1. |
Fade In
00:47
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2. |
I Swear
03:42
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Take time
Take all the time you need
To get this figured out
I'll wait
As long as you want me to
As long as you want to keep me around
Just remember
Who has treated you so kind
Who was always on your mind
Who would never let you go
See there's
Something that I've got to know
Something that's been eating me up inside
Those times
You said to me
We're just seperate for now
Did you mean that?
Keep my mind open as you
Slip right through my hands
I had no other plans for
The rest of my life
But I suppose I'll make them
I Swear
(When you come back things will be different.
No, things will never be the same
You can pretend that you were nothing here.
That you can fade and just disappear)
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3. |
Writings On Walls
03:39
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I'll take it all back
Cuz it's easier than falling in again
A formality at best
Cuz I don't know if I can ever follow through
There's a writing
On the wall
They all lead back to you
There are pinpricks
On these blueprints
And they allow me to
Make outlines of your frame
Well I can barely recognize them
Can you recognize me?
Cuz I'm twisted and contorted
Searching for a space
That doesn't haunt my memory
Like the corners
Of this room
Or a thousand wasted spaces
I can replace your image
But can I ever replace the faces?
I fell asleep in a world
where everything made sense
I woke up scattered in the breeze
and alone
I fell asleep not sure of anything
I'll wake up in a world without you.
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4. |
Giving In
03:41
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If it makes you feel good
Then who am I to stop you
From doing what you want to do?
I'd have to be
Some kind of fool
To ever want to hold you back
But I was some kind of fool
To fall in love with you
And I
Could never let you go
So why try?
Why destroy myself?
I'm giving in
To every lie I've ever told
To anyone
Is there anything
You'd really like to hear?
Like I'm sorry
Or I miss you
Or I can't wait to see you again
Well I could say that
But that would be giving in
I guess this is how I spend my time
Filling notes between the words
With all the things I wish I'd said
Before it got too late
And it's not like there's
A choreography
I need you to fulfill
But a smile every now and then
would be nice
When I think about all
The embarassing things I've done
Well, one of them
Is every word I've ever spoken to you
All disconnected prose
To make sure that you like me
To serve some purpose
That I never figured out
But if I do
I"ll be sure
To explain it to you
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5. |
Spinning Wheels
04:54
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Say we forget about the solemn faces
That watched us fall apart
It all seems distant now
Like a bad dream
That I relive
Every time I close my eyes
You look fine
I wish that I could say the same for me
I've been fine
If by fine
You mean alive
I could never let you down on purpose
But I do it anyway
So I suppose that's how it's always going to be
Do you remember that time I told you
I was going to disappear for a year
And become the person that I want me to be
Well, god, I'm still the same
It was in that somewhere in between
That I lost track of you
And all the amazing things I'm sure you've done since then
Well I'm spinning wheels instead
And laying in my bed
Waiting for something beautiful to happen to me again
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6. |
Haven't I?
04:46
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I speak my thoughts in song cuz
In words they just slip out
Of my mouth
And away into the darkness
I keep them close within me
Never let them be heard
Scared of what might happen
Maybe I'll get what I deserve
I know I don't deserve you.
Haven't I been kind?
Haven't I told you
All the things you wanted to hear?
And pretended that you're mine?
Haven't I been everything you ever wanted?
That's all I've ever wanted to be.
It's been radio silence
Feels like I haven't heard from you in weeks
I lost track of the time in between
Home is like a distant sinking ship
So maybe it's better this way:
I'll take all that I can get
And if it's nothing,
Then maybe that's what I deserve:
I know I don't deserve you.
I guess I just lost track of time
To take care of all the things
I told you were important
Now I'm sure you don't believe me
When I tell you that I miss you
Or that I couldn't wait to be back
Well I'm not sure if I believe it anymore
I'm sure you don't believe me.
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7. |
Sing
05:22
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I'll rewrite these words a little bit
Make them seem like they're about someone else
Like this didn't unfold in front of me
Like you didn't do this to yourself
But maybe that 's the point in all of this:
The blame was never meant to be placed
That somewhere deep inside us
Is the potential to break
And this is not permanent
It's just a circumstance we live with
It might be better as a memory
You can forget all the songs
I ever wrote about you
They mean nothing now
Unless you want them to
And I
Will do my best
To make them mean something
And I will do my best to make them
SIng
So maybe this is worth the risk
But I've watched so many things
Slide through my hands that it gets hard
To see the point in another one
You're just a point of contact
On an even longer road
But even then it's a road I'd like to travel
On
So this is game over
This is all that's left
Of something that held so much promise
I guess that's nothing now
So this is what you meant
When you said you were scared
This would all fall apart
Well I'm
Broken bad I guess
But fixable
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8. |
The Way We Always Do
05:28
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I should start talking more
Maybe I'll think of new things to say
Instead of all these
Quotes I keep repeating
Like they'll start to mean something
More than ink on paper
More like lines on maps
When we rearranged
Everything made sense
But we slipped back
The way we always do
We all felt the change
But none of us knew what to do about it
So we let it sit
Let it fester in our minds
Til we came to imagine it was
More than just circumstance
I knew if I had my chance I would go back
And stop any of this from happening
I can't sit and watch anymore
While you give yourself away
I had the highest hopes for you
I suppose they were wasted
So where did they go?
It's a sick little dance that we replicate
Trying to ignore the folded hands of fate
I swear to god if I see your face
Well I don't know what I'd do
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9. |
Fade Out
08:10
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If you take all the in-betweens
Well you can make a perfect image
Of who I wanna be
More than a manifest of self
Or something I've forgotten
But a person like you or me
So let it out:
Spread it out across the floor
We'll pick it all up when we're done
But for now I just want to find out
Where we went wrong
Or if we ever should have started
I swear to god I'll never leave again
If that helps anything at all
This night is far from perfect
That doesn't mean it's any
Worse for wear
I'll take a thousand nights like this
Than the several dozen I've
Spent without you
By my side
And this is not a breakdown
It's just different from what we wanted
But "you can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you'll get all
That you need" (Jagger-Richards, 1969)
I've sung those words a thousand times
But I'm not sure if I believe them
Anymore
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