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John's Song
05:12
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Don’t say it
Keep it in your head like all the rest
Let the concrete cauterize the wound
And leave the rest to vodka and the moon
No one, no one
Is gonna save you, is gonna save you
So don’t you think you’ve had enough
Waiting for someone else to clean it up?
Keep trying
But getting through the day is getting old
Thought you’d have it figured out by now
Instead you let the vortex drag you down
No one, no one
Is gonna save you, is gonna save you
So don’t you think you’ve had enough
Waiting for someone else to clean it up?
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2. |
Cut and Run
03:43
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Staring at the girls as they pass
Fingers leaving marks on the glass
All he sees are figurines
A fixture from his teenage dreams
A well that he can draw from til it’s bare
And he won’t see
The scars he’ll leave
He’s gotten what he wanted now
And he’s gonna cut and run
Everybody wants to be king
When they see the jewels it can bring
And so he keeps the ones who sing his praises for the court
A crowd of people to adore him
Hanging any jester who will call him out
And he won’t see
The scars he’ll leave
He’s gotten what he wanted now
And he’s gonna cut and run
Now they’re in the square
Calling for his head
Caught in his own snare
Waiting for his end
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3. |
Ready Set Go
03:36
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Look at you, so reckless with your charm
I do the best with what I’ve yet to lose
I can’t say that I’m free
And if you cave, I can’t promise I will behave
I’m sturdy til your voice breaks with possibility
No matter how you leave I can’t say no, oh
Okay, ready set go
We’ll go on until the game runs out of cards
And soon enough we can’t hit pause on moves we shouldn’t make
And in your place I’ll try to paste a different face
On mannequins who test their fate pretending to be you
No matter how you leave I can’t say no, oh
Okay, ready set go
Your roommates went to bed too long ago
It’s much too late to walk these streets alone
The couch is fine, I guess, but we both know
We’re way too close
You’re way too close
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4. |
Saving Face
03:40
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I’m in the same house
But it’s not the same
And I don’t wanna be here anymore
Stuck in place
Saving face
I smoked the ghosts out
At least I tried
To burn it all to ashes in the yard
In hopes that I could be alive
I miss the old days
Before the scars
Trauma-bonded babies running ‘round
Loving fast
Loving hard
I’d love to tell you
It’s for the best
But I am not a liar anymore
I’m just a mess
A tired mess
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5. |
Somewhere Better
04:18
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He took a walk into the deep end
And left a notebook on the shore
Before the cops could even find it
The sun had got there first
And bleached the words into a blur
Mama says he’s somewhere better
The coroner just says he drowned
When we were kids we built a ladder to the sky
I scrapped the wood for something sound
We took the long way to the diner
When summer had us by the throat
We passed the billboard asking where we plan to spend eternity
I guess it’s nice to think they know
But then the day was neverending
And all the roads just circled back
The town became the kind of story only Steinbeck could have told
And I swear I could hear him laughing
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6. |
Song In D
03:44
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Talking so sweet when you see me in the corner
But who will you be in the morning when it’s over?
Hiding behind pretty lies
As if I haven’t heard it all
Before we go home
You should know
The one I’m really looking for is
Gone, far away
Chasing some kind of god
To tell him something that he doesn’t know
How to live without longing for more
And I guess neither do I
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7. |
Loaded
04:39
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Boy stuck in his first gear
Keeping everybody in the dark
He could never be lonely
Tricks so deep in both sleeves
You can’t see the cards
We can do what we want to
As long as he’s the one behind the wheel
Pills dissolving on pink tongues
I’m riding in shotgun
And loaded as hell
I could watch you forever
I don’t know how to stop
Waiting for you to get better
Even as you drop dead
Soon we’re crashing and burning
The tables are turning
And there’s nowhere to hide
But even when the truth is coming out
They’re giving him the benefit of doubt
They say it’s sounding like another fairy tale
All crying “How could he be a villain?”
Well now he’s making a killing
Pretending to fail
I could watch you forever
I don’t know how to stop
Waiting for you to get better
Even as you drop dead
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8. |
Without A Fight
06:56
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Driving down from your house
Too afraid to take the long way home
Guess I’m in charge of the brave parts
I’ll say hey from the next pay phone
And I just want you to know
That I won’t let you go
Without a fight
Saw the clues, read my cue
You’re okay, guess I’m okay too
Feeling so low, riding solo
Far away from the life I know
And I just want you to know
That I won’t let you go
Without a fight
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9. |
In Blue
05:36
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The sheets are clean and dry
Not red as I would like
‘Cause you’d think the first moon to follow murder
I’d be drenched like a prom queen on a stage
I tried to scrub away
The scum that wants to stay
Woke you up at midnight with my hands in water
Talking mad like Lady Macbeth
Oh, I’ll never know
I dream of her in blue
A face that echoes you
Tiny hands that grasp at your curls and keychains
And the song of her voice in my head
Oh, I’ll never know
Oh, I’ll never know
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10. |
Little Death
07:43
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God finding things to take
Loves watching how we break
Leaves us lying there gutted and cold
I wanted you to stay
Why, why did you go away
Why?
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