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Arrow
01:54
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your episodic treason
you never gave me reasons
i'll be the bigger person
my fifthfloor headache worsens
i find your mind's a garden
you grew and changed and hardened
keep on the straight and narrow
you pulled out cupid's arrow
stifle
be still
lay low
until
things change
change when
i see
you again
and i can't shake it from my mind
the park, and cigs, and clementines
the bands we saw, the subway chime
the rides along your local line
the feeling of you being mine
the seeds are spat, we chew the rind
we won't pretend that things are fine
and after all this tragic time
i search and still i can't tell why
you grow more cold the more i try
but i can't stand to let it die
because every time that you cry
i fall
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2. |
Dimes square
03:23
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used to feel your presence
in the whirlwind of the crowd
once i felt okay here
now i'm stuck wandering around
as a tourist in my hometown
you're living in the margins of my journal now
never knew you that way
all your cigarette cliches
reel me in and i'll stay
use me as your ashtray
streets are closed, you're out of luck
but everywhere's Dimes Square if you look hard enough
tell me something secret
i'll lock it up and keep it close
spell it out for me in
your overly flowery prose
no, it doesn't ring the same
take a breath when you cross out my name
"it's okay to be scared"
you held my hand and watched me try
i stumbled over my words
labored over earnest "why's"
has my grief been earned?
how hard i tried is none of your concern
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3. |
Heavensent
03:14
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black cat waiting
we camped out in the wings
your way of being
i still see it in everything
you lie back and wonder why
i unravel and comply
don't relent
hold it like a secret
heavensent
couldn't lie and leave it
you lie back and wonder why
i unravel and comply
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4. |
Souvenir
02:51
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look out the window and i'm grieving
the weight of what i left behind
it drags me back to when in met you
i couldn't get it off my mind
i feel so common when i'm crossing
the only roads i call my own
all these houses look so similar
how can i tell when i've reached home?
need a souvenir
of anywhere but here
portland, maine or oregon
laid out on the lawn
it's awful when you're gone
i'm never moving on
to look away would be a talent
to try again would be a tease
i'm obsessed with getting older
the world is growing under me
need a souvenir
of anywhere but here
portland, maine or oregon
laid out on the lawn
it's awful when you're gone
i'm never moving on
(i'm never moving on)
laid out on the lawn
it's awful when you're gone
(i'm never moving on)
i'm never moving on
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5. |
The wheel, reinvented
01:29
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unadorned
the turning of the wheel
perfect form
faking sore
you and me and everyone
is a rocket
waiting to go off
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6. |
Sun-cracked
02:19
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older now, but i'm still shaken
feels like i know less as i'm
aging, and getting nowhere twice as fast
my ambition's on holiday
i'm stuck in a loop that's playing
over and over and over and over again
(over and over and over and over again)
over and over and over and over again
(don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry)
your sun-cracked smile
tears on my cheek
dry up from the inside
never noticed that mark before
now it's there and hard to ignore
i'm crazy, and breaking the ties i thought we had
(over and over and over and over again)
over and over and over and over again, etc.
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7. |
Star model
01:44
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painting (your portrait)
building (his fortress)
you know, you could never live it down
cutting (your blue eyes)
fucking (with the knife)
drawing blood, it settles on your gown
take it off and split the scene
the drill inside the dream
state in which the world's released
everything is as it seems
we see through his eyes
we see through his eyes
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8. |
Return to sender
02:18
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return to sender
i was your year long bender
why are all the things i miss
the parts of you that i would once dismiss?
last december
a burning ember of the
fire that you lit when you said
"no one could get quite this close again"
fortune turns
you don't learn
reaffirm
overturn
i don't remember
when you first entered
but you kicked down every single door
and instantly, my world became "before"
get to the center
what you meant for me to find
inside the impact crater
of which you were sole creator
in my mind
hard to find
intertwined
i'll be fine
fortune turns
you don't learn
reaffirm
overturn
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9. |
Figure eights
02:18
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feeling at the fabric kiss
if there's heaven, could be this
everything else gets eclipsed
evergreen with nervous lips
no use keeping me around
sinking into your old couch
took a path back into town
figure eights on the way down
shaky ground on which i stand
shakes and cancels all my plans
biting at a helping hand
keep my head under the sand
mirror figure carved in stone
keeling over, all alone
plasticine and overgrown
nowhere feeling like it's home
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10. |
Hail mary
03:21
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rock steady, i'm ready
for a sign from the world to make sense of everything
already too heavy
crack widens between us, it's unsettling
remembering every
memory of you, i now find them all upsetting
i'm petty, unsteady
cracks in our hearts where dust is settling
stayed a while, now i'm split
stare you down, feel like a kid
more so now than i ever did
fought my way out, then i slid
i'll fight it all again
rock steady, hold any
cards that'll tell you how i am really feeling
still shaken, hail mary
towing the fault line, never stay sedentary
stayed a while, now i'm split
stare you down, feel like a kid
more so now than i ever did
fought my way out, then i slid
i'll fight it all again
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
i'm beat down while you're all the better
etc.
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11. |
Club kids
02:31
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firing on all cylinders
in the process of becoming them
the club kids crashed and tore me open
i bled out right in front of them
the universe formed on a friday night
7,000,000,000 years and counting them
there's 10,000,000 blank street coffees in heaven
you and i will meet in one of them, again
(x2, then)
you and i will meet in one of them
etc.
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12. |
Target
03:21
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pretty pastures fill your eyes
keeping safe under disguise
it's cool to be anyone but you
living life under the gun
sell myself to anyone
it's true, i've been nothing but confused
close my eyes, ignore the sound of
meowing from the box grows louder
it's true, i've been nothing but confused
i'd be anyone for you
i still can't shake it from my mind
the sudden shock, the look behind
your back as though you weren't mine
i wasn't yours at any time
our paths were never intertwined
the seeds are spat, we chew the rind
i still pretend that things are fine
and after all this tragic time
i want to see things through your eyes (stifle)
i understand what was behind (be still)
the troubled end of your design (lay low)
and i will try to spend my time (until)
with someone new and erudite (things change)
we'll move along, resume our lives (change when)
i gasp for air, you twist the knife (i see)
i gasp for air, you twist the knife (you again)
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