1. |
Elephant pts. I & II
05:50
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I’ve been reading elephant every evening
Paying attention to the paragraph of double dreaming
Head in the clouds but not afraid
Feeling safe in letting you take the weight
But I carry you now
I carry you around
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You’re wearing sweatshirts in the summer
Because you always feel the cold
I wear mine for different reasons
But it still hurts to know
How your arms have lost all their structure
In the last year or so
You sleep through the morning
Because you’ve forgotten how to function
You never let the light in
It sounds like a metaphor but it isn’t
The mould grows against the windows
The plants are wilting in the afterglow
You’ve left pieces of yourself
Stretched out for miles
I couldn’t retrace those steps
Even if I had the time
Barely making it through the days
Lie in bed losing track of time and spacing…
I carry you now
I carry you around
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2. |
Every Blue
02:51
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I'll paint you in every shade of blue
I'm lost for words
I'm lost with most things when it comes to you
I don't know what's next
When the past betrays the present and the future intends to see me better than the rest
It's just not realistic since you left
I've a fear in me that's uncompromising
I lead a quiet life aside from sober living
I see the pressing of time
I don't know what's next
When the past betrays the present and the future intends to see me better than the rest
It's just not realistic
Instead, I'm left with the feeling
That I'd rather live alone than in company
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3. |
TXF Fallen
03:31
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I’ve been living in your house
Walking around in your clothes
Pulling the corners from the carpet
Laying down in the road
Losing minutes at a time
Staring into the lights
Started wearing a NICAP shirt
In the trailer my teeth hurt
The seizures are getting worse
If you call I won’t answer - I’m…
I’m on 549
Bracing for the impact
Sometimes I count the ceiling tiles
Say your name over and over again
I wrote down every message you ever sent
Even the insignificant
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4. |
First Last Time
03:13
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I should be less bitter
I don't know what these streets can offer me
I didn't have to leave
I should've known better
I left somebody counting on me
I know forgiveness doesn't come easily
It's not like you to change your mind...
This isn't the first last time
You reap what you sow when you leave that love alone
Take what you can and then leave
It'll be a relief
When the feeling of leaving you is like coming home
Let's be sure to not fall short again
I guess that I lost interest
As always, I looked out for mainly me
Now I think differently
It shouldn't have to have come to this
Some things just take time
And the feeling of being left behind
My self-pity in its endless means of decline
It's not like you to change your mind...
This isn't the first last time
You reap what you sow when you leave that love alone
Take what you can and then leave
It'll be a relief
When the feeling of leaving you is like coming home
Let's be sure to not fall short again
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5. |
Sedentary / Lettering
02:35
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I often think about
The song I’ll sing at your funeral
Will it be somber and simple
Will it be crooked and cynical
Like my crooked teeth
And crooked shoulders from all of this weight that you put on me
It’s your ghost that I’ve been carrying
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It's never easy
We're not speaking
I've got this thing in me for you that's not leaving
You peel out of our town
All the places we used to hang around
This sense of seeking, of a cutless bleeding
Let's burn these buildings down
Are we ashamed of ourselves
As if it's the first time we've felt like we're making the same mistakes time and time again
We started as everything and left it as less than friends
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6. |
Hour On
02:38
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Every hour on the hour
The same things were asked of me
-Where's your faith
-Where's your belief
-If not in me
We exist somewhere between polar opposites and a commonality
We share a quiet comfort
But we have different needs
One person
Two choices
Three reasons
Four years
Five homes
Sick of feeling alone here
I want out
I feel lost today
I felt loss yesterday
I want out
Every hour on the hour
The same things crossed my mind
Are we better off this way
A loss to time
Did we lack the patience or the foresight
One person
Two choices
Three reasons
Four years
Five homes
Sick of feeling alone here
I want out
I feel lost today
I felt loss yesterday
I want out
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7. |
Return To Earth
04:44
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Helium balloon in the hallway
A souvenir from your birthday
Half deflated and floating around in a daze
Doesn’t that sound familiar
Like day old hate
Are you dreaming of horses again?
Wrapped in razor wire / falling into nothing
Is it hard to admit that you’re still grieving
Is it hard to admit that time won’t heal this?
It’s still hard to watch you cry, K
Even though it’s all you seem to do these days
It’s hard to write content
But I don’t have the heart to constantly relive your death
I’ve been feeling / dreaming lately
That I’m falling
A theme recurring
Have you always found me this disappointing?
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8. |
Glis Glis
03:30
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Let's call it laboured incompetence
I've never been so sure
I think
I don't know
I can't say that I was proud of myself this time
You're breaking under stimulants
But you can never take the blame
Can you say that you were proud of yourself this time
Let's call when we're proud of ourselves
In time
We couldn't see the long run for the cut through
I couldn't tell the lies from the truth
Could you
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9. |
Painted Grief
03:42
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Like air exchange
In electrical appliance
I’ve learned to keep moving
A small act of defiance
I’m painted by your grief
Jean
Why did you have to leave
New autumn floors
We are falling leaves
I’m a brittle branch
Trying to keep the peace
Under stress
I crack and break
Now you lay side by side
Where does that leave you + I?
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10. |
Better Born II
03:56
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You've got me lost
You've got me feeling at best torn
At worst seething
Let's count our blessings
-You your youth
-Me my years
-Us our use
We didn't have the money
We hardly had the time
We didn't have the baby
We didn't get to find any kind of light
We barely had each other
I don't belong amid these people
Did we wait long enough to feel it
Let's count our longings
-You your lies
-My my youth
-Use our peace of mind
We didn't have the money
We hardly had the time
We didn't have the baby
We didn't get to find any kind of light
We barely had each other
Greater loves have failed
Better will be born
I don't want these thoughts or these feelings anymore
I'll wait these nights out in the walls we used to call home
I'll wait
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Bedbound By Summer Boston, UK
2013 - 2023
Kane Storr
Liam James Marsh
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