1. |
I Kill Giants
05:11
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Been wearing down
Sick of results and needle stings
In a hospital gown
that thing is all you've been wearing for weeks
Refusing to accept any help from friends or family
It's always impersonal love
Can't keep my head straight
Can't keep my balance composed
I'll stumble and I'll fall
Because of the things I am without
Routine takes self doubt
Such impossible flaws
Shakes the entire foundation
Scrapes and abrasions put me back in my place
Sordid songs for heavy hearts
Worn out lines berate counterparts
You've been wearing down
It's not a befitting outfit it's full of grays and blues
A different rush for Adeline
What can you do when you're not getting through the wait?
Usual approach, haunting most of the streets at night
I see thirty different lights outside
Each one a little more dim, rattling core to center
Alleviate ghosts, drive away all your headaches
Only fading now, what'll you do when they all go out?
Sordid songs for heavy hearts
Worn out lines berate counterparts
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2. |
Waltz #2
04:26
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Ask me how I'm doing I'll tell you I'm alright
Don't ask me again and again and again and again
Or liken me to angels
I’ll take flight
Yeah, I saw you again today
But I didn't have a word to say
That's alright
My strategy’s oblique
I’m drunk off of Japanese beer and watching you speak
The pain’s in my back but the knife isn't real
Guess that's what I get for trying to feel
Anything at all
In this town
But when I leave
What I leave behind
Will come back in time
Like what you said to me
With disastrous pleas
“You're fine! you're fine!you're fine!”
Hear me out
Don't make eyes at me
Don't get close to me
Act like you're only a body that's all you'll ever be
But that's all I wanted and that's all you wanted and that's all they want
I was left behind
But I'll come back in time
Like what you said to me
With disastrous pleas
“You're fine! you're fine!you're fine!”
You had your wings spread on his bed
A sight that I just can't forget
But loving yourself is easier alone
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3. |
7 Day Weekend
02:38
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Itch at the off switch in the back of my head
Staring at the very back of my eyelids
I'll count your blessings and sleep through mine
Like a black hole always compress every inch of my time
From the comfort of my floor
I plan my escape from you all
No priorities today
Stand up, head rush
Trembling legs start to sway
Makes no difference
My life becomes a miscreant
My future's all but past
Besides what am I doing here except falling apart?
Even if you don't change, things will never be the same
Once the ice has thawed, they'll all forget your name
I traded my life to become an empty shell
Turned my back now I can't find myself
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4. |
Lighters
02:49
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Flicking lighters in the snow
My mind burning bright with violence and satellites
And I don't even smoke
Just find comfort watching fire
Like falling asleep
It's like falling asleep but I'm not
Falling asleep
I'm not falling asleep anymore
Please believe me when I say I'm trying
To stay above the weather, but I need the sun and rain
Let my eyes adjust to this dose of oxytocin
Flicking lighters
Like falling asleep
It's like falling asleep but I'm not
Falling asleep
I'm not falling asleep anymore
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5. |
Stray
04:49
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Forgotten thoughts don't bother me
Doesn't even matter where I sleep
on the curb or on the ground
Anywhere's better than the pound I used to call home
around my neck there was a white cone
Every night I roam the streets
Endless hunger I must feed
With a howl my stomach and me both growl at passerbys
Rather suffer and be free
Than have comfort on a leash
Now my hairs are stray like me
Trying to figure out where dead ends meet
Take myself out for a walk
Tell myself when to talk
I wish I could grow old
And remain so beautiful
I called your name
But you didn't answer
At all
You felt the same
But you didn't notice
My call
Wellllll
When you come I hope it's tomorrow
Make me feel the way that I always knew you would today
I knew I didn't want to be with you
But I was too much of a coward to do a thiiiiiiiing
Oahahaojoahjahjajkhahhahaa ahhhh
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6. |
Cool Song
03:55
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Knotting my laces to
Prepare myself today
Watch your step
Look both directions, avoid eye contact
I don't see you
I look right through
More important things
To get stressed about that you
I'll pass by without a thought
Making us static and fuzz
So you don't know who I am
Not that I insist
What does that say about me?
How all of the time I'm trying hardly to erase myself
Left unproductive and so sickly
You wouldn't be so nice
to sacrifice and doubt my shoddy character
Give it a rest Nick, you're overthinking
Far away
Stuck in my head again
Where no one notices me
No one
Notices anything, anything anymore
la da da da dah
Everyone thinks they have interesting lives
You really don't
Don't act surprised
I could be far away
Stuck in my head again
Where no one notices me
No one
Notices anything, anything anymore
la da da da dah
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7. |
Ikebukuro
03:34
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Scoping your apartment through the hole made for your key
I'd appreciate if you'd stop speaking for me
Nothing comes so naturally
when you count your steps by 3's
Pair up your sickly suspicions
The cracks in the sidewalk get larger every day
Mind the gap the juxtaposition
Relax and take a breath of the plum bouquet
Surely someone with arms like yours would be throwing them around anyone who'd take them
Chattering my teeth above your ear drums covering the sounds with little blanket statements
Configure perfect depictions
The street corners get round and start to seem the same
Don't save face just set me on fire
If anyone gets caught then I'm sure you'll take the blame
Past the point of patience
Avoiding conversation
Too dull for entertainment so
I'm creating confrontation
People always know more than they let on
They all have telephones in their pockets
I left my laptop and my drugs alike
Returning to your home, your body dressed in vomit
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8. |
Cigarette Silhouettes
03:54
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So l litter the ground with dead flowers
And I claim it for god
I don't hold any hate for Mother Nature
I'm only doing what mine has taught me to
Better follow the people with shovels
With one person cursed two graves are dug
In undisturbed land
dirt plant my hand
Life's a breeze
that you can't breathe
Morning headaches
Grinding teeth
I've killed more brain cells than you could ever hope to have
Cigarette silhouettes expand 'til my lungs collapse
Divide by zero
Your smoke ring halo
My head now hollow
Since you drilled deep into the temple
Assisted suicide, illegal
You'll have to sit and wait your turn
Burnt billboards replace your label
The lobby's not a place for your concern
Replace hunger, Share another
Cotton filter, Burn your finger
Draw another breath, chew your finger tips
Reduce everything to ash and poison
[Breakdown]
Please stop casting spells to destroy me
at the most they'll only annoy me
Singing to the choir 'til they get quiet
Empty space as my replacement
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9. |
Beachin' Out
03:10
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Going away on business
Falling out for a little while
Not where I'm supposed to be but I am down here by the sea and I can't help but start to smile
Reachin out, forget what you've forgotten
Beachin out, under my tongue there’s cotton
Years go by, the pier rusts and it crumbles
Covered in vines, my words turn to a mumble
Third times the charm and I'm gone
With the waves I've washed away
You're leaning on the sun and moon, I hope this doesn't end too soon
With my face in the sand they start to say
Reachin out, forget what you've forgotten
Beachin out, under my tongue there’s cotton
Years go by, the pier rusts and it crumbles
Covered in vines, my words turn to a mumble
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10. |
Some English Kingdom
03:20
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Since you were young you wanted to be an astronaut
I thought I could go with you
I’d terraform the rubble and bend things to your will
But I always new I couldn't create the perfect place
So I shouldn't have been surprised when you said you wanted space
I see and I remember
I hear and I forget
Hearing disappointment
That hasn't happened yet
Now that we're old and you're still standing next to me, well mostly
But sometimes I can't breath, the suffocating surface of an atmosphere I need
Soon to be taken away (and it’s still escaping me)
along with sketches of the memories of every happy day
I see and I remember
I hear and I forget
Hearing disappointment
That hasn't happened yet
You are the clusters of stars and craters that inhabit the moon
And when I awaken you will be gone far too soon
And when i awaken there will not be a trace of you
There’s blood in my mouth there’s blood on the ground
and still you’re not around
I’m looking so hard for signs from a star
to tell me when your feet will touch ground
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11. |
Suite
04:04
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We met by a stage
A friend of a friend
You told me your name
And you said....
Take my hand and dance with me
The stars above only us beneath
We met on the bridge
But not for the view
I looked to the lake
Then back to you
Take my hand and run with this
Nobody cares if I don't exist
Well I know how fucked up you are
Even when you say there's nothing wrong
You know how fucked up I've been
Waiting for you for so long
Awake me
Or just let me sleep with you
Embrace me
Like a little kid
Well you know that I hate being touched
Especially by the ones that I love
I just need to find a balance
Between leaving and leaving this town
Well I know how fucked up you are
Even when you say there's nothing wrong
You know how fucked up I've been
Waiting for you for so long
Well I'm just a kid with a fetish for angels
But I don't need you to help me with that
Cos' my god is dead
At least he was last time I checked
Well you know that I hate being touched
Especially by the ones that I love
I just need to find the difference
Between fucking up and fucking you up
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12. |
Photo 1
03:07
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Stay by my side
While everyone is dying around me
Say you will, say you will
I will eat your bad luck when you are gone
I will be the only one
Who will know what you have done
And what we've done
We could take each others' photograph
One for me and one for you
Just stay by my side
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