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My Words, My World
01:41
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When everything feels like it's caving in, your heart has a door, and it's always open. The light is always on.
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Yellowstone
03:46
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I can't believe I'm here alone again with a heavy stare on my face. I know what's to come; so much is building up. Old faithful; it will soon erupt.
It's all the simple frustration that boils up. It spills out from beneath the ground. It causes me all this doubt that I've been stressing lately about.
I'm losing myself. I don't who I've been lately, but this life of mine now needs to go back home. (I feel like a ghost in the places that I roam)
Back to the place where I had feelings. Nothing these days is out of the ordinary. What I've become is a natural disaster just waiting to overflow. (I'm waiting)
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Evergreen
03:14
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I cannot keep going on thinking about everything you've done wrong. I've got to make it right for myself even if that means not holding on, but in this world of black and white sometimes it's the gray that brings life, and I can see the rain. It's necessary.
The color in the spectrum is starting to show, and I'm okay with occasional shades of gray. I know what's on the other side isn't always greener. I've always been one to see the dirt before the grass starts to show.
I've got huge hopes and intentions. They just get scattered in the falling like the leaves on the trees. I get carried away with the breeze. Sometimes, I wish I was strong like the evergreen. Someday, I'll be strong like the evergreen.
I fall every year, disintegrating into the earth. Pull me up into your roots and swallow me. I can bring life anew if you want me to.
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Enabler
02:05
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Don't start to tremble when you hear the words, "don't let me go." I never felt well; I never dealt well with adjusting circumstances. I always cling to the past. I just can't get my head around that.
Tonight feels just like the last time, but I swore to myself, you, and everyone else.
I swore to myself that I would never return. I'd much rather be alone than a beggar for your company. It's always me. I'm fighting to show you the good in me, and you're just as long as me.
We don't see eye to eye, 'cause nothing is the way that I see it. This place and vision that I have, I don't belong here. Don't try to beat me down for a past that I've forgotten about.
Nothing gives me this exasperating feeling. Nothing makes me feel this high and at the same time, I'm falling, but you're not catching; no, you're not changing for me anymore. It's time we open new doors.
(Don't forget I know you darkest)
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My Heart, A Home
02:13
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Ten years go by so fast, but every moment I remember always seem to slow my heart to a stop. I could live in them forever, I swear. I swear, I'd rather stay there.
It's a shame to believe that before you even knew me; shortly after the apple had fallen, they came to the orchard to cut down the tree.
I watched as a father mourns the loss of his son, and they talked of life and love, and how the good die young. God damn, I always wish they were wrong.
I'd give so many years of mine just to pull you from the sky, Your light will always shine. Every night I see your star. Never would I trade his life for one with a watchful eye.
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Smothered
04:02
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I'll never take it back, don't ever take it back. Live with no regrets. These are the days; can't take back anything (Let me hear you say)
I'm going to take this chance that I know I won't regret. I'll abandon all these things that are keeping me asleep to the world that I've been dreaming.
I won't let all that I've seen become the only things that define me. I won't watch as all I want slips away or let you misguide me. They try to tell me what to love and where I wanted to be. You always smothered me.
I've prolonged this for years. Now, it all seems so clear. Get off these dead end paths and all these streets I used to fear. I'm sick and burned out from this life I've been told to believe in. I'd much rather keep dreaming,
I've come to terms with what I have and what I've earned. And what I've learned, it's all I have. It's all that I ever think about. It's all that I've ever dreamed about.
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Seasons
03:49
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Press stop, rewind, go back in time so that you and I never met at all. I never thought life would take me for such a ride, but this is all I've ever known, so now I'm letting go.
Fading away like the snow in the spring. There's a time and place for everything. Dwindle away like the leaves in the fall. This whole time you were nothing. You were nothing to me at all.
How can you think that you're so deserving of the things of summer; of the things I couldn't be? And I'd like to thank you for this cold feeling just like the winter.
Transcending seasons, they always change. I'm not attracted to anything as the colors turn from black to grey.
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514
04:00
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I walked into the room. It was bitter cold. No sign of hope or anything at all. Just a hole in her heart. She laid there, crying out, "Why?," as she watched her family fall. As she walked out of that old house; the place I used to call home.
I'm writing you this song, not to tell you that I hate you, just to tell you that I care. You left her cold and broken. Three kids left all alone, struggling just to get by. I hope you hear this all.
As the days went by, she began to realize that the promises you made were nothing but lies. As the days went by, she began to realize that you never truly looked her in the eyes.
It was a place I called home. That was so long ago.
I guess you must have lost your way.
I never thought that it could hurt like this, but its been five years, and it's a thought that still exists. I know that it's so easy to leave, but I can guarantee that you'd feel the same as me.
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Fragile Frame
03:06
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The pictures scattered across the ground. I close my eyes. Oh, what a place. It's where every smile had a purpose, but now every tear creates an ocean, and I'm drowning.
I want to see the sun set again down by the bay front as I watch the waves come crashing in. I swore that good things would never come to an end. Now, I just sit here in a daze just trying to pretend.
I don't want to believe still lost in your memories of how things were. Now, stands an empty frame and broken glass. It can't be put back together.
And time won't heal a thing, because I feel it every fucking day. I'm broken on the inside and my reflection shows it.
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Stella
03:35
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Lost in my own thoughts, I wonder how to cope. Missing a piece of me, something I've always known. Staring at the moon, I think of better days, of things I'll never know, and all the things that change.
I hardly know what to say, but maybe it's better that way. Now, all I can do is sit and wait, and hope that time will ease my pain.
Every day feels like I'm choking on the thoughts of you since you've been gone. I wish the world didn't have to be so cold. I'm finding out what it's like to truly feel alone inside, but you never truly left my heart.
Now I've seen my darkest dreams coming true in front of me.
Why can't this all just be a dream. I wish it was something that I could wake up from, but I have to face reality that you're gone, but a part of you will always be with me.
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Rope Swing
04:27
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I'm looking up and over every single obstacle that's brought me down into the valleys of these hills that keep swallowing all of my pride. My hands were meant to move mountains aside.
I know I've made a lot of mistakes. Just trust me for once in your life.
I've been swinging on ropes, hanging from brittle branches. I just can't change this part of me. My roots are dead, so I'll just keep swinging, 'cause once I leave this rope, I know that I'll be free. I know I'll be free.
I never thought I'd have these wolves at my heels as I run, but I run and I run. Can my lungs hold enough to keep me on my feet? I told myself that I'd never repeat these lines in my head again and again. I ascend this wall. I climb and I climb with no time as they snap their teeth beneath my feet. I try and I try, 'cause I know that this time these eyes will see the other side.
I know I've made a lot of mistakes. Just trust me for once in your life. I've been swinging on ropes, hanging from brittle branches. I just can't change this part of me. My roots are dead, so I'll just keep swinging, 'cause once I leave this rope, I know that I'll be free. I know I'll be free.
The full moon, cool breeze in the wind, clear skies for miles; I'll find myself within. It's time to go the distance between here and the stars. Passion is the only compass that I need. I know it'll take me far.
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