1. |
Growing With The Weeds
03:25
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We used to wake up covered in your hair
A million different streaks left around everywhere
In an apartment in Georgia,
I don't think I told you that I wanted to go home that week.
Staring blank At the clothes on the floor,
I started to unpack, but ended up packing more than I thought.
It's some progress to process
But I don't think it'll be that hard.
I think we're growing with the weeds
Going everywhere but where we want them to be.
I think we're growing with the weeds
Going everywhere
Going home starts to feel like I'm moving backwards
I don't want to be moving at all
Found myself in the pocket of Everything we talked with
I don't think that I care much anyway
Staring blank At the passenger door
Wondering how I slipped up
Or when I'll be slipping up more
Feels like more process than progress,
But I don't think it'll be that hard.
I think we're growing with the weeds
Going everywhere but where we want them to be.
I think we're growing with the weeds
Going everywhere
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2. |
November
03:08
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November's got me wrapped up and it's feelng like fall.
My blood is moving slower but my hearts speeding up
I'm in both of our shoes, and there's no one to blame.
You're tapering back, and I'm trying to wait.
An evening on the telephone dialed back for hours
Won't answer any question you and i haven't thought of
I'm sick of the way things have to change.
I'm sick of the way life's been feeling today.
But if it were a different time,
You and i could be motionless and static,
We could be more erratic with our thoughts about eachother
But there's no way around this now.
We're drawing lines in the sand not to get too freaked out
But I just wanna talk about
The last time we met
It was unexpected hesitance
You made me feel at home when home was hours away.
I don't want to think about how happy you are making some body else back home.
You're still so hurt, yes, I know that it feels way even if you won't tell me that
Putting paper to penmanship making it work but November is already crawling back.
It's the second I lost you,
Your winter is cold in the sun and I can't feel my hands
And the summer is never coming back
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3. |
Wanted
02:35
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I’ll follow you through the hallway.
Try not to wake your roommate,
Cause It's too late for this noise.
We'll slow dance to the sound of your record’s end.
It starts to feel like we weren't so far away,
far away again.
We started walking with our shoes still in our hands
I couldn't believe a thing I wanted so badly
could make me feel this way
Do you wanna go?
You always make me feel more alone.
I drive and drive just to get away
And you're feeling the same way.
The same way
I'd call you back
But the fractals never stay in tact
I wanted us to be
something we both wanted
wanted
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4. |
YMYF
01:57
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Still finding notes that you left me around the house
They’re folded up and thrown on a shelf
I don't wanna find that version of you again
But I'll call you back
Please don't answer, I don't want to talk
I just wanted to vent about
All the times that we argued about everything but sense.
I don't even wanna be here.
A spiral staircase of catching up.
Don't tell me about
Your mother your father,
your sister your dog or your cat
Do you think about me every time you meet someone else?
I hope we reflect and try to avoid this moving on.
Cause I don't even want to be here.
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5. |
Permanence
02:25
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I think that this is progress,
But I don't believe I've earned it
I've thought about it everyday.
I made up my mind even before I ever realized that
I caused you any pain
I think about it everyday.
A promise that I thought I’d never find myself to break
But we'll fight right on time.
You'll say that I'm fine
maybe it is permanent
But we don't know the half of what we’ve said
I'm gonna take my time
To deconstruct the permanence of every little detail of my life
You'll finally get to go back home
You'll finally get to go back home.
And you’ll finally find your way back home.
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6. |
Better
03:17
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I want to be
more than you wanted or thought that you’d ever need
I want to be
The person who makes you feel better when you feel down
I’m gonna drive
All the way through the day or night
I wanna make you feel better cause you make me feel better at night,
I wanna make you feel better cause you make me feel better at night
Talking on the phone till 3am
Wide awake thinking of baby names
It's a fantasy that no one knows
But I'm proud enough to make that wait
Wake up on my chest and we're holding hands
I want to find out where you are or where we stand,
The distance does damage - it fucks with my head,
I want to become the person you thought I am
I'll make you feel better cause you make me feel better
I wanna make you feel better, cuz you make me feel better at night
I want to fly over New England skies,
Kiss your head
Try to show you the world's not as bad as it seems instead
I wanna make you feel better cause you make me feel better
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7. |
Stonewall
03:05
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We found ourselves in your father's house
On a mid day afternoon
We needed to talk it out on semi neutral ground
But this place seemed to stick to you.
But the floorboards are gone,
They ripped it up,
said they would replace it soon.
But a year has passed
The plywood's filled with cracks.
You needed a home to go home to.
I wasn't that home for you.
We moved you out
And left your favorite couch
We never made the room.
You'd scream and shout
Said you felt like bleeding out
I wish I could have helped you.
The stone wall cracked
and it fell into ash
We couldn't keep living this way.
We fell onto the floor
I was no one that you adored
I don't want to live this way.
If I were you, I'd hate me too.
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8. |
Swimming Lessons
03:40
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I'm passively pondering the purpose of everything I meant to say to you
I'm constantly wondering if decisions I make would’ve happened out of the blue
Would they Happened out of the blue?
Would they have ever happened at all?
I have a habit of running away from all the good things that come and everything that's supposed make me safe
And alive,
I never wanted to see you cry.
You're so far away,
It's hard to tell when I've made a change.
But I take your call every morning
Please say I never tried again,
Please say that this never happened
I'll never make that drive again,
I wasted so much gas and wasted so many miles
On the car,
we never got that far.
I can't direct my feelings any different than I have
I can't direct my emotions any better than I have this time.
I'll go along
I don't know what I've done wrong
It's a Swimming lesson in a seaside depression manufactured all by myself
I guess I'll move on
But I don't know where I went wrong.
I guess I'll just move on
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We're Trying Records Austin, Texas
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