1. |
Nothing Personal
03:43
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They just couldn't fit in
They just had to stand out
They just had to sound different
The minute they talked out loud
They were all problemed children
Some say they could have been saved
Now it's just inconvenient
now they're called wastes of time money and space always
Seeing not a body but a collection of parts
That don't fit together right
If you know where to look you can find who they are
They don't speak till they meet in the night
Oh, nothing personal
It just gets so impractical
If you know where to look you can find who they are
They may seem far away but they're never out of sight
The popular image
Borders on the grotesque
Shield your eyes away from the misfitting misfits
self fulfilled into a mess
Figures deformed and unbalanced
It's not easy to understand
No reason to be accepted anyway
Not enough to matter cause everyone's always
Seeing not a body but a collection of parts
That don't fit together right
If you know where to look you can find who they are
They don't speak till they meet in the night
Oh, nothing personal
It just gets so impractical
But if you know where to look you can find who they are
They may seem far away but they're never out of sight
Wasn't supposed to be anyone's problem
Playing hot potato, no one really wants a
A scapegoat, lunatic, a burden-to-be
Asks too much to be heard, asks too much to be seen
It would be easier to
be another body, not a collection of parts
That don't fit together right
But if you know where to look you can find who they are
They don't speak till they meet in the night
Oh, it's nothing personal
It's just so impractical
If you know where to look you can find who they are
They may seem far away but they're never out of sight
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2. |
Saved
03:48
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Nothing prepares me for the sight of the dinner table that I'm looking down
They all have questions and I'll try to answer them before the night is out
They won't listen because they have Opinions and if I hear them I'll be saved
They won't listen because they have Opinions and if I hear them i'll be saved
Everyone wondering what sort of thing they could ask if they're given permission and chance
I wasn't a problem I bothered nobody now all their eyes are starting to dance
no one will listen
No one has the time to
Hear, debate, or be explained to
I'm not unrealistic
I know they'll start asking me
If there's any other way
Where I don't make a scene
I reverse the course
Back to normal
The smallest civil war
Might sweep me in, I don't want this at all
I could say the words but I shouldn’t
I could have the answers, but I won't
Want to repeat them to everyone
(I don't feel like being strong today)
It's either they're too far ahead or tired of people like me telling them how to act
When someone goes astray from the predator to prey that's a natural way to react
But I am on no mission
I promise I'm not with *them*
I promise that I'm alone
trying to keep all my connections
And trying to keep a house a home
Yet afraid of a scene
Walking on the street
Of the day to day
I want to tear it from the tower down BUT
I'll make sure nothing will come off
No problems are ever stopped
I'll be anything for anyone
(I don't feel like being strong today)
[instrumental break]
Get me where I would go
If I only had the nerve
Tell me where I would go
If you could get what you deserve
Given what life could be
It was going so well
Given where life could take me
It's not good when I can't tell
I don't feel like being strong today
I could never be that strong
I know you gotta be strong today
I'm not strong enough
I don't want to get hurt
I don't want to stand up
I wanna pray that I’ll get over it
I wanna pray I made it up
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3. |
Taking Sides
03:24
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By now you should have seen this coming
The moments we leave each other I left you lost and confused
You just wanted to see me stable (to see me succeed)
Not walk in the door just to fight with you
It's not your fault, forgive everything you just heard
We haven't talked about it in weeks, if we could keep that record
Just stay in silence
Tell me what it would take
For no more tension, no more breaks
I could go back, to what we've been
but we're forever taking sides and no ones
Maybe it matters where you see me
I swear I don't always shift as easily
out of the blue
I can't divide the noise from the signal (it won't let me be)
Progress doesn't always show through
It's a sport of finding an excuse
To divide us into absolutes
It's always too much
Acting natural will be enough for now
IF I COULD DO ANYTHING AT ALL
TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER
I'd make you feel better
Tell me what it would take
For no more tension, no more breaks
I could go back, to what we've been
but we're taking sides and no one wins
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4. |
Come Down
04:32
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If I wasn't a part of this
We would be apart from this
We'd just make fun of it
I’m pretty sure we did
Before this took hold
And it became serious
It won’t leave me
I cannot pull it off
I suppose I will remain
disengaged tonight
I don’t have the stamina
Nothing will come to light
Yet even when we’re talking
I may be plotting an escape
But I could never leave you
I could never pull it off
I know you're still looking for some way to turn my back now
I know in there you're still holding out
Til i come down
Til I come down
come down
Until I come down
Sometimes I like to think
We’re making progress
You’re asking better questions
I’m judging less from a distance
But how much can happen
There’s so much to learn
We have that in common
We’re both stubborn
I’ve tried to give up things
That would bother you
I want to be the exception
Without breaking the rules
Putting lectures on hold
until further notice
And you will leave here
Not upset at all
I know we're trying hard but anything can pull us back now
I know in there you're still holding out
Til I come down
Til I come down
Til I come down
(beat) Til I-i come down
I also wish it wasn't happening, and we could just small talk now
I wish you could win and take it all out
And I’d come down
I've been having trouble breathing
I've been having trouble sleeping
Sometimes I wanna start a fight
I put it off all the time
How much could I change your mind?
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5. |
Wet Feet
02:42
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If we erased our histories
If we met on the same block
If we just met more innocently
I still couldn’t have held you off for long
I wish I could have seen you in front of me
This wasn’t how it was supposed to be
I stood back with you when I had places to go
that I should have gone
Shaking on my phone
I told my father to leave the room
that afternoon
He couldn’t have known
The one time we were both left alone
How you’d shift
I never got to see you get bad in front of me
I couldn’t piece you together
I should forget about it
I was meant for something more
Than melting down in a strangers messages
I was meant for something more than this
It was so easy to draw me in
I was new and you’d gone through the motions
You forgave me for almost everything I ever did
The closets I could get into for a feeling
I wish I could have seen you in front of me
I wish I could have seen you in reality
instead of being haunted by something that
was never really there
All eyes on my phone
They wonder how I got this all so far from them
They couldn’t have known
You were the only one to get it
Could you have been any nicer when I said what was hurting me
The only one to say you never thought of me differently
I don’t forget about that
I was meant for something more
Than melting down in a strangers messages
I was meant for something more than this
I️ like to think I’ve surrounded myself with better people in time
But most of them are just like you with different body types
I was meant for something more than that
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6. |
Lights On
02:57
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You never saw it in me
We never knew what it was when I spaced in the outfield
I'd forgotten when I'd came home
I was wondering what it was all for
That's not why we're here none of us exactly get it
Why would I want to disturb everything
As of now not much can change
No one really likes when things did
It's not moving that far away
not as far as I said I would
Just that there was an image
Albeit one filled with contradictions
You're not wrong
In keeping my hand from turning the lights on
stop talking all this shit
I’d distance myself from it
I wish we were apart from this
But please just be a part of this
Stop talking all this shit
I’d distance myself from it
It will not let go of me
I’ve left you so confused
I guess this is what I deserve
for everything I wanted to be
I have no rebuttal or excuse
I'm sorry
For leaving everything in doubt
I know you are
on edge for when the words leave my mouth
That I won't have the future you wanted for me
I might always be the target of your friends' passing asides
They can say anything they want
I wouldn't tell you otherwise
We’re all just terrified, wondering where these thoughts came from
Was it secondhand
Or was I just kept from turning the lights on?
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7. |
Water and Country Songs
03:20
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If I’ve seen this before
I’ll try to separate recall from reality
I’ll try to make it less painful than it has to be
It's just tempting to fall,
Into the same sort of overwrought poetry
you wrote when you were younger parallel scenes
Maybe I could make
Another appointment, but I need a theme
I can play to catch someone up on the back story
Until that day
Only water and country songs will ground me
in something human
In something resembling maturity
There's gotta be somewhere someone can take me
Where I can just exist as a body
I’ve been looking for exits but I can find no other way
I just hoped it was a feeling I could escape
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Fell From The Tree Rochester, New York
I fell from a tree.
I am in a fog and I catastrophize.
I am not ENOUGH, but that's ok.
Now I find Answers in Between
theanswersinbetween.bandcamp.com
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