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Song One
01:43
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I will not lie to you, these words will be true
Assistance aside, no fabrication,
This is the truth
Sat by the window, watching the birds go,
Watching the people walk home
I knew I loved her then and there
I knew I loved her, touched her hair
Why must we love in shackles
Why must we hide in a house
I sleep like a baby and wake like a man
Why must she love someone else
Why must she love someone else
I will not lie to you, these words will be true
I will not lie to you, these words will be true
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Make my way down the elevator
And hit the street in the morning sun
Gonna join the ranks of people with no sleep
And last night’s makeup on
Got to your place late last night
And it was such a mess and I can’t forget you
You are a strange one
You are the queen of New York
You like to have fun
Make a joke and I am done for
I’m done for
Called a car and we got inside
And it drove us past all the burning lights
The city breathes like a dragon in waiting
And I’m dragging my feet with its heavy sighs
When we were kids we both felt it
So alone and I can feel it now
You are a strange one
You are the queen of New York
You like to have fun
Make a joke and I am done for
Your head is undone
You are the queen of my lust
In love with everyone
I wanna be your next crush
When we were here we both felt it
Not alone but I can't feel it now
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Apple Tree Girl
02:44
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Weaving a dream while you play piano
Loose change and cocaine, apple tree girl
With a smile you say the world is doomed
If it’s true then let me hold you
Kiss me like I’m a soldier
Kiss me like we’ll never get older
Sat in your kitchen, snow in the woods
Drink my heart up, drink it up good
Send me a photo of the two of us in the unknown
Send me a photo of the two of us in shadow
With a smile you say we’re all doomed
It’s a mess but I don’t believe you
I’m going home like I’m a soldier
Meet me there when this is all over
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Hot Star
02:54
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You’re a hot star, burn into me
My favorite drug, I o.d.
In your black coat you’re a mystery
The card reader says that you’re gonna marry me
You’re a hot star, fall into me
A shimmer I just can’t reach
Kissed you once but that’s a memory
The card reader says that you’re gonna marry me
If I found a key to you I’d bury it down
You’re killing me and I’m ready to go
You’re a hot star, tear into me
Like dreamer drugs I o.d.
In your black coat I’m history
The gravedigger says that
If I found a key to you I’d bury it down
If I found a way to you I’d turn around
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Clipping
03:57
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I lost myself in a picture of someone else
Framed and lit up like a wake
Felt like it was me who died that day
Intuition and virtue
Crash the car and just let go
I’m a loser sometimes
I will lose my mind sometimes
Another year inside my eyes
Clipping in the atmosphere
I lose sometimes
Hold in your hands my broken crown
Show me where you have broken down
Give me relief
Give me relief
Get it done as a tattoo
Put it some place that always shows
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Saw you through the blue marine
Pulled you in to sink down deep with me
I'm in a place I should not be
Are you a jewel, am I a thief
With you my kingdom melts
One last late night motel
I tried feeling nothing
And it just felt like nothing
You're something else
You're something else
Can't help myself
Something else
Saw you through the fireworks
Saw your eyes burn like cinders
I'm in a place I should not be
Can I afford your luxury
With you my kingdom fell
One final taste of hell
I tried feeling something
And it felt like summer heaven
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Underwear
03:23
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Been beating myself up
I’ve been known to throw a punch or three
Well I don’t wanna fight you
I’m already fighting me, and I’m losing
Remember when we were in the halls at 5am
In our underwear running from ghosts
And in my room I learned that you were soft
Like a collector you line up your toys
But like a child you cry when they break
She’s been pulling my strings
Kissed a demon, no one swings like she swings
I’ll feed the hand that bites me
I can’t live without the blow
I can’t live without the irony
Come night an idle heart will fold
And I’m losing
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8. |
Just You
03:18
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She thinks you’re a shirt
She hangs you up for weeks
I have permission to rent
But never can I keep
And she wears you in front of the mirror
And she takes you off when you don’t fit her
Well come out of the woods, tell me what you see
When I come up for air it all gets clearer
It’s just you
It’s just you
I’m a kid in love with you
I’m Romeo dumb and you’re Juliet blue
I’m a kid, I can’t grow up
‘Cause every time we touch we both die young
She thinks you’re a shirt
But it’s you who’s wearing me
I know my heart is hard to know
But you’re the only one who does
It’s just you
Only you
It’s just you and me
And stars and blood and things
It’s just you and me
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Strawberry Selfish
03:35
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Your description’s what I want to see and hear
You dance inside my head in another year
You reach into me, pulled me from the trench
I can see you smile there where the sunlight bends
I’ve been a monster
I’ve been a madman
I’ve been a villain
You’ve been a friend
Remember you at fourteen
Somehow older and lovely
Strawberry selfish
Bitter and sweet
If you were older would you love me
Strawberry selfish, could you love me
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Reviews
03:09
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It takes highs and lows to celebrate you
It takes all my words just to sell them the truth
They don’t love me quite like they used to
They don’t love me quite like they did
Pay the girl, tell her give me a hairdo
Paint my lips in shimmer and french blue
They always tell you ‘don’t read the reviews’
So I am blind but for pictures of you
When I went to your grave
Snow covered half your name
How could I touch something so white
Take from you something so bright
How could I
Everything is fine
It’s gonna take some time
When I see lines of trees it feels like you’re with me
Feels like this song don’t mean a thing
It takes highs and lows to celebrate you
It takes all my words to celebrate you
It takes all my sight to actually see you
It takes all my love to celebrate you
Everything is fine
It’s gonna take some time
When all I can do is scream
It feels like you’re listening
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11. |
Rowing
03:33
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Haven’t been awake since I left Holland
Life is but a dream so I keep rowing canals
It’s deceiving how the houses are built
You’d never know how much space they can fill
It’s hard to end
I am crude and sweet in bed
I am gentle in a dress
I have a beating in my breast
It’s hard to end, it’s hard to end
It’s hard to end, it’s hard
The world is pretty when I’m up high
All the ugly things look nice drifting by
The world is easy when I get high
I play those jukebox songs and wait to die
The street musicians played in time with each other
Up through the window frame where we both discover canals
The scent of pastry carts hangs in the air
The children throw their coins into the rivier
A kiss can taste so sweet like apples and wine
And disappear as quick, a girl from another time
Balloons, balloons
They are always rising up
I am never quite enough
Sinking down to earth it’s tough
To get back up, to get back up
To get back up, it’s tough
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