1. |
Outside the Hollywood
06:48
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I'm keeping my distance
I'm keeping the dream alive
Tip toe Pinocchio
Don't go give yourself away
Stay close, I'm waking up
It's not looking good out my window
How did that sob ever pass for a laugh
Outside the Hollywood
I heard it last night
Talking to strangers
Or talking in tongues
Till the script finally ended
& the actors said "Go back home"
To corners we occupy
Alone here trying to shine
With brushstrokes and technique
Slow songs or disco beats
Time code blinking
Time's up
but running late again
Time don't you worry
Time close eyes up
Go on back to sleep
In the morning
We'll try this again
We'll be normally boring
Abnormally friendly
Stick to our businesses
Tend to our friends
Strum through the silence
Keep licking your eyelids clean
How did that sob ever pass for a laugh
Was it art or the hum of the feedback
That held me
How many times will that ending be used?
There outside the Hollywood
I heard it last night
Outside the Hollywood
Outside the Hollywood
Outside the Hollywood
I heard it last night
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2. |
Water Stain
04:16
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Who knows when your time is near
Who's following the latest fix to the fear
Who goes where none before
Have escaped through the light in the crack of your door
In the morning
Afraid what they'd find
Two room apartment
Dimmed in the clouded light
Some cute secret
Some cup of ice
That melted alone by your side overnight
Who says the light is gone
Whose to say where darkness belongs
Who was there to say goodbye
Late night anchorman
locked to the screen of your eyes
The cameras were rolling and live
The coproducer is counting it down in five
Big smile boys
Show some teeth
Our leading story's a sandcastle killed by the sea
While the ceremony
Turns to leave
Makeshift umbrellas
Hurried by rain in the street
Big smile boys
Show some teeth
Our leading story's a sandcastle killed by the sea
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3. |
Colors She Wears
04:58
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She swims in her sweater
Sits upon the sea foam and stares
Charming young pessimist
Afloat upon the colors she wears
Slow but deliberate
Haunted by the night that we shared
Somewhere still and unfamiliar
Entertained by silence and air
Love I'm giving up now
I'm giving up now
I'm giving up for now
The moon hung as big as a plum
And ignited your floor
I don't know what to do
She tells me she's either crazy or bored
You were named for the spirit
Named for the glint in her stare
And I was caught between the currents
Pulled from the colors she wears
Colors she wears
Colors she wears
Colors she wears
Colors she wears
Colors she wears
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4. |
Porch Light
04:39
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One year ago
You were a ghost
I still don't know what you were for Halloween
Turned on the porch light
Took all the bad times
Wrapped em up inside a bowl to be emptied
Small hands in disguise
Goblins and bad guys
Before they heard that nothing good for free
Sore where my nerve was
Now all the past does is
Dumb down the score to something easy to believe
Left on the porch light
Carved out my insides
Found just another cornucopia's disease\
Cut from the wild vine
That grew up too high
Just close enough to pin the world as yours to keep
But it's fun for seasons and
I know you're pleased when
That jack-o-lantern starts to sorta look like me
Left alone
Stuck like a gravestone
Where all the silence beat like a human heart
Rewound the first glance of
Imagined romance and
Tried to redeem all those unusual regards
Familiar faces and uncovered places
They fight for rights to all the wires in my mind
And I know your reasons babe
I hear your grievances
They're ringing louder than the bias in my mind
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5. |
T.C.
05:01
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He sleeps
Tied to machines
Heartbeat on a screen
In the eleventh hour
Then slips
Into the abyss
We'll never know what it is
Til we arrive there with you
Is it a dream dear?
Can I just wake up screaming?
Can you remove all these doubts
Before they take us over?
Cause I cannot be
Alive without your blessing
I'm too alone to be blessed
By your company now
I hear you laugh
I know the way you loved us
I keep it close to me
Close enough to find forgiveness
There is a weight
You cannot carry alone
There is a snake in the woods
By the apothecary
And it leapt out
And it kept you ensnared
And we pulled from the shore
But it took you under
And I went blind then
Into the deafening silence
Broken only by tears
Falling on silent water
I hear you laugh
I know the way you loved us
I keep it close to me
Close enough to find forgiveness
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