1. |
The Gate
01:42
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Standing at the gate
I come here every day
Just to see your face
Just to hear you say
“There’s no need to wait
We will be okay
Cause finally there’s a way
To be both free and safe”
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2. |
Pang
03:33
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There's a look in your eyes when you're hungry for me
It's a beautiful knife cutting right where the fear should be
into me
Pang
and I go into you
Pang
and you go into me
Pang
and I go into you
Pang
and you go into me
Tell me what you're afraid of
Tell me what night is made of
What can I not destroy for you
Color the night electric
Killing me like a secret
I open the door and you run through
into me
Pang
and I go into you
Pang
and you go into me
Pang
and I go into you
Pang
and you go into me
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3. |
New Normal
02:34
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Now what is this feeling I know you
from long ago, from deep in the past
I don’t know why, why I trust you completely
don’t question it, the bottle is empty
Now what is this club closing early
the fog machines and lasers swirling
It’s halloween, I’m sorry for screaming
but I’m afraid I’ve scared you completely
Now what is this blizzard in April
I’m underdressed as usual
and we’re cheating death, buying time from the winter
it’s house arrest, no stopping for dinner
Now what is this microphone working
can’t hear myself but cameras are rolling
and there’s the cue, my heart it beats so hard
I look for you and suddenly fall
Now what is this robin you rescued
it’s broken wing not broken long
We search the room someone yells from the garden
The orange cat finished what he started
Now what is this skidding of tires
I hold my breath and you’re running fast
as the SUV smashes into the sidewalk
and 911 won’t answer the call
Now what is this Hollywood ghost town
a shootout scene, no actors at all
Last night I dreamed you and I were immortal
it’s no big deal, this new kind of normal
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4. |
Hit Me Where It Hurts
03:04
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I’m feeling like a butterfly
trapped inside a plane
Maybe there’s something going on
I’m not insane
If I’m already out of time
then make it worse
Ho on and hit me in the heart
hit me where it hurts
Go on and hit me in the
bulls eye, dead end
Moving target
Carousel carousel
Baggage claim it
Promise one day
You will hate me but
right now just ride it out
ride it out ride it out
Magic carpet
over London
Through the ceiling
watch you dreaming
Promise one day
you will hate me
but right now just ride it out
ride it out ride it out
I'm feeling like a butterfly
trapped inside a plane
Maybe there’s something going on
I’m not insane
If I’m already out of time
then make it worse
Go on and hit me in the heart
hit me where it hurts
Go on and hit me in the
blind spot, achilles heel
Long shot, left field
Vertigo vertigo
High stakes, popped ears
Promise one day
you will hate me
but right now just ride it out
ride it out ride it out
Do you feel safe
(hit me where it hurts now)
now that you’ve found my gun?
I’ll be the nurse
(hit me where it hurts now)
You'll be my number one
Hit me where it hurts now
Hit me where it hurts
Hit me where it hurts now
Hit me where it hurts
I'm feeling like a butterfly
trapped inside a plane
Maybe there’s something going on
I’m not insane
If I’m already out of time
then make it worse
Go on and hit me in the heart
hit me where it hurts
Go on and hit me in the
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5. |
I Give Up
03:07
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When I stop caring you stop caring
When I care less and you care less than me
When I don't need and I don't believe in
the hollow phrases you still repeat
You and I we fall apart
Now I know what it means to unravel
It's a new and shallow grief
A pathetic kind of sad relief
It didn't use to feel this good to be alone
Doing every damn thing I can to not go home
I give up
I give up on you now
I give up
How far can you fall
when you're already down?
I give up
I give up on you now
I give up
How far can you fall
when you're already down?
I give you that told-you-so look
that makes you crazy
and you give me that list of
things about myself to change
And now these days it's every night babe
it's not a rough patch, it's not a phase
You and I we fall apart
Now I know what it means to unravel
It's a new and shallow grief
An apathetic kind of self defeat
It didn't use to feel this good to be alone
Doing every damn thing I can to not go home
I give up
I give up on you now
I give up
how far can you fall when you're already down?
I give up
I give up on you now
I give up
how far can you fall when you're already down?
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6. |
Look At Me Now
03:04
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Wrote myself a letter
just a single question
“When you finally get this, where will you be?
Will you be a shipwreck or a star
falling for a boy who doesn’t play guitar?”
Now rewind the tape back to the start
said I’d never leave you but here we are
And you can’t look at me now
I haven’t changed
I’m still the same
But you can’t look at me now
A hand grenade to throw away
Now my friends all tell me
“Girl, you’re getting skinny
Have you not been sleeping?”
How could I be?
Trying to find the lightswitch in the dark
Burying the good girl I know I’m not
Now rewind the tape back to the start
Said I’d never leave you but here we are
And you can’t look at me now
I haven’t changed
I’m still the same
But you can’t look at me now
A hand grenade to throw away
I can’t run anymore
gotta stay right here and face the storm
I can’t run anymore
when the wakeup call is all I know
I can’t run anymore
gotta stay right here and face the storm
I can’t run anymore
You can’t look at me now
I haven’t changed
I’m still the same
But you can’t look at me now
A hand grenade to throw away
Look at me now...
I can’t run anymore
But you can’t look at me now...
I can’t run anymore
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7. |
Insomnia
03:14
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How long can sunlight stay warm in a stone?
How long til the bath runs cold?
Come dawn
Come day
Come half awake
Come blue
Come grey
Come waves that break
And it’s not enough
No reply no relief
Dreams of dry fields that once were green
burned by someone just like me
Come dawn
Come day
Come half awake
Come blue
Come grey
Come waves that break
And it’s not enough
No reply no relief
Hold on
Hold on
to save a single living piece of us
I still got it
I still got your heat
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8. |
Ocean of Tears
03:24
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This is gonna be torture
before it's sublime
does that make it crazy?
Cash in all of my courage
before you’re all mine
does that make it crazy?
Oh my god I wanna know what it feels like
to pull you close and tangle up with you real tight
The only thing that's separating you and me tonight
is an ocean of tears
Oh my god I wanna know what it feels like
just an inch away from living a dream life
The only thing that's separating you and me tonight
is an ocean of tears
OOO
Show me the future
yeah I'm all eyes
Tell me you're ready (I'm ready)
Pulse is racing and racing and racing and racing
but it's a long ride
Tell me you're ready
Oh my god I wanna know what it feels like
to pull you close and tangle up with you real tight
The only thing that's separating you and me tonight
is an ocean of tears
Oh my god I wanna know what it feels like
just an inch away from living a dream life
The only thing that's separating you and me tonight
is an ocean of tears
Ooh
Someone stop me I'm going down
Ooh
Tell me the future
Yeah I’m all eyes
Tell me you’re ready
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9. |
Hey Big Eyes
03:54
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I can picture you right now
at a window seat
crying for nobody
except the world
I can picture you right now
running down the street
late for nobody
except the moon
Hey big eyes
can you swim
swim down to me?
Hey red star
can you burn
burn down to me?
Picture me all messed up now
can’t talk to nobody
can’t plan for anything
except the rain
Today the flags will all fly green
at the embassies
you're here next to me
except you're not
Hey big eyes
can you swim
swim down to me?
Hey red star
can you burn
burn down to me?
Hey big eyes
can you swim
swim down to me?
Hey red star
can you burn
burn down, burn down
Hey big eyes
can you swim
swim down to me?
Hey red star
can you burn
burn down to me?
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10. |
Go As a Dream
03:27
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Someone changed the clocks
and left the window open
when I must have drifted off
And it’s just your kind of trick
to leave me empty handed
leave me with the riddle unsolved
I don’t know if I can do this
I don’t know if I can make this peace
And you’re almost like the card
played by the magician
but this time you’re not coming back
And you’re slipping through my fists
blurry at the edges
leaving only legend you go
as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
I don’t know if I can do this
I don’t know if I can make this peace
And it hit me like a brick
a joke without a punchline
a script that nobody read
If you saw me lying here
through my bedroom ceiling
you would have me pick up my head and
go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
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11. |
Caroline Shut Up
03:32
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Sometimes I wonder
do I love you too much
then I tell myself
Caroline shut up
Cause there's only one way
one way to find out
if it ever gets better than right now
I dare you to come closer
let me see you in the light
I dare you to stay with me
you know I get low sometimes
I dare you to make time stop
instead of speeding up, up
I dare you to go slow, don't rush
Sometimes I wonder
do I love you too much
then I tell myself
Caroline shut up
Cause there's only one way
one way to find out
if it ever gets better than right now
Now you got me jealous
and I’m not the jealous type
Spending all the cash that I was saving up
Lying in the bath spit out a fountain of wine
Looking like a god, you know you fuck me up
Sometimes I wonder
do I love you too much
then I tell myself
Caroline shut up
Cause there's only one way
one way to find out
if it ever gets better than right now
And this is hardcore
Give me scissors and I'm
running on a tightrope
and I've gotta trust it now
AAA
Just don't let go
Sometimes I wonder
do I love you too much
then I tell myself
Caroline shut up
If tomorrow you want me
then I don't have a doubt
that it gets even better than right now
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12. |
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Not like I'm counting the days
but it's been twenty five
You're out there killing the game
but damn I miss you tonight
And I'm out at a party
they're playing our song
I cry on the dancefloor
it's so embarrassing
Don't send me photos you're making it worse
cause you're so hot it's hurting my feelings
I get a little lonely
Get a little more close to me
You're the only one who knows me babe
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can’t deal
With all the x-rated dreaming
back on the coast to coast life
You know I live for the hustle
but damn I miss you tonight
And I'm out at a party
they're playing our song
I cry on the dancefloor
it's so embarrassing
Don't send me photos you're making it worse
cause you're so hot it's hurting my feelings
I get a little lonely
Get a little more close to me
You're the only one who knows me babe
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can't deal
AAA
And I'm out at a party
they're playing our song
I cry on the dancefloor
it's so embarrassing
Don't send me photos you're making it worse
cause you're so hot it's hurting my feelings
I get a little lonely
Get a little more close to me
You're the only one who knows me babe
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can't deal
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can't deal
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can't deal
So hot you're hurting my feelings, can't deal
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13. |
Door
05:22
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Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
signature on a check made out to you
Took ten laps ‘round the planet
To prove what I wasn't
And the door slams hard behind you
When you leave the house of judgement
Been waiting for regret to hit me
some kind of reckoning
I waited for the drop cause lately
the yang comes with yin
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
signature on a check made out to you
Now there’s the sunset
salt in the wound, yeah
sometimes I don't know who i'm singing to
Who is the you who I sing to
when the house is empty?
You open the door
to another door to another door
to another door to another door
and I'm running through to you
You open the door
to another door to another door
to another door to another door
and I'm running through to you
And we're waking up sore and dizzy
from a ten year concussion
and the rainfall makes you miss me
even though you say it doesn't
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Back in the city
everything's different
when we're not together
You open the door
to another door to another door
to another door to another door
and I'm running through to you
You open the door
to another door to another door
to another door to another door
and I'm running through to you
Running running running running
Running running running running
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
signature on a check made out to you
Now there’s the sunset
salt in the wound, yeah
sometimes I don't know who i'm singing to
Who is the you who I sing to
when the house is empty
You open the door
To another door to another door
To another door to another door
And I'm running through to you
You open the door
To another door to another door
To another door to another door
And I'm running through to you
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14. |
Parachute
03:32
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Awake
from a dream
one that started as a nightmare
like a war
so extreme
it erased itself from memory
Here’s where I jumped
from the airplane
without questioning it
the curve of the coast
of Los Angeles
spreading itself below
And blooming overhead
the parachute
I’ve got to trust it now…
AAA
Change
in the wind
and I’m drifting from the crescent
Pulled
farther out
from the shore than where I can swim to it
And blooming overhead
the parachute
I’ve got to trust it now…
AAA
Closing in on the sparkle of the waves
go on, take me
it will feel like going home
Go on, take me
I’m not afraid to drown
What is this
pulling me back the other way
to strip malls, highways, and treetops?
Landing on the soft ground
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