1. |
Where Have You Gone
04:05
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Where Have You Gone
All of the light trapped within your bones
Captured in some pine box as you lay alone
Bubbles up ready to explode
Driving a car passing through states
I’ve been a wreck I’m in a way
The whole world feels crazy
Everything seemed warmer with you in my corner
I’m so alone where have you gone
Losing my way I scream and curse
Somehow the thought of you in the earth
Makes me feel more assured
I’ll dig you up I’ll set you free
I’ll stick your bones inside a tree
The world will soon believe
Everything seemed warmer with you in my corner
I’m so alone where have you gone
I never sleep near enough staring at the sky until the sun comes up
Wishing that the world would somehow realign or I could turn back time
Head in the clouds heart in the ground
I’m a balloon jerking around
Someone bring me down
Watching the waves pounding the coast
Seeing the birds hover and float
I miss you my ghost
Everything seemed warmer with you in my corner
I’m so alone where have you gone
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2. |
Arrows in My Quiver
04:24
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Arrows in My Quiver
Something like a strategy hovering there above me
Laid out in this foreign light I can barely see a thing tonight
And I don’t really change watching as the world grows strange
And all I all ever consider
Lay beside the arrows in my quiver
Waiting as I ready to shoot
But I’m so confused
In this way I hardly heed a lessening by degrees
Losing my perspective growing so lazy and reckless
And I cannot avoid the simple math that you employ
And all I all ever consider
Lay beside the arrows in my quiver
Waiting as I ready to shoot
But I’m so confused
Watch the way we wreck
And then forget
Breathe every breath
See the full effect
All the thoughts inside my head glowing like a cigarette
I cannot control my mind any more than stopping time
Sometimes it grows foggy as I step outside body
And all I all ever consider
Lay beside the arrows in my quiver
Waiting as I ready to shoot
But I’m so confused
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3. |
Chemistry
02:54
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Chemistry
The park the moon hidden behind clouds
The birds have all left us for the south
What’s the appeal I’m keeping it real
The air so thin I struggle for this breath
And you’ve been gone a week or two at best
It’s a catastrophe I’m in the shit again
Somebody’s after me I need some medicine
The swings the flag rattle like a ghost
The salt-ty air leaves all decomposed
Where have you been you were my friend
The wind my breath hanging in the air
And you elapsed I’m so unprepared
Climbing an icy cliff taking on water
I’m getting used to this why do I bother
Back in a hole again I know the recipe
Doesn’t feel like pretend I need some chemistry
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4. |
You Breathing
03:00
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You Breathing Voice memo
Driving through the desert
With my eyes out the window
And the colors in the mountains
And the sun through the sun roof
Pretending I was sleeping
As the sun started slipping
Voices through the speakers
And I felt myself drifting
All that I could hope for was a sneaky sudden ending
A time machine to beam me back at the beginning
The air was growing cooler
And I thought I heard you humming
You stopped at a clearing
And kept the engine running
All the stars were dancing
I swear it felt like Christmas
I could hear coyotes
Howling in the distance
All that I could hope for was a sneaky sudden ending
A time machine to beam me back at the beginning
I pulled out a blanket
And turned the engine off
Reading from a flashlight
Poems of Robert Frost
I swear the sky was pulsing
Vibrating and beating
I fell asleep
To the sound of you breathing
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5. |
God's Design
02:48
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God’s Design
I was looking for a sign
A simple indication of god’s design
I was hoping for a signal
My name in cursive scratched out in pencil
I’m just dreaming this you don’t even exist
I was holding my breath
Staring at nothing I grew light headed
There are things I can’t explain
The way a smell creeps into my brain
I’m just dreaming this you don’t even exist
We watch the light dance on the water
See the sun dip down farther
Notice stars emerge then shift
You ask what is the cause of all of this
There’s a calm in the morning
A quiet hesitation borderline boring
That’s when I lose myself
And I look elsewhere asking for some help
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6. |
Flickering
02:41
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Flickering
Grabbed my daddy’s shotgun and walked out through the field
Past the ghostly factory where she disappeared
Starlings in the Dogwoods stripped of all their leaves
I’ll be blowing somewhere else when I turn eighteen
Nothing in this mill town ever makes a sound
No one ever notices that she’s not around
They’ll remember me when I burn it down
I will burn it down
Pushing to the summit nearly into dusk
Streetlights slowly flickering lighting up the rust
I think about my mother the choices that she made
The way that she was treated how she felt afraid
Nothing in this mill town ever makes a sound
No one ever notices that she’s not around
They’ll remember me when I burn it down
I will burn it down
I will burn it down down to the ground
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7. |
Porous
03:32
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Pourous
Sitting out by the river Halfway toward wasted
You said love’s an infection And I’ve been inoculated
I jumped into the water without taking off my clothes
Floated on the surface Like a water buffalo
Breathing in the night air Watching the stars above me
Swirling with intention In their choreography
I heard you in my cold ears but didn’t know your words
All that stretched before me mutated then blurred
I swear I saw my breath floating out of my mouth
And I could feel the earth porous as a cloud
Drying out on the train tracks Falling into a stupor
Listening for the choppers The air growing cooler
The sound of people laughing pulled me from my trance
Somehow I felt warm blood coursing through my hands
Walking up from the forest A magnet to the fire
No one seemed to notice As I quietly arrived
I sat down right beside you a moment there in time
You said I miss your body And put your hand in mine
I swear I saw my breath floating out of my mouth
And I could feel the earth porous as a cloud
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8. |
Subtle Shifting
04:41
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Subtle Shift
Are there ever any reasonable assumptions
Or do we have to jump to the conclusions
I’m resenting all this speculation
Mired in this mess that we’re making
Overworking every possible perspective
And in the end the results are ineffective
Disassemble reassemble all the variables
They say you never can be too careful
And I I wanna start drinking
They say it helps with the over thinking
And you you wanna move through this
Make a break take a turn make a subtle shift
I broke my back carrying you up the stairs again
Just another thing no one really comprehends
Is there ever any need to recalibrate
When you’ve learned I’m prone to hallucinate
You never meant to make this thing vindictive
Maybe it’s my attraction to affliction
All the precedents have long since been established
We’re greyhounds chasing the same rabbit
And I I wanna start drinking
They say it helps with the over thinking
And you you wanna move through this
Make a break take a turn make a subtle shi
Sometimes in this veering toward analysis
And our mutual self-awareness
It feels so goddamned uninspired
Let’s set this old boat on fire
I know this tendency towards reduction
Leads to a mutually assured destruction
Lately you’ve been reading the works of Lau Tzu
I could never imagine a world without you
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9. |
In the Before
03:30
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In the Before
I was gonna be the one to show you
The world is like a cloud impermanent
Point out all the antecedents
Precursors determinants
Tried to explain the difference
Between particles and atoms
The way your eyes shape air and light
Color it through a prism
I wanted to show you all these things
But you beat me to it
You said I was a condescending fool
And then I proved it
I wanted to take you out for a ride
On the back of my father’s Norton
To places you had never seen
To stave away the boredom
You said you wouldn’t be my monkey
Not today or any other
There were worlds inside of you
Left to be discovered
I wanted to show you all these things
But you beat me to it
You said I was a condescending fool
And then I proved it
With each cigarette that stained your crooked teeth
I grew reticent as you slipped from my reach
You said sometimes I blotted out the light
All my everything somehow grew contrite
C#m B
But you pulled me close and made me feel connected
Said you liked way sorrow adds perspective
Asus B C#m E C#m B
You took my hand led me out the door
I left behind how were before
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