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PURRsuasion
01:41
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2. |
Patience Tank
04:00
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The Patience Tank
I’m a magician, a performer.
A performer (You cant catch me) a national act.
(You cant find me here).
I am mysterious, but I don’t pull things out of a hat.
(I must protect me).
There is only one trick in my book, don't care to learn anymore,
(You cant find me here).
Cause one moment you see me here, but I'm not here anymore.
(In defense I disappear).
In this sleep will not meet with me, and just sleep will not be my friend,
(but it keeps me away)
And this sleep always avoids me, and it makes me weak, and it makes me weak.
(Get back to sleep).
Clarity will come in time. But patience is empty,
(Must fill).
All I see is task after task, (Must fill) and all I want to do is disappear
(Must fill this patience tank).
My thoughts run 100 miles an hour.
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3. |
Counterclockwise
01:36
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CounterClockWise
If you must go, I wish you well.
If time heals wounds, then time will tell.
Never to forget the years we spent.
Embrace the good times.
Embrace our fears.
Hit it head on hold back the tears.
Never, never to, never forget.
Maybe it’s not what it was,
But cannot say what it meant.
We can never forget (never to) all the thoughts of family that we shared or (forget), underestimate (the years we spent) the important conversations we had in your van (The times we shared).
Never, never to, never forget.
We can never turn back time to (Seems like it’s been) after school music movies and fights and (A thousand years) think of all the friends we had (We walk we run) and friends that have gone separate ways and (Is it to or from).
No, we can not forget (Seems like it’s been)
We do not regret (A thousand years)
or expect that (we walk we run)
any of this can ever happen again (is it to or from?).
Never, never to, never forget.
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4. |
Marshmallow
03:40
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Marshmallow
I find myself there.
At that point don’t forget.
Waiting for the return.
I say I want it like it was (but it will never be),
and he says he wants his own.
And he says he wants his own.
He wants his own (but it will never be).
(Take it as too much) Don’t destroy it.
(Got to move it forward) Pick it up and run.
(Remember like it was) When I had it I used it.
(Make this something new)
Mend it, give it all I got.
Striving for the next step.
Not holding my breath.
But I hold my breath.
But nothing but my breath.
Patiently determined.
We all sit and wait to hear the verdict.
Striving for the next step.
Not holding my breath.
What-was-mine. Now-it’s-yours.
I got an iron in the fire.
Is this the death of it?
Or will it take on it’s own?
It’s not what it was.
Here I am it’s yours.
It’s not what it was. But here I am it’s yours.
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5. |
Walk Softly
03:20
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Walk Softly and Carry A Big Stick
You can scream till you are blue in the face,
but until you take action you are just standing in place.
I feel like I’m part of the rat race,
but I’m just stuck in this cage.
You can scream, you can scream,
but till you take action.
I feel like I’m part of the rat race,
but I’m just stuck in this cage.
This back and forth goes back and forth.
Starting to look like, it’s a long road home now,
sit on the sidelines, watch it all pass before you.
This back and forth goes back and forth.
We’re going to make sure it all goes right tonight.
We’re going to make sure, it goes down without a fight.
We’re gonna make it right. We’re gonna stay this path, make it right.
Sore knuckles prove. Sore knuckles prove.
Nothing is proven, nothing is real,
when it is just a reaction, it shows how we feel.
Sore knuckles prove… we all know this, no one likes to lose
(We lose nothing).
When our mind is spinning, and we make a decision,
it should be a response and not a reaction.
Sore knuckles prove (not a damn thing).
No. We. Wont. (NO! WE! WONT!)
You just don’t know, how to handle it.
You just don’t know, how to handle it
But you think you know you want this.
You think you know you want this.
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6. |
Words Cure
04:20
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Words Cure
Every milestone marks an accomplishment.
Every pebble, every stone, a tripwire.
Wording the trial, words are a trial, of which you never learn.
The lesson, through words.
Who measures the victory?
It lasts, the healing, is never known.
The words that hurt also cure.
Call this a milestone – but this is not a milestone.
Call this accomplishment – but this is not accomplishment.
Not an inch between us, yet truth it tears us apart.
Words felt now wounded, all words are in the dark.
Progress and improvement, on the needed.
Sweetness stops by in stories. We are too mislead.
Words hurt. Words heal. Words cure.
Words they hurt, and words they heal, and words they cure
…But these are the words that we use when we say what we feel.
Oh what can words cure?
We – are too. We are too mislead.
Oh what can words cure?
(But what is it worth when the words fall? Short, the words they always fall so).
Plans, obstacles, words.
Words – cure - words.
(Try. Try. All I can do is)
This pebble, this splinter.
I pause, I correct, I repair.
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7. |
What We're Told
05:26
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What Were Told
We are told that we should fall in line, but
(we don’t want to, we don’t want to).
We are told that we should be on time, but.
We are told to work the 9-5,
We are told to forget the lies,
No one could have told you, life was going to be this way,
(Gotta take your meds, gotta wake up on time).
No one’s gonna hold your hand and tell you what to say.
(Gotta carry on, carry on).
Hold on don’t screw it up, come on don’t mess it up,
(but I cant sleep, and I feel weak).
This may be your only chance to pull it out.
Got to take this mess and build the memories.
We are told that just where to draw the line, but
(we don’t want to, we don’t want to).
Abide father time, abide father time,
We are told what we are told, but we say
(FU), we say (FU).
I am told to listen to you and
(I don’t want to, we don’t want to).
…and here we find ourselves, struggle with now and then,
finding a difference between us and them.
…and we now we see this thing, there is something that we bring,
are we part of the whole, or just the in-betweens?
And here we see this thing, what is it that you bring?
We are told that we should get along.
We are told that we should carry on.
Call it a short fuse. Call it impatience.
These are the days we must embrace.
Nothing but good times, while life is spacious.
These are the days we must embrace.
Here we are now, we know how to fall in line.
(You’ve got to fall in line now).
See me now working the 9-5.
(But I cant sleep. I cant sleep).
What we’ve been told, it’s exactly what we do.
(Take your medicine son).
See you later boys, I’ll be back after school.
We need play time and we need more sleep.
We want to stay when we’re told to leave.
The goals that are set, are they ours or theirs?
We climb the ladder, we climb the stairs.
At times we feel forced, at times we’re scared.
These days are short and they are not many.
These are the days we must embrace.
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8. |
Snake Eats Tail
04:06
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Snake Eats Tail
New thoughts, new places and faces.
I find myself where you were.
I’m feeling things you felt
…Dealing with a similar hand you’d been dealt.
I had vowed not to be here and here I am.
A great disappointment to myself.
When you betray the promises you’ve made.
Break a promise to yourself.
So I’m feeling what you’ve felt.
Saying words you may have said.
I want to get your thoughts, but
…I cant get into your head
...Then does it even matter?
Is it a loss of integrity when weaken your standards,
but it was only to yourself, You say it was only to yourself.
It is unfortunate but all too common.
It is around every corner.
It is in every classroom.
Every street corner.
Every workplace (Every) every.
I don’t want to be the one, but here I am.
I’ve seen you and you and you go through,
and now it’s me, me, me.
I never thought the mirror, would look this ugly.
(Words fail, they fail me, my words, fail).
I know that you were once here.
I remind myself of that, because somehow it makes me feel better.
If I could be half the man you are I’ll be OK.
But how will they?
Cause in your time you seemed to do so well.
Model to me that I needed and you did so well.
When I try to tell you, what I’ve wanted to tell you.
But the words fail me.
The words fail me time and time again the words fail.
Time and time again the words fail.
Sure enough, actions speak but you can not deny this screaming.
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9. |
Something More
03:50
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Something More
I know what’s right for me,
and that’s for me to be understanding.
I know what’s right and that’s to be understanding.
What you feel, should I no longer try, to even understand?
I always wanted something more.
You always wanted something more.
Yeah, I know what its like.
Always expecting a disappointment, then they will surely come.
Maybe one day we will all break in and set forever free.
Once restricted, now lifted.
When was the last time, it was like this time?
If it ends in disappointment, perhaps you disappointed yourself.
Disappointed yourself.
And when you said it, I knew you meant it, and when you said it I knew that you meant it.
And when I said it, you knew I meant it, and when I said it you knew that I meant it.
So when we say it, we got to mean it, and when we say it we know that we mean it.
Lets say it, lets mean it, lets say it and know that we mean it.
And take these words as something more.
Cause it’s all I’ve got to give.
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