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Mal De Mer
03:36
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I'm not much of a sailor, I am often sick at sea
And I've been waiting for the current to catch up and carry me
But it's a long, long way to travel, it's a far, far stretch to swim
It's a lot like climbing out from this deep hole that you've crawled in
Drifting without order, further than we thought we'd dare
And I am breathing underwater, can you feel it
Mal de Mer?
I'm not much of a swimmer, but I've kept myself alive
And I would take another dive into your ocean but it's killing me
To breathe in the salt water from your blood into my lungs
It's like poison words that stung as they rolled sweetly off your tongue
Out into the wreckage of a ship in disrepair
And I am dreaming underwater, are you dreaming
Mal de Mer?
Far beneath the surface lights won't guide you as you swim back home
So don't get lost
Far beneath the surface I can't find you, I've tried to
I want you to swim back
I want you to swim back
And how much longer do you think you and I have left?
Well that depends on how much longer you think you can hold your breath
Sinking 'neath the surface, deeper than we thought we'd dare
And I am screaming underwater, can you hear it...?
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I want you to believe in it
Cause I was alone, my heart was always waiting
So promise me we won't quit
Cause I've always known it was waiting here for you
Oh oh oh,
I was a mess, I was an ordinary fool in love at best
You should be rest assured
Don't be moronic, Merriam
You know that I love you
And I'd feel so heartsick
If you didn't know that my heart is always true
And I am always true, oh oh
I want you to come on back
And I want you to know my heart was always ready
And it gives me a heart attack
If letting you go means always waiting here for you
Oh oh oh,
But I couldn't see
You were an ordinary fool in love with me
One thing you can be is sure
Don't be moronic, Merriam
You know that I love you
And I'd feel so heartsick
If you didn't know that my heart is always true
And I am always true, oh I am always true to you
Oh oh
I know you've had your doubts, it's true
But Merriam, you fucking fool
You're literally the only thing I need
Don't be...
Don't be moronic, Merriam
You know that I love you
And I'd feel so heartsick
If you didn't know that my heart is always true
And I am always true, oh I am always true to you
Oh oh
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Alexandra
04:19
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We take a ride to a place we've never been
You paint your eyes, covered in black and wearing thin
It's no surprise to see the shape that we are in
Our colors run beneath the surface of our skin
You say you're broken, so what if we return
To the time before the fire begins to burn
Like a child watching her life start to unfurl
You draw a picture of the center of the world
Well it's a boy who lost his youth beside a train
And it's a girl who drowned her sorrows down a drain
Sometimes you ask if this just proves that you're insane
Or something else that's just too buried to explain
We take a ride, try to find a place that's new
We shed our skin the way that people sometimes do
But don't you know that we're just moments from the truth
We close our eyes, and draw a picture of the moon
Well it's ok, Alexandra
Cause we were made to be broken and put our pieces back together
But there's beauty in the way we fall apart
So let's just fall and leave the pieces where they are
Let's just fall and leave the pieces where they are
It's ok
It's ok, Alexandra
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I'm just one lonely heart in the cosmos
I've been trying to find my way home
I'm just one lonely heart in the cosmos
Floating alone
I'm just one lonely heart in the cosmos
I've been searching for some sign of life
And I once almost found it
But almost doesn't fly
So I'm waiting, I'm waiting
You're just one lonely heart in the cosmos
You've been searching for water and food
You're just one lonely heart in the cosmos
And baby, that's no good
You're just one lonely heart in the cosmos
You've been trying to find solid ground
And you once almost landed
But almost isn't found
So you're floating, you're floating
So you're floating, you're floating
We're just two lonely hearts in the cosmos
We're just two lonely hearts in the cosmos
And there's a million lonely hearts in the cosmos
There's a million lonely hearts in the cosmos
And we're falling, we're falling
And we're falling, we're falling
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5. |
Dog Days
04:02
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When the dog days have finally wilted
And given back way to the cold
We will learn how to keep our arms lifted
And shoulder the weight of the world
The heat is gonna rise
Where we stand
The heat will always rise
Where we both stand
When the winds and the rains of September
Have washed this whole season away
I will learn how to only remember
The reasons for making things change
The heat is gonna rise
Where we stand
The heat will always rise
Where we both stand
The heat is gonna rise
Where we stand
The heat will always rise
Where we both stand
When the dog days of summer are over
And we finally have some relief
I will try to hang onto that glow
From the night when you taught me to breathe
The heat is gonna rise
Where we stand
The heat will always rise
Where we both stand
The heat is gonna rise
Where we stand
The heat will always rise
Where we both stand
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Backburner Baby
04:19
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Walking the road, I saw you with someone
And I could've sworn that we had met
You're wearing no clothes, but you're fooling no one
And I should have gone before you left
You burned me so bad, burned me so bad
You're burning your high horse down
I'm burning upon your backburner, baby
So hot and cold one day to the next one
You don't even know your own desires
You come and you go, and I always guess wrong
But I should have seen your pants on fire
You burned me so bad, burned me so bad
You're burning your high horse down
I'm burning upon your backburner, baby
So bad, you burned me so bad
You're burning your high horse down
I'm burning upon your backburner...
Maybe we found
Some peaceful ground
But you're fucking around...
You burned me so bad, burned me so bad
You're burning your high horse down
I'm burning upon your backburner, baby
So bad, you burned me so bad
You're burning your high horse down
I'm burning upon your backburner, baby
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7. |
The Cold & The Quiet
07:28
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The cold & the quiet
Creeps up on you patiently
Here in the night, lying down to an elegy
Up in your room where the night and the noises drone
Running your hand 'cross a cold, quiet telephone
These bright colored walls that you laid out together
All cool and all faded and stripped down forever
She says with a smile
That you never see 'til it's gone
The cold & the quiet
It cuts like a razor blade
Here in the night, lying down in the bed you made
I walked past your window, uncovered mistakenly
And run, feel the wind blow, and escape your memory
And the time gets away now, she left in December
While nothing but ghosts remain here in the embers
Of the loneliest fire
You lit just to let it all burn
But you can't make it right
You can't make it right
The cold & the quiet
It grips you religiously
Kneel down beside it and bury your ghost with me
And long for some lover to kill all your loneliness
But only discover it's muted, it's meaningless
So keep your mind racing
And try to remember
The things that she taught you to keep it together
A drink, a denial
These things you don't care for at all
The cold & the quiet
It leaves you so desperately
Here in the night, like the sideshow you came to see
It sneaks up beside you, it dares you to start anew
Throw it away, leave your cold and your quiet room
And I never knew all the things that we had to say
And I never wanted for things to end up this way
I never wanted for things to end up this way
I never wanted for things to end
But you can't make it right
You can't make it right
You can't make it right
You can't make it right
In the cold & the quiet
In the cold & the quiet night
In the cold & the quiet
In the cold & the quiet night
The quiet night
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