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Boxer
02:47
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Like a mid afternoon shadow I will rise and fall again
Turn to say goodbye to me, your ticking clock well spent
The more bourgeoisie your picture is the more to analyze
Sit there softly look at me, take in my demise
When you’re lying close to me
I could be anyone
I’d like to know how you kiss me when you
Never touch me once
You cannot sit and listen to me bleed internal as I sing
Shards of an apology, enclosed inside a boxing ring
Cynicism, cyanide, close your eyes they’re one the same
Who will mourn the dead and gone when there’s nobody left to blame
When you’re lying close to me
I could be anyone
I’d like to know how you kiss me when you
Never touch me once
Juliet sings a song to me
To keep me on my toes
The end of the line, unintentional crime
One more road I’ll never know
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Halloween Dancer
04:20
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You don’t believe me
When I say summer is slowly passing us by
How much of the world have I told
About your ability to get me to smile
Like a dancer on Halloween night
Almost there my love but not quite
Gently touch me and then pull away
Mistake
I’m a big haired disco kid
When you gonna ask me to
Dance my love
Dance with me
Rainbow lights and roller rink
Leave me side-eyeing you
Over a stale, sweet taste of cola
I don’t think you’re coming home
What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight
Wisdom teeth
Have started to ache again
You’re too sweet for me
Gaps of silence
Between the words of conversational talk
Oh honey (honey, honey, honey, honey)
When was the last time that you ever saw me cry in front of you?
Ah, ah, ah
'Cause like a dancer on Halloween night
Almost there my love but not quite
Gently touch me and then pull away
Mistake
'Cause I’m a big haired disco kid
When you gonna ask me to
Dance my love
Dance with me
Rainbow lights and roller rink
Leave me side-eyeing you
Over a stale, sweet taste of cola
I don’t think you’re coming home
What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight
[Guitar solo]
'Cause like a dancer on Halloween night
Almost there my love but not quite
Gently touch me and then pull away
Mistake
'Cause I’m a big haired disco kid
When you gonna ask me to
Dance my love
Dance with me
Rainbow lights and roller rink
Leave me side-eyeing you
Over a stale, sweet taste of cola
I don’t think you’re coming home
Don’t tell me you’re gonna be alone tonight
I don’t think you’re coming home
What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight
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Icarus
03:54
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I find it difficult
To express my feelings
Ask me why and I don’t know
Lately it’s been hard
To find a space in my head at night
Post-mortem, your afterglow
Will you sit with me tonight?
Only if you’re feeling up to it
How could I make such a pretty face
Fall out of place
Icarus dear,
Maybe one of these days I’ll take you home
Back to the city that I call my home
And you can dance for me and write for me
And I will carve your name on a postcard
I’d like to kiss you
Just to see how it feels
Softly silent, sense compliance
But I don’t want to
Be the girl always waiting for you
Makes me feel so ordinary
Will you sit with me tonight?
Only if you’re feeling up to it
How could I make such a pretty face
Fall out of place
Icarus dear,
Maybe one of these days I’ll take you home
Back to the city that I call my home
And you can dance for me and write for me
And I will carve your name on a postcard
And I’m slow to it
And you’re slow to it
And we’re slow to it
Dancing in circles round the back
I’m too slow to it
And you’re slow to it
And we're slow to it
All I ever wanted was you
(Ooh, ooh ooh ooh, yeah)
You are the creator’s son
Who never knew what he had done
But he keeps on trying and maybe we should too
Went and totaled your left side wing
I never thought we could end this thing
Cause you make me feel so weightless and I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
I love it
Icarus dear
Icarus dear
Icarus dear
Icarus dear
Won't you come home?
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Mindless
04:09
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New York City, different times
Central park, different lights
You buy a sandwich to share and our fingers touch
How can I make it clear
That for the span of a summer you were
There to hold me close and then fall apart
Four in the afternoon doesn’t exist
Search within you, it’s gone amiss
And I can’t stay with you during the night
Mindless
Keep it mindless
Ask me why people come and go so quickly
Use your hands
Play a song for me
Don’t pay me no mind
I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands
You know I don’t believe in magic
My dear, me and you is a tragedy
Waiting to happen, and now I must turn away
Newspaper showing a hurricane
Beautiful and terrible just like you
my love, so bad at a prisoner’s game
Eight in the evening doesn’t exist
Reality, a connection missed
But I can’t stay with you during the night
Mindless
Keep it mindless
Ask me why people come and go so quickly
Use your hands
Play a song for me
Don’t pay me no mind
I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands
Mindless
Keep it mindless
Ask me why people love you and than leave you
Use your hands
Play a song for me
Don’t pay me no mind
I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands
Tripped and fell on my own ego
nervous hands, I pull away,
Yeah I’m cynical until the bitter end
Existence is a contraband
Like wine I get drunk on your hands,
So soft I didn’t know they were even there
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5. |
Sing to Me
04:16
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What you want is what I need
And what I have is what you see
Autumn comes too close to home
Curl up with the telephone
What you want is what I need
And what I have is what you see
Autumn comes too close to home
Curl up with the telephone
Middle of the season and I’ve got like three friends cause
Texting plans are cryptic and are hard to comprehend
Never understood what the city lacked
But now he sits outside my window waits for me to text him back mm
Summer days eternal he’s so good with words that
It doesn’t seem like such a bad time for getting hurt
But I love him all the same I’m the one to blame
Continuously making him a daisy chain on rainy days ahh
You are relentless
When you sing to me do you remember me calling
Calling your name
You’re relentless
When you sing to me do you remember me calling
Calling your name
Late 1960s baby gotta make it last but
What am I still doing here waltzing with the past
(You and me) I’m captivated by your moving hands
Across the neck of my guitar across the soft skin of my harsh demands
I’m trying to ignore
The things that make me question what are you really here for?
Days are getting shorter, summer mood suspended
But I’m certain you’ll be there with me when the movie ends
[Synth solo]
You’re relentless
When you sing to me, do you remember me calling
Calling your name
You’re relentless
When you sing to me, do you remember me calling
Calling your name
Oh when the night kicks in
Conversation soaked in gin
Power of immortal blues
And I’ll sing a song for you
Oh when the night kicks in
Conversation soaked in gin
Power of immortal blues
And I’ll sing a song for you
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Two Minute Eulogy
02:04
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Your hands on my waist, a first debut
(look at all the faces)
I am smaller than life in my size ten shoes
(personal embraces)
I walk along the moonbeams kicking stones at night
It’s all so very peaceful
But when you call me out of the mess I am
And we stand together in our shades of blue
You don’t speak, but I hear you thinking all the same
I love you
The hollow image of the man you are
(look at all the faces)
See a different world of color, end up raising the bar
(personal embraces)
You ride along the night like a tidal wave
It’s all so very peaceful
But when you call me out of the mess you made
And we stand together in our shades of blue
you don’t speak, but I hear you thinking all the same
I love you
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Indian Burns and Cage
03:57
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we got kicked out of a store once again
for doing nothing at all it's just 'cause we're teens
and i like being your friend i like
taking polaroids at my house talking about nothing at all
trying to find out who you were as a sophomore
paper thin stockings at the dollar store
hitch a ride to my place like you weren't going to leave
your head on my chest i can hear you breathe
my mother shaved your hear a layer of jet black hair
fake tats and piercings and band-aids and cage 'cause well
nothing dies in a world of me n u
we'll go play hide and seek when we're nearly seventeen
just kids, in a glittery world of starry high school dreams
i guess things aren't always as they seem
copic skin tones, collarbones
it was you who made me go and talk to him
now we're friends and I photograph it all inside
against the backdrop of the promise of sunny skies
saw you in the mirror shining bright like a star
and he wondered how we ever got to run so far
burning through the streets that no one ever goes down
admire the kids who we see walking in the streets
infect me with your unending positivity
note taking, silent inquiry
return to the subway with you go and drown my shame
with an empty glass of plastic pour it down the drain
starry high school dreams, hand of an angel down on me
[guitar solo]
you can be the girl who'll cut you up and leave you
wondering why life handed you a lemon and caught you
shivering, chinese take out for dinner, it's all just glimmering to me
tell me
you can be the girl who'll cut you up and leave you
wondering why life handed you a lemon and caught you
shivering, are you all right, please tell me, it's all just glimmering to me
to me
so you'll indian burn me once again
and maybe call me friend
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Eighteen
03:36
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It was the end of the world, when I turned eighteen
Didn’t really think about it, didn’t really want to talk about it
My lips were always chapped in the winter (chapped in the winter)
All my friends swiped left on tinder
I suck in the air through my teeth
We were all peachy keen
Still all peachy keen
Step inside the jaws of a past life, color ridden magazine, I believe now
When you touch me, when you stare at me—intensely prismatic stone cold eyes—
Possessive form of mine
Running (running, running, running) feel the beat slow it down
Eyes wide open soak in my surroundings like Henry Bemis
Last man on earth, like the world in reverse, like the world in reverse
I close my eyes, feel the blood pulse through my veins it’s time to go, oh
Happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday
happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
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Smoke
02:02
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Tell me that you now know everything you thought you could ever know
Tell me that you now can feel everything you thought you could ever feel
How did she feel?
Was she even real?
It doesn’t bother me I’m like a cloud in the sky watching weeping willows cry
Remember we hung out in the summer that night on your roof take a shot to the heart
and the memories start again?
Tell me the story again
So when he comes your way someday
Will you look at him and see a flame
avert your eyes and count to ten
And he will be gone again
It doesn’t bother me I’m like a cloud in the sky watching weeping willows cry
Remember we hung out in the summer that night on your roof take a shot to the heart
and the memories start again?
Tell me the story again
And when she comes your way someday
Will you look at her and see the ocean
waves oh the waves of your goodbyes
remember how you cried, how you cried
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Father Koi New York, New York
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