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Favorite Part
03:17
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Replay the memories one by one
Like you are watching a movie that stars someone
You don’t remember you barely like
There’s something off about the way she smiles
And you can tell he doesn’t understand desire
And you just look back maybe you laugh
There’s nothing funny it’s just unbelievable
All the times you’ve got to say
Alright I’m letting you go
If you put your will up against my heart
I’ll let you win that’s my favorite part
That’s my favorite part
That afternoon in that nice hotel
A foreign country and the ocean swell
You acted unimpressed
I walked out stage left
I’ve never known a script quite like yours
Where there’s no battle just a trojan horse
It felt like a gust of wind just about did you in
There’s nothing funny it’s just unbelievable
All the times you’ve got to say
Alright I’m letting you go
If you put your will up against my heart
I’ll let you win that’s my favorite part
That’s my favorite part
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2. |
Popularity
03:57
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Eight years walking into those bars
Like anything could happen
People like us in a city like this
Thinking eventually the door just opens
It’s almost the feeling of being first in line
Like your anticipation becomes some cruel design
Five years getting over the friend
Who didn’t care didn’t try didn’t love you
And you still haven’t cussed him out
‘Cause maybe feeling it is a small town point of view
You don’t know who’s just doing business anymore
And you don’t care about your popularity score
We’ve all got someone we love who swears
That Jesus is just coming back to save them
But when you try to point it out
That what they’re standing for is everything he stood against
It’s so bad it’s so unbelievably bad
That somewhere down the line we forgot
All the good things that guy said
And oh I can’t take I can’t stand another
Heartbreak heartbreak heartbreak like this
Can’t stand another heartbreak like this
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3. |
Seasonal
03:03
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Did you just start feeling
Start feeling good again
Is it like someone just turned the color back on
Did you need to get older
Need to get further away from something
Or did you just need to take some time off
Oooh babe don’t tell me that’s nothing
Short of miraculous
That you got up
Something beautiful to say
Man I haven’t lived enough
And I’ve got one more day or month or year
To find out what that means
Yea I know it’s not attractive
And I wish I could stay distracted
And never let you see me get this bad again
Oooh babe don’t tell me that’s nothing
Did you just start seeing
Your own reflection
Did you just take your own stupid breath away
Remember your body
Remember your agency to feel
The wind on your skin with the lake crashing into
The evening those lilacs you breathe and surrender
Fall into your own two arms fireworks car alarms
Who says L.A. can’t make you tender
Oooh babe don’t tell me that’s nothing
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4. |
Sleeper
04:29
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Something hardened you
Hit a nerve and went right through
And you can’t believe you’re still here standing
Because I was bitching at my friend
Come on man where have you been
Then he told me about the wave
That just came out of nowhere
And I can’t even speak
It’s that rapacious sympathy
‘Cause I just want to wrap my arms around you for good
And say nothing is going to get you now
I’ve got you shamelessly
And that’s all I ever want to say to you
Just to try to take a little fear away
Here’s to the year we cried
Shocked speechless but still alive
Waging war with whoever’s in the bathroom mirror
‘Cause it’s just me vs me
And my fear of loss and brevity
And my childish jealousy
Of somebody who I used to be
And I can’t even speak
It’s just my blatant sensitivity
‘Cause I just want to wrap my arms around you for good
And say nothing is going to get you now
I’ve got you shamelessly
And that’s all I ever want to say to you
Just to try to take a little fear away
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5. |
Sgt. Pepper
03:20
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You weren’t reaching forward
I wasn’t falling back
Something caught that boiling water
Nobody ever explains it
That car was heading towards him
His basketball was crushed
Something just pulled him backwards
I’ve never seen your hands shake so much
And we all just stood there
And we all just tried
To force an inhale
‘Cause that kid’s still alive
I remember those mornings
Once a week freezing pitch black drives
From the backseat I could see us swerving
That’s when I started closing my eyes
Even so I still loved those weekends
Sergeant pepper’s lonely hearts club band
I was eight years old alone with total freedom
But you drove the car into the ditch again
And my brother and I just sat there
And we both just tried
To force an inhale
‘Cause we were still alive
Yes we were still alive
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6. |
Violently Blue
02:00
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Something about how the air didn’t move
‘Cause I was talking and you were being talked to
You barely said a word just watched us crash and burn
Until I was silent speechless violently blue
Violently blue just like you
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7. |
Fire Season
03:48
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You lay it all across your bed
You try to find the patterns in
The how’s and why’s and carelessness
Of all the times you had to get
Out of there fast
I can stubbornly stare you down for days
And kick your ass at emotional charades
But I can’t help but pray
That when we see those flames
You’ll look at me and
We won’t hesitate
To get out of here fast
It’s the season of the white lie
The season of shame
It’s that kind of year you’re holding onto your pain
You say what am I doing
Just waiting for a day
When the pain looks around
And says man it’s you or it’s me
That’s gotta get out of here fast
Yeah but it’s a part of my story
A part of my home
It’s the smell of my middle school boyfriend’s cologne
And the sun still sets calmly
People still fall asleep with our bags at the door
And our socks on our feet
‘Cause we’re getting out of here fast
Yeah maybe there’s something wrong with my heart
Or it’s too much caffeine
It’s the time it takes to vanish
And the water you don’t drink
‘Cause I spiraled out this morning
I’ve been spiraling ever since
It’s a flowers on fire feeling
And knowing I might not get
Out of here fast
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8. |
Less Regret
02:28
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Please let it be ok let this fall away
And reveal some new kind of day
We would never know
Let us still grow old
And fall in love
And in awe
‘Cause I feel all this passing time
Makes me hard to find
‘Cause how do we make a plan
A dream a life that seems
Ok pretty good not bad
At least we have
Something to remember something up ahead
Something to hold onto
Maybe live with less regret
I Was Just Your Evening
I was just your evening
I was just a glass of water
I was something to believe in
Like a ghost or holy father
You know it’s weird
But I nearly forgot my middle name
When I entered the room
Like I was getting up on stage
Singing the chorus on repeat
‘Cause I just loved the way you looked at me
Nobody warns you
There’s no patterns or predictions
You were just another storm who refuses to listen
To the verse at the end we pretend to understand
Until you hear it again
All of sudden you’re so broken
‘Cause it rips you apart
And it shakes you awake
Some of us want to feel it
While the rest of us escape
Everyone’s so sorry
About your dad and all your stories
About the hand you keep on playing
And the lives they get away with
But I knew as a kid
That I wasn’t going to let it
Be a ghost or a scar
That deemed my heart forbidden
And I wish that for you
I hope somebody breaks through
For the day you don’t believe yourself
For the night you just need someone else
To see you
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9. |
I Was Just Your Evening
03:02
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I Was Just Your Evening
I was just your evening
I was just a glass of water
I was something to believe in
Like a ghost or holy father
You know it’s weird
But I nearly forgot my middle name
When I entered the room
Like I was getting up on stage
Singing the chorus on repeat
‘Cause I just loved the way you looked at me
Nobody warns you
There’s no patterns or predictions
You were just another storm who refuses to listen
To the verse at the end we pretend to understand
Until you hear it again
All of sudden you’re so broken
‘Cause it rips you apart
And it shakes you awake
Some of us want to feel it
While the rest of us escape
Everyone’s so sorry
About your dad and all your stories
About the hand you keep on playing
And the lives they get away with
But I knew as a kid
That I wasn’t going to let it
Be a ghost or a scar
That deemed my heart forbidden
And I wish that for you
I hope somebody breaks through
For the day you don’t believe yourself
For the night you just need someone else
To see you
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10. |
Dress Rehearsal
02:33
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This ain’t no dress rehearsal
If it breaks in your hands you broke it man
Go ahead and try to blame the shape of water
What it does and what it does and what it does to you
‘Cause I want to know how good is your soul
I wanna trust somebody better than me
So check the weather and check your schedule
Let me know let me know who you want to be
‘Cause i just can’t hold on blindly
Watching myself disappear
Over and over over and over
So let’s be clear
Take my heart and take my weekends
And take advantage of how attracted I am to you
It’s not fair but let’s just call it even
Cheers to all the things we never got to
‘Cause I just can’t
‘Cause I just can’t
‘Cause I just can’t hold on
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11. |
What the Light Can Do
03:54
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Hurry up get your houses and kids
And furthermore find your eternal bliss
And have you heard
There’s nothing left you can eat
It’ll kill you or make you look stupid and weak
My sweet friend she thinks she screwed it all up
But she couldn’t feel it
Couldn’t feel his love
You can fight it
Say I guess this ain’t bad
But where’s the line at
Or do you just keep moving it
I still pray yea I still talk at the sky
When I think I’m dying
Or just depressed and too high
I say where have you been
And am I still breathing
‘Cause I keep forgetting my reasons
Not to leave this place
And go get a real job
So I can save up and pray to you God
That I don’t die without a chance
To leave the country
And spend every cent
And I have this rich friend her house is covered in art
She said do you like it
I said babe I can’t play that part
Just give me a plain wall to watch the light fall
And let myself be taken
By surprise at what the light can do now
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