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Living Together
03:57
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You never want to come
You always have to go
Why can’t we just wake up
Together
And have coffee?
You’re always staying up
When I go to lie down
You come into the room
Late at night and
Turn the light off
Then you just fall asleep
You always want to say
All of the things I really don’t
We pass it back and forth
We’re impatient
And we’re hungry
You‘re never speaking up
You’re always looking down
And when I try to ask
You a question
You can hear me
But you don’t say a thing
I’m always reaching out
You’re always drawing in
Do you think we could be close
For a minute?
Feel a heartbeat
You’re always speeding up
When we’re just standing still
My ear against your chest I
Hear a racehorse
I hear thunder
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2. |
Anna
04:31
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When I met Anna, she could charm
But I, myself impregnable
Thought myself immune to it
The words she spoke and things she did
I was unimpressed to say the least
And Michael was a friend of mine
With eyes so wide but not too bright
When Anna, she came into play
She chewed him up, then walked away
I rolled my my eyes, I'd heard before
To expect these things from those like her
So I called her my friend Anna
At arm's length from my friend, Anna
I was only something new to her
I graduated, left the state
And Anna, she could just not wait
To travel north to visit me
I barred the door romantically
And I felt so prepared to see her face
And in one night I'd never seen
So many men fall to their knees
And Anna, all the cause of it
The words she spoke, the things she did
To put me firm beneath her thumb
But damned if I'd be overcome
So I turned away from Anna
No goodnight to my friend Anna
By the time that I awoke, she had deserted me
The next time that I'd see her face
After a year, her wedding day
The groom a man near twice her age
Their child only months away
I saved the date begrudgingly
When Anna came to speak to me
I couldn't take her seriously
She asked if we could Keep In Touch
She'd said the same to everyone
It seemed like something she would do
What a strange thing when she followed through
So I'd say hello to Anna
Once a day to my friend Anna
It was mostly just to pass the time
Who's to say
Why anyone's inclined to tell a story
Surely there's a reason Anna would have been the one anointed
Center in the grandest scheme
When I can't discern what she means in it
And that's how I think of Anna
Nothing more than my friend, Anna
When her husband called, what a surprise
He told me she had taken sick
With slim chance of recovering
The way she talked, it seemed to him
That I could be her only friend
It would mean the world to see your face
I took a cab reluctantly
And told the driver wait for me
Approached their door, I feel the weight
Before I knock, I hesitate
And I had no desire to force a smile
To know her illness, meet her child
So I left her porch, I turned my back
And hurried back into the cab
I turned away from Anna
No goodbye to my friend Anna
Not a phone call or a note from her again
So I turned away from Anna
No goodbye to my friend Anna
I sing the story of a girl, completed
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I am the bits from when the bomb went off inside of me
Over time I changed from dust into the air your breathe
I heard a voice that begged "Please come home,"
And I said "No, thank you."
I am the sentry in the back, I let you take the lead
I am the eyes and ears of truth, watch what you say to me
Son of the world, I made your middle name Nothing
It says what you are to me
Calculate currents and I welcome the windows down
Once a snare, turned to a noose
Most of the time I keep the lion in line
Except for when I think of you
I am the scribe, I sit inside and take the landscape in
My pen spews only truth, don’t even question it
And I recall what a sweet offer
Then I wrote "No, thank you."
Calculate currents and I welcome the windows down
Once a snare, turned to a noose
Most of the time I keep the lion in line
Except for when I think of you
I never tried to dodge collision or catastrophe
I only tried to do the best with what would come to me
I never thought that I could feel so small…
Until I walked away from you
Calculate currents and welcome the windows down
While I fucking hang from a noose
Most of the time I keep the lion in line
Except for when I think of you
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4. |
The Noose I (Hey Hey)
02:21
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I am
I mean
I think
I was you as a young man
So full of piss and spit
And no one to let it out with
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Then untied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Untie the noose
I caught a glimpse of me
And saw a starving actress
Inject my courage then I level with the carpet
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Then untied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Untie the noose
"A holy war against my brother, St. Peter
He's taking what he wants
He's got money to burn
And just a few years left
My family thought that I could just be better than this."
"A holy war against my brother, his daughter
His son and his wife
I've got nothing to learn, and nothing to lose"
...but what I meant to say was
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Then untied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
So I tied the noose
(Hey hey, hey hey)
Untie the noose
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5. |
Wherever You Go
03:41
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Please say hi to the Spanish ladies
They'll forever have my heart
I always tried to keep up with them
But I could never talk the talk
On my mind
All the time
Convincing me to talk it out
And give it one more try
Wherever you go, I know you’ll find it in the end
Wherever you go, I know you'll find an audience
You always said I bring out the best in you in front of all your friends
Wherever you go, I know you’ll find me in the end
It’s when I sweat on the hottest days
I let my thirst control my thoughts
I start to crave coca-cola
That’s when I know things will come apart
On my mind
All the time
Convincing me to talk it out
And give it ten more tries
Wherever you go, I know you’ll find it in the end
Wherever you go, I know you'll find an audience
You always said I bring out the best in--
You have got so many friends!
Wherever you go, I know you’ll find me in the end
Wherever you go, I know you’ll find it in the end
Wherever you go, I know you'll find an audience
You really know I bring out the wretch in you in front of all your friends
Wherever you go, you know I'll find you in the end
You always said I bring out the best in you
Say HI to all your friends!
Wherever you go, I know you'll find me in the end
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6. |
This Time
04:23
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Watching the clock
Running the day down
Turning it off
Stay in one spot
Eat when you're hungry
You live in the dark
What time'd you hit the hay last night?
'Cause you're not looking great
Were you trying to catch some shut-eye?
Do you ever get tongue-tied?
It's on the tip of it now, still you're
Searching for the word you can't find
Caught in the fog
You were a figure
That cut through the clouds
Looking at you
Was salt on the wound
it was the least you could do
I had to say to you two times
If there's an easy way out then
Somebody's gonna take it
You don’t deserve to be two-timed
But you’ve been in love before
And there’ll always be a next life
Could it really hurt you this time?
Could it be the—
Alone in a drought
You were a cool drop
Into my mouth
Try to beat the sun
Can’t go it alone
I'd pair with anyone
I was wanting something else
But I couldn’t put a name to it
I was wanting something else
I wasn’t sure that I could live without you
Could it really hurt you this time?
Could it be the one that sleeps beside you?
Could it really hurt you this time?
You were a thought
Crossing my mind
While I was out on the block
When you came into view
Sharpened my tongue
It was the only thing to do
Sharpened my tongue
It was the only thing to do
(You don't deserve to be two-timed)
(I was born of something else)
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The sun cast my shadow on the pavement of your neighborhood
I didn't know what i was looking for
I was retracing footsteps you took some ten years ago
I went out alone
What was I supposed to say to you?
High atop the hill, it seemed the tallest on the coast
At least to me it was the steepest slope
Following directions from the return address of an envelope
A tiny, yellowed note
What was I supposed to say to you?
Then I came across a small tree, newly bearing fruit
A theft that I could justify
My mouth was dry, I needed to
Remind myself you were far too young
To see this tree in bloom
You come in on cue
"I don't know,
If it wasn't for the time spent during adolescence
Sending letters back east
Would you have forgotten me?
A former friend that
Faded to the west
Was not a cause for concern
Vague promises to return
Twisted my arm
To pull me in
Before I left
You captured my violin
Went to my parents
Asking for their blessings
In remembering me
Haha, how flattering."
Even though
I know that
You're not home
There's a part of me that still hopes you'll be
Somewhere up the stairs
Sitting in your desk chair
Covering envelopes in bits of tape and string
Because if I don't forget you,
Then you're not forgetting me
What was I supposed to say to you?
Feels like I barely knew you
Really, what was I supposed to say?
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8. |
Run Out
03:09
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Take just a little bit more than you were given
Doesn't seem such a slippery slope while you're still living
You were upset to find it's not your call and after all
You've got your whole life ahead of you
You’ve got a whole lot of time
Stay up a little bit later than you wanted
Then you wake up, you're feeling like your insides are overflowing
Think you'll try again tomorrow? I'm sure you'll sleep it off
You know they day can't demand that much
Lie just a little bit easier than you want to
It's a bad habit, who's ever really gonna call you on it
Don't think that they'll show up, but then they do
I heard the crowd lose its shit over you
You’ve got a whole lot of time
Until you run out of it
Sing just a little bit louder than you'd say it
You're the sad sack that nobody else is gonna play with
Watched it burn down to nothing while you stood behind the curtain
Keep 'em lined up and waiting for you
You’ve got a whole lot of time
Until you run out of--
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9. |
Highly Replaceable Me
03:50
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End of the day
But I still want to hang around
End of the day
Got nowhere to go
I was thinking about
Heading out, I don’t know
Would you mind if I
Tagged along?
And that's all that you get
The truth leaves you dumbfounded
You walked away from your time being wasted on
Highly replaceable me
Nothing to say
I know I tend to babble on
Nothing to say
But I’m all out of breath
Hung up on you
And it made you laugh
And I know it’s wishful thinking that you’d
Call me back
Please be patient and
Please be kind
We are empty vessels
We float together alone
And that's all that you get
The truth leaves you dumbfounded
You walked away from a life almost wasted on
Highly replaceable me
All that you get
Is a truth you don’t understand
You walked away from a life almost wasted on
Highly replaceable me
All that you get
Your fears are not unfounded
End of the day in a bed softly breathing just
Highly replaceable me
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10. |
Together Apart
03:48
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I lie in darkness
I lie awake
Just thinking of you
on your side of the bed
Restless we grow
As the fist morning light
Crawls up to the ceiling,
You sigh and say "This is fine."
You close your eyes
I stare straight ahead
You toss and remember
Lie still to forget
That a new day is born
As the nighttime subsides
Just one more chance to collide
I had to go
But you stayed
And then when you’re gone
I remain
You got your wish
You kept my heart
We fall asleep
Together, apart
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Old Best Friend Brooklyn, New York
Mike Comite is your Old Best Friend.
He lives in Brooklyn.
His second full-length album is out and it's called Almost. It sounds like almost.
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TW mastered the first OBF EP. This is my favorite album of his, but everything he’s put out (Soft Drugs, Lo Tom, Headphones) are on permanent rotation.
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