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It's Cool
03:23
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What am I still doing here?
I wish that I could disappear
I'm too damn tired to stand on my own two feet
I'm not as young as I pretend to be
My ears still searching for the hum
The ring that rattles through my tongue
Please tell me you can hear it too
A glimpse of what I'm going through
But with all I have to complain about,
It's cool
Every day it's all the same
The games you play, the shifting blame, it's such a shame
Every day its all that same
Stuck in a daze, wasting away
Luckily it doesn’t phase me anyway
Every day its all that same
I cant feel this way forever
But it still hurts like hell when I try to control my temper
We cant get through this together
So I'll search like hell until I discover something better
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2. |
Get Out Of My Head
03:10
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I just want to fall asleep and drift away and wake up in a dream
Where everything’s still fucked up but it doesn’t bother me
Instead it all fills up my lungs until I can barely breathe
All the time I try and tell myself the truth
All I hear is you
So Get out of my head
I know without a doubt if I don’t get up I’ll sink right through the couch
Where the rotting of my brain is all I have to think about
The world just keeps on turning as I’m turning inside out
All the pieces that I’m picking up off the floor
They don’t seem to fit the way they’re supposed to anymore
All the things that I’ve been trying not to do
They always lead me back to you
Thought I saw the writing on the wall but now I see the paint is peeling
You’ve got me ripping up the floor instead of breaking through the ceiling
You know the feeling
You want me to burn out but I’d rather fade away
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3. |
Crazy Pills
03:30
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Someone tell me if I’m going crazy
Or if the rattling in my head
Is just another mind game that you’re playing
But I got to know, am I just another domino,
Laying on the ground, that you set up just to knock down?
There’s only one way to settle the score
Cuz I’ve been waiting at the backdoor
Don’t make me break it down
I’m not waiting for you anymore
I’ve always been the one to stick around
What am I waiting for?
No, I’m not waiting for you anymore
I never know exactly where you’re heading
But you always seem to take us to the brink of armageddon
But I got to know, is there something in the afterglow?
I guess I'll wait and see
Does he really burn as bright as me?
I think I’m losing control
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Talk is cheap
You caught me on another losing streak
I wish you didn’t have to watch me bleed
As I pick up all the pieces that are left of me
Trying to look on the upside
But maybe I’m upside down
I tried to fill the space between us
When we were more than just a couple miles apart
Get a map, draw a line that connects you and I
And follow it to the end to start all over again
I keep repeating the same thing without any meaning
Just hoping that it takes me back to the beginning
I just keep talking myself in circles
Talking round and round in circles
What’s with the attitude
How about a little bit of gratitude?
Forgive my sweet and sour point of view
Because I already know the truth of what you think of me
Trying to look on the brightside
Maybe I’m just burnt out
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5. |
Learn To Love The Lie
03:44
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I wish it was just another day
Another ordinary, nothing extraordinary,
Just a boring Sunday morning
When doing nothing’s the only something we’ve got planned
But not today
We're falling apart and its showing that were
Basically just trapped in captivity
Wishing our way out
Just Let me cross my fingers behind my back
And I’ll swear on anything you want me to after that
I’ve heard that if I cross my heart then I’d have to die
If you don’t want to say goodbye
Then I guess you’ll have to learn to love the lie
You and me...we’re really nothing but enemies
Pretending we're not meant to be
I don’t want to be the one to stay
I don’t want to be the one that got away
And if I’m being honest, you couldn’t get rid of me anyway
I don’t want to be the one to stay
What the hell? For heaven's sake
I don’t want to be the one that got away
If Massachusetts had a loyalty
I hope it wouldn’t choose you over me
And if you’re wondering what keeps me up at night
It's thinking that you might be right
You and me, we’re really nothing but enemies
Pretending that’s exactly how it's supposed to be
You can say what you want about me
The old me would not apologize
You can do what you want without me
If only I could keep us from colliding
Over analyzing every move we make
We think we're just surviving but slowly we were dying
Until the rattle somehow brings us back to life
So let's learn to love the lie
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6. |
Brain Pain
03:46
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Watch me fail, watch me struggle
Creeping forward as straight as an arrow
Smash it all, catch me when I fall
Feel the rain, feel the thunder
All the chaos is dragging me under
Shoulder the blame, hang my head in shame
I wish that I could focus my hopeless wandering mind
I’m losing perspective, tearing out all my insides
Looking in from the outside
What’s the point? What’s the purpose?
All this attention is making me nervous
Clear the air, watch them disappear
Keep it simple, shake the doubt
Just surrender myself to the sound
Refuse to be a part of the great machine
I want to glow in the shadow
I want to shimmer enough to fade away
Smash it all, and catch me when I fall
Take me or leave me
Healthy or bleeding
Starve me or feed me
Pinch me, I’m dreaming
Smash it all, catch me when I fall
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7. |
Mouth Full Of Dirt
03:15
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Tipping the scales in the wrong direction
Biting my tongue until it bleeds
You saw the panic washing over my face
And now you’re watching me rinse and repeat
I want you to stay but I don’t want to be here
Its time for a break but the timing is not that great for me
Always expecting the worst
I’m pleading my case with a mouth full of dirt
Hoping to bury you with every word that’s left unspoken
I want to feeling something, anything
And I don’t need to self medicate
I’m already numb
The television doesn’t hold my attention
It only keeps me from falling asleep
The emptiness is filling up the space
Is this reality or is it a dream?
I wanted to stay but you don’t want to be here
Am I too late or am I where I’m supposed to be?
Stimulate me before the void annihilates me
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8. |
Seventeen
03:25
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We could have it all
Just another social cannibal
Searching through the rotten youth for one more scrap left on the bone
Cut the chord
I don’t even need this anymore
So fill me up and watch me overflow
You had to know that I was built to crumble
Scatter me,
Pick up all the pieces, all the memories
So I can still remember being seventeen
Pack me up and put me in a time machine
So I can remember when we were seventeen
You don’t intimidate me
Cuz I don’t give a damn what you’ve got to say
In one ear and out the other
I’m deaf to the sound
In the end we all pretend that the world keeps spinning around me
Sipping on euphoria but choking on reality
Close your eyes and picture all the times we got it right
And savor the reality
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9. |
Be Good When I'm Gone
03:20
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Try to be good when I’m gone
Though nothing you could do would be that wrong
I just wish it didn’t have to be so long
But try to be good when I’m gone
I’m sorry I can’t stop to listen
But I’ve got so much to do and I’ve got someplace to be
The house looks like the aftermath of a hurricane
I hope it stays that way
My timing couldn’t be any worse if I tried
But I find it gets easier in time
I wonder if you ever wonder if I’m somewhere I'd rather be
Doing something I'd rather do?
The suitcase always starts a countdown
I know its ticking away
but it’s moving too slow for me
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10. |
The Worst Part About Me
03:45
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A symptomatic sign of the changing times
And I feel like I’m just flying blind,
So I’m bracing myself for the fallout
I never had a strong enough stomach for me to endure
All of the carnage, shock and the gore
You’re leaving me breadcrumbs to follow
I try to hold it together but you just pull me apart
Go on and rip my beating heart out
Fill my body up with disease
It doesn’t matter if I’m rotting from the inside out
You’re still the worst part about me
I used to have the nerve to combust
But my spine is caked in dust,
Completely covered in rust
And I’m sick of just coughing my lungs out
You always try throw another wrench in the gears
Filling up my head with your bad ideas
That’s what I get for always sticking my neck out
Split me down the middle
Open up my chest
You can Take the parts you want to keep
Leave me with the rest
I can stitch myself up good enough
Clean up the mess that you left
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11. |
Usefully Useless
02:59
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Sitting face to face with all the wreckage
With no perspective
I just don’t get it
Pulling limb from limb, feeling dissected
I’m on the fence of feeling calm and collected
Another lie keeps running through my brain
“I Can Change”
I just can’t figure out what’s wrong with me
I just don’t want to be a wannabe
Spending all my time self diagnosing
While decomposing
Usefully useless
Circumstances are holding me hostage
I wake up exhausted
At this point I’ve lost it
There’s nothing left to talk about
I’d rather you just block it out
Living with the paranoia
Can't destroy the void
I’m doing alright
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12. |
Young at Heart
04:06
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I’m searching for you in the dark
Looking to find the counterpart that keeps me young at heart
I’m showing you I can be brave,
While staring down a tidal wave that washes me away
Searching the banks to try to find a piece of you to save
I’m trying to hold on to you
I’m dying to hold on to you
So why can't I hold on to you
I’m searching for you in the dark
Looking to find the counterpart that keeps me young at hear
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Maybe just turning on the light is the perfect place to start
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