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The Reflection Will Guide Us

by Tape Age

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1.
There are so many things that I wish I could say So many times that I wish I could spend with you So many circumstances getting in the way What I want is so damn wrong, there's nothing I can do But that won't help me sleep at night And I just can't convince myself that it's all right I tell you I'm all right, but that's just an act You just don't know what I'm holding back I wish that I could have you I bite my tongue so hard, knowing you've made all kinds of plans Hour by hour, I pull myself together with no choice but to understand Piece by piece, it rips out everything I am inside There's nothing left I want in this world than for you to see my eyes But that won't help me sleep at night And I just can't convince myself that it's all right I tell you I'm all right, but that's just an act You just don't know what I'm holding back I wish that I could have you
2.
Tell Me Why 03:57
Don't wanna talk about it 'Cause I'd have to think about it I'm sure he fits just right Night after magic night Much better than I ever could, I suppose So tell me why Am I wondering what she's doing tonight Tell me why Am I drinking her off my mind Tell me why Are her messages still in my phone Tell me why Without her No matter who I'm out with I still feel so alone I'd stop this backward motion If I let go of the notion That happiness I'll never find Unless she's right here by my side And somehow, life's travails will fall behind I suppose So tell me why Am I wondering what she's doing tonight Tell me why Am I drinking her off my mind Tell me why Are her pictures still in my phone Tell me why Without her No matter who I'm out with I still feel so alone I should be living like a king So many fish in this vast sea And not give up on life too soon Measured out in coffee spoons Embittered, facing self-inflicted doom I suppose So tell me why Am I wondering what she's doing tonight Tell me why Am I drinking her off my mind Tell me why Is her number still in my phone Tell me why Without her...
3.
Worst night of my life My whole future is gone The one I love Is lost How am I supposed to feel? This whole thing seems unreal Like I'm Not even here I used to think life had a plan But now I just don't understand The worst night of my life Best thing in my life She never did deserve The fate That she was dealt Disease, it takes away Everything you are Yourself Your dignity What used to seem big is now so small Now nothing matters much at all The worst night of my life Worst night of my life My whole future is gone The one I love Is lost How am I supposed to feel? This whole thing seems unreal Like I'm Not even here I used to think life had a plan But now I just don't understand The worst night of my life
4.
I get around, but I belong nowhere I got nothing left but to start the next adventure And there is no escape From this state of anomie This groundlessness is draining The life straight out of me I got amazing friends, but I still feel so alone The frost keeps burning; nowhere feels like home I ain't got no one to love And nobody loves me This emptiness is choking The life straight out of me Not sure what I see when I look in the mirror I see a decent guy. Perhaps you see different. I ain't got no one to love (How do you say I'm OK) And nobody loves me (To an answering machine) This emptiness is choking (How do you say I miss you?) The life straight out of me
5.
So Happy 02:06
She kept us all in stitches Telling her tales to the crowd And I was laughing so hard I was crying out loud I said I'm so happy I just could fly To my imminent death From a building in the sky She said he was exciting and fun She said his eyes shone bright like the sun She said he was the only one All right And I'll bite my tongue When they both hit the ground Although the way that he hurts her Gets all over town
6.
A cloaking device For easy concealing A cloaking device To hide what I'm feeling Because I'm sick and tired Of this silly disguise Concealing the truth Till it feels like such lies I'm tired I'm weary This just has to stop A cloaking device For easier living A cloaking device For keeping it hidden Because I'm sick and tired Of dropping hints That are so oblique That they're always missed I'm tired I'm weary This just has to stop A cloaking device Eluding the searches A cloaking device To keep me from bursting Because I'm sick and tired When my words come out wrong And the phrases distort Till the meaning is gone I'm tired I'm weary This just has to stop
7.
Ghost 03:22
So easy for her To get under my skin So easy for her To wear my nerves thin I want to make your ghost forget me I keep trying, But she'll never let me. She never seems To consider my needs Always thinking of herself While my heart bleeds It's not about her It's all about me I'm feeling suffocated And I think it's time She set me free
8.
The white knight rides again Alone he fights this fight Out to win his damsel fair So helpless in his mind The white knight rides again His valor he must prove She's trapped on a pedestal She has no room to move He's bested by his rivals Who flout his knightly rules The village elders tell him He fights the fight of fools But they don't know the blood he spilt Or mountains that he climbs One thing keeps eluding him He lives in modern times He thinks he saves her But little does he understand
9.
Oceangoing 04:18
Right at this moment When I'm feeling alright And I've picked up the pieces Of the rest of my life Just when I've forgotten All I've tried to forget You come back and tell me you miss me And how much I meant Why should I be there Whenever you need a friend I moved on like you did long ago To keep from reaching the end But whenever your lonely days Turn into nights That's when you come back from the past To ruin my life If I could charter an oceangoing yacht I'd travel everywhere you're not Mozambique or Monaco I really don't care where I go So many wondrous ports of call Where I won't see your face at all I'd circumnavigate a world Much bigger than the one you destroyed If I could charter an oceangoing yacht I'd travel everywhere you're not The destination is the voyage itself Always underway to somewhere else You were always scared of the sea So that's a nice safe home to me And if a rogue wave swallows me Whatever happens next That's alright with me
10.
Instrumental interlude
11.
It's alright If it takes all night To knock these feelings back Through all means in sight It just won't pay For me to say How up or down I feel The outcome's all the same And I need you And you need me to need you But that's all I wait in line It's here I'll die But I can't walk away I still wonder why My guard's up Takes all I've got You relish every time I slip And let things out You criticize the ways I try to deal I hope one day you feel the way I feel I could drive To the ocean in my sleep Each mile away from you Brings slow sweet escape Because it's alright If it takes all night To get out of this box Through all means in sight
12.
Searching for explanations As many as I can find Sorting through complications Racked up in my mind Recalling situations Happening this year Then my big revelation Things got harshly clear She never loved me I'm grateful for this closure Badly as it stings The truth has set me free Although it clipped my wings No more regrets Of so-called chances gone to waste An existential vacuum Is all that took their place And all this time She was only being nice Then she got on with her life And never thought about me twice Perhaps for just one moment She cared about how I felt But it's most likely that She was just avoiding guilt I feel so empty and destroyed As you can guess I try to keep my head in check Avoiding bitterness I've got all I need to Rise above it all and move ahead The world is mine If I could just get out of bed
13.
Instrumental interlude
14.
I'm losing sleep Each time You say goodnight Now get some sleep We've been through So much I've seen you shine In times like these Sometimes I wonder If a guy like me Could ever Make you happy As happy As you deserve You say You love me Don't know what for As a friend Or whatever I don't know Anymore But lately I wanted Something more What if I told you What kind Of mess Would that make It's never The right time Maybe It's a big mistake So I look For reasons Any excuse To talk to you Because All those moments Are the things That get me through So I Keep it hidden I'm not sure if That's good Or bad But lately I get La filer à l'anglaise And it's gotten Kind of sad So maybe I Go to sleep With records on Some breakthrough's gotta happen When side 2 of Tim comes on
15.
Instrumental postlude

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released October 10, 2015

Sam Scholten- guitar, guitar synth, keys, vocals
Doug Litton- bass
Dave Roberts- drums

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