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Olympia
05:43
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Under the bell
Under the brick
I needed to keep you a secret
Anonymous calls
Discreet and quick
You wouldn’t dare name it
I wouldn’t dare speak it
You wore it today
You wore it for me
The sound of the platform closes in slowly
The chill on my neck
I know you can’t see
And I’m losing resolve every night
Every time that I'm trying to find my way
Home from your door
If you tell me that you’ll stay
And if you ask me now to break
Apart this other world
I’m afraid of what I’d say
And this predictable mistake
In thinking there’s a cure
So we met to talk
And nothing more
I’ve fallen for less transparent words before
But in spite of the guilt
For this facade we’ve built
I’m losing the will to escape again
And addict to the thrill of the chase again
If you tell me how to break
This heart of stone
I’ve got this other ring
That means everything
But I’ve got to know
Why I’m in two
I want to tell her sorry
But another word could break her back
I want to say I’ve been lying
But I know she’d fall for that
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2. |
In The Rush
04:33
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The clock, the lights, the walls, the bedroom talk
The glass, the arch, the twilight halls
Entwine and find a subtle nerve in me
To burn this castle down
The calm, the cold, the cigarette
The curtains drawn, the quiet threat
You walk along a narrow line with me
You’re driving me away
The phrase the words that you twist to form
These nights will conquer me before too long
The fights will swallow me before you’ve won
And now this game, and now this game
You’ve set the pieces up in far advance
To match the falling of the second hand
The shame, the stare you know I can’t withstand
The grace, the sly, the sneak, the shifting shape
The sleight of hand, the smiling face
Design, between the lines you walk with me
And sketched into my plans
The look, the voice, the painted eyes
The sultry spell, romantic guise
I touch my skin and I am weakening
And sinking under yours
I call for air and slowly I am stripped of sound
The final frames are taking focus now
And all this damage in the room around me
Caving in, it’s caving in
Did you know that I might relapse
And sink myself into the fallen flask
Re-find the needle that helped me stand
The crush, the vice, the teeth, the final cut
The knife in me, my eyes are shut
And I believe in every sound you make
And yes I’m clearly going to break
but oh
The rush! The joy, that runs my little body through
When I am giving straight into you
So I’ll return and make your demons proud
As long as I’m allowed
The clock, the lights, the walls, the bedroom talk
The glass, the arch, the twilight halls
Entwine and find a subtle nerve in me
To burn this castle down
The calm, the cold, the cigarette
The curtains drawn, the quiet threat
You walk along a narrow line with me
You’re driving me away
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3. |
Your Perfect World
03:09
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Start it up, the engine fire
Yes, I remember when you said you doubted me
The shawl of evening closes fast
On shoulders, slowly reaches and
Surrounds me
Sometimes, at the brink of night
I feel like I know you think of me
In your perfect world
Do you want my words?
Do you want my thoughts?
Do you want my love?
Industry and compliment
A universe of damages will ground me
It's only when you look at me
The nervous hand, the timid air around me
And sometimes
When my mind ignites
I am mesmerized and try to picture you
Do you wish me to?
Do you want my words?
Do you want my thoughts?
Does he want my love?
Does he want my love?
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4. |
Flares
05:02
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It’s time I confessed what I’ve kept suppressed for years
Before the smoke and ruin clears
Before you set your course and leave me here
Before you lose the chance to realize
The lines were all wrong, but resigned, I went along till this
Won’t forgive, won’t waste this final miss
When he finally lets you down
When he finally lets you down
Did you want the night to end in passion flames
Did you think for a second that someone like him would stay
Like a few choice words and a compass help decide
So you threw your feeble plea across the sky
You wanted him to see those flares
You wanted him to meet you there
You wanted him to show up at your side
You thought that he would show up at your side
I didn’t ask much of you
I only wanted you to know
That when I broke the frame it was just to let you go
So did you have to leave me to drown
Did you have to let me down
Is it wrong to keep believing I’m in line
Waiting in the void of a light that’s broken by design
Like a few choice words and a compass turn a tide
So I throw my feeble plea across your sky
I wanted you to see those flares
Yeah I wanted you to meet me there
I wanted you to show up at my side
I thought that you would show up at my side
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5. |
Cataclysm
04:39
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When the spiral was unbearable, the chaos on a roll
And every rival was aware of all the ways I lost control
At the wheel, at the helm
I could feel it in my self like a storm
In the final quarter hour when the needle wore me down
From the vinyl pouring out in a cathedral of sound
Came a warning like a scream
Like a mountainous machine taking form
From the depths, from my core, comes this torrent of change
And I descend to a score that is foreign and strange
Till I am clawing at the floor
Of the lonliest room I’ve ever known
And I extend all my thoughts
Through the strongest of shots
To talk to you
Cuz i need a flood to wash out my blood
As black as a cancer shot from a gun
Im building an ark to save a part of my beliefs
The rest of me is done
Come as you are, I hope you’ve loaded your arms
Im saying this is my permission baby fire it all
Say what you want, by now the damage is done
Cuz I’m abolishing tradition reconstructing the wall
So hello, hello, hello, hello new me
So I let my eyes adjust to the open
Ran till I was sick of the motion
Left behind the shell of a broken boy
In a way I guess I should be thanking you
For what you made me do
And what you’ve made of me
For what you’ve made of me
So i need a flood to wash out my blood
As black as a cancer shot from a gun
Im building an ark to save a part of my beliefs
The rest of me is done
Come as you are, I hope you’ve loaded your arms
Im saying this is my permission baby fire it all
Say what you want, by now the damage is done
Cuz I’m abolishing tradition reconstructing the wall
So hello, hello, hello, hello new me
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6. |
The Last Excuse
04:42
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You donned the night like a dress outgrown
And I rolled the dice when I let you go
Because I knew this street
We’ve been down it before
First we fall, the revolve on the track
But you
Did you know what this meant
Did you clock our descent/dissent
Knowing full well that I’d wake up too late
To these years of regret
All these calls left unsent to you
To you
Because you came across like you knew the score
But I scared you off in the resulting storm
These apologies from my bed, from your floor
Will dissolve in the sea of your hand
And I
With my lungs out of breath
With my speech on cassette
Ready to play and be played on repeat
Like a rigged game of chess
Like a sinking ship’s quartet
That slips on ice
On ice
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7. |
Rachel
03:43
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Honey honey I’ve spent all this time running running
Breaking my legs over nothing nothing
And you’re asking for more
I’m feeling lately lately I am far beyond saving saving
My pride and reason lay waiting waiting
So what prize am I staying for
Is it the feeling that I’m feeling when I’m stealing looks behind your back
Am I a victim of the fiction that you’re mixing in to make me crack
Take it up take it down
And bring me to the ground
By singing a love song
Cuz I’ll believe every line
And I won’t make a sound
As I let you let me down
As I throw my heart away for you
In this candlelight
Someone someone calls at 6 in the evening evening
Hang up the moment you see me see me
Tell me not to worry but why would you leave the room for that
Cuz I feel it feel it, the towering shade of a secret secret
Leaving my mind scared to reason reason
So what am I playing for?
Is it the feeling that I’m feeling when I’m stealing looks behind your back
Am I a victim of the fiction that you’re mixing in to make me crack
Take it up take it down
And bring me to the ground
By singing a love song
Cuz I’ll believe every line
And I won’t make a sound
As I let you let me down
As I throw my heart away for you
In this candlelight
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8. |
Wild Child
04:59
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Truth be told
I never saw you as a solution
And honestly
I never saw you as a friend
And yet all these faults
Can start to change a mind
They call in hollow haunts
To stabilize my feet
Apologies
That come before I’ve sensed any warning
It’s hard to believe
I never gave it thought before
But these doubts come crawling home like prodigals
And the illusion falls apart in crumbling walls
Because you're leading me on
And you’re building me up
But you’re bring back to life, oh love
So truth be told
It’s all been worth the trouble
To feel this change
This wild side in my head
Because you're leading me on
And you’re building me up
But you’re bring back to life, oh love
And I’m trying to run
But I’m coming undone
And you’ve hardly begun to ignite, oh love
I want it to end
But I let you descend
When you call me again in the night, oh love
It’s all been worth the time
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9. |
Under the Carolina Blue
03:43
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I was confused
I was weak
I was acting how I thought was best
But Ill recite the lines you wrote me
If you’ll take me back again
If you’ll take me back again
In the churchyard
Summer’s end
We were treading in a doldrum tide
But when the halo lifted you
Did you let the world decide
Did you let the fall decide
The road collides our riptides
And one of us has left that shore behind
But maybe the fault lines
Came tracing the shivers in both our spines
Like a storm giude
The clock rewinds
And it follows you
Oh how it follows you
And it took me such a long time
To feel the room I’ve been drowning in
To finally feel the room I’ve been drowning in
But I remember breaking down
At a rest stop on 85
Should I turn this car around
In the name of something new
Do I turn my back to you
In this Carolina blue
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10. |
1987
08:57
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Have I stood after falling
Or am I dying on the sidelines
Unheard and forgotten
Watching the distance between us grow
Wish I could drain the sea on you
Or set the wolves on your heels
Would that ever bring you closer
Would that ever bring you home
I saw that fire in you
You saw those fireworks too
In the rush of your veins are you sad for me
In your skin, in the marrow of your bones
With your touch, light a spark in my sanity
Make me weak
in the ghost of your solitude I promise you
As deep as your doubt and as shallow as my own
Let me keep you in my way
And you can let me go
It’s all been worth the time
Do you still believe in me
Do you still believe in me
(One Nine Eight Seven)
I found my place by you
Cuz I saw those fireworks too
I saw that fire in you
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