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Never Stop Hanging Out
03:06
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Calling you up, usually that’s fine, that’s enough
Calling in sick or calling your bluff
When i’m in a funk, up in my head or down in the dumps
You’re giving me that little push that gets me over the hump
When i’m over it, feeling ready to quit
Don’t wanna leave the house
Half an hour more, we’ll be out that front door
Never gonna stop hanging out
As hard as it gets trying to rock and roll without starving to death
If no one’s coming over why are you paying rent
Struggle to find the self esteem to take the time
Remember it’s nobody’s fault though the struggle is mine
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2. |
Offended
02:21
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Warm tecate in the van, you say you’ve never been a proud man
Well i’ve never been anything
That line of questioning again, what is it that you do in portland?
The answer never comes to me
Well i know why you’re asking
If i’m the test, you’re passing
And your tone is not an accident, no you meant it
But i’m the one offended
What is it that i think i’ll get from earning type a necktie dead eyed respect
We don’t even want the same things
What is it that i think i want that i don’t have from friends and tall can confidants
What else is this thing called happy
You’re feeling violent, an uninspired rage has settled deep within your skull
How’d they turn out so well?
You grew up in spite of all the unencumbered days that you spent staring at the wall, wanting nothing much at all
But i know why you’re asking
And your voice can’t keep from cracking
We’ll see each other passing on the street, but our eyes won’t meet
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3. |
Correct The Record
03:49
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correct the record, i never said i didn’t care
i was fed up and weathered, but i was not checked out
so turn off the safety valve and come sing karaoke
what’s one more distraction after all that we’ve allowed?
how do i hang on to the happy parts
should i run my mouth or would you cut me off
wouldn’t it be nice to know the moments i should keep it shut
i can’t control the moments i feel decent
and i won’t congratulate myself for keeping cool
won’t you come talk to me? i thought of something funny once
i was freaked out and withdrawn til the second i saw you
ripped off by the buyer from the moment you were hired
and from that point you always were obsessed
with bettering position, there’s a future you envision where somehow you won’t still be second best
but you’re always second best
the first few minutes are boundless pure potential
the next few hours feel like pulling teeth
so when you hear me say that i can’t be alone right now
it’s no special circumstance a constant state of being
but work will bring you discipline and discipline is freeing
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4. |
Funny Before
04:09
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Didn’t want to drink but we still somehow got drunk
I don’t sleep at night in the sluggish haze of late summer months
Too tired to catch up but i don’t want to lose touch
It wasn’t funny before, but now is sorta is
Didn’t want to seem like i was in a rush to write you back
Meant to give it a week, but it got a year and a half
Try to keep it low key but i just over react
Wasn’t funny before, but now it sorta is
Don’t hang around if you don’t wanna
Don’t know what you think you’ve found, but you’ll find another
I’ll be in my head when i could be in yours instead
It’s not funny to me, that’s what you said
Didn’t hang around to give my story to the cops
Almost run down by the truck from the flower shop
Back bumper said “this vehicle make fragrant stops”
It wasn’t funny before, but now it sorta is
You’re always shooting straight til you get a crooked shot
And i’ll play it cool til it seems cooler to not
I’m always pulling strings but i feel tangled and you feel taught
It wasn’t funny before, but now it sorta is
Your pain is raw, mine’s barely thawed
We’ll laugh it off cause it can’t go too far
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5. |
What Do You Know?
01:25
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Nothing ever happens until the moment you start drinking
then suddenly you’re happy just to sit around
Cause every man of action is just unhappy when he’s thinking
And i don’t think you know when you are acting out
I can’t stand for sitting still
But i’ll drink until i’m falling down
What do you know that the rest of us don’t?
How do the words not get caught in your throat?
How do you act like it all will be fine when it obviously won’t?
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6. |
Not Like That
03:54
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Look for your name on the ticker tape, look for the others too
A parking lot on the interstate, at least you’ve got things to do
You see the evidence everywhere, the silent faces laugh
How about a picture so you don’t stare? How about an autograph?
Shouting out, “it’s not like that.” it’s not like that, it’s not like that.
All the way out the door
Thinking aloud, they’re around you, they don’t know you but they’re about to
Once you get what you came for
I don’t recall feeling innocent. Light through the evening trees
Gaze of another is deviant. Mom will be back by three
I saw you wait in the cold. Grease on a rain slicked road
I didn’t notice it then but i remember it now
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7. |
Teething
04:07
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Float on the burning pit in your stomach
You gotta let me know if you want it
Leaving the headlights on, engine is running
What are you saying now? Why are you mumbling? What do you need?
How is it this is where life has found me?
Back patio praxis, still stuck at Maui’s?
What’s that you said? Millennial malcontent, poisoned by paying rent, irony flexing
Decision anxiety, you’re a direction, but i gotta know
You want me around, but do you need me
Felt like first steps, but it was teething
Nobody taught you to feel like a victim
Salting the burger joint, season the system
What’s that you said? There’s a degree for that, a committed regimen prevents most symptoms
Thought you were better than needing a sense of direction from school
Institutions that alienate us from the mind, routine that alienates us from the body
I gotta know do you want me around or do you need me?
Felt like first steps but it was teething
From inside it always seems, no start no end just in between
Is there a reason you feel so let down
You want me around but do you need me?
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8. |
Knife's Edge
02:48
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you wanna set yourself apart
and you had an early start
always knew you had it made
try to feel it from the heart
not every dull edge started sharp
you learn to let the instinct fade
knife’s edge, a pointed remark
there’s no one to twist the blade
never one to let direction guide you
they’re making water out of wine to spite you
but you’ll be happiest where no one finds you
it’s a numbers game hiding from the sun
and you can’t count past one
what’s just one more fucking time
spin the wheel and claim what’s mine
nothing’s ever what it seems
reality’s a lifelike shine
but expectation is sublime
you don’t owe them anything
knife’s edge, a shot in the dark
dimwitted throwing shade
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9. |
Distance
03:28
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last night i learned to open up
but right now i just wanna keep my mouth shut
everything i could say just feels gross
We drive in silence with the sun
unpacking everything all at once
how words can do violence to feeling close
you don’t have to tell me
that distance can make the heart
grow fonder whatever that means
‘cause every morning
i pull myself farther apart
just to stretch out the seams
i still remember how it feels
but i’m already putting up my shields
with no risk comes the reward of no harm
If you’re an open book that’s out of print
then i’m the sunday crossword with no hints
always laying around, you can pick me up, but you won’t get far
you don’t have to tell me
that distance can make the heart
grow fonder whatever that means
‘cause every morning
i pull myself farther apart
just to stretch out the seams
But you’re stronger than me
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10. |
When I Miss The 19
02:19
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I don’t wanna be the one you ignore
But i don’t wanna be the one you adore
I don’t want to be right anymore
i only take the 9 when i miss the 19, so yeah i guess i mostly take the 9
i sit in the first seat that i find and wonder who’s life is like mine and wonder who feels lonely from time to time
sometimes i’m scooping out my eyes under these blinding neon signs all pointing some new way home, but i still feel lost
and the only way i can calm my nerves is to hold my forehead against yours and just try to think your thoughts
growing up i always figured i’d know the right thing from the wrong, whatever thing it was that i was choosing
but it didn’t take all that long before i realized it was all bad options and worse excuses
so now i go through all my days in an impenetrable haze of push notifications and dopamine rushes and mixed feelings
and i barely remember a time when i knew what thoughts were mine and when i could clearly see things
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11. |
Sad Sack
04:11
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Explain it to me one more time
I can’t sit still when you talk about your life cause i just think about mine
Feigned confusion to watch your neurons glide
We both know how this is gonna end up, but i still make you decide
Chew me out, i don’t need your excuses
Push me around, i’ve got nowhere to be
Talk of the town, but talking is useless
Cause you knew what you had and i was a sad sack
Do you see through me? do you let it slide?
The last time i made a change in my life was on that moldy couch where i should have slept outside
So explain it to me just one last time
Why can’t we tell apart the types of close our boring brains combine?
Chew me out, you don’t need my excuses
Push me around, i’ve got nowhere to be
Stuck in this town, stable and useless
Cause you knew what you had
I wanna keep touch but i can’t say much (what am i giving away)
I wanna act rough, don’t make me keep up (what are we getting into today)
Let’s fuck up some stuff we just can’t clean up, cause all i do is clean up
Chew me out when i’m feeling useless
Cause you knew what you had and i was a sad sack
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12. |
Just Like You
05:51
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you were wrong, i’m still preoccupied
bad ideas that we never tried
cross my heart and hope to sleep
on a bed of fleas where nobody hides
it’s just like me to lose my head
and push you out
it’s just like you to stay instead
and calm me down
cross my heart and hope to decay
in open fields where you pass your days
you were right, and i said you were right
but i needed to feel wrong to stay
freaked out on the phone
bridge traffic is stalled
another thing to be late for
another meal in the car
you can’t just unsee
what you already saw
you don’t see yourself working
you don’t see yourself starve
we can’t unbecome
what we already are
just mental infractions
of physical law
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