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flight 299 01:10
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i've been looking for something i can't find i've been hoping that i will come alive i've been looking for something all this time i've grown tired of feeding myself lies i've been thinking there's something on my mind i've been hanging from far too long a line i've been looking for something all my life i've been looking for something all my life i've been looking for something i can't find i've been hoping that i will come alive i've been hanging for far too long a time i've been waiting for something all my life
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i don't even see what's wrong with it if it keeps me safe what's a few goddamn people i can't appreciate you know why i'm going so fast cause i know where i'm going i say with a red face forget to hit the brakes i don't pray to god before i sleep And i curse every time i speak no you're not wiser than me no you're not stronger than me i don't pray to god before i sleep (no southern gentleman) and i curse every time i speak (no southern gentleman) no you're not wiser than me (no southern gentleman) no you're not stronger than me
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ravioli 01:10
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it's been a hard fucking day i'm not sorry for being gay i'm not sorry for the things i say it's just been a hard fucking day i don't give a shit about you or anything you want me to do and if you ever let me get married well don't worry it won't be to you i know you've been reading your bible i know you think it's moral law and I know you think that i'm different well fuck yeah i'm not like you at all and if your 21 year old mistress can get fake tits then so can i and if your 21 year old mistress can suck dick then so can i it's been a hard fucking day i'm not sorry for being gay i'm not sorry for the things i say i'm not sorry for being gay i'm not sorry for the things i say you're just an ignorant homophobic sonofabitch asshole today
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memories 01:08
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sleepy eyes 03:53
sometimes when i ride my bike i like to see people in the houses and the trees waiting in the front yard, watching over me sometimes when i drive my car i think i'll be making my life into my dreams but i can't be waiting for that to become reality i've been living every day the same wishing all my debts could be paid now it's time to let old ways fade and forgive myself for mistakes i've made forgive myself for mistakes i've made sometimes when i wear my old clothes i feel like the same man in a different year but i know i'm doing better i know i'm feeling better my dear sometimes when i cut off my hair and there's nothing left about which i care except your sleepy eyes in the morning your sleepy eyes in the morning that let me know that let me know myself i can bear myself i can bear myself i can bear it's your sleepy eyes in the morning that let me know that let me know myself i can bear sometimes when i ride my bike i like to see the people in the houses and the trees waiting in the front yard, watching over me
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cash makes the line go faster all your friends are bastards to evolve and grow, to change to stimulate and be stimulated cash makes the line go faster all your friends are bastards
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salt and pepper hair, he's got his tie to wear spends his whole damn life trying to be a millionaire drives a real nice car, vacations in del mar buys his kid a pony so she can feel like a star he likes to sleep with a lady whose name is not katie cause that's the name of his wife and he hasn't been touching her lately he's gonna vote for mitt romney cause obama's a commy or so he thinks but I think his thoughts are folly he never says he is sorry, he never shows up tardy when he goes to weekly meetings to support the tea party he thinks guantanamo would be a pretty cool place to go to teach some dirty muslims they can't just show up in the united states and expect any fate different than a death sentence and not a moment to late cause there's gonna be a fight from anyone whose not white and he's so sure cause he's got a college degree in being an asshole and if you're gay you'd better get out of his way cause him and his jesus don't have the time of day to consider you're a human being with eyes for seing and a heart for loving, and a voice for singing about the chatter of your soul when your heart's being shattered so what if you like men or women, why the fuck does it even matter? his explanation is that two men or even two women then again can't raise a baby but divorced heteros can well he's wrong, well he's wrong, he's wrong cause I've got straight parents and I'm fucked
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one hundred and eighty two days have gone by but not one i haven't felt like i could die i never knew that six months could be such a long long time pat the bunny told me to hold on for my life to keep fighting and loving and to hold my head high and i cried i listened to him sing and ran my ass down the street till i couldn't be held up by my weak little feet anymore and i told myself when i dream i go to places that aren't real and every time i breathe now every breath I take I steal so on that night i promised myself to put this habit high on the top shelf, out of reach but it's still there in the back of my mind it's still there, still there pestering me one hundred and eighty two days have gone by and maybe i don't really want to die i've made it one hundred and eighty two days so bring on one hundred and eighty two more because i know my heart is a muscle the size of my fist capable of enough strength to fight it's way through all of this and now when i dream i see things that i know are real and when i breathe now to take a breath i don't need i dont need to steal
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i'd be a fucking mess without you i think i would've turned out different but say hey to myself in the future i hope he's doing better i hope he's been good to you i'd be a fucking mess without you i'd never eat my dinner and i'd never go to sleep i'd never write you letters and i'd still be eating cheese i'd be a fucking mess without you cause you make everything a little easier please don't go to your show tonight just stay home with me and hold me till i feel alright cause theres a child in my heart who still needs a lot of love and someone to put a bandaid on his finger when there's blood just promise you'll look after him and don't let him get too thin this child in my soul has a bad habit to sin i'd be a fucking mess without you i think i would've turned out different but thank god I turned out like this thank god I turned out like this
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home 01:53
i've been seeing all that i've ever done in my life and i know i could've done better had i not been caught up in a lie all along just let me come home to you and take off my shoes and lay in our bed bearing the news that i miss you when i let you out of my sight cause i can never find anything worth my time only you've heard it all before we started this war i know it's cliche but i just can't go another day with you i just can't go another day without you
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these are songs about coming and going, belonging and being home.
recorded in various bedrooms throughout the summer of 2012.

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released October 5, 2012

house to myself records
housetomyself.bandcamp.com

songs by david hagen
drums by sean mangen

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