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I close my eyes and see trees growing and everything falling

by Caleb Jones & The Family Band

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1.
Drugface 04:03
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Blossoming at last Your skin removed, revealing blood and glass Show me where it hurts, I can fix you Wrapping paper nerves, ribbons, and tissue Phase one is complete, this is the inside Day's the enemy; we live in the night This is nothing new; you've always had insight If nothing else is true, this moment is mine You're blossoming at last You've been in bloom since three summers back Show me where it's bruised, I will drink it Open wide your tomb, nothing is secret
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Sons 06:06
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I don't think of you in color My memory focuses on other things Like the creases in your grin or the way your eyes shine when I tell you just about anything I don't think of you completely You're pieces floating around in my head The lips that take me home, the skin that's on your bones The pictures of us pretending we're dead I'd burn myself down without you I'd tear myself out of this place You're a forest full of trees All that I'm asking for is one or two leaves You're on a mountain that's way too high Don't be afraid to roll down the side I will be your ground You can be my sky I don't think of you in pictures You're moving, you're constantly moving through me The ocean of your hair, the waves that leave me bare And floating through a hurricane I'd rather be empty than alone But just before cynicism took hold of my bones The way that you trust and your love for all things disgusting Gave me a hope and a home Our love isn't flowery and pink It's not written in crayon, it's written in ink Most of the time you make me lose my mind But I'd rather just kiss you than think I've always had a pretty decent heart Most of the time it was being eaten by sharks You swam through it and blew bubbles into it And now it's a little less dark Our love is a giant machine Keeping my alive like the air that I breathe With every breath I take I can feel my legs break You are the wheelchair I need I'm just a ferris wheel Spinning around, looking for something to feel When I'm lost in the world, you're my carnival girl You remind me that I am still real
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Medication 04:27
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Medication, I feel it in my blood It's been chasing the pills out of my love I can taste it deep below my tongue I have wasted every second I was young Everything I fell into made me Every heart I tore in two saved me Every time I followed you, parading through You said "Don't you ever believe anything I say to you? I don't care if you sing anything I play for you." Open windows, transparency is key I can hear those birds above the trees Little people crawl beneath my feet All their secrets bounce off of my knees
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Too Cute to Punch 03:57
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You're not in my dreams You're lying next to me in our altar bed We don't ever sleep We summon up the demons from out of my head You have never been afraid of me So why start now I have never been afraid You're an exorcist in the name of love Your heart is drenched in baby's blood I'd clench my fists, but they're still too young And you're too cute to take a punch You don't know my name You only know my face when it's pressed against glass I'd kill myself and set you free But I'm too selfish to let you leave You're my sanity You have never been afraid of me (I don't know how) I have always been so afraid You're an exorcist in the name of love Your heart is drenched in our baby's blood I'd clench my fists, but I'm not so tough You're too cute to take a punch Father, son, and holy girl Sacred texts in a sexless world I act so strong, but I'm full of it And you're too cute to take a hit Sometimes we don't get along like we used to Most times I feel like all I do is fail you Just before I have time to pull out my insides I hear you laugh and it gets me by You're not in my brain You're in the poison rain that raises the dead You're an exorcist in the name of love Your heart is drenched in our baby's blood I'd clench my fists, but It's not enough You're too cute to ever punch
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Baudelaire 03:20
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Violet, put a ribbon in your hair and tie it There's always something under there I'm finding it hard to watch the way you're always sad Your brother imagines nothing's real when he reads Your sister isn't old enough to see You're the only one here who believes in anything I don't think this is how it's supposed to be All the other kids have a family But you're just here with me Violet, you always know exactly what to do You're taking care of everyone but you Maybe that's the reason you're so blue (blue violet) Your mother was the only person that made you feel free She loved you the same way you love me The apple doesn't fall far from the tree Does it, lovely? Violet, you're the only orphan that I know That's not afraid of where she's going to go Just tie that pretty ribbon into a bow There's always something
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As Priests 04:45
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You were sleeping while we were afraid of the storm I was thinking that I should have never followed you away from my home Ever since that evening, I've been wondering what you were dreaming of I only dream of sinking boats I was falling in love with her long blonde hair You told me that if she didn't love me, I wasn't allowed to care Since that conversation, I've been trying to place my faith in God But I would only die for Marianne I was choking down pills, You were holding my hand I was thinking that all of the medicine couldn't make me feel like I did Ever since that season, I've been trying to find some meaning, God Why can't I trust You again? Burn our bodies with fire, we won't die Throw us in with the lions, they'll sleep and we will sleep next to them Lay us deep in the earth, we will still rise On that glorious days as priests
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Carnival Girl 04:22
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God must have taken His time on you Placing every feature precisely where He wanted to I couldn't have done a better job myself With your happy birthday eyes and the mind of a train derailed I was just a ferris wheel, spinning around in my own little world You're what keeps me going My carnival girl God must have been keeping an eye on me He knew that you were exactly what I'd need I couldn't have found you all by myself When a poor man finds treasure, you know he must have had some help I was just a tiny tree, hoping to show my leaves to the world You're what keeps me growing My carnival girl God must have been keeping an eye on us If I were Him, by now, I would've given up But I could never love anyone as much Our hands were made to hold each other Our lips were made to touch I was just a lonely man, trying to find my way in the world Until I met my carnival girl
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Dolores 06:31
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Laughing at Water 03:15
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One more step and I'll be home Swimming past every inch of your bones I can say with confidence: Nothing good will ever come from this Laughing at all the water here How do we expect to breathe? Mother and father, cover your ears (When do we expect to leave?) Falling back to sleep as soon as I wake up
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Oliver 04:05
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Jesus, I'm falling into my own head again Please just let me be a little kid again When did it stop being real All of it Satan is crawling into my own bed again Saying the memories are the ones I read to him When did it stop being real All of it Doctors keep giving me the same old medicines Father, stop telling me things you don't understand When did it stop being real All of it Caleb, the name sounds more foreign than it ever did Say it deep in your mind so you can't forget When did I stop being real, Oliver?

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