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Well I know it's been a minute since you heard from me, and I know we weren't close to being with, and frankly if you don't even remember what you know me from, I get it; we get older and I don't leave very strong of an impression. But I knew you once and I remember lots of things about the way you granted me your patience when I had a lot of stupid shit to say. You didn't owe me that. You didn't owe me anything, and you don't owe me this, but if you're interested, I'd like to know you better, and you could know me
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Won't Toledo
04:30
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I've given up on solid nouns
People, places, and things are all broken, honestly
I live exclusively on concepts now
I worry that soon they won't do a lot for me
I drive a lot when I'd rather not
Seeking an ostensible justification
One day my Corolla will suddenly stop
But I'll keep moving: perpetual motion
I've got a vision that is, every day, harder to shake, so look out
I have an incomplete perception of the size of the stakes, so look out
If you can go on without me
I recommend you do
And you might feel bad about me
But I'll be proud of you
The things that I can only dream of doing come so easily to you
I should've quit when I still knew how
But it's too late now, it's too late now, it's too late now
My stomach hurts when I think about love
My body hurts when I think about waking up
My brain hurts when I think about you waking up
And the way you continue to be in love
But that's the smallest part
Of the system that I built to motivate me through it
"Make A Fist The Size Of Your Heart"
As if there's any other way to fucking do it
I've got a vision that is, every day, harder to shake, so look out
I have an incomplete perception of the size of the stakes, so look out
If you can go on without me
I recommend you do
And you might feel bad about me
But I'll be proud of you
The things that I can only dream of doing come so easily to you
I should've quit when I still knew how
But it's too late now, it's too late now, it's too late now
A thousand American twenty-somethings
All stare into smoky ceilings and think in unison
These words:
"If Will could make it happen,
who says I can't make it happen?"
But most of us haven't self-released
A dozen different records by the age of twenty-three
And if we did, and if they were good,
They still probably weren't How To Leave Town good
So as I watch the clouds envelop me
I remember what my sister said about rocks and leaves
And I look around the room that either I designed
Or is itself designing me
I am the rock that has pinned me down
I am the town that I could never leave
And so I go around again like:
"It's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's too late now,
it's
too
late
now"
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Collector
03:44
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I know all the good lessons
I know all the good words
I can boil down a process into a couple proverbs
Like:
"Don't keep your eggs in a single basket"
"Don't use the cover to judge the book"
"It's always better to have loved and lost"
"It's always in the last place you look"
You know, lately, I don't have a lot going on
Maybe I could come by
I could sit on your shelf and watch your life roll along
Instead of watching mine
You have every right to be suspicious
You have every right to be informed
You have every right to get all the advice you can get
and leave most of it ignored
Like "don't believe in everything you read"
"Don't forget you still need to eat"
"Look for people who want to help you"
"Look both ways when you cross the street"
You know, lately, I don't have a lot going on
Maybe I could come by
You could keep me in mint condition
Just the way that I arrived
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Ships
03:27
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Ships set sail every day
I untied mine and it floated away
If I thought a little harder and moved a little quicker
I probably could've caught the line
A better ship needs a better crew
I guess I thought I'd do better than you
But I've given it a minute and now we're getting in it
I think you're gonna do just fine
Play the record that you bought
I will keep you in my thoughts
Shannon, I won't forget
Every day you inspire me yet
I bore witness to the heavy forgiveness
That you reserve for things you love
But you lash out when you disagree
Misery makes its own company
Count up your love and I think you'll see
That you have enough for everyone
I know you will not abide
Time was never on our side
Love will invite you in
You'll catch your second wind
You'll help each other grow
Your love will make it so
Love is the world you love
The world you're dreaming of
And if your love is gone
Then come along
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Good and useless
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Get Lost
04:25
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I was spent by the end of it
So I'm glad you never changed your mind
It was you who finally ended it
But it was really just a matter of time
Because when I was sixteen years old, an angry little seed was sown that
Turned me green and sick
So we can't be friends; I'll tell you once again,
And this time, it better stick:
Get lost
I want to feel better about you
Get lost
I want to get better without you
There's a voice in my ear again
It always tells me how I need to be
But today I finally understand
That those words don't come from me
I shouldn't have to explain to you the little things you say and do that
Leave me cold and scared
Vulnerability is what you stole from me
And you can't go home from there
Get lost
I want to feel better about you
Get lost
I want to get better without you
Get lost
I want to feel better about you
Get lost
I want to get better without you
So if you try to call me up
Because you need to know that I'm alright
I'll tell you that I'm well enough
And move along with my life
Because I need to feel sane and strong, and learn to get along, and learn
To make my intentions clear
Because the truth of it is that I feel like shit
But it's not cuz you aren't here, so
Get lost
I want to feel better about you
Get lost
I want to get better without you
Get lost
I want to feel better about you
Get lost
I want to get better without you
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I Hope So
03:35
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I don't want to tell you, but I want you to know:
I hope you have room left for love in your home
I hope you believe where there's darkness, there'll be light
My front door is open for you every night
I know it gets hard when we're on a long drive
And you won't always have a good friend by your side
I hope you can carry this all the way home
But no one would ask you to do it alone
I hope the people you love love you too
If you're lucky, their love will be the same kind for you
I hope you can forgive them when you don't owe it to them
I hope you will see all the good that can do
I don't want to tell you, but I want you to know
That you can move on if it helps you to grow
We all live in people we build up in time
But if you give up yours, I'm fine giving up mine
We'll discover ourselves hiding under the bed
We'll make the decision to be them instead
And in our new world, we can do what feels right
And I'll make you breakfast the rest of my life
I hope the people you love love you too
If you're lucky, their love will be the same kind for you
I hope you can forgive them when you don't owe it to them
I hope you will see all the good that can do
I hope the people you love love you too
If you're lucky, they'll help you to pull yourself through
Cuz life's for the birds, but death's for the worms
I hope when you quit, it's at least on your own terms
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The instincts we are born with
Are what get us in the end
It's simpler than sin
"Come on the rising wind"
We try to come prepared
We try to know our hearts
But the heart is too far from the head
To be kept from the inevitable faltering and falling apart
And so it is for you
You'll think you've got it won
But in the final seconds you'll feel the weight
Of the hundred ways you got it wrong
This is the end of the story of everyone
Who ever knew that they were right
You came in like a lion
You'll go out like a light
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