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Whirlwind
02:11
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I think I’m caught up in a whirlwind
Tearing its way across the calendar year
I went to sleep a different person
Alarm goes off and now I find myself here
It’s tempting to say
It’s tempting to say
“Stay how you are now”
But we have to change anyway
Each step we take creates a ripple
We’re making waves that force the pattern to crack
And when we finish what we’re building
We’ll spend our evenings looking back
At the years
Asking how did I get here and where do I want to go?
(There is no way)
Asking how did I get here and where do I want to go?
(That we could know)
Asking how did I get here and where do I want to go?
(Where we will be)
Asking how did I get here and where do I want to go?
(This time next year)
It’s tempting to say
It’s tempting to say
“Stay how you are now”
But we have to change anyway
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White Bucket
03:46
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White bucket on the ground
Behind grandma’s house
Sit still by the pond
Watch everything melt
Like you did, like you did
Way back in grade school
Spent the winter on the couch
Now the sun is out
Sit still by the pond
Watch everything melt
Like you did, like you did
Way back in grade school
I’m looking backwards
To the front porch
Dinner will be ready soon
I hear your voices
Through the screen door
Calling me back to you
Welcome home kid
This is where you belong
I remember when that German shepherd
Chased my brother down
The neighbor man bailed him out
With a socket wrench he’d been fixing cars with
Now he’s grown into a man
How the hell did that happen?
Where have I been?
Welcome home kid
This is where you belong
I’m so sensitive and overblown and sentimental
I’m semi-mental aren’t I?
And I’ll admit that I don’t get it half the time
You’re on my mind and I’m so
Sensitive, sensitive
You’re so damn sensitive, sensitive
Why so sensitive, sensitive
You’re so damn sensitive, sensitive
You’re so
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Skate Better
03:32
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Wasting weeks and months just mulling over
Thinking of how to pull the mystery from
Living, so I could have control over the
Pieces, I’d be lying if I said I’d thought it through
And each line I draw divides me more from you
I gave up certainty for lent this winter
So I could learn to love better, I could learn to love better
Traded it in for a sense of wonder
So I could learn to love better, I could learn to love better
Ticking
Clocks on walls tell me to focus
Days pass, I can't ignore it
The answer's not in the place I thought I'd found it
The patterns show themselves to me after they've heard my call
And I’m headed further up and further in
I gave up certainty for lent this winter
So I could learn to love better, I could learn to love better
I traded it in for a sense of wonder
So I could learn to love better, I could learn to love better
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Sleep Cycles
04:44
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The bags under my eyes contain the bulk of all my stress
I zone out and dream of sleeping
I wear each passing hour just like wearing holes in jeans
And when I get home every evening
My mind is racing
So I’ll be staying up
Tracing every word I spoke
Conveniently misread
I am trapped inside the landscape of my bed
A body caught in motion
Wanting desperately to rest
I am finally accepting that
I’m never gonna get to sleep again
I spend my waking hours speaking of my plight in jest
All this time I could be sleeping
Packs of pens and paper fallen victim to my sheets
‘Cause when I get home every evening
My mind is racing
So I’ll be staying up
Tracing every word I spoke
Conveniently misread
I am trapped inside the landscape of my bed
A body caught in motion
Wanting desperately to rest
I am finally accepting that
I’m never gonna get to sleep again
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5. |
Lines
03:46
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Feel the cold pulling at my teeth and that’s fine
Never bothered by a little bit of pressure from outside
Tell me I’m wrong to keep me driving at night
I like to think I know that I’m right when I’m right
Wake up to the window propped open
See my breath above the blanket: just the way that I want
I’m shaking my head, my eyes still closing
Hear a counterpoint outside so good that I gotta laugh
I dig in my heels and I draw my lines
‘Cause I don’t have to run anymore
I know that it’s here and it’s about time
To see what’s opposite my front door
Reach my destination easy 3 or maybe 4
Mortgaging my headache till the morning with my future
A problem for the A.M., being there is worth much more
Than the benefit of dying cozy on a granite tile floor
I wake up to the window propped open
See my breath above those tiles: just the way that you want
You’re shaking your head, my eyes still closing
Hear a counterpoint outside so good that I’ve gotta laugh
I dig in my heels and I draw my lines
‘Cause I don’t have to run anymore
I know that it’s here and it’s about time
To see what’s opposite my front door
Go ahead and call me stubborn ‘cause you’re right and that’s fine
I’ve wasted precious breathing arguing about my future
The only way to know is just to live and give it time
I like to think I know that I’m right when I’m right
I dig in my heels and I draw my lines
‘Cause I don’t have to run anymore
I know that it’s here and it’s about time
To see what’s opposite my front door
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Union Made, Art Rock/Indie Punk | Liscensed Guitar Music Manufacturer
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