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Ink
03:01
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Drove all night to get away to nowhere fast and back again
Painted the underside of my nails with the ink inside my head
I’m ink without a paper or a pen, mind set on leaving so
Call me a dropout baby
Call me anything
Say I should grow up, show up to a job I hate
I’m not one for settling down
I’ve been on the upswing lately
It took a while and it’s all gonna fall apart again if I stay
so if I may I’m calling to quit right now
I’m ink with every last good intent making a god damn mess so
Call me a sellout baby
after all these years
Say that I best invest in something I really hate
if i don’t wanna sleep on the ground
Leaning on a ladder lately
and it could fail, it could fall, it could break me
but any which way it takes me I‘ll come back to you
Im ink in a line through every page
I made the craters on the moon and they made me
So call me crazy baby
Call me anything
I left my job, my school, my band, god damn I’m beat
trashing everybody’s plans for me
I’ve been on my way to a better year
took a while and I’ve still got a ways to go
are you friend or foe? These days I really can’t tell
I’m ink bled onto the next page
rushing to get out of my shell
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Found out about you
You shouldn’t have told me your master plan
Faces, faces of you
I wanna run away from all of them
You don’t make it easy for me
C’mon I’m still hanging on
We just begun
Out of spite, not out of love
Anymore like I thought it was
I don’t know what to believe in anymore
Can you help me
Seconds ago we had it made
I don’t understand how
You could simply hand out
You simply hand it all away
I don’t know what happened to everything I believed in
Can you help me
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Say What You Will
03:02
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For a moment I’ll be honest, I lost myself
And your dreams for me honey, well they got lost as well
Oh can’t you see, I’m so naive, I still believe in my own
It’s just a pity to you
What a pity I’ve got something to die for
Say what you will
Think what you will
Feel what you will and so will I
Your bag of tricks is wearing thin
You’ve had enough of my sins
So close your ears and close your eyes and close your heart if you want
Its just a pity to you
What a pity I’ve got something to do
Say what you will
Think what you will
Feel what you will and so will I
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4. |
Closed On Sunday
03:52
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The night is new
The clouds have opened up
I feel like I should
I’m so stuck
But everything closed this time of night
and the rain needs somewhere to fall
if nothing else at all
I don’t need a friend if everyone’s already been out tonight
I can drive alone
I don’t need somewhere to go
Since everything’s closed on Sunday
I’ll figure out my name
if nothing else at all
I can’t be the only one
dying to be new again
I can’t be the only one
living without plan
I can’t be the only one
I know I’m not the only one
Dying to live it out tonight
if nothing else at all
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For Now
03:20
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I’m no good under this spell
and I’ll let everybody know if they could
keep it to themselves
For now
Oh love open me up
My hands are failing and fading me
I lie I lied I’m lying
face down and I can’t see a thing
Right now
If we take the easy way out
we won’t feel a thing
and I wanna feel
Grass is greener everywhere I go
but the dirt is contagious
I try i tried I’m trying
to get by with or without it
For now
Right now
If we take the easy way out
we will never live
and I wanna live
For it for if for win for lose for something bigger than this
For now
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6. |
Run Riot
02:30
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The stops run riot on this street
I go go go but I don’t get anywhere I wanna be
Free from the avenues
Free from their stone set lines
I only seem to lose my mind
Matchless distraction won’t you run riot outside my life
Run riot
Run riot away
Run riot
Get outta my face
I don’t wanna
waste another day
Run riot
Rain rain, you can stay
The sun is just a run away
and I’ll run ’til the light matches the miles
Even if we meet again it’s fine
Yeah it’s about time we find
a better way to be reckless for a while
Definitions what’s the use to them anyway?
Don’t try to define me!
Don’t try to confine me!
Don’t try to rewind me!
And if you could find the time to do me one thing
Run riot
Run riot away
Run riot
Get outta my face
I don’t wanna
waste another day
Run riot
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7. |
Sew Me Together
03:03
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At odds again with my confidence
You see I drew it on too
If I Could laugh again
Honey I’d drop everything and smile to you
Got rid of all my stuff
but how could I give up
the love we once knew
It’s still somewhere baby
not far down the line
on the other side
it’s not far down the line
on the other side but it’s not gone
Sew me together won’t you
I guess I never learned
I guess I never learned how
or maybe baby I just can’t do it alone
Yeah maybe baby I just can’t do it alone
Circles around
how we let us down is nowhere to run
Listen to the sound of each other now
and then we’ve begun
to love
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Best Of All
03:01
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Dreamt all day, spent the night inside a tired lie
Looked away, scared to say I might’ve crossed the line
Scarlet skies, dark brown eyes that only trap the dark
I wanna live I wanna love and I’m gonna
I tried to run and hide
but I’m so sick of feeling dull
I didn’t know, I didn’t try
even though I said I was
I’m a little lost
but aren’t we all sometimes
Saving cash for the west coast and spending it on other things
Saving time for ourselves and spending it all asleep
There you go wasting days afraid of wasting nights
wasting the time is all you do
There you go saying you don’t think you’re made of
what it takes to be all you want to
I want to yell and scream you’re the best of all the things
I ever had, I ever lost, I ever wanted to be
you’re the best of all
I want you to know even if you go and tell your memories goodbye
You’re the best of all the thoughts that ever crossed my tired mind
The best of all
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Redial
02:51
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You say you thought I was different
but you won’t say how
You made a mess of my words and now
You gotta call back and figure it out
You say you saw me walking around all morning
but you’re not one to force a smile
You made an old friend and I made the same mistake
I don’t answer, I don’t answer when you shout
Hiding,
I’ve gotten used to
blending my colors into dust
they fall apart in the sun
I say what just because I feel so blank these days
Look, I know it’s not fair
I say I’m not afraid but time has told you I’m scared
to uncover, to uncover what’s really here
Hiding,
I’ve gotten used to
blending my colors into dust
they fall apart in the sun
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Dear Disorder
02:38
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I’m still here biting my nails
I can’t say how I feel, it’s escaped
I listen too much I’m wasting away
on the other side
I’m still green and I’m still blue
and I’m still me but I’m not sure just what it takes
To get a grip I’ve got to let go
and I know
You want it, you want it, you want it,
go find it!
Somewhere else, well it’s not here
it’s not this way, my dear disorder no no no
I’m still bidding, biding, fighting
I’m still treading, trapping, trying
and all I find
I’m falling so hard for your sweet high
and it does no good and I know
You want it, you want it, you want it,
go find it!
Somewhere else, well it’s not here
it’s not this way, my dear disorder let me go
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Open Your Eyes
03:27
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Well I can’t believe it comes as a surprise
cause in your eyes everything is black and white
You can’t stop to look around and see you’re here
and it sounds so clear
You’re blind in the night
You push push push your luck with me
but I woke up too late to see
now I put it all behind me
Open your eyes
When time changed but the rules remained the same
tell me who is to blame, the left or the right
You gotta believe in something or be fooled by someone,
something that has proved you blind in the night
You try try try to be the one
who had the nerve to have the fun
You’ve got to walk before you try to run
Open your eyes
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Nobody's Phony Here
04:47
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Took the last train outbound as far as I could
Nailed the last day down to the ground, to the ground
I’ve seen it come up and show it’s teeth
I’ve seen it ‘round here and here’s not where I want,
where I want to be, no
Because I’ve tried
Painting mirrors full of false reflections
I made myself up, dressed to dine, the way that you’d best like me to be
But the way you want me, isn’t really, isn’t really me, no
And I won’t say I’m sorry
And I hope you know
I’m going to go
to the only place that feels like home
Where no one can fake it
and no one can tell me to settle down
Where no one can will me into feeling guilty for who I am
Even if I’m lonely
Nobody’s phony here
Where no one can get me
and no one can tell me to settle down
Where no one can will me into feeling guilty for who I am
Even if I’m lonely
Nobody’s phony here
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