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Brushfire
02:10
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You wanna run full time
I can’t get enough
Living through black and white
Leaving in a rush
Is that all that I wanna know?
Forcing love like a ghost?
You don’t feel sane with that brushfire creeping up
Kill that noise in our ears, we’ll parade when it’s gone
You’re gonna leave me tired
Quiet and caught up
Stuck in all the same lines
We’ve been pushing off
Is that all that you wanna know?
Forcing love, then you go?
It’s not the same as it was, got those curtains drawn
After all that noise stops I just wanna be alone
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2. |
On and On
03:00
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Hold yourself, it’s not too late
For us to rise from our mistakes
Putting all our fresh clothes on
And leaving when the lights come on
Oh my god, we can’t relate
We think too much, we hesitate
Bracing for some bloodless dawn
And leaving when the lights come on
All our lonely, tiny, tampered fates
What have I misplaced too long?
The time that stretches on and on
Keep the quiet from the noise
I can’t relate the other boys
Oh my god
Oh my god
Settle on
What I’m from
All our lonely, tiny, tampered fates
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3. |
Fragments
02:44
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Heads in the dust
All that I want
While the trees
Are pulled to dark
Keeping secure
Through all we endure
With all this time
Pushed over us
I don’t get a chance to think what I want
You don’t get the words you want before
Time wraps us up and drops us off
I don’t get the words before you’re
Gone, each day
Starts apart either way
A fragment of
What now is gone
The air in my lungs
And the wet on my tongue
While the trees
Are pulled to dark
I don’t get a chance to think what I want
You don’t get the words you want before
Time wraps us up and drops us off
I don’t get the words before you’re gone
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4. |
The Words
05:03
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I can see the way you wander
When I’m in the house it’s hard for me to bother
You keep up the fight
We’re stuck in while it ages
It keeps you in your mind
No one likes the way you fake it
I keep above the ground
Because I like the way it changes
But I can’t figure out
How to make it stay the same way
Cause when we have our moods
They come and go like seasons
Keep us in these rooms
There’s no space here to begin with
You don’t have to work
You don’t have to fight now
Those are just the words
You hear when you’ve had enough
You take what you want until it’s gone
Even if it doesn’t mean too much
You can take the thoughts you want along
You take what you want until it’s gone, and it’s on us
You spend a long time waiting on so many words
You got a lot of hesitation coming from what
You think is the unseen reason why it all hurts
I don’t pretend to know, I don’t pretend to know
You don’t have to work
You don’t have to fight now
Those are just the words
You hear when you’ve had enough
You take what you want until it’s gone
Even if it doesn’t mean too much
You can take the thoughts you want along
You take what you want until it’s gone, and it’s on us
You take what you want until it’s gone x3
Even if it doesn’t mean too much x2
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5. |
Too Close to the Fire
04:10
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Too close to the fire, I won’t let my vision drown
In this old house with my inhibitions down
I’ll keep alive, feeling like a tiny child
Marrying the old chores, dire and forbidden
Always at odds with that indecision
I will keep alive, even if I don’t know why
Timeless
Spineless
Back home
Homeless
You can track a line through time I’ve forgotten
Messily arranged with all of my mine lit up
It’s not the first time I’ve been surprised, oh no
I can hear a voice, you’ve been awfully quiet
We walk through every day, lay mile over mile
But I will keep alive, even if I don’t know why
Timeless
Spineless
Back home
Homeless
I know
Always
I know
Boneless
You don’t speak
For anything that isn’t what you need
I fill the silence with my own drifting
It’s just a part of us now
And I don’t need
To feel a truth that brings me to my knees
I set it far apart from everything
It’s not a part of us now
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6. |
Engines
03:37
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I was a criminal that day
Asleep and on my way
A single blessing on it’s own
Can make me feel at home
Always waiting for the nights
To leave the silence out of sight
I saw a vision for myself
And a hope for me now
And a hope for me now
And back there somehow
You always told me I would be lonely
If you could help me I’d live such a wild life
I’d wait and I’d wonder My head always blundered
And every fucking engine binding us would pull me under
I’m a servant with no rights
Never had a vision for the work I spread alight
Another victim to our time
Kept apart at distance whenever we would fight
And it’s you always told me I was younger than a boy
And it’s you who’s always known
Tiny boxes engines glory
Some old ghost who knew my story
Told me I was lifeless boring
Some machine made from gore and a mourning
It’s what we called our love
Was tearing me apart
It focused on my heart
And told me how to start
I tell myself when I’m scared
That it’s easy not to care
It’s not easy not care
But that’s an older story
We’ve moved on
Our other loves pull us more strongly
No one’s coming for us, we got
Caught in something trivial, our luck
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7. |
Dark Room
04:06
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My warm face in the dark
Present to all, master of none
All of time floats, it’s nothing to know
It’s nothing to hold
It’s all in the rush
Quieter than voices get
The humming of our moving parts
Tired like all the rest
From moving back through who we are
But my wet palms, nervous of loss
Born through the fear I come across
Like I’m in debt and I don’t know it
Like there’s a real face to put on
You don’t need a sign to love
It’s nothing they can keep from us
You don’t need a hand to hold
To find out what you already know
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8. |
Thoughts Don't Count
01:06
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9. |
Backwards
04:37
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All of time in, time in
A feeling in the back of your head
Just the same as it always was
You lose your mind, that fiction’s
The only thing you have when you’re sad
Just the same equilibrium
All the time you look back
A feeling that I wanted to say
Just the same as the future
You lose your mind, that friction’s
The only thing you have in the day
Just the same equilibrium
Don’t feed the ghost
The one you hate the most
Everything is all under control
Everything’s the same backwards
Don’t feed the ghost
The one you hate the most
Everything is not under control
Everything’s the same backwards
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10. |
Staying Up
02:02
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Staying up all too late
Living through our mistakes
All my hopeful loved ones
Vacant til the morning
Quiet thoughts left voiceless
Covered up by noises
Silent and sedated
Til I have to wake up
We move on through continuum
I don’t need this mess
I don’t get upset
Out in Montreal
Long before the dawn
There’s nothing to know
It’s all in the rush
Ever tired, running all these lines
Through a web of lights rushing past both sides
I can see you there, whenever we land
We have all we need if we forget we’re tired
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11. |
Keeping up a Voice
04:48
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You see when you get uptight
With all our clean lives too far from the fire
It’s so timeless feeling alone
With all my modern lies and this ageless tired
And our daydreams suddenly die
When they reach the light of motion
And there’s all this force that holds you by the throat
And you’re frozen, weightless
And when the running water of each day defines
Deep ridges in our vision
And the dust gathers over sunshine
And enforces our inhibitions
And you can’t move your thoughts through
Your own elation
But this moldy air will give way
Sometime, I can taste it
Keeping up a voice for too long
Suffocating through the unknown
You get up first and feel your first words
Never know when you could let go
There’s nothing I need where I’m off
Celebrate the feelings I know
You’re walking between bare trees in the fall
You’re everywhere at once and nowhere at all
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12. |
Brushfire (Reprise)
02:20
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You cover up the morning, physical
That keeps our violent, ancient sense of place
Even if I tried I can’t think anymore
Through all the noise that traps me in this space
You wake me up through silence, physical
You’re tired lines, you’ve got a nose for this
I don’t know why, but I feel stronger love
Through all our quiet, I know I can’t replace
And you’ve got to keep moving, push your breath along
You know that it’s much harder if you ever stop
You cover up the morning, when I’m gone
I feel the ebb and flow of that release
I don’t know why, but I feel stronger love
For you than all that I could not replace
And you’ve got to keep moving, push your breath along
You know that it’s much harder if you ever stop
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Manatree Richmond, Virginia
music for both ears
Jack Mayock
Alex Elder
Jim Burns
Richmond
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