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Bated Breath
01:04
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Frileuse
04:54
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I fail to recognize a threat
Should've known you were the mole
Uncompromised by crooked spine
A dandelion tailored to the role
They sent their best
But I'm still wishing that I'd kissed you in the cold
With the boldness of the frozen
Upon the unimpressed
Relentless
Vague as thunder
In control
Reduced by the girl in the gown
No use…but dutifully bound
Frileuse, you can't let me down
You can't let me down
Like yesterday's recluse
If I beg for you and liar's dice come true
Is that going to be enough? No
Is this going to be the touch that takes me?
I'm still warming up
Building blood
Making the familiar new
Second guessing
I'll be sorry tomorrow
But I'm taking the fall
For a chance to pretend
I am safely surrounded
When do I get to see you starlit again?
I’ve been detached from my embarrassment
By the spectacle
But no conspirator’s alone
Teach me the shame of calling forth your Christian name
Frileuse, you're tearing me down
I wish that I were man enough to blame you
But if you won't be allowed
Then why dirty a glass?
And why tarnish a vow
When you know someday I'll ask
To be the skyscraper next to yours
And tower one hundred floors
The skyscraper next to yours
A pillar of remorse
Painted black with the proof
Nameless and aloof
To see you waving back from the roof
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Too Little Too Late
03:38
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So quick to be wise
When my luck runs out, we improvise
Your heart’s on display
But I have nothing to say
Too fleeting to see
I prefer to paint it all from memory
Too restless to pose
So I begin with a ghost
The only gift I’ve left to give you
These promises may not outlive you
A little early to say
A little early to take down all the evidence
I’m no stranger to the sentiment wasted
Playing dead is no defense
No defense
Too little too late
We heard the world wake
I felt you tremble
After the earthquake
No one can tell you
Which way the bone breaks
Until it’s too late
Begin with my ghost
And bleed it ’til the curtains close
On all that awaits
I just stood there stammering at fate
Too little too late
We heard the world wake
I felt you tremble
After the earthquake
No one can tell you
Which way the bone breaks
Until it’s too late
The only gift I’ve left to give you
These promises may not outlive you
A little early to say
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Sandbox Tandem
04:58
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A sign of the times
This pale inquisition
Feeding the fire
Finding a way to start again
If I let you in on a few of my secrets
We could be fireside before the streets get cold
I’m falling apart the second the door locks
I noticed you there at the edge of the sandbox
The sun in your eyes
Of course you came
And sidled up to stake your claim
My child bride
A passing phantom
The autumn binds our hearts in tandem
Like we’re just a part of this innocuous regime
I’m falling apart the second the door locks
For another mirage at the edge of the sandbox
The haze in my eyes
We drew the line
That’s not to say it hasn’t crossed my mind
When I let you in
And we had no secrets
Feeding the fire
You brought out the best in me
But it wasn’t enough
Where was I when the veil was lifted from your dreams?
I’m falling apart the second the door locks
You were another mirage at the edge of the sandbox
The haze in my eyes
I’m now resigned to say you never cross my mind
Good luck
Good bye
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Republic
05:26
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It's worn as a badge
My display all for naught
Mulling us over and up to the top
Act overwrought by the underexposed
A mistake if you wake, a disgrace if I'm caught
When the world stands beside you with trembling toes
The world stands beside you and whispers
I fall in behind you
A brief intermission
To suck you beneath
The most I'd expect for inviting a thief
To the edge of relief, just beyond your dissent
No chance to prevent it, but since I've invented
A way in the waiting, a stake in the jest
A vapid conspiring to wish for the best
And to the republic, a border I deny
For the republic, an epithet I'm now inscribing
Like the republic, whose captors I've obliged
And through the republic, my lust for life is now subsiding
In the eyes of those who love you
Overgrown and underground
Still looking elsewhere when it's found
Still looking back once you've been trapped
Pay no regard to where they take you
Something drastic overdue
Understated, twice as true
All the gunsmoke of your ruse
Can't overtake that bitter breakthrough
Echo of a sigh
Yeah, reflection of a bigger town
Our time is up, we're only stalling
Ghost revokes to steer the coup
But my allegiance dies with you
I lied, I don't know what to do
Avert the eyes that always loved you
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I'm falling beside you
I'm falling beside you
I'll know just what to say
If you tell me what to do
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I've fallen beside you
I'm falling
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Children Having Children Brooklyn, New York
Steeped in equal parts rock, alternative, and post-everything, then stirred with orchestral ambitions and sweetened with noise, CHC likes to do as they please in an attempt to pay homage to the legacy of great songwriting.
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