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Shot in the Dark
04:00
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You seem to like the way
my teeth are carved like stones
across the graveyard ground
You seem to hate the way I
mistake convention for enlightenment
whenever you're around
All my mistakes don't add up anymore
All my mistakes are scattered
on the floor, I lost count long ago
I never know just how much
I never know just how much
I never notice how much
I need, I need, I need
anymore
Don't make me take a shot in the dark
I just need a little while for my head to clear
I never know how much I could be, but I
just know that I could be a little more
than I am here
Tell me I'm out of line
You made up your mind
before you met me
and you just met me
You say you're doing fine
there's fire in your eyes
burning brightly
burning brightly
All my mistakes don't stack up anymore
All my mistakes are pounding
on the door
I want them all to go
I never know just how much
I never know just how much
I never notice how much
I need, I need, I need
anymore
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2. |
Breathing Room
03:11
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Keep me calm, I need
You never give me much chance
to think about it
I need a little time, a little space
a little breathing room
All that you tell me
is a black and white facsimile
of left wing, right wing
nonsense that's
on the news
It's getting kind of hard
to describe the way it feels
You know it's never all that easy
to articulate these kinds of things
Cars crash into presidents
the world it warns of war
and desperation but nobody seems
to fit it all inside their brains
Ground's falling beneath us
all our feet are on the floor
but everybody keeps on dancing
no one ever seems to feel a thing
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3. |
A Lie We Made Up
03:32
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Despite your pride
I became what you despise
so easily
Take all the time
You'll get better if you try to be
less like me, you'll find
That it's hidden all around you
Caught in the dark
I was waiting for alarm-bells
sounding through the street
Kill me again
I'll still be your biggest fan
Even though we'll never meet
All that I am
and all that you are
is a lie
we made up
When we were young
we never know why
we just try
to wake up now
Worst came to worst
I don't think it even hurt
say goodbye for me
Despite your pride
I became what you despise
so easily
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4. |
One More Night
03:14
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There's a whole world before me waiting
And there's some people worth knowing
There's a light in your eye, but it's fading
I just need to see you one more night
You're love-lost and star-crossed and drifting
out into space, waiting to be found
You think of the things that you're missing
You're echoing words, never hear a sound
You're standing before me saying
that you're somebody worth knowing
There's a light in your heart, but it's fading
I just need to see you one more night
You're love-lost and star-crossed and drifting
out into space, waiting to be found
You think of the things that you're missing
Our bodies collide, make the sweetest
You stand at the edge, there's no one left
they caught everybody else last night
You're callous and cruel, now you're undead
You're nothing but bones, fade into the light
There's a whole world before me waiting
And there's some people worth knowing
There's a light in your eye, but it's fading
I just need to see you one more night
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There's never really been
anywhere that I was happy
I'd just lay my head down in the sand
building castles over me
watch them all fall down again
There's never really been
anyone who didn't make me feel
like I was living in a dream
let me watch and see
if something starts making sense
There's shadows over me
in geometric angles
they're making funny shapes
distract myself by thinking about nothing else
than the way they play upon my face
contrasting the light that isn't there
And I don't even know where I've been
I just need a little bit of time to explain
And I don't even know where I've been
I just need a little bit of time to explain
I'm walking out this time
my feet are tapping eight-notes
like a marching band
playing on a loop inside my head
let me go this time
maybe we will meet again
under better circumstances
There's never really been
anywhere that I was happy
I'd just lay my head down in the sand
building castles over me
watch them all fall down again
And I don't even know where I've been
I just need a little bit of time to explain
And I don't even know where I've been
I just need a little bit of time to explain
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There's a little green man in a spaceship
over my head, he talks to me
He says he's been around since Boudicca and Tutankhamun
became a part of the problem, turned into casualties
Of a little blue woman floating around beside him
pushing all of the buttons controlling everything
And she's been round since Antony and Cleopatra's
aspirations took action and made it history
You're heart breaks in front of me
and I realize that I'm alone
It's not what you did to me
it's just easier to let you go
Ahead and take me away someplace that's exciting
I'll meet the Sirens of Titan and they'll drown me good
I just want to waste away in outer-space and tell myself
that I did everything I could
And I just want to get high in my satellite, I'm alright
I hope the same for you
And I just want to get high with myself tonight, give me time
I think you could use some to
You're heart breaks in front of me
and I realize that I'm alone
It's not what you did to me
it's just easier to let you go
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Travis Atwell Carrboro, North Carolina
Travis Atwell is, foremost, a passionate believer in the power of storytelling and language. He has been writing songs for nearly a decade, capturing the highest and the lowest emotional and experiential images of youth and young adulthood.His music is designed to create an intimate, refined, and emotional experience that glides seamlessly between introspective melancholy and unbridled fun. ... more
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