1. |
Claire Is In Mexico
01:06
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You can beg, barter, and pray
Everybody leaves with the same
Demons that you came here anyway
It builds and bursts when the dam can't hold up
Learn to swim or get taken with the flood
Curse the current
Dig in
Now, steel your guts
I'm still waiting for the day
When I bridge the distance between
Me and my mistakes
Give everything that burdens you a name
Lean into this existence
And float away
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2. |
Tights In Dress Weather
02:39
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Well, I can't shake the feeling
We're all grasping at straws
Use a comma, ellipsis
As a breath or a pause
Sense of clarity, just out of reach
Out of ideas
Back into the breach
Brittle bones
Brazen man
Bear the weight of the world if you can
Or else, shrug it off
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I have this
Bad habit
Of letting my heart run laps
Before my head's all warmed up and...
(Head's all warmed up)
It's a constant tug of war between
The action and intention
All the subtle things you
Wish you would've said
But never mentioned
I'm afraid to give up on your
(I'm afraid to give up on your)
I'm afraid to give up on your
Ghost!
Still a long way to content just yet
But a far cry from resigned
Every avenue beckons in whispers
If I could only read the signs
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4. |
Disavow
02:31
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Innovative minds
Find ways to pass more judgement than time and
I can't let it slide
Got a heavy head with my eyes open wide to this:
Thoughts all mired in ignorance
How do you ever sleep so soundly?
Do I need special glasses for your alternate reality,
Or just adjust my moral compass?
Cause it's this lack of character that knows
Just how to make me scream
All at once cowardly and pompous
Well, isn't this great again?
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5. |
Sports: What Are They?
03:13
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Your parents split last year
And we almost did too
If only for a minute or
If only for a minute or two
We keep our routines
Mark time with the passing of seasons
If you ask me what it all means
I can offer more theories than reasons
Rain spills down in uncomfortable patterns
And the thought isn't lost on me
How we're all just collections of habits
Always straddling purpose and need
I'm just trying to get ahead
Out of the way of the man I am
Or could be with a little finessing
Late night talks and less second guessing
I guess you'd say it's all part of a process
I'll keep one hand on the wheel
And the other on your shoulder
Time keeps driving the point home
Think we're just getting older
There's comfort in seldom unspoken moments
That fill in the spaces in between
Memories that hang overhead like bad omens
Pale in the light of a living dream
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6. |
Do We Dance?
03:12
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Again, to douse or
To stoke the flames
Strangers though we
Share a name
It's not like we're out of time
But you're so resolute to find another
Hill to die on
Why not mine?
Could I stand for, should I stand for this?
Or let it fall by the wayside
I'm not bitter
It's a shame
We could never get this right
But not for lack of trying
Ancient history
Idle grudge
Seething blister
Former cut
Form your run on thoughts
Into a clear and cogent meditation
Synthesis of all the ways
To deviate from what's been done
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7. |
Fugitive
02:24
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The world demands that I be something
It's not enough to be
So I lean in to what's becoming
And do the make believe
Would you buy now what I've been
Pawning off for ages? (All these scattered treasures)
Coat of armor, silver tongue
Let's not stand on ceremony
Take this fuck all on parade
A nervous heart
Steady lungs
What do you make of all this?
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8. |
Strength & Balance
00:27
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9. |
Shadowbox Champion
02:58
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There's a storm
Brewing in the distance
Clouds rendered to congregate
Every tremor
Can't be cataclysmic
I remind myself of things
Like this every day
What I'm trying to say's
All mixed in
With a metaphor I can't explain
There's this recurring dream I have
Where the world bares
A huge set of teeth
What could that mean?
Tell me how
To reconcile
Past and now
Steady myself, prepare to fight
But it's me vs me
And it's only a trick of the light
Lately, I carve out moments
To ask myself
If I'm being patient, compassionate?
The rest is confetti, distraction at best
Last call for anything at all (Tell me how)
I was scared to fail (Past and now)
I'm not afraid to fall
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10. |
I'm The Lion
02:46
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My brother showed up here again
He's uncommonly quiet but then
In spite of the nerves
We don't always rely on words
You can spill but I already know
"I've been dreaming of driving my car off the road"
I ask how often
He says,
"Oh it comes and goes"
You say they're allergy eyes
But I know that you're just dead tired
"Be a man"
So demands
Such a poor example
An empty heart
Means the rest of us
Have our hands full
You say they're allergy eyes
But I know that you're just dead tired
We both survived
But those hands could open up to hold
Instead you clench your fist
To split the lip
Of anyone who would oppose you
I know, I do it too
You say they're allergy eyes
But I know that you're just dead tired
Thank God, you're alive!
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