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Bedtime Stories - Similar Smiles (For @nikisnotes & @jakrose)

When we met, we shared a lot.
We talked about the things we shared
And the things that we did not.

When we met, there was distance.
We had space and time between us
But there was no resistance.

Time passes, Clinked glasses
Learned about life
From all of the masses
Of people we brought
To the party we sought
To throw for the love of our lives.

Similar smiles.
Grew across miles.
I was there, you were here.
I would do anything to be near...

Similar smiles.

When first we met, we shared some things.
We talked about the ways, the means, the rings.

The rings around Saturn
The rings 'round the sun.
We talked about rings,
Until I gave you one.
Time passes, Clinked glasses
Learned about life
From all of the masses
Of people we brought
To the party we sought
To throw for the love of our lives.

Similar smiles.
Far fewer the miles.
Right now, I am where you are.
From here, I'll never be so far...

Similar smiles.

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Subway Stories - Slip and Fall

Broken hearted.
Broken boned.
Working on it all.
Getting it honed.

Token child.
Token home.
Weakness in it all.
Feel so alone.

Last time I fell in love
Was more a slip and fall.
Didn't know what I was in for
Couldn't see the sky
Couldn't see at all.

Stoke the fire.
Broken, mired.
Slip and fall
Is all.

Broken hearted.
Broken boned.
Working on it all.
Getting it honed.

Token child.
Token home.
Weakness in it all.
Feel so alone.

Last time I fell in love
Was more a slip and fall.
Didn't know what I was in for
Couldn't see the sky
Couldn't see at all.

Stoke the fire.
Broken, mired.
Slip and fall
Is all.

Stoke the fire.
Broken, mired.
Slip and fall
Is all.

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Barstool Blues - 'Good As Your Last Goodbye'

The day is done
Sun goes down.
Not a thing left
In this town

Since you left
The place is gone
My heart keeps singing
This old love song

You're as good as your last goodbye.
You couldn't look me in the eye
Couldn't even tell me why
You had to go on and get out of here.

Is it too much?
What is your fear?
Had to go chase that big career?
Well, it makes me wonder why...
You're as good as your last goodbye.

I didn't even say I love you when I left.
Couldn't begin to know how to fall upon that crest.
The world's harder, colder, bigger than before.
I could no longer take our every-morning-war.

The day ends
The sun goes down
Not a thing left
In this town

Since you left
The place is gone
My heart keeps singing
This old love song

You're as good as your last goodbye.
You couldn't look me in the eye
Couldn't even tell me why
You had to go on and get out of here.

Is it too much?
What is your fear?
Had to go chase that big career?
I don't know why...
You're as good as your last goodbye.

Good as your last Goodbye.

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Subway Stories - Pretty Sure I Know

I'm pretty sure I know
Who said the things
You said
I'm pretty sure I know
Who did the things
They did...to me.

Subtraction from reaction
Leaves little else behind.
Little doubt
As to who or what or why.

Floating to the surface...
Shows all the world's awry.
All the time that passes
Shows that all we do is die.

I'm pretty sure I know
Who did the things
They did...
I'm pretty sure I know
Who said the things
You said...about me.

Walking paces in my shoes.
Staring faces in the eye.
Footsteps stand empty
The sands of time...they fly.

It is all too precious
Time and sand and stone.
Breathe it in...spin around.
Feel it in the fiber of your bones.

I'm pretty sure I know
Who said the things
You said...
I'm pretty sure I know
Who did the things
They did...to me.

They don't know me...they don't know me. They don't know me...

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Subway Stories - 'Lonely'

In a room full of you,
I can't find an ounce full of me.
Drives me to drink
Drives me to sleep.

I would rather be lonely
Would rather be lonely
Than to be all alone with you.

Hidden from view
Are the things I do...
To keep a smile inside.
Hidden from you
Are the choices I make
That make me die.

I would rather be lonely
Would rather be lonely
Than to be all alone with you.

In a room full of you,
I can't find an ounce full of me.
Drives me to drink
Drives me to sleep.

Let's raise a glass
To the time passed away.
Learning all the things we must say
Are harder than things we must do.

Let's raise a glass
To the things that we did.
All the words that were said
To the end...

In a room full of you,
I can't find an ounce full of me.
Drives me to drink
Drives me to sleep.

I would rather be lonely
Would rather be lonely
Than to be all alone with you.

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Subway Stories - 'Some Friend'

How does a friend get rated?
How's a friend become a traitor?
Walk the tightrope between me and see...

If he's been banging your door
The minute I walked from the floor
What kind of friend of mine is that?
Some friend, some fiend
Same guy, same scene.

Wondering what you see in him
You didn't see in me.
What song I didn't sing?
What flowers didn't I bring?

If he's banging your door
The minute I walk from the floor
What kind of friend of mine is that?
Some friend, some fiend
Same guy, same scene.

Loyalty's a luxury
Love is yet a mystery
I get lost inside of me
Sinking in the misery.

How does a friend get rated?
How's a friend become a traitor?
Walk the tightrope between me and see...

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Subway Stories - 'If I Were Gone'

If I were gone...
If I'd erased myself
From this place
I held
If I were gone...

Would you find the courage you need
Would you find a way to exceed
This life you've lived
So far.

I know I cannot carry
All the things I want for me
Sad and barren lands
Lie between me and the sea.

If I were gone...
If I'd erased myself
From this place
I held
If I were gone...

Would you find the courage you need
Would you find a way to exceed
This life you've lived
So far.

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Subway Stories - 'On The Tracks'

Whatever falls on the tracks
Isn't as valuable as you are.
What if I left myself down there?
What if I fell...

The demons that posses me
Are the same that progress me
The horns they wear Are the same that tear...
At me.

Solemnity dictates direction
Proclivity consumes consumption
No matter where I run
There's a gun...

Whatever falls on the tracks
Isn't as valuable as you.
What if I left myself down there?
What if I fell...

I fell through a hole in a wall
Couldn't bear to see it all
Jumped back through time
Got back up to see the fall.

Slipping around time
Sliding through the haze.
Feeling like the world could end
Seeing the end of days...

Whatever falls on the tracks
Isn't as valuable as you are.
What if I left myself down there?
What if I fell...

The demons that posses me
Are the same that progress me
The horns they wear Are the same that tear...
At me.

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Barstool Blues - 'Found My Wings Without You'

Always hoped you'd be there...
Figured that you cared
Enough to be around
To see me in the end.

Turns out I didn't need you
Like Dorothy's ruby slippers
Or air without a song
I found that getting home
Was up to me all along.

I found my wings without you.
Took a jump...and took flight.
I found the air I needed
To get pushed out of sight...

The cliffs look scary
From their own ledge
You have to get above
Flying, soaring dove....

Always figured I'd see you...
Thought you'd be around
Didn't think you were
Running around town.

Turns out I didn't need you
Like Dorothy' ruby slippers
Or air without a song
I found that getting home
Was up to me all along.

I found my wings without you.
Slipped out along the sky.
Never wondered where or why.
The sky, it is so blue...

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Subway Stories - Grey Grass

The breeze, it blows
Through blades of grass
Pushing air from ground to sky
Smiles pass from eye to eye.

I wonder...like anyone does...
I wondered what the grass was like
On the other side of this life.
All the grass I've seen and grown
Turned to black.
Lord how I want to go back...

I'd even take the grey grass
To this lifeless mass
This useless slack
Of black Clippings.

Looking at the way the sun sets on this world
Looking at the shape of the pain.
Seeing all the ways of the world...
Trade you some grass seed for grain...

I wondered what the grass was like
On the other side of this life.
All the grass I've seen turned to black.
Honey, how I need to go back...

Grey grass has color
Grey grass has structure
Shows signs of life

I'd even take the grey grass
To this lifeless mass
This useless slack
Of black Clippings.

Grass isn't always greener
On this side of life
Grey grass is improved
The blues and the hues
We once shared.

If the grass is always greener...
Why is mine so black?
If the grass is always greener,
Then why is mine all black?

The blades cut deeper than knives.
Leaving shreds and shards of me
Life's allergies swell up like hives.
Breathing in and out is key...

Avoidance and aversion...Life's little diversions.

Grass isn't always greener
On this side of life
Grey grass is improved
The blues and the hues
We once shared.

Turned to black...I want it back.

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