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Hometown Hero
02:53
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Last time I was here
Wanted to disappear
Phosphorescent lights
Glued to the satellite
I thought I loved you but I didn't
All magic with no magician
The best love spreads like wildfire
And it burns now
There's ash all around
My hometown hero
Hiding in the dark
Behind the watermark
I wore my best smile
Ran my laps single file
I looked so happy but I wasn't
Reading Yeats' Second Coming
The best pain spreads in glacial forms
And it burns now
It's so cold all around
My hometown hero
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I can’t remember
Think it’s a condition
Burning memories
With a blunt precision
Trying to hold onto
Any sort of remnant
Waking up from dreaming
Holding resentment
I don’t know where life starts
And the fictional ends
Donuts in the parking lot
I think I need to make new friends
Cause everyone reminds me of you
Moved into the neighborhood
But I didn’t know it
Saw you in the driveway
Scared but didn’t show it
You’re totally different
Over the phone I’m
Putting you together
Two faces I don’t know
I can’t tell where we start
And the history ends
I've been trying to move on
Get confused on when you wanna play pretend
Everyone reminds me of you
Or the you I thought i knew
I mean I'm pretty good at making it up
I'm pretty good
Pretty good at making the whole thing up
The more I think about it - nothing’s adding up
But I'm pretty good at making the whole thing
I don’t know where life starts and the fictional ends
I’ve been trying to move on get confused on when you wanna play pretend
Cause everyone reminds me of you
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3. |
View
03:52
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Sami walked into the wedding alone
And found a corner to call her own
Breaking the top of the bottle and
Cutting her lips but thank god the vodka’s cold
I watched her across the room with stars in the whites of her eyes
I tried to tell her it gets better we both know thats a lie
I don’t drink anymore but I want to get drunk
Just to justify saying stupid shit
I wanna black out, end up at your house
Embarrass myself without the consequences
Of knowing I drove there because I really wanted to
Moved into the house on the hill
Just to get a better view
Every time I think about it
I've got something new to say
Paving routes we took
Monuments along the way
Memories everywhere
But I dont recognize what hurts
How can I forget the words
To a song I've never heard
All of these vices romanticize
That life is just a series of distractions
So maybe I'll stand on the cafeteria table
Shout all my baseless secrets
It’s not religious to say what you really mean
Held my breath in the pool to accelerate the dream
Every time I think about it
I've got something new to say
Paving routes we took
Monuments along the way
Memories everywhere
But I dont recognize what hurts
How can I forget the words
To a song I've never heard
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4. |
Fine
03:02
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Took another drive
Just to pass the time
This is what they mean when they said
You never really go home again
This is the pharmacy
This is the driveway where I
Had my first kiss
Even though I didn’t really want it
What if I hadn’t set off a chain reaction
I'm always grieving like I'm the main attraction
In the story of someone else’s life
One day I’m gonna be fine
I said I have no answers
I’m only made of questions
Andy said that’s the problem with
Stunted adolescence
I said I think you’re wrong
I said it's just who i am
Andy stood and laughed and said
What goes on inside your head
What if I hadn’t burned all my stupid wishes
I'm really fucking tired of being called ambitious
I just wanna lay around
Until the end of time
One day I'm gonna be fine
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5. |
Half Heart
04:02
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I gotta go about it from the sideways view
I gotta see it in a new light
Why would you tell me to come over to the show when
You got a warm body holding you tight
I had to find out the hard way
I had to see it in action
You knew my reaction
Would kill me one day
Knew this distraction
Was the price I paid
For loving someone with a half heart
I thought I could think myself out of it this time
I could breathe through the walls as they caved in
But the panic it settled in I went deaf and blind
Pushed through the crowd to the door, cheers to waiting
I had to find out the hard way
I had to see it in action
You knew my reaction
Would kill me one day
Knew this distraction
Was the price I paid
For loving someone with a half heart
And trust me I’m smart
I knew one day
Somebody else would impersonate
How I walk into the room
Dance to your favorite song
Kicking you under the table
Buying into a fantasy all along
I want somebody somebody who wants me back in return
Don’t say don't say you weren’t embarrassed of me
Now that I see you’ve moved on I think I might be ready now
Saving a song for someone more important to me
No more complaining no soliciting your sympathy
Saving a song for someone more important to me
I had to find out the hard way
I had to see it in action
You knew my reaction
Would kill me one day
Knew this distraction
Was the price I paid
For loving someone with a half heart
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6. |
From Up Here
03:08
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From up here I can see it all
The trees are big, the leaves are small
If I could be a little more
Like leaves in the wind, I'd float for sure
Everything feels heavy and I can't hold
Another pound of ashes in the Boston cold
Everything is plastic in possessive nouns
Solipsistic people keep bringing me down
Welcome home
Glued to the screens all flashing red
I hide my book and fake dead
Maybe I should live off the grid
Make lists of things I never did
Everything is melting and I can't cool
They didn't teach me how to calm down in school
Everything is nothing on unnamed streets
This all tastes sour when they call it sweet
Welcome home
One day I swear I'm getting out
There will be nothing to lie about
I can pledge truth and truth alone
My body's glass, I'll make it stone
Everything is half when I need it whole
Now they're trying to call this rock n' roll
Everything is nothing when you look up close
And that's what fucking hurts me the most
That's what fucking hurts me the most
That's what fucking hurts me the most
Welcome home
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7. |
New Year's Eve
03:10
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Laid around in the park
Drew the skyline but
I'm not much of an artist
I threw out what I started
Ordered breakfast for dinner
New year's eve is always
A big expensive bummer
And a year is just a number
When the ball drops and you’re so drunk that it’s absurd
Everyone’s kissing like it’s the end of the world
And you’re not here but I can feel you
I fucked up this time last year
Is selfish that I want you here
Aaron died on the slopes
In Salt Lake City
Got the news next morning
Felt tears slowly forming
It’s not like I knew him well
It’s more that I was
Complaining about the small things
When Aaron was dying
When you ended it and I started not to feel
I’m desensitized to the shockingly real
Wish I could show my emotions
I fucked up this time last year
Is selfish that I want you here
I guess I worry that I only think of myself
But it’s my way of coping with a never ending hell
Of the parade of insecurities I’ll never outrun
You were a glimpse into the normal that I let go of
Laid around in the park
Lit a sparkler
It’s ok cause nothing matters
We’re never getting answers
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8. |
Wannabe
03:19
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Laid in the bath till the bath went cold
Thought I heard a voice, just an echo
I wanna be a better version of me
I wanna be a better version of me
Dragging every line out of meaning
Backing down anytime I feel like it’s beginning
To be something bigger than me
I wanna be something bigger than me
Remembering Somerville seasons
When every street and building turned to white
I don’t think I’ve grown up anymore
Since my year on the other coast
Laying around my parents' house
Where someone’s always looking after you
Shouldering all the weight till something tells me not to
Overthink the things I wish that I could change
There’s always something just out of reach
There's always something out of reach
I wanna be a better version of me
I wanna be a better version of me
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9. |
IJWBWY
03:35
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She’s driving over again
He said this time he’s really gonna do it
Got everything in order
One day she’ll learn her never means it
Back in the seventh grade
He loved the smell of gasoline
And with the basement locked
She traced him out on the screen
Screaming that’s a new feeling
She’s a punching bag
All through undergrad
He’s not listening
She finds it riveting
The way he talks about dying
Makes her want it too
She says anywhere anytime
I just want to be with you
She’s running up the lawn
He’s on the porch in a robe
His fingers fixated on
The art of packing a bowl
She says man you scared me half to death
And now she's illuminating
All the shapes in the clouds
He wont apologize
He’ll never say it aloud
That he calls her just to feel something
She’s the kitchen sink
He throws in everything
Waits and sees what sticks
She’s a hypocrite
The way she talks about dying
Makes him want it too
She says anywhere anytime
I just want to be with you
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10. |
History
03:36
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Fell asleep meditating
Had to start all over again, he said
Looks like we’re gonna make it
But what if I don’t want to get to the end
Read the last page from the beginning just to know
What’s gonna happen to fictional people I wish I wrote
Being with him is a quick fix
Like permanent scaffolding
I’m boarded up temporarily
To figure out what’s wrong with me
You’re the end game I fucking knew it all along
I’ll keep on running, love’s not a sprint its a marathon
I’m trying to get rid of you
What good's that gonna do
History’s written
So decide how you’re gonna read it
At the end of the long drive
He was carrying our bags inside and said
“I get the feeling something’s missing
You always sound so unsatisfied”
Only so long you can fake the real thing
Before the right words overshadow everything
I’m trying to get rid of you
What good's that gonna do
History’s written
So decide how you’re gonna read it
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