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Break
03:13
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He’s in your house and he struck down your friend
And the boys aren’t home to help lend a hand
You’re in your robe and you reach for your cowl
And he knows your name and you don’t know how
He is the bane of your existence
He’ll lift you up and have you wishing for death
He’ll break you in half
You come to and you think it’s a dream cause the feeling ain’t there and you can’t make a scream
But he’s gone and you’re broken in two and the boys have come home they don’t know what to do
You are exhausted to the point where you can’t drive
Like you were thrown off a building and still came out with your life
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Little Man
03:04
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My boy
He eats almost anything
He’s wielding the sweetest smile
He lives knee deep in dirt
He finds what he don’t know then he learns how to do it
My boy means a lot and nothing can stop my boy
He’s hip, he’s hyphenated
Kid songs are complicated
He lives knee deep in dirt
Flipping through the books to find something that holds him
My boy means a lot and nothing can stop my boy
Don’t be like me, be better than me
Won’t sing but he can say your
Long words like excavator
He counts one two three five
Skip over the four no matter how much I told him
Don’t be like me, be better than me
My little man, the king baby
He’s hip, he’s hyphenated
Kid songs are complicated
He lives knee deep in dirt
He finds what I don’t know then he learns how to do it
My boy means a lot and nothing can stop my boy
Don’t be like me, be better than me
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3. |
Weary
02:53
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Love is leaning
Towards the day that you will say I do
How're you feeling?
Nervous wreck, even just me and you
Put it together fast, you know they're looking
Pull it together fast, they're never looking at me
Love is blinding
Take my eyes so I will know it's true
Now we're finding
That they seem to have it out for you
Tongue will slither
But they dare not look you in the eye
Hand deliver
All the tears that they want you to cry
Weary of the hands that don't belong
Lay it on them
Make it stick just like it did before
And remind them
That they're free to walk right out the door
Put it together fast, you know they're looking
Pull it together fast, I feel them looking at me
Weary of the hands that don't belong
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4. |
From The Muck
02:45
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Something lives underneath
A riverbed that's bumping at your feet
Sleeping in until the tide is dead
Then in the afternoon he lifts his head
From the muck he rises up
Lumbering his skin drips in the breeze
Onto orchids growing from his knees
On the banks align the residents
All just to gaze at his magnificence
King swampy how we love thee
No one dared into his kingdom stride
All of those that did straight up and died
But the King his head is prized the most
Ever knowingly they still approach
From the muck he rises up
All the people running terrified
See the rivers streaming from their eyes
No more is a loving pacifist
Squeezing others into bloody mist
King swampy how we love thee
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5. |
Mental Age
02:56
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Crept out of my islands when no one's there to see me
When all amenities had dripped off of the bone
Then over and over a voice said
If you don't get out of the house
You'll wind up underground
I try to deny it when I know my love is sleeping
Even if I keep it in it won't be for long
From under the covers she says
If you get up out of the house
You'll wind up all alone
I'm up and going, I'm out
my minds exploding everywhere
Hold on for hours
And watch it tower
Everywhere
Won't try on reprising all the roles I had been leading
When everything that they mean was ripped off of the bone
When over and over a voice says
If you let it under your skin
It never settles down
Get out get going get out
When your minds exploding everywhere
Hold on for hours
And watch it tower
Everywhere
Kept out of my islands cause no one was there to see me
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6. |
Avian Grave
03:44
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Burn that little book, you'll do whatever it takes
Forget all the names to save yourself a mistake
You'd call and they'd swoon
And you'd leave too soon
Throw out everything, change your car and your clothes
Do most anything to burn their scent from your nose
Don't try cause it's hard
So just leave them scarred
Never think about them
Be around them
Speak aloud their names
Crawl back under there
I mean a rock not a girl
Sleep without a care
Think you’re the king of the world
Never think about them
Be around them
Speak aloud their names
Stack their hollow bones in an avian grave
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7. |
Sulk Caption
03:06
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A tempting from afar, can't reach you where you are
If no one knew her name, we could just slip away
Together all the while, asleep I see her smile
But it wasn't yesterday, tomorrow, or today
I'll keep you with me like a foreign body
I'll keep you if you like my foreign body
Forever the unknown I'll never bring you home
And time won't help me out, don't know what that's about
Just look across the sound, we sure enough would drown
Alone as we could be, the ocean, you and me
I'll keep you with me like a foreign body
I'll keep you if you like my foreign body
A tempting from afar, can't reach you where you are
If no one knew her name, we would just slip away
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