Name: Lillian Road
Duration: P00H03M14S
Description: A tune about being young, naive, and hopelessly in love to the point of having no chance. You struggle and struggle and struggle, blind to the fact that the struggle is the thing you need the most. The struggles accumulate into the building blocks of self-awareness and self-confidence. As those attributes build, life begins to take shape.

Lillian Road

by NEWSKI

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A tune about being young, naive, and hopelessly in love to the point of having no chance. You struggle and struggle and struggle, blind to the fact that the struggle is the thing you need the most. The struggles accumulate into the building blocks of self-awareness and self-confidence. As those attributes build, life begins to take shape.

lyrics

Trashcan
Lit match
It's blowing smoke, like all my fairweather friends

Find me playing hide and seek
But it ain't a game
It's just how I survive

Blackout White
I'm so tired of being pushed around
The days they get real cold
Like the blinding biting January snow

I hide in my dreams
Because it's a little like hell in reality
I'm driving you home
To your parents house on Lillian Road
Wish you had my back like I got yours

Can't stand being alone
But can't connect to anyone
Stupid clothes
Got my bloody nose
I'll kick that can
Further down the road

My bedroom walls
They're so tired of being vented to
Have you heard the news?
the gossip down the halls it must be true

I hide in my dreams
Because it's a little like hell in reality
I'm driving you home
To your parents house on Lillian Road
Wish you had my back like I got yours

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released April 16, 2001
Written by Newski
Produced by Spatola and Newski
Recorded and Mixed by Spatola
Mastered by Justin Perkins

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