1. |
What You Gave
04:39
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Somehow you got the idea
That if you gave enough to your parents
You could earn their love
You could earn their love
But what you gave
Must not have been enough
Because you never got it
They never loved you
And you carried that with you your whole life
Saying, 'All my life I've been walking on
this broken leg
and nothing I try ever makes it go away
And I feel like a stranger
to those closest to me
I just don't know where I belong
And I can't take this
I feel so flawed
Like it was somehow my fault all along'
Please, just one more touch
Please, just let me in
I want to know love like everyone else does
I want to know love
I want to know what it feels like
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Crying, Incoherent
04:02
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Please, come back down to reality
If you promise to, I'll forgive you for everything
You know I love you more than anything
You just make it so hard
What's gotten into you?
What could make you so cruel?
You're not yourself, you're somebody else
Showing up to your apartment, you're crying, incoherent
And I can't tell you what that does to me
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3. |
For Long Enough
05:05
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I'm fast asleep with no reason to wake
I'm falling out of love with no reason to stay
You keep me in the waiting room, where I have been all day
You're in transit timezones away
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough, now
In dreams, we were so vivid
Now you come to me so uninterested
We've grown to be two strangers, you can admit it
Sharing nothing but the bed, staring at the ceiling
I just don't feel it, I just don't feel it
I just don't feel it, and I'm full of regret
I just don't feel it, I just don't feel it
I just don't feel it, I just don't feel it
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough
And you keep holding on to what you've already lost
I have loved you for long enough, now
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4. |
Younger Brother
03:35
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Acting out
Led to hospital stays
Discipline so you'd behave
Why can't you love yourself?
Why can't you just slow down?
You were always daydreaming
You were always somewhere else
Oh, get out of your head
Why can't you see yourself how everyone else does?
You're a likable person when you aren't so worried
About being liked
And the world should have been kinder
And you never deserved what you got
But there is gold inside you
And I just wish you could see that
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5. |
Born as Someone Else
07:58
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The world is burning
And you're at odds with everything
Feeling guilty for all the space you take up in her bed
In her bed,
Staring at the dim glow of the TV screen
It's eleven o'clock, you're sixteen
and everyone's at the party
They're upstairs, you're in the bathroom
Vomiting and saying sorry
Hell will come for you, just like it did for the rest of your family
But for now, just for now, it's still
There is a picture of your parents
When they were first married
They look so young, they look so happy
You wonder, 'What could have gone so wrong?
What could have gone so wrong?'
It will be years before you learn
When you were young, your dad would get physical
You waited 'til you were big enough to hit him back
At first shove, he fell
At first strike, he yelled
Thought it would feel right
Thought you would feel something other than empty
That night, you left home
And under the hum of the radio in your beat-up truck
You thought, all alone to yourself:
'Will anyone ever love me?
Will anyone ever love me?
Will I feel anything other than lonely?'
And those thoughts, they return
As she's lying across from you
Moonlight spills over her shoulder blades
As she's draped in curtains, and the dim glow of the TV
It's perfect, still, you can't bring yourself to care
And for a moment,
You think about all the joy that's been stolen
You wonder what could have been
If only you had gone left, and not right
If only you could rewind the time
If only you could escape before the crash
If only you had been born as someone else
If only you had been born as someone else
If only you had been born as someone else
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Dylan Coverdale Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Singer/songwriter,
tattooer and filmmaker in Philadelphia, PA.
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