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Happy Ending
02:46
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our fate was sealed long ago
how was I supposed to know
we’d still be here facing
not far away chasing
angry erasing
the blood on my hands that isn’t there
from digging tunnels through your hair
pulling thoughts out from my mind
a trail of dirt I never left behind
where’s the heart I made
crafted from the serenades
I sang myself to sleep
sometimes reality’s not that deep
somehow I moved on from that phase
empty and shuddering, writing songs for days
elected to ignore my urges
already fading away
to ensure you would stay
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Her Flaming Absence
03:14
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a hole in her chair
a hole in her spirit
a hole in her heart
a hole in her sky
a hole in her floor
taking apart
her flaming absence burns
golden opportunities that had to wait
her flaming absence burns
a gently crumbling state
the missing face on the painted wall
winking irises to them all
bowing in turn and kneeling down
for the idol in the gown
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Valentine
03:31
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on your way back down
find your footing, find your ground
come back being mine
hold me in sweet valentine
shallow minds may swim
by your window on a whim
paper hearted mine
fold me in sweet valentine
on the wing, back down
pinned my shoulders, went around
lower as it goes
climbed my shoulders, all we know
is sometimes it’s okay
but sometimes he must run away
stealing words and phrases
they don’t mind it so it’s okay
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the ashram called, they need me today
pay for my sins and not fly away
I can’t accept my fate
saying good comes to those who wait
but what am I waiting for?
good’s not coming through that door
they say when you grow older, you grow more wise
and other fairly adult lies
I just have mistakes and severed connections
and a growing collection of Xs and Ys
my demons called, absorbing the hate
fly on the wall, as they celebrate
merrily at their peace
drunk on my excuses and pleas
hell is a colder place
when their truth bombs bear your face
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escape this hell escape this hell
how’s your place looking tonight?
can I lie on the rug and stare into space?
is that okay? is that all right?
I’ll always be bitter
but what’s the point
in passing blame
it’s no one’s fault that we can’t hang
there’s always tomorrow
I’ll always wonder
but I won’t ask why
the space is yours
and you let me fly in it sometimes
the happier times
textbook cling it’s the same thing
over and over it’s not a surprise
hope through the peephole my night can be saved
facing the wall with clouds in my eyes
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She Likes It Blue
01:50
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she likes it blue
never red or gray
in her bedroom
where she sleeps all day
she likes it cool
never hot or warm
she misses you
but hopes you never come
she likes it blue
rain before the storm
in her kitchen
watching clouds explode
she likes it wet
so she can forget
she likes it blue
like the tears dried on her face each every day
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Camera
07:05
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the camera never lies
until the spirit inside it dies
forging a honed craft of identity
so I don’t know what it sees in me
the halos burn the skin
leave scars behind on chests and backs
the clouds burst tone in spades
to find the breaking parallax
the distance grows between
the live wire and the old machine
the wire hides its pains
the gears stop turning and the wire rains
days pass and nothing has changed inside
am I acting out of good faith or trying to hide?
will the whole world hate me now that it knows me?
march up to the pillars with halos for scars
afraid of constant change but I’m not ready to die
the camera never lies
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Hello Whirled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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