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"People Like Me"
03:51
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I always want something more than anyone's willing to give.
I know that there's something wrong, I just can't find out what it is
with me.
So I do what you tell me
been going to therapy 'cause that's where "people like me" belong.
Well, you're not wrong, 'cause I belong
but that's not what you think
that I should be working on
a record full of songs telling me it's okay to be.
When no one else lets me believe it's okay to be.
So if you're listening, then it's okay to be.
I know that something's wrong, I just can't find out what it is.
So maybe the problem's not with me.
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Tired // Take With Food
07:08
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Tired:
I need a love that lets me bleed, crimson red dripping from my knees. Tear into me like a knife, I won't even fight - it's what I'm used to feeling like inside.
I'm tired of this body, of telling you what to call me. I am broken, bruised & bloody and I never feel complete. Even when I'm close to you I'm still stuck in between acceptance & understanding. I'm tired all the time.
Take With Food:
If we could talk I'd just say thanks. Were you listening that day on the interstate when I promised it'd be the last time I tried throwing it all away? I lied straight to your face. Still don't know how I got some safe.
So now I take with food, two times a day. Is it to balance my brain or just keep me eating? 'Cause i'm still lost now just in different ways - held up in my room for days and days. I need a change of scenery. Run a bath of hot water and razor blades. My skin starts to prune and I fade away.
Now I'm seeking new treatment.
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Gardening
03:55
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Tell me what you need and that's all I will be; breathing your disease 'til I'm sick and my knees cannot continue supporting this version of me. Tell me who I am because I don't know. The only thing I'm sure of is I'm alone, waiting for silence and searching for home.
I'm never quite myself anymore, just fragments collected off bedroom floors. I don't know if I'll ever be whole again, 'cause I don't know if I ever really have been. Now I'm drowning in my mind. I'm drowning all the time.
I think I died, a couple of times, but in your arms I'll always fly. Back then, now, I'll never be - true to you, eventually. I'm falling now, can't you see that without my head I cannot be? Broken now, perpetually wondering "will I see you in my sleep?"
Gardening now I'm starting to sprout from planting the seeds of a new me. I hope you can see I'm digging the weeds to make more room in my heart for you.
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Accidents
03:56
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You don't have to tell me, I already know.
Yeah I know the feeling 'cause it never goes.
You don't have to listen, you don't have to care.
I've been waiting a while, but you're never there.
I'm lost in the feeling,
I'm gasping for air.
I thought I was ready but now I'm just scared.
Like the child I've always been, I'm being born again into a me I thought that I could never be.
I stopped dreaming of accidents.
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Evelyn Gray Portland, Oregon
music for anyone who has ever been made to feel like something was wrong with them.
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