SEE YOU
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I'll save this letter for myself
I wish you only knew how good it is to see you
these steps I take don't get me anywhere
I'm getting further from myself
one this is always true
how good it is to see you
I'm done resenting you
you represented me so well
and this I promise you
how could I end up in the hands of someone else
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ENOUGH SPACE
I was waiting for something
maybe flying machines
that's when I found Lily
the best I'd ever seen
put her on the ceiling
try to maker he my own
people line up to see
but there never seems to be enough space
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FEBRUARY STARS
I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
I'm right where I belong
just hanging on
even though I watched you come and go
how was I to know
you'd steal the show?
one day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call
and bet it all
I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
right where I belong
just hanging on
even though I pass this time alone
somewhere so unknown
it heals the soul
you ask for walls
I'll build them higher
we'll lie in the shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much to tall
and I fall
february stars
floating in the dark
temporary scars
february stars
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EVERLONG
hello
I've waited here for you
everlong
tonight I throw myself into
and out of the red
out of her head she sang
come down
and waste away with me
down with me
slow how
you wanted it to be
I'm over my head
out of her head she sang
and I wonder
when I sing along with you
if everything could ever feel this real forever
if anything could ever be this good again
the only thing I'll ever ask of you
you've got to promise not to stop when I say when
breathe out so I can breathe you in
hold you in
and now I know you've always been
out of your head
out of my head I sang
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WALKING AFTER YOU
tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds
dreaming aloud
things just won't do without you
matter of fact
I'm on your back
if you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
if you'd accept surrender
I'll give up some more
weren't you adored
I cannot be without you
matter of fact
I'm on your back
if you walk out on me
I'm walking after you
another heart cracked
in two
I'm on your back
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NEW WAY HOME
have you found your way around the down and out?
I know it must seem long so long
I'm still trying to keep this time from running out
head down
always moving on and on and on
I never heard this warning
another early morning
takes me
wakes me into
if you could manage me
I'll try to manage you
but lately it's all I ever do
I felt like this on my way home
I'm not scared
I pass the boats in the kingdome
I'm not scared
I'll never tell you the secret I'm holding
I know these things must bore you
but I can't find another way
I'll never tell you the secrets I'm holding
I love this leash that holds me
when I try to run away
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DEAR LOVER
Dear lover
Do you remember?
The sound of your laughter and demise
And that was all
I need to fall in love
This matter
It's something bigger
Anything ever graced my heart
And that was all
I could fall in love...with you
And I can't stall this now
Did you find some hapiness with me?
Now I know the way true love should be
Dear lover
Do you remember?
The beats of my heart that I gave you
And that was all
I need to fall in love
It shattered
Slipped through my fingers
Floated down safely into your hands
And that was all
I could fall in love...with you
I can't stall this now
Ooh ooh ooh
Did you find some hapiness with me?
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea yea