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We can travel the world just say the word
I'll leave this desert behind
I hear it's pretty green in Spain
Could you see us going there
I'll leave this whole dumb dream behind
Hear it's an ego trip any way
Or there's this house I've always loved
I got the key what do you say
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
When's the last time you saw the sea
Hasn't it been a few years
Just take my hand and we can go
Not turn around till we get there
Now there's days you're sleeping in
But you're telling me it's all okay
I don't know what else I can do
But believe it'll be okay
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
I don't need anything but you
Last night I think I heard you crying
This morning you're running away
Now I'm shuffling half dying because
You said it would be okay
Now I spend most my nights alone
In fact I can't really get out of bed
And all the sunlight flocks to you
And you're with someone else instead
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The Orange
01:54
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The city feels alive and it feels nice
To look around and see the blinking lights
And we'll have everything that we're meant to have
And we'll wake up and we'll feel alright
Oh, I love you, I'm glad you're alive
And we'll get the house that we always wanted
With the X's in the windows and the shade in the yard
And we'll live together and no less happy
I think that's an ending that I deserve
Oh, I love you, I'm glad you're alive
And we'll walk at dusk and get caught in the rain
But it doesn't matter because we're breathing
Oh, the beauty of breathing
The simple rhythm of your heart beating
It's so strange to be alive
Oh, I love you, I'm glad you're alive
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Photo Major
02:25
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Well, I couldn't get myself to burn the pictures
So we'll just stay forever smiling in the dark
It was less than you deserved
But I didn't have the heart
There's Polaroids, there's cellophane
There's 35mm etched in my brain
There's Portra 600 there's black and white
There's medium format documenting my life
Was it all just a waste
Were you just another lovely mistake
Another reason for my heart to ache
And this box is so fucking heavy
And the memory weighs so much
And I can't get myself to destroy it
So it will just collect dust
There's this one that I sawI didn't scan it
We're in the cold, you're in my favorite jacket
You're smiling and waving and happy with me,
Like people in love should be
Was it all just a waste
Were you just another lovely mistake
Another reason for my heart to ache
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Hanging By Heart Strings
02:42
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I wake up strung out on good intentions
And I start thinking all these awful things
Like cutting your heart into pieces
And hanging myself with the strings
And we'd climb up into the mountains
Watch the smoke dance into the stars
And we'd laugh until we're crying
About something other than scars
Here I am blacked out again
On all the things I should have said
To you
My love
And we'd laugh at all the violent ways
That we used to try and convey
The way that we felt
About ourselves
I've been dragging a pen across my skin
To mark all the places you've been
The boarders strong and tight
For the love I sold you at night
Here I am blacked out again
On all the things I should have said
To you
My love
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I see light leaking from shutters tightly drawn
Lovely little silhouettes painted against the dawn
And it's casting orange haze to everything around
And it's lighting the little wet spots that are still on the ground
And there's you
And me
It' just you
And all the space
That's in between
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An Anxious Waltz
01:27
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Well, I'm feeling beautiful, spiritual, lyrical, wonderfully awful, and horribly sad
I want to be exciting, and I am trying, but all of my efforts, they fail to expand
Cause everyone hates me, I know it they hate me
They hate me, they hate me, they hate me, they hate me
And you you're so perfect, your effortless, conquest that everyone that you meet falls in love
And, I'm not jealous, I'm fine with my solace, but it would be nice to not turn to stone
Cause you'll be remembered, and I'll be forgotten, you'll be studied, and I'll be gone
I'll never be great, but what is greatness
Time keeps on going, erasing the faces of everyone smaller
There is no callers, there is no message, there is no tone
Do I have purpose and was this all worth it
These are just things that I cannot know
Cause I know I'm nothing, I know it I'm nothing
I'm nothing I'm nothing I'm nothing I'm nothing
I know I'm nothing, I know it I'm nothing
I'm nothing, I'm nothing, I'm nothing, I'm nothing at all
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Ocean Song
02:06
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The ocean is deep
There's a specter who's singing at me
There's water in my lungs
There's salt in my blood
I heard through shortwave prose,
The water is rising and coming for us both
I'll hold you tight
as it engulfs both our lives
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We're so scared of what we'll become
That we don't see, we're already there
I wake up most days afraid and I
Take an anti depressant and
Dream about being somewhere else
I look at news and there been
Another mass shooting a block from here
And just off campus someones killed themselves
We're so scared of what we'll become
That we don't see, we're already there
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
I wake up most days
Afraid
I wake up most days afraid
And I really wish I could be not scared
Always being afraid of what's not there
And I'm starting to feel petrified
Of all the small things in my life
Am I going outside today
Am I going to cry today
Do I wanna die today
Will I find a rhyme today
Maybe today will be the best day of my life
Or maybe around the corner
theres a man with a knife
And I'm stagnating , I'm stagnating
I can feel it in my bones
Oh I'm stagnating , I'm stagnating
Do I have a home anymore
I'm so scared of what I'll become that I can't
Seem
To feel any sort of joy in my life without feeling
So damn
Unworthy
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User Error
01:08
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Hold me down choke me out
Isn't this what love's about
On my knees begging
Please
I want to feel used
I want to feel used
Make this place go away
Never cared for it either way
Make me forget in a hot sweat
Everything
I want to feel used
I want to feel used
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Why in my dreams
Do I always seem to be dying
I feel so scared to say I didn't would mean that I'm lying
And I don't know if I'll grow old
But I don't want to leave just yet
I was walking down the street to find something to eat
But felt like everyone just wanted to hurt me.
So I stayed home to eat
And I don't know if I'll grow old
But I don't want to leave just yet
I don't want to be afraid
To face the day ahead
But it's hard when it feels like everything
Just wishes I was dead
I wanna tell people I love
How I feel about them
Without sounding like this is the end
I'm not who I was then
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Thorns
02:44
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We can decompose in the roses from last year
Cause I don't know about you, but I feel like dying here
The thorns will break and tear at your skin
One day flowers will grow where that happened
Try to fall asleep before we fuck each other blind
Didn't think I'd be something that you left behind
Now I shake with blankets on the floor
Cause I can't sleep in our bed anymore
My hands shake as I grab bottles to kill the pain
I swallow more than I should, but that's okay
Stumble through the streets, about town
Sleep by the sea, dream I'll drown
I miss breaking into buildings to scream at the sun
Begging it to explode just for fun
Now I'm scared the sky will fall
And I'll die alone after all
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I saw your eyes expand
As they met mine
That hadn't happened before
Suspend me in time
And keep me at this point
Fixed in space
I want the clearest view
Of your whole face
Just five more minutes please
Just five more minutes please
I don't want to leave
I don't want to leave
We dance through flaming flowers
Hope they scar our skin
A subtle reminder
To not do that again
A rats nest of hair
A tribute to god
Reality spares us
As time marches on
Just five more minutes please
Just five more minutes please
I don't want to leave
I don't want to leave
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Intentionally Blank
01:23
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None of this is real
And I'm sorry that I feel the need to overdramatize
Every little detail and every slight fail that happens to me in my life
When I saw your body lying in the street, I realized I am small.
I couldn't comprehend the subtle and quiet ending of it all.
I think that Phil says it best
"Death is real" "Death is real" it's really, really real.
"Death is real" "Death is real" it's really really real.
None of this is real and I'm sorry that I feel
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An Epilogue of Sorts
02:39
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And in real life I don't have a car crash
Or some blow out at some big social scene
All I have is me and my sweet misery
Let's see how much lower I can be
And I had a dream that you were walking
With some people I don't reach out to anymore
So I smiled and I waved and you did the same
And I woke up crying on the floor
And I feel haunted by a dream
From when I was a teen
Finding out who we were
Pretending we were mature
Balling fists in our hands
Rolling around in the sand
Feeling up in the dark
In the trunk of your car
In the back of a church
Destroying all our self-worth
To hide our true selves
Between lines of belts
And mesh and lace
All red in the face
With so much to prove
And nothing to lose
And I never thought I'd say that I miss you
Because we used to swear
That we would never part
We were sixteen and mean
And living on a dream
That you and I could share half a heart
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You Sunk My Battle Ship!
03:35
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You cut my hair and you broke my bow and you left me to drown
You held my hair, as the water went down and I tried to cough it out
And these seas are rough, but it proved too much
You took my small body and crushed it to dust and
You found another siren who sings a prettier song
He's much more optimistic and twice as strong
There's mold on the foundation, there's cracks in the hull
We're taking the ship out, but it won't hold so I'll
Sink to the bottom of the sea the weight crushing me
Oh, we're taking on water, won't you sink with me
Oh, we're taking on water, won't you sink with me
Sink sink sink sink
Lower lower lower
The ceiling is on fire and the floor is breaking down
and we add gasoline to make sure it don't go out
And we dance and we dance as smoke fills the room
Screaming and laughing, knowing it's coming soon
And all of the apartments get swallowed into the sea
As the underground sings with glee
This is it for me
This is it for me
This is it for me
This is it for me
This is it for me
This is it for me
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Jack Arthur Phoenix, Arizona
Forged in the fires of punk rock, musical theater, folk, and whatever else I've been listening to.
Jack Arthur recommends:
The Sunset Tree
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I think John Darnielle is one of the best living lyricists and this album had him tackling a very personal story
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This album is just banger after banger and in the end all of the songs lead into each other in such a seamless way
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It is hard to put into words how much this album means to me
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