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stress lines (do you)
03:45
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this song's for autumn barber
all the ladies drop their pants 'cause she's got 'em harder
than any man could ever dream if they wanted to
better watch out 'cause your girl's getting over you
this song's for my cousin krisann
she was everything her whole family grew up against
but then she made it out alive on the other side
she found her happiness by living her goddamn life
this song's for hannah goheen
it's been a minute since i checked in on where you're going
the only silver lining you need is that ear-to-ear
'cause your contagious heart is filled way beyond your years
this song is to thank you for not giving a fuck
this song is for myself
and how i'm trying not to fear the words of everyone else
i told my parents that i'd go back to church one day
i've disappointed them enough to cause the stress lines on their face
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funk
01:56
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i have not been myself for a while, i've been in a funk
i thought that i could kick it in no time, it won't last more than a month
but weeks went by, chicago i can't decide if you are the reason
i held for myself expectations without the will to achieve them
so i'm waiting for this all to pass me by
but today i feel fine
my caffeine hypersensitivity gives my coffee a weird taste
it's hard to feel like growing up is a change you've got to embrace
and we're only getting older so our bodies are ticking grenades
and we've got too much left to learn
to be scared of our mistakes
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goldie's in the sewer
02:47
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in the summer of 1999 i learned that death was coming
it came for my fish and it would come for me
like a can of tetra flakes
and in that summer it was dead and it was dreary
in the summer of 1999
yea the following winter i was six
my parents left to shovel snow
it was dark outside and the glass was thick
i couldn't see them anymore
and i convinced myself they'd never make it home
til then i'd never felt more alone
in the fall of 2002 death took my mother's cousin
i watched her put the phone on the TTY,
receipts trailing on the floor
and i felt the heaviness of every word she wrote
melissa wasn't gonna make it home
when i was nine i thought i'd try to really comprehend
the thought that i would someday die and so would all my friends
and by wintertime my mom would find the cancer in her chest
she said it was fine
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don't count on me
02:06
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i didn't show up to my meeting today
they all were counting on me to be there
and in my absence i slowed business today
my boss threw a fit & said he'd cut me
he has to find someone new to replace me
i didn't show up to my final today
it cost me almost half of my grade
i can almost see the look on my instructor's face
he has to put an F on my transcript
i'm sure he's concerned for my future
to see me sitting in his class next semester
i didn't return any calls or emails today
i know that i'm pissing off the world
i'm inconveniencing all their selfish little lives
but i swear i didn't mean to die today
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math is punk
02:20
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pardon me
i know
i took my rain check to the road
my future with this degree has never looked so bleak
i'm wasting time
i know
carving angels in the snow
six months in and my brain is getting weak
can't complain
i'm alright
don't need a pick-me-up this time
i took a second just to finally breathe
my friends are stronger than i
they've had a way bumpier ride
and sarah's gonna graduate this spring
that's crazy
oh oh~
you don't need a piece of paper to turn out fine
i know some of my friends
are making ends meet with a lens,
a makeup brush, a pencil, an old guitar
but some of us can't pretend
to be as talented as them
when no one's gonna buy my shitty art
unless you do
however you wanna do life, you don't have to wait for the stars to align
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7. |
cocoabeach
03:04
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it was getting late that night and i promised to myself
i wouldn't get too high
then the jay was in my hand and before i stopped myself
my feet were in the sand
as you roamed free
i fell asleep on the shore
i watched as the waves took you away from me
i watched as the waves took you away
i watched as the waves carried you miles out of my sight
and i watched, buried in the sand
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looking
01:59
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my wanderlust used to be the reason i was happy
but now i'm not as happy anymore
we took a chance and quit our lives to wander in chicago
what was it that we were looking for?
i'm not sure what we were looking for
i used to find new places as exciting as they were foreign
now i just get anxious at the thought
what was it i held onto that brought me to start again?
what was it that i had to have lost?
i just know that it's gone
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