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Everybody’s skippin town
Headin someplace better
This place has always let them down
So they’re leaving forever
To build a home out on the coast
New York or California
To get away from all they’ve known
This place they’ve grown so bored of
Cause everything is always happening someplace else
Do you really think packing up your things will change anything?
No one wants to live here now
And who can really blame them?
They’ve done nothing with their life somehow
Must be the city that they came from
It’s old fashioned way of doing things
Is stopping them from living
The perfect life they always dreamed
They someday would be given
But when they leave, they’ll live the life that they always dreamed
Finally, they’ll become so interesting
Do you really think packing up your things will change anything?
Will change your apathy
Or kill your misery?
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This Is Fine
02:56
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Check the phone
10 minutes closer to that dreaded tone
Worse yet, there’s only four more hours to go
Til morning meetings and bad espresso
There’s never time
Stretched too thin to even ride my bike
Much less start that book I’ve planned to write
Maybe in another life
Dreams of smoke that burn my eyes
I can’t sleep well through the night
Blanket on a bed of lies
Stay awake ‘til morning light
Morning light
Lurch to the shower for a splash of life
takes forever ‘til the water’s right
Turn on a podcast from The New York Times
It says we’re gonna die!
All the studies say the end’s in sight
If we don’t change our ways overnight
We’ll all be gone by 2045
The days burn off so quickly
Moving faster without shifting gears
No time to worry about the course we steer
Cause it’s easier to stay busy
Hoping our problems will just disappear
That something greater will come interfere
Your thoughts and prayers sure are nice
But they don’t do much in hindsight
Too caught up in daily life
We keep saying "this is fine”
Dreams of cities burnt alive
We can’t sleep well through the night
Blanket on a bed of lies
Stay awake til--
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Different Lens
02:56
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Will you look at me differently
When you finally see
Who I am
After my meds wear off
And my mind’s tangled up in knots
Again
The moon’s crashing down
And my thoughts are way too loud
Leaving the crowd
Cause there’s noise in every sound
Bear with me
If things get a little grisly
If I give into my misery
For the night
Cause lately things
Have been getting way too heavy
Yeah, it feels like I’ve already
Lost the fight
The moon’s crashing down
And my thoughts are way too loud
Leaving the crowd
Cause there’s noise in every sound
When I can’t fall asleep
And words lose their meaning
The world falls sideways
As I stand on the wall
And my life slows to a crawl
I hope that you’ll stay
That we’ll be okay
Cause the moon’s crashing down
And I’m freaking the fuck out
Cause my thoughts are way too loud
Hearing noise in every sound
Do you even know me?
Do you even know me?
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4. |
Why Don't You Dance?
04:20
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On our ride home
A sign caught your eye that read “estate sale:
everything must go”
So
You asked to stop by for just a minute
to look at all the clothes
But no!
The front yard was littered: lawn equipment and
Garden gnomes
Oh!
You joked “they need a new family.
Can we take them home?”
Oh, we get carried through the years
By things that we hold most dear
And then they all get sold
From the china and chandelier
To the pill box and wash for ears
It all must go
So once inside,
I made my way to their book shelf
So I could judge their eye
It
Was lined with new books on fighting cancer
And the afterlife
The front
Pages were signed by friends and family,
“You’ll be alright”
Oh,
Isn’t it strange the lengths we go to?
We get carried through the year
By the people that hold us dear
And then they just grow old
It’s like they were never here
Photos fade then they disappear
On our walk
Out to the car
A couple danced
In the yard
A record played
In the mood
It was warped
Bent out of tune
Oh, the words just abandoned me
So it took your hand quietly
Then we headed home
Oh, you’ll carry me through the years
Til we fade and we disappear
And we’re headed home
We’re headed
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