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Bloody Knees
01:54
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The air feels like the summer when I first learned how to ride a bike, I must have fell a billion times. I wish I felt the same determination. Eventually we all run out of people to run to when we hurt ourselves. At some point or another everyone tells you "you've gotta learn how to fend for yourself".
Maybe I am tired of bloody knees, the way my skin feels on the concrete. It was easier with people to run to. It was easier in a world that cared.
Who's supposed to pick me off the ground? Who's supposed to clean these wounds?
I miss the world, the way it was, and I hope I get to see it again soon.
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2. |
Bootstraps
02:04
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Life taught me alot about recession romantics
We could spend all night asking why
But baby thats just semantics
Its not tragic nor dramatic
Its just the way that is
Like how my fathers just a problem
And so are all of his kids
i pick myself up with my bootstraps
I let myself down with my actions
I came here to get fucked up and bury my friends
And im all out of friends
Life taught me a lot about knowing my limits
And one day realizing that your limits are bullshit
And If this is all i get
Then i get is a waste
And if this life is bittersweet
Ill learn to love the taste
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la da da's
There's gotta be more to life
than taking a pill and taking another pill
and hoping that one of these pills work one of these days
and drugs have always been
just a replacement for the love i never got as a kid
the love that I wanted, the love that I deserved
I've been complacent since inslavement as a kid I went to placement
and it's all been the same since, I just rot in my basement
I look for escapement in the dreams that I am chasing
call it lazy call it patient, either way the truth is time is wasting
I've gotta find something better than this
find something that works or at least works half the time
I've gotta find something better than this
find something that works or at least works half the time
maybe the mountain of trash outside my backdoor
is a giant metaphor for my life
ill be rotting summer heat concrete
til the day I finally die
looking for seratonin but settling on dopamine when I can
one of these days things will get better or things will all just end
find a reason find a purpose
make it golden make it perfect
and if you find it hurts it's
just a sign that it's all worth it
and to say if something's worth it
then it's probably just cursed
cause thing's only get worse
til you're lying in a hearse I tell ya
I've gotta find something better than this
find something that works or at least works half the timeI've gotta find something better than this
find something that works or at least works half the time
I've gotta find something that works
I've gotta find something that works
la da da's
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4. |
The Greatest Arsonist
04:57
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I drink myself to sleep
Though i know that its not healthy
But its eight hours or a liver
No matter what the doctor tells me
And it hurts knowing that everything hurts
And it hurts knowing its bad but it probably only gets worse
And i sing a lot about feeling down
Its been a while since everyone was around
I hope i find what im looking for
When i move on to the next town
I hope that all i needed was some new sights and sounds
I hope that all i needed was for my feet to find some new ground
And when i leave this town
Im gonna do us all a favor
Fill the back of my car up with cans of gasoline
Gonna burn this city down
And everyone will call me
The greatest arsonist that this world has ever seen
Every church every bank
Every bar every mistake
Its all gonna go up in ash
Just the same
Every friend every bridge
All the broken promises
Itll all feel brand new
Like it did when we were kids
my girlfriend thinks that I have cancer
I'd go in but I'm scared of the answer
if there's a heaven ill see god
and ask what the fuck was your plan sir
it seems like you forgot about a little place
in north dakota
where the police tried murdering hundreds
just to match some kind of quota
im sick of freezing in the cold for no fucking good reason
other than ive been too depressed to leave no matter the season
it seems like this place has completely ran out of things for me
and I refuse to let izzi's 21st be the be the last time I felt happy
And when i leave this town
Im gonna do us all a favor
Fill the back of my car up with cans of gasoline
Gonna burn this city down
And everyone will call me
The greatest arsonist that this world has ever seen
Every church every bank
Every bar every mistake
Its all gonna go up in ash
Just the same
Every friend every bridge
All the broken promises
Itll all feel brand new
Like it did when we were kids
I'm gonna do what it takes to be happy and if I die trying than that's alright
I'm gonna do what it takes to be happy and if I die trying than that's alright
I'm gonna do what it takes to be happy and if I die trying than that's alright
I'm gonna do what it takes to be happy and if I die trying than that's alright
Every church every bank
Every bar every mistake
Its all gonna go up in ash
Just the same
Every friend every bridge
All the broken promises
Itll all feel brand new
Like it did when we were kids
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5. |
No Home
02:03
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There is no home from Bismarck to Harrisburg
there is no home without you
there is comfort in a flipped flaming car
there is comfort in change
there is comfort in you
there's no sense in staying in one place
no sense in moving just to move
there's no comfort in feeling lost
but there's comfort in being lost with you
there's no home in Ohio
big enough to fit all our ego and dreams
there's no basement big enough
to echo all our frustrated screams
there's no sense in staying in one place
no sense in moving just to move
there's no comfort in feeling lost
but there's comfort in being lost with youthere's no sense in staying in one place
no sense in moving just to move
there's no comfort in feeling lost
but there's comfort in being lost with you
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6. |
We Don't Die Alone
04:53
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I was born with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck
And ever since then I've been thinking about putting something back around it
I dont mean to be dramatic
I hate this body i inhabit
Life aint what i imagined
So i put my hope in packs of matches
someday i will bury my father
and we'll regret getting so out of touch
maybe i should have called or sent a text or a letter
shit it wouldn't have taken much
someday I will not come home just like that cat you miss so much
will you cry for me?
will you miss me like you missed your baby?
white walls, white sheets, in this hospital room they blind me
as the doctor says we should have a specialist, look at this
cause your'e the right type of person
for this right type of cancer
the room goes black and I can feel my mortality
and it scares the shit out of me
it hurts cause it's supposed to
it hurts cause it's supposed to hurt
i'm lost becuase i'm supposed to
i'm lost because i'm supposed to be lost
we all die
but we don't die alone my friends
we all die
but we don't die alone my friends
this isn't the end
I pretend
that my ship isn't sinking
it's a all a lie
til the part where the truth begins
it's all sinking in
it's a giant dead end
I can't fix this by drinking
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7. |
To a Science
01:50
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You're such a fucking drag
Drag me behind your car
We can pick up pieces of me
from here to fargo
and satan if you're there
I've got a good soul to sell
and I'll sell it cheap
and I'll sell it
And I've got this
I've got this down to a science
and you'll get
you'll get what you deserve
You're such a fucking fake
I don't know who I think I am
I'm becoming a person
I don't think that I can stand
and satan if you're there
I've got a good soul to sell
and I'll sell it cheap
and I'll sell it
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8. |
Special Report
00:29
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Coming live to you from small town USA, where a single frustrated person as managed to set their entire hometown on fire, block by block. Chaos ensues, motive is unclear, but for now we do know that this is the greatest arsonist that this world have ever seen. Back to the studio for more information on this breaking story.
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9. |
What's Next
02:09
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So you burnt the city down
Tell me what's next?
Can you help me find purpose
inbetween the ashes?
You think you had it found out
but it was all in your head.
You could've had it all
but chose to burn it instead
and I've got nine lives
but only one liver
and I've got a good promise
but I can't deliver
and I cut ties like a pair of dull scissors
tried to cut it out my life and just replace it liquor
all I wanted was a smoke
when all this life was a drag
all i wanted for something to tell me it's all okay
so we can replace the bars and churches
with nothing but embers
this place is all but memories
I don't wanna remember
and if it turns out I'm not dying
then this flame goes forever
we can burn down every dead end town
from no place to wherever
and I'll be the greatest arsonist
this world has ever seen
and thinking I was dying
just ignites this gasoline
we created something
bigger than even our wildest dreams
this fire doesn't get put out
it spreads far beyond me
all I wanted was a smoke
when all this life was a drag
all i wanted for something to tell me it's all okay
we don't burn out
we don't burn out
we don't burn out
we don't burn out
all i wanted was a smoke
when all this life was a drag
all i wanted was for something to tell me it's all okay
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10. |
As it is Lonely
02:59
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the best thing about thinking you're dying
is you learn to live each day like your last
I've spent six months just trying to feel alive
trying to feel like something good can last
and its lonely as it is lovely
knowing that I'm not gonna die
the best thing about burning down to your hometown
is that you get to decide which place feels like home next
and if no place felt like home in the first place
than we can always go and make a home out of the wreck
and its lovely as it is lonely
knowing home is where the heart is
"I don't remember our past two conversations but it appears when I am blackout wasted I go to you in search of answers and wisdom. I'd take that as somewhat as a compliment"
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11. |
Funerals and Pub Crawls
03:00
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I can't be like the other kids here
I never traded in my personality for a pickup truck
My parents never gave me much
I was living out a car by the time i finished high school
The best part about small towns is that they burn with less matches
The worst thing about small towns is everything always feels so much more tragic
Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be
There were thing thats came easy to me
That didnt come so easy for my father
Like getting clean, living the dream,
and keeping tabs one one another
People say phrases "like father like son"
and while im doomes to his mistakes i will learn from them
The cycle will break
And I'll leave it's pieces behind
Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be
I'll be better for me
When i have to be
Ill be ready to go
When i have to leave
You called and asked if we could hang out
Now im in your passenger seat
Holding a big bag of weed
And your rear blinker is broken
So we can only take right turns
This is a life thats got a hold of me
Its something i can not escape
Its something that always finds me
I swear if we get pulled over
That im not eating this all by myself
Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be
I'll be better for me
When i have to be
Ill be ready to go
When i have to leave
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Straight Line Arrival Fargo, North Dakota
Straight Line Arrival is an independent emo-punk band out of Fargo. Started in 2015 as a solo project of Sable Sky, SLA now includes Tim Julio and Michael Hansen.
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