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Same Old
03:00
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Every second passing seems to blurry up the moment
I'd reassess the options but I'm frozen
I think it's time that we leave
Where is it you wanna go?
The fabric frayed at the seams
What they don't want you to know
Don't wait up,
'Cause if the summer starts to crawl
It's time to rearrange
You've gotta find a way to break the same old way
I think it's something that you know
There's a siren waiting to go off at any notice
Second guessing my habits here in these songs for too long
I think I'm ready to leave
Why do you have to go?
The story's not what it seems
I think you already know
You've gotta find a way to break the same still frame moment
Do you still notice?
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2. |
Market Scheme
03:02
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Hope you've been saving some quarters
'Cause everybody's selling something
Just tell me what you're buying
'Cause everybody's selling something
Part of the market scheme of cashing in on our dreams
So do you have any money?
Well, do you have any manners?
Just enough to scam all the scammers
Part of the market scheme won't tell me differently
Tricked me with trickery
Can't sell me anything
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A Shift in My Beliefs
03:12
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why do the words feel the need to come to me
when i need a change in release?
the loss killed the spark,
and every anxiety had flooded over me.
(and now i can barely breathe)
how can i spell it out so that the hangman won't swing around?
the space in which you occupy
it's hard to find a guiding light.
can't say you tried.
how can i search for a shift in my beliefs
when i see the shame it precedes?
the art left a mark and all of the pageantry
could never appeal to me
did you even try?
did you even attempt to fill in the blanks?
i was force fed all of my mistakes.
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Caution & Pressure
02:27
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what do we say when the meaning and the message seem to fade?
do we kick it to the curb and walk away?
picking up pieces that we couldn't rearrange
so now the picture stays the same
walls fall down with caution and pressure
page torn out that won't even matter
how do we wait when the anger and the tension seem to stay?
is there worth in an attempt to clean the slate?
wasting away the days we thought would force a change
and now you're stuck inside the frame
so let's agree to disagree
there's been too many times you tried to change me
(it was all of the time)
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Identity
03:28
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our options untether,
frayed beneath the fruits of our endeavors
a shame that you should find the thought of another
to gather every word we sang together
and now we're not bound to each other
if my identity is optional
then your argument is abysmal
could you even bear the weight you pass off
without a second thought to the harm that it would cause?
an offer withholding,
prized by anyone who seeks their calling
a look inside your palms could show what you're hiding
this senseless effervescent needs defining
from all the life that we lost
the cost was high enough to justify the loss
the price we pay for wasting our days
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Incentive
02:54
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there's so many people that wouldn't surround me if i wasn't making them any money.
there's all of these people i know wouldn't come near me if i wasn't giving them any money.
i thought that we had it,
but i guess that these feelings are bad for business.
you'd think that they planned it,
as if there's incentive for interaction.
which makes me believe...
there's so many people that wouldn't come near me if i wasn't giving them a cut of my money
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7. |
Clean Again
01:43
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i can't find my way back to the start
let's deal with this another time
i'm slipping up,
are you surprised?
i don't know if you're here anymore
listening to me at all
'cause i can't stay through another one
don't act surprised
will you get clean again?
'cause it's like we never spent the time we did
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Caustic
03:27
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regress to a tone that we'd expect
i know that i play my cards close to my chest
a spiral implies a domino effect
setting off a sequence of never ending stress
it's been on and off again
can't fix much of it if the problems persist
i've been pausing everything to my detriment
it goes on and on
they suggest a static monument
a seat to bear witness to any intent
i'm miles behind with varied regrets
replacing every outcome without an argument
stop bringing up the past as if you think it's coming back
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