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Home Away From Home
04:20
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Moving out to Hollywood
Doing what you said you would
Wish that I could've followed you
But I'm glad to see you followed through
On chasing down designer dreams
Making life like what you've seen
In your mind since you had turned sixteen
You wouldn't mind the ones who preach they disbelieve
(Oh, and it mattered to me)
So you start a chapter all your own
Learn to love to live alone
And find out what you wanna know
About the girl who sings loud and out of key
So from here I write to you
No I don't work out, this is what I do
I sit here in this messy room
And I cycle through my memories with you
Good to see you're never gone for good
You're still the same, I hoped you would not
Change a thing about the way that we both love to act strange
You have seen what I've seen
No one knows better than you
About how neither of us need saving
Come the time to face the grave
We'll close our eyes and lay amazed
As we move back to the place where we belong
Back to Virginia
Back to Virginia
We've got the same odd genes, a different face
The tides are shifting with the pace
But you're keeping us all up to date
On the latest fate of the blue-black hate
When everything's a shade of grey
With the Black and White I love to play
Cuz he always knows just what to say
And his eyes, they wait for the day they see your face
Home away from home is where I am
I ate the soap that washed my dirty hands
But maybe it ain't really so bad
You have seen what I've seen
No one knows better than you
About how neither of us need saving
Come the time to face the grave
We'll close our eyes and lay amazed
As we move back to the place where we belong
We're gonna move back to the place where we belong
Back to Virginia
Back to Virginia
Going home
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Pie
02:36
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"I want a girl with purple eyes
I want a girl who won't feel bad
When I tell her that I don't get why she cries
I'll find her in San Francisco or in another life
It doesn't matter much, I'll just go hang out with the guys
And we'll get pie and talk about all the things we never had
Yeah, we'll get pie and then maybe I won't feel so bad
People respect me oh so much more oh so much more when I'm mad"
Just keep telling yourself that
Just keep telling yourself that
I want a girl with green-blue hair
I want a girl who doesn't care
When I tell her that my main trait is my pride
We can laugh about how everyone we dated was a lie
And then I'll screw things up
Write my will, then keel over and die
Mom and Dad I'm gonna make it
Mom and Dad I'm gonna make it through this life
Mom and Dad I'm gonna make it
Mom and Dad I'm gonna make it
I'm gonna make it to the light
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3. |
Don't Forget 2 Write
01:56
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Every time you cry
I die a little inside
But that's alright
I'm a tough guy
But you spend too much time
Inside your mind
I know he lied
Here's my advice:
Forget about goodbyes
Come catch a ride
Never collide
There's other guys..
Remember you're not shy!
Hey, neither am I
Behind those eyes
The truth, it lies
You can change your life
If you try
Oh, you can change it with me
By your side
Oh, it's darkest before the dawn and
Your life is about begin
And so is mine
So this next July
Don't forget to write
Just one short drive
It feels so right
To have you by my side x3
So don't forget to write
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You talk a lot of big game for the little that you know
It's like your mouth is talking fast but can't keep up with your throat
And you've got a long list of reasons, you should quit while you're ahead
But you're writing down a longer one
Says, "go on instead"
Make the call
You don't have to
You shouldn't walk alone
You should stop with excuses
You should move on
Man your stations
There you'll shut
Off from what kills us
Off by the billions
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5. |
Drop the Anchor
03:00
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I watched the paint as it was running
Until the moments chipped away
I heard a sudden scream and a door slammed shut and I–
don't know where I'm gonna be next year
I could be dead next year
A second chance is all I ask for
I can make this last I swear
I saw the house as it was burning
I watched you laugh it off then scream
Someone you love was in the fire
And that someone's name is me
So now I'm taking all of my sweet time
The words don't have to rhyme
I'm learning how to lie
Drop the anchor and go to sleep
I hope you know that I think I love you
More than I think you love me
And it's a shame that we're both sick
Yeah, we share the same disease
It'll tear my body to pieces
The blood will stain and you'll believe
You'll believe
So watch me stand right here in protest
Watch me speak with my mouth shut
And if you don't know what I'm thinking
Well then maybe you never should
Just watch me solve all our problems
Watch me rip the pages out
Of a book that I helped write
For series on mental health
It's not that bad
Just understand
We both played a hand x2
So are you listening?
I know I'm fucking loud
Make up your mind
Erase the doubt
I'm here, I'm listening
Are you listening?
I'm here, I'm listening
Are you listening?
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Oh, come tomorrow
I'll be washed up on the shore
And when they identify me
I won't be begging no more
Loan sharks tore my face apart
Owed so much to so many
I had mouths to support
A mother late to retire
A brother coming up short
And if I can't breathe
Then I don't need to be the one
Who knows anything?
And I don't believe
That this will ever amount
To anything at all
Loan sharks tore my face apart
When you did all you could
What's there left to do but die?
(You did all you could do now)
And you know I never had myself a wife
And you know I never had myself the time to
Between odd jobs and managing
To live in this country
On a corporation salary
Won't you please help me?
Help me get away to someplace
Where I can feel as if I'm one with everything
And I don't believe
(That this will ever amount to anything) x2
And I don't believe in anything at all
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