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The Aftermath
02:30
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The Aftermath
Lets pick it up where we left off
Or wallow in nostalgia
Cause livin’ scared don’t work at all
And I cant stand to see you cry
I dropped you off, near Valencia
I waved goodbye, you turned and walked
Oh what a sham, these years wasted
You couldn’t stand to see me try
The Past is past
Leave it at that
Let’s give it up
This can’t be love
You talk in code
Leave me alone
This bridge it lengthens every night
The aftermath can sting for a long long time
Hurray hurray for bitter days
You hopped a flight to santa fe
I got the memo way too late
I should’ve known it the whole time
The Past is past
Leave it at that
Let’s give it up
This can’t be love
You talk in code
Leave me alone
This bridge it lengthens every night
The aftermath can sting for a long long time
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Ride
03:05
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We could take it slowly
Or we could get insane
No one ever got anywhere
By playing it safe
If I was a God-fearin’ man
I’d say a prayer for you
Before you drink the poison wine
Before you eat the toxic fruit
Im gonna take you for a ride
Before they take you for a ride
All the money in Monaco
Couldn’t buy me out
I hope we get fired
So we can walk the world around
If it’s snowing in Texas
If you get out of this place
Baby, buy some lottery
Before your luck fades away
Im gonna take you for a ride
Before they take you for a ride
Let’s meet in a suitcase
We’ll go east to Japan
Before Im a headcase
And get stuck in this town
Everything is finite
Everyone gets erased
Leveraging my time
If we can disappear, than we’ll be fine
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Can't Get Enough
02:34
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Crashed hard in Carolina by the shores
It’s your zen, that I adore
It’s great to see you’re living like you mean it.
Cant get enough
Sank teeth into the afternoon
Chased thrills, burned holes in both my shoes
Pulled the past out, it was dire
Lit a match, set a bon fire
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Stars
02:48
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Packed my car and left the valley
Shotgun seat is ghosting words
It’s a devil on my shoulder
It’s a disease without a cure
Wish I could erase all my thoughts
Like rain on sidewalk chalk
The fatigue crept on in by midnight
The caffeine had my head in knots
Im Lying on my car
And counting stars
I hope I find out who you are
When the sun rose in the morning
I coughed up yesterdays defeats
Left them dying in the cornfields
So I could finally breathe
Got an exorcism pending
As I fly down 94’
The engine begging for my mercy
My inner dialogue ‘bezerk’
And all these victories and defeats are completely subjective
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Heavy Things
02:09
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You tell me heavy things
Heavy heavy heavy
Its hard to swallow these
Heavy heavy things
Breathing is tough without the oxygen
Baggage you carry round
Heavy heavy heavy
I want to help you out
Heavy heavy things
Seeing is hard with tunnel vision
You don’t gotta know
What you don’t wanna know
If we don’t question the answers
We can bury it faster
Last night I had some dreams
Heavy heavy dreams
They wont stop haunting me
Heavy Heavy things
Sleeping is rough with all the demons
You don’t gotta know
What you don’t wanna know
If we don’t question the answers
We can bury it faster
Its time to let this go
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Sucker Punch!
02:08
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Sucker Punch!
I was on the east coast last nite
Wasting so much damn time
Thinking too much
Brain like a beehive
It ain’t copacetic on the oceanside
Woke up south of the cross
Didn’t talk to Jesus too much
Mom said I needed healing
So I choked down that stuff
But it came right back up
Darlin’
Wind up real hard
I got a hunch
Id rather take a sucker punch than
Sitting here on my hands
Waiting around
For clouds to part
and lightning to start
I was on the west coast last nite
Creating so much damn time
By eliminating
Ass holes out of my life
It’s all copacetic on the mountain side
Darlin’
Wind up real hard
I got a hunch
Id rather take a superpunch
then…
Wait around
For clouds to part
and lightning to start
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The Afternoons
02:27
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The Afternoons
You know you think that I would learn
Each time around that I get burned
All these fireworks are bright
But they won’t guide me home
So I’m driving through the night
Alright?
Speeding through every red light
The only thing I gotta do is
Burn on thru the afternoons
Wait
Why did I leave you in the summer when I did?
Is that all? All that there is?
Got a winter coming on
And those always take too long
Life is always full a fiction I’ve found
The truth ain’t easy to be around
So I wallow in the sky
As the afternoons burn out
Burn through the afternoons
You know you’d think that I would learn
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Life Upside Down
02:46
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Life Upside Down
Somebody talk to me
Tonight especially
This is my life upside down
And if you hear from me
Almost certainly
Its cause the bottom’s falling out
So sick of everything
All this remembering
That my life’s upside down
I wish I could believe
All of these memories
But the past is heavy now
I woke up the smoke was gone
This is my life upside down
This is my life upside down
Was a contender and but she knocked me out
This is my life upside down
It seems you speak
These things so perfectly
When my life’s upside down
I need small dreams
Somewhere to sink my teeth
Something to wrap my brain around
I woke up the smoke was gone
I spoke up, I spoke it wrong
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Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
Wallowing
I sweat and freak out
Its just the way that I’ve become
This just ain’t fun
But it is how the days are won
Grinding teeth
There’s gotta be
A tipping point oh please my shaky knees
Are giving out
Well before the fat lady sings
….so I drive and drive and drive
The interstate
My enemy is I
Talk about a lonely vibe
I’ll get thru this if it kills me
My poor brain
Is blowing smoke
I need it now but it’s a rabbit hole
Oh wheres my home?
They always say that you can’t have it both ways
Is life a game?
This game’s a joke
I need a Sherpa
This joke’s a maze
A shallow grave
So I drag myself across the finish line
…or down
The devil writes my shakey code
He knows my name
Im coming home
But this is just a dream I’ve seen before
I wake up strange
It feels so good
I turn the key and riiiiiiiiide
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10. |
So Long
03:13
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So Long
Been counting sheep for a living
Waiting around the phone
Holding my breathe
Until my consciousness
Finally leaves me alone
I pace around the corner store
Hiding from January
The goodbyes are bad
The comfort is dead
This part always stings real good
So long
So long
Are two words I’ll forever choke on
So long
Erase the X’s, erase the O’s
Sick of the tic tack toe
all of this heart stuff feels too so tack
Like the crap in the dollar store
So keep my tab open
For this winter
Wish I was still at your old haunt
I’ll swallow the snow
I’ll burn up the road
To get back where we left off
…but for now
So long
Still all the salt
In all of the dead sea
All the blisters on my feet
All of Singapore's money
All of Paris’ beauty
All the drinks in Milwaukee
All of the doubts about
Heaven or hell now
All the miles on the 73’
Couldn’t take you away from me
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