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Maybe It's Better This Way

by Widowpaw

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Poise and Knuckles 01:56
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I will wait With my Stupid face Pressed Right up against the window Simon says You don't wanna stay You can hardly wait Before we sneak away Before the break of day
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Night Light 01:35
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I tell you all of this in secret Just in case you're unaware I truly hope you don't repeat this I'd like it better if you'd swear It's been raining for a long time And you can even see the moon A ghost is on your heart And you've let go of your balloon I'll try to speak in black and white In a way you can relate Listen up I'll only say this once Everything to you I dedicate
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Ladies Night 02:11
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My baby just can't go to sleep My puppy won't stop staring at me My girlfriend crawled under the be When she finally gets a wink That's when she starts talking in her sleep And the shadows fall The writing it was all over the wall She spilled her drink and just crawled away I saved a wooden nickel for a rainy day I thought I'd found a new station You can imagine my elation When I have been so patient With rings and things that the mailman brings But these ends don't justify the means
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The Way It Smelled 02:37
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I didn't wanna let it come true But then I let you Aw hell Can't forget the way it smelled The first time I'm not waiting on the last one Easily a mile wide You said that everything would be fine Down at the waterline The landfill The second time The bugs are breaking down the enzymes Easily a mile wide
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The Infant Daughter of Margret Miller 02:35
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Well I must have needy Written on my face Cause you keep treating me Like a charity case Unless you put red fire To your lukewarm love It's never never never Gonna be enough I don't wanna need What you're giving to me
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Pro-Marriage 03:07
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I ain't mad at you But I promise I will mess you up And your little dog too Ain't nobody got time for that But I do I do Can you feel that Crawling up your spine You are a floppy little piece of meat An actor acting like it's fine It's fine A little rock Or even smaller perhaps When I took your hand I threw away my map I said I do I do
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Where Candy Came From 03:48
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Lo and behold My baby's never gonna grow old No control A hiccup in the manifold Darling dear In dreams it seems so clear You coo I know I'm not immune In truth I must have been see through De ja vu Another cycle of the moon You coo I know I'm not immune Waste my space Flavor you don't even wanna taste Steps retraced Not sure where I lost my place You hide You push it all down inside Oh I've tried I just cant say goodbye
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The Lonely Gift 03:10
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Nobody ever would have had to know Birds and telephones Now there's just a stain We used to call his name Here and there We get some time to share Please the hand that feeds Living desperately We don't hesitate Because we resonate I know you're putting up With a lot of stuff I know what it seems like When it just ain't enough I know the taste I know the sound Wholesale emptiness The lonely gift you've found Now you've got to drag it around
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Rug Burn 03:32
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If you won't ask the question because you're too scared of the answer You never knew the question anyway When every other outlet is sparking with affection It's draining out the life in other ways The time it takes to process and the waste we make to get there Is always so much more than what we need When you talk it's lovely, oh the distance we could conquer The clouds all seem to part but I can't breathe Rug burn Alone ain't sounding so bad and I could get distracted Try to think of something else to do I'll pretend it's okay and you'll act like you don't care I can't pretend that someone else is you Drop your expectations or drop into a habit Let it be a game you'll never win Or catch those raining hammers to the tune of Happy Birthday Stand right up and take it on the chin Rug burn I'm screaming on the inside I'm not a bottle rocket I've always had a fever just like you Coming down the landslide you've got the brightest flashlight You never turn it off you see it through When you're balance is careening Don't forget you might be leaning On the shaky malformations of the past Hold onto what matters and apologize for nothing Always do your best to finish last
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Talking to Rattlesnakes 02:45
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Better not to call on the spiders When you're talking to the rattlesnakes But I'd take anyone's advice Tonight You know that you can't count on anyone And you know what they say If you want the job done Go on out and get you a shovel I'll show you where to dig Won't take long We'll get the job done It won't take long And we'll never tell anyone No one will ever know
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Baseball 04:10
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If you don't feel like smiling I would never ask that of you I wrote the letters backwards on my face So I could see them in the mirror too Maybe it's better this way I heard every word you said You were always too good to be true I even repeated them in my head Tried to see it from your point of view There's no one to blame Nothing to reclaim What hasn't been lost All went up in flames It all went up in the flames

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released October 5, 2020

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