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Uninvited
04:04
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Lyrics:
You were my best friend but I was never yours
Sharing a kitchen and dirty tiled floors
I would've listened if you had told me how
Not to annoy you between then and now
It was my birthday and you came
By yours I couldn't say the same
Would've been easier to ignore
If I hadn't been let in before
Once upon a time I felt wanted
Back before you knew what you'd started
Took the card from my hand
And you steamed off the stamp
Till I doubted that you'd ever write it
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
Drinking your coffee, do you still take it black
Thinking about me, would you take it all back
If we could have the days we spent
Looking up how to pay the rent
Selling our homemade scarves online
Whose patterns would you choose over mine
Once upon a time I felt wanted
Back before you knew what you'd started
Took the card from my hand
And you steamed off the stamp
Till I doubted that you'd ever write it
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
And I know people leave home, people move on
It doesn't mean bad things about us
But I've heard you're keeping in touch
And it hurts so much
Being the only one that you grew out of
Once upon a time I felt wanted
Back before you knew what you'd started
Took the card from my hand
And you steamed off the stamp
Till I doubted that you'd ever write it
I feel uninvited
Once upon a time I felt wanted (I feel uninvited)
Back before you knew what you'd started (people leave home)
Took the card from my hand
And you steamed off the stamp (people move on)
Till I doubted that you'd ever write it
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
I feel uninvited
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2. |
Vivid
03:17
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Lyrics:
I bury all my anger
But it echoes in the ground
It echoes in the ground
I plead in a foreign language
But you recognize the sound
You recognize the sound
Is justice just too timid
It goes rigid like it's bound
Or it's nowhere to be found
This waking dream is vivid
I wish they'd blur it out
I wish they'd blur it out
Like faces on rollercoasters
Like slogans on rain-soaked posters
Like lovers without their glasses
Tears on their lashes
We wander through the farmland
Seek static in the maze
We're out of it for days
Sink slow into the quicksand
We're holding at our lips
And smile between the sips
But when we fog the windows
Old battle lines appear
The plans we drew so clear
The fire that cast the shadows
Sends smoke into our eyes
Demanding that we rise
Like faces on rollercoasters
Like slogans on rain soaked posters
Defying the laws that told us
The sky couldn't hold us
Making space for the star-crossed
On the couch where the coats get tossed
Under cardboard and pizza sauce
Love gets lost
Clear the counters, a fresh start
Fold the boxes around your heart
Then see their name on the chore chart
And fall apart
Like faces on rollercoasters
Like slogans on rain soaked posters
Watch and you'll see them shaking
And know that you're waking
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3. |
Elder
03:01
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Lyrics:
A guest in the forest
Migrating south
A high flier hoping
to make it out
The year's growing older
With the alder tree
But I'll still be the elder
When she catches me
All that I know
Was whispered in groves
Far from my home
A long time ago
I'm listening close
All night and all day
If I knew more
I'd show her the way
But all I can give is
A good resting place
All I can give is
A good resting place
Left home with a purpose
A chest full of pride
And never imagined
That she'd have to hide
Went looking for answers
So deep in the mist
Lost sight of a compass
That might not exist
Cause all that I know
Was whispered in groves
Far from my home
A long time ago
I'm listening close
From far out of range
Since we were young
So much has changed
So all I can give
Is a good resting place
All I can give
is a good resting place
I breathe in the burning
I hold what I can
I offer a branch
Or an arm or a hand
Whatever will reach her
I'm trying to grow
She can't hear the voices
From roots down below
All that I know
Was whispered in groves
Far from my home
A long time ago
I'm listening close
So scared I'm too late
Till I feel her touch down
Testing her weight
All I can give is
A good resting place
All I can give is
A good resting place
All I can give is
A good resting place
All I can give is
A good resting place
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4. |
Round Robin
02:48
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Lyrics:
Lover don't hold back
Read me the roast
I know it's been rocky
Since we left the coast
My dishes have piled up
While dinners have burned but
Remember last April
When tables were turned
In this round robin
Round
Robin round
When you missed him so much
You just stayed in bed
I lay by your side
And made sure you stayed fed
And when you had work
I would stand on the rug
Coaxing you upright
My arms wide to hug you back round
Robin round
Robin round
Brought you round
Robin round
Robin round
It's so hard to know
When the spark has gone out
In this world that turns quickly
From flooding to drought
But I've got your back
Not because you've got mine
But because you deserve love
No matter when yours comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
Robin round
Comes around
Robin round
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5. |
Gum
00:48
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Lyrics:
What do you think we would've learned about
If your mom hadn't talked you out
Of thinking it meant something when you gave me gum
After sleeping on my shoulder in the auditorium
And yeah, I know I didn't like kissing Marylou
But maybe cause she never really wanted to
I wasn't the girl she needed me to be
I mean I wasn't her dad, it had nothing to do with me
Could I have skipped all the bad boy gloom
If I'd just leaned in that night in your room?
Our foreheads touching but I had to go
Jessie was waiting in her sister's car below
I guess we'll never know
I guess we'll never know
I guess we'll never know
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6. |
3 or 4
03:09
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Lyrics:
I call her, she answers, the rest comes easily
There's no one else who makes me feel quite the same
I call her, cause it's Sunday, and I've waited all week
To hear her smile shine through the vowels of my name
And I know that I will never call her mine
I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine
Is it strange to love her and want nothing more
Only dreamed about her two times
Or maybe three or four
I scroll through the pictures from back when we first met
Yellow balloons are frozen feet from the ground
She's dancing in denim and I don't know it yet
But she's the reason he keeps coming around
So I know that I will never call her mine
I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine
Cause she trusts me, I don't need anything more
Only dreamed about her two times
Or maybe three or four
Maybe three or four
Oh, won't get the chance to choose her
Oh, at least I'll never lose her
Oh, we'll stay just like before
I'll call her up on Sunday
Just like every other Sunday
Nothing more
Nothing more
Cause I know that I will never call her mine
I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine
Is it strange to love her and want nothing more
Only dreamed about her two times
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7. |
L
04:22
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Lyrics:
Wrapped my arms around a pillow
As I shivered on the couch
Wishing I knew more of courage
And the landscape of your mouth
And my head was right by your head
Lying in the letter L
We were staring at the ceiling
If you knew I couldn't tell
You had offered me this moment
Sharing seven cans of beer
But my heart was beating so loud
Neither one of us could hear
And my head was right by your head
Lying in the letter L
We were staring at the ceiling
If you knew I couldn't tell
Lying in the letter L
Lying in the letter L
Lying in the letter L
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8. |
Red Horizons
03:57
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Lyrics:
I didn't know how much I needed to leave till I was driving away
The screen door slammed behind me like a trap
With half of Pennsylvania past, I finally found what I was trying to say
"It's time to put myself back on the map"
My favorite navigators told me it might take a while
They put me back together mile by mile
I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay
Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray
You led me down so many roads, the nights were warm, the river would buzz
I wouldn't trade the sights we've seen for gold
But somewhere in the summer I was losing track of who I was
I had to leave before the trail got cold
We sat inside your car as I was waiting for the bus
Talking about anything but us
I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay
Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray
The future is a painting and it's hanging crooked over my bed
There's still a lot I've got to straighten out
I've never liked admitting when I've found myself in over my head
But that's what growing up is all about
It's following a feeling, and falling into kneeling
And waiting for the healing
I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay
Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray
Cause I still love you but it's not gonna make me stay
Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray
Oo, oo
Oo, oo
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Sofía Campoamor Brooklyn, New York
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