1. |
Waking Up
03:43
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Wish I could walk home as I get into my car
Navigate home by the light of stars
The clouds are inverted
I should get up more early too
But I made it so far
The metal bison run where real ones used to roam
Don’t know which one feels more like home
The concrete bleeding and it’s eating the green slowly
Can’t stop the spread I know
I can’t even let you know
I’ll probably spin out on the way home
Don’t let me go
I’m wide awake
I’m clawing the backs of my eyelids
I wanna know
How much I can take
Before the weight in my spine detaches
An idea nested deep in a microphone
Starting to hate this place called home
Take both hands and twist them into the ground
I do what I can to settle down
Do what I need to settle down
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2. |
Complacent
03:52
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I don't wanna be too complacent
No I don't wanna get left behind
Two fingers to my ears and
Push in 'til I find my mind
I wanna go west to where the earth
Allows itself to crack and turn
On upwards praying to the sun
And all the wildfires burn
You wanna go but know
The destination's nowhere
The mind too often tied by choice
You're climbing trees again
To see where the horizon ends
You think so long you lose your voice
I'm making my bed and finding worth
In mallards landing in the pond
The cold air snatches at my legs and
I'm as good as gone
Your lazy eye, my dimple scar
You said you hate it everywhere
I'm split across Michigami
And you don't really seem to care
You wanna go but know
The destination's nowhere
The mind too often tied by choice
You're climbing trees again
To see where the horizon ends
You think so long you lose your voice
You think so long you lose your
You think so long you lose your voice
You're not special
No you're not
You're not special
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3. |
Orion
03:29
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I buried you warm underneath the glow of Orion’s belt
Can you tell me how it feels
Or can you show me how it felt
The mountains look closer today and my mind starts coming back new
Guess that’s good for me
But is it better for you
The hissing of disparate systems
The metal that grinds through the night
As long as there’s someone that I recognize
At the turn of the tide
I’m digging up bodies again
Would you lend me a hand this time
I don’t care what it is
Just hope it’s not mine
A crown of thorns made of barbed wire
I’m tryna unravel all this
It’s not about what I’ll do
It’s more about what I did
Missing the listlessness wishing the world was set out for me
We don’t need talk or anything
I’m fine if we just be
If we just be
I buried you warm underneath the glow of Orion’s belt
Don’t have to tell me how it feels
Think I know how it felt
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4. |
Laundry Day
01:48
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5. |
Home
03:44
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Chip away
At the marble inside my skull
Seek the shape
Of something useful
Gone away
A robin alights on your arm
And I’m aligning to you
Talking to you all day and
You said you’re alright
I can’t wait to run the woods
And parking lots with you
When I come home
90 days
In doors and out of more
Early may
Break from Champlain’s shore
Should we stay
A year in the Midwest sun
But I’m still split in two now
Think I need to burn the bluestem
Start it again
I’m making it past the silos
Plant aster and goldenrod
When I come home
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6. |
Good Night
03:11
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I've been up
For almost two days straight now
Sitting on the edge of I don't know
The shadows float across
My tired eyes
A growing fault along my spine
Calm me down, it's time
You can't calm me down this time
Cuz I'll be fine in the morning
But tonight I wanna fight
It's this dumb emotion
Tells me fists in motion
Will make this end up right
And I'm slow to anger
But now I'm wrapped too tight
And I'll wake up guilty
And they'll wanna kill me
If I don't say goodnight
Shakey hands
Hot ears, and blurry vision
Why's it gotta be the first response
When the night I wanted
Slips away
I wanna swing but know I won't
So calm me down this time
No, you won't calm me down this time
Cuz I'm an optimist
I'll take my half-full glass
Gonna dump it in your face before I beat your ass
I'm a Holy Roller writhing on the floor of my own home
Cuz I'll be fine in the morning
But tonight I wanna fight
It's this dumb emotion
Tells me fists in motion
Will make this end up right
And my heart is burning
When it should be wrapped in ice
And I'll wake up guilty
And you'll wanna kill me
If I don't say goodnight
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7. |
Participation Trophies
03:43
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Wish they gave out awards for sleeping
'Cause then I'd pretty much be the king
I'm tired of sleeping
The feeling keeps creeping
An open door and
A waterfall
And then there's me
Doing nothing
I really don't do much no more
Participation trophies
Line my room
Less for me and more for you
Yeah they're alright I guess
What's it to you
Stagnant reminders of my youth
Four walls and a mattress
You draw it together head outside
In flux for a moment
Wake the next day, know what I'll find
My keys on the ceiling
But my bed is on the floor
I've started to wonder
Why the creek ain't rising anymore
The whites of my eyes
They can't see the sun
Cause I only see what I want to know
So turn out the lights
Don't need em no more
Cause I only see what I wanna know
Yeah I only see what I wanna know
Participation trophies
Line my room
Less for me and more for you
Yeah they're alright I guess
What's it to you
Stagnant reminders of my youth
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8. |
Sleep
03:36
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Ice thaws and flows down
Veins swell with life from old rains
In the mid-April sun
And I'm trying my best
To forget all that I once knew
The fault of no one
Put down your pitchforks
And put yourself to sleep
The knife is already too sharp
And the wound is much too deep
Shoulders push in and out
You called me from your old house
Said you hate being home
A thousand miles later
Wake in a cold white room
You said you felt so alone
Put down your pitchforks
And put yourself to sleep
The knife is already too sharp
And the wound is much too deep
Put down
Put down
And go to sleep
The knife is already too sharp
And the wound is much too deep
Do what you need to settle down
Do what you need to settle down
Grow a new ring to spin around
Do what you need to settle down
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