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I’ve spent a quarter of a century,
Hiding from whoever I want to be
Baring a weight that no one sees,
Maybe it’s time to come clean
When you told me I could be anything,
Is this what you had in mind?
A senseless child with no sense of direction,
Trying and failing to make true connection with anything
I’d give you the world if it meant it might swallow me whole
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Sick
03:06
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Sick to the pit of my stomach,
For the third night this week
You tell me not to worry,
But my futures looking bleak
Wish I could sew my mouth shut,
So I could never speak
Enough to piss you off,
But clearly I’m just weak
So tell me what to say, tell me what to do
Cos right now I’m a nuisance to you
Maybe I can’t read things, that is no excuse
To make a mess of this but it’s all I can do
It’s all I can do
Sick to the pit of my stomach,
Another fortnight no peace
So don’t tell me not to worry
Cos I’m struggling with sleeping in fear I’ll wake a stranger
So tell me what to say, tell me what to do
Cos right now I’m a nuisance to you
Maybe I can’t read things, that is no excuse
To make a mess of this but it’s all I can do
It’s all I can do
We’ll dig graves for us to dance in,
Learning to live is to exist until we’re buried under bricks we can’t afford
So tell me what to say, tell me what to do
Cos right now I’m a nuisance to you
Maybe I can’t read things, that is no excuse
To make a mess of this but it’s all I can do
It’s all I can do
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Math-Rock Millionaire
03:09
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I’ve got a lump in my throat like a golf ball and a pain in my back I can’t shift,
And this life we chose ain’t quite how we had glamourised as kids,
Between working and bills and the time that it takes just to get things off the ground
It’s truly a miracle that we can even stand to make a sound
I’m in debt up to my eyeballs,
I’m indebted to my eyes
For finding the best way to help me look alive
All my friends are buying houses while we’re commandeering streets,
Living off of blow up mattresses
Who wants to be a math-rock millionaire?
It’s hard to admit but I kinda care
I’m in debt up to my eyeballs,
I’m indebted to my eyes
For finding the best way to help me look alive
Who wants to be a math-rock millionaire?
It’s hard to admit but I kinda care
So here’s what you could have won,
I’m sorry to everyone else I lost along the way
So pardon my arrogance, I’m just trying to be someone
Who wants to be a math-rock millionaire?
It’s hard to admit but I kinda care
Well I wanna be a math-rock millionare
It’s hard to admit but I kinda care
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Spider
03:12
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There’s a spider circling the bed, bright red, can’t tell if that’s it’s humour or just scare tactics
Is it venomous? I guess we’ll find out because he only seems to laugh the more you scream our you shout
What a nice day to tend to the weed because there’s nothing quite like rain to help them blossom to trees
So grab a shovel and get down in the dirt because it’s time to rip up roots til you’ve got blood on your shirt
So don’t be worried about about recurring nightmares
When they’re the only kind of constant that you have in your life,
You’ll still complain til the day you die
Go back to sleep, bury yourself in your dreams because there’s nothing like denial to help you settle in peace
Just keep pretending you aren’t scared of your dreams because a brave face won’t fool anyone despite what it seems
So don’t be worried about about recurring nightmares
When they’re the only kind of constant that you have in your life,
You’ll still complain til the day you die
Creeping, crawling, watch where you step
Don’t get caught in the web
He’ll be right there sitting, waiting,
Sharpening his fangs
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Awen
03:39
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Your seat growing cold in the corner,
But your pictures still hang on the walls
The sound of your laugh it still haunts me,
Along with all the stories you told
That tattoo on my leg is there forever, to remind me of the time we should have spent
Never mad about the ties you had to sever,
Because men like you were always so content
We watched you decay in the corner,
Left hanging by the phone for better news
But all of that changed in the summer,
A best mate I never thought that I could lose
That tattoo on my leg is there forever, to remind me of the time we should have spent
Never mad about the ties you had to sever,
Because men like you were always so content
You loved us as if we were blood,
And you taught me to never be the judge
I still remember the call,
When miles of rivers led to waterfalls
That tattoo on my leg is there forever, to remind me of the time we should have spent
Never mad about the ties you had to sever,
Because men like you were always so content
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Sometimes we get so lost inside our own minds,
That we forget about the hard times that take a hold on those we love
I find myself lost like deer in headlights,
Never knowing when’s the right time to cross the road
Maybe that’s no fault of my own
Spent a lifetime running scared of my reflection,
Shattered glass cutting my soles as I’d flee
Spent a lifetime baring weight with no exception,
Avoiding mirrors cos I’m afraid of what I’d see
Red lights, checking boxes just to feel fine
A coward screaming into nothing while stronger people raise their shield
Spent a lifetime running scared of my reflection,
Shattered glass cutting my soles as I’d flee
Spent a lifetime baring weight with no exception,
Avoiding mirrors cos I’m afraid of what I’d see
Clambering aimlessly, clinging to pillars of strength that I’ve been dying to hold,
But my fingers are breaking with every grasp
Chasing rivers, hoping to find lakes in which to drown in
Spent a lifetime running scared of my reflection,
Shattered glass cutting my soles as I’d flee
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