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One year on in this safe, small town
How can feelings be so strong, yet so new?
No need to talk of apologies
All those mistakes made that words can't undo
Instead we follow on with the senseless fights, late nights
Each one leads me back to you
Because you will be
The one who waits for me
So, tell me your temptations, your worries and doubts
And all the people you can't live without
I know how it looks when my eyes close and my head drops
Like I'm sleeping when you're talking
Yeah, but don't stop
I know that you'll be thinking two years from now
How we'll make it work but somehow cross borders, common lines
We'll be alright
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Orchid
02:22
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It's fine that you dropped the orchid that I bought you
Smudged dirt into the carpet
Sweep it up and make the call to talk the weeks away
Take time to explain this mess we've somehow made
I've waited so so long for you to prove me wrong
Now I'm blurry eyed from a bad night in the bathroom
Thinking to a year back, standing in a staff room
Plans and secret meetings
Nervous summer heat
In days that would become to me
More than you could ever believe
Time is fastly passing and memories amassing
Walking back on silent nights
Constellations clashing
Talk the streets away
Taking turns to trade the things we said we'd never say
I've waited so so long for you to prove me wrong
6 more weeks we're waiting
I'm patient, you're impatient
Thinking to a year back standing at the station
Coy smile, arms and all
Hold out for the call
For the same old arrival
It meant more than you can ever believe
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Sea Of Leaves
02:52
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Green becomes a sea of leaves
Leaving denim skirts and plain black tees
Rebuilding bridges, repairing the nevers
We can't surrender ourselves to sun forever
Now we're counting days like we used to count steps
Dreading the beginning as much as the end
Staring at pavements and counting to ten
Summer slips away, September comes again
For what I said I'd give I got
I'm lost in thoughts of getting lost
Taking time to take time off
For me this is just enough
Through bike rides and longest days
We blink our eyes and hours just slip away
Train tracks take us back to where we loved
We're classic cars through streets built to rust
Her frustrations grow to grate on me
The separation seems to be too much lately
Through days in doors and a mattress on the floor
Cemetery walks, but only if you're sure
For what I said I'd give I got
I'm lost in thoughts of getting lost
Taking time to take time off
For me this is just enough
They keep waiting for you to come back home
(You'll never understand, you won't even listen)
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Wika's Song
02:34
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In a silent notebook you write a list of undesirable things
You number them 1-3, entitled 'I hope these don't happen to me'
I hope I don't move away
I hope my won't parents separate
And go on to find new people
Like an ocean finds new waves
And each day you wanted to say "just stay"
We're out and I watch your face change from a smile to near-disdain
(But we wait)
A recording of an argument that affected you in a way in which I wondered if it took you back to a day in which you made a list that says
I hope I don't move away
I hope my parents won't separate
And go on to find new people
Like a morning finds a new day
I hope I don't move away
I hope my parents won't separate
And go on to find new people
Like an ocean finds new waves
And each day you wanted to say "just stay"
Three years
How could it have been?
Plane rides
Leaving sweet Jesse
To decide if I should stay here
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Hard On Myself
03:56
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I'm growing tired of wasted days
Rain in place of what should've been a Summer haze
Yellow hues in youth exchanged for another evening alone with a rooftop view
Thinking I wish I had anything better to do
Than stare at magnolia walls
Pen-stained corners from worse moods
And longer nights
From where I should've been sleeping
Instead of stressing over where I might have been
If steps were different
If I didn't miss you
As if every waking thought wasn't enough to give you
I was hard on myself
But what were we to do?
But that was nothing compared to the feeling of having you back here again
But what were we to do?
You were growing tired of wasted nights
Emptiness in place of what could well be losing light
Bedroom blues in truth exchanged for another evening alone with nothing to do
Wishing you could think of something better for you
Than staring at the same old walls
Fingers to keys disguising the truth of longest nights
From where you should've been sleeping
Instead of stressing over where else you could have been
If steps were different
If I didn't miss you
As if every waking thought wasn't enough to give you
I was hard on myself
But what were we to do?
But that was nothing compared to the feeling of having you back here again
But what were we to do?
But what were we to do?
Because when the blame kept coming I held onto you
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Spiders
02:20
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How many times will I need to put you to the test
When you're never failing
Searching deep for something I don't want to find
When you're never lying
Will I always feel this?
It's beginning to grate on me
Surrounded by guitars and hazy music
The spiders here are growing on me
When will I stop thinking that it's time we're wasting
That's not a chance i'm taking
How much can you be pushed before you turn around for good?
That's not a risk i'm taking
Jealousy is so ugly
It's written all over my face
What if one day you stop looking at me that same way
Will I always feel this?
It's beginning to grate on me
Surrounded by guitars and hazy music
The spiders here are growing on me
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Watching The Hours
03:18
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She orders wine, to cloud her mind
Convincing herself that everything is going fine
One drink down, things are becoming easier
Conversations flowing, people feeling more familiar
The night carries on
Another favourite song
Feeling like nothing could ever go wrong
That warm buzz, that feeling she had missed
What she's been longing for ever since
Watching the hours creep up to leaving
No need to talk of responsibilities
The cure for everything but also the disease
Head is spinning
Dazed state but still awake
Restless thoughts, blurry eyes and body aches
Rights become wrongs
Highs become lows
Once great ideas become "no one can ever know"
Senses heightened
Feeling brave and enlightened
Morning comes, she's never felt so frightened
Watching the hours creep up to leaving
Another wasted night
What could she have been doing
Hiding away from the light
What was she thinking
Another wasted night
What could she have been doing
Hiding away from the light
What was she thinking
Why was she drinking
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Ninety Mile Walk
03:41
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Always too quick to pass judgement and eager to place blame
I understand the annoyance that you feel when I go
I feel the same way when I have to stay
You show me that you care in the strangest of ways
Tidying my wardrobe and ordering my bookcase
Do you realise this spotless house doesn't make up for anything?
You're a stranger but familiar
We are different yet still so similar
I'll choose the 90 mile walk back to my room
You're a stranger but familiar
We are different yet still so similar
l could leave but I'd still long to see you soon
Why do you think that I'm against you, pushing you away
You said you understand just how torn I must feel
You must know that that doesn't really make up for anything
You're a stranger but familiar
We are different yet still so similar
I'll choose the 90 mile walk back to my room
You're a stranger but familiar
We are different yet still so similar
l could leave but I'd still long to see you soon
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Expectations
02:34
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There were expectations you had of me
Unfounded, baseless, conflicted
Let me see how you came to these conclusions
Were they birthed from tired eyes?
Confrontations one-side willing
I've tried to understand the circumstances of both sides
Take flight on bike rides another night
Can I trade the expectations you had of me
For the predetermined fate i'm living now
I feel I've mastered mediocracy
Through every empty, sleepless night
Consolations one-side willing
I've tried to understand the circumstances of both sides
Confrontations one-side willing
I've tried to understand the circumstances of both sides
Take flight on bike rides another night
I may be spineless but as faded figures
We ride out as if there are no bigger problems than you and I
Glazed eyes and body tired
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Rivelin Hills
02:48
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How can our endless Summer come to an end?
Escaping late nights blues and Rivelin hills
I wonder how many more people I'll meet to forget
And all the early mornings I'll continue to dread
Watching my feet pace through those familiar streets
From a blurry year I thought I'd left behind
When will I feel I belong there again?
Comfort in people I long to call friends
I wonder when I'll tire of time poorly spent
And when I'll stop sleeping through days that never end
Watching my feet pace through those familiar streets
From a blurry year I thought I'd left behind
Who will be there in the longest nights
When day-to-day malaise gets the best of me
And I wonder who will be there for comfort
Instead of nights semi-there, crowded, losing my head
Watching my feet pace through those familiar streets
From a blurry year I thought I'd left behind
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Tired Eyes Boston, UK
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