
03:11
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When I'm dead open my throat, maybe find the things I choked on
Constant fear of the unknown, all the things I couldn't keep down
Make it hard to see, even harder to breath
I've been stumbling around
Slowly getting dizzy, reaching out and grabbing
Whatever I can get my hands on
Refind the things that I let go of
Maybe peace of mind is worth a swallow or two
Everything I couldn't hold
Has been falling in slow motion
All the ways I couldn't cope
The set path I couldn't turn from
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fading
02:32
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Pick and choose
What I will and won't do
Matters more than I thought
Make a choice and see it through
Asked if I would and I'd rather not
At some point I've got to stop
Wonder if I'm too far gone
I can feel myself I'm fading
Fading
Nothing to lose
But I still wait until I have to
Can't put it off
Make a choice and see it through
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OK O'Clock Kansas City, Missouri
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