1. |
Drew Crimmins
03:52
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My guides gone
My heart stops my legs fall
Into these ice blue sheets
These feelings
Inside my head
Tell me to dream
Of never standing on my own two feet
Cause no one will bother remembering me
I cannot wake the same as I did when I was at home
You see being a child's easier when you're not all alone
See my soul it withers as they do with autumn leaves
And when it comes back in the spring I'll see things differently
Differently
When I get home
My heart stops my legs fall
Into these ice blue sheets
These feelings
Inside my head
tell me to dream
Of never standing on my own two feet
Cause no one will bother remembering me
Like I was never here
Like I never existed
And when you say I write these songs it must mean I'm feeling
But most of the time that's false I'm mostly guessing
Of what it would be like if I still had a backbone
And whether it's lost or misplaced or it's taken I cannot know
I cannot know
And I can't find my backbone
To stick in you
And I can't keep holding on
Without seeking the truth
And I can't find my backbone
To stick in you
And I cant keep breaking off
But I cant keep holding on
Because I can't stop seeking the truth
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2. |
Splinter
03:46
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Give it all up but don't give it too fast
I hate it when you see me, go and bring up the past
It's a god damn shame when somebody loses their way
I keep my problems big and my blessings small
Everyone's a pessimist, yet I'm one to talk
It's a god damn shame and I see it every day
But without you by my side, I wouldn't be set straight
Oh, who would've thought that'd you'd work your way in
Like a splinter under my skin
But you are not annoying like the splinter that is going down (down, down)
Oh no, don't work your way out
But people over medicate
By getting too intoxicated
Or driving at fast speeds
Or even smoking loads of weed
And they say it helps anxiety and stress
And all the rest
But without it you're all depressed and bored
SO TAKE A DEEP BREATH
and try
Sitting and thinking and breathing and feeling
The heartbeats around you from floor to the ceiling
Or if you're outside from the grass to the sky
And take in the beauty with your beautiful eyes
Or listen to the birds
Chirp in the trees
Tripping and laughing
Because life's a tease
And watch the dogs walk their humans on a leash
But without you by my side, I wouldn't be set straight
Oh, who would've thought that'd you'd work your way in
Like a splinter under my skin
But you are not annoying like the splinter that is going down (down, down)
Oh no, don't work your way out
Oh Holler at the people that you never thought would be happy
Oh Holler at the people that you never thought would be happy
Oh holler at the people that you never thought
Would ever ought
To leave their life behind
And escalate up with the divine
And as you're crying you'll make peace
With all the people who have cheated
Their way out of life through lying
Instead of just getting by trying
And it's perfectly okay
If you go and lose you faith
If we can agree
That you are so strange
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3. |
Shadowkin
04:02
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I never found a cure
So I decided to deal with it
All I have found is to endure
Try not to get distracted
But it's true we have our strengths
But in turn are we weakening ourselves?
I had a feeling (feeling) that I earned my way
Unable to be buried in an unmarked grave
If science is a sign that you're feeling sick
Then fever is a feeling that you are human
I never found a way
To recall just what I'm seeing
He's in the picture frame
He's in my dreams, he's on the ceiling
But it's true he's got my back
Even when no one's there
I had a feeling (feeling) that I earned my way
Unable to be buried in an unmarked grave
If science is a sign that you're feeling sick
Then fever is a feeling that you are human
So sue me (sue me) if I sometimes fuck up
Cause there are some times where it feels like I'm on drugs
I had a feeling (feeling) that I earned my way
Unable to be buried in an unmarked grave
If science is a sign that you're feeling sick
Then fever is a feeling that you are human
So sue me (sue me) if I sometimes fuck up
Cause there are some times where it feels like I'm on drugs
And honestly your honesty's the only thing
That's keeping my humanity at bay
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4. |
The Boston Tickler
04:37
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The world's white
Not out of purity but out of sickness and death
Cold people and a cold world are no place for a healthy conscience
That's why some of us hear voices in our head
Words gripping our veins like chains and pulling our hearts down
They say that we need science, we need jesus, we need medicine
No we don't; They do.
They hear them too
The voices in their head
Convincing them how to do, what to think
Telling them to get fucked up
But soon there'll be strength
And Atlas will take the world on its shoulders
And keep it up as it's eternal holder
And finally someone will take responsibility
And care for the mother once again
But that's just me
Saying "we" like I have numbers
But the truth is that I am broken and I am scattered
Pieces of me lay shattered in my own mind
And that's a sign that I won't come back
I'm gonna croak: Not like a toad but a withering soul
It won't wait until its' time or the day I get old
Can't say a word because it hurts like my head's caving in
I'll put my teeth in the curb and my face in the pavement
I'll curbstomp myself just lend me time to double my corpse
So I can kill me again
And finally feel some remorse
Finding love in my life is quite hard to miss
When the only thing I see is permanent nothingness
Lord kill me now
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5. |
Promise
05:10
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He's calm now, stay silent
You don't want to wake up hate
He rants on of how he's jealous
Cause we take everything
He says he's got a problem with his head, but it's not
It's a problem with his thirst
So let's make a deal
Let's make a deal
I'll hold on to this promise if you hold on to mine
I'll get rid of these lies as long as you promise to get rid of all the wine
But this is not the only truth I've found within me teeth
It's probably the first or third
I've found plenty of other things to wash out
Like neglecting the fact you're always there
To admit when there's something but nothing but air under my feet
Under my feet
I'll hold on to this promise if you hold on to mine
I'll get rid of these lies as long as you promise to get rid of all the wine
The children are thirsty, the siblings are worried again
An expression is leaking while my mixed up feelings are bent
My mother's been sleeping, my father's been drinking again
My bones held her bedframe, my blood filled the glass in his hand
My bones held her bedframe, my blood filled the glass in his hand
The children are thirsty, the siblings are worried again
An expression is leaking while my mixed up feelings are bent
My mother's been sleeping, my father's been drinking again
My bones held her bedframe, my blood filled the glass in his hand
I'll hold on to this promise if you hold on to mine
I'll get rid of these lies if you promise to get rid of all the wine
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Middlesex Derry, New Hampshire
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