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Penicillin I
03:23
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Is this real?
'Cause I cant feel a thing
Numb again
And i can only see the end
Of a dream
Pretty colors on repeat
All I know (please take me)
Is my way home (please save me)
But its too far (please take me)
To call my own (please save me)
I just want to be
tied and thrown to sea
Then I wake up and I realize I'm nothing again (it's alright)
picking myself up and throwing me out in the end (give it time)
I just want to be (to grow and destroy and then build and then break and then bend)
tied and thrown to sea (and lose all I love and know that it works out in the end)
Here i am
Still broken but the same
silhouette
Casting shadows with a
single breath
And all that can see is
winter's end
Muddy sleigh bells and cigarettes
Then I wake up and I realize I'm nothing again (it's alright)
picking myself up and throwing me out in the end (give it time)
I just want to be (to grow and destroy and then build and then break and then bend)
tied and thrown to sea (and lose all I love and know that it works out in the end)
YEAH!
YEAH!
Nothings alright.
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2. |
Needle and Thread
03:42
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I sold my soul to the devil and
I’ve sold the heart that beats in my chest
For a dollar and a chance to lose myself in the background
And I’ve bled for a lunatic
I’ve lost all to a dirty trick
But it’s a rocky path that leads your feet toward home
And her glassy eyes (fucked up mind) [telltale lines]
She’s sick but kind (she’ll make you blind) [fingers cut through the spine]
She can waste my time
I’m falling for the way you sing
With perfect lies
You think I’m fast asleep
And when you dream
I’ll become a silhouette
And when you wake I’m just
the voice inside your head
There is glass inside my throat
There are weeds in these broken bones
There are shoes that walk to the coast
Better off if they tried to float
And I’m talking through cigarettes
With the ghost that will haunt my bed
A perfect way to end an evening
of laughing on my own
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3. |
Ten Ton Bird
04:02
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Blank stare and going 95
Countless miles and a million state lines
An empty chair in the passenger seat
Foreign letters with words that I can’t read
What a miracle of modern machines
I’m in a ten ton bird flying with metal wings
from 30,000 feet
From up here I can finally feel complete
They don’t make baggage like they used to
Twice as heavy but with handles that come lose
Blaring noises and people screaming
Crying babies with no one listening
to the pilot as he says everyone stay calm
Lovers intertwined in the bathroom
Perfect strangers kiss as if on cue
All aware they’ll met certain harm
At least they’ll go out in each others arms
Dead babies on the evening news
Right before the Soxs and Patriots lose
Water floods in
As the radio blares I’m sorry for all this
Thank you for flying with us
Thank you for dying with us
I hope you were right about the afterlife
I’ve heard a couple of stories I don’t like
Worlds of both fire and ice
Starts to make darkness look pretty nice
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4. |
Middle Ground
03:56
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I look inside my head for something new
But all that I could see in there was you
I found memories of mangled things
Out of tune with broken strings
Cut with standard lines and bursting at the seams
Woke up with this feeling in my chest
It’s a mix of panic anguish and the press
of your hand against my skin
of that glass against my lips
of that awful night with perfect lights when we said we don’t exist
When the world was spinning faster than we ever could imagine
And you said this
I don’t know how we could ever feel this way
I finally found a way inside you (start running from me, start running)
And that car crash for a brain that’s full of lies too (you’re so damn toxic)
I’m tearing at the seams, falling on my knees
Begging you to please hold me up
You let me down
This calendar I swear is on repeat
I keep waking up but seeing the same things
At least for once it isn’t you
And your scent has left my room
I’ve been walking round in circles picking up what you abused
But you’re history, and you’re shit to me
I finally found a way inside you (start running from me, start running)
And that car crash for a brain that’s full of lies too (you’re so damn toxic)
I’m tearing at the seams, falling on my knees
Begging you to please hold me up
You let me down
I never knew that I could feel so distant
I never knew that I could hate this much
A part of me has always been forgiving
A part of me will always hate your guts x2
I finally found a way inside you (start running from me, start running)
And that car crash for a brain that’s full of lies too (you’re so damn toxic)
I’m tearing at the seams, falling on my knees
Begging you to please hold me up
You let me down
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5. |
406-5502
03:05
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Sometimes in our lives
We all let go
We all will die
And then if we survive
We will have found a reason inside
To burn out all the light
The demons that fight to keep you alive
And then if we give in, forgive us our sins, everything will be fine
If we're all alone
Then at least call it home
With a roof on our heads
Even though we're all dead in this life
Well someday it will all be alright
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6. |
Penicillin II
04:00
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I feel numb again
Keep all my sins in another bed
I’ll see sun again
Dipping my feet in the shallow end
There’s thorns in my daydreams
It hurts when the birds sing
When everyone stays clean
Don’t know what im missing
Cue the sun to set
Secrets are locked up in broken chests
I taste blood again
These wounds are stitched but they will not mend
There’s love in my nightmares
It breathes in the free air
When everyone’s broken
Don’t know how they got there
I’m so sick of being in the same place (I’ve got miles on these shoes I’ve got miles to go)
I’m so sick of putting on the same face (I’m walking away but I’m walking alone)
Cause in my head
I’m so sick of feeling dead
Cause in my head (but in the end)
I’m just trying to forget (hoping the best)
I feel young again
Got all my demons in my head
They’re my only friends
Here with me now til the bitter end
The feeling of lightness
The lie that you cant miss
A beautiful mourning
A terrible kindness
Cue the sun to rise
There is no truth if these fragile eyes
I’ll find love again
Battered and bruised in a serpents hand
The shadow of darkness
The beast and his harlot
The man in the mirror
Makes everyone forget
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7. |
Skin
04:08
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All along when you said I was wrong
I could see through your skin
And now I know where I belong
And I feel like I’m alive again now that I can be
All the things you didn’t want me to be
Now I can stand on two feet
But you keep digging more holes for yourself
Trying to be something else, putting your mind on the shelf
When will you wake up with a soul that can fend for itself
What are you hiding from me?
The words you’re dying to speak
Just keep your tongue in your cheek
Ill watch you rinse and repeat
All of the things I don’t see
Behind the walls that won’t keep you from breaking
The world will just keep weighing you down
Behind this mask you cant see
The skin you tore with your teeth
Why don’t you do yourself
Just what ya did to me
And maybe then you can find
The only reason inside
To why your heart is so blind
And why you don’t seem to mind
I take back all things that I said
and all the words left for dead
and your spot in my bed
Well I hope you know the difference between loss and regret
You’re the first thing I remember and the first I’ll forget
How does it feel to have the whole world against you?
You’ll be forgiven when the whole world forgets you
What are you hiding from me?
The words you’re dying to speak
Just keep your tongue in your cheek
Ill watch you rinse and repeat
All of the things I don’t see
Behind the walls that won’t keep you from breaking
The world will just keep weighing you down
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8. |
Merriment/Mayweather
03:25
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Early trains and all night stations
Red eyes and blurry faces
The message is clearly reading
You are somewhere far from feeling
This town is dead but it’s got sex
And all I need is a brief reprieve from the pounding in my chest
This bridge is old
But I don’t exactly need it hold
Rain drops through the roof at night
Yeah she’s cute but she’s cold as ice
And I’m dammed up with blood and lies
An easy hold but it wont last the night
Six o’clock and bells are ringing
Final pictures and kids are screaming
What do they do know of truly leaving
Of being gone and losing feeling
Sex sells but it don’t pay the bills
And with nothing in my wallet my chest is my primed to spill
This coat has holes
But i don’t exactly need to keep warm
This water's cold
I doubt i would float
These perfect sins
Swing for the fences
But what if you miss
This bitter cold
This world's run by numbers and mine is too low
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9. |
Balance
03:34
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There’s an older man
in the mirror than the one
who first picked up his pen
There’s a city so serene
Used to feel like home
Now it just feel like defeat
And dear god I was just trying to help
Take some weight off this shelf
This summer air
Reminds me that the joy’s in getting there
And how to forget
Keep air in your lungs and blood in your head
It’s a quarter til dawn
And that sunrise is the prettiest thing when you’re a fraud
My scents in these stairs
Perfectly laced with just a touch of your hair
And blood runs back into my veins
This summer air
Reminds me that the joy’s in getting there
And how to forget
Keep air in your lungs and blood in your head
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.
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