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Lightning Bugs
01:51
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LIGHTNING BUGS | Quiet blocking, people talking, has it been two years? | With connection, my direction made me end up here | Will this go away if I hide my face? | Can I trap it in a jar like lightning bugs in my backyard? | Feel the tension stirring, I'm disturbing what was here | In your nice neat life, there's me outside, I can't see clear | Will this go away if I hide my face? | Can I trap it in a jar like lightning bugs in my backyard?
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Powder Blue
03:00
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POWDER BLUE | Just stay away, don't let it hit you | Sleep like a guest in hotel powder blue | Brought up once again like dirty legends | Feels like I know you, but we have never met | Talking through walls, answer back | Photo finished, welcome mat | Playful with a somber side | Built a wall behind your eyes | You can't stop me, I calculate your moves | Woven in parts, encircled through and through | Drive 'til you get to an abandoned state | Cross out your plans, meant to abbreviate
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My Attack
02:29
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MY ATTACK | I propose we drop these walls once and for all | Rewrite those words we said out of anger | Lately I've felt sick, infected with bitterness |
Aren't we ready to feel a little bit better? | But you won't do it, rather throw a fit | Think you like falling down so I'll stick around | And I don't think I like you anymore like that | Starting today when I see you I will look away | Now every time I see you I will look away | Take that, take that | Starting today when I see you I will look away | Now every time I see you I will look away | Take that, take that | That's my attack
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Fun Whoa
02:38
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FUN WHOA | I wasn't even half-shocked | When I came home to find the door unlocked | My sugar habits cleared you out | We're running out of things to talk about | You only liked me for my hooks | I only liked you for your albums and books | Your daydream record was released | I much prefer you on the CD sleeve | I'm spinning, you are just gyrating | I'm in it, you're always complaining | It was fun while it lasted but I'm already past it, whoa | It was fun while it lasted but I'm already past it, whoa | Fell in love, broke it up, wrote it off, played it, so what | It was fun while it lasted but I'm already past it, whoa | I wasn't even surprised | To find your letter waiting outside | I thought of lighting it a blaze | A burning tribute to our brighter days
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Jamie
02:48
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JAMIE | Jamie won’t call when she says she won’t call | I stay in and wait, pound my head on the wall | Jamie, dear girl, doesn’t suit me at all | She gives names to the closets of blame | I’ve stored at her place, kept them out of the way | Till Jamie appeared and
my circuitry tamed | It’s a tall order coming back from this great fall | Jamie won’t write ‘cause she’s out every night | Tiptoes to the box, puts not a thing inside | Ticks time on the clock for our hearts misalign | Now we’ve crashed and we’re not gonna last | She’s kept driving past this scarecrow with me inside | Left strewn in debris till the cop cars arrive | Jamie won’t call when she says she won’t call | She’s no nothing at all but a sun-sick and foolish girl | Who’s trailing my heart like red streamers unfurled
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Girl Talk
02:24
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won’t call | She’s no nothing at all but a sun-sick and foolish girl | Who’s trailing my heart like red streamers unfurled | GIRL TALK | It's a car crash, it's a train wreck, it's an excuse | It's a symptom, it's an act out, it's a bad mood | It's a liar, it's a faker, it's a charlatan | It's a riddle, it's a puzzle, it's a panic | Girl talk, her walls, girl talk, she falls | Girl talk, it's all, it's all in her head | And I'll slam the door if I want to | And I'll ask for more if it suits me | Fond of wearing scalps | Fond of throwing out what I do not need | Girl talk, she's sweet like sugar | Girl talk, she's wet like rain | The two can't mix or drowning happens | Cut through to sustain | Girl talk, she's harsh like lightning | Girl talk, she's quick like pain | mix or drowning happens | Cut through to sustain | Girl talk, she's harsh like lightning | Girl talk, she's quick like pain | We spin and spin, no thick and thin | I will not lose this game | It's a throwback, it's a bitch slap, it's some bad news
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Abomination
02:42
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ABOMINATION | When you touch me it is abomination | Across these states on every station | I tell you there's some complication we're fighting | We pass them on city streets, leave them seething | Touch your hand, we just have to keep breathing | If we made a life out of leaving, would you like that? | I wasn't born to fight back | Tried to come to terms but they were never willing | Damage done, these are walls we've been building | Honestly it
was not as fulfilling as you | Changed these words in attempt to validate | Looked to her, maybe I could replicate | All there was, didn't mean to let it break | Do you hate that I wasn't born to fight back?
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Vacation
01:55
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VACATION | Vacation ended earlier than we had planned | Took off my jacket, when did we decide I'd be the man? | I know I said I'd cross that bridge for you | But girl this is exactly what your ex said you would do | Don't tell me I haven't changed | I wrote the rules you display | Don't act like I walked away | I just returned to sender | I think we will both be better off this way | The gift-wrapped package had a tag I couldn't see | Surprise, it is July and you are picking fights with me | I never said I wouldn't lift you up | But hurricanes and blindless blame is not what we discussed
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July 31
02:41
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JULY 31 | Clocks hitting twelve, my insides swell and
boil over | Gathering here, our hideaway, never felt closer | Knew I would end up crushed but I could not give up | Lines that I put down, your sigh is cold now | Does July 31 ever lurk into your mind? | Secrets and power waiger into this status | You see what you want, take notes, then quietly grab it | That's how you operate, but what did it create? | When you helped me to make my desperate break? | Does July 31 ever lurk into your mind? | You give the harshest sentiments |
If you're too kind they will forget
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Griffin
02:53
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GRIFFIN | You taught me to laugh and I taught you to paint in dark blue | You looked at me and said there's got to be human in you | I'm a puzzle you spread out and tried to assemble | The pieces all jumbled but you can't remember | Just what made you take on the task | I was always afraid to ask | Goodnight Griffin | I know that you tried | Night falls short | I can't afford to cry | Take it all back, play your messages on looped repeat | Hidden inflections in whispers, please don't leave | Walking down streets of brick houses, this history | Not sentimental, but part of it twisting me | Never heard your voice so harsh | Until we dropped hands and retreated into dark | But you can't go taking back | What was lost in this attack | On the phone, we wait at home | But I will never cut this slack
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Barbarella
02:54
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BARBARELLA | You grabbed me by the hair | Thought I could take you there | Adoration leaves me cold | Empty spaces, words not sold | I write this all for you | Choked on cliches a few | A stupid plan, I know | My friends say let it go | Searching for ghosts where there's just black smoke | Seeing faces where white walls exist | Tearing it away from the heart of the thing | But there is nothing lurking in this | In this | The things I try to hide | Seems you see right inside | Try to drive myself away | It's a fucked up game I play
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Sugar Hrt Candy
02:19
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SUGAR HRT CANDY | You're my sugar heart candy | You'll just give me cavities | It's pretty clear you're no good for me | You rot out my mouth, rot out my mouth | And you're breaking my heart, breaking my heart | I heard you're leaving town, oh no | Your suitcases are packed and ready | There's not any chance, not any chance |
Cause you're my sugar heart candy | You'll just give me cavities | It's pretty clear you're no good for me | But I follow around, follow around |
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Sweet
03:55
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SWEET | Man you should hear all my witty retorts | Thrown at your back once that you've closed the door | I have thrown the remains at the floor | You turn your back, kiss off my image | Call me, throw me away, you
do what you like to do | You stall me | I'm good for waiting, I always knew you would | I'll show you sweet, I'll show you sweet | My game plan must have seemed crystal clear | But I prefer staying alone up here | Spewing faux innocence 'til I'm blue | Make quite the racket, perfectly in your view
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Birthday
02:38
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BIRTHDAY | On my birthday you got me drunk | I went to sleep early, you stayed awake next to me | I've never felt so young as this | Was there something you wanted to say? | You took out two glasses then put them away | I was trying my best not to like you in my stupid way | I chewed up my pen, now there's ink in my mouth | They are whispering, what are they talking about? | The soles of my feet feel so stagnant and grounded | Too bad I've let myself get completely surrounded | I'm as obvious as a strip club | And you're a casino where nobody's won | It is late and I'm tired of glitter and liars, give it up | On the first day I got real drunk | Sang everyone songs right before I threw up | No it's cool, cause right now I'm feeling much more grown up
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Middle Class Fashion St Louis, Missouri
Pop music with a secret dark side
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