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What's a Gap Year?
04:55
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And when you get here, It's Always With The best intentions
That always melt away Like Ice on the sidewalk In The Midst Of july
That Point When I'm Always At My fucking lowest
Please Give Me one last chance to prove that I can get my shit together
Please tell me what good does it do to hang around smart people
When all you do is
Get drunk and go out on the weekend and in the morning
Wake full of regrets
So what am I even here for if I don't make some progress
So what am I even doing if I can't get something out of this
Yeah i remember Knowing You Those summer days
That just melted away Like An Insincere friendship
And I ReMemBer Blowing my mind away With white fiction
All Those twinkling lights Burning Into my eyes
Please tell me what good it does it do to hang around dumb people
When all they do is
Get high and trip out on hard drugs, and in the morning
Wake full of regrets
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Fucking Magnets, Man
03:19
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So we're back with that same sort of sound
We all held in our burning bellies
Except now we've got a house and a lawn
With a path that goes outdoors forever
It's just this one thing we'll be just fine
FUCK THAT It's just different now
Two solid years of drinking cans has brought us together
AND STILL We just push apart
Like magnets in your lab when you face us the other way
My alarm just went off again god damn
Thought I pulled that bastard straight out the fucking wall
I know that we're best friends here but shit how's it go?
The enemy of my enemy's my friend
"Hey man, I gotta head back home already"
"Yo I know, if it's not working then just shut it down"
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3. |
Had To Do One
02:32
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You're far too deplorable for me to remember why
But I guess I'll hang out with you for now
Don't know how the fuck he puts up with your shit
I guess it's just a testament to his character
What do you even do? This whole Thing's just one big
Joke For You, none of it will matter when you're gone
MayBe You, could have been something but
now you're just a shell filled with Bud and butts and fucking smirnoff ice
My first thought when I walk in to a room that you're in is
"Why the fuck did I come here? This scene blows"
And I'm ashamed to admit that it ever crossed my mind
That you and I could chill let alone be together
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4. |
Independence Day
04:14
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Oh say can you see the dawn's early light
Looks like we were up all night again
This stretch of 95 just can't be real life
Got no bars but I'm flying high let's roll up one more
What about the blinking lights in the freezing water
What about the fiery bursts above the island off the coast
No words I can sing right here right now can do justice to
The way my heart pumps life all through my body
We drank Lime Rickey's and jumped in the water
We burned that whole j down and you got so scared
We were young and couldn't give a fuck
So come stay up forever with me
City heat washing over us, getting wrecked above the skyline
That fucking kid almost broke your vape
"Yo, I brought a girl with me"
Hungover on the train the next day
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5. |
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When I first arrived at college I was no more than a boy
My experience imbibing was but house parties and sprawling
On my living room couch totally sloshed called Alice left voicemails
That said I had something to tell you just now but I forgot
But the ruggers took me in under their wing and first in line for
Boat races, they poured down my throat shit like Genesee Keystone and
Natty Light until my stomach screamed
"You're fucking nuts, what's wrong with you?!"
And threw my guts out on the floor over again and I'd think
Oh they'd have you believe that this campus is dry
But that couldn't be further from the truth
All you have to do is listen for the shouting from the dorms
As the weekend hits us like a wave of booze
Well then I met my singing group that pack of fucking winos
They taught me to hold my liquor like Helms Deep in the Two Towers
and wake up the next day beer in hand, "Starting early?" He said to me
"Hey man, I'm always starting it's the weekend try and get on my level"
here I am it's sophomore year, Oh I'm just manic don't mind me
Let's do another shot or 3 then come back to my room for free
But in the morning don't expect that I'm the man you wanted yet
No nothing's changed, I'm still the same, let's do it all again tonight?
Now I thrown my own house parties, invite all your friends
But just know if you puke on my couch, I'll punch you in your head
Just come sit around the fire, slap the wask and rip the bong
And we'll live free singing drinking ballads all-night-fu-cking-long
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Let's go for a ride, we just got here but I'm hyped to get outside
Explore this brand new ground, we gotta get our feet squared off
Getting nervous, we get nervous on the bleachers everyday
What the fuck is a Dean's List, what the fuck is a grade
And we ate that candy rainbow
Just to watch the walls explode
Till we chased each other ‘round
That shitty fucking band
I know I've known you since those weak shit little schools
That we both went to
But what the fuck have you ever done for me, aside from
Give my pen hand some ammo
I reached into my brain and pulled out this picture of you and me
On a cliff tripping balls
I racked my mind and recalled watching my face melt
Then going blind and deaf
But if I found my way back home
I would pro'bly still hit you up
But if I found my way back home, I would probably still hit you up, I know you'll be around
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7. |
Everything Breaks
04:01
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We never talked in explicit terms about what we might do, when
The day finally came I wasn't good enough for you, oh
I always wondered if we'd just say fuck it right then, or
Slowly drift away filled with regret
having Shouted at the darkness like NANANANANANA, singing
songs to keep our Demons At Bay
Watching sparks fly out our amps like NANANANANANA, and
light up the night sky
But now I think I understand, So
Thanks for all the help Marie, We
Were so fucking good together
Even better than my dreams
Woah sometimes I get a good feeling this is it,
this is our one chance to get our freak on
I’ve Tried So hard to land my feet on solid ground, I
see you on that distant shore but I don't think I can make it, so I
Dread the spring when you guys pack it up and go
Leaving Me here to finish what I started
It keeps me up at night
Yeah, it keeps me up at night
No, I can't sleep at night
Cause I'm thinking
YEAH IT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT
NO I JUST CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT
CAUSE I'M THINKING ABOUT US BREAKING
Just like everything
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8. |
Street Fighter!
07:09
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But I've, always known that I will return to the setting of my bearings
Yeah I’m not sure how or when or why but you can go and bet the farm
And no, It’s nothing personal but I can’t take you with me cause I’m
Walking out the door
And one day I just walked outside just to see what I could see
I looked around and saw all my friends surrounding me
Do you remember on the field when we first met,
You looked so cool smoking your Marb cigarettes.
And I thought “Wow you must know so much”
If I’d only known that you were so out of touch
And I’ve been wrong, YEAH I WAS WRONG
though I’ve tried to dance myself clean
God, you were just too perfect for me
So I guess I’ll see you around
And one day I just blew my mind just to see what I could be
I watched it fly away on the wind with that yearning to be free
I can’t remember on the field the first time
We stripped down to our skin your clothes on top of mine
And I thought “I won’t get you too”
And said “Goodnight, I’ll see you soon”
And I’ve been wrong, YEAH I WAS WRONG
though I’ve tried to dance myself clean
I fucked up the way it should have been
But now it’s too late, it’s gone
Would I go back
and do it all over again
if I was given the chance?
HADOKEN
TIGER UPPERCUT
YOGA FLAME
SONIC BOOM
H-H-HURRICANE
DOWN SHIFT TO 4 SPEED 4-3-2-1
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Brave Companions East Haven, Connecticut
Heineken?!
Fuck that shit!!
Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!
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