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Do I Still Love You?
02:28
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do i still love you if i put you on my shoulders for the world to see that you're not part of me?
you're not one to hold a conversation past your phone
you're not one to bother instead of breathe
do i still love you if i make you say what you have only done to me?
should i let it be?
should i run past every step i've ever known
should i speak more about my own? here at home
do i still love you if i hold onto the old times like a mystery?
it's just my memory
fleeting till it comes back to when i was a kid on a trampoline
up and down, staring at the stars, leaving town again
write me a love song before i'm gone and everything's all wrong
better than your fantasies from when you were a kid before you ever met me
i am loud and free and now i've got to leave
coming home again seems like i'll never be
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Bands 2
01:51
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conversation takes place outside the venue where mitski played a year ago
and you keep urging me to smoke but i don't wanna be a social tendency provoked by adolescence, adulthood, or both
you can keep quiet but i think we both know the tribulations and trials that we both have to go through before we're broke
i don't know how to speak i barely handle how to eat off the coast
soon enough it'll be november and the cold will be overwhelming at least
at least the way it feels for me in a way it's just a fantasy when i compare your band to me
why do i wanna be whole?
i've spent so much time tryna call out my role but it's all useless and it feels like you're pissing in the wind when you get nowhere
but as long as you need i'll be your little cheerleader
thru the phone
it's strange to think how much both our bands have grown
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Gdnght
02:46
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i think i got a little string in my throat and i went to the bottom of this hole hoping for a good sign or people or maybe a rope to get myself back out
maybe if you helped i wouldn't be so irrational
every damn day it's like i'm at a funeral
saying goodbye to myself again
this girl that i kissed just years ago is having a kid and i wanna know when my time is and what kinda parent that i might be
and i ask my dad and he says it's too early but my mom was my age when she even had me
saying goodbye to herself again
i've been running and i feel my knees breaking
i should stay active so i don't feel vacant alone
must not have any patience
thought i found my voice and i had it cornered but then i woke up from a snooze in the morning
saying gdnght to myself again
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Larry
02:38
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it's twenty degrees and i'm just freezing off my skin
better than michigan but waitin for the winter storm to end
hoping my car window doesn't slide, shining my brights to watch for ice
the green machine gets through it again
i'd rather take the money than keep what you gave me but now i'm lost
if you knew a thing or two you'd maybe even praise me but i don't boss around what you think of me 'cos you're history
when this time comes next year i'll think of you now
stuck in a bed and watching westerns all day long
but now that i'm older and i've found my song
i feel grateful to have known you at all
i'm hangin on your shoulders again and climbing trees and coming over after school would end
life seemed like a breeze way back then
but it don't seem so easy now that i'm not ten years old
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Talk the Talk
04:33
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she leaves for work again and i'm stuck skipping pages
a couple days from now i'll still be on the basics
write a few lines about suffering and death then put it down and head back to my grandparent's house
a busted transmission and a living situation
problems seem to bubble up and then i have to face them
and it's so cold that i wear three layers at all times
i don't wanna leave but i don't wanna stay inside
three nights away and i just wanna fill a page
i feel uninspired and depressed but i gotta take a pace
if i spent half my time sittin around thinkin bout music playin it
well i think i'd be really good
in a restaurant with you but your eyes won't meet mine
i tried to hold your hand but it was poorly timed
i feel angry and i don't know why
forming words is only easy when i've got a rhyme
and i can talk the talk but i can't walk the walk
i can talk the talk all night long
i work all the time for the sake of being stable
where the money is, i haven't figured out where it goes
and i save up for the next time i leave town and i come back and i'm back where i started
but don't start with me i just wanna be free
i wanna feel the vibrations of the bass in my teeth
i wanna wake up in another state and play in some kid's living room or a dirty basement
and i can talk the talk but i can't walk the walk
i can talk the the talk all night long but i can't walk the walk when the morning comes
and i fear you don't love me anymore
the way you look at me now is not the way it used to be and i feel like i'm disgusting and depraving
i'm in a new place but it still feels like i'm eighteen
stuck in my car in a bad dream
these people i think they wanna kill me
and if you don't turn off that goddamn tune
i'll never come back and always leave soon but i won't
'cos i can talk the talk but i can't walk the walk
i can talk the talk all night long but i can't walk the walk when the morning comes and the morning always comes
drive to the store and i just window shop
got a few bills to pay and i'm just broke a lot
can i spend a few weeks inside of me?
or will i have to talk to breathe?
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Leaving
02:18
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i miss you but i think that i try to never admit it
i think that we fight but it's never the time to own up to it
it's a little past nine and i think i will drive to the place where i feel most safe
record a couple songs then head back home
i don't want you to get the wrong idea i don't want you around
sometimes it's easy to write what i can't say right here when you're not in town
it's a little past ten and i think i'll go to bed and pretend it's been a good day
wash all my worries away
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Spell
03:00
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sleeping in a room with all your things
your bed against the wall on the floor as you sing
your clothes in a pile
you stare at the weight machine for a while think of leaving but you
got nowhere to go, nowhere to call home
nothing to sleep off, gettin used to alone
take loneliness for a little comfort
no one to bother when you're sick of it
hide my face, buy a blackout blanket and hang it
stay up late and get down feelings you don't have space in this room
you can feel fragments of you starting to move
maybe soon but not that soon
everything is where you left it
no one to clean up but yourself
muscles just degrade from resting
i just wanna lay down more, fall into a spell
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you're always leaving out the door again like you got somewhere to go but i know you don't
always alone, always lonely and my father always told me
"if it comes then it goes and it doesn't always bode your way"
and i got a job today and i have to choose
between seeing family or you
got a hook in my arm that only drags me around
when i think of the harm it only brings me down
custom embroidery
catch the boys loitering again
i got work to do
wake up when i want to, go to sleep when i have to
try to win when i can't lose a thing and always pretend like i don't mean to
hang with friends 'cos it's all i can do without sitting in a room painting walls with blueness
try to aim words without thinking of a witness
it all boils down to a few
and you always seem new to me
your ears work beautifully again
i got work to do
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