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whats next
01:25
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Tell all your friends from your phone in your bedroom
Wait for the calls to come in
Modernity is killing you
Don’t focus on what’s wrong
Don’t focus on what’s wrong all the time
Try to see what’s next
Try to see what’s next in line
Dress like a ghost in your favourite black sweatpants
Everyone’s being so nice
Don’t focus on what’s wrong
Don’t focus on what’s wrong all the time
Try to see what’s next
Try to see what’s next in line
Something’s coming in the water
I can feel it getting stronger all the time
Something’s coming in the water
I can feel it getting stronger all the time
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2. |
black coffee
03:44
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Nothing new, the way I like it
Sipping through my day’s black coffee
I’m sitting here the way you left me
Strung together like bad poetry
I’m starting to care what others think of me
Nothing like the way we planned it
Nothing like the way we thought it’d be
Save your words and fancy diction
Love is just another fiction
I’m starting to see what first addicted me
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I’m not going to stop
I’m not ready to heal you
I heard you’re giving it up
You’re not ready to feel it
There is beauty here
There is beauty here
(Be mine, be mine, be mine)
I can’t seem to lose
I’m not ready to draw
I can’t seem to see
Things the way they are
I should have asked what you thought of me
Before you moved away
I should have asked what you think of me
I’m not really here
I guess nevermind
I’m not going to look
I guess I’ll never find it
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Follow me around at night
Downtown London
Spill into my ears and eyes
The moment I stopped thinking about you, you appeared
I’m like, “what are you doing here?”
But it’s not you it’s someone else
It’s my friend going out for the night
It’s my friends come alive in the night
It’s my friend come to haunt me tonight
They say a secret never dies
What a story!
They say nobody ever lies
They only stop thinking about you when you’re gone
It’s like, “what am I doing wrong?”
(Trust me)
I’m not me I’m someone else
All my friends going out for the night
All my friends coming out for the night
All my friends come to haunt me tonight
All my friends come to haunt me tonight
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5. |
about a poem
03:20
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If you still read what I write I’d double space the lines so you could write inside-the-margin notes. If I still wrote about love I’d misspell every word and punctuate in random-seeming ways. If I still sang about you I’d probably sing off key. I’d probably send the wrong message.
Will you still edit my book I promised you I’d write? It’s about a poem you couldn’t figure out, you couldn’t tease apart, scribbled in my high school notebook.
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6. |
birthday cake
02:10
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Look at us, birthday cake
We want everything too much
Too much too much too much
Look at us in our brand new clothes
Born and raised so
Everything you ever wanted
You got it you got it you got it you got it
Look at us, breaking news
Here today gone tomorrow
Look at yourself, look at us
We want this birthday cake too much
This crutch is only keeping us up so long
So long so long so long so long
Now that God is dead, Jesus too
And you’re a fool if you think that there’ll be
Something else, something new
Birthday cake, waiting for you
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7. |
boy troubles
01:57
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I guess it goes like this
A little bit nervous
Can we just slow it down
Let me think
You were rewinding
You were reminding me
We have so much fun
When we drink
Through loss and gain
In snow and rain
It’s always just the same
Just blame
Boy troubles
How could you be laughing?
I knew this would happen
Cause I would do anything for you
Convincing me slowly
Loving is holy
I could do anything I want to
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8. |
caught in the current
02:58
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When my ecstasy paints the dawn
One good photograph to get it wrong
All my transgressions laid out to see
Every anger endangers me
Love is a prison
Food without flavour
Four months were given
For good behaviour
Drowning not waving
Caught in the current
We’re still each other’s
We never weren’t
When my compromise was more delay
Your sweet sticky eyes don’t look away
All my family came to know you
As the boy who glanced all day
All that went missing
All that you gave her
Tell me you’ll listen
And be on your best behaviour
Not waving but drowning
Caught in the current
We almost could be
We almost weren’t
Like la la la la la…
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put him in a head lock
you’re doing him a favour
you’re giving him a hard look
awaken your neighbour
you gotta make a land sing
we gotta make the bed shake
you gotta fake the good fight
so hold on to your heart rate
awaken your neighbour
awaken your neighbour
awaken your neighbour
he’ll thank you later
not another ice age
not another distance
you wanna make a big change
you gotta take a big risk
you gotta be a good sport
you’re gonna be a martyr
you gotta be a good shot
they’ll be thanking you later
awaken your neighbour
awaken your neighbour
awaken your neighbour
he’ll thank you later
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10. |
come back
02:26
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These fake holidays are my least favourite
You got away and God I paid for it
You’re tweeting bout your day on the race track
The screen won’t let you fade or come back
Come back, come back, come back
These fake holidays are my least favourite
You got away and God I paid for it
You’re tweeting bout your day at the race track
The screen won’t let you fade or come back
Come back
Retrace your steps right back in time
Tip your hat, we’ve crossed the line
I know who I’m supposed to be
There’s one of you there’s lots of me
These short getaways are my escaping act
And anyway I couldn’t fake even that
There’s a part of me that meant it
There’s a part that went away just to come back
Come back, come back, come back
Getaways are my escaping act
Anyways I couldn’t fake even that
There’s a part of me that means it
There’s a part that went away just to come back
Come back, come back, come back
Retrace your steps right back in time
Tip your hat, we’ve crossed the line
I know who I’d rather be
There’s one of you and lots of me
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11. |
birthday songs (23)
02:43
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I’m so sick of being second rate
I want to be first
Can’t pretend I haven’t thought of getting out of it before
Oh oh oh oh
It took twenty-three years of birthday songs
Shoved into my face for me to see it
Life can be so funny
I am already old
Oh oh, oh oh, I know it
I’m so tired of feeling younger than the pack
I want to be wise so bad
I never thought of getting rid of them before
Oh oh oh oh
That’s a violent solution to a petty thing, I know
Is it dumb that I’d feel a little braver
Knowing I was better, I was stronger than you all?
Oh oh oh oh
It took twenty-three years of birthday songs
Sung into my face for me to hear it
Life can be so funny
I am already old
Oh oh, and don’t I know it
*train passes by*
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12. |
better watch me
02:07
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Misery forever
As I lie here getting older
Better watch me til I’m better
Better watch me til it’s over
I didn’t love you like the others
Gonna lie to you forever
If our eyes meet underwater
Better shut them til it’s over
Didn’t miss you like the others
Didn’t take you for a fighter
If our eyes meet under covers
Better quickly shut them tighter
Better watch me til I’m better
Better watch me til it’s over
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13. |
jon
02:00
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Jon I heard that you’ve been sad
And so it must be said
You are wonderful
It must be said you are wonderful
I’m sorry you feel your life is shit
But it’s never as bad as that, is it
You’re still my favourite
We’ve got adventures yet to come
Oooooo
Jon if you get tired of me
Write it in your diary
Write it down, cause nothing’s wrong
Don’t confide in anyone anymore
Oooooo
Now that every line’s been crossed
Looks like I still love you lots
It must be hard
You are wonderful
You are wonderful
You are wonderful
You are wonderful, Jon
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14. |
so many times
02:47
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I can only sit and listen to your phone ring
So many times so many times
I can only wait here looking like an idiot
So many times so many times
I’ve already spilled out everything I am to you
So many times so many times
I can only play the cards that I was given
So many times so many times
I can only sit and listen to your phone ring
So many times so many times
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15. |
melatonin (demo)
02:34
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Retromantic, that’s what you called me
You’re pathetic, why did you call me
Oh you’re drunk, that’s what I thought so
Don’t hang up
Calm me down if you can
And call me dumb if you want to
Melatonin makes my head numb
But I feel better in the morning
Superstitions ring in my left ear
Something kept me hanging around here
You got out, moved back to your hometown
I checked out
Knock three times, come in through the front door
Shake my faith, if that’s what it’s there for
Place my hands on your chest so I know it’s you
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16. |
silly life things
03:42
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Every morning I am sober despite how much I drank last night
My mind is like a puzzle and the pieces never fit quite right together
I’m a danger to myself and I know
That as long as I’ve been running there is further yet to go
That language still is haunting me, identity formation
I remember every tone and pause of every conversation
That I had about you with your sister on the phone
You said you’d stay with me forever so you’d never be alone
And we got stuck and wanted out
Talk cause you like talking
We got old and the focus switched from wanting things to having them
One day I’m going to marry you, thank God we live in Canada
The ceilings so high our voices echoed in the rafters
Like feelings changing day by day happily ever after
Don’t get stuck wanting out
Sing cause you like singing
La da da di da da da
Call it what you want I don’t see myself as pedantic
I’ll be in the campus pub arguing semantics
With Phil and the friends he met in Sociology
And we’ll be free we’ll be free we’ll be free
Did you know when you look at the stars
You’re really looking back in time a hundred billion years?
And every galaxy in space is shaped like a disc
You and I occupy a tiny part of it
But if I didn’t have you
You, my darling perfect gem
Who would help me with those silly life things?
You know I always sucked at them
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17. |
the lousy deal
01:31
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Some of us are the water
Some of us are the sky
Some of us are trees
And we do what we please
Without wondering why
Some of us are forgetful
Some of us can be wise
Some of us stared unblinking
Back at the sun as it rose in our eyes
Sometimes you were happy
Sometimes you were sad
Sometimes you hid your face in your room
When your boyfriend was making you mad
Sometimes I feel lucky I ever got to know
The lousy deal of a love that you feel
But can never show
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18. |
brown and gray
02:19
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I used to be someone
I used to do something right
I used to date someone
I’m better without him (good)
I’ve been feeling brown
I’ve been feeling gray
I’ve been feeling dumb
I’ve been feeling great
I used to be someone
I used to do something right
I used to date someone
I’m better without him
I’ve been feeling brown
I’ve been feeling gray
I’ve been feeling dumb
I’ve been feeling great
If the worst is yet to come
The best years on the way
It’s not the way you were
It’s not the way you’ve stayed
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