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Hold Some Space
05:14
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Was I the daughter you’d always wanted
Am I the son you never had?
Do you feel comfortable being honest with me?
Am I the only one that you’re hearing?
Has no one else heard what I have?
Is anybody else interested in healing?
I’ll hold some space for you
I have some space for you
Do you feel seen and held for your valid self?
Was I the baby who cried so quiet?
The most low maintenance it gets
Just didn’t wanna be causing one more conflict
You gave me everything I could need to
echo success you surely had
Was I your final hope for a future maybe?
Well I want more!
I’m grateful for everything you give to me
But there’s a price tag on everything, it seems
If I amount to nothing would you love me less?
You say keep making us proud and it feels
It feels like a threat, but I want more
I want more
I can’t stop thinking about myself
When I listen to you
I think I’m falling apart
I can’t stop thinking about myself
And what I could say back
I think I’m falling apart
I can’t stop thinking about myself
And I wish you could too
Cause i’ve been thinking of you
I think we’re falling apart
I can’t stop thinking of everything
Every single thing else
I can’t help taking to heart
Everything’s falling apart
I am not doing this anymore for you
I am now doing this for much more than you
It didn’t matter to me, just you before
Now I can matter to me not you
Some more
I’ll be more
I want to be more
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I’m not jealous I’m just crazy
About the way you say you’re over me
Well guess what I’m over me too
So let’s get together and talk it through
Hey hey why can’t you stay
The dramas pushing me away
Let’s sit in bed and watch tv
And you can tell me how you’re over me
I’ve got a question are you happier than ever
Do your parents let you leave the house without a sweater
Even if you don’t
I’m not jealous I’m just in denial
Spilling my guts on the bathroom tile
Singing do re mi don’t forget about me
Do re mi don’t forget about me
I’m not jealous I’m just crazy
About the way you say you’re over me
Well guess what I’m over me too
Well guess what I’m not over you
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3. |
Therapist
04:50
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Just see a therapist
I know you can afford it
Go please handle your shit see a therapist
You don’t have to be scared anymore
Quit being careless and go see a therapist
I don’t think you enjoy
The way that you just lose control when one thing’s not right
You’re buckling under the softest of slights
The worse you are the worse you treat all in sight
So I try not to let you down
I try not to let you down
You’re down
Go see a therapist
Make the time to explore it
No one else can commit for you
Bare with it
they train people to help you to heal
but you have to care for it
Work with a therapist
All those who love you attune to all that you do
It’s self-preservation cause anything might set you off, anyone too
And then we’re there to take it
I’m seeing the hurt behind all of the hurt you’re inflicting but that doesn’t change that it hurts
and it says something when you don’t try
to learn not to hurt
When I try not to let you down
I try and you let me down
You’re down
Just see a therapist!
Find a way to afford it
With that job you won’t quit
Give priority
To learn treating all others with care
Character development when you see a therapist
Quit trying to avoid it
Sort your shit don’t just quit
See a therapist
You can learn how to manage it more
The anger you carry, you share with a therapist
So stop being selfish and stewing in your
shit and get yourself help that you need
If not for yourself then for everyone else that you love and you hurt when you bleed
Cause we’re still picking up the pieces
From ten days and ten weeks tears we swallow with tea
We’re still picking out the pieces
Of your broken heart
From our open arms
I try not to let you down
I try and you let me down
And I try not to feel so down
But I’m starting to feel let down
You’re down
Just see a therapist
Can’t afford to ignore it
Go please handle your shit see a therapist
You don’t have to be scared anymore
Quit being careless and just see a therapist
You will be better for it
Getting help is not weak it is all there is
More than drowning us in your despair
No one can fix up a piece that’s not there
No one can help you if you don’t seek care
I cannot help you it seems so unfair
So quit being careless
Just see a therapist
Please see a therapist
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4. |
Sertraline Daydream
01:47
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Obsess too much over things that don’t matter
Finding fault in every action I do
Faking the part of a real adult but in the mirror it’s still always you
Every day feels the same and so pointless
My hobbies sit, gather rust, and for what
So I can bring home a check that just barely covers rent
And daydream about faking my death for fun
Sucked it up and begged the HMO for help and some stability
They said the blues will boost me up and the reds will keep me regulated
Even though I’ve outgrown a crisis mode I’m still internally
There’s just nothing
It’s just. Nothing.
It’s just I’m stuck in this micro survival anxiety spiral of doom
Climate disaster or societal collapse
It all looks the same from my room
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5. |
Good News
02:19
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No breaks
We’re capturing no breaks
When is the good news coming?
Always
Shit’s happening always
When is the good news coming?
And is it ever here to stay?
And is it ever really the good news coming
The good news coming soon
Headaches
Sky gives me a headache
I think I’m allergic to the wildfires
Big waves
I dream about big waves
How many hurricanes will we see tomorrow?
Worse fate
There’s always some worse fate
and every turn’s got a hard pill to swallow
Please stay
Keep keeping on please stay
I don’t have enough friends for you to die tomorrow
Joy’s not loud like misery
Ratings rise when we’re panicking
Is there ever gonna be good news
The good news coming
The good news
Nothing’s ever here to stay
Not this pain not the human race
If we don’t fight there will never be good news coming
No good news coming, no
Oh no
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6. |
1227
02:54
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I’m sitting on the couch while the rain comes down reflecting on the past two years
Bitter that the plans we had got knocked around
Nonetheless still grateful to be here
Playing 90s hits in a small white room
Sloppy messy out of tune who cares
There’s nothing that we face together we can’t do
A decade plus adventure gets us there
And oh
What a peculiar sadness to feel
A pain that’s in no rush to hear
Forget or move on
We’ve been broke together
Broken down together
Survived all types of weather through the years
No matter three states, three towns, three minutes apart
I know we’ll always find our way back here
Soaring on a stage screaming THIS YEAR SUCKED
I don’t think I’ve ever felt more alive
Even when the three of us are dead and gone I know what we created will survive
White-knuckling the steering wheel at 3am
Trying to outrun a Southern storm
And even though I’m deeply homesick for my bed I wouldn’t change this memory for the world
I’m sitting on the couch while the rain comes down
Reflecting on the past twelve years
As painful as it is to let the things you love go
I’m proud of who we all grew up to be
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7. |
Serves U Rite
02:59
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8. |
Blood Blisters
02:40
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How dare you put words in my mouth
When from you they just spill out
You are the hilt of a penknife, perverted
By mightier swords that you had deserted
Blood blisters pop pop til you run dry
Blood blisters pop pop in their arms you die
You, only you could let this go
It’s tragic that you don’t know
The victim’s legacy you can’t replace/you have erased
It’s everyone’s job to keep each other safe
Blood blisters pop pop til you run dry
Blood brothers, is there nothing you won’t deny?
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9. |
Glass Apartment
03:28
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It’s a brand-new day
It’s another day away
The inevitability
Of your inability
To resist temptation’s throes
Of a passion you barely know
Led to believe it’s a calling
As your father he is calling
As you hang on the line
And hang up the line
Why don’t I grow up?
It’s a brand-new delay
10 minutes til the A
Stay the course, stay on track
If there’s anything we can’t do
We can never go back
What a romantic thing to happen
To die on the streets of Manhattan
After all
It’s what you wanted
It’s what you’ve always wanted
Right?
Why did I grow up?
Smash your skull on the pillar
Of your studio apartment
On the weight bearing wall
Bear the weight of it all
We all fall down
It’s a brand-new day
Keep the blues at bay
Read the news, burned a pack
You never went back
Why don’t I give up?
I give
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10. |
Marvin Gardens
02:48
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You’re the last one I’d expect
To be a nervous wreck
Broken leases and broken hearts
Can’t find the time to fall apart
Live laugh love
The apartment you’ve been dreaming of
From mangled hulls of stolen steel
To something with the curb appeal
Laugh it off
Your hometown is forever lost
Melting in the winter heat
It’s jacket season on the beach
Man oh man this place is sweet
Like sugar in the gas tank because
You’re the last one I’d expect
To be a nervous wreck
If everyone were to jump ship
You’d be the last one left
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?
LA isn’t big enough for you two
I’m not happy til you’re not happy too
I’m moving out
Is what I wish I could say
Out of the roller coaster cityscape
It’s ups and downs and no escape
I’m moving out, I’m moving out
I wish I could stay here oh well
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11. |
Lorem Ipsum
03:42
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The monster we’ve created
Is better off left alone
The mothers we’ve frustrated
Slap our wrists for getting stoned
But I can’t live without it
It tears me limb from limb
The jaws of life won’t do it
Kill the wreckage from within
But I can’t change
If you stay the same
Stand united on the blacktop
By the gutters and the pearly grates
Model kitchens and martyred Christians
The saviors of the human race
But you can’t live without this
The utility it comes first
Tear it up and salt the ground
So, it can’t quite quench the thirst
One more night
Feels like weeks
Stayed up late
Can you hear me speak
You can’t hear me speak
But I can’t change
If you stay the same
We can’t change
If you stay the same
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12. |
Conditional Love
04:35
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The coffee shop we met at got priced out
It happened without warning
One spring day they just shut down
Berkeley shrugged and rolled its eyes
Luxury condos won the prize
That empty corner building breaks my heart on each drive by
The warehouse we threw shows at disappeared
I know its days were numbered
It only lived for a couple years
Oakland didn’t really care
One less taproom to share the air
So they scrubbed all evidence it’d ever been there
How do we define the life we try to live together
When all the landmarks that we claim don’t last?
Just repeat to yourself
Everything’s gonna be alright
Eventually it’s gonna be fine
Do the healing that we need to do
Plant some roots and grow
It doesn’t matter where as long as there’s a view
The girl whose shoes I grew up in is dead
In her place stands the man I hope I’ve learned to be instead
Maybe landmarks aren’t everything
Cause I still can find my way around
This place that’s changed as much as I have since
Maybe it’s nothing, maybe it’s just growing up
Maybe it’s learning, maybe it’s feeling unconditional love
Everything’s changing and my arms are open wide
To fight for a future we wanna see with you right by my side
Everything’s gonna be alright
I don’t know when, but it will
Everything’s gonna be alright
All you gotta do is
The only condition is survive
I know we all have to grow up someday and
I know you’re gonna find the love you want because
We’ve outlasted plenty of structures, plenty of venues and more
And I know, it’s not the end for you it’s just a rough patch
Some bad years to get through and one day
We can look back on this together and laugh
One day, it’s all going to be fine
One day, this pain will just be memory cause
I know everything's gonna be alright
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Sarchasm Berkeley, California
Sarchasm are three introverts with lisps of varying severity and radically different coffeeshop orders, unified by their love of superheroes, burritos, and ugly button-up shirts. They make music about mountains and friendships gone wrong.
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