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andromeda
02:52
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Always did good in school
Like her parents asked her to
Always the best in class
Never dreamed she wouldn't pass
Spent all her free time working
For a future she couldn't see
Molding herself into
The woman she ought to be
Andromeda, where will you go from here
Did you ever dream for yourself
Got a degree and a job
And all her bills were paid on time
But she spent her nights awake and
Thinking of an alternate timeline
Andromeda, there's nowhere left for you to run to
Did you at least have a little fun
Andromeda, you tried so hard
Was it worth it in the end
Was it worth it in the end
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automaton
05:02
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Creeping around like I don't know something's wrong
You play like you're fine so I'll play along
I feel so useless, don't know what to do
So I guess I'll keep tiptoeing all around you
Tell me I wouldn't understand and you're right
The same things don't keep us up at night
Tossing and turning, you tell me that you're good
So I don't dig into it like I know I should
Wish the strings on my hands would move faster
Wish the cog in my back would spin
Wish the gears in my head would move faster, oh
Wish I had more to offer than sin
But sin's all I have to offer you, honey
And lights out love and some food and money
I can't promise I'll hear you but I promise that I'll try
Until then I'll keep on tiptoeing by
You tell me I wouldn't understand and you're right
We've got our own paths to finding secondhand light
But I don't mind stepping into the dark for you
Just as long as you tell me what it is I'm supposed to do
Wish the strings on my hands would move faster
Wish the cog in my back would spin
Wish the gears in my head would move faster, oh
Wish I had more to offer than sin
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gin + tonic
02:26
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She gestures out from the hall
I don't know her at all
She's manic
She tells me I'm just her type
I don't know how to fight
This panic
Her eyes are red from the gin
And the state that she's in
And she's clinging to me, where is the door
She's begging for me to stay
I don't know what to say
She's bleeding out
Her hand keeps on straying to mine
She tells me that she'll be fine
And she's following me, following me
I tell her I'm not that way
But she keeps on trying to play
She's closing in
She says she just wants a friend
But I know how this will end
And I'm running to the door, running to the door
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holy ground
04:47
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We can keep the lights down low
Can't let the sun in, can't let it know
You and me, we're on borrowed time
The clock ran out a while ago
Cast down the spiderwebs in the hall
Lie and watch the dust motes fall
What's wrong with living with ghosts?
Shut your eyes, ignore the call
But you don't want me here anymore
Inching closer and closer to the door
While I look to the moon for answers
It feels like you've been here before
So keep the lights down low
I'll pretend like I don't know
That we're running out of borrowed time
That it's past time to go
I don't mind living in the dirt
I'll even pretend your cold doesn't hurt
Won't you ask me to stay the night?
I'm loving you on borrowed time
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5. |
changeling
03:05
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God, give me back my lover cause
This boy is a stranger to me
He lies like a dead man with heavy bones
And I know that he don't sleep
Did you see the siren take my man
She dragged him out to sea
And my lover don't know how to swim
She's pulling him too deep
God won't you dredge my lover boy
Not this creature from the sea
It sings in tongues through parchment lips
While my man lies in state in her keep
Can't you teach me ancient siren songs
So I can lure him back where he belongs
Cause this creature's got a one-track mind
With no place for me
I miss my singing lover boy
Please make this stranger go
He don't love me like he used to do
I'm not used to being alone
I'm waiting on my widow's walk
And this stranger doesn't know
If god gave me back my lover boy
I'd never let him go
So teach me pretty siren songs
And I can lead him back where he belongs
I'll teach him to swim so he can find
His way home to me
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kelpie queen
04:18
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Every day like clockwork the king
Leaves an offering for his kelpie queen
Flowers and kisses plated in gold
Her smile never gets old
She takes his hand and she's warm
But in her eyes is an ocean storm
He's scared of the day that his gifts won't be enough
So he gives more and more
If she could only speak she'd say
Thank you for the gifts, but take them away
I have nothing to offer in return
I'm paper-thin and I'm about to burn
He gives her a veil to smother the flame
She accepts the smoke, she takes the blame
She's scared he'll break like porcelain
So every day like clockwork
The kelpie queen welcomes the porcelain king
In an embrace, still smoldering
They're smoldering, they're smoldering
They're smoldering out
Leave an offering for the kelpie queen
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frostbite
04:41
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So wrap me up in ice if I'm already cold
Let me be if I'm already numb
So leave your offerings at the door for the snow queen
She don't want you here anymore
I'm sorry I let you down
But I only changed for the better
I just wish you knew me better than this
Black, twisted and bitter in the arctic breeze
You should have let go when your fingers first turned blue
And you think I never loved you
But I loved you, I loved you
Do you know how hard it was for me to love you, he says
Bitter hate red like love in his eyes
Red like grenadine and just as sweet
You used to be so sweet to me
Sorry I let you down
But I only changed for the better
This is the best it's gonna get
And I just wish you knew me better than this
Sorry I let you down
Sorry I let you down
So wrap me up in ice if I'm already cold
Leave me out in the snow cause I can't feel a thing
I can't feel a thing anymore
I can't feel a thing anymore
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8. |
murder by degrees
04:24
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Committing murder by degrees
I learned that crimes come to us all in threes
When I killed his love and I killed his wife
And I was the poison that ended his future life
But the crime fit the punishment
Yeah, my crime fit his punishment
So I'll ask that the jury pities me
And maybe they're right
It's all coming to light
That a psychopath is better off alone
That a killer's hearth is no place to make a home
I admit my crime, and I'll do my time
So please spare me a murder by degrees
No need to question the witness
I'll never deny that I did this to you
Cause you asked me to
So after everything, this is how it ends
Not with a bang or a whimper
Just murder on my hands
Yeah, I've got murder on my hands
But the crime fit the punishment
Yeah, my crime fit his punishment
So I'll ask that the jury pities me
Yeah, I'll ask that the jury pities me
I've got murder on my hands
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o'hara
04:27
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My bridges are on fire, my bridges are burned
And I cried for the match but my tears all turned to silver
No more porcelain by the sea
The tide came in and set me free
I'm finally free
Cause I don't owe you a goddamn thing
And I think my finger feels lighter without a ring
And we had some fun but I'm barely 23
And I wish you were old enough to see
How dare you watch me struggle
And then tell me I got it for free
How dare you get so angry
When I just wanted to be me
I don't owe you a future
Cause I gave you some of my time
And I wouldn't call it sharing
When the burden's all mine
So call me selfish, I don't mind
I have to live with myself till the day I die
So wrap me up in a cloak of emerald
I'm the queen, and you can call me O'Hara
You can call me O'Hara
How dare you watch me struggle
And then tell me I'm a thief
How could you sell me crocodile tears and then
Bare your wicked teeth
But a boy will never do what he has to
Unless someone tells him to
And frankly I'd rather be alone
Than be lonely with you
So wrap me up in a cloak of emerald
Crown the queen
And you can call me O'Hara
You can call me O'Hara
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10. |
andromeda (reprise)
02:52
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Always did good in school
Like her parents asked her to
Always the best in class
Never dreamed she wouldn't pass
Spent all her free time working
For a future she couldn't see
Molding herself into
The woman she ought to be
Andromeda, where will you go from here
Did you ever dream for yourself
Got a degree and a job
And all her bills were paid on time
But she spent her nights awake and
Thinking of an alternate timeline
Andromeda, there's nowhere left for you to run to
Did you at least have a little fun
Andromeda, you tried so hard
Was it worth it in the end
Was it worth it in the end
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asphalt astronaut Tucson, Arizona
24 year old ambient pop musician in tucson, arizona.
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