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Outside with the light from a lantern
Tripping over the bar where I set my standards
Let it all become
The epitome of a night with good fun
Spending money without a profit
More fingers on my hands than cash in my pockets
The laughter's loud and toxic
Chorus:
Stories of the glories parents in their forties
They have a lot to tell but I'm not listening well
To all the warnings mistakes are rewarding
As far as I can tell (2x)
we're growing up young
Evenings full of harsh words and banter
Higher than the bar where I set my standards
Not at all withdrawn
The basement again with all the good songs
Your faces, I can hardly look at
Between all of the drinks and smiles and snap backs
I never want to leave
(I never fucking want to leave here)
Chorus (1x)
We're growing up young
Up late no regrets
Feel no shame for sleeping on the floor again
Last call place your bets
I don't think I'm ever coming home again (2x)
Chorus (1x)
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We lay far in the back of the hotel safe in my car with the back row down
Here's the lines I should not say
I fear my mind is stuck on replay
Like back when you would stand in the way of the car door
You'd beg me to stay we could take it farther
You said you felt a way and I felt it harder
Conclusions we write with a fight at your dorm
Chorus:
But it's leaving me to be the one to break my own fall
Left with the recoil as its presence is clawing at my jaw
One more say is another way to pass it
One more fragment to leave in the pass tense
You set the stage for a scene with no hope
The script is fading and the lights they follow
The lines obscene and unfair
A dream in your eyes for me a nightmare
Fate lies violent through the bedroom door
Where I find you both lying on the bedroom floor
All the signs misread all the lies ignored
Insides are turning my eyes are burning
I'll take step back and fall lost from rhythm
Like a heart attack with no second chances given
A psychopath when I say "I swear I'll kill the kid"
I take it back now I see you'll never be worth it
Chorus (1x)
It's all in pieces, it's on me
I wanna say I'm sorry
And to pieces, were falling
I'm telling you I'm sorry
Chorus (1x)
I'm left to break my fall, I'm not the one at fault
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Conceited everyday
You're walking circles around me
My eyes are dimming
The paint is thinning
My lies are getting the best of me
I falter when I walk
I'm trying hard to talk the talk
I don't know how to end it
Your in it to win in it
And I'm just rolling the dice
My chest is getting heavy
Yet you still expect the envy
Of everyone else
Of them wanting us
And I'm just left to resume
You are the moon I am the tide
I bend to you
You think that's fine
Chorus:
It was a waste of time
We fell apart at the side where
I couldn't keep my end up
(I'll be alright)
I never kept my end up
(I'll stay home tonight)
It happens every time
I'm pennies and nickels
Fragile and brickle
Now being stuck to resume
(I'll be alright)
There's too much space in this room
(I'll stay home tonight)
Enticing compliments
And timeless incidents
A maze of clear intent, it's evident, but you're hesitant so stay
And you can haunt me till I'm empty
Write the wrong words end the story
Keep the screen on cuz it's tempting
And I won't be long don't worry
I love the way you lie when you meant it
And instigate with higher intentions
I'll be alright
I'll stay home tonight
It's way too late and I'm tired but tempted
I'm on my way so retire your defenses
I'll be alright
I'll stay home tonight
Chorus(1x)
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Gone now I keep my distance
But still show persistence in trying to find out how you are
It’s really testing my patience, watching you waste this
Life that you have of yours in a bar
And I get the feeling that you’re gonna leave him
Cause you just can’t seem to get off
You’re so appealing, you can get anyone that you want somehow
Patience is useless when I’m sober and you’re wasted
And you don’t wanna hear it, so go on just leave it
Calm down, can’t we get level?
Can’t we be civil? We share a lot of things
And yeah, I think back when it was simple
Before I had earned some, and all I ever did was sing
Been caught under pressure, trying to measure
How I feel ‘bout this whole thing
You’re so appealing, you can get anyone that you want somehow
Patience is useless when I’m sober and you’re wasted
And you don’t wanna hear it so go on just leave it
And I count the times that I’m driving home
I’m talking to myself like I’m not alone
Trying to figure to out who I’ve been running from
Gotta figure out who I’ve been running from
I keep my distance now
Forcing my jaw to smile
[x2]
Patience is useless when I’m sober and you’re wasted
And you don’t wanna hear it so go on just leave it
And I count the times that I’m driving home
I’m talking to myself like I’m not alone
Trying to figure to out who I’ve been running from
Gotta figure out who I’ve been running from
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Lackluster philanthropist
Feeling good as good as good gets
Go ahead promote forgiveness
False prophet lay in your own mess
Your disciple gave it all away
Now I know what you mean is not what you say
Lead the battle accusations made with haste
You're not on the front lines
Say it to my face
(chorus)
Prolong the sting underneath the skin
I've been tending
It's leading to repeated ends
Rewrite the words just to never send
Restart a heart just to beat again
You kept me in your back pocket
And then you swept
Me under the carpet
You're a fake a façade a mistake
A lie that, could never take
Hold of me
Ahold of what you thought you could be
A polished cover with a tattered spine
A warming face with a selfish smile, your lies
Will catch up to you, I can oblige that the
Ones that you loved you
Will no longer confide
(chorus)
Friends turn to liars as ash comes from fires
Beauty to dirt
You've become inert
Friends turn to liars as ash comes from fires
Beauty to dirt
You've become inert
(chorus 2x)
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So what you're wax poetic, you think your words will discredit me
I beg to disagree
So you say your a glass half empty, I'll rant about how I'm always full
You're a lease I won't renew
You'll never learn
Don't follow me further into
This shallow grave, just push on through
Get a grip cuz I know you're lonely
Fill your cup cuz I know I'm not worth
You're, you're time
I'll admit we were as thick as thieves
I learned that nothing comes free
Don't mistake this for inopportunity
You're a pendulum swinging between
Common sense and sympathy
Don't expect yourself to grow
Find you own way
And ride it through
Get a grip cuz I know your lonely
Fill your cup cuz I know I'm not worth
You're, you're time
How can I meet your expectations when I can't meet my own
Your vengeful actions come packaged with a conflicted tone
Your fighting fire with fire but you can't take the burn
You traded solace for malice at every fucking turn
Fill your cup cuz I know I'm not worth you time
Fill your cup cuz I know I'm not worth your time
Get a grip cuz I know your lonely
Get a grip cuz I know your lonely
I'm not worth your, I'm not worth your time
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Could you whisper in my ear
The things you wanna feel
I'd give you anythin'
To feel it comin'
Do you wake up on your own
And wonder where you are?
You live with all your faults
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
Yeah, I'm gonna let it slide
Don't you love the life you killed?
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
Don't supposed I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
It's somethin' I can't change
I'll live around it
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
Ooh, slide
And I'll do anythin' you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothin' that fall
Oh, May
Put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh, May
Do you wanna get married Or run away?
And I'll do anythin' you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothin' that fall
Oh, May
Put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh, May
Do you wanna get married
Or run away?
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything
And I'll do anythin' you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yeah, slide)
Little pieces of the nothin' that fall
(yeah slide)
And I'll do anythin' you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yeah slide)
Little pieces of the nothin' that fall
(Oh, oh slide)
Yeah, slide between the sheets of all them beds you never knew
(Yeah slide)
Why don't you slide into my room
Just slide into my room
Oh, we'll run away, run away, run away
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Jetstreams and Daydreams
03:47
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Apparition
Apparition
Take off your cloak, come and play
Transition
Indecision
Just like that, you fly away
Just a passenger
In my own mind
Just a messenger
I don’t mind
I fall into the night
Jet streams and day dreams
We fill the void together
My thoughts are taking flight
Liftoff
cleansing the wounds that matter
Curves winding , intertwining
Carry me to here from back against
These ghosts, they always find me
Fleeing now I feel the Resonance
I smile , put you behind me
Your hostage, my innocence
You know I’m good at lying
Running back and forth in permanence
(2x)
Things I thought would never change
Are back and in my head
What once was will never fade
A life we had
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The speaker sits atop the table
I persist to ask you a favor
Under my breath I whisper please
With no intent but to invest in the lack of company
I know this is as good as gold
Tonight I'll be
Outback kicking it with old friends
Listening to every song you can't stand
The night is young and so are we
There is no place I'd rather be
Fast talking strangers
Tryna find a ride to the joint by the fire-station
We got no plans
There is no need
Just say the word
Lay it on me
And my terminal impermanence
It Does not apply here
Seems to disappear when you're near
Fixating on the thought
Am I conscious or clever enough
To keep you on my line
To find the place and time
To ask you if your thoughts of me
Ever will subside
Chorus
And I got nothing left to lose but you
Lose but you
Stuck between
Lessons learned and "this could be different"
But I can't get you off my mind
This time
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We all spit fire, Got a little burned
But I never Felt slighted, not even a bit spurned
Would you jump off a bridge if they told you to
Depends on the temp and my point of view
The DNR came and I lost my shoe
Steve's left foot caught a flathead screw
No man left behind, we pulled him through
Chorus:
So here's my cliche song
About the street that I grew up on
No irony or feelings blue
About the times I had on Sunshine avenue
And its like you were never gone
When your back home
And All the drives on those Saturdays
I chose you guys, and discolored eyes
I thought, you would never leave
Never will view you as less then kin
So here's my clique song
About the street that I grew up on
No irony or feelings blue
About the times I had on Sunshine avenue
And I can't say your wrong
About decisions when you were gone
Cuz everyone's got a reason hiding
Beneath the many things, that bind them
And I hope you never thought I was holding you back
Or that was something that you factored in before you had left
Cuz I don't think I could live with myself if I was the prick
That forced you out of this town that made you so sick
Of the nights out on the Chesapeake on my father's boat
Or biking down to bradshaw braving Goettner's slope
I knew I'd miss your stories and your wondrous bluntness
I thought you were the lodestone that guided my compass
You fill my lungs
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Honest Ending
05:40
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I guess this is where the road splits I've acted this scene out before
Remnants of the nights we call bliss spread about yet last ignored
Bitter conclusions emphasized stroke out a happy ending
Like a full release out on hold realize and stop pretending
But hear me out cus the words will hurt
Only one night I'll stay with her
The foundations laid but the walls are falling
The roofs caved in and now it's fucking raining..
Raining our song has found its ending don't say your mind is changing cus it's like I'm drunk but the party's over and my cup is empty
This feeling of sin the way she's bending her eyes and curves are tempting and I'm sorry but fucked up is an honest ending
An awkward collective silence an air of smoke in candlelight
And only one solution in mind tonight alone this room you and I
As sorrows thicken regrets they sink in we just give in sometimes
And I'm such a dick but your words they pierce my ears I'll say goodnight
But hear me out cus the words will hurt every single night I'll stay with her
The night is young but the scene gets old if this doesn't go down then I have to go
Chorus
Bridge:
And you know that I'm not just anyone
The things you do with me the things you've never done
This ecstasy is getting the best of me (best of me)
The fire in your eyes is burning the wrong hands of time are turning
And I turn to stone when you look back at me
Solo
You don't know if you'll make it tomorrow you don't know if you want me to stay
I don't know if I'll be here tomorrow
Wake up alone with nothing to say
The mark from your last bite will fade away
Like the sharp gaze in your eyes as you came
With blurred thoughts we forget what we have to say
Fall innocent to pleasure and pain
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At Face Value Baltimore, Maryland
Five piece band from Baltimore, MD
Check out our music to the left and come to a show and say hi
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"Ivy and Echo" EP available March 16, 2016
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