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The Sims
02:44
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Whatever happened to cable shows
The parties that your Ma' would throw
You hid your treasure
behind the bush that still grows
The planes pass by overhead
The tools grow rusty in their shed
Are you still dreaming
in the same bed
When we would shut ourselves in
All night just playing the Sims
The time we've wasted on a world
That doesn't even exist
It doesn't even exist
Whatever came of the student loans
The old apartments and broken phones
I'll take what I can get
Call it a home
The moldy couches and broken glass
Collecting change, working for cash
Been searching my whole life
For a feeling that lasts
And we would shut ourselves in
All night just playing the Sims
The time we've wasted on a world
That doesn't even exist
It doesn't even exist
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2. |
Other People
03:41
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Gold streamers brushing up against my head
New Year is coming up for the kids
And we never sit too close except when we lay in bed
Wait 'til the party's dead
And I live a life of the tightest thread
Quiet train in the morning, the night finds me back in bed
And all of the things in between you so easily forget
Slipping trough your hands, there's nothing to be said
Let's just talk about the other people in our lives
Talk about the other people and what they're like
The smoke in the room hangs low, you breathe it in just to love me
There's something dark in my heart that spreads until I feel nothing
Some things change, find you living with regrets
Cover it with a kiss and flick the roach in the sink
And now we think about the other people as we close our eyes
'Cause thinking 'bout the other people still gets us high
And still I never wanna know the things that are floating through your mind
Love is better blind
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3. |
Americana
04:10
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Feels like it's slipped so far
Black tar where our backyard used to be
Said it was for the money
But we never saw a goddamn penny
Slept in the car again
It's past ten, you found my stash out in the shed
And I know I've made my bed
But I can't rest with voices in my head saying
Whoever promised we'd have all we wanted
And you'd be on the radio singing
Feels like I'm being haunted
Could dried up marijuana
be planting all these thoughts in my head
Or is it the ghost Americana again
Feels like I went too far
I totaled the car, these kids never look when they cross the street
You say you saw the news today
They're looking for someone with a face a lot like me
I never promised we'd have all we wanted
And you'd be on the radio singing
Feels like I'm being taunted
with pills I never wanted
Without 'em I can't get outta bed
I'm seeing the ghost Americana again
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4. |
Sage
03:46
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Chip on your shoulder what a waste
Things could've gone another way
You feel older every day
Is a piece of you still locked away
Will you find him in your room
And once more pull him from the dark
Or would you let him fall apart
If it meant you could restart
Walking the streets you find a feeling that you knew before
The memory of him faded smiling at you in the liquor store
The plans that you made, the ring that you wore
Are all but broken now
Will you find him in your room
And once more pull him from the dark
Or would you let him fall apart
When it's already slipped so far
From who you were to what you are
When you could say what you thought
Do what you want
Get stoned in your car
And drink in the park
Make love on the roof at night
And watch the sun rise
Singing a sad song
That everybody knows
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5. |
Winter's Maze
03:35
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I have seen the frozen skyline
I have stumbled in the wake
Of a swollen sun beating bright
On the blacktop in Winter's Maze
Pages torn out or turned
Cigarettes broken or burned
I remember the space where the mall
was still a creek bed
before the earth was overturned
Oh what you do to me
You know it hurts so gracefully
These aching bones have come to know
The bruise that makes them feel at home
Oh what you give to me
You take it so easily
And it feels like new when you walk in the room
If it were warmer
maybe I'd have the sense to leave
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6. |
Townie 490
02:20
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Leaning on a cigarette
I hope to do my best
To sort through all this mess
can sometimes feel like a test
Dreaming on a side street gutter
Cracked windows and crooked shutters
'Cross the bridge glows the city
I love the highway view 'cross the water
And I took it stoned
I took it straight
But it slipped through my hands either way
Crushed a pill, breathe the dust
Through the haze
I still wake up today
I shoot the shit down at the bar with the bugs
Cheap whiskey, the smoke stained musk
Another weekend I'm stretching my luck
Another twenty-five bucks
And I took it stoned
I took it straight
But it slipped through my hands either way
Crushed a pill, I'm just looking for a change
Think I'll find it today
And I took it stoned
I took it straight
But it slipped through my hands either way
Crushed a pill but it all ends the same
I still wake up today
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Sweet Caroline
03:22
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You spend the nights putting money in our pockets
And in the morning I wait up for you
I don't mind waiting outside
With your kid in the back, my feet up on the dash
When our wallet's in the black
That's the day we paint her bedroom blue
A bat of your lash can make a grown man cry
You never give any more and you charge 'em for your time
And the cops don't mind, they're at the front of your line
They're knocking at your door, coming back for more
I told my mom we don't say 'whore'
But she still won't let us spend the night
Oh, you're my Sweet Caroline
We get your pills on the government's dime
And the rest we deal in cash
Lord I hope these savings last
From all these broken men you're working on
When no one other will
I guess we all gotta pay the bills
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8. |
Hall of Songs
04:41
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On your way
Under darkness tagging trains
The night is lost
Dead weight gets tossed
In these towns you're just another face
You lost your place
Skipped town, never left a trace
You made a simple plan
No one would understand
Another life you swore you wouldn't waste
Break into the Hall of Songs where you belong
The melodies you've always sung
Have left their mark on your tongue
There are parts you play and there are ones you become
She went to school
Tied to the chain you were still serving food
It wasn't ever the same
Since you gave him a name
No more time for you to play the fool
On your way
Missed another birthday
You sing a simple song
The spare change you live on
Sometime you swear you can see his face
Break into the Hall of Songs where you belong
The melodies you've always sung
Have left their mark on your tongue
There are parts you play and there are ones you become
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9. |
Call
05:19
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So many ways
I feel different every day
Every simple mistake
Leaves its wrinkle on my face
I can't remember just where I was
Everyone was playing Candy Crush
Old music was playing from above
And I felt tired
So call me tonight
Call me what you like
My name is beside the point
'Cause words leave spaces devoid of the light
Thick with wicked roots all planted in my sleep last night
Fever dreams in my head
A sickly sermon I once read
The rules to balance that halo on your head
You gotta break the last just to follow the next
So call me what you like
Call me tonight
My name is beside the point
'Cause words leave spaces devoid of the light
Thick with wicked roots all planted in my sleep last night
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