Jack White - Love Is Blindness [U2 cover]
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you are the coffin
I am doing just fine, thank you
I know how much you like to keep in touch
so you can talk about it
and you said, who was that, who were you talking to?
is that the reason you’re too scared to go downtown?
and talk about it.
she said it’s my own body, I did what I wanted
ever since god made me bleed
he is a pedophile, you are the coffin
and you’re the reason that I can’t breathe
I’ll sleep inside of your chest
and fight those thoughts in your head
some say we should take a rest
I think I’d rather be dead
her own body, she did what she wanted
ever since god made her bleed
if he’s a pedophile you are a monster
and you’re the reason that I can’t sleep
here’s the first track to my new album titled sleep. it’ll be on itunes, amazon, spotify, and just about everywhere else later this week. if you like what you hear you can preorder the tape! but more than anything i just want people to listen to it, which is why you can stream the whole album for free right here.
sleep
i lose control of my heart
i can’t keep up without losing my breath
it’s been this way from the start, i need rest
i’ll go to sleep at a decent time
when i find something worth waking up for
the days are long when i keep checking my phone
to see you haven’t called at all
and this is where i die
oh i thought i was the best part of your life
oh i thought i was the only one inside
now i’m pretty sure that i
i was wrong.
this is another one of those songs that was kind of hard to record. it includes a couple lines that, though simplistic, proved to be a little much for me at the time. “now I’m haunted by all these holes found in my armor / and if my heart beats any harder - I will lose it”. I guess I just felt that it revealed too much of myself. or maybe I write about other people so often that when the time comes to be introspective I become offended or even hurt by the things I try and cover up. whatever the reason, I’m glad I finished, because it’s turned into one of my favorite lines of the whole album. in a positive way.
you can listen to the rest of the album right here.
don’t call me at all
it’s not that I don’t have words to say
I just don’t want to be the one that speaks them
I’d rather keep it secret until we reach it
so I’ll rest my head on the glory of this sorrow
I know its hard to swallow, but tomorrow
we’ll start new
and I remember the lines I thought that I’d forgotten
“your only flaw is that you’re flawless”
I’m so full of shit, I’m surprised you bought it
but to say that I don’t care is more or less astounding
because I wrote an entire album about us drowning
wasn’t that enough?
now I’m haunted by all these holes found in my armor
and if my heart beats any harder I will lose it
well congratulations, I didn’t know
you two had made things so official
just don’t call me when it fizzles
in fact, don’t call me at all.
this is the last track of Side A on my new tape, it felt like an appropriate way to end the songwriting portion of an album titled sleep. you can listen to the rest of the songs right here.
it’s thursday, january 12th and this is the last time i’ll talk about drowning
phone in my pocket, what a wonderful day
thinking of something that I should say
but I can’t hold you responsible anymore
I don’t know what I’m thinking
I’m lost now in the thrill of it
but I’m not giving up until I am free
because that’s where I’m supposed to be
but I get so lost in the thought of life
that I forget to start living mine
I can feel it’s weight on my chest
like I am drowning
and I get so lost in the thought of life
that I forget to start living mine
I can feel it’s weight on my head
like I am sleeping
like I am dreaming.
a million missed calls
“I called you up again today and you didn’t pick up. It’s weird. I didn’t expect it to happen this quickly, you know? The thought of growing apart before we ever really knew each other. And now, now I don’t fucking have a life. I sit here and I worry about myself so much that it’s almost offensive when other people worry about me. But you, it was different with you. It’s like I wanted you to care, I wanted you to be nosy. I wanted you to be there. And I know it’s stupid of me to say you don’t care, of course you do. But I want you to care so much more. I want you to care so much that it annoys me, that it annoys everybody around us.
So all you really left me with was an empty chest, and all I left you with was a million missed calls. But that’s okay, because one day you’ll know that I tried. and at the end of each day I can rest my head easy telling myself that I tried.”i notice this is getting reblogged a lot right now!
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