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Kids Like You

by Optimist Park

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1.
i am the picture on the wall you can't wait to straighten i am the gas cap you can't wait to screw on tight it's so illogical but feels so practical it's so illogical but it feels so good i am the DNA your virus has yet to spin i am the drug-induced coma you've come to be in and they scratch and scratch to get underneath your skin and the more you pound the wall the more you invite them in now all the stars have faded...
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bully 03:07
i always chose the popular girls with some belief i could change their world and here you came along to knock me down a few pegs i was small; i was weak my high school future looked so bleak and you just had to push me in front of the class i don't know why i kept going back and enduring the embarrassments i guess i'm just too dumb to understand you were threatened by my intelligence my dad told me i had to fight back kids like you and you were twice my size what was i to do?
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December, haunted by the ghosts of trees Ivory bones with icy fingers reaching Capillaries in breathless lungs Gasping in the inky black Skeleton armies stand to attention Porcelain soldiers rooted to the spot Colour-drained and thin-limbed Pleading for retreat December, all is fine bone china Held aloft and set to shatter Painted with a paupers palette Tipp-Ex towns united in white Blanked out by a powder blanket Frosted, frigid landscapes shudder Whitewash skimming over inkblots Forgiving all beneath
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1997 04:35
the innocent smiles she wore as a child have been replaced by difficult scenes reenacted in dreams she thought she'd forgotten the difference between us is the chemicals that make us hungry for something more the heartbreak we promised wouldn't come around is sleeping in our bed something is watching from the window it knows what you're afraid of i can feel its breath on my neck and the laughter echoes through the halls
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I remark that I am sad for the change of the weather-- “But look how beautiful,” you object, and you make a bouquet – red, yellow, orange, brittle leaves for me to protect. “It won’t last,” is my thank you.
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sky 04:22
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midnight pours out its song from your lips in cool rushes of starlight and blends with the morning, your eyelashes become sunbeams and your heartbeat lingers, trembling In the quiet aching, in the loneliness of mending, in the arms of never-ending love.
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there's certainly no heaven behind the clouds there's certainly no heaven behind the sun, oh no... there's certainly no magic place beneath our feet it's a cute idea / but archaic to think 'cause here are the people here the words here are the empirical facts you can observe the cherubs, angels, and hymns you heard were a cute idea but absolutely absurd
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dinosaur 08:16
i watched the sun as it watched me crawl and this problem is bigger than we'd thought it be I know God gave me eyes but I couldn't care less to see what this Earth is made of now I pick the dry skin from my lips I swallowed every ounce of blood because heaven is rising up over the mountain and I'd rather know love than to know any god like yours Because all my friends they came and went without a word I blame myself for everything I watched the sun as it watched me fall I could make no claim to knowing love at all and heaven is rising up over the mountain and I'd rather know love than to know any god like yours all my friends they came and went without a word I blame myself for everything ...I ran so far and got nowhere.
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little cloud 02:10

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This album is a bunch of previously unreleased demos and songs that lay waste on my machine; they were songs I created for albums, but never found a place for them. Instead of languishing on the computer (which can be argued where they should stay), I have decided to release these songs as a sort of b-sides collection, even if I have absolutely no A-sides to speak of. These songs also do not reflect the direction I am taking my music in now in my solo efforts, and just don't fit in with my other band, Kiss Kiss Fantastic. So here they are - for what it's worth, I'm sorry.

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released January 19, 2012

unless where otherwise noted in each song, all instruments/ vox - jeremy mullins

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