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They said to me...
It snows all day
With noise on the screen
I'm choking on styrofoam
And I can't seem
To be left alone
It goes away
They said to me
I'm holding on to what I know
And I can't seem
To reflect
It's old
It's gone
And I'm sold
So connect
With me
So I
Can go
March in the parade
The noise from the street
Is droning on, and I suppose
I know what you mean
When you tell me
Please
Don't go
Tonight
Stay home
But it's gone
And it's old
And I told
You so
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Is it really so necessary
To give away all the moments of our lives
To things that we know are arbitrary?
I don't want to be wasting all this time
Is it really so necessary
To try and bend all the color that we can find
'Til every semblance of reference is buried?
Don't take me out of my head, no, not tonight
I don't ever need to pretend
That I have seen where I've not been
I'm always what I was before
Is it really so necessary
To give away all the moments of our lives
To things that we know are arbitrary?
I don't want to be wasting all this time
I don't ever need to pretend
That I have seen where I've not been
I'm always what I was before
(many oohs and ahhs and the like)
It's been so long since I've felt new
How 'bout you?
But I don't feel it's too
Much to look away
From what's been pulling you
Out of your day today
'Cause I've been threaded through
To try and form a shape
From this feeling you
Nor, I, nor anyone can shake
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Write me a letter
And pick out a name
I could feel a bit better
'Cause I've lost all my shape
I'll call back a memory
To recall a face
To prove to my body I
Haven't been erased
But here I'm a captive
To formless embrace
And the never ending rush of moments
I cannot escape
But as everything happens
How could I look away?
You can drink away the color but
You won't forget the taste
The taste
I'm claimed by the dirt
And I'm cleaned by the earth
And I'm watching myself
As I lose all I'm worth again
Now, where am I?
If I am forever
Then what goes away?
There's no one there to answer
What you never seem to say
So cry me a river
And I'll puke out a lake
I'm covered in numbers
I could never rearrange
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When the light starts going down
And the streets are pulling you all around
Because there's no one
No one who's come to stay
When the night starts fading with the sound
Of a streetcar headed far out of town
Just to find someone
Someone who's gone astray
You're far away from reason
You'll hide away the truth
You're just a passing season
You're just a piece of you
When the dew starts drying out
And the heat's been pulling you to the ground
And there's nothing
Nothing for you to say
You're far away from reason
You'll hide away the truth
You're just a passing season
You're just a piece of you
You'll find the pinpricks in the words you'd found
You'll take a new trip into things you'd put down
Just to find nothing
Nothing had ever changed
You're far away from reason
You'll hide away the truth
You're just a passing season
You're just a piece of you
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The days just wash away
'Cause every moment's just another gone to waste
I wish they would stay
But every hour feels the same
I had never been so totally confused
By things I'd always known as simple truth
Now we're playing give and take
How could I have known that all you wanted got away
I wish I could say
That every shower's worth the rain
I had never been so passively amused
By things that never seemed to comfort you
But I can still feel love
I'll watch you walk away
With every moment lost written across your face
I'd wished you would stay
But every hour's yours to take
I have never felt so washed out and reused
I'm watching as I fall out of my youth
But I can still feel love
And, oh, how lucky I've been
Could never be so lucky again
Oh, how lucky I've been
Could never be so lucky again
But, oh, how?
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...Justify
The way we feel so inclined to
Pull through a string that threaded you together
Lighter than a feather
You collapsed
Into something we never knew
Maybe so...
I can't tell...
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from
All this mess
All is well
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from here
Here...
Maybe it's just to much
To think about, but if it is
Then why would you lead me here?
Later I might come around but
In the Rye the Catcher's unbound
And I feel so similarly unaffected
Maybe so...
I can't tell...
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from
All this mess
All is well
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from here
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There's nothing like a graceful death
Or a heavy hedonistic breath
To show you that you are alive
That you can't stop the march of time
To show you that you love this life
And you can't run from March's ides
It's nothing like what you've seen yet
With your heavy head and blistered breath
It'll keep your feet stuck to the ground
Your mind can float, but you'll stay down
With all the sights and all the sounds
That you hold close, that you keep around
But it's nothing like those things you know
I can't describe, I can only show
So come with me and we will go
Into the clouds as graceful ghosts
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Dropped in a lake
And my head is spinnin'
It went right up the nose
And out with the oxygen
What did I say
Or do to end up in
This curious place,
This downward position
Now I'm looking for
A plug to pull
To drain it all out
So I can feel full
'Cause no one else is down here
At least that I can see
It's just me and myself
Beneath the Caspian Sea
Said hello
To all of my visions
Swimming through
The dead or the livin'
What did I say
Or do to invite them
Did I pull a short straw
Or make some decision?
Now I'm looking for
A plug to pull
To drain it all out
So I can feel full
'Cause no one else is down here
At least that I can see
It's just me and myself
Beneath the Caspian Sea
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-Pair of Eyes-
...What our world is here
I found something I like
And it's just my size
I found a pair of eyes
That speak to what I might
Become in time
Reachin' through to
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DispositionoitisopsiD
Grants me visionoisiv em stnarG
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Here
-Games I've Won-
Sometimes I think I can change my life
Wake up one morning to feel alive
'Cause I hate the way I've been
I hate who I've become
I hate the things I've seen
I hate the games I've won
But sometimes I think I could change my mind
See there's more than just wasting time
But I hate the way I've been
I hate who I've become
I hate the things I've seen
I hate the games I've won
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Let's forget this
So we can arrive alive
Don't dare reminisce
Of what used to be side by side
This veil is faceless
Over what it hides
If you could fake its vagueness
You could crawl inside
This out of order exposé
Is pushing me through every day
Again, now...
Go on, erase those
Times we tried
They're better left unknown
Better left to the side
You can pull right through me
A thread that kills
You can let them all see
All our washed out thrills
In this out of order exposé
It's pushing me through every day
Again, now
This out of order exposé
Is pushing me through every day
Let's forget this
Let's forget
This out of order exposé
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Welcome to your life
There's no going back
Even while you sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me to make the
Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts...
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I cannot justify
The way we feel so inclined to
Pull through a string that threaded you together
Lighter than a feather
You collapsed
Into something we never knew
I cannot just rely
On what I've seen through others' eyes
And how true were the words that meant to make it better?
To make us feel forever
That at last
We knew that nothing would break in two
Maybe so...
I can't tell...
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from
All this mess
All is well
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from here
Here...
Maybe it's just to much
To think about, but if it is
Then why would you lead me here?
Later I might come around but
In the Rye the Catcher's unbound
And I feel so similarly unaffected
Maybe so...
I can't tell...
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from
All this mess
All is well
I'm lost somehow...
Take me far away from here
Here to...
Somewhere else...
How's the soap in your eye?
And the friend from your dream?
It's the way that you sigh
At the everyday things
It's what drags you along
When you can't even speak
It's what always felt wrong
It's why everyone weeps
It's a waste of your time
To hide away from your needs
It's like shading the light
From the limbs of a tree
But there's something you'll find
When you set yourself free
When you don't need to fight
To know when you'll be
Somewhere else
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