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New City, Old Memories
04:01
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Every morning I find something new Lake Michigan and the sails, what view. I’m a stranger to this place where’d my footing go, and my plans, Chicago has something more in store.
Banging my head against a wall I found a mirror, stared my reflection down I found a reason
Im done with the norm
Im done being a boy, oh Im moving forward
And why I won’t let go is why the earth revolves. It can’t stop it wont wait, it won’t stand in one place. Your formulas been solved. Pains resolved and I’m done with you.
Why give me your hand, why give me a chance
Why open your home, why open your soul.
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Waiting For Nothing
05:33
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Hold it above your arms, but keepin it close to your heart
Taking those vows, wet your head, read the book asend
I am waiting I am singing my own pain
I am breathing I am playing my own game
Look at the lost and demised
Completely depraved of the mind
I am waiting I am singing my own pain
I am breathing I am playing my own game
And real life turns so cold, into old poems that your father read
Daylight, the sun gives us life, we rotate around our existence
And now they’re all dead, a wonderful truth
The sun will give back what it stole from you
I am waiting I am singing my own pain
I am breathing I am playing my own game
Loving someone, means letting them go I guess
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Pills
03:51
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I've written the same old story twice now I'm writing one last time
I can't get it right, I can't get it right
show me the way before this paper becomes another crumpled mess.
I've been sitting at the same old desk, just waiting for one more godsend
to come and take me, resurrect or maybe just send me to hell
Oh it would be frightening to open your eyes and see where you were condemned.
It keeps you from breathing and cools your blood like Lake Michigan. It stuns all your feelings, your temperature drops like when you heard that pin.
We’ve said these things before but just waited longer for a reaction
Now you’re acting all sore and I’m acting stupid for not wanting more
I’m lying on your floor cause you couldn’t handle what walked out your door Im speaking with remorse but all I am doing is trying to settle some wars
It’s the same thing, the same thing it’s a balance of chains
It’s the same thing, who’s got power in name, power in name
You keep taking these pills, and get them refilled now you’re days are longer
They keep you up for week and now you’re thoughts are convoluted dreams
I’m lying on your floor cause you couldn’t handle what walked out your door You threw it at my feet and all I could speak is what you truly meant to me
I am just the same, a different story but the formula stays
I’m giving it my best but you can’t ignore certain death
It’s the same thing, the same thing it’s a balance of chains
It’s the same thing, who’s got power in name, power in name
I’ve been sitting at the same old desk.
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Missing those sidewalks steps I lost my normal way back, walking aimlessly can get you to places that you don't need to be.
I know, I lost my way home.
Confused friends saw me standing there cursing air, take a drag they couldn't bear, to see a friend lose his cool over something so small. It's sad I'm sorry friends it’s more than just getting lost
But who wants a sob story, just tuck it underneath.
Hitting a chord I don't know, or grinding my teeth cause I can't bite my tongue. Mask all your feelings with the devil’s bottle, you wake up, it hits, that didn't help me at all.
I know, I lost my way home.
Confused friends saw me standing there cursing air, take a drag they couldn't bear, to see a friend lose his cool over something so small. It's sad I'm sorry friends it’s more than just getting lost
But who wants a sob story, just tuck it underneath.
These tracks will break off and fall back, these tracks weren't built for you and I to travel
I open the door and you're holding a note I'm sorry it had to be this way, I go for a smoke but I give up and choke and break down in the hallway. And my friends were there and my friends were there.
They couldn't bear to see a friend lose his shit over something so small oh it's sad I'm sorry friends its something more than reading a note. But who wants a sob story just tuck it underneath.
These tracks will break off and fall back, these tracks weren't built for you and I to travel
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Playing Games
03:29
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You tell me that's it's fine, but turn around to cry what am I supposed to do. You tell me all these things but what do they really mean you've exhausted all my feelings.
While things go south, the bird flies north and I follow it. A treacherous path but I've conquered it before. With worn down roads and signs impossible to read. With family and friends and even enemies
What if you wanted to leave pack your things and take your beliefs because they'd be buried underneath. Find a friend or find a home were just holding to a hope that we'll find someone
While things go south, the bird flies north and I follow it. A treacherous path but I've conquered it before. With worn down roads and signs impossible to read. With family and friends and even enemies
Who do you think you are to show me what it's like, you bastard just hide behind your eyes
And oh where is the road for this one, and oh you're all alone but I'm just a pawn in your little game
It's not that I don't love you it's not that I don't need you I'm just trying to release you.
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6. |
Five Years Later
02:56
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Asking questions drinking answers fall in line. Figments to imagination, you're all right
We're all holding on to you, hoping for some kind of truth.
Seemingly avoid all of your enemies, its funny cause we all call you a drama queen.
Help me fill the void of you, falsify the claims, and prove
Innocent until guilty, the courts are ready to strike, you blame your friends, you blame your mom that you don't know how to fight. I was called one morning I felt tension on the phone, your parents are gone, the baby is due but you have nowhere to go.
You've got questions I've got answers let me try, I moved west and you moved eastward, I guess that's bye.
Five years later I see you, those questions that you have, I can't answer.
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Take Me Down
03:00
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It's been a long time since I cared about what you were saying, it's been a long time since I opened my eyes
Take me down take me down
I'm stuck in the clouds
So take me down
A selfish act, salt in wounds, vinegar in juice, a burning ant, a magnifying lense, is how I'm feeling
Take me down take me down
I'm stuck in the clouds
So take me down
Redemption has its price, and promises are kept, but evil never ascends
Where my spirit and soul have slept, my dreams are stuck in the past, but the fire inside is dead
So what am I supposed to do, faking it isn't useful, kind of hurts my head, and I'd like to keep it.
So make my grave with wood, it'll rot away when you want it too and I'll be gone for good
But what if I was wrong, I'll sit in the depths of hell alone, welcome home.
Take me down take me down
I'm stuck in the clouds
So take me down
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8. |
I Know How A Song Goes
04:00
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A song ridden with years, like mud thrown in your tears I know how a song goes
The bridge brings back your fears but the verse brings back your anger and I know what chord you loathe what chords you loathe what chords you loathe
Fall falling from grace like the heavens can pick where you’re placed and reside when you die when you die when you die
Send, send me back home I don't need consolation. Send, send me on push away and point in your direction
oh I will obey I will run away, oh you, you can't contain all the stars in one hand
You can't, you can't escape your shadow it’s stuck like a plague to your feet keep running keep running keep running
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9. |
Lessons From Chicago
03:59
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Show me your pain, and show me what I've done wrong and your gain
You can't hold on for long, what I've learned from love and you can't fake it. What are you gonna do when you have nothing to prove
I've got something that I'm not giving up, I opened a book and never putting it down, if flipping the page for you is too much then find a book that fits your palms
And Oh, you've got to throw, your feelings away, to change everything
And oh you've gotta know what you wanna do or it'll eat you alive
It started off as a simple thing, well I came to Chicago it changed everything and I know gotta long way to go
Some nights were short some nights were long, some nights were lonely some night were not and we know got a long way to go
And Oh, you've got to throw, your feelings away, to change everything
And oh you've gotta know what you wanna do or it'll eat you alive
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Avery Black Chicago, Illinois
All Songs Are Written And Performed By Avery Black.
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