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Just twist that knife, I feel it turn within me still I feel alright
But the truth will bleed out, we crossed our path with creepers and we didn't quite stand down
You can't disrupt the stars in their spiral dance
I keep my guts inside by hand, I'm running down the street till my legs give up their plan
I feel the hole inside my face and I cry out “go on then, stab me anyway”
A style means an attitude, but this is far from keen
Oh you plough boys and your clothes
They may blame Ken for Ted but here in Clapham we all know
A pack of spivs is trouble on the way
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A blitz beneath your hands, it left your face all damp
A question caused a storm, a noise to cover for
I climbed the stairs to find, your mouth covered his mind
And when you finished I was dead
It never happened but my brain feels like it did,
the image piercing through my mind looping repeat
It never happened but my brain feels like it's lead
the image piercing right through me
I walked around for days in such a broken haze the pain of everyone complete
The process took so long, a part of me now gone. Is this how others feel at times?
It never happened but my brain feels like it's dead,
the image piercing through my mind loop and repeat
It never happened but my brain feels like it's lead
the image piercing right through me
The pain keeps numbing every time that it repeats, so am I dying more or is this living?
Lee and I decided not to care but to hurt no one, if I could just believe like I did once
Me and Lee decided we don't wanna hurt no one
It never happened but my brain feels like it did
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What's become of you? Is there anything I can do
to change? To change your mind about
What's become of me? Is there anyway I can see
anymore? This mirror's adorned with
Closing doors, baby kites. Father time, summer mores.
So I hid away, found my balance realigned faith
in what's sure and what's sure anymore? May be
What connects us all, if you jump you fall
but the pain is the same so let's commiserate and we'll share
I'm ready for things to work out. I'm ready for things to make sense.
I'm ready to love. Everyone and myself.
I'm ready for things to work out. I'm ready for things to make sense.
I'm ready to love. Everyone and myself.
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I underestimated home and gravity that's par. Nothing breaks off clean it never has
(To) go home when it don't exist, a bicycle that doesn't fit. Friends I don't know anymore
I feel like I have nothing good coming from out my mouth. I'd say who knows how these things go or why. Distant words with lack of ties, muted, hardened or gun shy but
Struggling to connect at all
There's too much of this world I can't understand and
I don't think all those things will be understood and I don't ever think they
Will you just stick to the script that was prewritten. I wish you wouldn't use such big long words. Singing while I ride my bike, the trees all wave as I pass by. Peace to be all by myself
Aware of time, time that's past, time that's passing by
(Aware of) OR (Counting) breath, focused sound, the moment is alive oh to be alive today
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A Bicycle, for the Wind
02:49
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I was on my bicycle when we collided we're so, we are so quick to be adults
And I love you so much but I need some time just, I just need some time alone
If kindness isn't flattering, degrading, insincere but wise
Then knowing we deserve better doesn't always mean it's pride
You placed a bandage over my scraped knee selfishly, to cover all the things you'd done
You thought I'd keep the matter so quiet with your money, so worthless when you're wrong
If loving loss and loneliness is one thing I just can't deny
Then let me grow and learn to be the person you need by your side
I think I saw you as a child for the first time right now
A sylph so buxom and lithe but innocuous
Trying to satisfy something grandly overwhelming
Stuck in snowstorms of decisions that end up selfish
Doo (7+9) Despite surroundings I'll master Doo (5+7+9) Dealing w/decisions un-prepared for
You were always one of, one of those people you know
where words seem pointless when you're round
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I remember how you complained bout the boys who constantly chased you
So we'd laugh and rehearse how to say, you're committed to someone far away but
You disappeared, it didn't look good and over the years they begged for answers
One day they found everything out how your smiling face was bludgeoned and raped
I'm so glad you fought, I'm so sad you died but you aren't defined by that awful time
Devastation and the suffering we share, do we pass? Or find healing arms where
We're united all one the same, to inflict, is to cause ourselves pain
You disappeared, it didn't look good and over the years they begged for answers
I'm so glad you fought, I'm so sad you died but you aren't defined by that awful time
Maybe to complain is to know it could be much worse
And knowing when its worse is not having time to say these words
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I can't seem to find, what's so obvious outside.
Are we all so quick to judge? Is it you? Is it them?
But the ground beneath my feet, what was once oh so complete
Is a staggering array, overwhelmed & distraught
Why does darkness stick? And all that negative? Trapped inside.
Can we learn to let it go? To let the brightness flow? Pouring light all around.
How we run in circles & puzzle over pieces made or both
And this bridge so disconnected, this ocean oh so wide
How I ache for lacing fingers and faith here inside
But I circle constantly, pull the web from out my hair
Fill an empty page with words, then just sit, and just stare, but
Like the lady said, ___ I'm so conflicted without end
Do you call this suffering or is this living cause I'm tired of it
Counting steps ain't helping, there's always a choice
Delay gratification, one day you'll find your voice
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Stop carrying all the weight of all those yesterdays
Unburdened by the future you'll find it peaceful
Romanticized it how you'd throw yourself right out
And paint the insides grey some favor in advance
You left your faithful group filled elephants with rooms
In buildings made of eggshells why spark stampedes?
The subject stays the same but how the lighting's changed
They think it's just a stranger but hey it's me
Alone, alone
Those kindly words you use repeated are abused
Words air breath words air breath I am too aloof to feel
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Can't Win, for PUP
04:37
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I've been blessed with shit luck There are some things that'll never change
I get strung out and fed up with the strain Get a little more nervous everyday
I just wanna be something Never thought I'd be nothing at all
And it feels like I can't win I'm growing up and I'm giving in And it's starting to hurt
And it feels like I can't win I couldn't wait to be alone again And I'm getting worse
Say I never try, but you know I do I couldn't live with my 9 to 5
And I regret what I did to you my whole life No matter what I do I can never get anything right
I just wanna be something Never thought I'd be nothing at all
And it feels like I can't win I'm growing up and I'm giving in And it's starting to hurt
And it feels like I can't win I couldn't wait to be alone again And I'm getting worse
I might die of this boredom If you don't kill me first
Chalk it up to apathy I had every chance I had every opportunity
That I could want And I ruined them all I had every chance Never thought I'd be Nothing at all
And it feels like I can't win I'm growing up and I'm giving in And it's starting to hurt
And it feels like I can't win I couldn't wait to be alone again And I'm getting worse
I might die of this boredom If you don't kill me first
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I am always amazed of everything we're convinced of
How every single day we decide in a blink and blur
Every complex equation becomes a simple choice
A fellow human is reduced to a moment, face and voice
So spit your vitriol out at others knowing they can't be
Intelligent like yourself so very unlike me and you
Should know the same things I know despite such different hands
And I don't think we'll ever learn how to understand
I've no solutions for this world, a burning pile of trash
I'll probably sit and watch it burn appreciate the ashes
A mouth so full of just causes & fine sentiment but lacking action is dead
so we assume rather than ask
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Drew Danburry Baltimore, Maryland
Drew Danburry has independently toured and released records since 2002.
He's released
over 400 songs on over 20 albums/13 EPs and played 800 + shows worldwide. Including 2 Daytrotter sessions, 3 invitations to Pop Montreal, 1 to Pygmalion Music Festival and 1 to Treefort Music Festival.
He's accomplished this long list of acheivements almost entirely DIY.
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