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little love (i, ii, iii)
06:02
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hot off the presses
the late morning news
you reach for the stack, fold broadsheet in two
i must confesses that
i’ve seen you before and thought about
how sharp things on raised edges follow me now
and ill read
every letter you send
and i’ll make
matcha lattes to pay rent
i’ll wait
for the day when you call and i say
‘you just haven’t seen my good side yet
it’s just a thought but it comes up every now and again
were you even real, was it all in my head
it’s not enough but i’m standing on the wharf just
hanging
i can’t believe how you gradually took over me
i only live for you, now i’ve pulled up the seams
i can’t escape but i never really wanted to be
emaciated
and i guess that you know. mee now
and i asked you to hold me down
i found a spot in the barnes and noble parking lot
the car was low on gas, i was coming apart
you took my arm and walked me out of the oncoming
boulevard
it’s such a shame how it gets so hard to stay together
if i could take it all back i would start all over
it never lasts but i’ll hold it close until i can’t
remember
and i guess that you know me now
and i asked you to hold me down
and i guess that you know me well
and i asked you to hold me down
little love, little love
get the credits rolling
why are you so far away?
little love, little love
with the roof open
Why are you so far
little love, little love
underneath the stars
why are you so far away
little love, little love
with the sliced arms
why are you so far
why are you so far away
why are you so FAR from saving me?
why are you so far away
why are you so FAR from saving me?
its just for now
it's just a place in time
why are you so far from saving me
i got it down, think it’s alright
why are you so far
why are you so far away
why are you so FAR from saving me?
why are you so far away
why are you so FAR from saving me?
its just for now
it's just a place in time
why are you so far from saving me
i got it down, think its alright
why are you so far
you just haven’t seen my good side yet
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2. |
Bell Station
03:55
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3. |
Aptos
05:43
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I’ve been away from the ocean for too long
longing for waves and the sweet smell of salt
I’d go back for a day, but no one there knows me
Now
I ran from the coast at the first chance I got
I was plagued with regret and the memories of Aptos
after I left I found myself looking
Back
cuz sometimes you’re faced with a foregone conclusion
A life in a cage you don’t know what to do with
Hand over the keys, there’s no time for slowing
down
my body’s a muscle I’m trying to fit in
I hate my broad shoulders, my hair and my chin
i want to be well or maybe just see
Myself
but i know that it’s not a
wish upon the out of state, driving through the palisades
and i wore that
Blue tie like a noose holding everything fragily
and keeping me in place
Im Tired of assholes that fuck it all up
I was raised on The Antlers and crappy punk rock
I thought it was good, but maybe it wasnt so
Great
so fuck you and half assed attempts at a family
They’re tired and bored I never needed one anyway
I’ve been here before; I know how this movie
ends
and i hope that it’s not a
wish upon the out of state, driving through the palisades
and i wore that
Blue tie like a noose holding everything fragily and keeping in me place
Time waits for the empty
Oh to save our souls
I’m not growing old
Dont you look at me that way
Im alive with a reason calling me to
And dont you ever lose my name
Its all mine so i keep it calling me the same
my body’s a muscle im trying to fit in
i hate my own skin and this human condition
and i want to be well and maybe just see
Myself
and i hope that it’s not a
wish upon the out of state, driving through the palisades
and i wore that
Blue tie like a noose holding everything fragily and keeping in me place
Time waits for the empty
Oh to save our souls
I’m not growing old
and ive been busy writing
all the same old songs
Tell them I’ve seen it all
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4. |
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I was 19
In a red dress
I didn’t ask you to tear it all down
But you provided
You were angry
I kinda liked that
You said you led all my stories about
Powerful women
Paint me in yellow and grey, outline the shapes cuz you decided
That you liked it better when we only talked about movies
From the 90s
Tell me that’s it’s such a shame that I
Could not continue hide it
Cuz you never got to know anythnig more than the parts i
reviled
when the phone rings
ill pick up
and ill let you destroy me
all over x
cuz ive been broken
yeah ive been scarred
but im still hoping something better ~ pause~
comes along
Now I’m 20
In Joanne’s class
She said you wrote all about me and you
For your final
Well that don’t phase me
I’m not bothered. cuz id do the same but id pull off the colors and shapes
even better
lay them all out on the page, bare as the day that i confided
that i love you more than the world can contain inside
its weary eyelids
but what kind of life is a sailing ship fixed on the shoreline?
and what kind of love is mooring rope left there untied?
what kind of person writes mountains of prose for the woman that left her behind?
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5. |
if this is Monterey...
02:53
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So we made it through the day
Another one to drift away
Into the fog
And love if this is Monterey
The town in which the bay desists
From its swing
Then we can walk it off our separate ways
Just tell which road you’ll take
So we don’t meet
On some rainy street tucked in the shade
You always loved Washington
If only for yourself
But
Don’t call it a shame, don’t call it a fright
I just wanna watch the wave
Pass us by
I — I’m not an optimist at heart
I just want a perfect love
For us all
I know that may not come along
But somewhere in pacific grove
I found it once
So
Don’t call it a shame, don’t call it a fright
I just wanna watch the tides
Roll us by
Don’t make it ok, don’t make it alright
I just wanna kiss your restless body up and down the moonlit watercourse tonight
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6. |
2301 S. High Street
03:30
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its been three weeks since i last saw you
leaving high street behind and by extention leaving me
you made it look so easy
you said we’d stay together while youre gone
but that was only before she came along
i hope your happy, but you said i was all you wanted once
and is she pretty more conventionally than me and does she sing
all your favorite songs and write you some and send them every week
and is it better being with her than it ever was with me
maybe i just tried too hard but you said she would never come between
oh tell me, why’d you leave it all behind
giving me nothing but you keep me hanging on
you call and say to me that everything’s alright
but how can i beleive you when you’re hanging out with her
i wanna leave you but you don’t wanna be friends
i wanna tell you that everythings gonna end
i wanna scream but keep it in my chest
cause im not the kind of person to make a scene at your expense
i tell you all the time dear
ive been waiting
for you
im trying
so hard
to be someone that you'd come back to
all my friends have packed and theyre pissed at me
cause ive been an ass and i wanna say im sorry
but that doesnt mean much anymore
and theyll replace me with someone better
who has less crappy days and doesnt leave group messages
on Thursdays cuz i feel so much better when im hated
and is she pretty more conventionally than me and does she sing
all your favorite songs and write you some and send them every week
and is it better playing with her than it ever was with me
maybe i just tried too hard but you said that would never come between
i tell you all the time that
ive been trying
for you
im losing
my grip
On being someone that you'd come back to
oh tell me why’d you leave it all behind
you give me nothing but you keep me hanging on
you call and say to me that everythings alright
but how can i believe you when youre hanging out with her
i wanna leave you but you dont wanna be friends
i wanna tell you that everything’s gonna end
i wanna scream but i keep it in my chest
cause im not the kind of person to make a scene at your expense
im tired of being told that its all in my head
i said she made me insecure, you didnt care
im at the point of throwing hands up in the air
cause i cant tell whats real or if im being gaslighted
i wanna leave you but you dont wanna be friends
i wanna tell you that everything’s gonna end
i wanna scream but i keep it in my chest
cause i’ve never been the type to fuck you over like that
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Who is to say what I’ve been doing
Who is to tell me what’s to come
They’re all the same and I’ve been through it-
They won’t remember when I’m gone
And I'll watch it burn
Another kormran sill; another train by the hour — I’ll watch it from above
Another “who are you?”; another “where’d I run off to?” — I don’t know well which is worse
Who is to say what I’ve been doing
Who is to say ‘well what’s to come?’
Don’t make the same mistakes that i did
Don’t fall in love with everyone
And I’ll watch it burn
I’m far away back from the out of state
Straight from a razorblade
Cut what you want from me
I’m far away back from the out of state
Straight from a razorblade
Cut what you want from me
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8. |
Die & Run
03:57
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Even with your eyes closed shut
You still see me
You still see everything
Just before the dawn rolls up
I’ll wait for you
You said you’d do the same
You could never tell a lie
You’re not so vain
It isn’t in your nature
But you caught me by surprise
I know your name
You had me from that moment –
Showing all your teeth
There is no fade
You look so glad to be here
Just above the sea
I hide and wait
Hoping that you will be alone
Don’t leave without me darlin
Imagine how you’d look without someone else’s face
Don’t leave without me
You can’t
Take a few of your own pills darlin and say
It was never enough it was never enough
It isn’t my fault that you couldn’t be saved
Play a few of your old tunes darlin and sing they were never enough they were never enough
I’ll leave you comfortable where you lay
Every time I think of you
It’s all so grey
It’s not what I expected
So I had to take away
I fought so hard
Through all of your rejection
It wouldn’t have been so bad
I was so harmless
back when I first met you
But you never took a chance
You stayed away
And now you’ll always be alone
Don’t leave without me darlin
Imagine how you’d look without someone else’s face
Don’t leave without me
You can’t
OH, it’s nothing
That you’d ever carry with you
Even with your eyes closed shut
You still see me
You still everything
Just before the dawn rolls up
You show your teeth
I hope that you will be alone
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All the leaves will change in seasons unannounced
The yellow fall arrives
The autumn cold comes over
Freezing everything in permafrost
I try to fight it off
It doesn’t work,
it hurts to become
And at the heart of it, I’m still crying on my bed
Cause’ you're the only one who can kiss away my shit
So I finally give in, we sleep in your parent’s basement
One day I’ll burn and salt the earth
All along the palisades, there once were hills of greenery
I drove through them to get you off my mind
Now the mountain pass has burned out
It won’t be coming back
And here I ask
'Do you have a lot of what you’ve got?
Do you need more of it to survive?
Does it come up, more than enough,
But not so much to serve as a reminder?’
And at the heart of it, I’m still crying on my bed
Cause’ you're the only one who can kiss away my shit
So I finally give in, we sleep in your parent’s basement
One day I’ll burn and salt the earth
Behind you
I’m just a guide to
Be compared with, measure up
And then discarded when you’re done
And at the heart of it, I’m still crying on my bed
Cause’ you're the only one who can kiss away my shit
So I finally give in, we sleep in your parent’s basement
One day I’ll watch it burn, but for now I’m insecure
So I call you one more time, we meet under city lights
You tell me I look beautiful and I
Don’t know where to run, everything’s undone
so, when the time comes
I will salt the earth
behind you
All the leaves will change in seasons unannounced
The yellow fall arrives
The autumn cold comes over us
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10. |
Seacliff
05:10
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if you dont love me, then say you dont
id rather know than stay in the cold
cuz walking out in the morning fog
i felt a distance unmistakable
you werent there anymore i cant stay on your string
i dont care anymore, just give me some relief
this is not the sound of clarity
im just another sailor lost at sea
the ocean’s open but its not empty
ive got provisions and two friends with me
but for a moment in the doorway up the street
i wanted more than my guitar and saw it sweet
but with nothing in the air to make it keep
im not the ghost here, im flesh and blood, cut me down for real
gone like the rolling wind above the hills, the worst is still coming
down from the valley below, you cant outrun the softest sound
it only echoes
i don’t wanna be some lonley hopeless bridget jones lover, richard Curtis
i just want to meet you up on notting hill
Underneath the waves, crashing overhead
Pulled into the spit and washed out soon
Coming up for air, I’ll find you there
Ducking in the shade, unsteady terrain
Barefoot on the key and going down
Start of in Lagrange, the sweetest state
gone like the rolling wind above the hills, the worst is still coming
down from the valley below, you cant outrun the softest sound
it only follows you around and lives in your head, like a fever too hot you can’t out-sweat
and i promise you now and again my voice will echo over hedgerows
into the sea
gone like the rolling wind above the hills, the worst is still coming
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Entropy; old friend I wondered when
Next we’d meet
You and me; two obstinate lovers with
Fists and teeth
And what if I stood on the bow
Looked off all the waves
Invited the depths
Would you swim up on the swell
tender and brave
delivered from death
Marjorie; cut from her mother and
Sent upstream
in the creek, a one-legged buzzard
came down —— and offered relief
and was she a terrible child
angry and wild
deserving revile
or maybe just borne of the stream
earning her keep
alone in the reeds
the buzard came down to the creek, calls marjorie as she speaks through the limbs of the trees
he pulls her up into his wing, leg in the breeze as the storm carries over the sea
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12. |
a fragile thing
07:57
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call me to say that you need me when im not around
i wake up, smoke my weed, take my coffee and walk into town
where the streets are all grey but the audience paints them dark blue
and long after the break i stand out in the crowd there for you
We know there’s only one way for this story to end
we go off our own ways, make a pact to return here as friends
You can fill up the page but it’s futile to write out the truth
(that) everything i would give couldnt possibly satisfy you
all i want’s been all turned out
severed from my own self-doubt
if you want me im waiting come back to the south
what a fragile thing we have found
call me to say that you need me when im not around
i wont count up the days or wait off on a ledge o'er the ground
staring out at the waves as they bend and they break into two
as i ask what of love, such a delicate thing that we do
all i want’s been all turned out
severed from my own self-doubt
if you want me im waiting come back to the south
all i want’s been all turned out
severed from my own self-doubt
if you want me im waiting come back to the south
what a fragile thing we have found
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Founded in Denver by college roommates Emma Troughton (vocals), Tess Condron (drums), and Rylee Dunn (guitar), Blankslate got their start playing coffee shops and open mics around the University of Denver. Their debut EP {thursday} is out now.
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