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Show
05:00
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I've been too complacent
Unwilling
Or tired
Apathetic virtue
Pop-pilling
Now wired
But it's all just done for show
Two more weeks
I'll let it go
Another day of filling in
Making angels in the snow
I sit too adjacent
Next to you
Beside
A pathetic midnight
Pop-pilling
I tried
But it's all just done for show
One more week
And then I'll know
Another day of breaking in
Just to see how far I'll go
Every thought in my head
A word I say
Keeps me from tomorrow
The promised day
Forgetting won't help me
To keep away
Must be buried deeper
Here lies yesterday
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Show Down
04:49
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The sigh becomes my breath
I am a silhouette
A picture frame surrounding every day I get
I am a model jet
Miniature set
Just trying to forget
It isn't over yet
It isn't over
Yet
I give it one more step
I'm trying to forget
It isn't over
Yeah
It isn't over
No, I give it one more step
I'm trying to forget
It isn't over
My ballerina met
I learned to pirouette
From watching people dance on video cassette
My brow will know my sweat
The white is now brunette
I learned the clarinet
You learned the cigarette
And on the day we met
I bought a bayonette
Trying to forget
It isn't over
Yeah
It isn't over
No, I give it one more step
Trying to forget
It isn't over
A subtle threat
I took your meaning straight away
I won't forget
But I'll be careful what I say
I'll just keep smiling
And you'll keep smiling
I'll wear no frown
And you'll wear no frown
This is a show down
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3. |
Abajo
01:57
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We're picking fights that nobody wins
With comfortable grins
We stick out our chins
We look in the dark
For whatever's handy
We traded babies for candy
We take our walks in the park
I may know what time it is
But you can bet that I'm not going to tell ya
Until you ask me a couple more times
And I'm not sure if there's a reason
I guess I just think it's funny
But I'm sorry that you're tired
I'm not sure if there's a reason
I guess I just think that it's funny
But I'm sorry that you're tired
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4. |
Slow Down
04:13
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I can't see the blood
For the heart pumping it
But I feel my love
And I consider jumping in
But it looks so deep
And I forget my swim suit
You look so sweet
It's your finest attribute
I'd do anything
If it meant impressing you
But slap my eyes
'Cause they keep undressing you
But I don't feel shamed
And I don't feel guilty
'Cause these brown eyes are the ones that built me
You care about the weather
And all those things
But you stare me down
As though you sat with kings
As you wear the crown
That I put on you
In the coronation
My head gave to you
To celebrate
Your love
You stay awake
To see the sunrise
But I'll fall asleep
Just to see through your eyes
And I dream about
All the things you dream of
And I see that I may be
The one that you love
You care about the weather
And all those things
But you stare me down
As though you sat with kings
As you wear the crown
That I put on you
In the coronation
My head gave to you
To celebrate
Your love
Wait for me
I'm catching up
But I need to know
That you'd slow down
If I asked you to
Slow down
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Lento
04:43
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Sun went down about an hour ago
Now it's dark out
Where did you go?
It's been so long since I saw your face
Now my heart aches
And my arms are missing your waist
My heart aches
My heart is pounding
So cannon-y sounding
And so I'm surrounding
Myself with things that remind me of you
I sleep in your sweaters
And I re-read your letters
I've read them so many times
I know them by heart
But when I read them again
My heart aches
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