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I Can't Answer
03:28
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...and if there's one thing I can't stand
it's how you could cry on command.
Right out of the blue, it's out of my hands,
I'm just a footnote in your plan...
Am I doing okay?
(I keep feeling this might take forever.)
Is this just another phase that will not last?
I know remorse can color things,
and I'm not averse to sympathy,
but all of this bending backwards
to protect your feelings just kills me.
And I knew you were falling
and calling out to me.
Even though I was stalling,
I should have stopped to reach.
And a thousand times I've retraced steps
and a thousand times went wrong.
So I know there was nothing
that could prevent this all.
You stepped back.
You fell down
into another call I can't answer.
If I could've leaned into your hands
would you give me something I could have?
Or would it just be another fad?
Another reproach to push me back?
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Spacey
03:35
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All I want to tell you
All I've got to say:
"I wish life could be easy 'til you meet your early grave."
And, though, that may sound hardened,
though that may sound strange,
we'll all finally breathe easy once you've seen your final days.
And I can't see, my mind's still closed.
You're haunting me, let's relax a little.
Or could it be you move too slow?
It doesn't mean we reacted over.
Last laughing seems a shallow goal
once you've seen things from another angle.
I can't compete, I move too slow.
But does it mean we reacted over?
And every bridge you've crossed
has brought you back to you.
Smoldering in ashes, still convinced you're someone new.
You're looking for relief
in blaming someone new.
Afraid of what would come from taking a good look at you.
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3. |
Overdue
03:24
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It's overdue if you want it
or not.
I can't carry you through.
And it's the same either way.
I won't push you through.
And you wanna express who you are
while you're walking a path in the dark, unseen,
blocked-off from all the light you need.
And you don't realize you build walls
all around yourself and all in-between
you and the answer you really need.
It's not real if it's forced, either way,
and I know what you're doing.
I can't carry you through
if you won't do the work
or get out of the way.
I can't carry you through this.
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4. |
Trying To Force It
04:24
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In the distance,
you turn heel.
Withering, you look back at me.
In an instant,
you are gone,
diaphanous, oblique memory.
It's as if this
all went wrong
the second that you were out of reach.
Must have missed it
all along
I was trying to force it to be.
Who stands to fall?
Not to leave,
not to walk?
And who'll face the wall
once the dust
stops to fall?
If commitment
flees at all,
it's all done, it's all stalled.
And this witness
will be all
that remains of us all.
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5. |
Train Hits Dumbass
03:55
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...so starts the countdown
to the moment
you let go of it.
Even when you're alone and
you've lost contact
and all influence.
It appears that all reason
and all intellect
is what you're up against.
Fighting ends with a whimper,
a surrender,
or begins again.
So, he said "I can't see you again,
'cause I know this world will only end."
And you've tried to figure it out sometimes,
you've tried to figure out your life
again
and again
and again.
I pushed aside all my prospects,
took off everything
and just sat with it.
Seeing that I'm alone, but
I could reach up,
I reached out for it.
Lost from my connection,
desperation
settled over me.
My constant companion
was a nameless,
restless energy.
You got what you were after,
now just return
to your past regrets.
This added up to a lost cause
and your intent
can't make up for it.
Your bleeding heart will sustain you,
but for how long
is just what I'm wondering.
Satisfied, at the moment,
with the taste of
shallow victory.
Contemplating another
flaccid attempt
at fixing yourself.
When you realize it's over
my money says
it'll be too late.
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