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Kiss You
03:15
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We were in the sixth grade, it was English class
Where I would bravely risk detention if I could only make you laugh
I thought what is it about you? I don’t know
Makes me wanna run out into the snow
Tell everybody I’m invited to your birthday party
‘cause all the boys wanted to kiss you
All the boys and me too
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la, mmm
So I saved every note you passed me
I did everything you asked me
Felt the whole world stop the time you touched me on the shoulder
I thought I don’t know just what it means
The way she dances ‘round my dreams
Well, maybe we could live together someday when we’re older
‘cause all the boys wanted to kiss you
All the boys and me too
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la, mmm
I was crying in a bathroom stall the day I realized
The reason why your smile was engraved upon my mind
I was praying Jesus, love is hard enough
Why’d you have to tack on this extra stuff?
Won’t you tell me it gets easier from here?
‘cause all the boys wanted to kiss you
I knew I’d never get to
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la, mmm
‘cause all the boys wanted to kiss you
All the boys and me too
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la, mmm
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Hey old acquaintance, so nice to bump into you on this loud and crowded city street
Some ten odd years and thirty pounds later I’m surprised you even recognized me
Well it’s so great to hear about your promotion and your wedding in the spring
Good goddamn, you could pay a whole year of my rent with that engagement ring
I’m glad you like my quarter life crisis haircut
You know I always wanted bangs
I’m sorry but I’ve got to run, I’m kind of in a rush
Maybe sometime we could hang
And we’re never gonna hang
We’re never gonna get together
Never gonna hang
We’re never gonna hang out
No I haven’t really been playing shows lately, if I’m answering you honestly
My anxiety kind of messed me up creatively - I’ve been chillin’ in obscurity
And anyway I don’t think that you’d even come if I had a show to play
You just want to know if I’m living up to all the dreams that I had back in the day
Well anyway, I’m glad you like my quarter life crisis haircut
You know I always wanted bangs
I’m sorry but I’ve got to run, I’m kind of in a rush
Maybe sometime we could hang
And we’re never gonna hang
We’re never gonna get together
Never gonna hang
We’re never gonna hang out
“So happy to see that you’re doing so well” you say with a condescending grin
I don’t have the guts to just say “go to hell” so I smile and keep it all in
I never really liked you all that much in high school, you were always kind of vain and mean
Well now go ahead and tell all of our mutual acquaintances that I peaked at age nineteen
I don’t care
I’m glad you like my quarter life crisis haircut
I think I’m pulling off the bangs
I’m sorry but I’ve got to run, I gotta get my lunch
Maybe sometime we could hang
And we’re never gonna hang
We’re never gonna get together
Never gonna hang
We’re never gonna hang out
We’re never gonna get coffee
We’re never gonna get a drink
Why do we have to be so awfully polite instead of saying what we think?
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Sarah
03:40
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On the platform for the train
we waited and it never came
So we stumbled out into the rain
Sarah, Sarah
Dancing in the empty street
Hey, cabs are few and far between
Why don’t you just come home with me?
Sarah, Sarah
Ooo, you’re not in this as deep as me, are you?
Oh my God, this isn’t gonna end well
This isn’t gonna end well
I can already tell
I want you with all my might
This is just your Friday night
Maybe we should slow it down
It just feels so good right now
And then you say hey that was fun
but morning time I gotta run
You just call me any time you want
Sarah, Sarah
Now I see you everywhere
Your freckled arms, your tangled hair
Your back as you led me up the stairs
Sarah, Sarah
Ooo, you’re not in this as deep as me, are you?
Oh my God, this isn’t gonna end well
This isn’t gonna end well
I can already tell
I want you with all my might
This is just your Friday night
Maybe we should slow it down
It just feels so good right now
On the platform Sarah Jane
I waited and you never came
So I’m walking home now in the rain
Ooo (x5)
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Sam met Billy on her college campus
He said “I’m one of those old-fashioned men,
I’ve got a song for you pretty lady”
She thought Jesus, here I go again
God damn these boys from the suburban Northeast
Dressin’ like Dustbowl Refugees
Strumming on their great grandpas’ old banjos
Making a silly little mess out of me
He likes to sing ‘bout freight train jumpin’
She’s seen him driving in his Honda Accord
He likes to sing ‘bout Lord have mercy
Only been to church maybe three times, four
God damn these boys from the suburban Northeast
Dressin’ like Dustbowl Refugees
Strumming on their great grandpas’ old banjos
Making a silly little mess out of me
He likes to sing about trouble, trouble
His only trouble’s when his iPhone breaks
He likes to sing about devil women
Omits the fact that they’re his Tinder dates
God damn these boys from the suburban Northeast
Dressin’ like Dustbowl Refugees
Strumming on their great grandpas’ old banjos
Making a silly little mess out of me
She knows that he’s not the real deal
I guess he sings it like he means it
The music suits his tenor, tenor
But then again, who’s the real deal anymore?
You can be whoever you wanna be
Just buy the accessories at the store
God damn these boys from the suburban Northeast
Dressin’ like Dustbowl Refugees
Strumming on their great grandpas’ old banjos
Making a silly little mess out of me
And all his songs are like one, one, four, one
One, one, one to the five to the one
Hey! Ho!
Hey Sam, these boys aren’t much worse than me
I did some thinking baby now I see
If you’re playing folk music in this century
You’re probably culturally appropriating somebody
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Space Cadet
04:05
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When I was a child I was a little stuck in my dreams
Picking flowers in the schoolyard while the other kids picked teams
And maybe I would feel a little strange and lonely sometimes
But everything was fine up in the station of my mind
They called me space cadet
And I’d go to wondrous places
Little space cadet
When I was not where I wanted to be
Space cadet, come down to earth they said
When you gonna come down?
Do you remember Philadelphia the winter that I fell for ya?
Covered all the dirty sidewalks in a glittering sheet of white
And you said I feel I’ve known you all my life, yet from a distance, mystified
Oh won’t you take me with you where you go inside your mind?
I said I’m a space cadet
I’ll take you to wondrous places
Little space cadet
And you’ll find you’re right where you want to be
I’m a wreck, over my head you said
I don’t wanna come down
And you were so enthralled with me
When I was just a mystery
Ain’t that the way it goes?
Because now it’s three years later and we’re at the grocery store
And I’m wondering how my life would be if I’d been born in ‘34
And I see your lips are moving but I cannot shut it off
Again I ran from the monotony and I only wound up lost
You say earth to space cadet
Were you even listening to a single word I said?
I need you right here with me, why are you up in your head?
And I’ll be here waiting
For when you’re gonna come down
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