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Surgical Extraction
02:19
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Half-Step Capo 0
everyday I wake up just in time to watch the sun go down
everyday i wake up with no meaning to be found
everyday I wake up, it's not a blessing as it sounds
and I don't wish to wake up anymore in my hometown
so I will grab my guitar
and put it in the trunk of my car
and I will drive far far FAR away from here
until the gas I can no longer afford
so I will walk fifty five more
until my feet are sore sore sore
and when the day becomes night
you will all transform
and these mirages of friendship
are all gone
Yeah, these mirages of friendship
are gone gone gone
and from this surgical extraction
I guess I'll crawl home
Untap upkeep then draw my card
tap seven land then summon Karn
neg three exiling me
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2. |
90 lb. Wuss
03:28
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half-step capo 0
every city and every state is only as a good as the people you know
every city and every state is only as a good as the friends you have made
So I love Missouri and hate Jacksonville but love New York maybe one day I will
Colorado is colorful with a wild herd of buffalo and
though Montana's beautiful and lovely the folks I've met are more than ugly
I want to love Washington but an arctic chill continuously
creeps up my spine and infuses with my ice cage
I try to rip it out in this subzero temperature but I am a
ninety pound wuss suffering at the hands of a romanticized past
that I no longer remember
that I no longer remember
every city and every state is only as a good as the people you know
every city and every state is only as a good as the friends you have made
And while I may hate Texas I love most the Texans I have met
The midwest flies their bison pride high even though they are all liars
and california is overrated yet contains some of my favorite people
My heart will always be property of Oregon
My heart will always be property of Oregon
I hate America but would not live anywhere but here
every city and every state is only as a good as the people you know
every city and every state is only as a good as the friends you have made
and while I may be a Christian, I've never liked the church
and while I may be a Christian, I've never liked the church
and while I may be a Christian, I've never liked the church
and while I may be a Christian, I've never liked the church
so if you hate me strictly based on my Christian faith
then I am afraid you've completely missed the point of punk rock and community
then I am afraid you've completely missed the point of punk rock and community
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3. |
Shallow Water
03:35
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half-step capo 0
me ex lovers are animals, synthetic by nature
assembled by left over scrap metal encased in carbon tissue
in the absolute coldest of weather
i abuse the trust betstowed upon this fraudulent pack leader by
injecting their veins full of CLOGGING CHEMICAL
when they beg for more gasoline and water to quench their thirst
Claiming ownership of this rotting carcass you've taken down to reveal the hidden black engulfing
MY, BROWN, EYES
Scavenging your left over memories for the ones I can't forget but you can't remember
I use these shallow metaphors to describe the shallow of pain
of slowly drowning myself in this shallow water
I immerse myself in fiction, the fiction that this life
is fictitiously followed by a life after this
And while it very well may be a fact that the life after this
does infact exist, I can't help but think that
every belief I've ever felt without a shadow of doubt is
bullshit
but I believe I believe I believe I believe
that there is someone who is bigger than me
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4. |
I Am Narcissist
01:36
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half-step capo 0
C Am G F Fm
sometimes i argue with myself
inside my mind
about how i feel about the ones that i love
and sometimes it ain't so kind
and it makes them feel bad when they stumble upon
the words inside my mind
and i feel so bad that they feel so sad
i am ashamed
somedays i ponder if i am
schizophrenic
like my mother was when she abandoned me
i wonder if it's hereditary
but i'm too lazy to even wiki it
assuming the internet even still exists
i'll tell you i'm an altruist but if you google my name says
"i am narcissist"
but if you know me at all you already know that
i will fail you
so don't rely on me just ask
the ones who aren't with me
anymore
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5. |
Fantasy
02:38
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capo 4 half-step
I'm haunted by the memento's
of the ghost now three years gone
and I cannot honestly tell you that
I ever moved on.
and I'm living in this fantasy that
the world that we're living in
is a world within my own head
that is not real
while in reality
I'm living in the hospital
bed and you're there
holding my hand
with my grandfather
's hand on your shoulder
you're telling me "it'll be alright.
Erik... Please, just wake
up from this coma
you've been in an accident
and I like to think that I'm
wiggling my toes
everytime that you speak to me
to tell you that I'm listening
to tell you that I'm still here,
I am still here
but I know that's not reality
it's just some flawed fantasy
my grandfather's dead/gone
and you're just a ghost
I'm haunted by the memento's
of the ghost now three years gone
and I cannot honestly tell you that
I ever moved on.
I never moved on
"have I ever mentioned how i lost my wife?"
"cancer, wasn't it?"
"yeah, i dragged her to every doctor, every test... and after all the surgeries, the chemo's, she was ready, she accepted it, you know? but I never could. and I've spent the last few years so angry. I felt so cheated."
the walking dead
season 1, episode 5
9:25-10:10
Dale
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6. |
Trainwreck
06:22
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B Ab Db Gb B Eb capo 0
every word i sing
must not be intelligible
for if it were
this tree would be ripped from this
earth by the tornado
of judgement that is you
every action that i take
is a slow moving trainwreck
and every action that i fake
is a slow moving trainwreck
reaching out for an artichoke comprised of helium
ever fleeting
Breaking Bad Season 4 Episode 7 - Problem Dog - 34ish min in
Conversation between 12 Steps guy and Jesse during a meeting about Judging and beating yourself up.
and i can't let go of your memory
and i can't let go
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Self Proclaimed Narcissist
DIY Folk-Punk // Anti-Folk // Honesty Folk from Oregon.
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