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Redcoats
04:35
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Know you didn’t mean to do it that way
Learn your lesson and I’ll make it okay
So much for me to keep holding onto
Trying to let it go and trying to make it through
I forgive you
Go to Britain for the Fourth of July
See if any of the redcoats cry
Had a vision with a two of my friends
I don’t know where one starts and one ends
So much for them, going right, going wrong
Still they help me through whatever’s going on
What’s going on?
Go to Britain for the Fourth of July
I’m in a tunnel trying to make my own light
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Thumbs
04:33
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I won’t sleep tonight
it’s been this way for weeks I
think I’m losing all my marbles
trying to sleep alone in these old sheets
You were a flash in the pan
I’ll never understand the way it went
or why I came and left
I should’ve
changed all my plans for you
I shoulda just stuck around and ditched a month of school
but
Who in their right mind
Would color outside the lines
I think I wasted my youthtime
not making you mine
I invented time travel
I don’t know how
But I’m back here now
Worrying about my skin again, a-
-fraid: to call you up,
that you won’t fall back in
I should’ve
changed all my plans for you
We shoulda gotten outta dodge
the second we got introduced
but
Who in their right mind (am I ever gonna feel it again?)
Would color outside the lines (are you just gonna live in my head?)
I think I wasted my youthtime
not making you mine
The carousel still spins
giving life to an unliving thing
I don’t know what to do with myself almost all of the time
I’m split between the urge to rush ahead and waiting in line
I spend three days in a new place and want to start a new life
Oh I’m all thumbs, here it comes, a finger at a time
I’m all thumbs, but here it comes, a finger at a time
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3. |
New Burn
03:50
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I’m doing a lot of things I always
talked about
and living with much more fear than
I know what to do about
And that was not the
man I thought I’d be
I finally cut my hair off in a Swedish town
Dove into the Skagerrak under Midsommar clouds
No fear of drowning
I guess I’m grounded
And I don’t know what I’m talking about anymore
Not that I knew anything before
And I’m not tired of my life anymore
No, I’m thirsty
I’m carrying a new burn and I hope it heals
I’m talking to someone weekly to figure out how I feel
My mouth running wild
In search of a smile
That I feel like I’ve earned
And I don’t know what I’m talking about anymore
Not that I knew anything before
And I’m not tired of my life anymore
No, I’m thirsty
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It’s the epilogue
of the sequel to the first
and that feeling
kicks in
when you know you’re gonna have to start over
I climbed another mountain
but stopped short of the grave
and turned to look around at
Iceland’s mighty face
Katla could erupt while I’m sleeping in Vik
It would be over hot, and over quick
if this is really all that I get
It’s a photograph
from another endless day
taken by a former stranger
who just ended up my way
she just moved back to the island
where she was born and raised
after some years in the city
she was home to be amazed
Katla could erupt while she’s sleeping tonight
don’t stop fearing a volcano ‘cause it’s covered in ice
don’t let the edge off ‘cause you feel safe in the light
the kitchens all closed
before I got there
I don’t know where to go
I’m living off the air
there’s birds outside
singin to the lambs
teaching them no matter what
you never trust a man
I’m scared to go home
I’m scared where I am
on the side of some road
with a guitar in my hand
I’m working on safe
I’m working on plan
life is just adjusting to the dealers’ latest hand
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Zander Hawley Los Angeles, California
Zander Hawley is a songwriter from Los Angeles. He likes sunrises and jumping in cold water with his clothes on.
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