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Blunt Force Drama
04:23
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Close your eyes and tell me this is where you want to be. This back seat. This drive home. These conversations in the summer heat. The smile spreading on your face is bound to be the death of me. And I know the timing's off, but I think that I could be exactly what you need.
Save me. The sun will burn our hearts to ash and we will scatter. Take me where the grass grows green, and deep enough for me to hide.
So now what am I to do? Seems I close my eyes to see pictures of you. With just one glance, my heart is on display, yours for the taking. Oh, don't cover up your laugh. I want to feel it shake me to my bones. Truth be told, you've given me far more than I could ever ask for. You've made me feel like who I am is better than okay.
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On the first star I see tonight, I'll wish that you could be mine. I once thought that dreams came true. But stars fall and hopes have died, and winter has passed us by, so I'll leave my thoughts of you behind with the fallen leaves. The wind through the empty trees can carry me far away.
This car will be my escape from words I could never say. The sky is a wall ahead of me and I can't slow down. I brace myself for the crash. The explosion will scatter me to somewhere where thoughts and memories of you won't haunt me.
The skyline is clear tonight, so I'll try and race my thoughts. My foot on the gas as if I could outrun this heartache.
The speedometer climbs, my hands on the wheel. Past the blur of the streetlights. So how does it feel, now that I'm just a mess, and you're doing fine? I never said I'd be all right. All right? Don't say I ever lied.
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Just Promise Me
04:37
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So I guess it goes to show the ineffectiveness of hope, when all that's left of you is a song or two you'll never hear at all. And I guess that's just as well. I'd hate to justify myself. Those words came from a part of me that's dead and gone by now.
If I could ask for just one thing, would you still do this for me? If I could have one last request, would you just promise me this? Please smile when you remember me.
The photographs of you and me, are probably few and far between, so I know that it's a lot to ask to keep me in your memory. But as the days are passing by, and I am just another guy that you may have once felt something for, but now it's hard to say for sure...
If I could ask for just one thing, would you still do this for me? If I could have one last request, would you just promise me this? Please smile when you remember me.
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Vengeance and Hawaii
03:49
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When my hands are too sweaty for you to hold, and our lips meet, and I can taste the cold... When summer days are getting old, and we part ways, we're both alone.
When what we had is about to die, and "love forever" is one more lie. When broken wings are forced to fly, the pain comes back after tasting the sky.
Except for you, you've got your someone. Except for you, you can still fly. Except for you, 'cause you're not lonely. Except for you, 'cause you're not mine.
When happiness comes 'round again, and when we both can laugh again... when holding hands is safe again, I'll see your eyes and smile again.
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Four Wheels Faster
04:48
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If I heard that you were leaving town, do you know what I would do? I'd tie myself to your bumper and wait right there for you to pull out of your driveway, pull me down the road with you. And I'll run as hard as I can, 'til my legs give up and you...
Drag me by my heels, take me away from all of this. Let me slide beneath your wheels and leave some color on the streets.
Think I'll bite off my tongue, so that I don't have to say these words. Maybe I'd scream for you to stop, but with the windows up you won't hear my gurgled yells, just me spitting blood on your paint. You said it's better for us both, but if that's true, why aren't you spitting in red too?
(Is this how you thought that this would end? Is this what you wanted?) I'll let the blacktop bleed me dry, so I can face this open-eyed. Seems to be the only way that I will see the reason you're leaving is me.
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Silence
04:02
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The silence on the phone is painful. The echoes of your words ring loud. This lack of conversation drowns me, deafened by the empty sound.
When did things become so awkward? This pain is eating me inside. Don't you know how much I miss you? It feels like part of me has died.
In silence lies this cold divide. Inertia holds us paralyzed.
This empty feeling grows inside me. Consumed by nervousness and fear. What if this is the last confession of mine that you will ever hear?
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Is there something else to losing you, something more that I'm missing? You probably told me what it would be, but I plugged my ears so I'd not have to listen. Now I can't sleep at all.
And this bed where I lie has become a coffin. I'm buried alive under sheets and abandon. You wanted a life full of love and compassion, but all that I offered was hurt and rejection. I couldn't give you all that you deserve.
The floor's the perfect place to sleep when you've given up on all your dreams. So many promises you didn't keep. Promise you'll keep away from me.
I wish that I could describe how happy you make me. But you don't, so I can't, and it's killing me. You're killing me. But I cared far more than I'd care to admit, for that night I forgot but I said I was sick, and the chances I lost 'cause I'm so ignorant of a girl that I thought that I never would miss. You were gone when I got the nerve to call.
The floor's the perfect place to sleep when you've given up on all your dreams. So many promises you didn't keep. Promise you'll keep away from me. The floor's the perfect place to sleep when life seems overpowering. This empty house gets so lonely. I wish that you'd come back to me.
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Q Without A You
05:53
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It's hard enough to be the one you turn to, not to mention being the one who sees you with him. And I don't know what's worse, your lack of tact and charm, or falling for a person with neither. The best intentions get me nowhere. If all that we can be is the best of friends, then I'm sorry for the hassle and making you uncomfortable to say the least.
(Don't say you didn't know.) Don't tell me that tomorrow I won't regret this. You knew what you were doing. You knew what it meant to me.
From the phone to your lips is a distance too great for me to cross. I know, I know, that's saying a lot. Don't call me a skeptic, I just know the odds. The way things were going, we're both better off. If I was mistaken, I take it back. You always assume the worst. I told you so says it best. I don't know why I bother. You know you never listen.
With these lies that we tell to ourselves and each other. It's something that everyone feels, so why bother? We sit with our arms crossed, side by side. Is this how you want to spend every night? And the sleep that I've lost has shown up on my face. I know you wouldn't have me any other way. I am how you choose to waste your days, becoming something you hate.
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Please... please... this distance is killing me. A sickness in my lungs. I need you like the air I breathe, and my body cries for oxygen. Do you know what this is doing to me?
And if you did, would you still care?
Please... please... if you ever loved me, don't let it end like this. Not like this. Of all the things I thought we'd be -- of all the futures I'd foreseen -- this disconnected silence is the furthest thing from anything I'd dreamed.
But nothing changes. The phone still silent. Nothing but those haunting words (no messages, no messages) like a poison to my ears. A death that whispers, "she doesn't love you, never loved you. Did you really think she ever cared? Did you?"
The antidote is out of reach. The antidote is just out of reach. It's grasped within your fingers and I'll choke on my last breath with one thought in my mind: that you could have saved me, and you let me die.
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Bottle Rocket
03:11
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The sun has set the city on fire. From where I'm standing, I can feel the flames licking at my face. I can feel them.
Would you follow me? Fall with me? We could fly. Would you follow me? Fall for me. We could fly, all you've gotta do is burn.
The sky stretches out over me, and as the stars start coming out I realize that maybe the brightest stars aren't anything but satellites or planes flying over me. But I still feel the flames. I can feel them.
Best friends means friends forever. Can't save me so just let me go.
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Another second passes by, and still I'm thinking of you. Will you ever be mine? Those days seem so distant when stars shined their light like hope above us, and the future seemed endless, alive and filled with promise.
Now the mirror sees my ruined face, and I wonder if we'll ever be the same. And you seem so distant, and I know that's my fault. But every time I see you now, I see the dreams of what might have been. And every time your eyes meet mine, they whisper promises unseen.
Black my thoughts with the night for dawn is far away. Just close your eyes.
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Caligula
05:35
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This is the feeling of glass beneath your fingernails. I'm sorry that you missed my phone call (to whom it may concern...) and the letter I sent you arrived way too late. And if I could have brought you with me, you know I wouldn't hesitate to take the chance. (I'm sorry.) But you had things you had to deal with. (I'm not blaming you...) How was prom night and your high school graduation? I wish I could have been there when you needed. I didn't want to be so far away.
So this is letting go.
(I'm sorry.) I didn't mean to leave you behind. I didn't mean to hurt you... but I did.
I take back all the words that I said about the way that you were acting. (It took a lifetime but...) I think I finally understand. (I think it's for the best.) I think that if I could have been there for you, you maybe wouldn't be so mad. (Forget me.) It wouldn't be so bad if I had just held on. But I couldn't, so this is letting go.
(I'm sorry.) I didn't mean to leave you behind. I didn't mean to hurt you. (Just fix this, or forget me. Can't fix this, so forget me.) I'm sorry.
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Nodding Dog is a DIY record label in Phoenix, Arizona. Formed by a group of friends who all play on each other's songs, they have released over 20 albums and shipped orders at home and abroad. All Nodding Dog releases are available for free. With acts ranging from punk to metal, indie to electronic, there is no defining style to their roster -- only a love of all things music. ... more
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