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Postcards from Paradise America

by Crookshanks

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1.
Overreacting but I can't help The way things are going lately And how everyone's leaving but me I've picked up complaining as a regular hobby But I can't stand The way this town Makes me feel like I just gotta get out I've been dragging my feet Over wet concrete for years now, Ended up stuck in the ground Always knew that this fucking day would come And I'm done with all those remarks I hear you make, About my time and how it's all going to waste All I know you want at the end of the day. Is for me to try to (GET MY LIFE STRAIGHT) Tell me how do you have a say When it's my life to live in the first place Always knew That this day would come (When the decision to stay to or run) Would be the only thing I was ever thinking of ALWAYS KNEW! That this fucking day would come When the decision to stay or to run Would be the only thing that I was ever thinking of.
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Merit Roll 03:04
I'm writing to an old address, a letter I probably won't even send They're just thoughts stuck in my head, I can't get out I'm writing them down in pen So to all of my old friends Who I might now see again, just know I don't know what happened, I fucked things up You'll see it time and time again And it seems to me That I can't compete with gravity, As it brings me back down, To my knees, When you turn your back on me But this defeat Is only reminding me that life, Is never what, you planned it out to be I tried to give it my all, but receive nothing And I've been building up strength, To break this to you in the only way that (I KNOW) But i'd rather just go home And I've been starting to question the way That you look at me, Like I'm not who you thought I'd turn out to be I was the icing on your cake, and made it taste so bitter-sweet I'm not waiting for change I need this now Been holding myself back and I want out I know I messed things up, i know I let you down But I've been trying to turn that all around And this is me Breaking free from Everything you thought I'd be (Everything you thought that I would be) I'm not running from something or living for nothing I've got a lot on my mind to think about I know I messed things up, I know i let you down I'm not running from something, or living for nothing, I've been trying to figure this life out
3.
Luelda 03:26
Theres nothing left, waiting for you You know it's the truth, just pick up and leave And I guess It's that voice inside your head, telling you its not as simple as it seems Still haven't made a dent, in this fucked up mess of a world that I've been living in You've got a long to go man, You're a long way from home man And that voice inside of my head that's been telling me to stay strong and to try my best must have suffered a dent cuz i don't know where it went and my chances of leaving this place have been wearing thin and I woke up with this feeling today that things are never gonna change and i'm just hoping that it's something i can shake Is this what you wanted? Time to be responsible for what you've started And I start to wonder why I always toss and turn at night and I guess, there's just too much, things that are alway on my mind is this what you wanted time to be responsible for what you've started I hope you feel accomplished
4.
Well Said 02:51
Steadily losing my youth I can feel it in the way I speak I can't even hear my voice anymore And everything just sounds like noise to me And I'm just trying to find time between keeping sane and losing my mind It comes as no suprise, I'm just someone that you don't like And I've been trying way to hard to try to see eye to eye Cuz in the end, I'm still the same old kid, with a lot less friends and a whole mess of events that I've been dieing to forget The world is pushing me down on my bed, now I'm hitting the floor face first when I was just trying to find a place to lay my head And honestly I'm starting to view this all as just one tattered page in a book written on catastrophe what happening I'm steadily Steadily losing it And i'm just trying to find time between keeping sane and losing my mind Before you go, just stop just wait been trying to find a way to compensate for all these long lost years of tragedy been hoping that some day I'll feel the same but I guess that I've been steadily steadily steadily losing it.
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I think about the way you realize life is nothing but a game but it's a bit to late to try to teach yourself just how to play And I burnt down the house that I built in your name, Just for the warmth of all the flames Hope the smoke will fog up, my memory Stop asking me, what's been happening I already know it now It's nothing new to me And I've been trying the best I can to try to deal with this without lending out my hand but it's like I'm getting out of the fire and into the frying pan I've had this pain in my ear for the past three weeks Sometimes I sit and I wish I couldn't hear a thing Say what you want, I swear, I'm not listening I'm not listening Still not listening

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released September 1, 2012

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