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90 Second Serenade
03:31
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The city waits behind the fog
Like a smile behind your hair
The flight attendant says it won't be long
Until we're safely in the air
Moving on a holiday
Nightmares & fights still echo off the walls
A coat of paint over the year
It's like you were never there at all
The glow that lights your face
It's keeping me awake
It makes me more of a fool
It makes me less of a fake
My heart see-saws down Cherry St
It rises & falls every time you laugh
The blue of distance in your eyes reminds me
All things die but sometimes they come back
The glow that lights your face
It's keeping me awake
It makes me more of a fool
It makes me less of a fake
Most people are terrified, including me
Of showing their true heart
There's a beauty & a comfort & a helplessness in knowing what you are
Someone's singing on a subway car
A 90 second serenade
I'm swimming in these dreams of you
Tea leaves & flowers are floating in your wake
The glow that lights your face
It's keeping me awake
It makes me more of a fool
It makes me less of a fake
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Sobriety Clock
02:41
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Which one is harder to hold
A stone or a feather
We could be lighter than air
But let's see what shatters
Worlds that we represent
Full of gold & abstraction
Light shines on what we project
And love's a reflection
Am I better off alone
No illusion of control
Hope costs too much to pretend
So confused
How do you want this to end
A song on repeat all night
Broken laws of attraction
Just cause we want something
It doesn't mean it should happen
Am I better off alone
No illusion of control
Hope costs too much to pretend
So confused
How do you want this to end
Fourteen stations since I've knelt before temptation
Are we just iterations of partners or possessions
A dozen seasons since I've made my last confession
Desire blurs our visions but I don't even question
Am I better off alone
No illusion of control
Hope costs too much to pretend
So confused
How do you want this to end
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3. |
I Can Wait
03:41
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Desires that you want
That can never be
An endless summer's heart
A lock without a key
Fire down the block & horror movie screams
90 days of sun escaping from the street
Tell me what you want
I'll see what can do
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
A flash before the cold
A beauty that defies
The summer in its throes
For everything that dies
What you gonna do when you don't belong
Where you gonna go when you can't go home
How far we gonna go when we've gone too far
How deep you gonna fall you can
Call it what you want
It doesn't make it true
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
You can throw away what's bitter
So upset & insecure
Some things are meant to wither
Some are meant to be endured
A slow dance slowing faster
We're getting closer to the end
The less it seems to matter
for a heart to win
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
I can wait, I can wait
Can't wait forever but I'll wait
You can throw away what's bitter
So obsessed & insecure
Some things are meant to wither
Some are meant to be endured
A slow dance slowing faster
We're getting closer to the end
The less it seems to matter
for a heart to win
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Highway 10
03:52
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Highway 10, Highway 10, so close to where you used to live
A room of neverwinter nights in a city full of light
Highway 10, Highway 10, shadows cast over the west
The direction of decline, graffiti saints & painted vines
Can you leave a memory behind
We repeat ourselves a hundred times
I don't believe in destiny or signs
But I can see how you could change my mind
Highway 10, Highway 10, falling backwards once again
Is love another name for the pain that's in your way
Highway 10, Highway 10, lying dreamless in your bed
We can try to make amends for fantasies that we invent
Can you leave a memory behind
We repeat ourselves a thousand times
I don't believe in destiny or signs
But I can see how you could change my mind
Highway 10, Highway 10, the future that it represents
I wish that you'd come back to me but you & I we are not free
Highway 10, Highway 10, where dreams go to meet their end
It's the closest to escape I'll ever get
Can you leave a memory behind
We repeat ourselves a million times
I don't believe in destiny or signs
But I can see that you could change my mind
You could change my mind
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5. |
This Is How It Ends
03:08
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This is how it ends
In summer heat & wind
The water's flooding in
Even ghosts abandon ship
They only haunt the ones who live
Charmed by your city once again
Tracing circles on your skin
A light I can't resist
I'm holding you but nothing sticks
I know that we won't win
This is how it hurts
Perfume clinging to my shirt
Blood descends over the earth
A hand rises from the dirt
Half-measures never work
This is how it dies
Eyes burning dark & wild
A flame loses half its light
Can you bring it back to life
With the magic of a smile
The only one who asks about me
The only one who ever knows a thing about me
When you had something to tell me
Two years disappeared beneath me
This is how it ends
You've got a shiny life to live
Steps you can't retrace
A name you cannot say
If you stay all is forgiven
The only one who asks about me
The only one who ever gives a damn about me
When I had something to tell you
I didn't say it just to hear you say you love me too
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Voices ring louder & later through the night
Summer's breaking out like a thief for the light
Days are running long & longer by the hour
I haven't seen you in an age & I wonder how you are
Caught in dancing lights that call you by your name
I felt intoxicated with no desire for escape
The city keeps its heat like gold around your finger
I tried to ring you up because I missed you
But I couldn't find a signal
The deeper that we fall the longer that we grieve
A prison of the heart that we never want to leave
We think we have to learn courage to be saved
We think we need it to survive but surviving makes you brave
You're packed for California, I'm heading to New York
I'm sleeping in the car & someone's at the door
The night is full of stars & ways to disappear
I still feel you through the bars & I wish that you were here
I wish that you were here
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7. |
Shrunken Head
03:13
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Put up your hair, free drinks in the air
Put on the red leather jacket that you always wear
We forget our shadows when we learn to dance
To the sound of dreams that shatter before they turn to ash
Someone drew a heart in the window of the bar
The condensation shimmered in the light like a thousand blinking stars
You said "I need someone to complete me"
I said my heart belongs to someone I can't have
You said "Don't you think it's kind of funny
what makes most people happy can make them feel so sad"
You fumbled with your lock & you stumbled through the door
You said "Can you help me with these pants" as you sprawled out on the floor
Most boys prefer you when you're drunk
But I don't want the same things that they want
I don't want throwaway people or counterfeits
I don't want bells & whistles or special effects
I don't want someone clever just give me hope
I don't want someone who's always giving up
I don't know if I'll ever learn but I'm older now
Propped you up & waited till you woke up on your couch
Walked home in the dark feeling like a shrunken head
Severed to survive the curses of the dead
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Walking by your house on the way home
The lights inside your windows are never on
Are you asleep, are you alone, is it anybody's business but your own
2AM on 9th street's full of light
I always pull my hood over my eyes
Neon disappointment & ultraviolet dreams will only leave you blind
Maybe I would only let you down
Baby I could only weigh you down
Party lights that spin blue green & red
Like the internal conversations that I dread
Some mysteries are better left alone & better left unsaid
Maybe I would only let you down
Baby I could only weigh you down
Am I only repeating the mistakes of my life
A different hotel, the same jokes every night
Hope & temptation come from the devil
The way I care for you is nothing special
I've been starving myself, listening to Ex:Re & feeling almost spectral
Maybe I would only let you down
Baby I could only weigh you down
Am I always repeating the mistakes of my life
The same disaffection & regret every night
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Desire Paths
03:11
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Grieve another year away
The heart will take as long as it will take
Another page of endless days
Beauty feels like destiny
But destiny is never what it seems
Sometimes dreams are only dreams
All the signs you hoped were true
Desires that you kept in view
Always find a way of falling through
You can take another path
The one you find & not the one you planned
The lines we draw are made in sand
I don't want to find someone when I know that I'm better off alone
I don't want to fall in love but I'll drown if I fill my heart with stone
Sometimes when I catch your eye
An inside joke, a secret smile
It makes me feel a little more alive
Late nights when we're driving home
It's freezing cold, your eyes are still aglow
Desire paths we'll never know
I don't want to find someone when I know that I'm better off alone
I don't want to fall in love but I'll drown if I fill my heart with stone
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Trust in your surrender is the only way through fear
These nights go on forever
February lasts a year
Staring up the second floor
Bars on the revolving door
Sometimes you feel you've had enough but you always ask for more
Pretty words, hidden debt
All of mine for all of yours
Pay it down
Every face you've dreamed is one you've seen before
The first stop, the last hope
You should never have to choose
Sometimes I pretended every single word was true
If I keep you out of reach then I never have to lose
Sometimes I pretended every single word was true
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11. |
Dark Mode
03:30
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I'm losing daylight
The path's descending
Edges growing dark
I don't know what's happening
I write down all my dreams
Like it could bring them closer
Some nightmares repeat
Like patterns on a sweater
Window panes & wishes
Shimmer in your eyes
Hair spilled in spells & kisses
As radiant as fire
A band around your wrist
I'm wrapped around your finger
If I could give you more
Would you stay forever
These are the days to open up your heart
Before bitterness arrives with the poison that it brings
An abandoned heart can stay broken forever
So if it wants to sing
If it wants to sing
Let it sing
I'm always out of time & love is a mystery
I'm hoping that you'll find something that I can't even see in me
You're always on my mind, I think about you when I sing
If we let this feeling die, will you still dream about me
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12. |
Love Connection SLC
03:04
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Sarah & I were leaving Salt Lake City
Searching for a bar that looked like Howl's Moving Castle
The clouds are rolling down are you coming with me
Illusions only serve to obscure the answers
We can't speak to the past but the past can reach the future
Pretty words & bluebells for a dead bouquet
All my dreams burned out before they could even reach you
Hope draws like blood & leaves you just as drained
It's been lonelier than it's been cold
And this winter's been colder than most
I believe in love but not in its permanence
But I'm happier than I was before we met
You can only say so much out of chance or danger
You're always on my mind but I'm trying to forget
It's not minutes but it's moments that make it real
If I believe this can I love you without fear
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