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I've got a God shaped hole that's infected
And I'm petrified of being alone
It's pathetic, I know
...
I'll be your child if you insist
I mean, if it was you that made by body you probably shouldn't have made
Me atheist

 

A man selling knives at three A.M on TV
With the sound off, I re-read your mothers letter
I can't sleep
I almost sent her my only picture unframed
of you at 5 with your book on trains
But she told me not to write or call
She thinks it was me that brought you to Berkeley
Like you never touched whiskey before me

And living with you is like driving in the rain
I can't see where I'm going but i still don't press the brake

What happened after the year that we got through?
Maybe even with the belt that I bought you,
A woman is strapping her arm.
After fighting she's finally calm

 

The tide is in
It's time we all learn to swim
These rooftops won't save our lives
Nor did you

 

I'm the evil one who said
Gonna let everything just happen
Just like my chest, my ears are proud
The collision is such an ugly sound.

 

A near miss or a close call
I keep a room at the hospital
And scratch my accidents into the wall

 

'Cause some people were just meant to be a memory
To be called upon to remind us how we've changed
The way the scattered ever-busy bright lights of a city
Might look off to a distant mountain range

And the guy you know is someone I work hard at keeping hid
And he is very good at sticking to the plan
'Cause you broke the quick-giving heart of a kid
But you're now coming back to a man

 

And know it wasn't always wrong
But I've never known a winter so cold
Now I don't warm my hands in your coat
But I still hope

'Cause this is how things ought to have been
And I know the worst of it wasn't all that it seemed
Why can't I dream
Why can't I dream

'Cause I know you care

 

Yeah, who knows if I love you baby
But you're the only one thing on my mind
If you could let your angels out, I'd rescue one at a time
But stress just grows in the corners of your eyes
So what is trust but knowing when to let you have your silence baby
To let you have your peaceful private corners of your mind
Just don't ask me to sing for you, these words I won't remember
And I won't tell you how to live out your life

 

so would you like that drink?
fine, yea i know. i remember that too
in your living room, right?
when we began to fight but then we both got confused
then we were laughing & crying in awe of the size of the moon do you want to die?
fine you’re right
but i wonder what it feels like
to stop feelin so alive
what if we could wake up in five years & things’d be feelin alright?
i wanna visit the future & dance in a field of light!

 

I lost the meaning in the fire
It's like it's something I was never meant to find
I've called and they say that there's no use
But it's been using me up

 

I don't think I ever really paid attention to his lyrics, but damn are these good.

 

I'M WIDE AWAKE IT'S MORNING

 

it happens too fast
to make sense of it,
make it last.

lead my skeptic sight
to the table and the light.

 

There’s a voice there’s a voice there’s a voice in my head
It’s rather soothing and it tells me I’d be better off dead
But if I beat it maybe punch it even kick it away then everything will be alrightly

 

I was nervous from the start that our muscles might tear us apart
(Are muscles tearing us apart?)
From the words that carve our lives, to the words that take us by surprise
(I was never taken by surprise)

From the sounds that disappear to the changes we begin to fear
(I can hear you clearly)
One day, I'll fail to breathe and all you'll have are memories
(All we are are memories)

 

The kids are yelling "Play the song
That I heard that once!
I don't know what it's called or how it goes
But it's all the same to me."

 

So I will understand if you don't stay
They say I'm great at first but then the magic fades
Into an awful hue of dismal views and pessimistic attitudes

 

hes great lyrically

 

I knew there'd come a day
When all was said and done
Everything I was
Is everything but gone
All my big mistakes are bouncing off your walls
The bottles never break, the sun will never come
So come on let me in
I will be the sun
I will wake you up
I am who I was
Just open up your heart, open up your heart, open up your heart

 

Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away
Lookin' for that home, I hope she finds
And I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holding Bobby's body close to mine

 

Maybe I would have been something
You'd be good at
Maybe you would have been something
I'd be good at

But now we'll never know
I won't be sad
But in case I go there everyday
To make myself feel bad

 

you hold my heart forever, but I can't hold on to what's not there

 

I'm not sure if they can write anything as hopeless as "Call It Off". What a song.

 

"Soil Soil" is right there

 

That one too. The whole fucking album, honestly.