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My World
04:05
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I think of you always, your heart and the war that you fought as you left without closing the door.
I picked up the pieces in trembling arms and the first prayer I begged that you come back unharmed.
It took over me, and I could not see.
I wish you the best, and I hope that you soar.
Send postcards with pigeons from wherever you are.
The empty swings sway like you were just here, but all that's left is the white out line of my heart and a letter titled "My Dear".
I choose not to wallow, you're safe in my wake.
You can trust that with grace I will lay down your burdens to hold back the gates.
Overflowing and force us to feel something more than this open sore.
In my world, we'd start again but I know you're letting go.
But i'll wait.
I'll wait to see you walking in.
I'll wait to see you smile again.
I'll wait in my world.
In these moments I can be myself.
I can reach across without a single doubt.
I can share my thoughts and you will see a different person, a decent person.
I am finally not lost, I've found my way.
In my world, I'm here to stay.
I know your letting go.
I'll wait.
I'll wait to see you walking in.
I'll wait to see you smile again.
I'll wait in my world.
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Bitter Doves
03:21
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Take a second glance, and I'll try to keep him company.
What would you run from?
You could keep it in the family.
Smother in sin.
Get out of me, you've gone and broke the circus in.
Too many times you cut so cold,
deeper then you ever were.
How can you look up when you only look out for yourself?
Take back the knife.
I'll take it back, I won't let you get the chance.
Stand under the cliff, just waiting for me to jump.
Bitter doves won't forget everything you ever did.
Why do I always plunge into things that make me sick?
Bitter doves won't forget every lie you told my love.
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Who Knows The Way Out?
04:41
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Who knows the way out?
Who knows the way out of this?
I know that I will see soon a day we'll find hope in exit signs.
Breathing in fumes of it, all that I'm meant to be but I cannot fake anymore.
Run down the halls with me away towards mystery, because I cannot face anymore.
Who knows the way out?
Who knows the way out of this?
If you know the way out, I'll follow you out of it all.
Wake me from comfort, I'm aching to come undone.
I'll stare up to the clouds, I'll run through the forest grounds.
And dream of a day where we take it all and we'll pull it apart.
And we will roll down the west coast, fly over the canyons.
I'll let it take us away.
I know that I will see soon a day we'll find hope in exit signs.
There must be a way to make it okay, escape from the fire inside.
Breathing in fumes of it, all that I'm meant to be but I cannot fake anymore.
Run down the halls with me away towards mystery, because I cannot face anymore of this heat.
Of this heat
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Your Eyes
04:14
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Now there's a part of me I wish I could erase.
It mocks the good in me and can't recall your face.
All I can do is dream that solitary day
you held my hand and filled me with the will to stay.
Stuck in your eyes and I'm alive again, I'll sing for you and me.
Don't stop this drive because I could die now that I'm free falling.
They say you're too wild, no good for me.
But they never saw the way you untangled my hair.
And I could always see you watch me sleeping like it was nothing new.
Stuck in your eyes and I'm alive again, I'll sing for you and me.
Don't stop this drive because I could die now that I'm free.
Stuck in your eyes and I'm alive again, I'll sing for you and me.
Don't stop this drive because I could die now that I'm free falling.
I saw better days.
Stuck in your eyes and I'm alive again, I'll sing for you and me.
Don't stop this drive because I could die now that I'm free.
Stuck in your eyes and I'm alive again, I'll sing for you and me.
Don't stop this drive because I could die now that I'm free falling.
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Raccoon
03:40
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we're sober now, but waist deep in consequences pouring out.
we're over now, i can't save a friendship that is going down.
no helpful words helped to make you stay, you floated so far away.
keep possibility on display.
we're older now, so for christ sake put the weapon down.
a year from now, you'll bury the hatchet it will come around.
my whole world turned when we met today, exploding with words to say.
awake the life of us from the grave.
my whole world turned.
stay lifelong.
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Wearing Thing
02:59
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Spirits fade when lost in the rain.
Find the heat even though it brings pain.
We want more destructive at best, and I need you.
You've got this hold on me.
Wrestling demons in my fantasies.
I'm on the outside and I'm looking in.
We're wearing thing, hold me tighter if that's so.
You're too tired to pull through.
I'm too young to make you
Carry on
You've got things to do, and I'm not them.
You've got this hold on me.
Wrestling demons in my fantasies.
I'm on the outside and I'm looking in.
We're wearing thing, hold me tighter if that's so.
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Fairy Tales
03:23
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Rule the masses, yeah you've been sold on fairy tales that you've been told.
No second glances, i will not fold.
No prayer to save my soul.
Throw the book away from me now.
Because there's no second glances,
So don't take your chances on me now.
So i will welcome my ghost in time.
I'll stare straight forward because no one's in the sky.
So with my hands by my side, come what may i'm fine.
Rule the masses, yeah you've been sold on fairy tales that you've been told.
No second glances, i will not fold.
No prayer to save my soul.
Throw the book away from me now.
Because there's no second glances,
So don't take your chances on me now.
So i will welcome my ghost in time.
I'll stare straight forward because no one's in the sky.
So with my hands by my side, come what may i'm fine.
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Temporary
03:40
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I lit a candle and it seemed to help, but it's temporary.
Just like you.
I will lay in your arms until the sunrise lights up your ghost.
I will not close my eyes until you take your bow and the curtains close.
I will hold on to each passing breath.
Falling away, would it help if you stayed?
You are the brightest light, and I know you help.
Don't be temporary, just like everything else.
I will lay in your arms until the sunrise lights up your ghost.
I will not close my eyes until you take your bow and the curtains close.
I will hold on to each passing breath.
Falling away, would it help if you stayed?
Don't be temporary, just like everything else.
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Poor Traits Vancouver, British Columbia
Poor Traits are back and here to stay.
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