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Confiscate
02:14
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I hold the ghost just to feel let down
It’s the cover of night that I’ve been seeking out
I’ve grown to fear what’s obvious and loud
Where do our minds live anyhow
I’m gonna love you when the fabric frays
Where do our lives live anyway
They caught me sleeping on the night shift down
During harvest in the garden on a bed I brought out
I wanna love you when the levees lay down
I wanna be together when the world drowns
We’ll to go heaven even though it isn’t real
It’s a nice idea I think I get the appeal
My love
Hold your head up
Take my hand
Keep your eyes shut
Let love confiscate us
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Cirrus Cloud
03:12
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I am the arrow
I am the hand upon the bow
Aimed high at a cirrus cloud
Pull back the string and I feel myself let go
I think I’m always coming back
I can’t leave things where I ought to
But I won’t bother anymore
I put my faith in an open door
Think I met you at the dawn
My heart did flips when I saw you
But I know that you’ll be gone
There’s nothing mine I can keep for long
I am the arrow
I am the hand upon the bow
Aimed high at a cirrus cloud
Pull back the string and I feel myself let go
Will you let me show
You a place I know
With every needle and pin
They’re gonna let us in
Tell me something that is true
I can’t find anything I love
More than the thought of shaking loose
Let’s lift our love to the air and soar
I am the arrow
I am the hand upon the bow
Aimed high at a cirrus cloud
Pull back the string and I feel myself let go
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Maybe You're a Mountain
03:12
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If you wanna tell me
I should take my time
Then I’m gonna love ya with a patient eye
But I think it’s better if we cut in line
You should let me love you with my urgent life
Don’t wait
For the dark to come
Let’s show them who we are and why we came
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
I love you more right now than I’ve ever loved something before
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
Maybe you’re a mountain that I can’t ever climb
Maybe you’re a city where the rents too high
But I’ve got forty years left honey let me try
You know that I can see you in the deep dark night
But I don’t know
Where we’re gonna end up
If the dead will stay asleep or come to life
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
I love you more right now than I’ve ever loved something before
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
Don’t overthink it now
We don’t want to spoil something everything
Through meticulous dissection
By pinning loose ends down
We’ve got our whole lives to learn and lie
We’ll sort the details later
Somewhere down the line
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
I love more right now than I’ve ever loved before
I’m gonna tell you something
What we’ve got is good
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I Wanna Be Okay
04:00
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Holding it down until the good comes back
It’s a flood of love that everyone needs to survive in this empire
It’s quite a stretch to think of me as young
But I used to think that I would know much more by now, now things are hardly clear
Referees that never play the game can’t tell us how to win or where the boundaries lay
it doesn't make sense
I’m holding it down until the love comes back
It’s a universe away but I’m gonna get there some day
I wanna be okay
Let me know what you want out of life
You can manifest it till you get it right
We’re just moments anyway
Memories before they’re made
I soothe myself with a little drink
And I pour my thoughts out as I sing and sway around
I can keep on running the machinery surrounding you
My life is a question without an answer
There’s a solitude I’m always beating back with the things I tend to and the ones I never look at
I never wanna be still
I’ve got no idea where we’re gonna end up when AI gets wise enough to pose as our lost loves
I think we’re gonna be fucked
I’m holding it down until the ghost comes back
The past was bad but I know i’ve got it memorized
The future can’t be steered
It’s a stretch to think of what we had as love
I knew my heart but never learned what loving yours does
I wasted seven years
But hey, that’s life
And it happens all the time
At least you didn’t stay another day
Let me know what you want out of life
You can manifest it till you get it right
We’re just moments anyway
Memories before they’re made
I soothe myself with a little drink
And I pour my thoughts out as I sing and sway around
I can keep on running the machinery surrounding you
My life is a question without an answer
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5. |
Summer Backseat
03:44
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Won’t be long I’m there in my mind
It’s a calm cool cove at the edges of the night
Once I’ve died from the petty old life
Gonna show everything that I used to hide
I wanna live in a truth that I’ll never find
Like an arrow aimed at a target on my own back I pull the string and fly
I see it
Empty cup
Summer back seat
With the windows rolled up
You’re a dark heart
In the shadows
Right on time
Promise me you’ll tell me why
Everything lives for a while then dies
Got no reason we should be so proud
If we all end up in the same cold ground
I wanna live in a truth that my deeds can’t buy
There’s beauty in futility and meaning in a willingness to try
I see it
Empty cup
Summer back seat
With the windows rolled up
You’re a dark heart
In the shadows
Right on time
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6. |
If You're Here
03:28
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Dark face
Down on the bed
Couldn’t tell
What we did before
Maybe we don’t need to
Know
For a spell
Moth
Flutter by
It’s a gift
You don’t give
It’s a secret that you never tell
It’s a lost night
Everyone has an obvious tell
It’s a sad sight
Strangers drifting in a chemical spell
We just wanna feel alright
We’ll borrow from tomorrow for tonight to get well
Rust
Weathervane
Some
Random house
Let me sleep awhile
Let me stay
Maybe I can heal with
Love
Ring a bell
If you’re here
Give me hell
I’m a ghost
I’m a good one dear
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Bedroom/Ending
02:28
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Come down
You don’t have to tell them
If you want to go right now
Everything is breathing
Nothing ever rests
There’s a better future
But I can’t see it yet
Right now there’s a star up there
Cold high
It hides when you’re looking for it
It stalks you when you’re in the truth
Come hold it
Before it catches up
Before it lays you down
Spiritual seldom
I can hardly breathe right now
Everything is waiting
Steeped in regret
On our way somewhere
You can feel it in your chest
Right now there’s a star up there
Cold high
It hides when you’re looking for it
It stalks you when you’re in the truth
Come hold it
Before it catches up
Before it lays you down
Lays you down
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8. |
Come Over To My House
02:42
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I left town
But I never got out
It feels impossible to know
How to live out in the snow
But come over to my house
If you wanna have a good time
You know I’ll always love you
But distance doesn’t work for me tonight
I’m not alright
Can you hold me now?
I need to lighten things up
I’m in the middle of my life
And things are getting pretty rough
I move around alot
But nothing ever feels like home
I think you lose it when you’re young
When holidays go glum
But if you come over to my house
I know we’ll have a really good time
You know tonight I need you
To fix whatever’s wrong with my life
If it’s not too much to ask
Can you hold me now?
I need to lighten things up
I’m in the middle of my life
And things are getting pretty rough
All I want to know is
Where the past bleeds through
I’ll sew the gaps with the hair
She left here when she moved
But I can’t scrub the whole thing
Some stains I just can’t get out
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9. |
Vulnerable and Loud
03:08
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Busy Platte
Condos on the shore
Tranquility lost on a highway locked
To a view I can’t afford
I don’t think anyone
Can stay the same even if they tried
Have me now
I’m vulnerable and loud
Like an animal backed in a corner black you’re my captor and my ticket out
I don't think anything
Saves us from the truth that we can’t bear to look at
That we’re the butchers and the swine
At the same time
Left alone
The spirit don’t speak no more
It’s a energy tacked to a godless hack
And a childhood mired in lore
I wasn’t ever good enough
To win salvation in my leaders eyes
I love the way
The seasons come
And for a minute it feels like nothing’s gonna change again
But of course it does
It always will in
Time
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10. |
Everyone You Love
03:40
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With my hands untied
I can bend the sky and climb up
From up here, I watch as all the years pass by
The past won’t die
But if we bury it’ll grow up
Into a garden in the field outside
Met you underneath the diving board
Told me things I’d never heard before
Sold me love that I still cannot afford
Took me over that bridge and helped me start again
I need a purpose
A better war
To turn the tables
Until my arms get sore
Let’s send a message
Let’s say the truth
The world is dying
Even me and you
It’s a curse to lie
And believe the words that spill out
Deluge or drip the truth will keep you dry
With my drink held high
I toast to every sellout
We’re dime a dozen but at least we’re dry
Don’t give me perfect
Don’t give me true
Just send a message
All I need is proof
That something knows me
That life is real
A flood is coming
We’d better climb that hill
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11. |
To The Car (I Run)
03:52
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What the light holds
In the bedroom
Is a priest dressed
Like a clown
He’s a sad man
With a mindset
Of a fish that
Somehow drowns
Sorrow
Visits
Him now
What the truth shows
Of our connection
Is a myth blessed
By fear
Of aloneness
Of an empty chest
Of a shadow
Set to steer
I think I’ve always loved you
But I really know it now
If I do one thing right I’m gonna tie myself down to ya
If everybody needs the water and the soft breeze
Then I know that I can be the best of something
Now
I run to the car I run I run to the car
I’m a runner
With a vast terrain
Open to me
And I can’t stop now
But I miss you
In the wilderness
Of an empty field
Of a city crowd
I’m telling you I don’t want it
Another open road
Another long night alone
It goes too slow
I think I’ve always loved you
But I really know it now
If I do one thing right I’m gonna myself down to ya
If everybody needs the water and the soft breeze
Then I know that I can be the best of something
Now
I run to the car I run I run to the car I run
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Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. ... more
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