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Blind
01:44
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I’ve been hurting for a while now
And I’m finding it easy to disguise with time
And instamatic smiles
But I needed a reminder
And I could end it all tonight
The sirens light the sky
The dreams without the screaming sounds
The silence of the fight
But I guess you’ll never know
Unless I say what’s on my mind
Couldn’t leave you blind
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2. |
No Excuses
03:45
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You thought you pulled the plug
I cut the mains
To see it out with your seeds of doubt
Things never change
Giving up on the ones that you love, it pains
I’m only human
I don’t know what you’ve been doing
You’re not stuck in the middle
You’re hanging on like you give a shit
It’s like when we were little
But no excuses
I’m trying hard to forgive all
Remember once it was everything
Your bones, they were brittle
But no excuses
You thought you doused the fire
You fanned the flames
So you figure out how to put it out
And then it rains
Growing up was enough to predict the games
I know you’re itching
For someone else’s conviction
I’m in your reflection
Not how we planned it
From the sandpit
Now that we’re stranded
I understand it’s all about the way you fall, not how
You’re not stuck in the middle
Remember once it was everything
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3. |
Matches
04:54
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Distance, about it
I know now
It’s so much better when we’re aligned
Tempered reactions, the fall out
Still I’ve been trying to meet you there
If this is the way we’re gonna go
Do you understand?
No hand to hold
It’s cold, I know
I know you you don’t
If you can play with the matches
Then you can clean up the ashes
Even when everything they said was for the masses
Well isn’t this classic?
When did we get so passive?
Was it when everything they ever did was tragic?
They’ll never pay for their actions
While we’re lost in distraction
Here, I said it, I don’t regret it
Don’t look at me, I read it
Divided by language, we’re fed it
Tomorrow’s the price, they sell it
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4. |
Windermere
00:59
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5. |
Mirrors
04:42
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Are you awake?
‘Cause I just can’t take it all
Friends on a break?
Or are we just fading, old?
Moving on, moving out
Open doors slam
Moving on, moving out
Face your problems
I can’t hold them
Face your problems
I can’t hold them down
Spare me, I can take a punch
Your vanity, it weighs a ton
But I can only take the one…
It weighs a ton!
At first it stings between the eyes
Humility and compromise
You needed that drama
I’ve heard it all a thousand times
But still it keeps you up at night
I couldn’t be farther
At first it stings between the eyes
Humility and compromise
You needed that drama
I couldn’t be farther
Moving out, moving on
I can tell you all the things you sad and never did
Living with you, like a mirror, I see everything
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6. |
Peace
04:59
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Don’t say you apologise
When it’s all the time
It was on the horizon line
It was in your eyes
Don’t tell me you’re torn tonight
‘Cause it’s every fight
Just say you ignored the signs
In your mind
Wait, I’m not trying to be cruel
I’m just trying to make do
I’m so tired of this - give it up!
Space in your life would be cool
All that time you could use for your livelihood
Live it up!
Too bad you don’t want it
It’s sad you don’t want it over
Be glad you were honest and self-assured
So where did we draw the line?
Was it yours or mine?
Don’t stay if it’s your demise
Don’t endure the climes
Continue to be true
And when it’s all over, I’ll owe ya
It starts with hearts wide open
Break away and I will take the longest flight
To see you in the warmest light
And we’ll be just fine, tell me...
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7. |
Start Again
04:15
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‘Cause it makes me feel that I could start again
On it, with zero sense of belonging
I’m being as honest as I can
‘Cause it makes me feel that I could start again
It’s coming, I’m running
Who’s holding? I’m rolling
You and me, it might be obvious
But I perceive something ominous
Bruised and beat
Like I’ve been harvested
Try to breathe
There’s something more to this
I’m too tired to play another hand
I’m just hoping that you’ll understand
I’m not trying to slow us down again
Just the fears are fucking with the plan
I’ll take the whole day
You’ll take it your way
I think I’m going back to bed
It’s safe here, I’m closed in
Just blankets and no serotonin
Keep moving, keep going
This treadmill feels like I’ve been growing
So I missed a letter out
You’re kind enough to stick around
I feel it like the bad dreams
They boarded up the towns
There’s wire across the doorways
And I will love you always
It’s fight or flight!
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8. |
Talk!
04:02
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Let’s talk about it (talk!)
I’m much better in person
So what’s this all about?
Could you please just help me out?
Your words are casting doubts
From both sides of your mouth
At the rate they’re falling out
We’re talking aspersions (talk!)
I’m much better in person
The way they carry on
Like nothing ever happened
And we’ll just play along
Looks like our only weapon now
Say what they want
As if we’ll never matter
This can’t go on for long
We’re in a holding pattern
Hey! I’ve been trying to meet you
But the needle’s wearing thin
Stay! (stay, stay, stay, stay)
We have so much to work through
Where do we begin?
Let’s talk about it (talk!)
What are your intentions?
Mistakes have left you proud
Everytime you’re not around
My taste for faith is drowned
You ran your business to the ground
And still the face around this town
I have so many questions
What are your intentions?
If you’re not cool (hey!)
They don’t want to be seen with you (let’s talk about it)
They make up the rules
When they don’t wanna speak with you
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9. |
Get Better
04:10
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When words feel the worst
You can take my last breath
If you’ll be heard
The fight, it’s in your eyes
I know it’s gonna get better (get better)
Get better (get better)
Get better
Surrounded by reminders
That this is not behind us
Behind those tiny eyelids
Keeps us where the fight is
We hang out like our own little crew
Weather the doubt and the storms that brew
I know that there is nothing I can say or do
I’m all that I can be for you
I’m all that I can be for you (when we’re surrounded by reminders)
I’m all that I can be for you (what’s behind those tiny eyelids)
I’m all that I can be for you (will always keep us where the fight is)
When all that I can be for you is here
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10. |
Taupo
01:04
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11. |
Retrograde
04:09
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If you were honest
Would you say what you said?
Speaking up when I’m undone
When I’m done with speaking first
Starting over, picking names making plans
But even when you show up
I’m not invited anyway
We always fight in the summer
Not overnight will it ever work
Are we in this together?
Why’d you hide from the severance
Come around, talk it out
Never back down
Come around, I cared about it everyday
Sleep it off, push it down, want you back now
Sleep it off, I care about you anyway
Confused and I’m broken
‘Cause we haven’t talked for days
I’m sick from the motion
Of this retrograde
This only hurts, I want rid of it, rid of it
Give me the ghost
Like you don’t know who I am
This only works when you’re feeling it
A quick reverse, now I don’t know where I am
It’s just a bad idea now
To think another year
There’s nothing left to say now
You don’t want me here
Missed you, I missed it was suffering
Missed you, I missed it was clear
Missed you, I missed the recovery
You were never here
I could never last (I could never last)
Could only ever ask (Could only ever ask)
I could try to frame it, but you fucked it from the start
I could know your heart (I could know your heart)
And still be in the dark (and still be in the dark)
If I could I would change it, we’d be buried in your art
I could know your heart
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12. |
Animals
03:34
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You want it?
You’re unbearable
Unrepairable
And just the worst, so there’s nothing that you could say
To make me care at all
I saw it
Understandable
You’re an animal
I just hope that the world around you is safe
From your mandible
I try to handle more than I could even care
Though I’ve enabled more than anyone, anywhere could bare
Like a deer in headlights
Paralised without a word
I could give you headlines worse than anyone, anywhere has heard
It’s chronic
You’re boring
You’re on it
Ignoring
You want it?
You’re unbearable
Unrepairable
And just the worst, so there’s nothing that you could say
To make me care at all
God, you’re an animal
Understandable
I just hope that the world around you is safe
You play up to play up
With a pride you exhibit
Stoking the fires as you try to fit in
I give up, I give up
Even I was complicit
Watching you blurring the lines
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Our Japanese labelmates: insane guitar tapping with beautiful vocal melodies.
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