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Clean
04:13
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No use in being down
But I’m not used to being up
When I take around
I hate that it is not enough
I’m bad with not knowing
It’s an issue with control
It’s hard to find some healing
When I’m feeling this raw
Raw
We couldn’t clean
We could only move the dirt around
What we looked for was not ready to be found
We couldn’t clean
We could only move the dirt around
What we looked for was not ready to be found
You can’t be full of loss
Sounds like something you might say
Soon I won’t miss our tomorrows
But I’m still mourning them today
Today
We couldn’t clean
We could only move the dirt around
What we looked for was not ready to be found
We couldn’t clean
We could only move the dirt around
What we looked for was not ready to be found
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Bloodlust
03:29
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When I’m high in traffic
Or when I got the time
Some uncertain feeling settles in
Like I don’t know what I’m looking for
But I got some place to be
And how I wish you could have been real with me
I thought I knew you well
I knew you well
Were you out for love? Or were you out for blood?
Was that the look of bloodlust in your eyes?
You thought I couldn't tell
I couldn’t tell
I thought I knew you well
I knew you well
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3. |
In Circles
02:21
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Falling out of love
With the part of me that loves
The part of you that hurts
It hurts me too
Talking in circles
Let’s talk it through
Talking in circles
Let’s talk it through
Let’s talk it through
I’m afraid to say goodbye
So I just stay sick of you
We just want the search to be over
We keep talking in circles
Let’s talk it through
Talking in circles
Let’s talk it through
Let’s talk it through
Let’s talk it through
Let’s talk it through
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Borrow
03:35
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I need new words to tell how you I feel
When you smiled at me was it real?
All roads lead me to you but you’re not there
A ghost of future magic in my stare
And it seems like yesterday
Our life was full of tomorrows
Now that you have gone away
Time can only measure sorrow
I blinked and you vanished - you weren’t there
How can you even call it when it ain’t fair
Yes I know that it can’t be the same
All that matters to you is that you don’t get the blame
And it seems like yesterday
Our life was full of tomorrows
Now that you have gone away
Time can only measure sorrow
If you can give the past away, do you have a future I can borrow?
And it seems like yesterday
Our life was full of tomorrows
Now that you have gone away
Time can only measure sorrow
And it seems like yesterday
Our life was full of tomorrows
Now that you have gone away
Time can only measure sorrow
Time can only measure sorrow
Time can only measure sorrow
Time can only measure sorrow
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5. |
Capacity
03:25
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I thought that we had built capacity
To work through these things
Was that wishful thinking?
Your reasons sound half true
Guess I’ll make up the rest
Devoted to you through this life and the next
If you feel this way
Then what’s left to say?
Thought we had agreed to weather the storm
Now I’m left with thoughts like, “what’s my name in your phone?”
I know that it’s stupid
It’s stupid alone
I hope that this feeling is one that you’ll never know
Running away
From plans that you laid
Please be honest with me
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6. |
Hide
03:52
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It was just after dark and you were light on your feet
Softness in your voice brought comfort when you’d speak
I liked your name and your clothes
I described you to my friends
Is it really over if it never begins?
I’m sure about you
But I wish I didn’t have a clue
So I could dream up a life
Where we fit side by side
Without anything to hide
Don’t get me wrong
You didn’t waste any of my time
I only put it in song to visit you in mind
To learn all about your world
And what you think of mine
Guess I’ll see you around
Wish I’d seen all the signs
I’m sure about you
But I wish I didn’t have a clue
So I could dream up a life
Where we fit side by side
Without anything to hide
I know I don’t know you
I just really wanted to
I’m sure about you
But I wish I didn’t have a clue
So I could dream up a life
Where we fit side by side
Without anything to hide
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7. |
Interlude
02:27
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8. |
Wedge
02:31
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Waited on you too long to say
Butterflies between all the shame
I see your name light up the screen
Now I’m free and dissociating
I’m open to the possibilities
And I can’t prove it
But I’m worried you’ve made me your wedge
You called it settler sexuality
I couldn’t help but roll my eyes
Not because I don’t agree
They’re just buzzwords for your lies
I’m open to the possibilities
And I can’t prove it
But I’m worried you’ve made me your wedge
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Second Guess
02:31
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Though I find it hard to take
And hope someday you’ll make your way back home
I know I cannot fight
Or wrong what you feel right
I can’t see what’s in our way
But you describe it all too vividly
That I second guess all my memories
I know you must go but those must stay with me
I know you must go but those must stay with me
Still I need to understand
Is this part of the plan?
I guess I shouldn’t think that way
But you describe it all too vividly
That I second guess all my memories
I know you must go but those must stay with me
(Am I alone in this recollection?)
I know you must go but those must stay with me
(a landscape, a past I saw your reflection)
I know you must go but those must stay with me
(a nap in the grass, your laugh on rotation)
I know you must go but those must stay with me
(some baby names and future locations)
I know you must go but those must stay with me
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10. |
Wrong For Us
02:27
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I constructed a fake life
Built out of all the things that I know that you like
I think you are right this is wrong for us
I think you are right this is wrong for us
I go outside to greet the town
Explain why they haven’t seen you around
I think you are right this is wrong for us
I think you are right this is wrong for us
I try my luck
What else is there to do?
Heartbroken people can break hearts too
I think you are right this is wrong for us
I think you are right this is wrong for us
It’s wrong for us
So wrong for us
So wrong for us
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11. |
The One
02:27
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It’s like I wouldn’t fall for you
If my shoes were untied
Not because you’re wrong for me
But because you are so right
With all the pain you have been through
I am less afraid of mine
I want the song with mountain tops
The ones that ain’t too tall to climb
How many falls can one heart take?
Is this the one from which I die?
Is this the one from which I die?
Is this one from which I die?
Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Now we’re local color here
Survivors of some scene
So when I say the bay is full of ghosts you know what I mean
You seem so unburdened by all that’s meaningless
There’s nothing in my way
I shouldn’t be so scared
Is this the one from which I die
Is this one from which I die
Is this one from which I die
Is this one from which I die
Is this one from which I die
Is this the one from which I die
Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Vacant Stare Records Oakland, California
Micro-label specializing in debut releases from Oakland-based artists. Est. 2014.
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