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Pilot/Passenger
04:16
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A thin veil of seraphim vision
Watch the waning definition
Of your name displayed in color
Through the rain I prayed for way back then
I am fine with everything changing
I can trade places and machines
Watch you wander around in the breeze
And never ask you for anything
Some days I am the pilot
Most I am a passenger
Watching people drift
In and out like clouds
I wonder how, I really do
How I am supposed to get close to you
No, I couldn’t choose you
Even if I wanted to
And I want to
Hollow halls echo distant calls
And I fall upon your voice
Consonants rest lightly on the three sheets
You threw out to the wind
That I catch for a second
Only see them slip to oblivion
Now I remember what you were like then
Some days I am the pilot
Most I am a passenger
Watching people drift
In and out like clouds
I wonder how, I really do
How I am supposed to get close to you
No, I couldn’t choose you
Even if I wanted to
When fate makes me see your face again
You’re like i thought you’d be
You’re lonely
And you’re lovely
Like I thought you’d be
I’ll let you have your way with me
Wish it didn’t have to mean anything
Wish I didn’t have to wonder
If you even like it when I sing
But I’ll play the same four chords
In the same bars around your town
When you ask me to come over
I’m already coming down
Yeah, I’m bored
And you’re around
Some days I am the pilot
Most I am a passenger
Watching people drift
In and out like clouds
I wonder how, I really do
How I am supposed to get close to you
No, I couldn’t choose you
Even if I wanted to
Some days I am the pilot
Most I am a passenger
I watch the people drift
I watch them drift, and I know
You’re not part of it
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2. |
I Wonder Why
03:40
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My burned out eyes
Filled with those childhood lies
And I wonder why
I've wasted all my time
On some light I can’t find
I wonder why
Got used to the fire alarm
In my own apartment
Swallowed by my guitar
Just wanting to end
The roar of the war in my head
I still get flashes of another
Yes, it's always getting better
There are times I’d never return
There are times I
I forget what I've learned
Oh, but I've earned
My share of burns
And I'm turning around and around
‘Til I’m all turned around
Maybe I’m made to waste on a flame
That’s become unstable
I’m not able to hide or tame
The way it burns
Inside of my brain
Some days I feel the dream is gone
And still all I know how to do
Is these write songs
Got used to the fire alarm
In my own apartment
Swallowed by my guitar
Just wanting to end
The roar of the war in my…
Maybe I’m made to waste on a flame
That’s become unstable
I’m not able to hide or tame the way
It burns inside of my brain
Got used to the fire alarm in my own apartment
Swallowed by my guitar again
Just wanting to end the roar of the war in my head
I wonder why
I’ve wasted all of my time
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3. |
Talks Past Midnight
05:01
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Could take you for a ride, dear
The clear night sky don’t fall yet
How high can we get?
The stars feel kind tonight
More than anytime
Why don't I show you the world?
Nice and slow
Then we can be whatever we want to be
Do whatever we want to do
It’s your dream, too
I’m just trying
To make believe
It’s all long car drives
And talks past midnight, isn’t it?
Is it real at all, or did I dream all of it?
I joke about escapism
You hope for a cleaner prison
We both want something
We’re always waiting on
It’s all long car drives
And talks past midnight, isn’t it?
Is it real at all, or did I dream all of it?
I’m still sleeping off the last few times
I can't be doing this
Whenever you like
My soul's only so big
You’ve got your finger on the trigger
You always have
Something’s got to give
Sooner or later
I’ll find out what you're after
Sooner or later
I’ll find out what you want
It’s all long car drives
And talks past midnight, isn’t it?
Is it real at all, or did I dream all of it?
It’s all long drives
And talks past midnight, isn’t…
Yeah, that’s it
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4. |
Let the Last Train Go
03:45
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Time moves too slow
The clock’s hands seem to know
The seconds I’m counting are borrowed
I wait for the hour I can’t trust my ego
What is not set in stone
Can wait for tomorrow
Even after I’ve played my best show
Where I hit every right note
Remembered every word I wrote
I can’t even bask in a good night’s afterglow
Thinking about what I’ve always known about being alone
I let the last train go
As I stand at the empty station
With nothing but my phone
I hear the distant echoes grow close
A whistle of a sad, sad solo
I know I am never truly all on my own
If I live in the moment
I won’t die a ghost
So I bare my soul
That is so chock-full of holes
I let the last train go
I let the last train go
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5. |
Live Forever
01:36
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When that pond we had
Was the closest thing to a lake
The winter would come and freeze it over
Then we’d go out at night and lay on it
Side by side
We lived as though the ice would never
Thaw or crack
As if you could live forever
As if you could live forever
I still go out
Every night in the winter
Though I’m alone
I still need to remember
The way you felt against me in the cold
‘Cause that’s all I have
And all I still am now
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6. |
For You to Know
02:48
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I see our years in a seashell
You held up to my ear
And hear her voice
Above the ocean noise
Can see your eyes searching mine
To see if she's still on my mind
I just smile and say
"Isn't that nice,
I’d like to take you to California sometime”
I’d hate for you to know
I can still smell her clothes
And maybe I’m never alone
I’d hate for you to know
Everything I know
You’re everything I know
It’s too late for me to hold you close
And there's something
Stuck in my throat
And I don’t know
How to tell you I don’t know
But I will kiss you like I’m told
And probably grow old
With her weighing on my soul
I’d hate for you to know
I can still smell her clothes
And I’m maybe I’m never alone
I’d hate for you to know
What I got in my nose
And maybe you don’t hold out hope
I’d hate for you to know
Everything I know
You’re everything I know
And I’m everything you won’t
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7. |
Full of Hell
03:20
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I'm weeping and gnashing my teeth
At the thought of lying beneath
That ether brightly burning
Now I'm a fever
(A believer)
Now I'm dancing
To the beat of all my eternities
The room looked like a view
Got too bright
Took my mind, well
I'm over you and underwhelmed
I was once complete!
And full of hell!
These waves I ride to be
In a place that's good for me
But I'm unstuck and fiending
For the thought of leaving
Well, when am I not leaving?
I kill those parts of me
That still remember everything
The room looked like a view
Got too bright
Took my mind, well
I'm over you and underwhelmed
I was once complete!
And full of hell!
The roof was snow in June
And I only ever see you
I’m over you and underwhelmed
I was once complete!
And full of hell!
The room looked like a view
And I only ever see you
I’m over you and underwhelmed
I was once complete!
And full of hell!
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If I’m over
And you’re a roamer
Both older souls
Than I afford
Ride me out like you like to
Like you want me
Like I want you
Leave your number in my room
Before the window opens on its own
And it’s cold
And it's morning
And I’m thinking
About calling you
Though I shouldn’t
You’ve got your own kind of leaving
And I’m too kind
And not enough
All at once
Didn’t believe how hard
The fall was gonna be
Rattled up my insides
Made me someone I don’t like
But someone better than i was
All the same
It won’t always be this way
Someday, I won’t even have to think
About being okay
Someday I’ll be so happy
I won’t even have to sing
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