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Annie
03:39
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I’ve seen your face in everyone I meet
I watched you sleep in all of my dreams
I watched you go with sunbeams by your side
They never show anymore
In a moment it’s all gone
You’re leaving, yeah you’re leaving at dawn
With the rain in your eyes, so much pain in saying goodbye
You’re leaving, now you’re leaving tonight
I wrote it out, it spilled a mess onto the page
I cried it out, a crumbling mess drunk on the stage
Annie, Forgive me
I’ll admit it’s been too long
for your ghost to be here dragging me along
Well what can I say, I’m a dick
I’m the reason you wake up sick
I’m the reason that you’re gone
All in seconds, bawling, wrecked and rough
stop acting tough
You’re not mean, I’m not me
this monster in my seat
Isn't me, I want to believe it isn't me
Who would wanna be?
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2. |
Good God Damn
02:35
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Good God Damn
Let Me Out
Won't hang tight
Why keep me around
I won't put up
And I won't put out
You say its looking up
but everybody's looking down
I've seen your act
I've played your game
You clean me out
and dirty my name
You had one shot
Now it's aimed your way
What they gonna do
What's everybody gonna say
Good God damn
You think you're smart
When they all come to
They're gonna tear you apart
When you can't play dumb
and the word gets round
What they gonna do
when they figure you out
Good god damn
You lost your strut
Hard keeping up
When you're living in a rut
You made your mind
I took my turn
Hope those tears can
Soothe your burns
I took your shit
Packed it up
Don't be shocked when you
Can't get a fuck
The gettings been good
but the givings all gone
Get fucked, go home
and we all carry on
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3. |
Used To Be
03:59
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Fall in love for all the wrong reasons
Crawl back in my skin
Drown it out with the season
rainfall comes again
You keep to yourself
you part your hair so different now
so well spoken but quiet still
have you figured it out
or are you just lost
like the rest of us
are you wading through
far removed from who you used to be
Singing again, quiet sha la la la la la la's
to get yourself to sleep
Screaming again, and fucking up that
perfect part you strive to keep
Fall in love for all the wrong reasons
crawl back in your skin
drown it out with the season
the snowfall comes again
Are you just lost like the rest of us
are you wading through
far removed from who
you used to be
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Baby don't be so cruel, I've been waiting on you
Push me up against the wall, Stand me up and drop it all
Waiting on a better day, locked up inside your head
Only giving time of day when you're feeling bad
I don't want your pity, I don't want your fucking words
Make your mind or take me on or leave me for the worms
I'd never love a coward, Ana prove me wrong
I'm just a bastard, but maybe I came on too strong
I only want you to take me for the monster that I am
Stop playing damaged, come on, come on,
I know you better than that
Maybe you don't see as I do, but why must you poke at me and rip me up and make me come unglued
I've always been there when everything is wrong
Asking myself why I'm here and why I'm still strung up
Waiting on a better day, locked up inside your head
Only giving time of day when you're feeling bad
I don't want your pity, I don't want your fucking words
Make your mind or take me on or leave me for the worms
I'd never love a coward, Ana prove me wrong
I'm just a bastard, but maybe I came on too strong
I only want you to take me for the monster that I am
Stop playing damaged, come on, come on,
I know you better than that
*Bitchin' Trumpet Solo*
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5. |
Lucky To Have You
04:27
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Broken things all pushed into a pile
Reconcile all these pieces and smile
How are you?
Used to think this was all I could be
A fragment of something but never complete
How are you?
Stars align, but all just in time
We're all doing fine, we're coming into everything that we'd every want
and I do, I see it in you
Why so blue, we're lucky to have you
For so long I was stuck in a trance
Following steps, you forget how to dance on your own
So we stumble for things we don't need
When all that we wanted is right at our feet
Stars align, but all just in time
We're all doing fine, we're coming into everything that we'd every want
and I do, I see it in you
Why so blue,
We're lucky to have you
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6. |
Valencia
03:42
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The sun beats through a break in clouds
I walk around my favorite part of town
I don't mind being alone
I do just fine being on my own
These pretty things are everywhere
They shade their skin and braid their hair
I knot my tie and sing my song
My best cologne but not too strong
But underneath the pretty face
and deaf and blind to my best days
can two see past the shit we pull
if we stop acting so damn cool
Insta-perfect Valencia
Made to make us fall in love
without our social media
Will we know how to be in love
Oh how man has come to evolve
Left swipe and like then revolve
I like you as you like yourself
Teach me not to be myself
Rate me against a shopping list
Cut down my edges make me fit
I'll smooth yours over and we'll be fine
We look so beautiful online
But god forbid we get to know
the pieces we left out of code
It's scary bearing your soul
so best not have one left to show
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7. |
Pretty Penny
03:23
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If you always knew what we would do
well wouldn't you be so bored
Make a mistake retrace replace
oh of course
You've always been so boring, why can't you just lay back
Spend some time ignoring the facts that hold you back
Plan it and Panic
a Manic Romantic
with all of your schemes what had happened to your dreams
Stubborn and sober
you'll laugh when its over
your karma is empty
the friends you fuck over
your prettiest penny
will never love you
Used to be so lovely, so elegant, and innocent
Used to be so kind yeah, you used to be my friend
But love didn't suit you like boots and Jimmy Choos
I won't be here when you come back with nothing to lose
Plan it and Panic
a Manic Romantic
With all of your schemes what had happened to your dreams
Stubborn and sober
you'll laugh when its over
your karma is empty
the friends you fuck over
your prettiest penny will never love you
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