1. |
Toast
01:59
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Night,
Caught in a vibe
Loping thru time
Icing the spot for now,
Shrug off a sigh
Stay in tonight
No pressure in sight
Itching the spot until it feels satisfied
Held a lot a while
Keep to myself again
Keeping it in
Nope,
Bad time to hope
Won’t go toward the coast
A good time to, I don’t know,
Go make some toast
Golden and brown
It’s better right now
Convincing myself it’s worth
Hanging around
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2. |
Inside
02:36
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Can’t keep asking why.
Logic can’t define
If this is how it is,
I’m throwing out the time.
A good run wouldn’t last,
The future is a trap
Enjoy it while it passes,
go on, put it back
Be fine,
See I gotta just keep it going
Focus dismissed,
Nothing here for the knowing
Float free,
Let leaves fall when they’re done with showing
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3. |
the Bend
02:31
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A breeze might carry some of it all
Another curtain I had to call
Lost in the maze
The paint was peeling off of the wall
Lost again, lost again
Lost it again
Another night feeling overwhelmed
Do what I can to enjoy myself
Wait for the bend
Keep occupied, but it knows me well
Lost again, lost again
Lost it again
Go for walk and forget my phone
Leaving the house just to be alone
A warm Labatt and I’m in the zone
Lost again, lost again,
and again
I find myself in the early hours
Kinda surprised to have seen it out
Squint through the haze
Going for days even if it’s sour
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4. |
Take Time
02:42
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Take time, don’t wait on it
Called mine, built it to last
Say fine, knowing that the
wave’s high, and coming fast
Know not the way to tie it
up tight, right in a bow.
Placed it carefully where
it seemed to need to go.
Sigh, discomfort and I.
A leak in the side,
holding back for the drive
Light will sit in with time,
against what I might hope.
A moment’s alright to let it pass on by
Wake in a walk, locking the door, call it away
Caught in the snare if it’s still there, what’s there to say?
Hitching a ride, nothing but time, there’s the delay
Writing it wrong, talking in song, thicken the glaze
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5. |
Get Me
01:05
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Gotta get me
Gotta get me out
Could it just be?
I know I’ll be around
It’s a nice pace
Let it simmer down
In a good place,
As good as it allows
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6. |
Take it Tough
03:19
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Maybe a year from now?
Another day I’m looking away from the doorway
And in the depths I’ve found
A different kind of calm, a different sort of pathway
“It’s only to survive”
I'm looking around for what else could be in the goldmine
An unconvincing lie
Feeling that permeates what should just be a goodtime
I wanna wander out
About the city but I’ve cloaked it in my own shroud
Learning what I’m about
Making the rules only to break em for a tough crowd
Taking my own advice
Talking myself out of almost having a bad time
Blowing thru all the lights
Cause if there’s no harm, there’s no foul for now, and that’s fine
If I lead, will it feed me enough
Gotta flee, set it free, take it tough
Take it tough
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7. |
Shortsight
02:56
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I hope that you don’t
and I’m hoping i can brush it off
Don’t think that i won’t
I’ve been trying not to itch the spot
It takes too much time
Reading into every other line
And I got a hunch
That there’s danger waiting right outside
I think that I know
Shortsighted to hope
It’s good to be home
Saddled up but got nowhere to go
Anything I do, I can do it alone
At another impasse; time to unload
Just because I can, doesn’t mean I should
Somewhere down the line, could be understood
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8. |
Fieldy
02:28
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Dazed and I'm walking into the field
Breathing it deep in, trying to heal from all the
problems occurring inside my brain
Brushing the threshold, I'll walk away but if it
Follows there's not much that I can do
Needing so badly to think of anything but
Was I just a plug to fill the void
All yours to nurture or to destroy
But it's gone. it was wrong for me, oh
All along, yeah I didn't wanna face it
All alone, I'm a home for me can't let that go.
Had a vision and it faded
Flowers they came out out a lil too soon but
Peace can exist if I give it time to bloom
But when the snow falls, the wind howls,
There's not much to be done
Nature can't nurture when it's been on the run
And now you couldn't recall a crucial detail
Timeline you laid out, then fuckin bailed when it
became inconvenient to acknowledge the truth
Tried all that I could, was hoping to get through
It was wrong.
Here's a song for me, I could come to know
Somewhere hidden deep
And though had your charm,
It hard to believe that you meant no harm, when you harmed.
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9. |
Weathered
02:57
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Weathered now, soft inside
Somewhere past the surface
Play it safe, no one’s wise
Morning’s always lurking
Telling me, it’s alright
I know you don’t know it
What’s been dulled still could shine
Careful not to blow it
Bringing it, different
put it on the table
Worked it out, did my best
Laughed if I was able
Forget what I'm made of
Swapped out for a bootleg
Wasted time hating life
Realize its what you make
Hiding out in the blast zone
Gotta keep on holding down,
A bird’s eye, wonder what’s next up
It’s a fresh flush, it’s a gas
I’m standing under the tight rope
And I keep on looking up
Another second shouldn’t be spared, get me outta there, going fast
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10. |
Breaker
02:04
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Kidding the color, one hand’s the other, break for now
Simmer a stutter, passively utter a thought aloud
Carefully cut it, popped in the oven, bake it now
Sorry to cancel, I couldn’t stand to let me down
Always the season, don’t need a reason to give me time
I couldn’t see it, you wouldn’t read the dotted line
Is what it isn’t, go till it’s finished, making mine
Swore I had run it down, but I hadn’t tried
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11. |
Days Will Pass
02:01
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Slow to go out but hurried back
Funny now, the luck I've had
Sunk to the floor, surfaced at last
taking it in while I can
Used to keep track, but threw it out
Keeping close to what I've found
Sip of a symbol, chase it down
Singing simple, fun by now
Days will go out and the days will pass
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12. |
Nothing
02:58
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Facing a challenge I’d never assumed
Keep it in my pocket, that’s what I gotta do
What could I expect from a world so big?
My only want is just to become nothing
Pickin up trash on the porch last night
Puttin on a mask and i felt alright
What could I expect at a time like this
I hope it isn’t worth remembering
Lookin at the pieces when you know they don’t fit
Put em in the drawer but i know i won’t quit
I got a lotta lemons, making something out of it
filling up my glass and now I’ll take a sip
And sometimes when the sun’s out but it’s really still cold,
I think about what I could do before I get old
Of all that’s in the world, what I’ve got will do
A song to sing, what could it mean to you?
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