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A Delicate Mess​

 

I guess we can’t catch a break

Holding my breath at the bottom of a lake

Everybody has those days but for fuck’s sake

Time is theirs to take

Life’s what you make it

I don’t know what I made

 

You can’t say I didn’t try

You can't say I didn't try

You can’t say I...

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The guests we will leave behind

When our glasses are empty

But they still drink their wine

Can’t save the date for me another time

The belle of every ball

Destined to see nothing Of it all

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You can't say I didn't try

You can't say I didn't try

You can't say I...

Strung along like a knotted necklace

I’m a delicate mess 

 

We all have choices, so do I 

May be a burden all my life

Could be that I’ll just tragically die

Waiting for a white knight or the antichrist 

 

If I could hear you now I’d blink 

Drowning sounds of certainty as I sink

Under weight of fear and still I think

This never ending wrong 

But tell me lately- who else is holding on

 

You can’t say I didn’t try

You can't say I didn't try

You can’t say I...

Strung along like a knotted necklace, baby

I’m a delicate mess

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We all have choices, so do I 

May be a burden all my life

Could be that I’ll just tragically die

Waiting for a white knight or the antichrist 

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We all have choices

Waiting for a white knight or the antichrist

High Tide

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The more we change our lives to stay the same 

The more we lose ourselves along the way

Look for every freshly made new masquerade

Feeling lonely?

only hope it’s not too late

 

Ooh oh it moves slow

Like you know 

High tide hits tonight

 

I know it’s the cause of a hurricane

It controls the moon; not the other way

It's just my obsession you wanna say

But you know me;

Show me another way

 

Why can’t we just be star-crossed lovers

Who won’t let it go because we love to suffer

Burning letters with too much luster 

Lost for days it seems

We lie to save each other 

 

Ooh oh it moves slow

Like you know 

High tide hits tonight

 

I know it’s the cause of a hurricane

It controls the moon, not the other way

Is it my obsession that won’t go away

Do you know me?

You can’t show me another way

 

And when I jump

I know you’ll break my fall

Smash right through you 

I’m your cannonball

Caving in your roof 

Cracked windshield makes the call

Like it’s the proof

That we weren’t strong enough at all

 

You know you’re the cause if I’m a hurricane

It’s the truth that we’ll never say

You’re just my obsession 

Never get away

You control me, own me, make me insane

Damaged Girls

Can an insane amount of short skirts
Hide my assets and bury this hurt
Always on this merry-go-round
Stained lips that never make a sound
And we don't cry anymore

It's always raining,

Always raining somehwere
Damaged girls are the ones

Who're too cool to care
Hey you, hey you,

Hey you, hey you
Are you broken, too?
Hey you, hey you,

Hey you, hey you
I'm all tape and glue

Feeling good didn't feel that great this time
I'm warm but still dead on the inside

I know it when I know it
Slurred eyes will blur the words
Of all the midnight poets
No one has ever heard

Always raining

Always raining somewhere
Damaged girls are the ones

Who're too cool to care
Hey you, hey you,

Hey you, hey you
Are you broken too?

(always raining, always raining)
Hey you, hey you,

Hey you, hey you
I'm all tape and glue

(always raining, always raining)
 

The Last Day

 

Oh no, you can't tell me anything

Nothing good happens at three

The hour when we convene 

I suffer willingly

 

But in the midst of this breakdown

Still have room for you - my favorite sound

Turns out the end of the whole wide world

Was beautiful and loud

 

The sweet sound calling me by name

Is all I hear as I fall again

It gives pleasure to this pain

Til finally uncertainty

Collides with me in a final scream

The sounds of the ending

 

Oh no, you're not convincing me

I never wanted to leave

Got lost in my own dreams

But what's reality

 

In the midst of losing my mind

I still had room for one chorus line

Turns out the sound at the end of time

Is fucking beautiful

 

The sweet sound calling me by name

Is all I hear as I fall again

It gives pleasure to this pain

Til finally uncertainty

Collides with me in a final scream

The sounds of the ending

 

Oh, here we go again

It always comes in these waves

Oh, heating me up just to

Freeze me out the next day, next day

Oh, can we just pretend to try

I see it in your eyes

No way to get it back

I turn it up - the next track, next track

It never gets easier

It just becomes familiar

It doesn't feel like any certain day

But I know someway

It's the last day (last day)

It's the last day (last day)

It's the last day (last day)

I just push play

 

Ever Enough

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In the darkness

I run from you

If something's in the air

I am too stupid to care

I leave it up to you

I bore me

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I wanted a life

It was never enough

I wanted a life

It was never enough

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In the darkness

I reach for you

The feeling of your lips

The tremble of that kiss

The magic no one touched

Before you

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In the darkness

You reform me

The tender brush of skin

Soft in places no one's been

You let me take you in

Take all I can

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In the dakrness

I adore you

Playing truth or double dare

Your beauty tumbles everywhere

I'm waiting for the night

To own you

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I wanted a life

It was never enough

I wanted a life

It was never enough

 

Song 5 Never Dies

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Everyday is a holiday

When you're far away from what you know

The street lights always find me

The stop lights blind me

Flashing cherry red light show

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I pour my heart out just for you

But tell me, what good does it do?

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I'm an island in the sea

In some star-eyed ego glow

Could you get lost, although it

Won't let you control it

Walk a fine line fashion show

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And I'm feeling high, I can't deny (oh my god)

We delight it, don't fight it, X marks the spot

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Try as we might, we won't survive

But this song will never die

We cut and we bruise, all we've been through

But this song goes on without you

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Will we know in the end if it was more than pretend

Just a another postcard you never sent

It's on the tip of my tongue, I wanna scream out and run

On my hands and my knees just begging

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Say something, come and find me

Say something beautiful too

Say something, don't remind me

Say something that will get me through

 

 

Into Oblivion

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Forget the past by moving so fast

I'm a runaway, so find your seat

Fly by the night, so buckle up tight

Now we're speeding faster than light

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Oh no we're coming apart again

Painted smiles and sainted hearts

Oh no start your engines, gentlemen

Countdown starts

Brilliant sparks

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We're going down escaping this town

Can't see anything in front of me

It's on your mind, just out of my sight

Coming on now faster than light

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Oh no we're coming apart again

Painted smiles and sainted hearts

Oh no start your engines, gentlemen

Countdown starts

Brilliant sparks

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No wrong or right to get beyond

The stars don't shine if passion's gone

Into oblivion

We meet on high but leave so low

We travel to the great unknown

Into oblivion

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Faster than light you're moving on

I'm moving too, I'll soon be gone

Into oblivion

Forget the light, it never shone

The skies at night will lead me home

Into oblivion

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Oh no we're coming apart again

Painted smiles and sainted hearts

Oh no start your engines, gentlemen

Countdown starts

Brilliant sparks​​​​​​

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