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carry on (piano)
02:45
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your mom & dad
your sister & your brother
& all your friends
who stuck around & faded
now as you dream
your last dream
all you see
pictures of
everyone
who made you laugh
& loved you to death
float above
the hospital bed body
hold the hands
of everyone who lost you
& all the tears
in their eyes
will disappear
over time
but you won’t fade
though you’re gone
you’ll carry on
& on
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balance beam (acoustic)
04:19
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said to me you couldn’t sleep
asked if i’d help make you tea
you said you were
afraid of the dark
i didn’t buy it
but i felt your spark
just say the words
& i’ll be by your side
go ahead if you’d like
i’ll be close behind
& you tell me there’s a battle
between your body & soul
you got tipped off of your
balance beam, been trying
to get back home
conversation in your bed
opened up the window
& the thunder sounded
like an earthquake
it rumbled you to sleep
i laid awake
& you tell me there’s a battle
between your body & soul
you got tipped off of your
balance beam, been trying
to get back home
don’t you cry
bright blue eyes
hold you through the cold night
please don’t feel like
you should have to apologize
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fireworks (acoustic)
03:29
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it was a pretty evening
she made sure of it
nothing he could ever say
would change her mind
sitting on the edge
on the roof
of her apartment
staring silently
waiting for the fireworks
to go off
a look, a touch, a feeling
a half-hearted ‘goodnight’
he knew the way she felt then
by how quick she locked the door
drifting from the edge
now a speck
in the distance
realized again
he was the fireworks
that never went off
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turn your shoulder from
the girl with pretty eyes
but not as blue as those
you let dissolve into the sky
pluck the petals from
the roses by the lake
your veins enlarge with every
step you choose to take
cause you destroy everything
that you touch—you’re so guilty
try so hard to forget all
those words she said
you keep a record on to drown
the voice out of your head
trace the sunset on the
window by your bed
you’ll never have to watch
another beautiful thing end
but you can’t replace the sun
yeah, it’ll set no matter what
you could never tell,
tell the difference between
beginnings & ends
something lost
in the shock
it’s in the shadow
where you live
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you said let’s stay up ‘til the birds start to sing i said do what you gotta do i’ll stick to the regular stuff do my best to keep up but you ran out jaw clicking teeth chattering & i watched you motionless in bed wishing you’d wake up, found your notebook hoped to find some piece of you i couldn’t when you were alive but the pages were all torn out & all that was left of you was a magic-marker tracing of a sunset on the window by your bed, now you’ll never have to watch another beautiful thing end.
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someday (ver. 2)
03:23
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settle down, it’s over now
the mother you’ve cared for
she’s suffered far too long
now she’s gone, & you can’t seem
to move on—no, you can’t stop
driving to the hospital
surprised each time the room
is full of red-eyed strangers
you never thought you’d feel so lost
that the love you gave would always
save you from the rain your crazy
brain would always rinse out
but you can’t sit still without the chill
of knowing, someday, you’ll look
into the mirror—you’ll see her
you’ll be her, yes, you will
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