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Gold
05:55
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They said our maps were out of date
So waste time while we get some new ones made
So you can celebrate
When every road had changed
And every town's been rearranged
You'll never feel more lost or so stray
Found an ocean underground
And I've been trying to dig it out
But there's nothing there but gold
There's nothing there but gold
Is there something i can put in the earth to make the cycles stop
We searched for miles with no luck
We searched for days and got lost
A switch somebody flipped and then somehow forgot
We searched for miles with no luck
We searched for days and got lost
Is there somewhere i can go to get lost
Trade in most of my thoughts
See what it's like to be calm
And not stringing myself along
'Cause I’ve been feeling so vague
I don't have anything to blame
If it's just the same, I'll wait it out
And not think about
When they said our maps were out of date
So hang tight
And we'll get some new ones made
To soon be thrown away
When every road is changed
We switch some letters in some names
So you can feel lost and out of place
Found an ocean underground
And I've been trying to dig it out
But there's nothing there but gold
There's nothing there but gold
It was better being incomplete
Knew what to do when I knew what to be
We searched for miles with no luck
We searched for days and got lost
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2. |
Strings
03:41
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Plant yourself where grass doesn’t grow
You still reach so deep in the soil
To be anything
Don’t care if it’s green
I’ll fix it once my roots get deep
And crowd out everything for miles around
I’ve been trying to keep sane
With unraveling strings
They’re too thin to climb
Too thick to cut
I’ve been trying to strain less
To lean into the sun
And soak up what i need
To see over the trees
I’ve been hollowing out homes
To climb in when I grow
Leave space for some limbs
To bloom and begin
With ear to the ground, and breathing the sound
There’s nothing coming for you
There’s nothing coming for you
Sink ‘til you’re found, shredding dirt spin around
There’s nothing coming for you
There’s nothing coming for you
Once you’re dug into place
All your tools stowed away
You sigh and look down
Nestle roots to the ground
Trained to number your days
But all your numbers were fake
Just start clutching the ground
Just start making a sound
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3. |
Ghost
04:40
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Float like a ghost to
Dresser drawers to sift through
Keepsakes from future days
Promised wealth, so just wait
On a riverbed, you rattled chains
So no one else could stay sane
And they left their gold in the haunt you made
But the stories told never used your name
All your breaths were gone, so you made some noise
You rattle chains
To have some effect
From a dark shore
Screaming I exist
On the riverbed
The men would shake
Thought they heard a sound
Thought they saw something
Screaming I exist, yeah I exist
Thought they heard something
Thought they heard something
Screaming I exist, yeah I exist
It was just the wind
House was settling
On a crowded shore they learned your name
'Til the waves came, took your memory
Laid it in the sand, taken bit by bit
Over centuries, swimming in the sea
Just when I was sure I’d be a statue standing in the sea
Folded up my bones to sleep in separate places out of reach
Screaming I exist, I’m so sure of it
Traded anything to be everything
Screaming I exist, I made sure of it
Traded everything to be anything
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4. |
Giants
06:18
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Giants
A hundred pages but
Everything's been crossed out
So i can't write
With every ship that's passed
An empty deck unsteered
So I won't try
‘Cause we were giants once
We've been losing our height
And that's alright
Got lost in the wash of the sea
Trampling
And it spits when it speaks
Says if I stay still I'll just freeze
So forgive me for the damage I breathe
Shear the tops of mountains off
And climb to somewhere past the trees
To find flat land with crowds for miles
And tell ourselves we reached the peak
And now nothing can be found
That hasn't been written down
I saw the answers on a page
When I reach down it blows away
Flipping page to page
For sentences that fill some empty space
A phrase that clicks and flips a switch I made
But never found again
Flipping page to page
Just trying to read some words that I erased
There's still a couple left that I can make out, but don't know what i meant
Flipping page to page
To find something I circled as a kid
And never read again just mourned the waste
Of all the ink I spent
But we were giants once
Folded ourselves up to shove into ship beds
Catching the wind in a sheet
Hoping for speed that we just couldn't reach
Atop a dying dream
Lost in the wash of the sea, we got crossed out
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Eden
04:09
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My bare feet could not make enough sound
And slipped far too easily down
The stairs to gardens, so desperately grown
With seeds we found lying around, and thought would make a nice home
But there were far too many flaws
Every almost perfect bloom had a couple petals gone
We swept up a few that seemed good enough to keep
And pressed to pages blank as birth, to hide under the dirt
Carve out your plot
And grow whatever you know how
And keep whatever breaks the ground
‘Cause it seems better tending
To a window sill plant
Than fields of flowers you’ll forget
So calm down
We shored up our shrinking fields
To keep what flowers we could steal
And each wave came
Pulled soil away
Left roots just floating in its place
Through hard rain
Put our tools away
Said we should calm down for a change
Calm down
Calm down
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6. |
Out of the Fog
05:11
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To step out of the fog and be found
And be found clearer now than then
Still straining to see in
Walking through the trees to get clean
To get clean getting lost between
But so free
‘Til I go form something that fits
And it fit when it started
But you shrank out of it
‘Til I go step onto pavement
It makes it easier to move
To nothing
Take my blank slates or I'll fall
I'll fall and erase every word I write
Knowing it won't ever dry
And I'll save my pages for when I'm gone
I'm gone but can I just get something down
From when I used to like myself
If this amounts
To anything at all then when the morning comes
I will be lost again
To be okay
Wasting away
Felt alright
When I felt out of place
And just needed a few more days
‘Til I go form something that fits
Make it stick
And I can just calm down
And get back to living again
To be alright
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