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you're not teachin' me
03:31
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well you might’ve seen me lately with my head in the clouds / tryin’ hard to not look down / not actually / detach-ually / just casually / in love // but I’m a big girl and nobody doubts that / I rock my own world / you dared to reroute that
till now I wasn’t keeping’ score / but then you went and knocked my feelings onto the floor / I was working’ real hard at not keeping’ score / but now you can bet your bottom dollar / I’ll walk away with more
you’re not teachin’ me anything I don’t already know how to learn
well I knew it was kinda silly / and kinda real / -ly weird / I cared so much about not making you fear / that I’d hurt you like I hurt everyone else before that’s gotten this close through my heart’s open door
one plus one’s the only problem we had / but this arithmetic is driving me mad / I’m not lying when I say I’m bad at math / so baby let’s split / and I’ll take the bigger half
you’re not teachin’ me anything I don’t already know how to learn
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rhetorical psych-out
02:40
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must have been somethin’ in the water, baby / cause you just psyched yourself out like crazy / the tightrope we walk is shaking with doubt / and the sun's pouring out of my water spout / and the webs that we weave, we walk through them on our way out
it was the present / right before your eyes / bearing gifts to guide you through the night / did your passion play you for a fool? / are you sad that your memory failed you?
hey now / don't take it too hard, cause it's not your fault / don't try to make it better / I’ll call your bluff / don't look into my eyes and don't show your face in my dreams
there's really nothing left to say about it / I’m quick to remember how to live without it / the shadows we cast are tied to our whims / but the scars we incur are burned into our skin / and our hearts still keep time when they're worn and tired out / catch me sailing out to see again / with my way unfolding outside in / does the shepherd seek his fears in vain? / is the other side not twice as green?
come now / wake me in the morning / we'll go out / take me without warning / we'll both go down / love me like all of the time's not running out
must be somethin’ in the air we're breathing / shifting us into another season / and life is the answer to a rhetorical question
that nobody even asked
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big brown sack
03:55
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if you could know / everything there is to know about it / would that suffice / to say you could live life and never doubt it? / could you reach success / through the art of undermining every failure? / be cohesive / by pulling out and melting down the sutures?
would you take all your money back?
would you put all your knowledge in a big brown sack?
would you steal all my lovin' just to sharpen my tact?
sometimes I see / a hallucination that / I know / isn't real / but / I like to play games with myself / let's go! / when it gets scary / I commence to shaking in the / centering / lose my balance / fall out of one into another / abyss
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I...been...waiting...for some rain to fall on me / to remind me how to be / I don't answer to anything but me and my creativity
they say / that the proof is in the pudding / well I plan on putting / my nerve to the test of every / adventure / if flavor / lives inside the mouth of the beholder / what's it taste like / to swallow every solipsistic placeholder?
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deserted (after dinner)
03:27
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It's not enough to smile at the table / wipe your mouth and excuse your self / you didn't know how it would sit with you / all you knew was that you liked it
tidy up your place / and make space for your next serving of impermanence
deserted / after dinner / cause that's the way it goes / and left in want of something / to chase the sweetness away
can you count the ways that you're cracking up this morning? / in the kitchen / on the counter / in the refrigerator? / just trying to cool off / or find something to hit the spot / where that insatiable urge to consume / ended up consuming you
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sunshine
03:01
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I’m thinking of a place behind the sunshine / a place where every silver lining’s gray / the little monsters who inhabit it / they visit me and I tell them to go away
pour milk into the glass until it says “when” / friendly faces start fraying at the ends / gold fillings in the holes of happiness / never mind never matters in the making of amends
I know there’s darkness every day / and in the silence there’s a hiss / I can’t shake it / if I could wear my words on my face / I’d speak volumes just by turning your way
sitting on a piece of paper / waiting for the tide to take her / gazing at a line in the sky / she sits as all the time passes by
think it over again / ‘fore you tumble into the wind that’s closing in / on the fickle mind / that scatters ever time / pockets full of fallen stars / do no good for a heart / on sunny days
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god won't save u
03:39
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recalibrating functionality post-stasis / redecorating / putting pretty words in pretty places / check one / check two / is this thing on? / well how the hell am I supposed to know?
and God won’t save you from drowning / in all the shit that she created that’s surrounding / you / fancy yourself emancipated in this prison / where leaves of green all turn to brown / with or without vision
I’m sending all my thoughts out to your hungry hearts tonight
who’s the one / who makes / the simple things alive / inside? // who’s the one / who makes / the simple things alive / in my mind?
intentional distractibility commences / I try not to choke on pretty words in present tenses / little voice inside my head it likes to whine / “be sensible!” / “be sensible!” / “be sensible!” / “be sens-i-ble!!!”
and God won’t save you from drowning / but he did give you the choice to stop your heart from pounding / some say don’t think about the past or ‘bout the future wonder / but then again not noticing the current pull them under
I’m sending all my thoughts out to your hungry hearts tonight
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of course (not)
03:14
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brand new you? / well, I knew you / and yes, I have told you / (the old you)
so what? I played too much / and I got played out / kicked right back down the water spout
oh, darling! / of course not! / no, you’re nothing more than a sore spot / oh, baby! / what’s good? / it gets so better when you forget her
meanwhile, I continue to fail to understand / what reason any woman would need / to want to play her own songs / other than the simple fact / that she herself has written them
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thank you / gracias
04:45
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it's a sticky situation / oooh / this / getting unstuck / from what's become your favorite glue / it'll hit you / when you realize the truth / that the / only thing you / really can take with you / is you
safety is a fallacy / and fear is only make-believe / comfort is neutrality / and suffering is necessary!
please make sure you open your eyes before you kiss me / thank you / don't deny / set my feelings aside / to fix me / thank you / falderal and fiddle dee dee / woe is me / thank you
well I spent far too long givin' someone the best of me / and it's been a long time coming for me to be a long time gone / I was hangin’ on / but now I'm movin' to the city instead / gonna make a whole lotta new friends / yeah...
es difícil quitarse de un lugar / que parece haberse convertido en parte del alma / vas a sentirlo profundamente cuando das cuenta / de que la única cosa que se puede llevar contigo es tú
seguridad es falacia / el miedo es sólo fantasia / confort es neutralidad / y dolor es necesario!
por favor / abre los ojos antes de / besarme / gracias / júrame que me vas a dejar para que pueda / arreglarme / gracias / tonterías y estupideces / mi ruina / gracias
pasé demasiado tiempo dando alguien lo mejor de mí / y es hora ahora de que me vaya de aquí / me iba a quedar / pero me mudo a la ciudad en vez / voy a hacer un montón de nuevos amigos / mmm…
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Emily And Buenos Aires, Argentina
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