1. |
Root Canal
01:09
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My roots run deeper than my fears
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2. |
Ghost Fight
02:50
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If your words packed less of a punch
This emergency room would be a lot less daunting
If I hadn’t fallen short of expectations
What you did would be a lot less haunting
My body isn’t home anymore
I can hardly feeling
You call a “predicament” an “accident”
I’ll call it what it is
Like a car in the rearview mirror
I see you ready to knock me down again
The harder I try
The closer you are
I brought a knife to a ghost fight
I thought I could handle my demons
Here they are, back again,
under my skin
Pulling me back to that place again
My body isn’t home anymore
Before you I knew who I was
I knew what I believed in
Now I’m winning small battles
My spirit is shattered
The nightmares, they plague me
I’m not a sum of bad dreams
I’m stronger than I seem
I’ll reclaim what is mine
I know that in time
I’ll be better
I brought a knife to a ghost fight
I thought I could handle my demons
Here they are, back again,
under my skin
Pulling me back to that place again
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3. |
The Walk
03:24
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I see silhouettes of suburbs
Boasting of perfection
Long lost connections
That lead me to where you are
Right where you are
You look like right now
The only thing on my mind
As time passes me by
You’re right here
You look like every moment
I’ve ever waited for
Never needing more
You’re right here
And maybe
Just maybe you’re delusional as me
I can’t see colors right
But you’re a spectrum of possibilities
And maybe this is the mess
That I happen to call love
It could be a work of fiction
Woven by the gods
There’s no better feeling
Than your laughter on my lips
Or the way you and the dog
Occupy most of my mattress
You’re the thumping in my chest
At my worst you are the best
You have the heart in which I dwell
I’m stitching all the seams
Where everything seems like nothing
And nothing feels like everything
My body is a vessel
To hold your weary heart
Though my days are numbered
This is just the start
You stitched up all my seams
Etched permanently on my skin
You’re right here
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4. |
Nothing Good
02:53
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Summer’s here to stay
Warming up the weather
But you’re still around
Heart as cold as ever
You came in with the tide
Should’ve known I’d be swept away
All I see is beauty
To match a gorgeous day
But came the fatal crash
I hoped it would last
But you fell through the cracks
Now I’m standing all alone
(All alone)
[Woah]
Maybe you feel ok
[Woah]
When you drink it up
Breathe it in
Love me the way
Misery loves company
Hand in hand
Like nothing good can stay
And nothing sweet remains
[Woah]
Maybe you feel ok
[Woah]
When you drink it up
Breathe it in
Hold it down
I’m not like you
I’ll fuck it up
Hold it in
Try to forget it
[Try to forget it]
The holy trinity: The fuck up the regret
The holy ghost of your past
Lingering in you
Better move fast
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5. |
Dreams Deferred
02:59
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Why waste my time
On dead ends
And trap doors
Leading me through
A maze with no finish?
Why would you say
That my thoughts are valid
Then hold it against me
When you feel diminished?
So sorry if I seem a little reckless
I do my very best just to get this
Flustering feeling that the world is slowly ending
Out of my head
Sorry if I lost a little faith but,
The gravity is far too much to take
So I’ll burn some bridges
And when the window closes
I’ll make a door of opportunity
So you’ll sink lower and lower
To avoid confrontation
And I’ll get higher and higher
Diluted contemplation
Are you scared it might be different?
Or unfamiliar?
You fear pain of the future,
Lose sight of the present
So sorry if I seem a little reckless
I do my very best just to get this
Flustering feeling that the world is slowly ending
Out of my head
Sorry if I lost a little faith but,
The gravity is far too much to take
So I’ll burn some bridges
And when the window closes
I’ll make a door of opportunity
You say I’m a dreamer
But sleep is just practice for death
And you’ve made my bed
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6. |
Cinder Blocks
04:47
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The cinder blocks are tied to my feet
I’m going under
A not so sweet defeat
If you need me I’ll be breathing in water
You tried to free me
Well you could’ve tried harder
You tried to knock on my love’s locked door
Thinking that you found the key under the floor
But you just scratched the surface
And in the end you lost it
In the end you lost it
I’m an overachiever at underachieving
I’m just rolling along
With acrimonious punches
I’m passively receiving
And I’m endlessly retrieving
And I’ve seen better places than this
All you had to say was that you’re tired
But you left me out to hang on your tangled wire
The one you used to wrap me up
Around your finger, you could try to give a fuck
In the end you lost it
I’m an overachiever at underachieving
I’m just rolling along with acrimonious punches
I’m passively receiving and I’m endlessly retrieving
And I’ve seen better places than this
You picked these petty things
And tied them to a string
And wore them all like pendulums
And dragged them all along, like
Time seems almost gone, like
We’re losing our momentum
You carried too much crooked weight
And in the end you lost it
I said look how far we’ve come
You said “you’ve gone too far”
When did you draw the line
Your cryptic signs
I said I’d wait until you’re ready
You said “I’m not that steady baby,
I’m fucked up lately”
Did you think I’d leave unscathed
This is the price that I have paid
For my mistakes
I thought we’d be together
I’m not under the weather
I’m becoming the storm
I’m an overachiever at underachieving
I’m just rolling along
With acrimonious punches
I’m passively receiving
And I’m endlessly retrieving
And I’ve seen better places than this
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7. |
Bad Connections
03:06
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You’re the song blasting through my speakers
In the aftermath of an accident
Keeps repeating through my unconscious mind
Begging me to step back and rewind
You won’t get me down today
I’ve been on my knees to pray
I won’t change the things I can’t
My heart was broken by
the words you never said
I filled in the blanks,
let you get in my head
But you’re gone and I’m lonely
And everyone knows it
So here I stand with your
Red lies and white roses
Your red lies and white roses
Life’s too short but time takes too long
To convince myself
I was anything but wrong
I can’t say that I’m not getting better
I’ll fix myself with every letter I wrote
My heart was broken by the words you never said
I filled in the blanks, let you get in my head
But you’re gone and I’m lonely
And everyone knows it
So here I stand with your
Red lies and white roses
In 24 hours
Like well arranged flowers
You decadently placed doubt in my mind
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