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1. |
White Blonde (REMEMBER)
01:03
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Intro:
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember your knowing
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember
Hook:
White blonde
On top of bronze
Her metal holds fire
And now she knows it
Lies down
Upon the ground
When the burn
Is too much to hold in
Sometimes when life ain’t so golden
She runs to where the green grass is growing
And lets her mother whisper in her ear
Remember your knowing
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember your knowing
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember your knowing
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember your knowing
Remember your knowing (white blonde on top of bronze)
Remember
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2. |
On My Way
02:14
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intro:
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way
verse:
I
Played your games and I
Stayed in spaces that were
Made from pain for way
Longer than needed
Can’t complain
I won’t wait for change
I’m taking aim
And fire will rain
chorus:
I’m back on my way (yeah)
Get the fuck out my face
You won’t see me break
Cuz I know what made me (yeah)
Stay outta my lane
Hear me when I say
I’m not here to save you
I’m not here to save you, no
That’s for you and your maker (yeah)
Cuz I’m on my way up (yeah, yeah)
verse:
That’s not a flex that’s to let you know
I’m not the one, the two three or the four
Gotten really really tired of waiting at doors
For someone with no right to tell me where to go
So I’m taking it in my hands before I’m on E
Taking back everything that belongs to me
You ain’t gon come thru
And ctrl + z undo
All that I have done, fool
chorus:
I’m back on my way (yeah)
Get the fuck out my face
You won’t see me break
Cuz I know what made me (yeah)
Stay outta my lane
Hear me when I say
I’m not here to save you
I’m not here to save you, no
That’s for you and your maker (yeah)
Cuz I’m on my way up (yeah, yeah)
ending:
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
I’m back on my way (I’m back on my way)
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3. |
RIP Captain Save-a-Heaux
02:35
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intro:
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
cuz I’m keeping my peace
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
cuz I’m keeping my
chorus:
everything is up in flames
I’ve said all that I have to say
and closed the door, closed the door, closed the door, closed the door
aot gonna participate
in any of the silly games
anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore
verse:
for a long time
I been a rider
to run and hiders
and I took the blame
but I missed it
God as my witness
should have predicted
that I’d be done the same
bridge:
I can’t save nobody
I put my cape down, sorry
I’m gonna need some boundaries
cuz I’m keeping my peace
I can’t save nobody
I put my cape down, sorry
I’m gonna need some boundaries
cuz I’m keeping my peace
chorus:
everything is up in flames
I’ve said all that I have to say
and closed the door, closed the door, closed the door, closed the door
aot gonna participate
in any of the silly games
anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore
everything is up in flames
I’ve said all that I have to say
and closed the door, closed the door, closed the door, closed the door
aot gonna participate
in any of the silly games
anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore
outro:
I put my cape down, sorry
cuz I’m keeping my peace
I can’t save nobody
I put my cape down, sorry
I’m gonna need some boundaries
cuz I’m keeping my peace
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4. |
Summer Bodies
03:00
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chorus:
summer bodies lie
breathing side by side
getting lifted high from the waves we ride and each other's sighs
and then we collide
for the thousandth time
like the first time and the next time it’s the best time of our lives
verse:
keep it one hunnid in summer heat
that can't even begin to compete
with what exists between you and me
cuz we keep raising the mercury
crossing my heart and I hope to die
swearing on everything in the sky
baby, you got me hypnotized
chorus:
summer bodies lie
breathing side by side
getting lifted high from the waves we ride and each other's sighs
and then we collide
for the thousandth time
like the first time and the next time it’s the best time of our lives
bridge:
say my name say my name
Cuz I be acting dumb
When I hear it off your tongue
I don’t know if you’re the one
If you ain’t if you ain’t
Baby Imma be okay
With the memories of the way
You say my name
say my name say my name
Cuz I be acting dumb
When I hear it off your tongue
I don’t know if you’re the one
If you ain’t if you ain’t
Baby Imma be okay
With the memories of the way
chorus:
summer bodies lie
breathing side by side
getting lifted high from the waves we ride and each other's sighs
and then we collide
for the thousandth time
like the first time and the next time it’s the best time of our lives
summer bodies lie
breathing side by side
getting lifted high from the waves we ride and each other's sighs
and then we collide
for the thousandth time
like the first time and the next time it’s the best time of our lives
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5. |
WonderBread
02:44
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chorus:
And I wonder why
You look in my eyes
And tell your pretty lies
You wasted our time
Verse:
A little conversation and some coffee
You told me bout you and I told you bout me
It wasn’t long before we were some something
Who could’ve known it was built upon nothing
I like those childish woes you wear
And I like your style when no one’s there
And it’s funny how it ends
With you blowing up again
Was it really all pretend
Answer yes no
chorus:
And I wonder why (every time, every time)
You look in my eyes (making me cry, making me cry)
And tell your pretty lies (why do we try?)
You wasted our time
Verse:
And I tell you that
Got my merry back
Bout to marry that
I was worth my weight in gold
Watch you carry that
I would never sell my soul
Plus your credit bad
Everything you say is old
I don’t care to ask
Wasn’t fair to have
Been thru hell and back
For these answers
You ain’t tellin
Were the questions ass?
And you running
Chasing something can’t outrun it
It’s what’s under, not the summit
If you running, you won’t ever catch it
chorus:
And I wonder why
You look in my eyes
And tell your pretty lies
You wasted our time
And I wonder why (every time, every time)
You look in my eyes (making me cry, making me cry)
And tell your pretty lies (why do we try?)
You wasted our time
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6. |
Cinnamon
02:45
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verse:
Cinnamon tingling all on my lips
Cuz it’s all that’s lingering
From your kiss
I’m not a fool
I knew better than to wish
For something more
Than what this is
chorus:
So I’m gonna let myself feel this today
Make like a windowpane
Get hit with the rain
And let the tears roll down my face
And finally let them wash you away
verse:
Thought I could thug it out, play it cool
Be a beautiful stranger, and play the game with you
But I forgot, I never learned, I must’ve missed that day in school
Cuz love em and leave em, that ain’t the way I move
chorus:
So I’m gonna let myself feel this today
Make like a windowpane
Get hit with the rain
And let the tears roll down my face
And finally let them wash you away
Let myself feel this today
Make like a windowpane
Get hit with the rain
And let the tears roll down my face
And finally let them wash you away
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7. |
Lost Cause
03:35
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verse:
I know you’re a stranger
but you feel like the missing piece of me
yet I’m still sensing danger
cuz I wasn’t taught to recognize peace
but I’ll take the wager
that you could be the very thing I need
do me a favor
I’m more fragile than I look don’t fuck around with me
chorus:
and I would follow you
follow you up to the moon and back
take a left at Venus, feel the full heart attack
ride the lightning down and feel the thunder clap
with a round of applause for one more lost cause
no longer lost in the cosmos
verse:
unconscious behavior
to build my walls and guard them with my life
turn it all inward
see the world in only shades of black and white
but I want so much bigger
feel the universe expanding and then collide
in full sound and color
and I need some help to find my way outside
everything I hide behind
Chorus:
and I would follow you
follow you up to the Moon and back
take a left at Venus, feel the full heart attack
ride the lightning down and feel the thunder clap
with a round of applause for one more lost cause
follow you up to the Moon and back
take a left at Venus, feel the full heart attack
ride the lightning down and feel the thunder clap
with a round of applause (with a round of applause)
for one more lost cause (for one more lost cause)
with a round of applause (with a round of applause)
for one more lost cause (for one more lost cause)
with a round of applause (with a round of applause)
for one more lost cause (for one more lost cause)
no longer lost in the cosmos
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8. |
Cracked Chest
03:25
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Verse:
Been living in a storm cloud
Hovering just above the ground
Drowning in the raindrops
No clue, if it’s ever gonna stop
Watching in the nighttime
When the shadows on the walls, they come to life
But I’m no longer a girl of five
I know my blankets won’t save me this time
Chorus:
When the thunder rolls
And the lightning cracks
Will you be there to
Stand and have my back
When I’m giving up
To these ghosts I have
Will you be there still
To hold my hand?
Until the end
Verse:
I never wanna rain on a parade
I wanna add only sugar to the lemonade
I’ve gotten pretty good at smiling through the pain
But now I really need somebody here with me
To stand in the rain
Chorus:
When the thunder rolls
And the lightning cracks
Will you be there to
Stand and have my back
When I’m giving up
To these ghosts I have
Will you be there still
To hold my hand?
Until the end
Bridge:
It’s really hard for me
To ask for what I need
So I’m begging please
It’s really hard for me
To ask for what I need
So I’m begging please
Chorus:
When the thunder rolls
And the lightning cracks
Will you be there to
Stand and have my back
When I’m giving up
To these ghosts I have
Will you be there still
To hold my hand?
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9. |
Hunted
03:52
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verse:
young creature of the woods
unbound by cans and shoulds
learns familiarity
with wicked metal lain between the trees
pre-chorus
and she spends so much time
getting caught, preparing to die
no expectation of a rescue
no one's coming to protect you
chorus:
little one, steel your spine
chew your foot off, don't think twice
cuz every tight embrace is a trap
all your life has taught you that
verse:
after years and years this way
creature lives this scene each day
every hug is a snare
too warm, too close, too strange to bear
pre-chorus
and she spends so much time
getting caught, preparing to die
no expectation of a rescue
no one's coming to protect you
chorus:
little one, steel your spine
chew your foot off, don't think twice
cuz every tight embrace is a trap
all your life has taught you that
bridge:
will the day ever come
when she hears a different drum
beating from another chest
and she doesn’t run, she finds some rest
pre-chorus
she spends so much time
getting caught, preparing to die
no expectation of a rescue
no one's coming to protect you
chorus:
little one, you were right
and that instinct saved your life
but some embraces will be home
places to land and to be known
you don’t deserve to walk alone
oh oh oh oh
take a breath
and take the hands that draw you close
take the hands that draw you close
take the hands that draw you close
oh take the hands that draw you close
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10. |
Yesterdays to Tomorrows
02:51
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intro:
Just one of those days
verse:
Just one of those days
I been running away from
All of the navel-gazing waiting on my plate
My belly’s an ocean
Full of commotion
Back and forth emotions
That I can’t escape
Do I even want it
This life they flaunted
I won’t be haunted
By ghosts I hide away
When I look in the mirror
It couldn’t be clearer
Nirvana is nearer
Now that I can say
chorus:
I been reacquainted
With the steps that I have taken
And I’m running out of patience
For the way my heart’s been breaking
Everything I’m praying on
Is ready for the taking and I
I ain’t waiting, no, no
I ain’t waiting no
I been reacquainted
With the steps that I have taken
And I’m running out of patience
For the way my heart’s been breaking
Everything I’m praying on
Is ready for the taking and I
I ain’t waiting, no, no
I ain’t waiting no
bridge:
Been some bitter pills to swallow
I was scared they’d leave me hollow
But they led my feet to follow
My yesterdays to my tomorrows
Now I got a different motto
Gonna trust myself cuz I know
Know it from my head to my toes
Gonna get where I wanna go
Now that
chorus:
I been reacquainted
With the steps that I have taken
And I’m running out of patience
For the way my heart’s been breaking
Everything I’m praying on
Is ready for the taking and I
I ain’t waiting, no, no
I ain’t waiting no
I been reacquainted
With the steps that I have taken
And I’m running out of patience
For the way my heart’s been breaking
Everything I’m praying on
Is ready for the taking and I
I ain’t waiting, no, no
I ain’t waiting no
Ending:
Been some bitter pills to swallow
I was scared they’d leave me hollow
But they led my feet to follow
My yesterdays to my tomorrows
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11. |
Enough
03:00
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chorus:
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
verse:
curtain up
on this unfamiliar scene
people roar
for the show they came to see
I don’t know
not one line or what to sing
but in me
I got everything I need, so
chorus:
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
verse:
curtain up
on this most familiar scene
200 hours I have spent
learning where and how to be
internalized
every contingency
but in me
I got everything I need, so
chorus:
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
I am showing up as no more and no less than
what I am
I am giving no more and no less than
what I can
what I am and what I can do
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12. |
Soul
03:51
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Verse:
I wanted to know
How far I would go
If I followed my feeling
And turned on my feet
And I ran thru the door
At the end of the hall
And I heeded the call
That’s been beckoning, “Please,
Come closer to me
And become your all in all.”
Pre-chorus:
See I was taught to sing a different melody
Ignore the notes that came to me most naturally
But all my winding roads led me back to me
So now I sing what I was born to sing
Chorus:
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Verse:
It does something you know
Deep down in your soul
To stop holding your tongue
Constricting your lungs
And reach from your toes
Ride the air as it flows
Up and out thru your throat
Release what’s been holding you
Chained bound and broken
And let it all go
Pre-chorus:
See I was taught to sing a different melody
Ignore the notes that came to me most naturally
But all my winding roads led me back to me
So now I sing what I was born to sing
Chorus:
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Bridge:
Let your song move you along
Let your song move you along
When everything’s saying no
Let your song move you along
When everything’s saying no
Do you know who you are?
When everything’s saying no
And what’s under my feet
And what’s deep inside me
And what’s under my feet
And what’s deep inside me
And what’s under my feet
And what’s deep inside me
And what’s under my feet
And what’s coming out of me
Chorus:
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
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13. |
Unapologetically
02:34
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verse:
I'm not explaining myself too much any more
the tears I cry ain't up for discussion
the threads that I see connecting all things
are magic and golden and I'll stand here and hold em
tired of folk looking at me not seeing
shiny and pretty is shitty not glowing
this firework is also fireside
and if you know it, you know it
Chorus:
I’ll
Stand here and be
Be all of me
Unapologetically
This light that you see
Will keep on shining
Unapologetically
Unapologetically (keep on shining)
Unapologetically (even while I’m crying)
Unapologetically (til I’m dying)
Unapologetically
verse:
this here moonchild gives that good sunlight it’s
Dazzling and burning and warming and illuminating and invigorating and
I ain’t afraid of what makes home in the shadows
And I don’t believe in letting those sleeping dogs lie
Cuz I’m
tired of the lying, tired of biting my tongue
Tired of fighting
in all of the battles that need to be won
But I still know who I am, daughter of water and land
Held in the ancestors’ hands,
fully enough as I am
Chorus
I’ll
Stand here and be
Be all of me
Unapologetically
This light that you see
Will keep on shining
Unapologetically
I’ll
Stand here and be
Be all of me
Unapologetically
This light that you see
Will keep on shining
Unapologetically
Keep on shining
Even while I’m crying
Til I’m dying
Unapologetically
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