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_intro
02:20
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[indistinct humming]
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2. |
nowhere firm to stand
02:05
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i've been spending my whole life away
just beyond some screen, dark and vague
looking down at my body and all these faces i wear
no mask is made to last but i say that i don't care
caking on the makeup for each life i know
watching from the corner, it all just goes to show
that i feel like i'm stuck at sea
nowhere firm to stand, no safe place to be
nowhere firm to stand, no safe place to be
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3. |
dust spreads
00:51
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the plaster's coming off my walls
i don't know if i know where i live anymore
bare boards and insulation
i'm not supposed to breathe in, right?
cant breathe right
i dont know how much time has passed
but i know that the longer i wait here
the more that this house crumbles around me.
windows break, walls fall, dust spreads
cant breathe right
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4. |
with time
03:08
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i've spent too much time here
and i don't know
what i'm doing
i've had too much on my chest
and i don't know
how to lift it
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but i do know
that things will change
with time
i am blind now
but the sun will shine
i've heard stars
call out to me
and say
hang in there
and soon you'll see
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staring up at phosphor skies
that i painted
when i was five or so
when i still sought that big unknown
and i still thought i could never
stray too far from home
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i know now
that things will change
with time
i am blind now
but the sun will shine
clouds have come
blocked out the day
but wait
stick around here
promise you'll stay
cuz i've heard time
call out to me
and say
hang in there
and soon you'll see
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5. |
or a pyre
01:55
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old traditions,
put that scowl away
i dont care what
you're gunna say next
things have changed,
the world's no longer yours
no matter what
you think you see
i don't know where things are going
but i hope i'm aimed real high
i can't think of where i'll be
in a year, maybe five
past's behind me
heard but not seen
whispering that your
time is done
i can't tell where time will bring me
to a pool or to a pyre
each morn waking, hit the rng
and pray for no more surprises
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6. |
kinder to myself_
03:19
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can someone please fast-forward to when
everything is better
i've been waiting for the end for months now
it's embarrassing
nothing's getting clearer
fifty fucking hours of therapy
and still
i'm sitting on the edge
- - -
i know that i should be
kinder to myself
i know that i should be
more optimistic
but i've spent so much time
face down on my bedroom floor
that i don't know if i can see
light anymore
- - -
i just don't feel like a person
anymore
juggling identities
and staring in the mirror at
four in the morning
on a weeknight
i've got
shit to do
but i can't
close my eyes
for fear of falling deeper yet
i can't
halt my mind
it's spinning round and round again
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i know that i should be
feeling better by now
i know that i should be
in recovery
but every day seems
harder than the
last and I can't
hold on
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lake sperry Chicago, Illinois
i have literally no clue what i'm doing, don't mind me
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