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Don't
03:33
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This re-occurred in every dream
The feeling that you’re gonna lie or gonna leave
And you got no time
You can’t crawl up from the from the abyss
You’re trapped in the car accident
And you can’t say bye
I know I’m pushing you away
I never meant to act that way
I’m terrified of all the lies
That I’ve been told a whole life time
I’m off my rocker
Haha, what a shocker
when I’m tighter than my ribs hold lungs
In bold, improper
Maybe you could help me even better than a best friend does
But I know you won’t,
So don’t.
You’re Welcome.
Thoughts in the front I’d like to stop
‘Cause in the back I know I’m pushing you right off
Over-active mind
I feel your love can ebb and flow
I feel your love but it’s hard for me to know
And I can’t tell why
I know I’m pushing you away
I never meant to act that way
But every love for my whole life
Just leaves me for a friend of mine
I’m off my rocker
Haha what a shocker when I’m tighter than my ribs hold lungs
In bold, improper
Maybe you could hold me even better than the best friend does
But I know you won’t,
So don’t.
You’re Welcome.
And you don’t have to lie
I’ve seen you drift away sometimes
Darling you think I don’t know
A lie’s been choked up in your throat
I know you won’t,
So don’t
You’re welcome
I know you won’t so don’t
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2. |
Vice Grips
03:30
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You surround me
With a single body
You're a lead life jacket
and you're trying to drown me
I can see your stare
it's burned in right there
oh, repress please
all the memories
You're committed to this web you knitted
You deny what happened
and your mind form-fitted
Most of them accept it when you lie
Just apologists
there on your side
You enticed,
I said "let me think twice"
never priceless, your love is Vice Grips
You surround me with how much you're talking
you escape the shambles of my life
you're stalking
I can see you stare
it's burnt in right there
oh, repress please
all my memories
You're committed to this web you knitted
you're my led life jacket
and you're mine form-fitted
Most of them accept another lie
Just apologists
there on your side
You enticed,
I said "let me think twice"
never priceless, your love is Vice Grips
I said "let me think twice"
You surround me!!!
credits
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3. |
Dark Parking Lot
03:47
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Painfully living a falsehood, leaving a crossroads
having my mind get prodded at
I disconnect from my family
I am an ash tray
I get all the respect I need
I expect all I hear is incorrect
All I want to do with my time on earth is sit in a dark parking lot
See what my time is worth, and make prints bigger than my palm
Due with my time on earth is walk until my legs fall off
I can't create a new timeline, travel through hindsight
I can't go back and plant the key
If I just learned about nothing
That would be stunning
I would feel so empty, angry
that I'm living a falsehood, leaving a crossroads
having my mind get prodded at
I disconnect from my family
I am an ash tray
I get all the respect I need
I expect all I hear is incorrect
Hang my neck, all I hear is incorrect
All I want to do with my time on earth is sit in a dark parking lot
See what my time is worth, and make prints bigger than my palm
Due with my time on earth is walk until my legs fall off
I disconnect from my family
I am an ash tray
I get all the respect I need
All I want to do with my time on earth is sit in a dark parking lot
See what my time is worth, and make prints bigger than my palm
Due with my time on earth is walk until my legs fall off
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4. |
We Talked
05:29
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I’m so glad that we talked
Even though I feel sick again
I’m so much better off
even though I feel tricked again
I’m so happy you walked out
follow your own direction
We’re so much better off
With our unequal feelings of affection
(I’m glad that we talked
You dodged a close call
And we got nothing to talk about
I hear what you’re offering and we got nothing to talk about)
I’m so glad that we talked
Cause now I’m only sick again
I had uneasy thoughts
About what would’ve happened
I’m so glad that you walked out
So I can’t ruin everything
Did you get what you need?
Or did we miss out on something?
You were waiting in the dark
playing with my heart
wait for me to pick you up
waiting in the dark
playing with my heart
wait for me to drop you off
When you have to go
Can you let me know?
It ain’t sweeter when it don’t make sense, you know
You give me hope
And then you don’t
It ain’t sweeter when it don’t make sense, you know
So let me go
And we’ll learn to grow
It ain’t sweeter when it don’t make sense, you know
So tighten ropes
Take antidotes
It ain’t sweeter when it don’t make sense, say...
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
“I hear what you’re offering, and we got nothing to talk about”
...to talk about
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5. |
Shotgun
05:24
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"Open the door, sir" he says
I try to film the event
Muscles can’t be more useless
Nobody stops to protest
You try to figure out the message
Within the blood running down your neck
You try to figure out the message
We’re in the presence of a senseless death
You gotta leave
You can’t believe
Money is the power and the greed is the disease
Now it’s looking terminal
They see you as an animal
shaking in your human skull
This was unavoidable, they all say no
The moment’s too quick
The moment’s too quick
The moment’s too quick
Shotgun click
The moment’s too fast
This too, this too will be the past
“Close all the school doors” he says
“It’s violent games and gay sex”
“Can you all learn to parent?”
He’s selling guns for profits
And we try to figure out the message
Within the blood running down your neck
We try to figure out the message
We’re in the presence of a senseless death
You gotta leave
You can’t believe
Money is the power and the greed is the disease
Now it’s looking terminal
They see you as an animal
shaking in your human skull
This was unavoidable, they all say no
The moment’s too quick
The moment’s too quick
The moment’s too quick
The rifle click
The moment’s too fast
This too, this too will be the past
"Open the school doors" he says
"Nothing to see here" he says
...
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6. |
The Curtain
03:16
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He caught your eyes, I compromised it only once
But everything you said for months
Showed uneven
Terrorize my head with insecurity
Doesn’t even bother me
As much as it did
Once I get used to the closure escaping me
It’s almost like I’m free from my emotional needs
No I’m not right but you’re wrong
I don’t need you to sing along
Sometimes I gotta close the curtain
Over my life when I’m not certain
When I try to run my lack of energy
Starts to take a hold of me
Wobbling both my knees
No I’m not right but you’re wrong
I don’t need you to sing along
Sometimes I gotta close the curtain
Over my life when I’m not certain
No I'm not right, I'm not right
You are nothing but form-fitting putty
Mold into whoever you wanted to be
I can only think this when I’m driving home
I can’t be here to complete your emotions
I cannot be your only devotion
A glimmer of hope in a dark empty street
No I’m not right but you’re wrong
I don’t need you to sing along
Sometimes I gotta close the curtain
Over my life when I’m not certain
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7. |
Away From Me
03:05
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Sat in the car as you started to cry
I can't recall any reasons for why
I had a phobia of blades and knives
but I tried to grab it away from you
I tried to grab it and save you
You start to wrestle, my hand's sliced up, cut
I start to fade cause I can't handle blood
You stopped crying to take it all back
make up excuses for why you did that
sometimes I wonder what made you so sad and I scream
"Would you get it away from me?!"
and scream, "Would you get it away from me?!"
I gasp for air as I climb up the steps
talk to my mother before fading black
my skull hits the sink
the blood's in the clash
shaking on the floor
my eyes can't see past my own scream
"Would you get it away from me?!"
I screamed, "Would you get it away from me?!"
And scream, "Would you get it away from me?!"
Would you get it away from me?!
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8. |
Garbage
02:31
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If I didn't write you back too soon
I would've dropped down to the floor
I would've thrown my pen right into the garbage
When I see you look into the moon
it sends me for a terror ride
it makes my life lose 90% of purpose
is all of this worthless?
I feel betrayed but I can't make you leave
Fall between you, I can't make you see
feel alone when I don't want to be
when she's away I never get to sleep
I feel destroyed but I can't make you stay
feel deceived but I can't make you stay
feel depleted, i can't change this fear
feel defeated, I can't stay right here
and If i never saw your face again
I could not be out in public but at least I could pull myself together
And If I couldn't trust you until the end
then trust must never have existed and I thought it looked a bit like a specter
a bit like a specter
I feel betrayed but I can't make you leave
Fall between you, I can't make you see
feel alone when I don't want to be
when she's away I never get to sleep
I feel destroyed but I can't make you stay
feel deceived but I can't make you stay
feel depleted, i can't change this fear
I'm defeated, I can't stay right here
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9. |
I Love an Artist
03:08
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I watch water ripple
I love an artist dead and simple
I watch you tracing every line
I love an artist every time
I watch you break the social norms
I love an artist's truest form
I watch you tracing every line
I love an artist who can't survive
If it kills you to watch, then you won't ever surface
Fall in love with an artist with purpose
You can't look away, so I know that you're scared
Fall in love with an artist who needs some repairs
I watch dry old paint fade
I love an artist that gets in her own way
watching you create all new spirits
I love an artist who cannot hear it
And you waste so much paper trying to save her, don't you?
you waste so much paper trying to save her, don't you?
I love a gemini
I love a cancer
I love an artist
I love a dancer
I love a pisces
I love a taurus
I love a singer
I love an artist
I watched you create and dismember
I love an artist that don't surrender
I cannot draw a crooked straight line
I love an artist who has a spine
I see you staring at your ceiling
I love an artist without meaning
I watch as close as I can see
I watch an artist drift from me
I watch as you put on your jacket
I think you better not come back then
I love a gemini
I love a cancer
I love an artist
I love a dancer
I love a pisces
I love a taurus
I love a singer
I love an artist
but I fall in love with everybody I see
I love an artist when an artist loves me
I fall in love with everybody I see
I love an artist
If it kills you to watch, then you won't ever surface
Fall in love with an artist with purpose
You can't look away, so I know that you're scared
Fall in love with an artist
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10. |
Rose
04:08
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You're so sweet when deconstructed
I forgive you when you lie
You're so sweet when deconstructed
Wait so... why?
Why won't you answer me?
You complain when you're corrected
capture all the passers-by
I'm detached and I'll forget her
and when I die, will I feel better?
Why won't you answer me?
Sees me with rose colored vision
Let me see you out
Certain my fact isn't fiction
Sees me with rose colored vision
Let me give you doubt
Can't quote your inner monologue
I can't even stand to try
"You're detached and you'll forget her"
and when I die will I feel better?
Why won't you answer me?
And you're so sweet but disconnected
I can't hold you when you cry
I just scream when deconstructed
I'm begging why,
Why won't you answer me?
Sees me with rose colored vision
Let me see you out
Certain my fact isn't fiction
Sees me with rose colored vision
Let me give you doubt
Met with my subtle remarks
Met with my angry barks
But I'm trying here
Why won't you answer me?
(and she just wants to know why)
Why won't you answer me?
(and there's nothing)
Why won't you answer me?
(???)
Why won't you answer me?
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Bonsai Trees Hartford, Connecticut
Bonsai Trees has existed since 2011, when Vocalist, Guitarist James MacPherson was strong-armed into jamming with original
drummer Nick Sokol after High School Spanish class
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