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I've Been Struck
02:43
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Lately I've been thinking of
quitting all I've got
and moving on
I don't wanna live such a shallow life
It would be a shame if I never went
Oh you dig until you know
and if it's ever not that simple,
do you run?
I've been struck
by the idea of
living a lonely simple existence
Maybe you were onto something
Maybe you were giving it all you've got
Maybe you were onto something
Maybe you were momentarily on
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All this time
You've been obsessed with it
If so, matter-of-fact-o well it's just so legit
That all you've ever wanted is just to
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
I just need some sympathy yeah
No one's ever suffered like this
I can't be yer shoulder to cry on
'Lean on me' is just some old sad song
I can't decipher yer wit
It's as thick as mud and just as dirty
but is it sarcastic?
I see yer hesitation
Show me yer wrists
The fact is we're all just naked and vulnerable
Scared shitless
I can't be yer shoulder to cry on
I still have my weight
But I will try to relate
To think of all them right things, I can't say
like "It takes time to move on"
and "I'm sorry"
I can't be yer shoulder to cry on
I still have my weight to hold.
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3. |
Nothing At All
02:13
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I won't lie
There's still some beauty in my life
and that's ok
because nothing's gonna ever take it from me
I won't lead you on
Nothing ever good came from that anyway
I won't mess this up
We're already messed up but that's ok
I won't need too much
I just need you to want me at all
and I need you to want me
heavy or nothing at all
I want trust
What's it matter to you if we rust
In our own place
We've already faced that
Faced that fate
but I won't need too much
I just need you too love me at all
and I need you to love me
Heavy or nothing at all
I won't lie
There's still some beauty in my life
That's ok because
nothing's gonna ever take it from me
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4. |
Around You
02:52
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For the first time
I can see my life
The possibilities are endless tonight
I could take it fast
You could leave it slow
Take the easy route's the only thing that I know
Hit me up
Call my name
I never felt this much of anything
I can be myself around you
There were too many times where I felt used
I've been running round in my place
There were too many times I've been afraid to change
What if might need you to
Just come and change my life?
I would leave this for you
Got a beating heart
Beating out of place
Every time I see that sad look on yer face
Full of maybes
Full of memories
Half made decisions and the love that we bring
Turn me up
Spin me round
I'm stubborn as fuck... but anyhow
I can be myself around you
There were too many times that I felt used
I've been running round in my place
Too many times I've been afraid to change
What if I might need you to
just come and change my life?
What if I might need you to
just come and change my mind?
I would leave this for you
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5. |
What Can I Say?
02:51
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What can I be?
What will I see?
How can I love so easily?
How does it stretch out like that?
How come it won't be coming back?
How come it drives me to drink
It's that finite funny feeling
What can I say?
What will I be?
If i can't just love my baby
It's alright
Where's this truth?
How come you do anything out there it's up to you
How come it pains me to see any of the good inside of me?
What can I say?
What will I be if I can't just love my baby?
It's this finite funny feeling
It's alright
Sometimes it comes in waves
And overwhelms me
Sometimes I lie on the floor and let the cold take me
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6. |
Canada Day
03:28
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It's 4 am
0 degrees
I just can't breath
I try breathing in deeply
Alone again
in my ballcap wearing days
Drinks outside
A warm summer's night
I look around
These are my friends for now
It's 5am
I'm anticipating the alarm
Like somehow I'm super aware and sleeping
Hopefully it wakes me
Looking for ways to be mad about this
To be mad at you
But what's the use of it
I feel useless
It's no one's fault except for love
We tried hard, fast and true
On Canada Day I'll always be thinking of you
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7. |
Ebenezer and Church
04:53
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It didn't start snowing
until we carried you out
I buried you under a tree
just outside of town
It was the hardest thing I ever did
One things for certain I'll never forget this
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing
We spent so many of our years at 50 Main street
Ebenezer and Church was a second home to me
and I miss it so much it hurts
My mind is flooded
with memories of our last time
I held yer hand and I told you I love you
The look in yer eyes still makes mine water
You knew it was the end
And it wasn't till later that I found peace in these memories
And then comfort from it.
It didn't start snowing until we carried you out
I buried you under a tree just outside of town
It was the hardest thing I ever did
One things for certain I won't ever forget this
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8. |
Ontario Mourning
04:29
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Alberta's on fire
but oil money can't put you out
Yer hearts in Montreal
but the separatists are leaving
we can't go on grieving
Yer words have lost all meaning
Yer heads in Moncton
but the power's out
and you can stand under the lights
of the Yukon we forgot
But the Russians will be here soon
Dinner's on and it's the sound of a Loon that brings me back
to Ontario in mourning
It's just so selfish
the feeling we're feeling
We lost a part of us
Nostalgia in the land of rust
coloured dirt and war monuments
We drove coast to coast
just to figure it out
All along the only road
Through rain, wind, and cover of night just to get back
to Ontario in morning
I just can't shake it
Sometimes I think I might
spend the rest of my life
surrounded by water
not safe for drinking
Even the 'Howe' can't bring us together
Tragedy will hold us forever
The river is deep and dirty
and it's sappy to say
but Sackville is the great escape
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9. |
Building a Bridge
04:44
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I don't deserve anything
I'm unhappy all the time
but maybe that's just comforting
Still I'm tough
My face is a disguise
I'm a glutton for punishment
I never seem to ask why
Why?
I don't know
What the future holds
Self driving cars
A life on mars
maybe there's still room to go
I see they're building
Building a bridge
But will it last the crash
or this thousand yard dash
Politically weeping
Hey I need this
It's what I wanted
i was reaching for the sky
That's a lonely situation
But for me that's my life
That I know
There's a road
Going nowhere
That's about where this will end
We're just driving for no reason
We've got time and hey we make great friends
That I know
All I see is that's it's all that I'm after
All that I'll never be
All I know
Is it's all that I'm after
I'll that I never had
I'll that I need to show
Is all that I'll never be
All I don't need to know
Is all that I won't ever see
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10. |
Pretty Killer
03:30
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I've been here so many times
But I was faking
I'm happy at home
I made this to realize
I was faking
I'm happy at home
How bout this?
Show me yer eyes
I've been sailing
I'm happy at home
How bout this?
Show me yer eyes
I've been sailing
I'm happy at home
I've been here so many times
I've been selling myself short
Wondering this, yeah it's on my mind
Happiness won't you throw me a line
I've been telling myself this
Whoa is me...Jesus Christ
How bout this
Tell me yer lies
till I can feel em
Yer happy at home
How bout this
Tell me yer lies
Feed em in there
Yer happy at home
I've been clothed
Covered in lies
So I went sailing
I've been clothed
Covered in lies
So I went sailing
I've been here so many times
I've been selling myself short
Wondering this, yeah it's on my mind
Happiness won't you throw me a line
I've been telling myself this
Whoa is me...Jesus Christ
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11. |
Oh My Awkward Self
06:07
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Oh my awkward self
You must be a saint to put up with this
Oh my awkward self
Ah hell
But then again
What do I know?
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