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Shapes In The Dark
04:44
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There was a crime out back
They tried to disguise
The man next door says he’s barely alive
Shapes in the dark
Lust a blood ritual
No open casket at the moon burial
The man next door says he’s ready to die
You know I hate to go
Like a stray on shoot ‘em dogs road
The club let out
When it all went down
Could have been your brothers keeper
But never quite his equal
The man next door looked up to the sky
You know I hate to go
Like a stray on shoot ‘em dogs road
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Died Never
03:55
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I want to feel this forever
I was born young but died never
I stood before you and exclaimed
Beacon Hill time is running away
Do you remember when we were trashed?
You just laughed and poured me another
It’s gone, you’re just putting me on.
I want to hold this forever
Hopeless friends start to look weathered
Ironic wallpaper covered in stains
Put off your disdain for one more day
I was a dreamer of all that’s trite
His laughter tailed off into the night
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Hoping For The Worst
03:29
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Always hoping for the worst
A poison pill remedy
Writing all your favourite words
From your dark reveries
Hope is a madman, hope is a dream
Deaf to doom's prophecies
But will an ill omen succeed
To keep away tragedy?
This could be the best to come
Because you hoped for the worst but were wrong
Always hoping, for better or worse
Up the never leveling hill
Faithfully waiting for the change
Though nothing ever seems that it will
And hope is a vision where you see me fail
But I win, again and again
And maybe your ship has already set sail
Before you ever reached the end
This could be the worst to come
Because you hoped for the best but were wrong
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Another headline, Carson Crescent
Violent murder unrelated
To the drug trade or its segments
Read the paper's annotation
Are you feeling strange when your life's a runaway?
Years before, Wild Scallion
Afterparty after the show
My friend Carson and all of his friends
Sharing our thoughts but what did we know?
And I grew tired and so I left
Carson told me "I'm right behind you"
Two weeks later was when he died
But in that moment he was very much alive
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