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Faltys Gap
02:51
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Killing myself every day
It’s the easy way to deal with things we all hate
Like waking up to know you face another 24 and you’re bored
Are you boring?
(I felt the calm before the storm
Between twisted hands and lessons learned
It hits and shakes you to the core
I’m never quite ready to grow)
Separate my mind from my body
Separate my mind from my body
We break apart to separate,
we separate to break apart
Break apart to separate
(When I die, bury me in a field somewhere
For all the soil and the water and the air
When I die, bury me in a field somewhere
In my brother’s field
In my brother’s field)
Another winter came and went
Disappointed all my friends
I never claimed to be the best
Sorry I am on the mend
Separate my mind
Separate my mind from my body
I look better on my own
I feel better when I’m lonely
I’m the name you never want to say
And I’m the thought you pray would go away
The face you never want to see in your dreams
I’m in your dreams
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2. |
Captain Zimmerman
03:08
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She says, “There is an Autumn river behind those eyes.
If you want, you can let your dead thoughts float by.”
There are wet leaves pressed in pages that will stay with me for life
How do you get by?
(When the tree was gone, I wanted to blame it on the weather
I thought how selfish one could be to cut down another living thing)
The man recovered roots so perfectly imposed
Everything will someday outgrow its home
There’s a vacancy, there’s an ever changing scenery
And I’m in between
Will you grow with me?
We can count each other’s rings
I will trim your leaves
I will always keep you green
(If I fall and no one’s around, do I still make a sound? Or will I just be down?)
We are who we choose to be
I looked in Norene’s mirror
And it felt okay to see me
(It’s not my business what you do behind closed doors
I heard you grieving over the telephone)
How do you get by?
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3. |
Thumbs for a Reason
03:49
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I was waiting for a headline, always waiting
For some bad news, some bad bad news
I hoped I’d see you soon
That’s why we always say goodbye before we leave the room
Just in case we’re gone too soon
You got buried alive, you got buried alive
Remember last June?
You were brand new
Don’t wanna put you in the ground any sooner than I have to
You were brand new
There’s a certain kind of feeling that I get when you wanna put a gun to your head
And it reminds me of the night that my father held up a knife to his own neck
And he said, “Shut the fuck up and go to bed”
So I did
I crawled into bed
If I fall down, and no one’s around, do I make a sound?
If I’m underground, and I can’t be found, do I make a sound?
I remember the tree as a time and a place when I figured out how much we change
From conception, to birth, to the grave I hope all of these memories fade
I saw your face age
Oh, what a shame the world took you away
From conception, to birth, to the grave I hope all of these memories stay
And I think to this day, what would’ve changed had you have stayed?
From conception, to birth, to the grave I hope that we will all stay the same
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4. |
Uncle Muscles Hour
03:56
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Watched you disintegrate from the comfort
of a place I’ve always stayed
There’s something about a friend
Something about a neighbor
Something about cold shoulders and the way
you don’t remember anything
You are the back of my hand, I know you so well
I hope wherever you may be, the flowers
The flowers don’t stop blooming
If I keep you in my mind, you never have to die
You are alive
If I keep you in my mind, you never have to die
You are alive
You can stay in the light
Nothing else decides that it’s your time
You are alive
Your treasures piled high
The way you stayed up all night, to sunrise
Your 4 AM smoke, your over sized overcoat
Driveway paradise
The look in your sister’s eyes
Even as a skeleton, there’s so much talk of heaven
One more question, what did you believe in?
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5. |
Tinker Toys
03:29
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You take the highway instead of the interstate
You say it’s safer that way
I thought you were saved
Eternal life, he who rests in him eternal life
But you’re scared to die?
Bury me with my leather bound bible, baby
The one that’s got my name written on the front page
(Well I will bow my head and give my respects
but I will swallow sadness
(And how vain the getaway)
Who will take me to my grave
When God is sick of my mistakes?
They cast me into flames
I did not pray enough to break these chains
I let you raise me on whatever you believed
You took my innocence
I failed to question
The look on your face, the way you always ask me to stay
“You should come to see me”
I thought the same thing
Cornered in the kitchen
Damn right I learned my lesson
Don’t bite the hand that feeds
Get to heaven on your knees
Capitalize on fear
Capitalize on me
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6. |
Death of a Space Cadet
05:06
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Got through the weekend
No guilt trip, only regret
It eats silently away at me
I know you feel a duty to denounce rock ‘n roll
I remember singing hymns at Lucille’s funeral
My voice rang to her ashes, my mother’s fake lashes
Funny so concerned how you’re dressed
when someone’s been laid to rest
See past the surface
You’d be sick if you knew the poison I live in
The walls are black
Foundation cracked
Life I’ve never seen before crawls out from underneath the floor
Separate
Separate to break apart
Break apart to separate
Want to be more, do more, see more, live more, love more
Feel more, breathe more, sleep more, dream more, work more
Seize the opportunities that knock on my door
Not quite on empty, never close to full
But I still go drive with no money in my pocket
There’s a voyeur in my blood, I am an unbegotten son
Not a victim to my circumstance, I chose who I’ve become
(What have I become? Separate)
So sick of myself, can’t imagine how you felt
Empty bottles sifted through, I’ve been breaking bowls on lose
(Separate)
Maybe when I die, I can separate my mind
Stop searching through the trees for the song we never find
(Songs we never find)
I want to be sound of body, soul, and mind
I worry that I’ve been wasting too much time
That’s what happens when you watch someone close to you die
You pray to God that you see the sun rise
I’d be satisfied with a preview of the afterlife
I ache to feel alive, sufficient, not empty, green with envy
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7. |
Not Yet
03:32
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Stuck on “what if?”
With a roof over my head
“You should be happy, cause you’re not dead”
Not yet
To know when it began
Is to know that it will end
Not yet
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8. |
POWERSMOKE
03:16
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I used to feel so disadvantaged
I used to feel
It wasn’t the whiskey, it wasn’t the weed
It was the way that you looked at me under the tree
The tunnels, they were empty
There was water in your shoes, that’s no excuse
I said to you, “there’s so much left to walk through”
Gotta keep laughing through our misery
One day we’ll be just a cement memory buried deep in the ground
Oh, the irony
Talking about death in a cemetery
Table for one
Call it an evening
You’re in my bed with traces of lovers on your neck
God, I’m a wreck
I’m such a hypocrite
Where will you bury me?
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