1. |
What Time Is It?
03:12
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What time is it?
Can anybody help me out and find it?
If too much time has passed, can we rewind it?
Seconds, minutes, hours tick.
Days and weeks it, makes me sick.
What time is it?
I think that I’ve forgotten how to tell it.
Every time you see me you get jealous.
What is it that makes me tick?
Jaded, faded cadences.
Wondering if she had ever missed him.
Go ahead and get it out your system.
Tell me if you’re not amused.
Even when you win you lose.
What time is it?
I think that I’ve forgotten how to tell it.
Every time you see me you get jealous.
Tell me if you’re not amused.
Even when you win you lose.
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2. |
Froze Up
02:55
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The lighting’s diseased,
and I’m at ease,
but I feel ill.
The shifting shapes,
3am on the interstate,
you’re dressed to kill.
Tell me when you wanna go
Long nights
fast cars
the city bars
are closed up
and I froze up
Don’t mean to brag,
got a text from your dad,
we’re friends.
I got a goofy ol’ grin,
one more sip of the medicine,
a beautiful trend.
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3. |
Goodbye Sunrise
01:53
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What you said to me
What you wanted to be
What you said to me
Took me by surprise
Goodbye, sunrise
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4. |
On So Strong
03:18
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Feeling comes on so strong!
Broken glass
Dirty glasses
Dusty sidewalks
And we’re passing each other by
In the blink of an eye
We’re gone
Who would’ve thought the feeling comes on so strong?
Broken bottles
The people served
May have won the war
But I lost my nerves.
Broke my neck trying to get out here.
I was for spec
I was circling the drain my dear.
Dirty glasses in the sink
Mock me while I write the songs.
Broken glasses on the streets
I scurry home at the break of dawn.
But who would’ve thought the feeling comes on so strong?!
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5. |
Two Birds
03:28
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I got two birds with one stone
I sat around by the phone
I watched that thing ring and ring
Thinkin bout what to sing
Got delayed
Still unpaid
Act your age
Or don’t
It’s all the same
I had two birds in my hand
I branded myself a background actor
Didn’t turn out like we played
& low demand
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6. |
Parking Lot
02:47
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Movin all steady and slow past the Idaho border
Mother was a hoarder
Father was never around
No matter where she goes, everything feels out of order
Hopin that somethin will restore her, she’s Mississippi bound
In the parking lot of a 24-hour McDonald’s
Waiting to get picked up
Looking for some dumb luck
In the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express
Right off the interstate
That’s when I felt the best
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7. |
Bummer
02:59
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Oh what a bummer,
I’m being advertised to again
Panera Bread TikToks in my face
I don’t even live near one of them
What a bummer
They need to know my follower count
Can’t you see, I’m 33,
At this point that shit just freaks me out now
Oh what a bubble
That we’ve been living in all this time
I mean as soon as I leave it
Shit feels so egregious, selfish, and sterile — uninspired
What a bummer
Wondering if there’s a way out
This place is a dream, but it’s starting to seem,
Like the coziest perch in the slaughterhouse now
What a bummer
What a drag
You know some people think
It’s not so bad
But you know me
I’m out here wishin’
Rehabilitate American conditions
What a bummer
That shit is crazy
Mass shootings, man
They happen on the daily
Sometimes it’s pretty scary
Just to go outside
Calling it a bummer is the biggest understatement of all time
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8. |
Undone
01:54
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They don’t want it to come undone!
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9. |
Summer Rain
02:06
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When the rain falls in the summer
And you huddle under an awning
Just for a minute
You catch yourself yawning in the middle of the day
When the rain falls in the summer
Those fat droplets
Ripping and romping
Through your uncovered brain
When the rain falls in the summer
And you’re running for cover
Whiplashing splashing through puddles
Doused from the rubber duck bathtub of civil decay
When the rain falls in the summer
Those fat droplets
Ripping and romping
Through your uncovered brain
When the rain falls in the summertime
And it gets you feeling so sublime
It bowls you over
Those droplets drop
They get so heavy
They fall on top
Of your uncovered brain
Are you feeling the same?
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10. |
Jingling
02:58
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11. |
Sixth Of July
01:55
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Who was it that said that thing that struck me that one time?
No, I know you know it.
Was it you who told me on the sixth of July?
Oh, the days swim past, faster and faster
Take it way, way back
Tell me the one about the great disaster
Tell me who it was that came tumblin after
Tell me that one thing, that one time, the sixth of July
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12. |
In A Storm
02:01
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I caught the lightning in a storm
And my skin it felt so warm
It lit me up
I didn’t give a fuck
Got me down, so down
Made my head spin around again
I got caught up
In a downpour
And the rain
On my skin it felt so warm
How could I go on like this?
How could I have all that drip on me?
How could I go on like that?
How could I not look back for you?
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