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we'll always love you but that's not the point
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favors / errors
03:29
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FAVORS
it's best to keep an eye on your surroundings
trip you up sometimes as you get along
remember when my hat got caught
and stopped me in my tracks
when I tried to kiss you with your bike helmet on?
(smile, you're headed for the door
nothing can hurt you anymore)
I know that I don't usually ask for favors
but I slipped up that one time
get it right the next time
maybe I could kiss you 'til your anger's gone
but I don't think anyone could kiss so long
ERRORS
so many errors on the first go round
in her house with the white garaged on the wooded side of town
we used to make mistakes on our own
and loan them around
hardly let a night go by
calling from home we would always have pain to lift
coming from me you should hardly be surprised by it
going steady for a while now
but how many errors would it take to put the whole thing in the ground?
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the hospital song
01:03
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I used to draw on the chalkboard a lot in the hospital
it’s how I spent my time inside
now I keep all o’ my receipts in line
marching forward with time
said you can’t fall behind
and I’ll probably be a sycophant
yeah I’ll prolly be an asskisser
I can do what people tell me to
I can let them make their moves
Do you think I’m a liar when I say I’ve had it up to here with hurting?
Cause I’ve broke down before and I’m gonna go back there
Yeah I’ve broke down before and I’m gonna go back there
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I.
if you fall out of love
did you surrender?
and if you made a promise
does that make you a liar?
you have a habit don't you, boy,
always at the end of your moth-eaten rope
until someone someday up there
sends down a perfect matching misanthrope
heaven's ahead of you
in your headlights
it's going faster than you could ever catch it
you're no state trooper
you don't know how to drive
and we both know it's not fair
but we've both had our fair share
it's not often that you hear it repeated
that you are someone without somebody else
that kind of stuff it gets swallowed
in the pillow talk
around your waist a red ribbon
it never hurt to remember that about you
it barely hurts anymore
it's a sin to admit that it barely hurts anymore
II.
[instrumental and "No Soy De Ti" by Ralfi Pagan]
III.
and this is not a heaven
this is no place to end up in
this is a corner to set out from
a place from which to begin
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what's so heavy?
03:09
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(summer hailing
summer hailing)
what’s so heavy in my heart’s not so heavy in my arms
what’s so heavy in my heart’s not so heavy in my arms
(summer hailing)
what’s so heavy
quiet storm (ooo)
through my life
quiet storm
(summer hailing)
through my life
and it seems your love flows
heavy with the tide
and I was wrong
about the weight of mine
oh no (ooo)
you finally got your hands wrapped around it
not once but twice and now it’s over and
you know the curse
so hard to get close darling when
you were always somebody
somebody else wanted
quiet storm (ooo)
through my life
quiet storm
(summer hailing)
through my life
and it seems your love flows
heavy with the tide
and I was wrong
about the weight of mine
(summer hailing
summer hailing
summer haling)
ooo
ooo
ooo
ooo
got what you need from me
got what you need from me
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shortlist
02:15
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I fell for a girl with crystalline eyes
now I love a girl who's far away from me
and if the world was cruel to me today
I'll think of her for a rise
my love has got a weight in her kiss
safe from the sound I don't know what it is
and I hope she thinks of me when her mind wanders
and if she's growing old takes me along with her
I wanna make her warm when she turns purple
and make her laugh when she cries
my love has got a weight in her kiss
safe from the sound I don't know what it is
my summer was a season of mists
I lost my shortlist of names to come home to
when I feel like this
come home
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worst impulse
02:32
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you told me there's a simple formula
for cutting loose
you need to teach me 'cause I don't know it
into these old habits we fall
does it make me your worst impulse
even if you won't admit it?
does it make me your worst impulse
even if you wanted me then?
fumbling this as I talk
got a pretty high resting pulse
even when I don't show it
you told me there's a simple formula
for cutting loose
you need to teach me 'cause I don't know it
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sleepingatyourhouse II
03:41
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you know it helps me sleep to imagine us together
and it's dreadful and deep but you know it can't go on forever
why should the chance that you might miss me make this forbidden?
and I thought that you might kiss me but then you didn't
sleeping at your house made me want you more
tell me you've got a feeling that you can't ignore
no it wasn't on purpose to keep me all up in arms
but I gotta tell you you don't have to try all that hard
get a friend to ask you if you're into me
'cause it's important that I know for sure
if I could change the circumstances
(if I could change)
to something more romantic
(that'd be something new)
then I could make you mine and you could make me yours
just for a while sleeping at your house made me want you more
who's gonna tell you to turn the first offer down?
colder than colder but you still wanna figure him out
not gonna let you tear the whole apparatus down
they're gonna take you to the hospital now
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flora / pomona
03:13
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flora, pomona
seasons spent alone, these seasons end
headless horseman
winter's coming down the bend
don't you let him catch you crying
flora, pomona
seasons spent alone, these seasons again
headless horseman
Death is coming down the bend
don't you let him catch you smiling
if i could love myself i could love you alright
i could sneak over late past midnight
when everyone is out
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roller kingdom
04:21
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frootloop
02:42
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Is it like us to be feeling tired of feeling?
Doesn’t add up to much at all
Don’t waste your time
Wondering “Have I
Been careful enough?”
Always feel a ways away
From the corners of your touch
Hey, if it’s alright,
This might be a bad time
But I think I’m hanging on your every word
(just simple words)
Aiming just high enough
To take care of my insides
And I can’t be hanging around much more
(need some time alone)
Don't wait for my
Hazy kind of signs
Always seem to fade away
Always run from us
Hey, if it’s alright,
This might be a bad time
But I can’t be hanging on your every word
Tell me what you feel like
Fake it in the meantime
I can't be hanging around much more
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stepped on a crack
and I broke my momma's back
hope she forgive me for that
I have got a feeling like it's coming back
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