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Safesound
00:26
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Wistern
03:04
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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
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Collecting
02:09
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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
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Sway
01:57
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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
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Dry Eyes
01:40
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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
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6. |
Growing Pains
01:54
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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
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7. |
Undertow
02:39
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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
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8. |
Try Hard
01:07
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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
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828
02:35
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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
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Cavity
02:35
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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
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Withered
03:08
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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
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12. |
I've Been Places
02:37
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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
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Guilty Gone
04:12
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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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