1. |
By My Side
04:45
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[Verse 1]
Staring down
I can’t help but think
“Is this all but over now?”
So I hold you
‘Cause it feels like a nightmare
And I need you to pull me down
[Prechorus]
And I don’t care if it’s wrong or right
‘Cause it’s you and I have to fight
To bend, we have every right to defend
This love
[Chorus]
So can you hear me?
‘Cause I’m screaming from the car
Where we first kissed
And can you catch me?
‘Cause I’m falling off the tail end
Of the best
Yes I’m living in the past
And I want it back
Is that too much to ask?
[Verse 2]
Tell me now
Is it better to give up
And run when we hit the ground?
‘Cause I can’t believe for a second
It isn’t you that I’ve been waiting for
All this time, it seems divine
That I should have you by my side
[Prechorus]
So take up these lonely hands
Make a break for the open lands
And save all the plans that we have made
For us
[Chorus]
So can you hear me?
‘Cause I’m screaming from the car
Where we first kissed
And can you catch me?
‘Cause I’m falling off the tail end
Of the best
Yes I’m living in the past
And I want it back
Is that too much to ask?
[Bridge]
Take the chance on us
And baby love will take us dancing through
Everlasting happiness
That makes the dark worth fighting through
So take my hand, let’s leave the plan
And start it on a brand new page
‘Cause things were tough,
But now I’ve come to trust
That you belong with me
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2. |
Intimate
08:02
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[Verse 1]
Dim the lights
Let’s set scene for this opening of two
I pull the silver string that draws the line
Between your lips and mine, too
And realize
The potency of the night
How could it be?
That something so intimate could feel
The most dangerous thing in the world
At least, so I’m told
[Chorus]
Hold me, darling
Let’s go where no one’s been
As the light fades to dark
‘Cause the hitman is here
And he’s chasing the mark
So hold me, darling
Let’s go where no one’s been
As the dark fades to light
But we’re hidden in here
So we keep out of sight
[Verse 2]
You know I’m not the kind of man
Who’s used to saying yes to gambles
And hold
But when you raise the bet
No one can bring themselves to fold
So count my chips
But you are the prize
And every time you steal a glance
It breaks me in two
Look me down and up
Before you set course for the moon
And you pull me in
Whispering
[Chorus]
Hold me, darling
Let’s go where no one’s been
As the light fades to dark
‘Cause the hitman is here
And he’s chasing the mark
So hold me, darling
Let’s go where no one’s been
As the dark fades to light
But we’re hidden in here
So we keep out of sight
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3. |
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[Verse 1]
And I’d have given you
This world, if you’d said please
From the valleys
To the great mountain peaks
Hire man after man
To engineer a plan for the sea
Yes, I’d give you this Earth
If you said the one word that I need
[Verse 2]
I could author a book
Of the things that I wish you had been
And between all the words
You’d think I couldn’t have fallen again
But with every line is a time to remind me
A fourth of my life that I spend on demising
With you
If only we knew
[Verse 3]
The windowsill serves a good spot
For the ones left alone
As the light, soaking through the storm panes
Hits the tears on the sweatshirt you loaned
Is it time to admit
That we cannot commit
To this codependently, continuous orbit?
Is it time to admit
The end of us?
[Bridge]
I think it’s high time
We take a good look at ourselves
‘Cause I can’t tell
If the pens that we are writing in
Are running out of ink
Or if they just aren’t working right now
And this lack of writing
Is looking like the end
As we scribble blank lines
Until the paper wears thin
And it rips at the seams
Like the hearts searching for
The meaning of love
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4. |
Pulse
04:48
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[Verse 1]
I always worried I’d forget
All the practices they taught me
But no such fear now
Resides within my bones
It’s like the drum beat in my head
Like the heartbeat in my hands
[Chorus]
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The drum beat in my head
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The heartbeat in my hands
[Verse 2]
It all seemed prudent at the time
After all, could save a life
If I held it in my hands
Savior complex as I left
Feeling adept at being someone’s
Guardian angel
But now I long to trade places with strangers
Facing the dangers for the best
And just “Staying Alive” feels like a test
When you have to play it to the chest
[Chorus]
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The heartbeat in my hands
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The drum beat in my head
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The drum beat in my head
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The heartbeat in my hands
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
[Chorus]
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The drum beat in my head
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The heartbeat in my hands
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Thirty times, two breaths
(Pulse, pulse) The heartbeat in my hands
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse) Time and time again
(Pulse, pulse) The drum beat in my head
(Pulse, pulse)
(Pulse, pulse)
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5. |
Breaking Away
04:25
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[Verse 1]
There’s a faucet with a leak upstairs
In the house that we were raised in
It showers down convictions
Based on paths we have not taken
And as the water slowly floods
This place we once called home
You start to see the damage done
By things often unknown
And the stream the water forms
It’s always keeping me awake
It starts to be the norm
It’s always give and never take
It’s par for your course of pain
To never have relief
But there’s no answer
For why this pain
Has to flow to me
[Verse 2]
There’s someone weeping
In the summer swelter of your words
They feel the same as you once did
They feel just as unheard
The irony is clear to all who see
With your exception
‘Cause in your mind, the ones you love
Have no chance of redemption
[Verse 3]
Mmm, this is the end
Your exodus has come
Your course is almost run
There’s no battle to be won
[Bridge]
This is the end
Of the tyrants in my brain
The barbaric price I pay
For this mess that you have made
It’s the end
Of you legacy of pain
To these prison bars of rage
It’s my time to be uncaged
So I’m breaking out, breaking in
And taking out your firing pin
This life that started growing dull
Is better when without your toll
So I’m breaking out and shaping in
The freedom that there should’ve been
‘Cause now I know the truth
And I’m breaking away from you
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