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Perspectives
02:09
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Lay down your arms we’ve both made mistakes
Your eyes spoke thousands of words that you still won’t say
So I’ll break this silence and lead you astray
Right off the edge like hunter and prey
You’ll be beauty and shame
I could have done more to ask you stay
But I think on some level I’m beyond being saved
But I guess that’s perspective
As I write my fears down in my letters that I’ll never send the way that I am
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2. |
Best Disasters
03:37
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Strip me to the bone
Teach me a lesson on letting go
I'll grow out of my skin
When you prove that you're listening
To what we had to say
And not the way we said it
I'm clumsy with my words
And your careless when repeating
You told me once
That theres nothing
More dangerous than an honest man waiting to test his role
He's got a gun
Ill at ease and tightly wound
Speaks with silver tongue
Lies worth their weight in gold
I was a king or so you'd have me believe it
For half an hour at a time
This is just the way it happened
It's not the way I planned it
I am the architect of all your best disasters
You told me once that there's nothing
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3. |
Choke
03:58
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What’s a queen without a crown?
I’m so glad that we both found out I’m a Statue in your castle grounds
At least when I’m sleeping
I wanted to talk, I wanted to drag this out, I wanted to breathe
Your hands round my neck you know we won’t
And it won’t be the first lie I told
And it won’t be the last love you know
As I talk you through this
The words are useless
Do you remember what I said?
When I walked all the way to your house
You looked me up and down And stared me out
I think you were speaking of how I danced with the thoughts in your head
You made me promise to rip them all out
You looked me up and down and shared your doubts
I think you were speaking
Of how you wanted to talk, how you wanted to drag this out, how you wanted to breathe
These hands round your neck they know we won’t
And it won’t be the first lie I told
And it won’t be the last love you know
As I talk you through this the words are useless
And it won’t be the first lie you told
And would it kill you to grow some backbone
As I talk you through this the words I useless
And I hope you choke
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4. |
Ashes
04:04
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I'd be a lair if I told you I could grow to hate you
Your swear you understood
But you ask me for the favour
Just give it time
To make it easier
I'll hide behind closed eyes
But regrets in every line that you quote
From your favourite childhood films about love
You asked me to swear it meant nothing
You begged me to swear it meant nothing to nobody ever at all
You asked me to swear it meant nothing
You begged me to swear it meant nothing to nobody.
I tried to be a better man before
But I ripped at the seems when you made me explore
All the things that I would hide away
Kick the dirt over my sins
Tell me what have you done?
Tell me where have you been?
The fact is my heart's just not in it
There's no point in dragging this out
Just simply for the purpose of feeling love
It's only narcissistic fear of the truth
But I'm sick of the smell of lies
And they always seem to fit like a glove
So maybe I'll not write about love
And maybe I shouldn't sing of you anymore, Jessica
And maybe I'll just write about nothing
Cause after all that we did that's all I am to her.
If we lit a fire
Burned our home to the ground
Would we dance in the ashes?
Would you still be so proud?
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5. |
Blindfold
03:12
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I think I’m fine
You know I’m lying
Now I’m not sure anymore
Can we fake it till we fix it
From the hospital bed
This is just a set back
I’ll tell myself that
And how much more can you endure
Am I a risk worth taking
Are you breaking?
Draw me out cause I’m going underground
Paint me with doubts
Keep this to yourself
And I’m stuck here
Stuck like this
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I was nervous to say hello considering how long it’s been
Do I still look the same after all this weathering?
And do I still look the same in all your faded photographs?
Do I still look the same you looked better in the past
And I forgot about your voice, so delicate and pure
I forgot about your voice It isn’t like that any more
And I forgot about your words and how they were never true
How you always spoke to me like there were cameras watching you
You wrote your promise on the water as if it didn’t matter
The words just disappear and all your left with is the laughter
Reflections stare at you in the way that I used to
It took me seven years but now I finally see the truth about you
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7. |
International Signal
05:11
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Always knew that you were fickle
So it comes as no surprise
And i see things crystal clear
This has all been a pack of lies
And its all for me
Missed the chance of a lifetime and I know it
And you will too when its too late
I will burn that bridge when you get to it
And somehow your worst truth is better than your next best lie
And its all for me
Always knew you could only love yourself
I always knew you would throw this away before long
(And its all for me) But your not so bad for all of your flaws
(And its all for me) I'll look to mine and you look to you and yours
And its all for me, and its all for me
and its all I need, and its all I need
(And its all for me, and its all for me)
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8. |
Home
05:39
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You were the fire
That set me alight
You loosened my tongue
And made me take flight
And I'm so scared of these heights
I feel myself fall back on our lies.
Speak in a whisper for now, until you're home.
The house I was building
Was always for you
So you be the walls
And I'll be a roof
And I'm still scared of these heights
When your not a person
That I recognize.
Speak in a whisper for now, until you're home.
Promise me nothing
Promise me nothing
Until your home.
And promise me nothing
You promise me nothing
Until your home.
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9. |
Chroma
03:51
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It's like waking up from a bad dream
And I'm surrounded by all these terrible things I'd laid to rest
Or so I'd thought
But they bite my heels when I try to walk it off
Let's not pretend that we are saints
We are life lessons learned the hardest ways
And your not sweet
And I'm not kind
When we went to bed we were dragged there by lies
You were blue eyes
Under the grey skies
As we sat by the river
And you were white lies
To help kill my time
I'm feeling weaker and weaker
With shaking hands
And waking voice
I had called you up, given you a choice
And you chose him
You abandoned me
And you whitewash all of this history
We had such promise
We had such plans
Now I'll die a boy or build myself into a man
It will take time
By the end of this year I will write you out of my life
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10. |
Scars Of Your Memory
05:52
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Dust to dust
These old hearts encased in rust
There was just enough of you left to recognise
You're not ashamed of your scars
You hide yourself behind your silence
Your silence isn't armour
When the skin hangs from your bones
The words you say to me
Talk soft like they're something I'll believe
Hide it all in plain sight
All the deepest cuts and broken bones from the fights
You started with yourself In an effort to fill up this empty house
Fill it up with all the useless things you tried your best to live without
There's too many coffins for this child to bear
The weight on shoulders seems unreal
Your innocence has disappeared
You grew thick skin to stop the world from creeping in
The words you say to me
Talk soft like they're something I'll believe
Hide it all in plain sight
All the deepest cuts and broken bones from the fights
You started with yourself
In an effort to fill up this empty house
Fill it up with all the useless things you tried your best to live without
Dust to dust
These old hearts condemned to rust
There was not enough of you left to reconcile
Dust to dust
Nothing about this is just
There was not enough of you left to recognise
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11. |
Drown
05:24
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You drown out the day
With forgotten first names
We both make our plans to get out of this place
You get sick of waiting
Be my doctor be patient
And if I let you go I won’t expect you to come back for me
Give me what I crave
Help me dig my own grave
If we don’t make amends bury me with my friends
Your words paint a picture so keep reading your scripture
And if I let you go I won’t expect you to come back for me
You drown out the day
You forgot my first name
Left me out of your plans to get out of this place
I hope you unravel with every inch that you travel
And if I let you go I won’t expect you to come back for me
Come back for me
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12. |
Goodbye
02:18
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Did you ever get my letters
Did the words reach you in time
And did the words break through The silence I had built round you
Did you savour every line
So if I get angry
Please forgive me
I’m still learning to get by
How to live with decisions
How to cope and say goodbyes
Cause you remind me of old songs And I, remind you of good nights
Of borrowed time and broken bones and how we’re better off goodbye
So if I get angry
Please forgive me
I’m still learning to get by
How to live with and without you
How to cope and say goodbyes
Cause you remind me of old songs And I, remind you of good nights
Of borrowed time and broken bones
And how we’re better off, goodbye
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Branch to Root Liverpool, UK
Founded in 2015 as a personal project between friends, the band has developed an extensive and eclectic discography. Described in a Louder Than War review as being full of “fuzz, melody, and passion,” the record showcased their cohesive-but-oscillating approach to songwriting that has earned comparisons to bands as diverse as Basement, Death Cab For Cutie, and Manchester Orchestra. ... more
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