DESCRIPTION:
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Lyrics:
Lottery
bodies like leaves both of us high words come out slow / you melt into me like how autumn leaves get pushed down by snow / our bodies leave both of us high words come out slow / you melt into me like how autumn leaves get pushed down by snow / it's you in my lungs and blush in our cheeks i'm burning my skin / ‘cause i put everything on 19 red / under the hum of streetlight and drugs coursing through our eyes we're home / terrified with the bets i make / you stay quiet so i figure i’ll wait / it's spoken from your eyes but the words are buried still / it's a quiet ride home

Birds in Smoke
hazel eyes and darker sides she lives to set the neighbourhoods on fire / tearing down hot boards and windows / we're hungry house fires brighter on the inside / you're the arson and i'll be the passerby / you'll try to hide but you stick out like the fire / and she'll stick out just like the fire / reflected off the birds in smoke tonight / the air is tighter than the sheets we'll wrap ourselves in when the street turns cold / time is short we're barely breathing / take me back a couple hours, love

Wilted
put me in a hearse, i'm dead / you got your nails deep in my friends / don't pretend it's not what you wanted / picked and kept safe so i wilt / lately you're all i’ve got now / is that why we all take up pills / all ‘cause i can't swallow guilt / picked and kept safe so we wilt / lately you’re all I’ve got now / knives thrown could cut the tension / bars you're in always kept you honest / and all your words starved for attention / don't pretend it’s not what you wanted

Wax Light
underneath the water whisper something sweet / it’s become harder to keep my head above / with nowhere to swim we look for port / and like scared little kids we hide indoors / and the print from the headlines and breakthroughs in science get washed out / leaving never felt so much like home / careful like the coldest heart you know / at your own open heart drenched in white / dreams and lace dress fill your eyes / whisper to the mask all your vows / on your back fast asleep by the wax light

Fireworks
how do you sleep i guess you've had a year on me / all the lights fixed in our road were too loud for us to see / time isn't a healer you'll still crawl your way back in / after all we're broken glass fireworks and tin / there are marks on the floor / and how i'm i supposed to recognize you / despite everyone saying a lights up ahead / but you're too dark to find your way / i wonder if our hearts - did yours burn brighter next to me / how have we grown colder than the grass beneath our feet / maybe i could be the knife for your kite / make love and sever the cord you used to tie your lights / is this how I spend my nights / and i let them make my decisions for me / and if all i am is just a bad taste / why would you die for the words that i say

At Last, At Ease
i'm letting this pass / letting this pass from my mind / now i know i must go / before i lose it all and it's gone / run, run away from the tiny corners of the cage / people running through me / we're trying too hard to drive away in our heads / back to the place where we said someday we'd live / and since this is all we know / we can pretend with ashes from our own fires / got out of the car / only to see the grave of what i once saw on the tv in the distance / we aren't meant to be here, let's just go home/ run, run away and lose it all / we drove away in our heads / and now we sleep with ashes in our beds / let's make this all we know / all we know is all we know

Bad Clover
we stay for the night / do you remember feeling love for the first time / some want it so badly we'll risk everything that we have / we're shot across the room into your ears, your heart, into your arms / and they say the world is prettier when we self-destruct like we always have / and as we both close in on the water tell me i’m everything that you wanted