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New Haircut
02:25
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Walk in through the backdoor and dig through the kitchen drawer there's-
Five pairs of scissors and I'm leaving with one
Hopping on my bike, riding home, avoiding night
Wondering when that thunderstorm might hit
Like the cars that come too close making me think
Maybe today I won't come home
But that's always where I go
Around the block and up the hill
To the front stairs that are
Way too steep
Family tells me I should sleep
Family is the last thing that I need
I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission
Let it be known I will return
I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission
Let me burn, baby burn, baby burn
Skidded knees my bloody shoulder faces the cars
Noticing the tractors hanging on there farms
And I know it's not like me to think at all
But I have this weird feeling and I just don't know
What it's called
I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission
Let it be known I will return
I'm going on a mission, I'm going on a mission
Burn, baby burn, baby burn-
burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn
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2. |
You Wish
02:49
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You said you wish I was your daughter
Even though you have two
Maybe there's something so great about me
Or maybe there's something wrong with you
You said you want an invite to my wedding
'cause you bet it'll happen real soon
You said, "all you have to do is look up
'cause everyone is madly in love with you"
So go back to wishing on your star
And this time, wish yourself somewhere real far
From me
You said I have to find better friends
You said, I can look all around
You said if you were in my shoes
You's be befriending this whole town
So go back to wishing on your star
And this time, wish yourself somewhere real far
From me
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3. |
Lame Duck
04:16
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yellow lawns turn neon green and I’m watching Liz jump in
a low tide bay
thanks for the invite but I’ll skip the bonfire tonight
I’ve put up with his politics all day
two nights ago I had the strangest dream
you were dressed up like a devil, it was halloween
jumpy castle zip line ride we watched some guy murder his wife
On the television screen
i think it’s in our nature for us to disagree
I have lots of little quirks and you have a lack of empathy
a plane flew over us with a banner that said
even things that aren’t alive yet shouldn’t be dead
three nights ago I had the strangest dream
you were dressed up like a devil, it was halloween
jumpy castle zip line ride we watched some guy murder his wife
through a television screen
i know its not ideal, I doubt you would ever take the bait
even if we managed to reconcile, my picture of you would stay the same
nothing that matters would change
god that’s lame
a month ago I was you favorite thing
to annoy
now I’m preoccupied, you went away and I’m still haunted by your stupid voice
go away, boy
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Just Like Holden
02:58
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You joked that I’m just like Holden
From the book- we’re reading
You said “it’s cause I’m always sad”
I said “I think I know the feeling”
I get killed- at the ends of my dreams
I’m freezing at sixty degrees
How’d you do it?
The running, I mean
It’s Fourteen hours to Chicago
I wanna go
I could probably be something there
But I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere
I lose my money like I
lost my baby teeth
One day I’ll invest in a piggy bank
It won’t have a cork beneath
You wrote a play- And cast me in it
It’s stupid- I play the victim
I asked why you put me on the list
‘Said it’s the part that suits me best, yeah it suits me best
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Balsam
02:00
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Balsam wood, and a very tall man
There lies a shield, in one of his hands
Will I get it in time, Will I get it at all
Will I make it back for will call?
Balsam wood, and a pretty small flame
They say it’s just another name
To describe the same exact thing
When will I realize
These are not the eyes you wanted
When will I realize
The world is mine and I won it
Fair and squaree
I looked up in the middle of the snow
I was losing feeling in the tip of my nose
I could barely lift my chin up any higherrrrrr
When will I realize
These are not the eyes you wanted
When will I realize
That my house isn’t haunted
My house isn’t haunted
No! My house isn’t haunted
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I was waiting for you to walk through the door
On the map on the wall, your face was on Mount Rushmore
And I like that just because
You said I’ll treat you better than whatever that was
If it means I’m taking it down
If I’m jumping in I’ll be right out
You said I see a star
So it must be close to where wherever you are
You’ve seen enough already
I’ll leave you to it I’ll get myself ready
For a day, a day without light
When you saw me go into fight or flight, I froze
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7. |
Track Season 2
02:14
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I did know, I didn’t know I didn’t know I that I could stay with you
I did know, I didn’t know I didn’t know that it’s the worst thing we could do
I was on my longest run, you were by my side the whole way through
And I know you could’ve gone faster but that’s not what you chose to do
And I know in a perfect world we’d be already at the beach
But there’s a sharks dead baby in the sand, a whales about to breach
Gotta stay on track
Gotta stay in the pack
Fish tails can’t swim without a head
My legs are apart of me no matter what I pretend
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8. |
There's a Man Outside
02:54
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Do you see the man out the window?
One hand placed on the screen?
Do you think he noticed the bottle?
Lamotrigine
Diagnose me, for Christmas that's all I want
Take away all the excess of things that I'm not
I've gotta get a scholarship before I run out of time
Lost all my credits, to be fair, they weren't mine to begin with
Patience, I'm a patient guinea pig girl
Engineer of my cage, maker of my world
Does that man even know who I am?
Does he think he won't get caught?
I forgot I had a camera, I forgot I had to work
I forgot to see him first
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9. |
The Sorry Biz
03:13
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I’ll keep hiding, pray you won’t mind me not making it to your boat or to your party
I’ll surrender the defender in my head when I’m ready but for now he’s staying with me
I’m the arrow I’m the deer and I’m lying on my basement floor
I’m The girl in the mirror who hates me to the core
The second time this month it won’t be the last I didn’t even hesitate when I drove past
Your street we used to meet and go and bike to the beach our initials are still carved on the bench I haven’t seen in weeks
Take the train, go to Spain, finally have the day you’ve been dreaming of
I hope you meet some nice boys, I hope you fall in love
The $3000 I couldn’t pay my dad told me it’s too close to the due date
you cried when it got canceled- I hope you can forgive me and I hope it gets rescheduled
Too much, too fast, too soon, I relapse
I tried it all, I hit a wall, I got snd ignored all 9 of your calls
I’m still a little kid I still can’t go outside on my own I still have lots of friends and I’m still all alone
And god, I’m so sorry for this wreck I am
But for now I stay home and be as hidden as I can
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10. |
Hop Along
03:24
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I don’t have claustrophobia
But I do around you
Isn’t that funny how that works
One and one should not make two
I bet someday it’ll come to you
Like a chick pushed out of the nest
You’ll have a real personality
You’ll have real friends
Do you ever take the lead
You’re always following me
Hop along, hop along, hop along little bunny
I never knew you’d find it so hard
To simply be a leader
And as for my other friends, Know
that they don’t like you either
Do you ever take the lead
You’re always following me
Hop along, hop along, little bunny
And you can watch me succeed for as long as you want
It’s not gonna get you anywhere
Every class, every party, every day that you won’t get off me
It drives me to the edge
2, 3, 4!
Do you ever take the lead
I know as well as you do, so stop copying me
Hop along, hop along, little bunny
STOP!
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11. |
So (On + Forth)
02:18
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half moon in a light blue sky, 74 degrees in the summertime
Everlong plays me out of an everlong day, thinking I’d probably stop if he ever did say,
when
months of isolation, you called it quarancation, for me it just scared me half to death
so on and so forth, so I am extremely bored of thinking you might spare me a one word text
how can a girl like me get close to knowing what you think
when we’re always stuck inside our heads
i almost forgot I forgot about you
i almost forgot why i shouldn’t
almost forgot i forgot about you
but i remember why i couldn’t
I almost forgot o forgot about youu
How card can it be
To take a sec to think of me
I promise you are not that tough
I swear to god you’re not enough
So why am i bending
so on, so forth, so
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12. |
Just Like That
03:12
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Did your shoulder hurt after swinging that bat right at my heart?
No tarot card reading could have foretold how far apart we are
It’s not you it’s me, oh wait, it might have been both
But you refuse to see all that you don’t know
I’ve been on a losing streak ever since I turned 15
You’ve been the only person who was there for me (up to that point)
I don’t care whose flag you’re waving
If there’s a problem there’s a need for amputating
So teach me how to lie
Teach me how to swing that bat
Teach me what you say
For someone to hate you just like that
Teach me how to lie
Teach me hoe to swing that bat
Teach me what you say
For someone too hate you just like that
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13. |
8 Digits
03:09
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Balancing it all was all rocket science
Now we both bathe In radio silence
a stuffed toy I grew out of as a teen
You’re a nightlight that shut off unexpectedly
It’s been around two months since you last crossed my mind
I’d write you that letter if I ever found the time
You started doing the things I once urged you to do
It’s a bit too late for that, you know it’s true
Eight digits engraved on a tomb
It’s strange to me that I once knew you
Hear the catbirds in the afternoon
Did your seashell phone stop working too?
You always let me play my favorite songs
You always knew I played that chord wrong
You haven’t ruined anything for me, not even that word that you used
To the describe the bad things that I do
Eight digits engraved on a tomb
It’s strange to me that I once knew you
Hear the catbirds in the afternoon
Did your seashell phone stop working too?
Eight digits engraved on a tomb
It’s strange to me that I once knew you
Hear the catbirds in the afternoon
Did your seashell phone stop working toooooo?
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14. |
Lamest Duck
01:33
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I know it all
I know it all twice
I thought catharsis
could never bite
yet, here I am, glitz and glam,
your star spangled child
what more could you have asked from me?
I'm proper, poised, and mild
I'm a lame duck in a pond waiting for some bread
to regurgitate on asphalt
until then, ill play dead
I'M THE LAMEST DUCK IN THE POND
I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IM ON
IS IT PROZAC OR BUSPAR, IM FEELING ALL THE SAME
IM A LAME DUCK IN THE CENTER OF
THE SHOOTING RANGE
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