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by City Fiction

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Fingertips 02:11
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Why don't you and I head back inside? 'Cause it's just far too hot in our city of lies Why don't you and I just talk for awhile? Forget all what's outside The liars and cheats will pay for all their crimes Why don't you and I fall fast asleep? So we're pulled off from our cloud by falling in your dream Why don't you ever let your hair down? I don't think that it's a mess I'll run it through my fingertips.
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Tired of Goodbyes 05:07
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Years ago I was a simple soul There was no emptiness, no care for the world Now that I'm older worry has taken hold And uncertainty speaks with the loudest roar If I wouldn't worry, 'cause what good is that for I wouldn't be hurting, not anymore Friends stay in touch but they're now miles away The bond is just as strong but it's just not the same I knew just what I had, lost pieces of puzzle Now I'm a broken down car and I'm disassembled I hope they're happy and that they stay strong I hope they're happy 'cause they're better off This life feels empty with two more lives gone I could say that I miss them but it won't bring them back home
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Leave Me Alone 03:08
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Why can't we just make life easier or turn things around? Not be disappointing and make mama proud Could you do one thing for me and just shut your mouth? 'Cause the words that you speak are reminding me how This world is kind but only to few It's not kind to me but only to you You still have hope for me that I know I don't By reminding me that I can't call her my own Leave me alone, leave me alone You ask why I gave up but you'll never know Leave me alone, leave me alone No need to be optimistic to find good in life When mine's been killing me softly with the passing of time A forgotten memory in the back in my mind That returns solely to kill any love that I find
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Doors 04:18
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You'll open a door to find nothing in it You'll pour her a glass in hopes she'll stay one more minute You'll take back all of your things when she asks you to leave You'll say "I hope you have a nice life, sorry I was naive". You'll come back to the place where you parted ways The only thing left is the glass underneath are the stains Nothing here is yours, just an empty room Now only the door is what you keep coming back to *The "whispering meadows" was an (appropriate) inside joke with a friend. I forgot that was in there.
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Happy 05:23
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You've made a mess again You swear you'll clean up and try to pretend That you feel at home That you feel at home You wrote off all your ends You lie and write her name on your eyelids Is that good enough? Is that good enough? You worry about every little thing Soon you'll never escape You try to fit into every single space Eventually you will suffocate You wait You grow old You'll starve Dinner's getting cold Did you slip up when you tried Making amends for once in your life? Did it work out? Did it work out? Lost luck in your own defense Driving down your own dividends Are you happy now? Please be happy A shadow of what you used to be Your words have found their rest After all these years you've finally Found her as a silhouette Are you happy? Please be happy Are you happy? Please be happy
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Isabella 05:41
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Fourth of July under moonlight Plastic and wires light up the sky The smell of the smoke out by the lake Never knew why we stopped going, I miss that place Well the lake's drying out but we still got the house Isabella, why won't you cry? Bring us back your waters with tears that bring you life You always wait in winter and rivers flow in spring Won't you bring us back your waters when spring arrives again? Drought hits the town and you're drying up Your shoreline slides down where your waters once touched Branches that pierce right through your wake Show your old city beneath your young waves
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Three Words 04:28
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(One of the first songs I wrote) Letting the skin uncover the lenses we call eyes Don't we all feel that it's sometimes pointless to get out Out of the soft security we call our beds and Into a world that screws us over because it can Don't we all wish that we could all live like an open window Be open enough so that we could be read like a children's' book Instead we lock up so no one can read our true selves Rewrite the chapters to become what everyone else wants Don't we all try to make it alright with the words we say When we should just shut our mouths rather than try to fix them to make one stay We lie through our teeth as if experimenting as a last resort The final retort is nothing more than that three word phrase Those words will never sound as sweet As the first time they were said to me But it never tastes as bittersweet When I swallow them down What have I done to me? Never thought it'd be so poisoning I require all your sympathies I need them now These words could you now please repeat I promise it won't mean a thing It's not so hard there's only three Let them escape from your mouth What have I done to me? I am nothing of what I swore to be I have only made my own disease And I fall apart

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Demos that never made the final cut, I forgot I even wrote some of these.

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released May 21, 2014

all songs by alex howe, happy was co-written with logan archer

recording: alex howe
mastering: logan archer

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