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Time Spent

by Household

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1.
Safesound 00:26
2.
Wistern 03:04
I claim freedom from confinement And that freedom has offered me questions Have we thought that appearing whole is worth more than true wholeness? My hope is found in what's ahead So, I spend time looking at what You've said I'm taking time away from perfect Searching my life to find the surface Taking time - Searching my life There is no telling what's inside of me So, in seeking and asking I'm brought sincerity We're all demanding the world provide an answer Each story bares its own open wound Let's take time to look down at ours and start to learn In time we'll grow Done with arrogance and unfiltered youth Raising my nose up high as if I had a clue Somehow, I started asking questions It led me straight into confession Will You hear me calling? And when I can't hear the answer, will I let You take me as half of a whole? Finite and figuring out what all this means to me I ask openly in admittance of what I don't know, hoping that I will find strength in the unknown I've never thought of this time as a platform So, I will not just speak as if I have one Experience like a twisted path, Leads me to conclusions that others won't have I understand that I don't fully understand this All we see are the broken pieces Finding assurance in what's yet to come Here's my hand - Take it and run
3.
Collecting 02:09
I put all of my effort to the task that is at hand I get rid of distractions that are clouding up my head I pose the thought of only spending time that is with you I pick up where we left off to see this through I am the one who longs for your voice Just like the deaf long to hear noise Lover of my soul, Rejoice Help me be a lover back I want to be a lover back I'm trying to be, just be. Oh, to live in the moment so I can reap the memories Remember the times I hoped for back then? So faithful - So light Stop me from just sitting here silent hoping that time will pass by As if this gift is something I deserve to waste Brothers I know, others I now have wouldn't leave here How dare I run from this sweet sweet story? Look back to Canadian portraits and US basements Surely time will pass as will my dreams So I push on, never to neglect them
4.
Sway 01:57
Well thought out, I'd say I am Finding the problem in you again and again But hold on, Maybe it's me? ‘Cause I've invested all my thoughts in things I cannot release My mind, like a city to explore, stretches over yet it's all in my head Be free - now hold that up to me Seems so easy to say but let it hit me I hold you close, I hold you close enough to know your every mistake while still having the spunk to ask you to change Am I who I thought I'd be by now? So much of what I think constricts so much of who I wanted to be I wanted to be closer to getting past this than I am Further along than I am It's about time that I get this right Further along than I am Be free - now hold that up to me
5.
Dry Eyes 01:40
I get no respect behind my back I think it's due time to grow up Confess the courage that I lack in my choices, my weak will My tendency to tear through nothing I made my bed and I will die in it We all grow old if given the chance Pray with tired voices and folded hands Father Perceptions add up and maul on top of each other Like blankets upon weaving others have stitched together I am biased and bullied by barely anything Yet I let it, let it get the best of me My hands were once lifted high Now they lay low like my spirit They dangle at my side My hands were once lifted high And I will lift them again
6.
I can't go back to what it was In simpler times, this could be written off as foolishness But I believe in calling and I know what we're doing How I scream - how I sing This progression and the questions that it brings I never asked for this It can be good for us If I'm honest I don't know why I'm not healed Cry out for fixing - Stuck with mixed feelings What does that mean? First of all, my head is fully clued in Secondly, I know this is different Basically, instead of leaving, I'm changing Bereaving, yes maybe Believe me, these words still mean so much to me I may have I let you down I'm hoping to come across the same Or is that feeling gone with this sound? Every note is a blessing Never to be taken for granted You see, whatever the reason, this is a new season A new start
7.
Undertow 02:39
Dirty streets and the unpaved plans Take me back home to where it all began I want to fist fight with the good old days They ditched me for a worse tomorrow Sweep me up into the undertow A little more safety - a little more you I've been feeling not quite not myself Wake me up - wash me of I've got lessons to learn Trust me with this, you don't need to know everything you think you need to know I've held high the thought of growing old A pleasant hope to find my home Why do you run so far past my limits? Can't you see my open hand and the good things in it? How you see me eclipses what I've done Maybe I've misheard my name all along I can't stand straight, when I'm alone I've been beaten down with my mistakes Sweep me up into the undertow A little more safety - a little more you I've been feeling not quite not myself Wake me up - wash me of my selfishness I've got lessons to learn
8.
Try Hard 01:07
How can I expect to find comfort in this list of lies when all I ever do is hold myself right next to you? Let's be honest, I don't stand a chance You don't stand a chance I just don't stand a chance This clearly is enough Insecurities swell and my mind dwells in the missing inches between you and I So hard I have to try I found a friend - A faithful friend And He will stick it out - until the end Never to compare again
9.
828 02:35
It all started with you You are the best thing that we have Have I lost my mind? ‘Cause everything I thought I knew was not that cool Cool kids every night coming inside to sing by our side with you and me everybody It felt a lot like family Drive by the reindeer light fixture Tear up the grass - kick in the stairs Nothing could keep us out of there We had nothing We started from scratch If there was an objective, it was erased by embrace I can't explain this I found the beauty of Minnesota in that second year Set my roots just to be pulled out Oh if this is success, always leaving the ones that you love, Then why keep going? I found it I feel I'm home I didn't have to try I didn't have to fret over words or clever verses to move you You met us where we were at and we've been moved by you We were Just 75 kids in a room trying to find love How could we of known it was inside of each of us? This must be family in its truest form Someone who loves, who didn't know me before Every part of it, that basement and our youth, all we have to say is thank you
10.
Cavity 02:35
I let myself submerge in dreams of distance Months of pushing away Feeling separate enough to say, "It must be someone else to blame" The space in my heart spread wide with high hopes was the same cavity that taught me empty Ripped open left bare that first year, my chest exposed to the Minnesota air So, I was quick to seclude, letting isolation be my muse Instead of seeking you, I let my feelings choose There's a deficit that stirs within me Surely I need some sort of saving When all my efforts they fall behind me Nothing of mine will be relieving Side by side and stride by stride Pull me out of what my tired eyes can see Carry me high enough to know my brother's in agony I like to think that I think quite a bit, but that year I never thought of you Rightful concern quickly became Conceit Every man for himself - Stay alone to avoid defeat I made survival my only focus The raging and open sea Fixated on my constant struggle, I didn't see you drowning right next to me I could write a thousand songs about what I've done wrong But this one's for what's yet to be done right After all a "lost at sea metaphor" can teach, I still have a brother who needs me If there's ever been a time, it's now
11.
Withered 03:08
I can’t think straight without the bottle to my lips I can’t think straight when the bottle’s not there Child rest your head you said “Why, why must we behave?” Is it pain to watch the children grow and stray, if they become more like you every day? After all, it’s by you that they were raised Year after year they watched you as you caved It’s easier to justify than to change I turn my back on the very ones that I named
12.
I've been places I never should have been Thinking thoughts I never should have been thinking 'Haha' just laugh it off, 'cause that's just what I do best these days I don't need you if I don't need to change I don't want to believe I've stayed the same When I'm moving swiftly I can stay away After miles and miles with all the muck I've treaded When did I started losing your gaze? I had no idea sin could travel this way I'm a stranger in an old land A foreigner stuck in a familiar place These skies are nothing that I haven't seen Same grey but I tell myself they're worth revisiting Not a chance I can go the distance Pick up my feet and leave with all persistence Can I pay back this debt with sweat? I can go the distance Pick up my feet and leave with all persistence Let me pay back this debt with sweat Tell me that I'm good enough Tell me that I've done enough Is it enough just to be good? Do I have to Love Right now? Do I have to be so strong? This guilty head of mine needs freeing from All the here-say, talk and chatter about what I've done Father, I'm at a loss I've been places I never should have been Thinking thoughts I never should have been thinking If I spent enough time away I'd be okay But after all this talk of travel and what I have, it's you that I don't have But know it’s you that I should have
13.
Guilty Gone 04:12
I go outside The wind still hits my face tonight I go to bed, close my eyes The question of true love in mind These sleep filled nights, accompanied by you most times I wake, effected by the things once said and the things I feel And the music's not enough and you're still not here I always find time to question even though time's been tested And the place I wanted most was not the place that I chose Learning to let go of things once held And the Loneliness I feel I've given to myself And I haven't wanted to be anyone anywhere else But I'm finally learning to love not just you and not just myself I never wanted you to feel that I gave up on you But it seems to be something I chose How did I get here? And where are you? You're still the most beauty that I've seen And maybe it wasn't just for me It's been years now and I'm still learning to be okay I loved you, the only one I ever really wanted to I'll learn to be a man without you I'm done here, releasing words I've kept With all the time I've used, I sing what I have left There is an understanding, deeper and greater than we know It mends the broken hearted and picks up what man cannot Oh, it comes in a whisper for the simple to collect Telling the few who will listen, that our questions do not come back void Because I am nothing I am bottomless, losing twice of what I manage to gather Yet He will show me another way I ask questions found deep within this warm aching body I am made new, a fresh beginning And only through that Man's beautiful love can I begin to sing about such things.

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