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There was once a city dream
But there weren't any stars to be seen
So I'll move back to the country
Where things didn't seem so busy
Then there was you it suprised me
Took a train across the state
With a song I wanted to play
With the words I wanted to say
They'll just be left for another day
But I feel asleep on the way
If you say no, I'll go my way
If you say yes, I will stay
But for tonight I'll stay awake
I just want to hear what you have to say
Never thought there'd be a girl
That could consume my world
That'd stay around, cause a swirl
Like the paint within a mural
Just past the township sunset hill
I'd like to show you my world
You picked me up off the floor
Not knowing exactly who you were
But as for you, I'm an open door
Haven't opened like this before
This train makes me wonder if I could be yours?
Say no I'll go my way
Say yes and I will stay
As for tonight I'll stay awake
I just want to hear what you'd have to say
I once had a city dream
That one day you'd be with me
In an old house in the country
But I don't know who you are
And I'm sure your not to far
Just stay exactly who you are.
Say no I'll go my way
Say yes and I will stay
As for tonight I'll stay awake
I just want to hear what you'd have to say
I just want to hear what you would have to say
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It made it a good morning because you had a bad night
Throwing up what's left of your backwards appetite
I'm cleaning out my mind of you and the past
But I'm just running my mouth to keep up with the pack
A cigarette, some coffee, always waking up in the evening
I'm just to lazy to start "normal" living
Wrote out a new song by somebody else
At least thats exactly how it felt
You said I like it but you kept to yourself
And I suppose I'm sorry that my voice shakes
You still seem to constantly turn everything in late
But hey you'll be better off playing along with dynamite
If that means anything to you, have a good night
With a bad morning after to follow it out back
I'll stop running my damned mouth when you put me back
(So I) Wrote out a new song by somebody else
At least thats exactly how it felt
You said I like it but you kept to yourself
I'll keep to myself, Thanks for the shelf
Writing this through the night, Better get it right
God damn it wrote itself, Like snow Vs. Ice melt
I'm running my mouth, I'm working it out
A cigarette and some coffee
I always wake up in the evening
Maybe I'm just to lazy
To Start Living
(So I) Wrote out a new song by somebody else
At least thats exactly how it felt
You said I like it but you kept to yourself
(So I) Wrote out a new song by somebody else
At least thats exactly how it felt
You said I like it but you kept to yourself
You said keep your thoughts to your damned self...
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I spent all my time chasing a serpent through
A cave in my mind, oh and it's poisonous bite
Put me under this spell,
I'm so sick feeling like I am a bottom of well
I wish I didn't have to drink
To put myself to sleep
I mean I guess I could pull it back together
Fall asleep alone and maybe feel better
But thats a whole new state of mind
I guess I'd have to say it was a new life
And I been worried about things like death
I know no man my age should be to considered with that
And I been smoking to many cigarettes
So I think that can burn away my regret
Chased a serpent through a well (in hell)
I asked him why'd you bite?
He said man I didn't think you were minding
The spell I've got you under it won't let you go
Until you find a way back, To find yourself not alone
Then that serpent was carried away, by an eagle
I guess I got to see it all from all angles
I really wish I had the time
To define what I meant in every line
But having trouble trying to sleep,
I have to take another drink
To lay my head back down
Maybe I'll drown myself down
I came accross that serpent down in a well
When he struck me it put my mind in an endless swell
I asked him why he bit me?
He said sir you looked deserving of it.
Now thats serpents gone, and I'm alone (without knowing whom)
I can't even sing anything right
I'll be alone til I figure it out
What that serpent's bite taught me and what it was about
But for now he's some birds feast sitting on its withered tongue
It's dying there, Wherever it went and perched
The venom struck him too, and he wasn't strong enough
To know that you got to hold on when it comes to push and shove
That eagle he died, I feasted on him so I could sleep tonight.
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Just like a cigarette
Your tossed out and set aside
Trapped in thin white paper
Lit up for five minutes then left to die
Your burnt out without ever putting up fight
You say you made friends
That have are the same ideas as you
Until they were stolen
Your sadness had returned then grew
Your still burnt out without putting up a fight
You say you found the love your life
He's the greatest person you've ever met
When he used you did you take the time to ask why?
You were once mine tossing you away is my only regret.
For never ever putting up a fight
For never ever putting up a fight
For never ever putting up a fight
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*Forgive Me (Home Demo)
03:27
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You said this place was nothing but a dream land. Over lake Michigan I sleep. She killed me there waiting for Erie, I couldn't find anything but sand. A shipwreck, a heart attack, a fallen land. I am just a fallen man.
A castle built out of sand. A place fit for someone like you. And I, I will die here tonight. I'm just a broken man, I am just a broken man. Asleep under the whitest of sands. Well these lakes, these lakes they reflect our clouds. They waiting for me to fall down. They wait for me to fall down.
You said this place was a dreamland. As I float on top of lake Michigan. These hands, these hands they show that I'm a broken man. Oh, these sands, these sands they show that I'm a broken man. Oh these hands these sands they show that I'm a broken man.
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If I could fall asleep would you come lie here next to me? Would you fall at all? Would you fall as hard? Would you fall asleep? And if I could fall asleep, I'd fall asleep here next to nothing. 'Cause I'm falling hard, I'm falling hard, I'm falling back to sleep.
If I could wait for anything, it'd be you and your lack of apathy. If I fall at all, don't fall for me, please just don't fall asleep. 'Cause we both know it'd make things harder than they have to be.
If I could contemplate, some other way some other fate. Would you wait for me, would you wait for me? Could I come home? Could I come home? Could I? Could I come home? I know when I make it home I will make there alone.
When I make it home, would I make it a home? When I make it home, would I be there alone? I can make it home. I can make it home. I can make it a home.
If I could fall asleep, would you come lie here next to me? Would you fall at all, would you fall as hard, would you fall asleep? Well, I'm falling down, I'm falling asleep. Waiting for nothing or no one to lay next to me. Yeah, I'm just here waiting to fall asleep. Don't fall for me, don't fall for me, just fall asleep.
If I could wait for anything, it'd be you and your lack of apathy. I've fallen hard, so don't fall for me, and we might make it back to sleep.
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When she said take me home, meant the bar lights we used to know. But she said you don't know anything, but you know too much about everything. She cried the devil dresses in blue and I don't need you, I don't need you.
From the heartbreaks to the bar signs to the floor of my friends apartment. I've been sleeping too much to think about anything. It still feels like something out there is missing. Then I realized that the devil she dresses blue. Says I don't need you, I don't need you. So, to that devil I don't need you, I don't. I don't. I don't need you anymore.
Those green eyes they weep of envy of everyone else who has someone else to see. Darling you broke your own will. I hope you get your whiskey's fill. Alright, to that devil that dresses in blue, you would cry every night if you knew that I didn't need you.
So go drown yourself in a bottle. Cause I don't need you, I don't need you.
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I Was A Fool (Home Demo)
02:22
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I was a fool, I was a fool as I walked towards you. You stumble on through, you stumbled through these barren streets. Homeless wonder it was to me that you just didn't see, that I'm a fool. I'm a fool for thinking this means anything to you. I'm walking around on the out skirts of town. Wondering if I'll ever be back around. But I guess, I'm alright now, I'm alright wondering if anything could be something. It's alright, It's alright now it's all I've got. And I can feel it coming in hot.
You can smell the Kentucky air from here and you know I've got to go. I've got to go home, back to my home. Back to where I can feel alone. But it's time that I realize that I was a fool. I was a fool for ever thinking that you would do. I was a fool a god damn fool for thinking I could be with you.
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You scream, you cried, you said you weren't there. You through a fit in the backroom of someone else's house. And all my lines I wasted waiting for tonight. Yeah, I've been here and you've been there. I've been here and you've been here. Yeah, you've been here about a thousand times. About a thousand heartattacks. (ambient yelling bullshit lol)
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Even if I had forgotten you, you'd return as a sunbeam to remind that it was you. You taught me to believe that I could be anywhere else but here. Just so long as I kept you in mind. I'll continue to chase our fears away, with every word that we sang. Those car speakers like my voice they tend to shake.
I'll be ok to move on when you're so far away.
I'll be ok to move on when you're so far away.
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This Vessel breaks upon the sea. Stressing waves have been cracking in me. The hull was causing a terrible scene as we begin to sink. Unaware of everything...
Instead of focusing on where we were going. We're cutting corners again, we're profiteering. Just sit down and listen to me. We are the false prophesy.
What do you see? Show your teeth prepare to feast of history. They're telling me, they're telling me, they're telling me there's nothing. We can carry through then claim it's insanity.
And we're passing through like ghost haunting the stairwells. Are we listening or do the stories these walls would scream.
"Have mercy on me. Have mercy. Have mercy on me."
What is lasting and what is lacking is the mystery of everything. Second guessing but I'm still learning. This vessel is breaking under the pressing sea. The heavy weight of masturbated philosophies. Toying with false plans and false ideologies. What's missing, what's missing, what's missing other than me. Other than me. And the gods they begin to feast on me.
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Rainy day I never felt so alive.
Each drop reminds me that we all die.
How you said you'd never cry,
But I guess that means we both lied.
To bored to look outside,
For the answer to what it feels like.
But I feels right,
For this kind of night.
So cold and alone,
Having no where to call home.
I'll try to make this feeling unknown.
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I was waiting on the other side of town, for you to come back around here. But you were too busy fooling around with your mother's friends. So, I guess I'm heading out again. As I left this place I watched the wind tear apart your home. I watched it destroy everything that you own.
You see these plains they've got so much more than I could give. I see your hearts got more than I could just live.
I'm sorry that I abandoned you, but these corn fields just won't mean nothing until they yield. It's harvest time and that tornado, it ripped apart your home. I watched it destroy your home.
Well, I waited on the other side of town. But you were too busy fooling around with your mother's friends. I'm sorry that I abandoned you just like these plains abandon everyone. I'm sorry that couldn't be your favorite son. I watched that wind destroy your home. I watched that tornado rip up everything you own.
I'm glad you wrote me off because I'm heading north. Yeah, I'm heading north. I'm sorry you were just another whore. So, Kansas I'm heading north, I watched these winds blow your home away. Yeah, I'm sorry I won't be back around here, 'cause I waited on the other side of town for nothing to come around.
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You heard an echo on the porch. The reckoning call to arms. It's all gone now. Yeah, you ran yourself dry. You're all wrong now, you caused yourself to lie. But the echos call back and you fall face first into ash. It'll be alright, to feel alright when you make it back.
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joebryant. St Charles, Missouri
Keeping that bedroom pop and the lo-fi emo vibe since 2011. St Louis native, with too much time.
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