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Sign Language
04:01
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I'll guide your hand, I'll guide your hand
I'll be one you always said you'd be on your own
You'll hide your smile, you'll hide your frown
You'll hide your happiness in your skull where no one will see what you are
It's a pyramid scheme, this love
We were on the same page but your ink's gotten thin
I tried to play nice but I know far too much
I used to know you but you've lost my trust for good
I'll push you out of my head, I'll push you out of my bed
Cause this has always been my space after all
But it's not your fault, like it's not my fault
We were bred to be this way
You're a poisonous one with your teeth biting down
And I've lost enough blood for my head to float away
It'll be a new star in the planetarium you've grown
When the energy caps it'll burn everything you know
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Receipt
05:28
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My receipt is soaking wet
I guess I left in my jeans for too long again
I disappear when you say
When you tell me what you want from me now
So I find another world and return where I was born
I dream of you when Iām bored when Iām bored
I said, I wish I wish I felt
I wish I felt the way you feel about me, too
Because I canāt I wonāt say no
To a thing that anyone will offer me
So why canāt I take it back?
I just want to take it back
Ditch me and shut me out
As I pretend that itās not what I want you to do
But if itās something that I can change, then
Give me a minute and Iāll explain my faults and regress
So Iāll find another girl
Cause I want to see the world
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Within Walls
05:33
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We share the lobby, but youāre really on the hundredth floor
When you come down, itās just because youāre feeling singular
Dark thoughts of going up there, obscured by what I think I need
Dark thoughts: they go away with the patience of the tallest wave
And itās been a trip chasing every synapse youāve been wired with
And I feel so alone, but Iāve found a place where I can try to go
Where all things are laid out in a way I understand
I canāt stop thisāI canāt stop this
I wonāt. I guess I didnāt want to
Tell me how to feel when youāre at home with someone else
And I can hear you dancing in the spotlight of my mind
But I wonāt open my eyes when I canāt bear to realize
That Iām not who youāve wanted, ācause Iām not good enough
I canāt stop this, I canāt stop this
I wonāt. I guess I didnāt want to
I want to
I donāt.
Paint the floor wet and weāll lay down: weāll make angels here now
As you burn your insides and I make headway on mine
Now weāre long dead from sickness, but our outlines tell secrets
As our bones just lie here in this buildingās last years
This is what we know,
Of how you hurt us so.
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Mistakes
02:30
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This cold reality keeps clashing with the stars
As I lie next to you and the others
All the lights that you left on call to me
And Iām counting on them all to guide me home
I need you now; I cannot bear to wait
Itās been so long since my last mistake
By now Iāve realized that I missed every hint
Youāve given up; youāre moving onāIām a fool
But if you wake up and tell me what I need to hear
Neither youāor Iāwill be the loser here
I need you now; I cannot bear to wait
Itās been so long since my last mistake
Why canāt you see what you could mean to me?
I swear to be all that I need to be
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Coal
02:25
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You're so worthless
No one will ever love you
Everything that happens wrong is your own fault
And you're so ugly
No one will ever look at you twice
No one will ever look at you twice
No, once is quite enough
These are the things I hope you know
As you look up at your ceiling
So don't get excited, no
Don't get your hopes up, no
Don't you dare get excited
You'll just end up at the start
And you're so swollen
Make sure to suck your stomach in
Make sure you wear a sweater
Don't dare you go without
You're so selfish
How dare you feel sorry for yourself
The demons of your friends will always dwarf your own
These are the things that I hope you know
As you look into your mirror
So don't get excited, no
Don't get your hopes up, no
Don't you dare get excited
You'll only break your heart
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Shatter
04:33
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I believe in second chances, but only when I'm the one underneath
I'm to blame
And if I didn't feel this, then I just wouldn't learn this
I'd stay the same
Life's a city with a theater, with no props or powered spots to stand in
I'm so lost
So if you know where I belong, take some time and make sure that I know
Tell the truth
And if I gather all of it and hold it in my arms before the mirror
Through the fog and letter lines, I can see that it's now all behind me
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Sunday
02:47
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I don't know where I am. Donāt say, āthatās not diplomatic.ā Watch yourself, and make sure that youāre never too real, and donāt be too specific. Pacific? I hate this place for taking what I had. So what I never used it?
Now, Iām starting over with my countless microscopic problems: insignificant; considerableāIāll never find out. And why couldnāt you just tell me? Because I can take it. Now itās broken, and Iām falling, but you wonāt help me up.
But, Iām okay.
I wish weād never come to the Colonies. Now, weāre stuck. Itās honestly too much geography for me. And why couldnāt we just let them be? āHere, take a hospital,ā but God forbid your children want to come back: no, stay where youāre born, unless youāre wealthy, then you go where you please. Pillage, rape, and steal in a system that no one can escape.
But, Iām okay.
Iām not an academic. I wish Iād done it. Itās too late, too long to start it: mathematic; cinematicāwhatever it takes to not end up and be alone. Itās not automatic. I feel like no one showed us a thing, so tell me how to get it.
Iām okay. Iāll stay.
Donāt make me talkāknow how I feel. See through this shield. Make me feel healed.
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Patience
02:35
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I will wait forever for you
Though the claws in the orchard keep shrouding you from view
In the winterās lick, Iām renewed
Still, I keep on waiting for you
And I found my grace in you
When I found myself with you
I will wait forever for you
On my backāin the riverāabused
With my eyes closed, I can still see the sun
Still, I keep on waiting for someone
And I found my grace in you
When I found myself with you
And with waters clear, and stars so near,
I will find myself with you
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Daywalker
07:07
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This part of the process, it stings me still; my heart is immobile
You walk in and my heart's beginning feverish dreams; my head starts to crumble
I can't stop taking notes and writing infinite cheques that won't cash til I'm dead
And I won't blink an eye until the ink runs outāno, I won't miss a thing
Your lips taste like fire in this Promethean dream, and now I want the sun
Oh, how I plan to ignite the forestry that I've grown, now that youāve come to stay
Take it all: take my wisdom, take my gold and my heart.
I was doomed from the start when you took to the quill and laid out everything, and you left me a scar
But misery waits, biding Her time
She poisons the well, I learn to malign
As the signs that you gave echo forward in time
And you move onto the next in line
You cut me offāyou cut me down
Now I'll never know what I could've found
Withered away; canceled within
Left to decay for unknowable sins
Y'sink to the stars, I'm one with the earth
But a million miles won't ease the hurt
So I talk in my sleep, I'll sing in my grave
About the day that the sunāit went away
Why couldn't you tell me where I went wrong?
Was it something I said? Or something I missed?
Why couldn't you tell me where I went wrong?
Why couldn't you tell me where I went wrong?
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Dreamweaver
03:38
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The curtains close, our bodies die
And all the colors of the spectrum form a sky
Your quiet soul, my selfless lies
You're the only colour here that's worthwhile
And I'd like to think we share a life here, you and I
Your heavy head dug in my side
We violently drift into a state of mind
You drape your arm aside the boat
And stir the waters to be clearer as we go
And you pray to God that nothing reaches back for you
When worlds connect through open doors
And these mirrors for our egos become a lens
I hear your voice next to my ear
And I let go of all of these things that held me down
Like this telescope that I had backwards from the start
It's curtain call for us and all
And all the colors that we saw are absorbed by light
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Clarity
02:56
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I saw you driving and I thought you a gem
I hit your car so that we could be friends
This twisted metal bent and formed us a womb
And then a city, it rose up and it bloomed
A hundred hours left to check every store, but
Beyond the grid, I'll just want even more
I hold your heart as it loses the beat
I really should roll it into the street
And let it go
I should let it go
In the silence, before the commute
You check your phone as it plays you a tune
Civilization has brought us the stars
So why do I feel so lost in the dark?
Peering out from your vampire eyes
With a gaze that reflects endless skies
You will tell me what I already know:
We've reached the end, and with nothing to show
I'll let you go
I'll let you go
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