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Leave It All Behind
03:25
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Can ya feel it, that fire’s out
Gonna have to pick myself back up to get out
Analyzed it, from scratch
Talked about everything they knew, but the facts
And when you feel it, you realize
You gotta leave it all behind
And when you see there’s no compromise,
You gotta leave it all behind
Are you feeling, that urge to run
Slam your head into a desk and be done
It’s just an instinct, just a thought
You pack up everything you got and be gone
And when you feel it, you realize
You gotta leave it all behind
And when you see there’s no compromise,
You better leave it all behind
I beat that way back pretty sure there’s nothing I missed
Can you feel it, that fire’s out
Gonna have to pick yourself back up to get out
To survive it, don’t look back
There ain’t no point in watching it all collapse
Gotta leave it all behind
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2. |
Dimes and Pennies
03:01
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When the blood in my head it gets to poolin
Better just let it go
Second thoughts and lying’s never pretty
Projecting out of control
Santa Ana wanna blow back in the city
Wants to know if it’s not something I did
And then I went to hell just for a minute
But I knew that I was better than this
Counting all your dimes and pennies
Wondering why the world moves on
You’re telling me you really couldn’t see it
Wanted to be left alone
You check out when you’re really needed
Maybe you should check your phone
And when I’m dead and there really is no fooling
That’s when I’ll just let it go
Second thoughts and horseshits never pretty
Maybe just make a note
Santa Ana wanna blow back in the city
Wants to know if it’s not something I did
Now I’ve been to hell and back just for a minute
And I know that I’m still better than this
Counting all the dimes and pennies
Wonder why the world moves on
You’re telling me you really couldn’t see it
Wanted to be left alone
You check out when you’re really needed
Maybe you should check your phone
You’re telling me you really couldn’t see it
Where have all the good times gone
I’ll tell you when the song is ready
Maybe make you sing along
Do you feel alright
Do you feel alright
Do you feel alright
Do you feel alright
When a bird in the hand it gets a cooing
And we all leave it at that
Might be time to roll out into traffic, get out and never come back
I’ve got a panorama wants to slow down in the middle
Just to see if there’s not something I missed
You know I’ve been to hell just for a minute
But they told me I was better than this
Counting all your dimes and pennies
Wonder why the world moves on
You’re telling me you really couldn’t see it
Just wanted to be left alone
You check out when you’re really needed
Maybe you should check your phone
You’re telling me you really couldn’t see it
Where have all the good times gone
I’ll tell you when the song is ready
I can barely wait that long
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3. |
Damned
02:58
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Damned if I haven’t seen the bottom
Damned if you think you’ve seen the depth
Fooled by the things that I’ve forgotten to remember
In the seconds that I had left to connect
When hesitation kills you
I’m pretty sure it kills us all
Damned if I haven’t burned some bridges
Doomed by the nature of the game
Fooled by the fact that we cannot take it with us
And we become accustomed to the pain
Damned the risk is often worth it
Flying over chasms of defeat
Fooled by the sun just coming up behind me
But you can’t count on that performance to repeat
When hesitation kills you
I’m pretty sure it kills us all
When calculations fool us
We never really had that long
Damned if you really think about it
Doomed if you never think at all
Repelling down the mountain of certain death and failure
And hoping that it don’t end in a fall
And the hesitation kills you
I’m pretty sure it kills us all
When calculations fool us
We never really had that long
Damned if we haven’t burned some bridges
Doomed by the nature of the game
Fooled by the fact that we can’t take it with us
And we become accustomed to the pain
Damned if you didn’t mend some fences
Doomed to the fields of regret
Fooled by pride and the precociousness of ego
There was nothing left of me the day the angels wept
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4. |
Horses
03:25
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Spent a thousand years medicated
Accepting things you truly hated
You should have anticipated
Dodged the truth instead of made it
How on earth could you escape
Capitulate instead of faced it
No answers cause I didn’t ask
Forget the truth salute the past
Fall into another trap
A busted chain of covered tracks
And raise a cup of broken glass
No one here deserves a pass
When I set those horses free
Climbed out a hole that was six feet deep
I turned around and head for home
Now I’m dying in my dreams
Running down the same old streets
Small price to pay for what it is I know
Almost sure I’m someone else
Pull the plug on mental health
Been defeated and in hell
Watch history repeat itself
I will say it once again
We’re fundamentally broken
Particulars are left unsaid
Everybody’s left to guess
Now we’re hanging by a thread
Turning back or paying debts
Darkness underneath the breath
Backs are up until the death
When I set those horses free
Climbed out a hole that was six feet deep
I turned around and head for home
Waking up in another room
Surprised the darkness again has bloomed
That’s the price I pay for what it is I know
No answers if you never ask
Forget the truth salute the past
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5. |
Motorcade
02:42
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Any given day
I can fade away
It’s all a joke my mind plays
For what it is
It shouldn’t go like this
There’s no reason for me to survive it
Watching the news
Look more like cartoons
Where everyone everywhere pays
Getting tattoos
On this ship of fools
And watching it sail away
Getting and spending, no sign of goodwill
Snowflakes are crushing my thoughts
Don’t look too closely cause it’s bound to hurt
And still there’s no answer from God
A motorcade, pouring rain
Bow our heads, nothing left to say
Better take a little moment now to be human
All we give, all we have
A lonely dance, nothing wrong with that
And I know there’s more to this than just getting through it
It’s not a trick
it’s just a fact
Do our damndest before we collapse
Better take a little moment now to be human
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6. |
Caught In A Loop
04:28
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Well, caught in the distance
Did I die in my sleep
Did I finish my sentence
Or was I grinding my teeth
Can I hold on forever
With anxiety dialed
Dialed up to the doorway
Can I doctor a smile
Lost in the distance
It’s a mask I wear so well
Thousand yard stare
But it’s my mind crawling through hell
Another day goes by that ain’t mine
Another day passing me by
Caught in the loop
I ain’t here to bide my time
I ain’t lost in the system
I ain’t biting my tongue
It ain’t stuck in my throat
With everything I’ve done
I’ve been playing so nicely
Trying to sleep through the night
And I won’t live forever
Just by closing my eyes
Caught in the distance
It’s a mask I wear so well
Thousand yard stare
But it’s my mind crawling through hell
Another day goes by that ain’t mine
Another day passing me by
Caught in the loop
But I ain’t here to waste my time
And I can’t take my finger
Off the pulse of the night
It’s the realization
I can’t adjust to the light
I could never tread lightly
Could hardly breathe
It was killing me slowly
It used to be the morphine
Another day goes by that ain’t mine
Another day passing me by
Caught in the loop
But I ain’t here to bide by time
Well we don’t live forever
Try to sleep through the night
Does it ever get better
Just by closing my eyes
There’s no absolute quiet
It’s a darkness so bright
It’s the realization
I can’t adjust to the light
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7. |
Best You Can Do
02:52
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Get along now before I spit in your eye
Been here before when I lit up the night sky
It’s taking a toll and I’m taking a ride
Ah the look on your face can’t figure the timeline
Is that the best you can do?
The best you can do
I can see right through……Oh!
A punch in the throat and a sip of your wine
Gimme a smoke I’ll call it the hotline
Everything’s good want to thank you for asking
And I hope you don’t choke on your dissatisfaction
Is that the best you can do?
The best you can do
You can keep the excuse
And the opinions too
I can see right through
The best you can do
The best you can do
I can see right through… Oh!
Get along now before I spit in your eye
Been here before when I lit up the night sky
It’s taking its toll and I’m taking a ride
The look on your face can’t figure the timeline
Is that the best you can do?
The best you can do
Get along now before I spit in your eye
Been here before when I lit up the night sky
It’s taking a toll and I ain’t taking a dive
The look on your face let’s call it the hotline
Is that the best you can do?
The best you can do
The best you can do
You can keep the excuse
The best you can do
I can see right through
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8. |
Dark Side of the Doomed
02:18
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Thread a little needle through a lonely life
Do a little shooting from your own supply
Blood’s in the barrel and you can almost taste
Thumb’s on the plunger and you’re starting to shake
She got hate
She got love
She got hate
She got love
She got a face tattoo of a beautiful smile
On her back she got the scales of a crocodile
And a neck tattoo saying don’t be late
On her fist she’s got the words saying love and hate
She got hate
she got love
We got hate
We got love wooohooo
All these people dying dead in the streets
And they’re nothing but statistics and policy
Died 2 blocks from the injection site
On her hat were the words saying no surprise
We got hate
We got love
We got hate
We got love
Ain’t a state of grace ain’t no guarantee
Any given day it could’ve been you or me
It’s cold calculation and there’s no empathy
I don’t know how I made it from A to B
Another cop says to a doctor
There is nothing here we can do
They are self-inflicted cross-addicted
They are the dark side of the doomed
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9. |
Part of Me
03:06
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Lost in an instant
Caught in the air
Lost in the city
Where nothing is fair
Lost so completely
Can’t recognize
Almost defeated
‘Til it’s all out of sight
That part of me that keeps on going
That part of me runs through the night
That part of me that keeps from knowing
That part of me blows through the lights
Bracing for impact
Picking up speed
Never relenting
What’s it doing to me?
Fragmented conscience
Almost submerged
Don’t know where I’m going
Or which way to turn
That part of me that keeps on going
That part of me runs through the night
That part of me that keeps from knowing
That part of me blows through the lights
When the sunset is loaded
Will you call it a night
Well it just keeps on going
And I never know why
When the temper’s explosive
Like a fiery ring
The sound of the engine
Drowns out everything
That part of me that keeps on going
That part of me runs through the night
That part of me that keeps from knowing
That part of me blows through the lights
That part of me built from resistance (keeps on going)
That part of me that’s born to fight
Bracing for impact
Picking up speed
Never relenting
What it’s doing to me?
Fragmented conscience
Almost submerged
Don’t know where I’m going
Or which way to turn
That part of me that keeps on going
That part of me runs through the night
That part of me that keeps from knowing
That part of me blows through the lights
That part of me that keeps on going
That part of me that’s born to fight
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10. |
By Sunday
03:37
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By Sunday, I destroyed it all
By Monday, I had to make the call
No longer innocent, like the doctors say
Complicit now, there’s just no other way
I gotta reconstruct, I do it everyday
I gotta give a fuck, there is no other way
When the black dog is talking me into sleep walking
Past the guard at the edge of the bridge
Where everything’s shitty, a world without pity
Pretty sure that there’s something I missed
Here I am again, walking down the hall
Am I complicit then, if I don’t make the call
I just can’t isolate, until I hardly feel
We all wear it well, sometimes it seems so real
I gotta reinstruct, I do it everyday
Just gotta give a fuck, there is no other way
When the black dog is talking me into sleep walking
Past the guard at the edge of the bridge
Where everything’s shitty, a world without pity
Pretty sure that there’s something I missed
When the black dog is talking me into sleep walking
Past the guard at the edge of the bridge
Where everything’s shitty, a world without pity
Pretty sure that there’s something I missed
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11. |
That's What I Get
01:58
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That’s what I get for listening
That’s what I get for playing that part
That’s what I get for listening
To my head instead of my heart
But don’t you know that there’s a sound coming down
And it gets a little louder today
Don’t you know that there’s a sound coming down
And it gets a little louder today
What could it be we’re missing
What could it be that’s stopping our hearts
How in the world did we miss it
How in the world does it come apart
Ya don’t you know that there’s a sound coming down
And it gets a little louder today
Don’t you know that there’s a sound coming down
And it gets a little louder today
That’s what I get for listening
That’s what I get for playing that hard
That’s what I get for listening
That’s what I get for stopping that car
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