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You're an actor playing the part of someone who cares and still has their heart
I'm a loser lost in the dark searching for love to have torn apart
But I've been seeing right through your act
This role you're playing, no it can't last
When all the lights go out are you still yourself?
When the curtain falls down?
And all the people go and you're on your own
Are you still yourself?
We're pretending like we're all fine by posting our best, ignoring the times
That we're feeling like we should laugh cause it's not too fun to feel so depressed
But I've been seeing right through your act
This game we're playing, well it can't last
When all the lights go out are you still yourself?
When the curtain falls down?
And all the people go and you're on your own
Are you still yourself?
Those things you said made me upset
I'm over it
You're not over it
No you're still sad and oh so upset
You're not over it
When all the lights go out are you still yourself?
When the curtain falls?
And all the people go and you're on your own
Are you still yourself?
Are you still yourself?
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Summer (Aurora Borealis)
03:46
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What happened to the smile on your lips?
I guess we weren't ready to commit
I should've known that this would die in the end
Oh well I'll chalk it up and get past
I lost you when the summer came around
I loved you till your feelings, they burnt out
I flew so far to fall face first on the ground
I lost you when the summer came around
Your eyes they hang lower and look sad
Your gaze turns back towards the screen instead
You brush my hand up off your shoulder again
I didn't see the signs till you left
I lost you when the summer came around
I loved you till your feelings, they burnt out
I flew so far to fall face first on the ground
I lost you when the summer came around
Who to follow when you're on your own?
I won't think thoughts of you no more
Well I'd better go back to on my own
Just high enough to lie down on the floor
I wrote you a long letter
Because I felt I couldn't be concise enough
In all the things I needed to say after you left
I wrote your address on the envelope
It sits in a box under my bed
And I could see the northern lights from the backseat of my friend's car late that night
Alone, and in my mind wondering how I got here
And I could see the city lights from the window in your bedroom every night
But I don't visit anymore it's just a fading memory
Of you and me
And all the things we talked about like what we could be
The truth is hard to see
When you're so punch drunk and in love and filled with jealousy
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Walk on Me
03:14
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I'm surrounded by bad people it's just what I attract
And despite how much I'm wronged I keep wanting to crawl back
And again you've hurt me just like you always do
But there's this awful feeling cause I just can't stop thinking of you
You walk on me
It's all you do
I felt the weight out of the blue
You walk away
It's nothing new
It's all you do
I'm okay sleeping on the floor again it's all I ever do
You say you need a shoulder to cry on, I need one too
You'll feel bad today, sleep well tonight
While I'm tossing and turning lying there lost in my mind
You walk on me
It's all you do
I felt the weight out of the blue
You walk away
It's all you do
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Obsessive
02:49
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What should I do with myself?
I never seem to know
It's hard to hold it all in
My head's about to blow
She says she wants to rebel
Without a cause it seems
Changing her mind each day now
I'm feeling like James Dean
Should I wait? I don't mind
Lay awake every night
She says it's never right I guess I'm always wrong
I'll try to win her heart
Play her favorite song
She's in my head each morning
Hope she still thinks of me
And that I'm not too boring
To bring her apathy
She might call it obsessive
Trying to guess her game
One day she's so possessive
Next day forgets my name
Should I wait? I don't mind
Lay awake every night
She says it's never right I guess I'm always wrong
I'll try to win her heart
Play her favorite song
Should I wait? I don't mind
Lay awake every night
She says it's never right I guess I'm always wrong
I'll try to win her heart
Play her favorite song
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Vapid
03:32
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What gives you peace at night when you're lying in your bed?
A little piece of satisfaction to quell those voices in your head?
Well I've been wasting all of my money on things that I don't really need
In the hopes that I can feel this sorrow and replace it with greed
All the prada that you buy
It won't stop those crying eyes
So I wonder who's justified?
Who's more vapid: you or I?
I've been wasting all of my time on things that really just bore me
In the hopes that I can feel this sorrow and replace it with greed
But who's justified in what they buy? It's hard to see
Yeah, I may want nice clothes but what you want ain't always what you need
All those watches in my mind
They aren't buying me more time
So I'm left to wonder why
Who's more vapid: you or I?
So I'll spend it
All the money on things that we don't need
So I'll spend it all
Yeah we'll spend it
All the prada that you buy
And all those watches in my mind
We'll just never be satisfied
Cause we're both vapid: you and I
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Happy
04:18
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A piece of mind
A lost memory
Well look at the time I guess I should leave
But circumstance seemed to think a bit different
I caught her glance and I could feel the spirit
I've been dying to find somebody like you
I've been trying oh lord what can I do?
My heart had a void
Replaced with my head
Till she ripped it up to make room instead
But I don't know if I can be so open
Vulnerable has never been an option
I've been dying to find somebody like you
I've been trying oh lord what can I do?
I'm over the games that she doesn't play
I have a sickness she is my cure
I'm over the games that she doesn't play
I have a sickness she is my cure
What makes you happy?
What makes you?
She said to me
What makes you compelled to?
I've got to know
Inside you what drives you?
I need to know
What makes you happy?
What makes you?
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Deaf Ears
03:30
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Build me up with the compliment
Tear me down to my detriment
Words that carry a reverence
I don't hear
No one lasts for a second
Every minute's a lesson
Time is god's great invention
It draws near
And all the words
They fall on deaf ears again
On deaf ears again
Bring me back to infirmary
Fill me up at the pharmacy
Write these words in your diary
"I feel clear"
And all the words
They fall on deaf ears again
And soon the words will fade away
Into the every changing gray
No one will ever speak the words they took for granted every day
They fade away, they fade away
And all the words
They fall on deaf ears
And all the words
They fall on deaf ears
What's left to say if it falls on deaf ears
Deaf ears
Dear ears again and again and again
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DIY Bedroom Rock from the great state of Minnesota.
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