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When I heard my parents cry I realized that we're all lost kids Trying to find our way home Blood is thicker than water And I still feel like everyone I love forgot how to swim At least there are pictures of my sister and me Hanging on the wall in my gar...

I can never keep my mouth shut But I can sure as hell keep my figures crossed My jaw's been hitting the sidewalk Like bridges in a storm Your feelings eating up my driveway It's a little too warm, a little too Let's do this all night All night I bet my last do...

Growing up is giving up I'll sleep sideways on the bed in my moms basement It's where I feel at home You'll sleep with regret and no heart left in your chest I don't want to end up like you Your eyes are set on what you'll never have There's days I feel like...

I don't really think That I'm ready For another Chicago winter So you can stop making my bones feel cold I swear That emptiness lives Inside your chest You're the reason you fell far away from what brought out your best Don't get me wrong I wish a l...

If my name falls past your tongue and teeth, Make sure it's in front of my eyes and not behind your cheap talk and eager lies. The things you do and the people you talk to don't impress me or my friends in any way Take the easy way out and fall over the cheap...

I've got more complaints More than pleasantries to say Every monument is idly arranged Every figure that has ever held importance in my life I find nobody is who I pictured them to be My hands are numb because it's getting colder quicker You need more w...

Losing balance as I weigh out my options It's an everyday morning routine Through every hazy memory At any second you can recount the climax Not as vivid as it used to be Through every hazy memory The walls were built so high, but couldn't keep their wo...

It's worth those nights where I'm scared to walk to my basement These four walls, feel like they're caving in There's pictures of you and me hidden behind my couch I'll be waiting for the sun to shine through my window well Am I trying to forget you or ju...

Spit in my face, tell me I didn't mean what I said I'll take those words with me when I'm dead Open your mouth and contradict everything you said last summer I don't even know you anymore, anymore You really fucked me up this time for good, even though yo...

If you wore your personality on your skin No one would take a second look You were shallow when we met and you still are The water won't be coming down any time soon to change that The loneliness keeps me warm at night And that's okay with me, I'd rather...

Hope you're having fun away at college Since you went there to run from all your fuck ups You're not so good at getting away from all of the karma That lies between your tongue and cheek It's gotten to the point that you're the spitting image of Everything I n...

You said I didn't cry out to the clouds for nothing You told me everything eventually works out That's what I'll keep telling myself I don't wanna be jealous of the trees next to my neighbor's garage anymore I'll just lie in the mess I made Don't let me fal...

Swallowing the feeling Counting cracks across the ceiling Never reached the depths of them before Finding flaws in every format I know but haven't shown that I could pick myself up of the floor I'll fill my glass to take the edge off The choice is mine...

I've been dodging the question for too long I see you sitting there What are you running away from? How long can you stand on a broken branch Before it falls Leaving won't fix your problems I hate to say I told you so Turns out I came undone You're no...

You only hear what you want You only hear what you want Knock me down I'm not sure I have it in me to get back up To be who I am seems exhausting anyway You have a lot in common with my conscience You both erase my confidence I can't leave you You ca...

I've spent the end of my summer Listening to these songs I know you don't like I've been wondering where you are and who you're with We used to lay on your kitchen floor at two a.m. I was forty miles away from my house but I never felt so at home I was forty m...

You're still indulgent enough To quench a thirst that drowns most right out Oh, there's a drought, you know You're losing all of your interest now I'm standing up on my feet and off my bruised knees Far away from your high hopes to please I'm getting up, I'm...

So much has changed back home Since you left without packing all your things I always drive past your house Hoping you'll be sitting on your porch And I still smell the smoke on your clothes And I can still hear those second-hand stories fall off your tongue...

I can't believe you've got the nerve to say you love me And you left me for dead, I don't love you anymore I hope you're happy because I don't know you anymore You were a part of me and now you're just nothing but a memory No matter how bad I want you in...

I walk on this frozen lake, Hoping to hit a spot that's weaker than I was, A year a half ago. I remember how Christmas used to be, Before she spat me out. And left me to roam this empty place. If I ran to the city sub lights, I'd still feel dull and wor...

When I get stopped by a train on my drive home I don't let it get to me like the rest of the world I smile and think about how much I've grown over this year It gives me time to open my mind and know that... I'm moving forward just like that train I'm mo...

You used to make me feel like I could walk on water Now most nights I'm just sinking down and down You're the reason why I can't listen to the same songs I used to I write songs about you all the time I bet I don't run through your mind I've given up on...

White knuckles and sleepy eyes That's how you and I grew up, that's how we grew apart You've got some big expectations Hiding in that small mid-western town that you call home It's been twenty something years and I've never been home I don't even know who th...

You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor With no recollection of the night before You're a trainwreck and everything that's in between Being alone doesn't seem so bad to me You're the type of girl that let's this whole town know When your...

I've been up spending every late night in my car Listening to all these sad songs I know it sounds weird But they're helping me move past all these things running through my head I'll blame the mid-west and sleepy eyes I'm not where I should be I'm not...

As the night goes on I go from feeling out of place to feeling like a ghost You miss me when I'm gone But when I'm around it's like I'm hidden behind the paint on the walls The loneliness will keep me warm tonight It'll keep me warm seeing as you won't...

I'm driving on state lines pretending you're standing there But I know your feet will never be where my eyes fall again Moving on is something I've always had trouble with But this year I swear I'll get past it If I had a backyard I would bury all my memo...

Maybe this place is the same... And we're just changing Maybe this place is the same... And we're just changing 

I'm at best your second option Like a key under the mat Are my emotions hard to read? Seems I'm good at hiding Reality You disregard the consequences Always seem to shift the blame You burn the bridge and then I build it Seems you're good at hiding R...

The patience I once had is running away with my youth Away in its hands I’ve been neglecting who I am That’s just who I was back then Don’t need to be perfect, just happy I’m still a lost boy Last year I was a train wreck, now I’m just a mess I’m lettin...

Staring out the window in my bedroom makes me think back I see me as a boy out there Lying in the grass Singing songs with all the wrong notes And graduating high school as my mom cries I'm writing the same song over and over again And feeling lost I've...

We're just kids stuck in this town Outside of a big city Where everyone wants you to grow up as fast as they fall My old friend Dave wakes up on Monday Wishes there were more than two days in a weekend I'll keep sleeping in on Monday not knowing That my weeken...

When we grow up I hope that you end up old and all alone [x2] You wouldn't know a good thing even if it slapped the makeup right off of your face Burn down the bridges just in time for last call Keep digging yourself neck deep into selfishness I doubt th...

I'm treated like an old book That was left on the shelf Everyone underlined what they wanted to read And forgot the rest My spine was left worn out and bent So just take what you want from me And forget the rest It really weirds me out Because I neve...

Time revealed what's underneath your skin You only cared when the floor caved in You know that I, I'd look for a reason But it just starts arguments I'm the candle when your lights burn out Your assurance in the face of doubt You pull me like a ripcord...

[Intro] I care too much While you don't even care at all It's just sad that You don't even care [Verse 1] I walk up The stairs to your apartment And I feel small The lowest feelings and even lower standards Pictures of simple times are on the...

I found myself in late night drives without a destination All I had were thoughts about the past And a list of my favorite songs to keep me company But I still struggle and lose myself every day I always find myself lost in every line of all these songs B...

Just when I think I need someone, They wrap their arms around my old bones And I start breaking apart I walk away from anyone that cares about me But I swear my skin's not as rough as I make it out to be The saddest part is I've been distant since I wa...

I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights off When I heard that voice call me in for the night I remember when love was just a word and not a fight All I had to worry about were broken bones and being left alone Way back then there were monster...

This time around I wasn't honest enough with how I really felt I'll spend the winter blending into the streets and sidewalks that make up this town At least it gave me someone else to write another one of these sad fucking songs about You're just another sa...

Am I telling myself the truth? I’m used to pretending to be strong and clueless Am I doing this right by you? I seem to be coming off as wrong and ruthless Am I telling myself the truth about what I don’t know? It makes me lose my self-control I’m stari...

There are minutes when I want to leave this town With the shirt on my back And Saves the Day stuck in my head But there's something keeping me here I tell myself I won't go back I'll never even look back My friends are the only thing making me turn around Keep...

Change holds me down to the places I don't want to be When I wake up I look in the mirror and I see The person that's been scaring me away from moving on And getting out of my house I end my nights in the same spot that I told myself I would leave I want...

Softspoken, if ever out loud These days not much gets out My mind [?] through the past But never takes time to finish the act Can I shoulder the burden? Can I stomach the past? Watch me try to stand steady Like a flame in the pouring rain Looking bac...

You were easy on my eyes You were heavy on my heart I never thought I'd live to see today You're still in my mind but not in my chest I'm a little worn out since you fucking tore me down You made me believe we had something, I guess that I was wrong I t...

I listen back to the confines I set within myself The words fell on deaf ears in their own little hell I heard the loss reverb, all around your voice The kind of space that holds the room, leaves me little choice We'll say what we want We'll say what we...

I spend my nights thinking the worst And telling myself that everything's going to work out I keep kicking myself in the mouth Opening up every cut that should be a scar by now I need the hope I always tell my friends about I need the hope I always tell...

Unconditional love And a lack of patience Is what you gave me You say I worry too much While you dig up habits Buried deep within me My temper's cutting through to call you out It makes me sick inside to know You let me down but you never let me go...