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Walking Dead
03:08
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The walking dead
Get out of bed
How to be rid of this half-living thing I’ve become?
I couldn’t hide
Tears in my eyes
I swore to myself you’d never see me show that side again
That snow day we had
I wanted you bad
You looked like a dream eating mac & cheese from the pot
And I don’t know how
You think of me now
When we’ve broken our home and I’m left to suss the damage on my own
Do you think of me still?
When you go to sleep in your bed I got one bad thing in my brain
Like the walking dead
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It's been a while since I've held you in my crooked arms
How many months I've missed your freckles and your morning phone alarm
But if you think that I'll forget the smell of lavender
I hope you'll get yours in the end
It's been a year since I've seen your face off Instagram
And all our mutual friends have told me that you're acting all brand new But if you don't recall the things we said in summertime
I hope you'll get yours in the end
I heard the ceremony was in May, I saw the wedding dress
In spite of how we left things I still really wish you all the best
But if you've thrown away the rings exchanged at seventeen
I hope you'll get yours in the end
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Your Heart Darkens
02:30
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No I won’t go to sleep again thinking about your face in shadows across the bed
No I won’t wake up again thinking about burying my face in your chest
Cause I have seen into the heart of darkness
And I’ve been sleeping in the devil’s bed
And I remember how you’d kiss my face but now I wanna get out of here
Don’t want to crawl back to you again
Cause I have seen how your heart, it darkens
And I’ve been sleeping in the devil’s bed
And I remember how you’d kiss my face but now I wanna get out of here Before I crawl back to you again
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The Youngest Child
03:42
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I speak with the strangest voice as I tell you
get out of my face
get out of here
you act like you think that I could lay a hand on you
and that breaks my heart in two
to see you see me as that man
but no I won't stay
look at you, my god
wasting away for a past we've shed
and no I can't go
this is bullshit, I know
to cling to a life that we know was broken
I speak with my father's tongue as I tell you
it's not that I think you're wrong
it's just that I know I'm right
still I act like the youngest child as I ask you
to make me the man you want
make me more than I see
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Santa Maria
03:49
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Jump from the Santa Maria
The water is cold like the town you came from Give me a reason to leave her
To break like a fever you sweat out in the night
I want you in my life
There’s plenty of kids in the schoolyard
A couple of friends that you think you’d die for Dream on the bus up to New York
Of a future you stalk like an animal in the night
I want you in my life
Picture us then in the seventh sea
You burrowed with me under deck
Drunken, I’ll ride out these waves for you Called by the sirens but wanting your shores
Wrecked like the Santa Maria
A body that washed up to shore last evening Don’t notice your breath till it leaves you The look in my eyes as I bled out in the wild
I want you in my life
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Trigger
03:05
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Vision blurring, room is spinning, the rug you’re pulling out
From underneath my feet, the way you move
Like you’re not there at all
Now I’m cold as a cadaver, waiting for the cut I’d have to wave a wand, abra cadabra
To have you how I want
Words could never make me use the weapons I despise
But your silence, it pulls me like a trigger
It’s all that I can do to gather the ashes of the thought
I’d love to keep you here, a memory of
A dream I half-forgot
And now I’m left to change the seasons, no pictures on the wall
But it’s a freeing thing, the words unspoken
Not feeling much at all
Words could never make me use the weapons I despise But your silence, it pulls me like a trigger
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American Youth
03:09
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You wanted me then
Dead or alive
Tear out my heart
Hair and my eyes
And I’ll be with you
In a cloud of you
Burn me like fire
Melting like ice
Curse me with words
And try to make nice
When you see me
As an enemy
Why do you see me
As an enemy?
And it’s easier
To be laid in the earth stained red
Than this cruel world
Where your kiss is an unmade bed
Is it feasible
When I know I could never be of you In the way that you want
You’re tracing my spine
A book on the shelf
American dream
Undressing itself
Would you make it true If I vow to you?
Every word
From my mother’s tongue
Blood in the dirt
My hero is hung
Just to be with you
In a cloud of you
And I’ll be with you
In a cloud of youth
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Show Romance
03:04
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We used to hide it well
Even I'd forget about
How you were an open wound
And I was a spring wound too tight
So no more show romance
No more covering your brokenheartedness
But it lingers still
I wash you from my skin
I'd rather paint you in strokes
Than sit with the shadows you've cast
So no more show romance
None of this lovesick performance
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Who Am I (To Tell You)
03:22
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I was fumbling around
Trying to grasp the shape we’re in
What you left lying around
Shards still scraping at my skin
Now I’ll never find out why you loved me
Now I’ll never find out why you cared
I was messing around
Trying to find out where I’ve been
Now I feel like a high school kid
Thinking about some girl I kissed
Who am I to tell you that I loved you?
Who am I to tell you that I cared?
Now every song that we’d sing has all its connotations
And every place that we lived has all its confrontations
Wish I could turn out all the lights
I was thinking aloud
Trying to flesh out what we’re in
Now who looks like a desperate kid
Thinking about the hole I filled
Who are you to tell me that you loved me?
Who are you to tell me that you cared?
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Bedroom Hex
02:15
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And I hesitate
To show up at the door to your place
And I hesitate to say it to your face
So I gravitate
Well you always had a way with the moon
It’s why I hesitate to be in the same room
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Roses (Bury Me)
03:21
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I could never speak
I could never speak a word that you would understand I will never meet
I will never meet you through the wrinkles in her hand
Your brother lighting fires
Your brother lighting firecrackers laughing at the sound
And all the while I
All the while I’ve been knowing you from underground
So bury me in roses
You who chose this, all hysterical
Line them up in rows
With their hands before them
Bury me in roses
Broken bones of my love beside me
Take me to my homeland
Wherever that is, that is
Now I’m seeing red
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Body in the Sea
04:16
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i been staying up, tracing footsteps
like walking from your dorm room late at night, baby
talk to me the way you would that winter
when i fell for you like jumping from a bridge
i can hear you promise in the springtime
when you didn’t know that much about me yet, reckless
*hold me like the way you would in summer
let’s pretend we wouldn’t change a thing, oh
cut the cords that bind you to me
you know i’m a slave to them
i wanna love you recklessly
not anchor you to me
now is not the time for you to
whisper sweet things to me
i’m not the one you want at all
a capella singers in the Village
your sister’s got a boyfriend, she’s in love, baby
you and me keep running round in circles
acting out the roles we never knew
cut the cords that bind you to me
you know i’m a slave to them
i wanna love that’s breathless
like my body in the sea
now is not the time for you to
whisper sweet things to me
i know i’m not the one for you
even as you call for me again
i would always be alone with you
i could only be alone
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13. |
On the Table
02:47
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If I had the chance to say
Meet you on the train one day
Would I have the mind to remember your name again?
I could look the other way
Entertain the fantasy
Flashback to Brooklyn and I’m at your door with a bottle of wine
And I can’t deny you this
You said “Will you fight for me?”
I said “I’m a pacifist”
So love ends in whispers and not with the fighting of wars
Change another calendar
But just the smell of lavender
And I’m at your side like I’ve traveled through time
Just to have you how I want in that time of my life
Tell me you’ll always be faithful
I left my heart on the table
Tell me that this time is different
I wish I knew that, I wish I knew that
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yllwblly Providence, Rhode Island
yllwblly is an indie dream pop artist in the singer-songwriter tradition
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