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Do you wonder why people walk all over you?
It's because you're too naive for your own good
You can try all you want but you'll never carry it through
When it implies trusting people, which you can't do...
Oh, I know, you can't help those who
don't ask, for it first, but it hurts to
watch you, struggle, over something so simple
(even) I could do
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Do you love yourself the way that your parents do?
And if they don't, well, at least the way they should.
They should've never projected their failures onto you,
They had no idea how bad it'd fuck you up.
Bet you, never, thought you could hurt another
And you'd ignore those fantasies
In which you get your revenge, or take it out on someone innocent
Who deserves better
Everybody's got something dark within them
It's a cursed place called "hell"...
Will you be Cain? Or will you be Abel?
... to live with yourself
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I won't tell you, if you don't tell me
'bout a relationship we're in, apart
It'd only serve, to make us feel worse
than necessary, bunny
I still think about the day
you told me I destroyed you, so you'd destroy me in return
I was at work when I cried in front of a bustling crowd of patrons,
but luckily, nobody noticed me
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Anytime you told me about
People you've been with before, at all
I know we weren't together yet, but it still hurt to hear about, from you
I still think about the time
You told me I was too rational to be spiritual
You were so right, it hurt
And it felt worse to be compared to others
Do you remember
The time I said
"I wish I had amnesia,
so I could meet you again"?
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Bunnyless (for Jacquie)
04:33
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I miss a bunny
and relapse to where I need
a little solace (sometimes)
I miss that rabbit,
she was addicted to life
and all of it's things
(instrumental)
I miss that rabbit,
jumped over the moon and
disappeared forever
I miss that bunny,
'got too close and
now she's gone forever
A relationship built
on anything but the truth
is doomed
heed this, listen...
please
But if I love her, and I know I do
I should let her be free
(And the same... for me)
(I miss you, sometimes)
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In Eight Years...
03:05
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A year or two in the making...
(well three... just about)
In eight years, you'll be four years older
(than me...)
I'm SO alone!
When you're not around to talk to
Some days there's things
I really wanna say to you... (or show you...)
But I can't... so I won't
I'm in love... with a girl
Sometimes it feels like I'm missing
someone important to my life
Then I realize It's You, it's Always You
and I deny it and try to move on...
You're ON my mind!
You're all the time...
I wish you were mine, and
I wish I was yours
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Selah
05:45
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Constantly listening to depressing music
All the anxiety pills make me feel sick
Feel like I've never been happy before, nor will I be again
Days go by... no sign of an end
Wish I could be murdered
So I wouldn't have to do it myself
My friends will feel anger!
Instead of remorse and regret...
When I starve myself to death
I feel the pain, I deserve it
When I think about the future
Life's not worth it
(I don't think I'm
Ever gonna eat again)
Wishin' I never met you so you wouldn't be sad
When I pass
Wishin you outta my life
Not from dislike, but 'cause I love you a lot
And if we don't work out, that really scares me...
just the thought
(and now that you're gone
well...)
I'm constantly on the verge of another
Panic attack
Having to plan my schedule
Based around that
I want change, but I fear it
I want everything the same, but I hate it!
And now you're gone, oh God...
Now you've gone.
Voy a sentir mejor, en Selah
Voy a sentir bien, cuando pasara
Sentire mejor, en Selah
Yo, sentire mejor, cuando pasara
Invite me to your sister's wedding
And your dad's funeral
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Solace
05:25
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Feel so tired, every night
Feel inadequate at the sight of other's success
Nothing gives me solace anymore, it seems
I'll, stay in my room and I'll lock the door... again
I don't know what to do at all anymore, these days
Another week like this, and I think I'll go insane
Insane
Insane...
(instrumental)
Don't know when but there's gonna be a day
Sometime in the future when I'm gonna pass away
Might be tomorrow, or in a few decades
All I know's that there's gonna be a day
I can't help but think back, to my cursed childhood
And all the time's I'd given up and taken comfort in
The pity and attention and the inverse of pride
And I don't like myself...
[a mantra]
I regret so much
And I will regret so much
There is nothing left
and there will be nothing left
The feeling that all
feeling never mattered at
all haunts me each day
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A Shiba Texas
A Shiba is a small solo project by some lame guy in Texas. Initially acoustic and folky, soon came elements of field
recordings, sampling, freak folk, and noise rock.
Later came math rock, slowcore and emo influences. We'll see what the future holds.
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