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Collateral

Well shit goddamn I’m collateral

Took a couple hits and the frame is showing several holes

Might as well trade me in and see what you can get

Oh no I’m feeling like I don’t know

Much of anything and I’m wishing I could sell my soul

to a devil wearing real nice boots and shit

(don’t she look good in them)

Come round listen to me sing songs

Come round and listen to me song sing

Come round and sit real close to me

Like almost uncomfortably

Cause shit goddamn I’m collateral

l didn’t  think the damage stuck but just look at how the water holds

Now I gotta find something else to be

I’m a car crash breaking through the guardrails

Im the kids in the back who never got the chance to grow

I’m melodramatic and emotional

Careening off the cliff

I’m a metaphor that’s too close

So come pick me up

I can dust myself off

Scrape off the rust

And I can readjust

Feeling broke down like maybe it was all for naught

Fucked up but maybe not a total loss

Oh shit goddamn im collateral

Scratches my in my sides

Start to wonder if I was ever whole

Sometimes your brain just

Really takes the piss

Aw hell life is starting to get vertical

The higher that I climb

Then the higher that the mountain goes

Im terrified of heights I got paralysis

Oh shit

Where’d the time go

Living in an endless loop

Is fucking up my tempo

There just ain’t enough time to fix all of it

Cause shit goddamn I’m collateral

Im the windshield as it breaks and

The driver with the bloody nose

Watch me crash and burn

Watch me swing and miss

I’m a car crash breaking through the guardrails

Im the kids in the back who never got the chance to grow

I’m melodramatic and emotional

Careening of the cliff

I’m a metaphor that’s too close

So come pick me up

I can dust myself off

Scrape off the rust

And I can readjust

Feeling broke down like maybe it was all for naught

I’m fucked up but maybe not a total loss

I’m a car crash baby

I’m bad luck waiting

I’m a bridge getting hit by a boat

I’m oscillating back and forth

Between the lows and highs

And man I’m hating this shit

So pick me up I’m a

dog that’s in need of a fix

Honey I’ve been drinking again

Not like it matters but

I’m mixing all my whiskey with gin

The taste don’t flatter

I think I’m going back to smoking and it stings like sin

The kind sin the makes the devil win

And I thought that I could be a bit stronger

But a man needs a vice

Like the ground needs a daughter

Got some spirits exorcising

And I’m howling like my father

Got the blues in my boots

And they’re filling up with water

So honey won’t you come and push me down the stairs

I’m tired and I’m done with living on a prayer

You can throw yourself down too we’ll tumble down in pairs

And we’ll hit rock bottom like the shimmering heirs

To a throne we never sought built on pain we never bought

Lined with all the bad we wrought while poison does the body rot

I know that we oughta carry on but my blood shot eyes

Are done looking at such ominous skies

Honey I’ve been drinking again

The dogs can smell it

Feel like moving on out this skin

So bad Im yellin

No I don’t really want to die

Just fucking tired

And god gave me fear

like a flame on a pyre

Im feeling haunted like boarded up daydream

Opening the shutters

Trying to catch a hint of light gleam

But that dark is steady hungry

And it’s prowling round the house

It’s got the foam around its mouth

Yea its driving me south

So honey won’t you come and push me down the stairs

I’m tired and I’m done with living on a prayer

You can throw yourself down too we’ll tumble down in pairs

And we’ll hit rock bottom like the shimmering heirs

To a throne we never sought built on pain we never bought

Lined with all the bad we wrought while poison does the body rot

I know that we oughta carry on but my blood shot eyes

Are done looking at such ominous skies

Honey I’ve been drinking again

Sure you could tell and I’m

Not worried but my body feels like shit

Im full of hell

But the devil’s gone up and quit

Said he was done

It was about damn time to sing them

Devil songs

So push me on down them stairs

Let’s do some damage

You can tie me on down that chair

If you can manage

Got bones like graphite

And skin like granite

Honey I’ve been drinking

And I sure hope you can stand it

So honey won’t you come and push me down the stairs

I’m tired and I’m done with living on a prayer

You can throw yourself down too we’ll tumble down in pairs

And we’ll hit rock bottom like the shimmering heirs

To a throne we never sought built on pain we never bought

Lined with all the bad we wrought while poison does the body rot

I know that we oughta carry on but my blood shot eyes

Are done looking at such ominous skies

Honey I’ve been drinking again

It’s been a spell

Now my legs don’t work and

I got low health

I’m burning like a forest fire so come

Drown me in the water

Devil Songs

Rory’s laying up at my door

She thinks I don’t love her anymore

I tend to find myself like that

Always ending worlds when you don’t come back

And I’m not saying it’s the same though

A dog and love are different things for sure

Would have gladly been your dog though

Just you in the hall shaking your head saying

Oh just you wait

I’m gonna make your fucking day

And I’d fucking kill for it to rain right now

You know the kind of feeling when you’re fine but how

You’re also kind of dead inside and no one gets quite how

When you describe it to them

That’s mostly how I’ve been though

I’m on the mend though

I had a little trouble getting thoughts to relent though

Oh just you wait

I’m gonna make your fucking day

So maybe I’ll confess, I tried to do my best

Tossed you in my chest back with all the rest

And it worked a little too good

Found some pills to fix the bad moods and

Cleaned my head with breathing right

And making sure that my body’s tight

I think I let you go and go away you went

I don’t even think I want you in the way I did

And I still think you’re great

Though I don’t even if that’s true

I think I probably still care for you

But the distance got a little more true

Oh just you wait

I’m gonna make your fucking day

Dog Song

Was it cause I wasn’t harsh enough

Cause I wouldn’t love you as rough

As you loved yourself

So your roots reached, writhed

Wrapped around our lives and then

Contractions

Yes, we let the bad in

Sat like open wounds

With a belly full of bracken

And when infection came

We acted like we weren’t asking (for it)

We festered four whole summers

And all the while while

Your roots fed tighter, Darling

You filled me like a motel

For all the things you couldn’t fix

And you couldn’t fix living with you

And you couldn’t sit seeing your truth

So you dug more roots

Til a stranglehold was all that we had

Holding us up

I never told you how many times

I stole from myself to keep you mine and

All the thousand ways I learned to say

‘I’m fine, I’m fine, yes, ok’

I can’t tell you all of the lines

I feed to myself just to sleep at night and

I got them black thumb bruises

I got them black thumb bruises

You never told me all of the times when

You couldn’t breathe and you needed mine and

The hundred ways you couldn’t say

‘Hey, I’m on fire. I don’t think that I’m ok’

I can’t tell you all of the crimes

We did to ourselves just loving blind and

We got them black thumb bruises

We got them black thumb bruises

I became a black pit too

Sucking up bile just to feed my blue

And when blue goes black

It starts to grey between defend and attack

And you saw me digging deep holes (deep down)

Looking through your roots overgrown (underground)

Like what if something happens

We have to find a passage

There’s a place I can’t remember

But it sure feels like the center of this whole thing

And look, I know if we can find it

I just know it can remind us

Of all the sturdy ties that bind us

Like when we met with kindness

We can put this shit behind us

And give this corpse some brightness

You can finally breathe with lightness

Why can’t we make it all

A bit lighter?

I never told you how many times

I stole from myself to keep you mine and

All the thousand ways I learned to say

‘I’m fine, I’m fine, yes, ok’

I can’t tell you all of the lines

I feed to myself just to sleep at night and

I got them black thumb bruises

I got them black thumb bruises

You never told me all of the times when

You couldn’t breathe and you needed mine and

The hundred ways you couldn’t say

‘Hey, I’m on fire. I don’t think that I’m ok’

I can’t tell you all of the crimes

We did to ourselves just loving blind and

We’ve got them black thumb bruises

We got them black thumb bruises

Lighter, Now!

It’s a type of hallelujah

It’s some bones in a bag

Better shake em all out

It’s the dark moving through ya

It’s a snake in your bed

Making it’s way your mouth

Oh No

Oh No

It’s a dog with cancer

It’s the tumor in it’s body

How it breaks it on down

It’s a question begging answers

It’s the girl in the woods

Found blue and drowned

It’s her lips in the morning

Pursed with a word that

Was gonna come out

It’s creeping in the rear view

With nothing up ahead

Yea it’s coming round

Oh no

It’s coming close

It’s waiting round the corner

It’s a Holy Ghost

And it’s picking at your bones

With a mouthful of teeth

Gonna keep picking til

The bones are clean

Oh no

Oh no

It’s sitting on your chest now

It’s unstoppable

Oh no

Oh no

No no no lord no

It’s a slow and subtle leaving

Like hanging to a rope

As it loosens on up

It’s your mom as she’s grieving

It’s a hole in the ground

And a door that’s shut

It’s a sharp insistent stabbing

Jabbing in your chest

Yea it’s calling your bluff

It’s a pissed jean day dream

Running down your leg

When you’re thinking you’re tough

Oh no

It’s coming close

It’s waiting round the corner

It’s a Holy Ghost

And it’s picking at your bones

With a mouthful of teeth

Gonna keep picking til

The bones are clean

Oh no

Oh no

It’s sitting on your chest now

It’s unstoppable

Oh no

Oh no

No no no lord no

Oh No (Oh No!)

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