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Caramelize
03:27
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Caramelize
you make me blue
I wanna make
a man out of you
the light in world is dull
it's more like empty space
through the darkness
closing my eyes and they start to sting
feeling my tear ducts doing their thing
I'm kinda pretty, that's why you want it so bad
when the heart gets too tender
return it to the sender
be more centered
if you miss your friend
call them again
last night I got so swept up
my heartbeat was kept up
but the song you gave to me
is it wrong or meant to be?
when you rode off way back when
I got this feeling I'd never see you again
but here you are in my bed
heart gets tender
those gaping wide
secret eyes
close on me
they don't want to see
I want in on the other side
of your eyelids where you hide
or further in, that neatest dark
but my boyish emotion
keeps me soft like the ocean
are you relieved when I leave?
that I needed to be held
is a vice like anything else
but the others push it down
other vices to make it melt
I just wanna give you strength
help you make all you can make
the extent to which you've grown on me
I can feel now you've got a hold on me
when you rode off way back when
I got this feeling I'd never see you again
but here you are in my bed
heart gets tender
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Looking around at 22
and so tired of myself around you
maybe I don't fit your ideals anymore
or maybe I just grew up into a bore
I know that I shouldn't call you
but in this light we are all blue
I just wanna feel like I'm
neatly designed
like a telephone pole
I want to feel whole
Do you wanna go on a date?
Or would that be hard to orchestrate?
When you close your dreamy eyes
are they even close to dreaming of mine?
You could take me and my apathy
turn us into clarity
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3. |
As Often as I Can
01:02
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I love you so
I let you know as often as I can
I love you so I let you know
as often as I can
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4. |
This Stuff
01:38
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Can you tell anyone this stuff?
Can you ever tell it enough?
Will it make a difference?
Will they forget it within minutes?
I'm living in a condo
it replaced your favorite movie theater though
not all trees have fruits or flowers
some are just there to grow
I'm not like anyone else my age
so I know why they call partying rage
I'm not like anyone else my age
so I know why they call partying rage
I wanna tour in a hot pink van
and I want you there to hold my hand
and every night that you're in my band
is a moment they will never understand
can you tell anyone this stuff?
can you ever tell it enough?
will it make a difference?
will they forget it within minutes?
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Me & Jesse stayed up 'til 2
We talked about dreams, about things,
about you
It felt like anything could be real or fake
Like, our love is my world but so is my heartache
And I knew if I thought really hard about flying
I could probably do it I'm just too tired for trying
I created a scorpion and then had to kill it
Just like I loved you and then had to will it
to end
'cause I bent the rules and I'm scary
my dream
is a seam on the world that I'm wearing
Allowed to break our deepest holds
They keep you in the shade
Too late to explain
How many things are whole and good
The mirror glittered all blue and silver
but I was never in it to begin with
I'd like to be a shadow in a shadow
more deeply invisible than invisible
Oh to be part of the scenery
Oh to be filled with apathy
For you to be a little bit scared of me
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You got nice eyes, they're very blue
that is why I look at you
I look at you, I look at you
I look at you, I look at you
Making a list of people to kiss
the list is a million Yous long
just Yous all the way down
Olive oil soft and laundry warm
I know I like you but I don't know what for
with my boy Ronnie, listening to Connie
I couldn't stop if I tried, I will love you 'til I die
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7. |
Accommodate
01:34
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Found myself in a scene
told my friends how you made me
They let you stomp in still
kept you around against my will
No one will listen, no one will talk
I had to leave just to hear my thoughts
My body is a burden
I'm always yearning
to be less accommodating
to say loud how I'm feeling
A brief breath of safety
disturbed by a series of break-ins
spills out brain onto the plate and
serves to host but one party
where the air hits invisible
a spot so thin it's miserable
tries to carve a place to escape
but holes out in a wholly unholy place
you could hardly hear them crack
crashed down onto concrete so vast
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8. |
I'm Fried
01:40
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Oh you know I'm fried
Oh you know I'm fried
I cleared a path for you
did you want me to?
trying to keep it pure
like it was before
so maybe I won't be yours
in fully the same way
but if it's right than maybe I
won't turn and walk away
I just wanna know that I would
walk away from wrong
so maybe I won't be yours
in fully the same way
(oh you know I'm fried)
but if it's right than maybe I
won't turn and walk away
(oh you know I'm fried)
I just wanna know that I would
walk away from wrong
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9. |
Hereby
00:57
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would it be accurate
to call it negligence
that I held you harmless
when we got into it
so cut all my losses
and count up the costs and
hereby
I won't deny
the wasted time
you made me cry
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10. |
Ballad of R & J
01:35
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I'll give it back if you want it
all that time you wasted on it
I dreamed of you in the car
I wanna know how you are
From August to October
it felt like it was over
don't wear yourself out me
don't lie down about me
Ricky felt alone now
so he went to the store
gathered up some flowers
to mail to Julie's door
The field so watery and wide
passes me on either side
Didn't talk to you today,
doesn't matter either way
You know I like 'em cut
with a certain I-don't-know-what
Dipped into the reserve
bathed in the dirt I deserve
Julie had his flowers
taped up on the wall
"it's better to love Ricky
from afar than not at all"
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11. |
Ur Up
00:35
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I wonder if ur up,
I'm America
thinkin' of you for
no reason
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Being alive
I see you in everything
my vocabulary's limited
but I wanna tell it all to you
if I could, would you want me to?
Being alive
if I become a piece of dirt
for a dollar can I enter
your brain?
Being alive
matters quite a bit
even when you
feel like shit
Being alive
matters quite a bit
even when you
feel like shit
Being alive
I'm collapsing inwardly
your name strikes a match in me
after a drum solo I looked up
Craig
called out to me after
said
"Maybe see you later"
Being alive
matters quite a bit
even when you
feel like shit
Being alive
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13. |
Bus Bus Train Train
01:19
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Bus bus, train train
makes me think I'm going far away
and I won't come home
'til I'm all grown
a moment is pressing
I feel undressing
I see a purple river
wind sends a shiver
Double rainbow, I see Joejoe
in taxidermy museum
Loving you
gave me something to do
we sleep like nature
our love a purple river
runs through me ancient
I find you in nature
I play the first note
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14. |
My Phone
00:31
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My phone will crash
and I won't even care
'cause I know you are there
I know you are there
My phone will die
and I won't even cry
'cause I know you're nearby
I know you're nearby
Throw my phone out
I know you'll be around
You're easy to be found
I'm easy to be found
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15. |
Cafeteria
02:56
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I am not the only one
living in delusion
I go to the
cafeteria
cafeteria
Suddenly
I noticed that you weren't touching me
but sometimes I am weird and wrong
sometimes I am weird and wrong
So late at night
we eat the leftover rice
It is dark and empty
no one sees me
no one sees me
But I won't get married
not at the party
not at the party
I wasn't built for this world
I had sex once, now I'm dead
and I never look back
it only hurts my head
I know I listened to a lie
I think about it all the time
OK, sometimes I look
but only for a sec
I will never be touched
never get fucked
and I'll wonder what
makes me so wrong
What makes me so wrong?
I never felt like the one
Never felt like the one
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16. |
The End
01:23
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You tried, yea I know you tried
But you still made me cry
you still made me cry
And I tried to close my eyes
But I still saw you cry
I still saw you cry
I didn't think you had the guts
but then you really showed up
and now I'm here in our room
I'm not waiting for you
and once again
I'm really glad you're my friend
we can do it all again
it doesn't mean it's the end
And I tried, yea I know I tried
But I still made you cry
I still made you cry
and you tried
to close your eyes
but you still saw me cry
you still saw me cry
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17. |
Same Thing
01:27
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nothing is deserved
nothingness is earned
like the pillow's cold side
rewards your sleeping
with more of the same thing
hours wasted on the train
every body part is pain
but it's nothing like the pain
of your weeping
I saw them laughing
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18. |
Vessel
03:27
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Nothing comes natural
I don't feel my body is a vessel
But you seem to
but you seem to
You are a word I made up when I'm high
I gave you meaning but I don't know why
and you can make me cry
only you can make me cry
You look like a cloud drifting off
am I allowed to watch?
I'm not allowed to watch
Now you don't have to listen
to the shapes that I make with them
Are you only on a mission?
Is it fine that I miss them?
Walking alone in midtown at night
like fog that disappears quickly I
leave no mark at all
leave no mark at all
'Cause we move at just the same time
almost like sex 'cause it's so fun
I throw my wrist like yours all night long
stay alive by nodding along
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