1. |
While You're Away
01:41
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I envy your pillow
For being so close to you
What am I supposed to do
Without that feeling
I'm missing our bare feet
All tangled between the sheets
I can't seem to fall asleep
Without that feeling
When you come home
I won't leave you alone
A single night
And every morning too
I'd wake up next to you
If that's alright
I wish I could feel you
Dreaming next to me
And what could that dream be
That gives me this feeling?
I suppose it's good to miss you
But not as good as having you here
And when you come home
Lend me your ear
So I can give you feelings
When you come home
I won't leave you alone
A single night
And every morning too
I'd wake up next to you
If that's alright
Whoa I hope that's alright
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2. |
Bedside Quixote
03:21
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I still remember
Sunday afternoons inside
That burn of yours from the Fourth of July
Doctor Pepper headaches
Nintendo on the floor
Always wanting to be more like you
We didn't have
The luxury of simplicity
And these days are you missing me
Ice cream sundaes
Don't tell your mother
Don't tell your mother
Don't tell her we were up all night
She and I have shit and things get hairy
Don't tell her you can call anytime
When the nights get dark and the fights get scary
You are mine
Bedside Quixote
And stories from the farm
We three arm in arm on Christmas Day
Dinner on the foldout
Card table he has had since
Long before we were all so sad
Eastwood classics
On the old TV
The one with the black stripe
Broken on the top
That he couldn't pay to fix
But he took us to the shop
Where we marveled at the nice things
We would never buy
Even movie ticket prices got way too high
So instead we rented South Park VHS
Don't tell your mother
Don't tell her we were up all night
She and I have shit and things get hairy
Don't tell her you can call any time
When the nights get dark and the fights get scary
You are mine
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3. |
The Latter
03:28
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Some nights I'm bursting at the seams
Some nights I'm a shell
Sometimes I'm everything I seem
Sometimes even I can't tell
This is one of the latter
I am empty and unsure
So I'll tuck myself away
Some days I sing the same old tune
Some days I don't sing at all
Someday I'll think up something new
Or into nothing I'll fall
I am fearing it's the latter
I have wrung myself out dry
And now I've nothing left to say
Sometimes when I look in your eyes
I know just what you need
But sometimes, even in those times
I just don't have it in me
And I'm so sorry it's the latter
I am giving it my all
But there's nothing there today
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4. |
Wake
03:56
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I've been collecting dust
I've been sleeping on it
And with you I must admit
I'm awake like I've never been
Saying so feels so exposed
And I just let you in
Now all I know is I'm on hold
Til I see you again
But I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I've been looking up
Since you looked my way
And you fill me up so much
I'm afraid to say
But I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I wanna scream from a mountain
Leap from a bridge into your arms
I wanna live wherever you are
I've been collecting dust
I've been sleeping on it
And you scare me to death
I'll just be honest
But I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I wanna live in this fear
I've chased it this far
I wanna scream from a mountain
Leap from a bridge into your arms
And I wanna live wherever you are
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5. |
New Mexico
02:59
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Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
And I can't hide
From her ever-sinking eyes
I can't turn back
Lord knows I've tried
Cuz it seemed so pure
From the outside
I'll burn right up
into this desert night
If New Mexico
Can't put my head on right
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
And I can't hide
From her ever-sinking eyes
So far, so gone
When you're out of sight
But your voice in my ear
drives me out of my mind
And I came
To claim what's mine
And I stayed
The same 'cuz it's only time
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
And I can't hide
From her ever-sinking eyes
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
Father is the Jeckyll and mother is the Hyde
And though I've tried
I'm a slave to my own design
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You are not a villain in a song
You're a man to whom I'd hoped I could belong
But if all we are is skin stretched over bone
I am my own
I am my own
Swore I saw a glimmer of a man
Who could tolerate if not quite understand
That I'm more than some burden that you opted not to bear
Cuz you were scared
You were scared
Remember when I told you I could die
That I'm grasping for a reason to survive
You took the words and crushed them, oh
You always loved to steal but never
Ask me how I feel
There was no how you feelin?
I still taste the sweetness of your kiss
Though my tongue spits bitter after all of this
I miss the way it feels not to crumble but to soar
When my eyes meet yours
I am my own
I'm not made of stone
And goddamn I feel my pain through skin and bone
So where'd your heart and spine go
And don't it get too cold on your own?
You're on your own
Cuz I am my own
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maggie y/o Oakland, California
feelings evangelist
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