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Bury
02:32
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Your stubborn ways
Anchored in the past
Teach me something I can use
Now that I’m older
Distant like you
Blood bound
Though it can’t last
Should I find him?
Should he find us?
Who knew you could inherit guilt?
I’ll think of something
Guess I always do
So many wrongs to undo
Digging up the past to bury again
Trying to make sense of who I am
Trying
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Junk Drawer
03:06
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My memory of you is in the junk drawer of my mind
Cause all that stuff that we went through is the stuff I don’t want to find
Someday you may notice that the world has changed
Most likely just the way you feel about it
I feel differently too
I feel different about it
Different about you
My memory of you is in the junk drawer of my mind
Too tough to carry with me
Too tough to leave behind
Did you tire of yourself?
Today you seem like someone else
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Easy
02:10
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I guess I’m overwhelmed
Everything is changing all at once
But I want it to
Change with you
And when you smile big
All that’s unimportant drifts away
Weird anxiety
It releases me
And finally
I get to be myself
I can’t comprehend
So, I don’t try to pretend
I know why
It’s so easy
Can’t be right
It’s so easy
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Keep Your Head Down
03:07
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No one’s around
I knew their eyes could not keep on us
And I’m feeling down
Not for any particular reason
The engine’s knocking sound
Startles me before I drift off
Ask another question
An evasive answer
Back to silence
Keep your head down
I don’t know your struggle
I don’t know who here is well off
I’m doing my best bruiser
Take a drag and conceal the cough
I guess I’m having fun
I know it ain’t that cool for me to say so
Keep your head down
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You left the light on
As if nothing is wrong
I heard footsteps departing
A dream ends without starting
Nothing is new
I know I shouldn’t worry
But when you leave
It’s always in a hurry
A dream ends without starting
Yeah, it’s cool
Maybe another time
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Collapse
02:48
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The deepening drive
And what it asks of you
Weighs on my mind
With an uneasy truth
I picture it nice
I hear it saccharine sweet
Floating on air
Until I hit the street
And you go
Off to make
It all come true
All this ambivalence
Will drive you made
Bring in another life
To fix the one you had
My cancer of thought
Taken by the young heir
Run till you’re caught
Or broken beyond repair
And you go
Off to make
It all come true
Can you shake the collapse of your youth?
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Rest Easy
02:54
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There’s a dream I have all too often
Wherein I’m throwing spadefuls on your coffin
I wonder if it means I give her a try
Or better let sleeping dogs lie?
I want us both to rest easy
I remember how you’d blow your top
Use the belt to get us to stop
Being brats before we could crawl
I was the biggest brat of all
I want us both to rest easy
Things are harder than they were before
Most of life feels like a chore
Tired talks about my career
Bad joke smiles ear to ear
I want us both to rest easy
I know you never really understood me, but you always tried
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By Design
04:23
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I like my problems
Not your solutions
Because my problems
Give me excuses
For drinking until I am drowning
When I’m losing I’m really winning
With big words and deep descriptions
I like to lecture on shallow feelings
It’s sad and silly and it’s mostly true
I was put here to punish you
So don’t feel sorry for me please
This is by design
Ain’t got no big bad disease
Simply got no spine
I’m done asking for it all
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Back The Way I Came
02:08
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With my back turned to the person I had hoped to be
I abandoned some “find yourself” journey
And I went back the way I came
Answered to my old name
And with no one left to blame
I felt humbled to a crawl
When I picked up the phone to call
Passing time
Until suddenly it’s hard to find
Self-assured
You could never ever be detoured
You can’t help but fantasize
About another chance at life
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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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