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Felt Good to Be High
04:14
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When you called that night
it felt good to be paranoid with you
it felt good to be all alone with you
it felt good to be high
What a sweet disaster
when you revel in the sound
of someone else’s pain spiraling down
And on your knees,
you find yourself just following the fuse
cuz you kinda wanna find out
what you’d lose
Cuz when you called that night
it felt good to be paranoid with you
it felt good to be outta mind with you
it felt good to be high
And when you spent the night
it felt good to be all alone with you
it felt good to be so in love with you
it felt good to be high
Befitting Miss America
if it would please the court
The ceremony hinges on this sword
Your devastating revelations
from this age occur
so keep your head down
and get what you deserve
There’s nothing here
but danger by design now
There’s nothing here
but danger by design
Cuz when you called that night
it felt good to be paranoid with you
it felt good to be outta mind with you
it felt good to be high
And when you spent the night
it felt good to be all alone with you
it felt good to be so in love with you
it felt good to be high
So get away tonight and meet me
so we can go all wrong
Cuz I know I wanna make you sing along
Cuz when you called that night
it felt good to be paranoid with you
it felt good to be outta mind with you
it felt good to be high
And when you spent the night
it felt good to be all alone with you
it felt good to be so in love with you
it felt good to be high
it felt good to be all alone with you
it felt good to be high
it felt good to be so in love with you
it felt good to be high
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Made your masterpiece
out of salt and divine intervention from the cinema right
Said your talk was cheap,
and you were starting tonight
Quoting scenes from the unfortunate fight
If we never take a chance,
then we lose out
on all of the love from a crowd or a few
Trade it all for some morality play
where tomorrow will be just the same as today
It’s not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
So we stood unafraid at the county divide
Watching fireworks from Beverly Park
Heard our friends proclaim that we were two of a kind
Guess it meant that we were strapped to the ride
Execution of an elegant plan
Pulled a song from a hat, threw our stuff in a van
Beat a path down any road we could find
Watched a young Bette Davis fall over her lines
Not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
Staggering, it’s not staggering
how life can unwind
Close to me, when you’re close to me
I can still feel the tide
Consequence or no consequence,
we slaughtered ‘em, right?
So I stayed up late
and took some dust to the eyes
Read some messages from summer ’09
Had a laugh or three
then I called it a night
Cuz I guess we’ll never know how it ends
Left our book in the rain,
now the pages are wet
But when all your favorite actors are dead,
you insert yourself into the scenes in your head
Making movies from your memories past
as the late summer light
flickers down to its last
It’s better than nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s better than nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s better than nothing
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You needed a ride
I'm going all night
and not stopping now
You can roll down the window
to feel the cool air rushing by
We don't have to talk,
filling up space with the radio
I can see in your eyes
that lapses in judgment
are keeping you from exiting clean
Wrap your arms around light
til you smother it
Til you think of the right words to say
to explain why you gave up
Honey, I’m not here to tell you
just how you should be living
And it’s hard to purge dreams
when they won’t let you breathe
I did the same things
and I came out alive, but in pieces
I recognize just how obscene it can be
Drilling down
til the hole’s big enough in your hourglass
for the sand to slip out unrestrained;
til you’re haunted by nothing
Fifty odd kinks in your plan
make me feel like you’re winging this
and you don’t make sense
half the time when you speak
You can just sleep if you want,
there’s no light in this desert
And you get used to darkness
much more than you’d think
When you try
to wrap your arms around light
til you smother it
Til you think of the right words to say
to explain why you gave up
and drove all the way to L.A.
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4. |
Universe of One
05:04
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Your war-time resolution
to keep your story straight
has gone up in a plume of radiation,
while Tacoma twists between her fingers,
as another poet’s slight
Since Milee’s back in film school,
there’s no night’s sleep in sight
I swear I think I’ve seen you somewhere
and if I haven’t kept you awake
then there may still be time for us to make mistakes
You say you’re all about now…
The blackout curtains keep the day
from coming in or passing honest judgment
on your tin cups, the wage of sin,
I’ll stay here and bear witness
to your rebirth and fall
a universe of one
while you’re leading strangers down the hall
You swear you think you've seen me somewhere
and if I haven’t kept you awake
then there may still be time for us to make mistakes
I swear I think I’ve seen you somewhere
Your belladonna kept me awake
And if there’s still some time for us
to make mistakes…
I guess we’re all just stuck in art house
I guess we’re all just stuck in art house
You say you're all about now
So put your money
where your mouth has gotten you
around the corner from the agency
that’s got you on a route,
while you’re rolling in on dirty sheets…
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Christopher David Chicago, Illinois
Chris is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter. He writes songs about people who love/hate each other, people who love AND hate each other, conspiracies, and cryptozoology.
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