1. |
Mea Culpa
02:57
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What we had could never last
& I'm watching it fall apart like shards of glass
Every broken bottle I've left drained & smashed
I think I'm hurt, but I'm still breathing
I'm not giving up, I'm giving in
& all the things that could have been...
I'm giving in
If my heart stopped beating
If my blood ran cold with my eyes all sunken in
Would it even quit?
Would this place still reek from this load of shit?
All this time you've batted eyes
On baited breath I've listened to you whine
You're all I've kept inside
I don't know what I'm feeling
But it's all leaving me now
I feel it fading away
I'm blacking out
Every night you've got me falling for it
A lullaby keeping me sedated
When I'm waking up, got it weighing on me
& this bed I've found is all I believe in now
Though you haunt my sheets, it don't keep me from sleep
It's fading now...
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2. |
Summer Blues
02:23
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I've got a girl, & she needs me like a hole in the head
& if she could, I know she'd trade me for the hole instead
Now I'm 25 & if I'm alive, I can't feel a thing inside
But I'm trying still with alcohol & pills
Til there's nothing left in me to kill
I read in a book that we all write our own destiny
But I've tried and I keep rewriting my history
Now the summer's done but it's still 101, just another thing I can't outrun
Like the year before, or whatever's left in store
I don't think I can take much more
Is it not enough to admit defeat?
Is it not enough to be on my knees?
I'd pray to god if that's all it took
I'd place my hands on that faded book
I know a girl who says she hates it when I get so down
So I'm up, & I'm headed back to my home town
I gotta go
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3. |
Shorelines
03:14
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If it takes all night, if it takes the rest of a lifetime
I can make it fit, I'm gonna squeeze the life right out of it
I've been standing here so long I thought I might disappear
Lost among the crowd, but now it's time that I was stepping out
Empty hands & tired eyes
Broken, beaten, but not tonight
For every hollow threat I ever made
I'm walking away
I'm leaving it all behind for something better down the line
Let it be turntide, & shorelines
Don't look back, walk away from the past you left behind
Your friends'll say don't go, but fuck em, they don't know
What it takes, to make you love & sing inside
Just walk along that line, have a drink & ease your mind
For every other debt I never paid
There will come a day
It's a banner year, I can't believe it took so long to get here
If I bleed it out, will there be any other doubt?
Leaving it all behind
Let it be all mine
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