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And on
04:26
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If this is what I get, I don’t want anymore
And if I’ve made promises, I know, I’ve broken some before
If I don’t wake up and you do, what would you do?
And I can’t make believe in better things or ways to be
When everything I’ve learned from you has long stopped serving me
If I don’t wake up and you do, what would you do?
If I don’t wake up and you do, the world goes on and on and on and on
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Path
05:06
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Make a break, move on
A new city, a new life
The pattern plays out for years
You stagnate in thought
And overflow the walls
It all spills out
You always drown
I could find a way to make all of this change
But you don’t care
And even if we shared our thoughts or thought the same
I’ve lost hope
You echo empty words
But won’t look me in the eye
No one knows what’s on your mind
Decades building walls
You never sought to try
Refuse to grow
When your hands feel tied
I could find a way to make all of this change
But you don’t care
And even if we shared our thoughts or thought the same
I’ve lost hope
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Prole Stroll
03:47
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Ice cracks along the riverside
The street lights off
If we make it back tonight
I’ll be shocked
Walking home, cold and stoned
I know I won’t remember when I get up
Living in the end of times
Every day
Night comes and we get on with our lives
As if things have changed
Walking home, cold and stoned
I know I won’t remember when I get up
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Yesterday
03:43
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I sit in the sun but I feel no warmth
Grown calloused with each passing day
Some moments feel long, and a season is gone
Watching the clouds for a change
We are what’s left of our dreams
Holding on
The past and the future won’t change
Our present is gone
We walk with the weight of a thousand ghosts
Ghosts only we can see
We drift in a slumber and try to remember
All the ways we’ve meant to be
We are what’s left of our dreams
Holding on
The past and the future won’t change
Our present is gone
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Lakeside
03:50
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Winter comes again, but I don’t feel as lost
A year ago I didn’t see us here
We made a goal to leave sooner than we thought we could
The path forward not so clear
You don’t know, but still it shows
When you smile the whole world glows
Summer comes again and it’s almost too late
For all the plans we managed to decide
Cars parked and a map to get us to a place
We hope will serve us right this time
You don’t know, but still it shows
When you smile the whole world glows
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Cobwebs
03:51
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I’ve grown to think in patterns adopted to get by
Cobweb covered labyrinths have come to coat my mind
For each one I try to take down, a new one makes its home
With every exit blocked, I move alone
Walk into the room and sit down
Put your head between your hands
Inhale
Breathe the moment in
And I can’t give into worry--often I’ll brush it off
Sometimes your expectations expect too much
And often I fail to grasp where all of this comes from
Stuck in the moment all I fell is lost
Walk into the room and sit down
Put your head between your hands
Inhale
Breathe the moment in
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Watch the moonlight trace the floor
The night is empty
I don’t listen to the breeze
I just lay here
Did you lie there all alone waiting for the day to come?
Is it morning? Is it light?
Have you made it through the night?
I don’t get up on my own
I just lay there
With the curtains open--left a note
Did you read it?
And are you still here listening to all the kind words we’ve yet to say?
Are you worried? Are you cold?
Is there something we could have done?
We say you didn’t mean to
(now you’re gone)
As if those words could bring you back
(now you’re gone from us)
Maybe it’s what you wanted
(now you’re gone)
Even so, it hurts to know
(now you’re gone from us)
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Tooth Worms
04:36
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I’ll have to take solace in this
Statues will crumble
Still live will grow between the cracks
Out through the sidewalk
Just like always, time takes all
After disasters as old as tomes
In the morning the horizon glows
Colors and flowers are strewn all around
Colors and flowers abound
Often I question how this will end
It’s never gotten clearer
But I don’t mind wasting my time
With no hope for the future
Just like always, time takes all
After disasters as old as tomes
In the morning the horizon glows
Colors and flowers are strewn all around
Colors and flowers abound
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Saturn Returns
03:49
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It’s not enough to pretend
30-some years lost
I always spend my time thinking of somewhere else
And through each year gone
Trying to look back
Memories?--there’s no use trying to remember anything
It sounds trite to say
But what I put in is exactly what I got
And that’s nothing much
If I hope to earn some hope of living out
My actions?--well it hasn’t really shown
Every day is habit I can’t kick
Every day is making lists of ways that I would change
If I even cared at all
Every time I put my pen to paper is wasted words
Words I often can’t bring myself to say
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Cheer Up
03:37
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I would wait for a change
Imagining better days
How much of this would I miss?
Well I won’t hold my breath trying to think about it
And I could make believe worlds
Every day ‘til I grow old
Always be lost in what ifs
Well I won’t hold my breath trying to think about it
I won’t say there’s nothing wrong
I can’t promise more than this
After we’ve been dead and gone
Who’s to say we ever existed?
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xor Asheville, North Carolina
XOR (pronounced ex or || exclusive or)
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