pop culture failure lyrics
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eyes collide with my feet couldn't keep my head up or my vision with the
street i fall down in a heap i'm afraid i can't keep fooling anyone but
me i'm not what i thought i really want to be but it's like when you're
never really satisfied when it comes around to me i'll always second guess
second best and it's a sloe gin sippin' away and it's the best you'll never
have so when i come around i think you better meet me halfway look around
not a sound i have found not one reason a failure it's all i'll be it's
a failure it's all i'll be
supposed to
as i see these changes in my friends question those decisions my margins
closing quickly reevaluate positions sinking deeper every day nervous traits
give it away and all those little lies i say i think that everyone's this
way someone said unsatisfied but it doesn't capture what i'm trying to describe
replace those feelings trapped inside with that commonplace advice what
am i supposed to do? it's right in front of you everything everything in
another state of mind i find it easy to empathize i wonder why i'm not ahead
and making lots of money repeated pattern every day it's laid right there
in front of me like an easy kill i'm not prepared to be that victim yet
i am supposed to do everything
closed
wasting all along wasting all along wasting time you knew so well wishing
i was wrong but you knew all along and all the time you wouldn't tell knew
all along never let on that it was a lie knew all along never let on but
it wasn't right you look away 'cause you're so shy you drink so much you
lose your mind you look away
motor one
hanging on to the next overpass on this endless road i'm still hanging on
to you i got my head caught up in the crowd emotions run on empty fuel i've
got nothing more to give except to you so keep your eyes on the road think
of what you know keep your eyes on the road think of what you've learned
so put your hands back on the wheel and keep your head of out these memories
i've got nothing more to say to you think of what you know think of what
you've learned think of what you've learned
seven hours
seven hours up all night and so are you makes it right 'cause i've been
thinking about you too took a long time to admit to myself i tried to make
it how it should have been but never was do you ever think what could have
been you asked me once? was i wrong? what were you thinking when i said
what were you thinking when i said seven hours up all night and so are you
never ask me anything about myself i'll always wonder what you were thinking
do you see anything i do?
nothing at all
i can look until my eyes turn from brown to blue and pretend every girl
that i see isn't you does it change a thing? we're hopelessly waiting for
that letter to arrive well i haven't sent it i'm alone with a pen and paper
for the present it's evident my perfect descent it began at the end and
as i looked ahead can't even take the first step can't even try to pretend
it's all in reverse that bad day got worse your anger insecurity pushed
me away and i should have known everything i learned that day but you can
never know until you try never know until you try has it changed nothing
at all i think i'll try from now on not to start at the end get the conclusion
first and then the middle begin do you think it will work for me? breathe
out before you suck in maybe i'll try to smoke again it seems to have worked
for you when you wanted me and i wanted you and it was such a simple singular
point of view an equal equation adds one and one, two one and one, two
refined
six miles left to run there's your smoking gun that leads me to the fact
you've got no direction i've got a path to go unlike you have no goal i
may not rhyme but you've got no reason to write what will be sung to say
what will be heard by just like you who have no focus attention there's
just one thing i am sure of simplify and refine i don't wonder what you
mean when you say it's not hard to understand what you say this is now set
in stone don't move around rock the boat it won't be understood within definition
looking back now it's easy to see upheld this sorry tradition i turn my
back wishing that wishing that slow pace dead on words you say
chances are
when it was just a little smile and words said i forget it's just a memory
i can never regret enough to make it up our eyes met made me lose it's just
my sanity it makes me wonder if i ever felt before and if i waited this
long and i did it all wrong i ever have the chance to make it right leave
it behind you shut your eyes and smile this is not a chance to prove anything
is your anger enough to make me wanna fight? is it passion enough to make
me have to write this is not poetry chances are good it won't happen again
in a little black dress cigarette in your hand this is reality
extra step
paint me the sky prove that you even like me come home to the friend i never
had drink more than we ever had then i'll see what i never could blinded
by the sky it's too hot to breathe so i'll say okay this time again and
wish you were the friend i never had so tell me what's on your mind jealousy
guarded cautiously it's at the tip of your tongue so you spit instead say
you even like me you'll just say i love you and i'll bite my tongue just
drink and wait bide the time like nine to five more like six to two we're
waiting this desert moves so slow kiss me let's make love and talk about
what we always wanted to do but never did let's drink more and more like
the heat dance in time 'til all is still and the world says okay one more
time again wait and drink think twice more we've got a lot more to say today
doorway
you don't show me anything with your eyes won't look behind my words it's
a lie separate while we buy a subtle prohibition of real life until time
flies you feel enough to open up you don't even care about yourself why
should i? look you in the eye and tell you exactly how i feel no words lost
to spare a vestige of humility you show everything to me with your life
in reverse perpetually it's the truth cuts to the heart like you never could
and you can't give a fuck about me 'cause you're stuck your life is a rut
permanently
seasonal
watching you now like a change from the winter back to fall to the spring
skip the cold season never go back again bad advice from familiar faces
give it some time and it will all work out in the end where's the punch
line nothing gets done when nothing's put in and we're all burned out ask
me why someone said facetiously ask me why this time ask me why someone
said facetiously ask me why it's time to suffer now
