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Bad Habit
03:52
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It's cold in the back of the pickup truck
And I told myself I don't give a fuck
About anything you said
And yet it's all that I've got in my head
You've got the kind of values
Where I blink and I miss it
I guess I take the view
If you're complacent you're complicit
And I'm disappointed that you only ever got this far
You're just a bad habit baby that I can't break
I'll roll you up and smoke you all the way down
Till the heat from you burns my lips
Corners of my mouth and my fingertips
I want to say I love you but I need to hear it first
I'm hoping that you give a shit but I'm fearing the worst
Tell me how does it end, tell me how does it end
Do you think it's going well?
You're all grown up you've had time to reflect and
We've all shown up and learnt what to expect
And you don't even believe us when we tell you what happened to us
I think you think I love you
And you don't know that I'm scared and
I wish that I could trust you
But I don't know if you're there for me
How could you be when you won't even see how it is?
Cause you're a bad habit baby that I can't break
I'll roll you up and smoke you all the way down
Till the heat from you burns my lips
Corners of my mouth and my fingertips
I need to say I want you but I'd love to hear it first
I'm hoping that you give a shit but I'm fearing the worst
Tell me how does it end, tell me how does it end
Do you see this going well?
I love you and I hate you and I wish I'd never met you
You're too smart to be this stupid I don't even want to get you
I'm annoyed that if I did there'd be a void where your awareness should be
It's cold in the back of the pick up truck
I'm lonely and I'm angry cause I do give a fuck
About everything you said
In fact it's all that I've got in my head
Cause you're a bad habit baby that I can't break
I'll roll you up and smoke you all the way down
Till the heat from you burns my lips
Corners of my mouth and my fingertips
I need to say I love you but I want to hear it first
I'm hoping that you give a shit but I'm fearing the worst
Tell me how does it end, tell me how does it end
I don't see this going well
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2. |
Drink Until I Think
03:32
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I let you buy me a drink because the gig didn't pay much
I don't get to say much
Well, I'm tired anyway
I just nod
And smile
Say: oh yeah?
Once in a while
You say some shit and I just take the hit
And you say
I should stay
Well I could drink until I think you're all that
There's enough whisky in the bar
I could wake up in the morning with my head barely sore
And my heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
You could take a little break from being charming and ask me
Well, you know what you could ask me?
You could ask me anything
I could say
Something true
I could think
That I liked you
I could mean every word we could both feel heard
And I'd stay
I'd stay
I would drink until I think you're all that
There's enough whisky in the bar
I would wake up in the morning with my head barely sore
And my heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
I could tell you that the bass makes my pulse get faster
And the banjo breaks my heart, but
I love it anyway
It's too loud
You wouldn't hear
You'd just grin and
Down your beer
And I'd think about when you said, eight out of ten
And I stayed
I stayed
I've been waiting for something to come
I've been waiting for something to come
And it never does
But I can drink until I think you're all that
There's just enough whisky in the bar
I can wake up in the morning with my head barely sore
And my heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
My heart totally intact
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3. |
Explosions
04:32
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I called you twice
Second time it was a pocket dial
If I ever get through
I'll tell you that the first time was too
It's not like I've been lying awake in the night
It's not like I've been sleeping on my feet in the day
It's not like I've been laughing till I cried on the passenger side
it's not like my lungs ache
It's an explosion
In slow motion
Everyone's watching
And nobody's got me
You said you'd got me
But you did not
We both misjudged
I said too much
You described it as an avalanche
That's never a good thing babe
No one wants to die that way
It's not like I've been biting my tongue ever since
It's not like you've been filling the silence yourself
It's not like you've been laughing till you cried on the driver's side
It's not like I'm in love
It's an explosion In slow motion
Everyone's watching
And nobody's got me
You said you'd got me
But you did not
We both misjudged
Then you call me
And you're like, "blah blah pocket dial", uh huh
You've got a lot to say
For somebody who really wasn't calling anyway
I bet you've been sleeping alright in the night
I bet your privilege is bliss in the day
I bet, I bet, I bet you think this song's not about you, don't you, don't you?
It's an explosion
In slow motion
Everyone's watching
And nobody's got me
You said you'd got me
But you did not
We both misjudged
It's an explosion
In slow motion
Everyone's watching
And nobody's got me
You said you'd got me
But you did not
We both misjudged
It's an explosion
In slow motion
Everyone's watching
And nobody's got me
You said you'd got me
But you did not
We both misjudged
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If only I had known you
In the time of coral reefs
Before we lost the permafrost
When there were bears up there
Were bears up there
We could have met
Fallen in love
Could have got married and had kids
If we wanted
It could have been simple for us too
Simple for us
Do you think we would have travelled
Could we have managed a mortgage
Sent our kids to local schools
And campaigned to change the rules?
So that we wouldn't pull the ladder up behind us
Like our parents did to us
Could we have been better
Done better?
If we'd loved before the sea swallowed the coasts
Before the wildfires spread
Our heads only full of love
I would have loved you
We would have made our vows
While the island nations drowned
We'd let them go cos we were richer they were poorer
We were better they were worse off
So we watched them sink without a word
Ignored the screams
Ignored the gulf stream slowing down
Ignored the drip of melting ice
The drip drip drip of melting ice
Remember when we still had time
If not to reverse things
Well at least not to cause worse things
And we decided not to
It was easier not to?
Remember when we thought
That it was windmills on hills that spoiled the landscape?
Remember the landscape?
Remember the land?
If only I had known you
In the time of coral reefs
Before we lost the permafrost
When there were bears up there
Were bears up there
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5. |
Old Friend
03:49
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Old friend, speak to me again
In poetry like when
I was a tadpole and you were a fish
I wish we had more time
Side by side
In the slime
The intricate sparkling slime that comprises
The detail of our lives
I meant to let you know
That I never meant to let you go
Tell me the one about faith
The ones about love
I didn't listen hard enough
Your voice is slipping away
I just know it sounded like rivers and wood smoke and meadows and tea to me
I meant to keep a tight grip on that sound
But the fingers of my mind are letting me down
Old friend I'm forgetting, I'm forgetting, and I don't want to, it hurts to
I dreamt that I lost you
Woke with a start, broke my own heart when I found it was true
Old friend, I'll raise a glass again
To a time when
I was myself and you were mine too
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