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Rush Hour
03:03
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Slow to a crawl
In the rush hour traffic
Oh well
Set summer sun
Over twenty-somethings
Having fun
Sit still at work
Thinking back over your
Whole world
Spent all your points
Online giftcard shopping
What’s the point?
Is this what you’re thinking?
Is it what it seems?
Did you splurge a little?
Do you know what I mean?
Right cross and a fall
Left side of your chest
It dulls after a while now my friend
But did you leave them your best?
30 times around
Count on the 1’s and 3’s
You feel the wear but you’re figuring out
This is just what you need
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Smile
02:48
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Why don’t you smile?
You’ve always had it go your way
Add to the pile
Trophies collecting dust you say
Life isn’t fair
But you haven’t worked a day all year
Piss off your friends
They don’t get the causes you endear
We’ll watch you crack and fall
Scrape the ground
Shrug it off up through last call
Do a summersault around the bar
And laugh it off
Its time you came to terms inside
your fucked up head
While both of your parents still aren’t dead
Queue entrance late
Yeah it’s a party yeah there’s cake
To be so fake
Yeah everyone else is but it’s a shame
We’ll watch you crack and fall
Scrape the ground
Shrug it off up through last call
Do a summersault around your mom’s
And laugh it off
All your friends say there’s no way to intervene
10 years on repeat and still you don’t know what it means..
To crack and fall
Scrape the ground
Shrug it off
Up til' last call
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3. |
Fair Amount Of You
02:25
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Roaring through the gates with your blinders on
Budding on the trees now that winter is gone
Youngstown or Toledo make the call
Consideration only gets you so far
Nothing’s gonna sway you now
No one could ever hold you down
No sentimental nonsense
but a fair amount of you will do
Wine stains on the carpet from last night’s fun
Broken bottles glistening in the sun
The static from the tv’s slow dull hum
A cold pale cadaver in the bathroom tub
Yea nothing’s gonna save you now
No one could ever hold your ground
No consequential handshake
With a fair amount of you will do
Hold the babe to your chest
Reciting under your breath
Nothing’s gonna sway you now
No one could ever hold you down
No sentimental nonsense
but a fair amount of you will do
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4. |
The Lesson
03:43
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You’re growing out the cage
Don’t pay no mind to what their saying
But you’re just breaking even though now aren’t you?
You’re veering off the screen
The helicopters roam in full pursuit
Stop at the bridge switch out your car now quickly
When the taste settles in your mouth
You’ll be dreading it all night long, uh-huh
You’re better off alone
Better off choking on what you’ve done
While none of us can keep up with your prowess
When the taste settles in your mouth
You’ll be dreading it all night long uh-huh
You start to feel it when you start to fall apart
Who’s been saying it from the very start?
Cut the cord and breathe in
Tying off the loose ends
In your favorite shirt that you dealt for your soul
You start to think you can
The study and revision
Moonlighting your decisions
You really really learned your…
When the taste settles in your mouth
You’ll be dreading until the rapture comes
You start to feel it when you start to fall apart
Who’s been saying it from the very start?
Everything seems to close right in on you
The lamp shade in the red wallpapered room
Your heart, it’s racing
You’re dragging harder
Welcome to my hell
Welcome to your hell
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5. |
Good Year
03:25
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It’s been a real good year
After two real bad ones
At your friends nice wedding
Think about it all
Caught the light just right
And the breeze blowing
Look into your eyes
Coming down the hall
Sign it out
Coming down
As it closes in
You know
Ain’t no time to waste
Feel the weight pile
At your office desk
Staring at the wall
Sign it out
Coming down
As it closes in
You know
Breaking down the cycle
10 damn years in contempt
Don’t you let the same thing
Start back up again
Sign it out
Coming down
As it closes in
You know
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Come Around
03:52
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You come around and then you don’t
The fallen log with all the grubs
Your spinning wheels the bumpy road
Up towards the hill you’re fixed upon
Still make that face when you’re alone
Yea make that face, you’re all alone
All settled in what could be wrong?
You’re dialing in that same old song
Over your moat go lick those wounds
The bell rings out but who shot the moon?
Are they too young? Are you no fun?
Pull back the hammer let it plunge
All of the colors in a sponge
It’s hard to look when said and done
But it gets easier after a while
Yea it gets easier after a while
Over the mark so back it off
While its getting harder to play along
Over north hill just past the falls
The kids and the dog in an empty home
So tell me then
How you did?
Covered in blood
But you blend right in
While I was shown to the door again
Shown to the door again
Can’t tell whose a friend
Shown to the door again
All settled in don’t you let up now
The neighbors will see and they’ll know just how
Look in the eyes and say those words
Nod and a smile but you leave in a blur
Uh-huh
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Sleight Of Hand
03:26
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About twenty miles out of Kent
the fog and the rain set in
All within a moment
With no warning sign
You’re not supposed to be here are you now?
Don’t you wake them kids up
With your drunken stumbling
They already know you’re here
Sleight of hand as you slide in
Through the pearly makeshift gates
Don’t know who
you think you’ll be
tomorrow when you wake
lets take a walk through the metro park
lying in the shade wondering
if we’ll ever make it out
how hard could it be?
Sleight of hand as you dig in
To the first piece of the cake
Don’t know how
You’re gonna feel
After all you ate
Not within the corporation limit when you did what you
Did you think you’d get away within your piece of mind spent on mine?
They’ll call you by your name
The one you thought you’d never ever hear again
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You Don't
03:13
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Left to be found
Waiting
Baited
Slated for the washing fines
Have patience
Be gracious
For your time spent under company dime
The privilege
Conditioned
Intuition tells you otherwise
While they’re crying
And they’re dying
For a fair piece of the pie
Just when you think that you know
Play the tape back and forth
Then you’ll see that you don’t
Keep it in line
Call your grandma
Down in Florida
She’ll set you straight every time
While you’re yearning
And you’re burning
For a way that’s harder to find
Is it worth this?
If you birth this
10 years in the making, yeah you tried
So stand tall now
With a strong brow
And you’ll sign it on the dotted line
Just when you think that you know
Maybe give it one more go
Will you see that you don’t?
Don’t you want to wait and see?
It’ll come down to the primaries
Running hard til the end
Retire on the coast raise the kids
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Glow
04:25
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I’m coming to get you
If it were me in those shoes, you’d come for me
Well damn those are ugly
Holidays bring out the treasures of our youth
So tired of standing
If you don’t the weight will suffocate what’s true
Opt in to a wedding
That’s a couple shades opposite of true blue
But you can't turn it off
Once it’s been on for so long
It’s ingrained in the glow of the screen
cut your teeth and keep on
that’s just what they’ll say to do
then I guess we’ll wait and see
are you coming to get me
even if you know I did it just to prove
when you told me you loved me
did you think the dream would ever really come true
But you can't turn it off
Once it’s been on for so long
It’s ingrained in the glow of the screen
cut your teeth and keep on
that’s just what they’ll say to do
then I guess we’ll wait and see
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10. |
7 Years
02:24
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7 years
From kids to adults together
What it means
To give yourself to another
Separate ways
Tear us apart from each other
Not in vein
Take what you found to another
7 years
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Skyscraper
03:39
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Lay out
the table set while
the sun hangs low
don’t wear yourself out
just to show
run through your head
as time keeps on
the winter months edge
the new moon is hung
Chill out
You always forget
The things you knew
Re-break and set
to come into
A shot to your chest
was all your luck
It brought you back in
Just enough
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