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seventeen
03:59
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as i walk into the bar on my mind is where you are
pushing quarters into trivia machines
and against myself I win everytime write my name on the winners line let's play again
i wish i was seventeen supernatural with clarity
flunking out of the human race
but you always made me want to stay
and the first time i met you, took me back to my old school
and we stormed the grounds til it felt like someplace new
and the whole world changed to something rich and strange for me
so how was it for you
i wished i was seventeen
as my last game ends i hear you say my name so here we are after such a long long time
you say it's great to see you and i believe you and we'll both play our parts and go home our own ways
i still wish i was seventeen supernatural with clarity
flunking out of the human race
and you make everybody feel that way
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dark glass
02:41
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daylight glows then fades summer night window frame
my reflection waits in dark glass if i turn out the lights in the room i might see where you go
dark glass semiconductor drink you in talk all night melt down state of the matter
trip and fall into light
and the danger is waking up too much power breaking hearts no words no alarm just an electric shock it can kill it will burn it will
let it out again
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21
05:11
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you walk into a room and no one questions you moving like chance like fire eyes tangle me like wires
a moment's chosen sum want to play 21
and i keep track of time i want to know i want to feel i want to make this love made real
take turns to deal and play it takes all night this way you count the cards and wait i will surrender late
not going to stand not this time might have the right cards might not but hey it doesn't matter cos win or lose i think there's something i need from you
and i could learn your strategies to bring the dealer to his knees what i want more to know to feel the glory of this love made real
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letter of intent
05:46
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we drove in a taxi through the streets of my city to the place you were living for awhile
you seemed so happy with me i could have cried the way i didn't believe it the way i wanted to die
write your name in cement i'll remain a witness to your intent
drinking at midday on your back porch singing for the neighbors lying about the future
i felt so bruised i felt so free so alive disconnected from day to day
so destroy me please
you remind me of the way life used to feel
and don't ask me who i want to be
i could die here at your feet
you said i'd be sorry you said i'd missed my chance but i miss the world you made me see
force and fear in harmony knife point to destiny murder and mastery
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silence and noise
05:05
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i don't think you'll miss me next time we break think you'll miss the idea of the space i take
always been like water i fit anywhere and there's always another storm on the way
with so much distortion inside of these four walls had to knock one down and move across the street that makes it all my fault
on the edge of failure painful and poised i can feel October in our silence and noise
echoes in the valley between you and me sometimes it narrows when we're not looking maybe it's in your head this separation song or maybe it's what i wanted to hear all along
so when you fall asleep tonight with the sound of fear outside your window you won't need me to save your soul
if it's all my fault
from your side then
that's all right
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long way down
03:01
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we could talk all night about how sick we are we could talk all night about how you dropped your end and i betrayed a friend we could talk all night
and a mile 'cross town isn't all that far but it could be 40 miles down and i know how to bring the ends together but it's beautiful to leave them severed
it's beautiful to let them go
and it's a long way down before we rise again
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jamie's song
05:16
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jamie went down late friday evening to the bargain department store on the corner of the parkway
he had a job to do no sense in complaining everybody's got to earn a living doing something
paper soap and comforts stacked from top to floor jamie's job was to keep it stocked so each morning they could sell more
and he thought that his head was a lot like the shelves he knew where everything went but ordered none of it himself
sometimes late at night or very early in the morning jamie's mind would start to race he'd wonder what was under all that concrete
he'd think maybe this old store on the corner of the parkway used to be an ancient settlement or something or maybe an old battlefield
he'd wonder if unknown spirits might not speak to him 40,000 voices trying to get in
i think i hear them jamie said to himself as he pulled empty boxes on and off the shelf i'm not crazy he said into the room i just hear a lot of things that other people don't
nobody cares and nobody listens to the 40,000 voices trying to get in
morning crew found jamie early Saturday stretched out cold in aisle 4 they called the time of death early that morning and as for the cause they said it was his heart
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third time is a charm
05:28
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the first time he came to her he took her by surprise and she tried not to show it in her eyes the first time don't mean nothing except a breaking of the ice and you'll hold out for better if you're wise
wait for the third time wait for the charm and you may never know if it was true or just for show but at least you'll know you own the line
second time he came to her she started to believe he remembered with a meaning and it seemed that all the years of failure were melting through her fingers and who doesn't have a dream or two that lingers
the third time never came in the way that was promised she decided she'd wait a little longer cos who wants to push a tide of dreams away just as it's starting to grow stronger
i am the third time i am the charm and i may never know if you were true or just for show but at least i came back here to say
i am the third time i am the charm and i may never know if you were true or just for show but at least i know i own the line
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night light
02:53
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leave your light on
when you fall again
in a dark room
you will be safe soon
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straight and narrow
04:13
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saw a picture of you in your favorite shirt one that was hanging in my room asked you to take it back but seeing you now makes me wish I had it still
I was caught between two sides of a city I let both of you fall away how can anyone move forward in a tug of war how can you make anything pay
on the straight and narrow I'll stay here until I'm high
until I'm tired or bored or need to learn something hard some kind of lesson I can't buy
on the straight and narrow do I have to fall to be real could I bend the lines a little rewrite the words moving forward as I feel
oh the sky is raining echoes
but never mind the weather this is the endeavor
it all comes together
once the idea of a razor's edge left me so inspired if you handle it right and keep your balance everything moves to either side
I was caught between two sides of a city I let both of you fall away I guess I can't handle this tug of war and I don't want to fall either way
on the straight and narrow I'll stay here until I'm high
until I'm tired or bored or need to learn something hard some kind of lesson I can't buy
on the straight and narrow do I have to fall to feek could I bend the lines a little rewrite the words let me know if you think it's real
I'll let you know if I think it's real
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