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middle
02:54
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you were one side of the ocean
and I told you, it's called the sea
you promised love, said believe me
and I told you, it's I before e
I felt your hands on my shoulders
knew you'd never ever let me fall
been down so many times I was sore
you could never understand it all
I took a step away
you stepped back
we were parallel lines
now we're off track
I was your anchor
and you were my favorite friend
I promise to meet in the middle
if you'll only see me again
baby it's easy
just let go
if you never try
you never know
if you'll never try
I took shelter in your shadow
if I break,
well you would hardly bend
I promise to meet in the middle
if you only love me again
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2. |
stuck
03:53
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they're gonna eat you up and spit you out
and when you've had enough you still bow down
trip on your name, forget how to speak
say I'm okay, and rinse and repeat
you're older now, they're not around
there's something in the air you breathe
you take whatever, shove it down
to prove you're finally feeling free
nobody hits you 'cept yourself
you're how they wanted you to be
'cuz it stuck inside you
'cuz it stuck inside you
said he wants your skin, it makes him complete
he hasn't been quite the same since you came on the scene
he sings all the songs you know, he hears the same melody
while he desecrates you
you worship at his feet
at long last it feels like someone sees what you needed them to know
not secondhand, not second class
that you are in one of your own
they left behind a two-bit rhyme, a pretty word for you to hold
has it stuck inside you?
has it stuck inside you?
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3. |
d.i.d.p.
03:06
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the wheels just turn in my head
and I wonder why they bother
all this static quicksand
in between us
and it rained ash from the sky
so you hold onto what you hold onto
guess it's just too bad
that it's not me
so we get drunk in different places
and we go home to separate faces
and somehow every warm embrace is
leaving me colder
leaving me
so I'll hold onto your words
like they'll hold me through the night
and when there's ash in my sky
I think of you
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4. |
n.e.i.s.
05:11
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got a friend
who sends me all the saddest songs
and I believe
they’re pieces of him for me to see
got a friend
I never see for very long
nobody knows all the things he means to me
oh
where will i go
when my house of cards crumbles away
oh
my honey
how can I dream
when she’s in your arms every day
there’s no end in sight
to the way that you made me feel
no footprints at night
nothing of a light that felt so real
tail between my legs
I look up at you and wish that we could stand
together
hand in hand
I’m hiding in the backseat of your mind
far away from all the prying eyes
one day we sold our bodies, sold our souls
so we could trade our hearts and lose control
and there’s no end in sight
to this road or how far I’ll go
no point in goodbye
cause I know I’ll never really let you go
master of dog
I promise you I’d be your biggest fan
I’m your lady
you’re my man
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5. |
ghost hands
04:32
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wait for the call
there's nobody left
the warm night, it beckons
it promises no more regrets
forget it all
and fall into line
it'd be such a waste not to waste yourself
just this one time
I'll wait for the ghost hands
to get you alone
they're gonna make you feel like you're finally home
watch out for the ghost hands
when you're on your own
they're gonna love you like you've never known
after you wake
not quite unscathed
the night is the day is the feeling that you cannot shake
go out again
it's the only way
a stranger's no danger
and you are their greatest escape
I'll wait for the ghost hands
to get you alone
they're gonna make you feel like you're finally home
look out for the ghost hands
when you're on your own
they're gonna love you like you've never known
invisible girl
invisible world
the innocence is what ends you
the smell and the sound
your face upside down
the serenade of a black moon
it's your siren song
as you scream along
nobody listens
but I hear it too
I'll wait for the ghost hands to get you alone
they're gonna follow you wherever you go
give in to the ghost hands
when you're on your own
they're the only love that you ever will know
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6. |
(parentheses)
05:10
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someone's gonna come around
with an easier way out
do the things you wanna do
when no one understands you
you can make them stick around
hold 'em up and pin 'em down
shadowbox 'em every time
make it so it's in their mind
and we're neverending
always beginning
in between
parentheses
the distance dividing
dissolves into nothing
in between
parentheses
oh I know you're not to blame
I think I might do the same
givers are for the taking
and hearts are for the breaking
one day you'll wake up a little older
running out of games to play
you brought home the one
but when you hold her
you no longer feel okay
and we're neverending
always beginning
in between
parentheses
the distance dividing
dissolves into nothing
in between
parentheses
it's all in my mind
it's all in my mind
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7. |
if I were
03:22
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if I was a bird
maybe I could see you
wherever I fly to
wherever I’d go
if you were a tree
I’d make your roots in
next to the garden
where my love grows
but I’m just a girl
you couldn’t stand not to have
put your fingers in the jar
and then pulled 'em back
I live in a skin
you tried to drown in
only to find out
I gave you a home
I won’t help you erase me
I won’t help you at all
no stones at your window
won’t answer no calls
I won’t be the disaster
you blame for your flaws
and I’ll go on singing
long after you fall
do do do do do do
do do do do do
did you think of Control?
whenever you touched me
to live out your fantasy
of breakin' this bad
oh if I were a book
I’d bury your name in
the depths of my pages
so you never come back
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8. |
mother's milk
01:55
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sippin' on your mother's milk
the kind that you needed when you were young
you never had a chance
other kids would munch their chips
without realizin' it was gold
you never had a chance
to be them at all
talkin' to your walls
I don't have no mother's milk to offer you
guess I'm runnin' dry
I too will sit here
just waiting to die
I know you'll be searching for it all
for the rest of your life
you never had a chance
you never had a chance
I never had the chance
to come and dry your eyes
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9. |
river
03:04
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when I think of you
my feet are wet
I’m running towards you in the rain and suddenly there is no pain
in my legs
or in my head
but in my heart
I can’t forget
and when you think of me
there are no words
for the songs you want to write
though you say I keep you up at night
I’m not the one
who holds your hand
when you wake up
no one will know
that I exist
though their shallow gaze may trace the crooked lines in your face
I do not live there
anymore
anymore
I am the air
that surrounds you
river of shame
you flow within me
yet you are nowhere
not around me
anymore
no one will know
but I exist
and it’s enough
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10. |
bug bite
02:42
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tryin' hard to get the taste out
stayin’ tough but it’s all you think about
your mind’s eye is just a blank stare
say goodbye to goin somewhere
I tried to reach back
into the garden where you came from
I found an empty puddle of mud
you tried to stomp
Out
the little bug that bit you
only to see
its eyes were full of love
I don’t remember the sunset
but I remember the sunrise
I don’t remember the sunset
but I remember the sunrise
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11. |
coke
06:47
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get up
pick your brain off the floor
even though
you don't use it no more
I thought you said last time
would be the last time
but I guess that's what you said
the time before
staring into a stranger's eyes in the mirror
and the lightbulb burned out a while ago
the doctor will ask,
"who do you think you are?"
well if I knew
I wouldn't be here
coke
wanna wash it all away
have hope
(but) it'll always be this way
oh,
I wanna watch the sky fall down
from another place
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Phone Voice Portland, Oregon
in a fire you find a friend to carry you to safety. you wake up and only the friend is a dream.
since 2017
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