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Bad Friend
04:04
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Cause I'm not the kind of friend you like
Ask for a handshake and say psych
Look man, I don't wanna fight
But could you get me out of jail tonight?
I will skip out on you
Make fun of the things you do
I will judge you, too
You won't have a clue
You won't get no space
Not when I'm in your place
Your status I will debase
Your house I will deface
Cause I'm not the kind of friend you like
Ask for a handshake and say psych
Look man, I don't wanna fight
But could you get me out of jail tonight?
I know I can't be trusted
Not when I've been busted
You better pick up the phone
Or else you'll spend your days alone
When I get hungry
I get real mean
I'll lose your money
In some fucked up ponzi scheme
When I get hungry
I get real mean
I'll make you want to scream
Cause I'm not the kind of friend you like
Ask for a handshake and say psych
Look man, I don't wanna fight
But could you get me out of jail tonight?
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Catalyst Glow
02:30
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You can hear if you listen
The crackle of potential
A few dozen sparks
Please donât look down or away
Itâs too much to take
A familiar break in my heart
I cannot shake the conviction
A perfect reflection
Your catalyst glow
Maybe more like a reaction
Nonpolar attraction
A strong and steady undertow
I donât understand why
You reached out to me
Seems weâre stuck on standby
Dancing dutifully
Around the stuff that still lingers
And sits in the air
Extending fingers to grasp it
But is it really there
We can feel if we try to
Each thing that they lied to
You and me about
Blessed if ever thereâs blessings
No more second-guessing
No more insecurity and doubt
And even if itâs not true
I wanna do this with you
We've got a half-century
And if itâs less, then weâll see
Choke on the air we canât breathe
And go out peacefully
I donât understand why
You reached out to me
Seems weâre stuck on standby
Dancing dutifully
Around the stuff that still lingers
And sits in the air
Extending fingers to grasp it
But is it really there
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Cat-Like Reflex
02:05
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Not making bad choices
Not making any choice at all
Not hearing any voices
No whispers or caterwauls
If you could see whatâs on my lens
You too would be myopic
If you were stuck here in my head
Youâd be an alcoholic
Iâve got a cat-like reflex
Iâm sleeping eighty hours a week
Wondering where the time went
And why no oneâs feeding me
If you could see whatâs on my lens
You too would be myopic
If you were stuck here in my head
Youâd be an alcoholic
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The static between channels
The noise between stations
Each month for the annals
Fucked up familiar places
Is there anything that isnât chronic?
Carcinogen liners
All flame retardant
Lead pipes for the water
Catch fire at the faucet
Is there anything that isnât chronic?
The time weâve spent in chaos
Is old enough to drink
A snowballâs chance weâll ever process
Without time to stop and think
Pricks crashing the market
Cowards starting a war
Catch a deadly virus
Canât hardly breathe anymore
Is there anything that isnât chronic?
The time weâve spent in chaos
Is old enough to drink
A snowballâs chance weâll ever process
We don't have time to stop and think
The time weâve got remaining
A little tricky to predict
So I hold fast to those who love me
The only meaning there is
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Saint of Something
01:22
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Helicopters are flyinâ over my head
I kinda think that it's all in my mind
All this talk of who I should be now
When all I want is to try to be kind
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda hard when I'm trying to believe
Everyone wants a saint of something
A saint of nothing is all that you'll find
All this greed, greed and corruption
We'll steal it from âem, I'm sure they won't mind
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda hard when I'm trying to believe
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see
I know what the world wants me to be but
It's kinda hard when I'm trying to believe
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see it
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see it
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see it
It's kinda fuzzy when I'm trying to see it
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Denver
02:34
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Allie we only meet
Maybe once every couple weeks
Allie I only see you
Randomly when it's easy
Now that you're calling from the Rockies
Loving it so much that you could stay
I'm kind of scared, it's kind of lonely
To think you'd move so far away
Maybe you'll never go
You might end up here in Philly
Really I think I know
That doesn't seem like you to me
Now that you're calling from the Rockies
Loving it so much that you could stay
I'm kind of scared, it's kind of lonely
To think you'd move so far away
If you pack your paints and brushes
Leave just me one finished canvas
If you take your stuff out west
Let me drive the overnights
Now that you're calling from the Rockies
Loving it so much that you could stay
I'm kind of scared, it's kind of lonely
To think you'd move so far away
(If you pack your paints and brushes
Leave me just one finished canvas
If you take your stuff out west)
Let me drive the overnights
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Close Friend
04:39
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An update for a close friend
Which I guess I am again
After so much space and time
Says âthatâs my boyfriendâ and itâs sweet
Iâm hit with pangs of longing
Was hoping youâd be mine
But itâs a thing I get to see
Because you put me on the list
Granted me permission
And that feels nice, and I believe
That I would truly rather be
Like this than without you again
You need some space again, itâs fine
At least you told me this time
That youâre not permanently leaving
But I am shaking and Iâm sick
Waiting for bad news to hit
That youâre not feeling what Iâm feeling
So I take trips through older texts
Collect some shrapnel from the past
And start comparing then and now
Oh what a ringing in my ears
A growing existential fear
The echoes of explosive sounds
By now Iâm really spinning out
Filled up with overwhelming doubt
That we could ever get there
That you would want to show me off
To have folks know there is an âusâ
To let them see how much you care
So now it starts to make some sense
I tease out details in my head
Of why I didnât wanna go
When it got late the other night
When you had your hand in mine
I think I knew, I think I know
That given space and time between
That night and next we meet
Youâll change your mind somehow again
Youâll come to think it wasnât true
That, after processing it, you
Donât wanna ruin our friendship
We shouldnât be lovers instead
Donât wanna ruin our friendship
We shouldnât be lovers instead
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I sometimes think of what you may be up to
You're 32âdo your parents still control you?
And what was it like, the years after the coma?
I'd love to talk to you and see how much you've grown up
And I wonder if you still think of me
If I'd be any help to them
Is this the way it's meant to be?
This machine maintains itself
I know that you cherished the time we spent in college
It meant a lot to me, and that I can acknowledge
A misfire that'll live forever
I'd like to think that we'd be better together
And I wonder if you still think of me
If I'd be any help to them
Is this the way it's meant to be?
This machine maintains itself
And I wonder
Do you still think of me?
And I wonder
Should I just let it be?
And I wonder
Does this make sense to you?
And I wonder
And I wonder if you still think of me
If I'd be any help to them
Is this the way it's meant to be?
This machine maintains itself
(I wonder if you still think of me,if I'd be any help
I wonder
I wonder if you still think of me, if I'd be any help
This machine maintains itself)
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Brave Steps
01:04
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I thought of myself as floating above it
Striving only to ride the waves as they came in
I wonder as often as I think about it
Why I felt no control over my role, predestined
Where along the way
Was I taught my autonomy was simply fictional
Brave steps that you take to reclaim yours
Iâll take them too, await the day
I think of it now as a retrospective
A different kind of film, not one choice elective
I rewind the tape, it wonât play the same way
Affecting the frames, what I did, what did I say
Where along the way
Was I taught my autonomy was simply fictional
Brave steps that you take to reclaim yours
Iâll take them too, await the day
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Axis
02:46
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We will not freeze in the winter
We will not lose to the sun
We will stay strong âtil itâs over
We will not come undone
The doldrums of our tilted axis
Time spent in the dark and apart
But we have each other for the first time
Since the first time that we broke each otherâs hearts
We will not drown if we dive in
We have both learned how to swim
We will not live to regret it
Just all the times we didnât
The long days full of possibility
The warm water calling our new names
Weâve only fear itself to be afraid of
And Iâm done letting that shit get in my way
The doldrums of our tilted axis
Time spent in the dark and apart
But we have each other for the first time
Since the first time that we broke each otherâs hearts
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11. |
Meriden
03:11
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Three months & 14 days later
I must say I expected much more from myself
Than a panic attack in a Mcdonald's bathroom
Lost somewhere in the wastes of Connecticut.
The only thing I remember from last semester
Was the promise of progress that I made to myself
But that Lake Street positivity went out with summerâs creativity
I put my hands in my pockets
Made my way toward the exit
And tell everyone Iâm alright
But I think that theyâve found a way
To be more sick of my shit than I am all the time
We stopped off at the park, it was closed after dark
But we said âfuck the copsâ and rolled in.
White-bread Americaâs sleeping but keeping the Christmas lights on.
Weâll take what we can get and salvage from the wreck
And weâll try to stay honest in spite of ourselves
Weâll say fuck last semester, weâll make this one better
And when it starts to suck weâll at least have each other
And I thank my friends for being better to me than I am to myself
And I thank my friends for being better to me than I am to myself
And I thank my friends for being better to me than I am to myself
And I thank my friends for being better to me than I am to myself
(I thank my friends for being better)
(We stopped off at the park, it was closed after dark, but we said fuck the cops and rolled in)
And I thank my friends for being better to me than I am to myself
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Longfriend Timefriend Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Caleb: guitar
Em: guitar
Pete:drums
Louie: bass
everybody sings sometimes
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