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Big Thief - Shark Smile
03:58
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she was a shark smile in a yellow van
she came around and i stole her glance in my youth, a vampire
evelyn shown quiet as roses sting
it came over me at a bad time, but who wouldn’t ride on a moonlight line?
i had her in my eye, 85 down the road of a dead end gleam
she said woo
baby take me
i said woo
baby take me too
it came over her at a bad time, riding through Winona down the dotted line
she held us, gunning out 90 miles down the road of a dead end dream
she looked over with her part smile, caught up in the twinkle it could take awhile
and the money pile on the dashboard, fluttering
as she said woo
baby take me
i said woo
baby take me too
evelyn’s kiss was oxygen,
i leaned over to take it in as we went howling
through the edge of south des moines
it came over me at a bad time, she burned over the double line and she impaled as i reached my hand for the guard rail, the guard rail, the guard rail
she said woo
baby, take me
i said woo
baby take me too
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2. |
Tomberlin - Self-Help
03:17
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Electrocuted in the bathtub
Yellow black my bruises become
The heart is a heavy coffin
Where I lay down everyone I love
I used the self-help book
To kill a fly
I think it worked mom
I think I’m fine
Pray for my fifth of a century
The start of the beginning
The light in my eyes
Not the tears that fall out
Well you have a soft sort of power
But you know I’m not your napkin
This time this time this time
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Hopped on a plane for the first time today
I can't look back
I needed some self-assurance
I'm gonna find that
Got a book off the shelf today
It's gonna tell me what I should say
I don't know how to talk, when you're looking that way
Feeling bad for saying
Oh my god
No I'm not kidding
Gave me a sudden feeling
That I didn't have a place
You said that I was brave
But I just feel insane
You said to look into your face each day
Can you tell I'd never look away
I'm tired of running away
But I turned this town upside down
And I never found another like you
God turned off all the lights
There's gotta be a way
I'm tired of feeling like you only stay
Out of guilt and out of shame
But did we know any other way
I didn't know any other way
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4. |
Hand Habits - yr heart
04:48
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your heart beats hard
like the pounding of the sparrow
on the window that faces the yard
and you are far but not that far
i can feel you push your fingers
through the fabric of all of my thoughts
and i thought i saw a falling star
go flying past the treeline
and start a fire in my backyard
and i let you see the part of me
they call it understanding
they call it vulnerability
and the voice rang ooooooh
says i will not harm you
i will not alarm you
and then i tried to get you on the line
but the busy tones were blaring
and there was someone from the other side
and you are heat, you are serenity
there's a million ways to fuck with fate
to justify what you need
and your voice rang ooooooh
says i will not harm you
i will not alarm you
and then that voice rang ooooooh
i will not delay you
i want to obey you
and then that voice rang ooooooh
i will not deceive you
i want to believe you
and then that voice rang ooooooh
says i will not harm you
i will not alarm you
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5. |
Hop Along - How Simple
03:48
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I suppose one who hasn’t seen
the earlier frames could say
I am advancing
I am advancing
Pale as a banshee sun—
think I should stop checking
myself out in the windows
of cars, when I could see
my future in her pictures of relatives
How simple my heart can be
How simple my heart can be
frightens me
Don’t worry
we will both find out,
just not together.
Your hand was on me
It seemed like you were
being sweet
Here I am, again
at the reserve to drink
It’s not that I thought
like all of a sudden you change
We were covered in each other’s snot
in my childhood bed
It seemed like we were being sweet
Her pictures of relatives
How simple my heart can be
How simple my heart can be
frightens me
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Surprises in the night
Won’t you have your way?
Open up the door I see
I know you’re taken
What is it to you?
Habits just don’t fade
Open, overcrowded love
I know you’re taken
I know you’re taken
Need you want you
I know you’re taken
What you say to me
Breathes in desperately
In my lungs and through my chest
I know you’re listening
Always through and through
I see it in your eyes
Wondering if you want me
I know you’re taken
I know you’re taken
Need you want you
I know you’re taken
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Wastin’
Wastin’
Wastin’ away
Wastin’
Wastin’
Wastin’ away
Do you ever notice what surrounds you?
When it’s all bright and tucked under
Do you ever notice what’s around you?
When it’s all right under our skin
Wastin’
Wastin’
Wastin’ away
Wastin’
Wastin’
Wastin’ away
Do you ever notice what surrounds you?
When it’s bright, wrapped up for you
Do you ever notice what’s around you?
When it’s all there, in the wake of you
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Chameleon-like you see the slithering ones
If you don't blend in you’re in danger
Which face saves face it's a slippery slope
and you can’t fight back on your own
Hot tongue cold blood our defense is up
Does everyone owe you something?
Lose lose, win win, we're up against the wall
It’s that high school, small town talk
I can’t face the horror
Can’t take the chameleon nights
Blindfold the voyeur
I can’t take the chameleon nights
Behind the screen you’re on brave attack.
You sacrifice to be righteous
Unfriend unplug there’s a world outside
There’s a place we see eye to eye
Everybody’s talking but we don't know shit
You fight, I fight, it's an ego trip
It's a video game and you're an avatar
What you fake becomes what you are
I can’t face the horror
I can’t take the chameleon nights
Blindfold the voyeur
I can’t take the chameleon nights
Can’t face the horror
Can’t take the chameleon nights
You fight pain with torture.
I can’t take the chameleon nights
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9. |
Twinsmith - You & I
03:30
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you & I both know that we disagree
commonly over something we disguise
there is nothing more, between what’s seen
current emotions get the best of me
you know I love you babe
whenever it hurts it seems to all just go away
you know I love you babe
whenever its gone its seems to all just find a place
im calling it out when it feels just right
there is no fear breaking down on me
constant questions of what we know
holding the piece that gets the best of me
you know I love you babe
whenever it hurts it seems to all just go away
you know I love you babe
whenever its gone it seems to all just find a place
it all just goes away
you know I love you babe
you know I love you babe
you know I love you babe
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10. |
Land Of Talk - This Time
05:48
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I don't wanna waste it
This Time
And see fate as the end of me
I don't want to waste it
My Life
And know it was in front of me
together we rock together we roll
Fighting ourselves is taking its toll
Hear it on the cold wind of this town
I'm never going back that's a lonely road
i made it . it started .
i cant stop it - oh no !
I will wait for you to call me out
it's not a need nor a want living with its hands out
Would’ve stayed there alone
i cant know go back no more
i believe i don't know what you want
i believe i don't know what you want
i believe i don't know what you want
i believe i don't know
I don't wanna waste it
This Time
To see the fate that’s the end of me
I don't wanna waste it
my Life
To think it was in front of me
together we'd laugh, the memory low
Fighting ourselves, the phases would slow
cause i don't wanna waste it this time
the body's still wasted
the body's still wasted
I don't wanna waste it this time
i dont wanna waste it.
my life.
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11. |
Adrianne Lenker - cradle
03:17
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cradle more
the hours reel
cradle more
how you feel
baby you’re still too proud to come down
maybe i’m still too loud to hear
all the waves ascend and disappear
like a storm,
the air you steal
glacial form
the icy heel
baby you’re still too proud to come down
maybe i’m still too loud to hear
all the waves ascend and disappear
earth is born
to wound and heal
cradle more
the hours reel
baby you’re still too proud to come down
maybe i’m still too loud to hear
all the waves ascend and disappear
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12. |
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
03:49
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fly make flea make haste make waste eight makes infinity
times i’ve tried to make breaks, embrace for the enemy
meet my face to face time try to find the diamond
counting time as time counts me, the river to the island
do you not do you not tell
that smile always makes me well
do you see circling through?
that’s how one returns from two
the symbol of your love is time
the symbol of your love is time
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We slither out on a Tuesday, feeling tired and hopeless, and I don't know why
This life is a wonder
This life is a wonder
Help me see through yesterday, I need a barricade, I need an extra life
My body's a wonder
My body's a wonder
Break out the health machine
It makes us live it up
It keeps us free and clean
It gives my heart the beat and I don't know why
I look over to my best friend
They have weakness
They are pale and tired
I know how to save them
I know how to save them
Break out the health machine
It makes us live it up
It keeps us free and clean
It gives my heart the beat and I don't know why
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14. |
Sam Evian - Summer Day
03:37
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Oh, my love
can't you stay?
I'm just not ready to leave this place
We had our troubles
They faded away
All of our troubles faded away
Gentle breeze for beating hearts
I don't think anything can keep us apart
I don't want anything to keep us apart
It took a summer day so I could see
It took a summer day for me to know
that the past was a long time ago
And it feels so good
to be with you today
And I ask myself
how can I leave this place
'cause I'm ready to stay
How my heart can carry me
Sometimes I forget the beautiful things
You show me figures
strange and sweet
It took a summer day so I could see
It took a summer day for me to know
that the past was a long time ago
And it feels so good
to be with you today
And I ask myself
how can I leave this place
It's a perfect time
It's a perfect day
and I tell myself
that i'm ready to stay
Took a summer day
Took a summer day
Took a summer day
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15. |
Stef Chura - Degrees
05:22
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All that you do
Formed into truth
You take it or leave it
Who’s got a use
All that you needed
Shaked and repeated
Uprooted and weeded
It gave you a reason
On to walk off with
Lean on my false hip
Glances they’re greedy
We’re taking them in winter
I got this sea to be released
Glance back at me
Reciprocating one million
Degrees
Dark as it’s been
Thicker than sin
It don’t change the circumstance
Even for a glimpse
Into a maybe
Gone with the crazy
You go meet yourself there
Where they’re all playthings
Deal with the ache there
Tear out the pages
Feelings in phases
Until your fading
Off into winter
Feed me that splinter
Burn back at me
Reciprocating one million
Degrees
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16. |
Young Jesus - Green
05:46
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i need some room to pull some stunts
to flatten everything
we'll be so covered, so embraced
i am a coffee cup, i am a tire, i am a wave
i am this thought and i am not myself
and that's okay
i see a crow across the way
i feel a fullness
feel entire moments always change
im getting closer to myself
but i withdraw the same
i am a stranger in a strangely intimate embrace
it's always better when you're around
it's always better when you're around
it's always better when you're around
it's always better when you're around
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spending time in measured ways to measure life
see time erode so easily
find seconds of activity and go back to overwhelmed
let’s build a new community
if fire taught a lesson to the gods
if pain approaches empathy
if saints aren’t given voice to teach of burns
we’re led to blood periphery
it’s not enough to hate the world we live within
it’s not enough to hate the world we live within
it’s not enough to hate the world we live within
it’s not enough to hate the world we live within
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