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Every scream went bleeding through these paper walls and all the
make-up in the world couldn′t hide the scars
I leave today, I′m packing light: a suitcase, some toiletries
The rolling hills and willow trees of Carolina wait for me

You never learned, the rules have changed since we were nine
This isn′t school: boys don′t assault the girls they like

The taste of blood, the claim of love: these two will here on cease
to be sprouting from your fists and tongue ′cause Carolina waits for me

Fields of grain go whipping by from the window seat
I′m drifting in, I′m drifting out catching up on sleep I couldn′t get
Indentured since the very crest of 17
I left my keys and broken dreams ′cause Carolina waits for me

I will never forgive a single day
Mile markers seem to call my name and say, "you′re safer now.
Through every town, we′ll light your way in reflective green all the
way" The entire state of Carolina waits for me

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Three wasted years, standing still
As you opened up, 18 miles wide
On this country drive
I can′t keep up
′cause you′re so far gone
And it′s all too much hindsight
Three wasted years, wasting time
As the hunger pains grow inside

I can′t keep up
′cause you′re so far gone
And it′s all too much hindsight

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I remember when the days were long
and the nights when the living room was on the lawn.
Constant quarreling the childish fits
and our clothes in a pile on the ottoman.
All the slander and double speak were only foolish attempts
to show you did not mean,
anything but the blatant proof was your lips touching mine in the photobooth.

And as the summers ending the cold air rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending,
and this is all that′s left
scraping paper to document.
I′ve packed a change of clothes and it′s time to move on.

Cup your mouth to compress the sound,
skinny dipping with the kids from a nearby town.
And everything that I said was true
as the flashes blinded us in the photobooth.
Well I lost track when those words were said,
you took the wheel and you steered us into my bed,
and soon we woke and I walked you home
and it was pretty clear that is was hardly love.

And as the summers ending,
the cold air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending,
and this is all that′s left scraping paper to document.
I′ve packed a change of clothes and it′s time to move on.

And as the summers ending,
the cold air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending,
as the alcohol drained the days.
And as the summers ending,
the cold air will rush your hard heart away.
You were so condescending.
And this is all that′s left,
The empty bottles spent cigarettes so pack a change of clothes
′cause its time to move on.

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Technicolor girls are always on the phone
talking about their homes
and the conversations continue endlessly.

Technicolor boys, transistor radios
blasting their treble tones
and the arguments are disputed after school,
in the parking lot as the teachers bend the rules.

Patiently you waited for a courting boy′s embrace,
then everyone would know.
But the letter jacket wasn′t yours to own
and it proves to be on temporary loan.

And as they all grow older the truth will be understood,
cause we never turn out the way we thought we would.

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God bless the daylight, the sugary smell of springtime
Remembering when you were mine
In a still suburban town
When every thursday i′d break those mountain passes
And you′d skip your early classes
And we′d learn how our bodies worked.
God damn the black night with all it′s foul temptation
I become what i always hated
When i was with you then
We looked like giants in the back of my grey subcompact
Fumbling to make contact
As the others slept inside
And together there
In a shroud of frost, the mountain air
Began to pass from every pane of weathered glass
And i held you closer than anyone would ever get
Do you remember the JAMC?
And reading aloud from magazines
I don′t know about you but i swear on my name they could smell it on me
I′ve never been too good with secrets.
No...
And together there
In a shroud of frost and mountain air
Began to pass through every pane of weathered glass
And i held you closer...

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Cath, she stands with a well-intentions man
But she can′t relax with his hands on the small of her back
And as the flash goes first
She holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
And your heart was dying fast, and you didn′t know what to do

Cath, it seems that you live in someone else′s dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
Where the things that could have been are oppressed
But you said your vows, and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
And your heart was dying fast, and you didn′t know what to do

The whispers that it won′t last roll up and down the pews
But if their hearts were dying that fast,
They′d have done the same as you
And i′d have done the same as you

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I intentionally wrote it out to be an illegible mess
You wanted me to write you letters, but i′d rather lose your address
And forget that we′d ever met and what did or did not occur.
Sitting in the station, it′s all a blur
Of dancehall hips, pretentious quips.
A boxers, bob and weave.

And here′s the kicker of this whole shebang
You′re in debt and completely fooled, that you can look into the mirror and objectively rank your
wounds.
Sewing circles are not solely based in trades of cloth...
There′s spinsters all around here taking notes, reporting on us.

As information travels faster in the modern age, in the modern age
As our days are crawling by so slowly
Information travels faster in the modern age, in the modern age
As our days are crawling by so slowly

Information travels faster in the modern age, in the modern age
As our days are crawling by so slowly
Information travels faster in the modern age, in the modern age
As our days are crawling by so slowly

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I think you caught me on the downslide, downturn
I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream
and all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles
they had the worst intentions all along after all....
The royal castle holds the mellow drama kings and queens
And all their dazzling children; they′re so regal (clean)
With pristine fingertips they wash behind their ears
And let their hair down ′til the audiences leave
I′m definitely shaking
The silence isn′t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be

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Oh, my talking bird
Though you know so few words
They′re on infinite repeat
Like your brain can′t keep up with your beat.

And you′re kept in an open cage
So you′re free to leave or stay.
Sometimes you get confused
Like there′s a hint i am trying to give you.

The longer you think, the less you know what to do.

It′s hard to see your way out
When you live in a house in a house
Cause you don′t realize
That the windows were open the whole time.

Oh, my talking bird
Though your feathers are tattered and furled
I′ll love you all your days
Till the breath leaves your delicate face.

It′s all here for you as long as your choose to stay.
It′s all here for you as long as you don′t fly away.

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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny glance of father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409

today
As each descending peak of the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye

minds
sun at all

self
news

Then the nurse comes round and everyone lifts their head
And I′m thinking of what Sarah said but love is watching someone die

So who′s going to watch you die?...

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Believe in me, im sad and blue
Left with nothing but a picture
Third or fourth weekend in June
December seems to come too soon

Will you wait until tomorrow?
Will you wait until

Head is swirling with the scene
Of you and him embraced in rupture
Dirty trying to come clean
But every thought I have′s obscene

Will you wait until tomorrow?
Will you wait until

Quilted in our hands
And keeping you tucked in too deep
Struck in the shot of two
Twenty-four hours in June

Will you wait until tomorrow?
Will you wait until tomorrow?
Will you wait until tomorrow?
Will you wait until tomorrow?

[sorry if a few lines are wrong, but I did it by ear]
-Chris B.

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I think I′m drunk enough to drive you home now
I′ll keep my mouth kept shut from under lock and key
That′s rusted firm, no lie
′Cause all these conversations wind on and on....
Drinking champagne from a paper cup
Is never quite the same
And every sip′s moving through my eyes
And up into my brain
At half past two; about time to leave
′Cause the DJ′s playing rhythm and blues
A sad-sorry state, stutter step to those slammin′ grooves
As i′m waiting around for you....

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I put on my overcoat and walked into winter - my teeth chattered rhythms
And they were grouped in twos or threes, like a morse code message was sent from me to me. cars on
slippery slopes, they′re stuck...
People pushing through their mittens as i was beginning to feel it soaking through my shoes, getting
colder with every step i took to your apartment, dear.

And i was a kaleidoscope... the snow on my lenses distorting the image of what was only one of you
and i didn′t know which one to address as all your lips moved.

This is when i forget breathe all the things i scripted, they sound unfounded.
And the look that you′re giving me, it tells me exactly what you are thinking...
"this ain′t working anymore."

They got their mothers worked into a panic
Sledding down hills into oncoming traffic
The parents layered clothes until the children couldn′t move then kept them outside til their noises
were blue and I got left there, too.

I put on my overcoat and walked into winter, my teeth chattered rhythms.
And they were grouped in twos or threes like a morse code message was sent from me to me.

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I have such a envy for this stranger lying next to me
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light
With no words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made
And chops it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between

A storm at sea the bow cracked and I was capsizing
And I sunk below where I swore I would never go
If you can′t stand in place you can′t tell there′s walking away
From who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays

And there are no tears
Just pity and fear
No vast ravine
Right in between

Spare no tears
Just pity and fear
And I recall
The push more than the fall
The push more than the fall

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You see nothing to be adored, when obsession takes it′s toll
You can′t place you in between the pages of fashion magazines
Paper cuts from turning pages, just like a bad dream
Is it this or that or me that makes you owe? what you can′t defeat

Boiled over burning clean toward the flesh blocks? in your knees
It′s a lesson that just might keep suppressing appetites
Paper cuts from turning pages, just like a bad dream
Is it this or that or me that makes you owe? what

And I live this life just to bear these scars
Will the hurt subside, if you decide?
That′s it′s me and you this time
Is it you that always... is it you that decides

And I live this life just to bear these scars
Will the hurt subside, if you decide?
And I live this life just to bear these scars
Will the hurt subside, if you decide?

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I′m in los angeles today... it smells like an airport runway. jet fuel stenches in the cabin and
lights flickering at random.

I′m in los angeles today... garbage cans comprise the medians of freeways always creaping even when
the population′s sleeping.

And i can′t see why you′d want to live here.

I′m in los angeles today... asked a gas station employee if he ever had trouble breathing and he
said it varies from season to season, kid.

It′s where our best are on display... motion picture actors′ houses maps are never ever current so
save your film and $15.

And i can′t see why you′d want to live here.
Billboards reach past the tallest buildings,
we are not perfect but we sure try.
As UV rays degradate our youth with time.

The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place in the belly of the beast that is
californ-i-a,
I drank from a faucet and i kept my receipts for when the weigh me on my way out (here nothing is
free).
The greyhounds keep coming dumping locusts into the street until the gutters overflow and los
angeles thinks, i might explode someday soon.

It′s a lovely summer′s day and i can almost see a skyline through a thickening shroud of egos.
(is this the city of angeles or demons?)
Here the names are what remain... stars encapsulate the gold lame and they need constant cleaning
for when the tourists begin salivating.

You can′t swim in a town this shallow - you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.

@ Death Cab For Cutie