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your permission
02:49
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Can I ask your permission to be someone else today
To say what I want to say
In a different sort of way.
Can I ask your permission to be the perfect wife
To have the perfect life
Just maybe not today
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
I got that feeling I’ve been here before
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Will you remind me what I came here for?
Can I ask your permission to turn and walk away
Without caring what they say
And let the drama play
Can I ask your permission to be a kinder soul
To play the gender role
Just maybe not today
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
I got that feeling I’ve done this before
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Will you remind me what I came here for?
Some days I don’t care
I just wanna shut my mouth
Just wanna take ‘em out
Some nights I think twice
I don’t wanna be myself
Just go somewhere else
Some days I don’t care
I just wanna shut my mouth
Just wanna take ‘em out
Some night I think twice
I don’t wanna be myself
Just be someone else.
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tragic endings
03:38
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tragic endings
Tragic Endings happen all the time
Will I be any different?
Standing, crying in the check-out line
Don’t want the lady to see me read about
Another reality queen
Lost her man, her home, her dream.
So I fumble for my keys and I wonder what she thinks of me?
I read the endings of books before
I even turn to the beginning.
My heart can’t take surprises anymore
I’m losing faith in happy endings.
And so it is another restless day
I need to get away.
Somewhere by an ocean breeze and I wonder if you’ll go with me?
Don’t you tell me it’s gonna be alright
That’s not where my head is right now.
Just wanna paint the picture in black and white
So I can be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
Unanswered letters happen all the time
Will this be any different?
I try to sit and plan what I might write
But I’ll just blame it on a misprint.
And so it goes another sleepless night
Feeling so damn uptight.
And I try to tell you in my dream that I wonder if you’ll wait for me?
Don’t you tell me I should really hang on
until the story’s over.
Just wanna know exactly who’s right or wrong
and finally get some closure.
And don’t you promise me that things will work out fine
That’s not what I’ve seen lately.
Just wanna know the ending that’s my battle cry
So I can be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
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hoping this day won’t kill us
Desperate feelings like paint that keeps peeling
Revealing the colors of past roommates and lovers
Interpreting faces is now just contagious
The emotional toll is like grief and it’s stages
And I’m hoping this day won’t kill us.
I’ve hardly begun to pick up this mess
And I’m starting to forget all the things that I said
So let’s just pretend to start it over again
And go inwards and outwards and never again words.
And I’m hoping this day won’t kill us.
Sweep up the leaves, smooth out the sheets and keep going.
Straighten the books, dust off the shelves and keep going.
Tidy the drawers and mop the floors and keep going.
Under the beds and in my head I’ll keep going.
When nothing makes sense then nothing is true
So I’ll go through the motions just like they tell me too
But that one single day I keep referencing to
Has become everyday it’s a deja vu.
Sweep up the leaves, smooth out the sheets and keep going.
Straighten the books, dust off the shelves and keep going.
Tidy the drawers and mop the floors and keep going.
Under the beds and in my head I’ll keep going.
And I’m hoping this day won’t kill us.
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4. |
alone tonight
02:55
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Seems to me like it’s a perfectly good reason
If you take a step back and see.
Cause I’m admitting that it’s mostly about me then
So don’t take it so personally.
And when I try to talk to you the way I think I should,
It seems the conversation never ends that good.
And I have no idea why I start a fight,
I guess I’m better off alone tonight.
Seems to me that it’s just the right solution
If you wait and think it through.
Cause I’m admitting that I’m just the kind of person
That on occasion gets confused.
And when I try to talk to you the way I think I should,
It seems the conversation never ends that good.
And I have no idea why I start a fight,
I guess I’m better off alone tonight.
I think that you know, I lack self-control
And sometimes I say the wrong things.
But just for today let me go away
And feel what it’s like to be lonely.
And when I try to talk to you the way I think I should
It seems the conversation never ends that good
And I have no idea why I start a fight,
I guess I’m better off alone tonight.
And when I try and make it through the way I think that I could
I hear that never-ending promise we misunderstood
And I could never tell you why I start that fight
I guess I’m better on my own tonight.
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5. |
june lake
02:35
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6. |
you already knew
01:49
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7. |
sweet relief
04:36
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I don’t really know if this is the end
It’s just an X on the calendar day again.
So we’ll sit like detainees.
Looking for a sign of relief.
Sweet relief.
And so you talk too much as usual
And mostly about yourself when you get uncomfortable.
And I’ll hide beneath the underbrush
So we’ll never have to talk about us.
About us.
And I’ll wake up in the middle of the night.
Sleepwalk into your bedroom light.
And I’ll be this way until the rest of my life
Cause I had so much more to say that night.
And then I walk right through the crowd.
Thinking thoughts I’d never say out loud.
And I see that open door
But I don’t know who it’s for.
Who is for?
And I’ll wake up in the middle of the night.
Sleepwalk into your bedroom light.
And I’ll be this way until the rest of my life
Cause I had so much more to say that night.
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real bad day
02:26
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9. |
no chair
03:30
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No Chair
This home ain’t no home when I’ve got no chair to sit on.
And there’s just no point when I feel like I can’t move on.
‘Cause my mood is too huge that I might break in two.
And my voice is too old now it’s just me and you.
The clouds they stand still when you got no one to talk to.
And the ghosts of this place are not letting me past the window.
‘Cause the view is too huge that it might crack in two.
And my voice is too old now it’s just me and you.
So let’s go on…
Move on…
Cause I don’t want us to miss this…
And there’s no more time and there’s no witness.
Another grey morning to wake up and find you’re long gone.
And the photos and pictures are all I have left to go on.
And I’m moving too slow and there’s nowhere to go
And I keep thinking that you might still say hello.
So let’s go on…
Move on…
Cause I don’t want us to miss this…
And there’s no more time and there’s no witness.
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I gotta wait this out again.
I’ll hold my ground ‘til the bitter end.
I’ll close my eyes and I’ll shut my mouth.
And I’ll keep saying my prayers to keep the devil out.
And until the circumstances change I’m gonna stay in bed.
Cause it’s a time of calculated waiting is what the pennies said.
And I will let destiny keep playing with whoever it wants instead
And I’ll keep planting those dandelions in my flower bed.
I’m gonna step aside this time.
I’ll let ‘em fight it out and I don’t mind.
No matter what I do or say
Is gonna come across in any better way.
And until the circumstances change I’m gonna stay in bed.
Cause it’s a time of calculated waiting is what the pennies said.
And I will let destiny keep playing with whoever it wants instead
And I’ll keep planting those dandelions in my flower bed.
I sometimes don’t know why I try when it comes back to me every time.
‘Cause everyone’s got something to prove, something to lose
And I’ll never know what it’s like being you.
And until the circumstances change I’m gonna stay in bed.
Cause it’s a time of calculated waiting is what the pennies said.
And I will let destiny keep playing with whoever it wants instead
And I’ll keep planting those dandelions in my flower bed.
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11. |
wrong information
02:53
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12. |
just be
02:31
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13. |
this is me trying
02:54
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I caught the chalk dust in my hands at last, last night.
And I collected all the words I tried to write.
And I was waiting to explain before they blew away
But the sun came down too fast on my feet.
And I stayed glued to my seat.
And when I tried to make a move you stood in my way.
A monument to bad decisions I almost made.
And it choked out the daisies I planted that day
But damn, I feel good after a drink.
So I’ll just sit here alone and think.
But I promise….I promise you….
This is me trying
This is me trying
This is me trying to get through the day.
I’ll only let you ask me once
And I’ll be honest when I say it
And then we’ll burn the tape or never even play it.
But I promise you….
This is me trying.
This is me trying
This is me trying to get through the day..
Don’t let me fade away…..
Don’t let me fade away…..
Don’t let me fade away………
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Tamar Berk California
In its entirety, "Tiny Injuries" is a masterful odyssey through the labyrinth of grief, revealing the painful yet cathartic journey towards acceptance. Berk's lyricism, juxtaposed with a delicate indie pop soundscape, orchestrates a symphony that doesn’t just play but reverberates in the very marrow of human emotion. ... more
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