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Gin And Tonic
04:22
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God I feel so anxious all the time
I’m awkward in my skin and always tired
I fuck up everything I try to say
Self-medicate with something new today
Broke down on the sidewalk
Drinking gin and tonic
I try to quit it
I’m just a stones throw from my grave
I was drunk on Yonge Street
Can’t find a cab in the city
I cant fight my feelings
We’re just a stones throw from our graves
God I feel so ugly all the time
I’m awkward in my skin and always tired
Broke down on the sidewalk
Drinking gin and tonic
I try to quit it
I’m just a stones throw from my grave
I was drunk on Yonge Street
Can’t find a cab in the city
I cant fight my feelings
We’re just a stones throw from our graves
I’m tired but do the best that I can
I love you but I’m not coming home again
I fuck up everything I try to say
Self-medicate with something new today
Broke down on the sidewalk
Drinking gin and tonic
I try to quit it
I’m just a stones throw from my grave
I was drunk on Yonge Street
Can’t find a cab in the city
I cant fight my feelings
We’re just a stones throw from our graves
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2. |
Backstab Myself
04:12
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I went driving alone in the dead of the night time
In search of my soul like the fog in my headlights
I came into this world clear-eyed, empty handed
I’ll be leaving this place so drunk I can’t stand it
It’s a lot, I don’t know if this is good for me
All my life I’ve been coming apart at the seams
And all I want is just to feel something but I feel nothing
And all I’ve got a whole lot of nothing, enough to get by with
Backstab myself
And this burning house we all fell asleep in
But we learned to adapt cause the rescue ain't coming
I came into this world clear-eyed, empty handed
Now I’m leaving this place just smouldering ashes
Oh well
It’s a lot, I don’t know if this is good for me
All my life I’ve been coming apart at the seams
And all I want is just to feel something but I feel nothing
And all I’ve got a whole lot of nothing, enough to get by with
Backstab myself
Carry on, carry on
Trying to find all the things I’m missing
Do you know what you want
And can you help me find it?
And I can’t feel my arms
Cause I’ve been swimming to shore for hours
So carry on, carry on
Cause heaven knows I’m selfish
Carry on, carry on
Trying to find all the things I’m missing
Do you know what you want
Gonna go and find it
And I can’t feel my heart
Cause I’ve been swimming to shore for hours
So carry on, carry on
Cause heaven knows I’m stupid
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3. |
Lucca
04:01
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Its time to choose
We’ve been edging up to this
Dancing around what needs to be said
I’ve been unhappy for a while
But I still love you to bits
I hoped that we’d work through it
But you called it quits
I still keep your house key tied around my neck
And I still have those bad dreams of the night that you left
And I still think of you you
When I’m falling asleep
Wondering if we tried enough
So two for you and one for me
You’re not my friend
You’re not my enemy
I’m done, its not regret
There’s just no space inside my head
I can’t remember the way your face looks now
It’s faded like pictures forgotten in an attic
And it’s sad that our vices
Kind of pushed us both away
Because we’ve both seen how far
We bend before we break
And we’ve both seen how long
We can be not okay
Cause we never felt good enough
So two for you and one for me
You’re not my friend
You’re not my enemy
I’m done, its not regret
There’s just no space inside my head
But I’m all messed up
Don’t know what I want
Just decide to stay if you wanna stay
Pick yourself up and give your doubts away
Taking so much time, you just can’t decide
What you want, so go if you need to go
And I want myself and all of my thoughts
All the hope that died grow into the something nice
Cause I want to grow and I want to try
Want to build a home with you by my side
But I stay the same when the moment came
The house went up in flames and I walked away
Got myself to blame
All these selfish thoughts, all this constant doubt
I’m always in my way
Just decide to stay if you wanna stay
Pick yourself up and give your doubts away
Taking so much time, you just can’t decide
What you want, so go if you need to go
So two for you and one for me
You’re not my friend
You’re not my enemy
I’m done, its not regret
There’s just no space inside my head
But I’m all messed up
Don’t know what I want
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4. |
17 Stories
07:11
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I saw you, you left behind the stage
From the background where you could never stay
Cause I left you, I left you on the page
Now there’s nobody to talk to
And when you go out I hope that you’re okay
From the backdrops where you could never stay
And it’s all good when everybody left
But now there’s nobody to talk to
When I was seventeen stories high
Coming up to the edge
How’d you wanna go?
How would you write your end?
Never you would have guessed
The obvious thing to do
Stop it and let you stay
But I don’t know what to do
And then someone, somewhere in the past
I found you it moved just so fast
And it’s all just another way
That we want someone to talk to
Now every little thing I feared has come to pass
You came to life in spite of all my best attempts
So ride off in the sunset cause it’s all the same to me
When I was seventeen stories high
Coming up to the edge
How’d you wanna go?
How would you write your end?
Never you would have guessed
The obvious thing to do
Stop it and let you stay
But I don’t know what to do
Go and find your broken soul
Mend it on your own
If it makes you sleep at night
When we fall in love at the wrong time
I can’t stand to see you cry
So darling, dry those eyes
When we fall through ground to the other side
And I stare into your eyes
And I know where I lay; its right beside you
Tied forever and…
Now every little thing I feared has come to pass
You came to life in spite of all my best attempts
So ride off in the sunset cause it’s all the same to me
When I was seventeen stories high
Coming up to the edge
How’d you wanna go?
How would you write your end?
Never you would have guessed
The obvious thing to do
Stop it and let you stay
But I don’t know what to do
It’s all lost
I’m wanting to take this time to let you know
I was falling and debating
Deciding when to let you go
At what cost?
I’m searching just trying to keep my head up high
And calling; it doesn’t matter
It’s all just how you say goodbye
And I won’t, I won’t fall
A thousand times from way up high
It’s all that, that I can stand
At least for now
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5. |
Ambulance
04:06
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Crashed in my car
Out late at night
Went off the road
I rolled out my thoughts
My mouth went dry
The glass explodes
But then I’m back again
Smile in an ambulance
Now I’ve lost the goddam plot
I’m burning down the bridge I’m on
But it won’t get better unless I try to get better
But I can’t sort out my head
Jumped off the train
With my suitcase
And all my ego
The ground, my old friend I keep you close
At my heels
But then I fall again
You’re breaking both my legs
Now I’ve lost the goddam plot
I’m burning down the bridge I’m on
But it won’t get better unless I try to get better
But I can’t sort out my head
Now I’ve lost the fucking plot
I’m burning down the bridge I’m on
But it won’t get better unless I try to get better
But I can’t sort out my head
It won’t get better unless I try to get better
I won’t get better unless I try to get better
You won’t get better unless I try to get better
We won’t get better unless I try to get better
Then I’m back again
Smile in an ambulance
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6. |
The Sun Opened My Eyes
04:23
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I saw myself float up from my bed
Been locked away to try and fix my head
There’s nothing that we’ll ever truly need
No pockets for the gold when we all sleep
The sun opened my eyes
The sun opened both my eyes
I stop to think about it
But then I start to doubt it
I’m always diving in water
That’s over my head
And now the sharks are gaining
My treading skills are waning
They’re smelling blood
While the sun sets over my head
Now I’m on thin ice skating
While you’re out rollerblading
Our wires always get crossed
It’s over my head
I plunge down to the bottom
Fell through the cracks again
I’m always falling in water
That’s over my head
The sun opened my eyes
I stop to think about it
But then I start to doubt it
I’m always diving in water
That’s over my head
I plunge down to the bottom
Fell through the cracks again
I’m always falling in water
That’s over my head
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