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Shed My Skin
03:48
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Settled down, sitting alone
Waiting for all the kids to go back home
I'm a slave to the time of the day, but can't show up on time for anything
Least of all, my masters
I've tried and tried to shed my skin, I'll take it on the chin again
My fear is that I'm quick becoming elderly
But the earth maintains velocity,
A quarter of my life I'm watching walk right out the back door of an office park, of an office park
Well we're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Dialed down, driving alone, begging the traffic to let me go back home
Just to scan a screen for some kind of novelty
A never-ending empty sea that's bent on monotony
Well I'll cross the land to shed my skin, oh twice more on the chin again
I'm losing all my faith in what I want to be
Still the earth maintains velocity, a life held still, a life let free
I tried so hard to cross them but I fell between, oh, I fell between
Well we're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Shed my skin and drop it to the ground
Oh, if only I could shed my skin
Purge all these layers of everything I've known and everyone I've been
We're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Shed my skin and drop it to the ground
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2. |
Crooked Thrones
03:25
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Crossed the ocean all alone
Sitting on a crooked throne
From the air I see the shore
I know I've seen this place before
Leaned against her wailing wall
My mother waves me down the hall
Thought I'd died in a city street
But death could never smell so sweet
Weighed down by my anxious mind
How did I fall so behind
Four directions, blocked by walls
Solace in a bathroom stall
Working days and whiny songs
Two months never felt so long
Went to sleep in black and white
Woke up one day and saw the light
Crooked smiles won't last you in life, but won't leave easily
And crooked bones await you in time if you refuse to see
Just lay down your arms and wait,
We're gonna leave the Keystone State soon
Where crooked lines will guide us alone, and do so faithfully
Across the ocean, we have grown
Toppled from our crooked thrones
Driving home, we see the shore
I know I've seen this place before
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3. |
All Sides
04:18
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I'm sure I left the lake for someone beautiful
If not somewhere beautiful
I'll work on keeping that in mind
Now I've found it's hard to root into a foreign place
But the hardest part's doing so with grace, and following the signs
When you're surrounded on all sides
Locking all the doors is the only way to keep us safe
Maybe it can work if the faithless have a little faith
It's focusing in frame, the crowd is somewhat close to dangerous
I wish that I could drive across the southern line
Without the hand of death along my spine
And curses tossed at cars
So I'll write these words of all the selfish stickered wives
The backwards hoards with backwards lives
The stubborn and bizarre
That surround us on all sides
Locking all the doors is the only way to keep us safe
Maybe it can work if the faithless have a little faith
It's focusing in frame, the crowd is somewhat close to dangerous
March in time, between the aisles of the store
Blending in and watching patiently
But the shame is mine
They did not come out of the woodwork to be judged, you see
Though they'd just as soon judge me
Locking all the doors
I'm sure that it will work
But this crowd is inching so damn close to dangerous, to dangerous
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4. |
Catch and Release
03:26
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5. |
Safer Harbors
03:40
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Set sail for sabor harbors and step back from me
I don't know how, I don't know how long I'll be
Drop all those worthless favors and time spent lost
Lay me down, lay me down to sleep
And this seems to happen often
But this one is extreme
Am I doomed to dip my feet in and find it's not as good as it seems
Your backbone of blunt indifference is lost on me
It took too long, it took too long to see
You feigned love to catch my interest, but I saw through
I was just next in line, next in line for you
And this seems to happen often
But this one is extreme
Am I doomed to dip my feet in and find it's not as good as it seems
The city cleared away because of all the wrong you'd gone and done
And by the time you came around, we had evacuated everyone
We all set out for sounder shores
I'll set sail for safer harbors and leave you be
I'll pass you by, and pass you on from me
Wake me when we make landfall and I'll make due
It'll all go down, all go down with you
And this seems to happen often
But this one is extreme
Am I doomed to dip my feet in and find it's not as good as it seems
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6. |
Sit Down, Son
04:11
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7. |
Immortalized
03:02
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Here we go again, on this endless walk again
Though we know the desert sands will weed us out
'Cause if we try, and we will try, to look worthy of his prize
He'll remember our names
We'll get a line in his book someday, immortalized
Here we go again, to wage a war against the pen
He'll use our strength and steel to strike you down
'Cause if we try, and we will try, to look worthy of his prize
He'll remember our blades
We'll end up in his book someday, idolized
Here we go again, put the kids in line again
And fill their plates with fear of a burning flame
'Cause if we try to close their eyes to every little thing we stigmatize
He remember our ways
We'll get a line in his book someday, eternalized
Here we go again, lost our sight but lost our sin
An even compromise for a first class seat
'Cause if we try to keep in mind what is true and falsified
He'll remember our names, remove us all from this dirt someday
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Deceived
03:00
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Oh, the desert wallows and dreams of the sea
And the sea sinks and ponders,
Why should the desert be drier than me
And as I do just the same and lose my grip around the truth
Well my pedestal, my seat, does collapse at my feet
And I find myself back on my knees
Oh, the daylight wallows and dreams of the night
And the night sinks and ponders,
Why can't the day and I be equally as bright
And as I do just the same and lose my grip around the truth
Well my pedestal, my seat, does collapse at my feet
And I find myself back on my knees
Well I do believe that I've been deceived
By a separate world inside my head
A set of glasses tinted red
And I do believe that I need reprieve
'Cause all this light that I do see, it'll never share it with me
Oh, December wallows and dreams of July
And July sinks and ponders,
Why should December be colder than I
And as I do just the same and lose my grip around the truth
Well my pedestal, my seat, does collapse at my feet
And I find myself back on my knees
Well I do believe that I've been deceived
By a separate world inside my head
A set of glasses tinted red
And I do believe that I need reprieve
'Cause all this light that I do see, it'll never share it with me, oh
'Cause all this light that I do see, it'll never share it, share it with me
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9. |
Secondhand
04:09
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Hazel
02:53
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Well I hope to tell my heart to stop before it starts
And pace slow, despite this weight upon my chest
Instead I'll down another drink, breathe deep
And will not think too much about it
I hope she won't get bored like all the other ones before
But I always knew you'd come and sit down beside me
A whisper in my ear that appeared so softly
A voice inside my head with a simple tune to sing
We harmonize the words and color everything with love
If I could lose my head and take another one instead
I'd be quick about it, and then I'd give until I'm sore
And if I could warn my heart that some daydreams fall apart
I'd fall back down to earth and give patience what it's worth
But I always knew you'd come and sit down beside me
A whisper in my ear that appeared so softly
A voice inside my head with a simple tune to sing
We harmonize the words and color everything with love
Wandering so hopelessly
When your red curls I slowly see
All in ties over hazel eyes that lead me out of this
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