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Letters
05:35
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I guess I’m not done writing songs about you
Or at least the you I knew when I was 16
Sometimes that’s the you I like
Because I know how to lie awake at night
Katydids are probably closest to your voice
Songs from camp and how it feels to be alone
Wandering round an August night
Summer with the sadness just right
Well I don’t know about your stories
Well I don’t really read them at all
Are you sure they got it all right?
I guess it ended alright
But I don’t feel much better
Are you sure they got it all right?
I guess it ended alright
But I don’t feel much better
At the end of those letters
When I read your letters
Am I lost and the one you're looking for?
I don't answer to any other voice
But I guess that it's kind of been a while
Since I heard you calling through the noise
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Ghost
04:19
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I watch while you cry, I wonder if I did, when Timmy died
I’m not sure that I remember the feeling, I wish that I could
Float into the floor, where there must be hundreds more
Tears that it absorbed, rain into the boards
I might be the ghost that you think lives in our house, whoever died,
I hope that they like what we did with the kitchen, well maybe it’s you
Float into the floor, where there must be hundreds more
Think of how we pour, our pain into the boards
Let’s just say that I found out what it was like to cry again
Ignorance is truly bliss
Tears run down, washing out the past as I remember it
I can’t make out the story now
Cause he was the ghost, and I should’ve seen it
Why couldn’t I?
You told me but I, I couldn’t believe it,
I wish that I could
Let’s just say that I found out what it was like to cry again
Ignorance is truly bliss
Tears run down, washing out the past as I remember it
I can’t make out the story now
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Peninsula
03:56
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I’ve been so tired, I’ve been, sleeping all day long
It’s just the meds, I guess
Doctors say they got it right this time, I promise I won’t get lost again
Like you know I can
Open me up, I just know that something’s wrong in there, it isn’t in my head
Saw you there, driving by
Did you come to say goodbye?
To your friend, or the lies
I’m lost in sheets, and I don’t know how to get out this place where I’ll die
I got to get out of this, quiet country house
It’s just I can’t, I guess
My momma says I gotta stay in bed, I promise I won’t get lost again
Like you know I can
Open me up, I just know that something’s wrong in there, it isn’t in my head
Saw you there, driving by
Did you come to say goodbye?
To your friend, or the lies
I’m lost in sheets, and I don’t know how to get out this place where I’ll die
But I’ve fallen asleep, my friends
A quietly drifting end
Slipping out of the lens
(But I know) that you’ll say I’m in a better place now
But you’d be wrong
You don’t know where I am now
I could be alone
You can say I’m near you somehow
But nobody knows
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MLVSKL
03:56
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We put all out in a pile, all of your things, all of your clothes
I helped mom fill up the car, all those hats
All the shoes you never wore 'cause they took your leg.
I think about you all the time, how you’d laugh all this away
Tell me that we’ll be okay, I wish that you
Could just hold me in your arms, so I know I’m safe
I think that now I’m old enough to need my Grannie to say that she’ll love this away
The brightness of light within you stays on in my heart, as I walk through the pain
I found some tapes of you and I, I must have been 3 or 4.
I never heard such shameless love, I wish you knew
That your laugh still makes me smile when I've lost my place
I think that now I’m old enough to need my Grannie to say that she’ll love this away
The brightness of light within you stays on in my heart, as I walk through the pain
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