1. |
I Carried You Home
04:05
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It’s time to forget
Dressed to the nines in our old Sunday best
Young and magnificent
Sprawled on the road
I scrawled on your hand that I carried you home
Through the smoke and the cigarettes
We threw around meaningless words
For the sake of the sound
Knotted our awkward tongues into a rope
Tethered so I said I miss you the most
Come January when this year’s been and gone
Will you lie here beside me and tell me it’s alright
Come January when it’s all said and done
Will you lie here with me tonight
You woke like a bomb
Torn from the eyes of the sleepless parade
Everything interesting
Crawled from the blue
Fell like the plug was pulled in wandering light
Like the moon and the papers heard
Who throws around meaningless words
For the sake of the sound
Nothing more, nothing less
Into a rope
Tethered so you said I’ll miss you the most
But I’d rather be lonelier
Would you?
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2. |
So Delicate
02:59
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Would you lie or say your name
Form a second silhouette
Blue disguised with silver thread
And again and again and again
Would you settle for just a little more?
Did you see how this would end before the end?
Fell in love with the acid rain
Said goodbye to the evergreen
Pulled apart just to fade away
And again and again
Have you seen Jimena today?
Heard her voice in the things you said
Moved along to a better place
And again and again
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3. |
Only You
03:25
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Did it bother you?
When you fell out of the place
That remembers you for all the things you never said
A piece of solitude for every moment we replay
It weighs on top of you
So move in time to find a way
If you sing along you’ll be half as good as gone
If you see it through you’ll be better off for sure
It’s only you, forever you
Does it follow you on every corner, every face
Sleep inside of you
Seasons pass so effortless
Moonlit make believe
A taste of beautiful release
Echoes quietly hung on paper thin cassettes
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4. |
Glitters
04:04
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It was still for the first time
Felt alive for a minute
A flicker of a fail in me
Then you died for the second time
Searched for more than I’d ever seen
Darker not louder but clear for the first time
You’ll know if it glitters like gold
Takes all you are to hold onto it
So sure I was hoping you’d stay here a little
Wait here a little
So tell me you want to feel just like you used to feel
It was slowly but surely
Slight of hand so sincerely
Like the summer passing through me
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5. |
Romantic Youth
02:29
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Could barely pay the lucky ones
They say it stays the same it never did
Well I guess the better man
Can formulate a liars plan
Still we get away
If you sing I’ll hear you sing I’ll hear you sing
I take much more than I can give
To feel the weight I’d always wished
If there’s more than I could do
To bleed the rest in spite of you
And all my friends they’ll never die
I’ll keep you safe in summer
I’ll keep you warm in the winter
I’ll keep you like no other
For they love you so
From the dead set eyes of your mother
To the deep set brow of your father
I’ll keep you like no other
For they love you so
And night after night
An eye for an eye
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6. |
Chorus Boys
03:08
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Spin out make waves together
Smooth circles mend them one by one
Pale arms collide in silver
You are a moment in reverse
Into the fiction of the never heard, the never to become
We took our breaths together
Head first in holy water
Push forward turning gracefully
Through clear blue eyes no better
Held up confessed unfaithfully
If you believe a little
If you release and let it go
We took our breaths together
Through clear blue eyes no better
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7. |
Delacour
03:12
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Deserved more poignant words
Was barely feeling some
A self-appointed ghost
You could never stand to lose
Would never be enough
We used the pointed words
In place of something worse
You left with second best
And mumbled fuck the rest
I’ll take the blame for you
Still take the blame
You will be the answer
Take my hands and make it better
Make it over
Won’t admit the only thing for this is
Still not giving up
Feeling underused in luck
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8. |
Machine Gun Jelly
03:30
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To save yourself from something
To not care what is bigger
To satisfy is not in me
Lean on my soul forever
To say a few words after
To needle more for later
To know you better than before
Lean on my soul forever
It’s not in me
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9. |
Torino
03:37
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Said that you wanted fire
I couldn’t breathe for anyone
Sky blue we settled on
Hoped for a hole inside my head
Looked down the idle aisles
The teething scores still part of me
Took care to swallow in
I never could or would believe
They say it gets better in time
Well I’m over here
Softly surely shock me please me now
If you plead your case completely
Then leave me out
We can leave this open
Close whatever
Highlight fools
We can stay forever
Like you believe
They say it gets better in time
Well I’m over here killing it
So set it forward now
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10. |
Darker, Louder
03:38
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You said it once before
I’d accept a million answers
If you found a million more
We celebrate the fall
To explain the smallest victories
The single thing you fought was make believe
So lean in
I’d expect nothing more
Pull me in
And on and off we missed the ordinary light
Serenaded midnight bells
Hung in doorways left behind
Fell for the chaos dreams
The apple of your eye
Feigned too far the sweetest melody
The single thing you fought was make believe
And all the while days came and went
We’ll spare a thought for nothing less
Nothing more, nothing less
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