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How's the weather?
07:53
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i hate how our conversations are always
"hey, how is the weather?"
"well, it could be better..."
i hate how i won't say anything when i obviously want to
so i just smile at you and keep my eyes to the ground
i've seen better days on a soap operas we used to watch daily
but now i am lucky if you even sit by me
i've learned from experience that love can't last forever
but please don't let it end like this
(just so you know) this silence is why i can't sleep
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A Letter
03:42
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i know that i've grown
you'll always remember me at two years old
slurring my speech and clinging to your feet
but you've given me some of my favorite memories
i know this distance tears us apart
old photographs and phones calls aren't enough
so i want you to know
you've always be there to help me conquer the coldest winters
and i love you for that
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it's been so long that i can't even remember
the last time we spoke or the last thing we did together
best friends forever - a promise we couldn't keep
going our separate ways
i'll probably never see you again
but if i was magician i'll put you out of my hat
we'd raise hell on wycliffe street
like we did when we were 15
now 22 with a 9 to 5 job
how did we let ourselves grow up?
i've been thinking of you as of late
where have you been?
and who have you loved?
i hope for your sake you're not as fucked as I am
last time i was in houston
i stood at the place where we all grew up
it was one of the only times i've appreciated life
i've been thinking of you as of late
where have you been?
and who have you loved?
i hope for your sake you're not as fucked as I am
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you and me are human beings
with different intentions, different emotions
so why am i surprised when you confess to me
that you're so sorry but it's not meant to be
and you ask me can we just be friends?
and i smile sarcastically
and whisper softly i'm sorry but it's not meant to be
i know that everything might not work out
nothing's ever meant to be
and that's what really scares me
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the smell before the rain
always makes me so nostalgic
for summers back in texas
and i wonder how my dog who ran away is doing now
i hope he thinks about me each time he chews a shoelace
every time i see a john wayne movie
i'm thankful for my dad and how he raised me
and i honestly believe that i'm the same as i was when i was fourteen
i still worry about things that really don't matter
i found the meaning of life in the fortune cookie
it said stop asking how and why to live life and just do it
i guess nike was right
but ive never been one to take advice
i guess everything reminds you of something
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there are no stars in this town
light pollution drowns them out
you have to go out to the country
but that can get so lonely
so i usually stay inside
with closed blinds late at night
read some bukowski or hemingway
stare the ceiling and just drift away
are you afraid of the dark?
because i am
are you afraid of die?
alone, yes
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summer is ending but unlike usual i don't feel empty
i'm noticing beauty in small things
like a 50 cent ring or a simple good morning
in every way i feel lucky and it's all because of you
i'm longing for michigan or new york
so i can tell you three simple words face to face
and we won't have to fight off sleep
until then i guess we can live on pillows and natalie portman
and phone calls that last until 7 a.m.
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old man times are changing so fast
your past loves are far gone
and your thoughts on life have slowed down
and the bottle is all that you've got now
but i can see myself in those bloodshot eyes
and you were right we all need to find our own ways to sleep at night
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life is a constant battle with myself
i'm fighting these memories
and how i am losing
but i won't get back all these wasted nights
and i am now learning everyone lied
time isn't medicine no it's a poison
and it'll always run through my veins
so what can i do?
and how can i make it through?
when the poets were confused
because i can't forget you
i'm taking the side roads because i know that you do
take walks at 3 a.m. hoping to find you
smoking a cigarette, reflecting on how your day went
but it hasn't work just yet and i'm scared
of what i would say if it actually did
so lately i stay inside passing time, wasting life
so what should i do?
how the fuck can i make it through?
Tim, i took your advice, i stayed home
and i still feel alone
and the worst thing is i know that you're happy without me
i know how that makes me seem
and maybe that's why you left me
and maybe that's why i hate me
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A way I'll never be
05:43
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winter's creeping up on me
either summer was shorter or global warming
i look around my room and all i see is an unmade bed
misplaced records and untied tennis shoes
a half burned photograph of you
well of course i couldn't see it through
is this what i've got to show for all my years on this earth?
cause if so no wonder i question my worth
i wonder if i'll ever be truly happy
i know only time can say
but honesty it doesn't look that way
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11. |
The End of Something
05:23
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it was a long drive
you had begged me to stay
but i had changed my mind
i couldn't comfort you anymore
it was the last time we spoke
you'd asked me to read you hemingway
then asked what it meant
i said "love, it wasn’t fun any more."
and then we realized it was about us
and no more words came out of our mouths
sometimes its better to let go of the nights you can never get back
most times its best to say no to a need to reinvent the past
and now i know the heart doesn't need it only wants love
it only needs air
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