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I’ve been walking down all these empty streets
I’ve been thinking about just everything that you mean to me
I’ve been thinking back to all the words you said
How I’ve been wishing for everything I’d rather just forget
I’ve been waking up around eight or nine o’clock
I’ve been walking around this town screaming “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK!”
I’ve been feeling crazy though I’ve been feeling sane
I’ve been thinking back to just how everything just seems to change
If this is what you want then you’re in over your head
Cause this is what I’ve got and I’m gonna be a regret
Take that lacy dress off as you slide onto the bed
Say you’re gonna make this hurt – but I’m already inside your head
I’ve been singing songs about the places I want to go
I’ve been looking for just any place for me to call a home
I’ve been getting lost though I’ve been feeling found
I’ve been doing so much better without having you around
Do you even feel anything at all?
Do you want to go home?
I don’t even feel anything at all.
I just ain’t ever coming home.
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Say you need a vacation or maybe just a drink
A long drive home through back roads to help you sit and think.
Through all the place you were always told - told not to go
Back where your brother’s heart got crush by the weight of the world
You always said that you should die or maybe should be living someone else’s life.
Well I used to say the same for myself - ran passed the boarder into the south.
But my heart’s like a fist in the way that it’s always fighting for ya.
But it’s knuckles have been bruised from beating to much.
Go and call your father and tell him you’ve gone away forever.
I bet he cries all night wondering where his baby girl has gone.
Go on down to Mexico drink until you forget everyone you know.
Change your name until you become someone - or maybe you’re just done.
Did that bloody love destroy you? Did it help you get to sleep?
Did it help you make up your mind when you abandoned everything?
Cause now you’re out chasing the sun like I have done before.
San Francisco was a lifetime ago darling, can’t be blind anymore.
Go and haunt these Mexican towns – Señorita you’ve been given it all.
Go and drink that water now – become a hero and never come back home.
And I remember when I forgot about you.
And I remember when I forgot all about you.
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Bourbon & Water
03:43
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Drown these thoughts in alcohol and cigarettes
Can’t let them out now when all I want is to forget.
So I keep to myself and ignore what everyone says
Looking into my glass I feel ashamed for the things I did
But as long as I’ve got a few good friends to calm me down
I know that we’ll be shooting the shit - enjoy a few rounds
And if they can only see all the thoughts inside my head
Well they would understand all the reasons why I left
So give me bourbon and water make it a double tall and strong.
Just enough to fuck me up help me forget the things that I’ve done wrong.
Cast away this heartache to help me feel again.
But just numb me for the night - just one solid evening.
Bourbon and water my only friend.
So I laugh it up and say “I’m great, yeah I’m doing fine”
But I can be a liar from time to time
Could’ve been a better person.
Could’ve been a better man.
But what the fuck do I know when I can hardly stand?
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St. Augustine
02:44
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I get lost down these alleyways
Down these back streets in St. Augustine
Remembering my V-neck and faded jeans,
and that summer dress next to me.
And all I have left are memories
the ghost that remains of you and me.
You’re haunting the thoughts inside of my head
and I find myself in love again.
So we walk by the ocean shore
right by the fort there in the harbor.
I get lost inside of your stare
as we get lost inside of each other.
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Never Coming Home
04:01
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It always seems like I’m wasting all my time
Staying up through all the hours of the night
When I try to battle the shortness of breath in my lungs
And there’s so much to do, so I guess I’ll smoke another one
Whiskey breath and stale beer on the carpet
I guess it’s true - I got what I wanted.
And I’m still waiting on my phone to ring
And I’m still waiting - waiting for you to say
Darling I’m never coming home
I’ve grown content with all these nights alone
I don’t need you here
I don’t need you near me
Darling I’m never coming back
Change my name and my bags are packed
I don’t need you here
I don’t need you near me
Now my anxiety has gotten the best of me
And I’m fucked up again and so far out of reach
Maybe all I really need is to get some sleep
Or maybe I don’t really need much of anything
Walk around this house and trying to calm down
I’m not used to the silence without you around
And I’m still waiting on my phone to ring
And I’m still waiting - waiting for you to say
So I ran away – to another state.
Yeah I ran away – now it’s too late.
And if you want me back just show up
I’m here and my arms are open.
And if you want me back just show up say
You made a mistake
Yeah I know that you know you made a mistake.
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I'm Done Lying To Myself
06:19
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Looking into the mirror I feel a shake in my knees
How my eyes have sunken in how I’ve aged since my leave
of absence from where I grew up and knew all the streets
that we would drunkenly drive all careless and free
oh dumb those ideas were try to plan out our live
and I got to the point to pack it up and leave it behind
and I’m staring at the clock as if I’m keeping up with time
but this won’t kill me but I’m nowhere close to feeling fine.
And I cracked my knuckles on a brick wall
that I punched as I was begging you to stay
Cracked my neck on a restless pillow
that’s meant for your head and not mine to lay
And I cracked my back trying to get comfortable
on the side you used to sleep in my bed
Cracked my heart on liquor bottles
when I was home alone and trying to mend.
And I’m shrinking out of my clothes little by little each second
and I haven’t eaten in a week, but no, I’m not starving
I’ve been saving up from all of these early morning commutes
and I’ve been thinking about coming to visit really soon
but I’m afraid all my friends have forgotten about me
because I don’t get no letters and my phone it never rings
maybe they’re just too busy and don’t have time for someone else
but I’m done lying - yeah I’m don’t lying to myself
I’m done lying to myself
I’m done - I’m done - I’m done
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Always Dying
03:26
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I’m all dried out but I’m alright
said I wouldn’t miss you, I couldn’t stop if I tried.
You’re like a ghost, but you’re not dead
you still haunt me everyday.
Better now than I was before
got myself together, never thought I would.
My taste now it just ain’t the same
I wish you could see me this way.
But darling - we’re always dying
changing like the seasons with dead leaves on the ground.
And darling - I’m always dying
and just like my mirror I don’t think you’d recognize me now.
My overthinking’s something of the past
my taste for liquor, I’ve given up on that.
Found my fate at the bottom of a bottle
that I was slowly drowning in.
Finally got up and saved myself
stopped blaming everything on everyone else
Well I don’t recognize who I used to be
and I’m sorry you got that version of me.
but you’re forever the embers that flicker but never fade
the ghost that haunts me for all of the love that we made
and I loved you then and I swear that I still do
and if I had my chance well I’d make it all up to you
because I owe it to you
darling I’m going to make it up to you
And are you just like my mirror
do you even recognize me now?
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