1. |
drop out
03:34
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all my friends have moved away to safe expensive college
and made their parents feel so proud to pay 50,000 dollars
to go to parties in their dorms where everybody knows eachother
and i am alone in new york
with my guitar on my back
standing in a subway car
trying to get home from brooklyn
i am alone in new york
and i miss you very much
just know if you get tired
you can always drop out (x2)
i am alone in new york
singing on a sidewalk
at the gowanus canal
i am alone in new york
the venue got shut down
a crowd forms around me
while my fingers freeze
and i am alone in new york
and i miss you very much
just know if you get tired
you can always drop out (x2)
did you get everything your college promised?
a social life, and a nice community?
its funny how arranged culture turns out to be
when everyone who's in your class is like you
did you get your care package yet?
what your roommates care package bigger? (x3)
and i am alone in new york
and i miss you very much
just know if you get tired
you can always drop out (x3)
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2. |
dream song
03:47
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treat me, wear me, ignore me
hang me out to dry
roll me, light me, smoke me
say goodbye
treat me like a fool
wear me like your shirt
i hear you rolling cigarettes
now my sheets smell like smoke instead
i wish you'd sing me to sleep
i wish you'd visit me in my dreams
you're my favorite one
but nothing lasts forever it seems
theres something you can't see
when you leave me all alone
i wish i didn't have a heart i wish you'd miss me when i'm gone
you're my favorite song
but nothing lasts forever it seems
you're my favorite song
but nothing lasts forever it seems
treat me, wear me, ignore me
hang me out to dry
roll me, light me, smoke me
say goodbye
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3. |
how to write a song
04:02
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when i'm alone i can be anything
when i'm with you i know not to
if i give you a bag full of words i don't understand
i'd come home to words that mean nothing
no more aluminum sleep pills
cause i see us slow dancing at funerals
if we're escaping from our covered hearts
i'll only let you see my face when we're in the dark
how to write a song
in six simple steps
do melodies float
into your head
because my voice gets sucked into
a thousand ears and i don't know
whether i'm here or not i think
i'm gone now my words glue things
together that are not at all the same
and the silence takes them away from me
how to write a song
because my voice gets sucked into
a thousand ears and i don't know
whether i'm here or not i think
i'm gone now my words glue things
together that are not at all the same
and the silence takes them away from me
how to write a song
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4. |
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i remember doors and windows
buildings ratting with sound
the slate that slips off the roof
and tears a hole into the ground
i remember us laying against each other
before my bedroom turned upside down
and we fell into the ceiling and
ah-this is not a false alarm
where's the ceiling? is the roof collapsing in on us?
wait, it's just the aftershock
we're in a blackout in a supermarket stealing in the dark
we can't leave until the shaking stops
we can't leave and the world's falling apart
it's disgusting when you lose control
you thought that safety was so safe and pretty
but underneath the smoke that piles in the streets
are car wrecks in tomorrows headlines and
drop, cover, hold onto the leg of your bedpost
and watch plastic explode in the sky and
it's too late to prepare for the earthquake
count your blessings and close your eyes
it's disgusting when you lose control
and comfort is your only protection
but in all the cookie cutter houses are babies
screaming at the ground and
it's too late to prepare for the earthquake
count your blessings and close your eyes
ah- this is not a false alarm
welcome home, blowout sale, fill your shopping carts
wait, it's just the aftershock
two unknowns found living in the dark
we can't leave until the shaking stops
we can't leave and the world's falling apart
it's the end of the world
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5. |
goodbye spaceship
05:09
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goodbye, goodbye
spaceship, spaceship
earth, earth
we'll never feel the dirt again (x2)
the air we used to breathe (x2)
the sun has burned you up
and now we wear our spacesuits when we go to bed
and nobody can kiss or even hold hands
because it's much too cold and filled with radiation
now we lay on the moon
and miss how it feels to breathe
but our eyes are filled with black empty space
and we miss the christmas snow
everything we used to know is gone
and there's not enough space on the moon for everyone (x2)
now we lay on the moon
and miss how it feels to breathe
but our eyes are filled with black empty space
and we miss the christmas snow
everything we used to know is gone
everything we used to know is gone
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