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16 Hours
04:06
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16 hours before me
you held on to me so tightly
all night long
for the rest of our star-lit envoi
and within the bedroom's borderlines
there's nothing wrong
16 hours surround me
time pays us what it's owed us
as the minutes crawl on
I breathe in deep to speak aloud
but words fall away unuttered
I'll string them up for you
to block out the sun
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2. |
Sleeping Pills
03:38
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I was dreaming of a white light
brightness streaming through the pock-marked shade
of my eyelids
but I woke up to a deep blue dark
Alone and choking on the silence
swallowed by the hour
spat up with a stranger's voice, and it said
are you ready to fall apart?
Take those sleeping pills
and forget how it feels to feel something
swallow that medicine
and remember how it feels to need something
It was a hot night
the room spun in and out of focus while a riptide
pulled me out of my mind
I could look back and see that
I didn't know much of anything yet
My sheets all sweated out my shirts all torn
paranoid, unalloyed, cast aside, yeah now I know
but back then
I didn't understand...
I'll fold before I'm powerless
lie awake and wait to face the day
but I can't help feeling a little bit
I can't help feeling a little bit concerned
Are you gonna take those sleeping pills
and forget how it feels to feel something
are you gonna swallow that medicine
and remember how it feels to need something
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3. |
Twilight
03:58
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Power lines stretched out like
veins in the half-light
the image is all that remains
not what we said for fame
or what we thought about
but you don't remember
you don't remember
the taste of the snow
In the twilight
I can see all of us there
Sifting through the rubble
starts me seeing double
just the trick of a mind
sick of biding its time
it trains and magnifies
There we are on the ground
watching the stars come out
how did we end up so proud?
can you remember
can you remember
the taste of the snow?
In the twilight
I can see all of us there
Now I'm alone out in the cold
helpless and old and afraid it'll happen again
It's on again
now I'm alone out in the cold
and where will I be when it all happens again?
It's on again
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4. |
Distance
03:08
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Shaking with the weight of my conviction
I know now I will be different
than the way I was before
Courtesy stretched tight it keeps
the two of us inside a coffee
shop despite the beckoning open door
And yes it was a selfish move
to stand up from that table
but don't ask me to explain you know
my mouth fills up with nails
every time I try
every time I try
every time I try I forget
there's something good here I just haven't found it yet
Ooo, what did it mean
that the rain outside let up
just when I got up to leave
OOO, should I have said
I'm sorry but at least
It's not your fault, it's not your fault
Now I feel like a shucked-out shell
aboard a lurching train I watch
the tops of misty skyscrapers recede
In the space between us there's
a distance I can only breach by
finding brand new ways to make you bleed
I'll be the first one to say
that's an ugly game to play
but every time I think I've snapped
the what ifs start their coming back
and so we try
and so we try
and so we try again
there's something good here we just haven't found it yet
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