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Permanent Daylight

by Rotoscope

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1.
Apollo 03:12
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2.
Reluctant Kisses 04:15
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My hands are floating over strings of unknowing of what’s to come and what has been I give you reluctant kisses and recall all near misses of what might befall me again I am the stuck roller on your little blue lighter that won’t give way to a flame Midnight she sneaks right in steals the show and all the same And you’re left standing there baby with the blame You say you want what’s in my head I’m scared so I give you my silence instead And though my heart is glistening I warned you I’m not so good at these things I’m not so good at these things Now you come haunted by all that you said to me Even more baby we share a bed You say you want what’s in my head I’m scared so I give you my silence instead And though my heart is glistening I warned you I’m not so good at these things I’m not so good at these things I remember every whisper that you said to me And all of the time runs away in the rear-view And all of the crimes that we swore that we’d not do Are catching up to me You say you want what’s in my head I’m scared so I give you my silence instead And though my heart is glistening I warned you, I warned you You say you want what’s in my head I’m scared so I give you my silence instead And though my heart is glistening I warned you I’m not so good at these things I’m not so good at these things I warned you I’m not so good at these things I warned you I’m not so good at these things I’m not so good at these things I warned you I’m not so good at these things
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Clean Lines 04:35
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Clean lines, no replies stuck up in the haze again Look out, look down on the town that’s done you in Cross 3rd Avenue the gates open up and they’re at your front door (Don’t open the door) Come back, relax, compact your things The telephone rings for the cover of a magazine I could never live your life Stuck in permanent daylight So afraid of what the night might leave behind Reach out I drowned inside the promised land Does it hurt? They’re digging, they’re digging to find the dirt All alone in crowded rooms and suddenly it’s got to you A wave’s coming down (but you don’t hear a sound) Recoil, retort, stuck at the airport The telephone rings for your understudy waiting in the wings I could never live your life Stuck in permanent daylight So afraid of what the night might leave behind And it’s hard to think that time has been moving without you But all this keeps me running back Keeps me coming back to you And now that you’re gone I find it’s hard to carry on
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Empty Apartment 05:25
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It’s much too serious now to go on Calculating the fractions of where we went wrong Fragments and fractures of my best intentions Built a sad monument to things There’s no use mentioning now That it’s all falling down An empty apartment too alone to pretend I’m not breaking I thought I was bending The sunrise the morning the truth coming out If you’re falling I’m falling Is it time? Is it time to let go now? Is it time to let go now? The burden of carrying what could have been All the rope tied together to climb out the window Packed so full inside me and strapped myself in Now it’s all falling down And I’m falling down with it An empty apartment too alone to pretend We’re not breaking I thought we were bending The sunrise the morning the truth coming out If you’re falling I’m falling Is it time? Is it time to let go now? Is it time to let go now? I wanted so badly to make something beautiful It’s bad yeah it’s bad but still could be beautiful It’s the space between dreaming and waking If you cut me there I’m not so sure I can take it But I’ll take the risk if you share the consequence Please, please, please just be honest with me now Please just be honest with me now With me now, with me now An empty apartment too alone to pretend I’m not breaking I thought I could bend and The sunrise the morning the truth coming out If you’re falling I’m falling Is it time? Is it time to let go now? Is it time to let go now? Please just be honest with me It’s much too serious now.
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One Day 05:08
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What do you like to hold Such a darling, fall asleep in your nova Cute in your birthday suit My love, we’re only living this instant now One day I’ll follow you home One day I’ll make it alone One day I’ll feel I was better off in Rome Are they grazed by the afterglow Is it louder than all of their roar As they’re chasing your rainbows away I changed but you stayed the same Now I just have to laugh at it all You’re up there on the cinema wall One day I’ll follow you home One day I’ll make it alone One day I’ll feel I was better off in Rome These faces look all the same to me Your banker he’s the thief I’m on the right side of your good thing One day I’ll follow you home One day I’ll make it alone One day I’ll feel I was better off in Rome Someday I’ll get you alone Someday I’ll call you the one Someday your smile will be all that I can hope to see One day I’ll get you alone One day I’ll call you the one Someday I’ll catch you at home Someday I’ll call you the one She’s so lost But she’s so the one
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Everything's Alright 04:51
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Knock upon the door eight forty five Don’t dare say what’s really on our minds I was as afraid as I was blind Down on Wilshire streets are burning bright Well I can see the teardrop in your eye And I can’t break away from all the lies I swear that there’s a ray of hope inside But you keep saying “Everything’s not right” What is it that you try so hard to be and what’s he got that I just cannot see? I still recall the words I said That somehow landed you across from me And why you standing in the rain? And love it always feels the same Oh no, we made it up again So tell me how am I supposed to feel Can’t I bring you everything you need I can’t recall the words we said That somehow landed us in all this mess And what was wrong that made us so uptight Why you wouldn’t talk until I pried If you’re not here I barely feel alive So I’ll keep saying everything’s alright I’ll keep saying everything’s alright I’ll keep saying everything’s alright I’ll keep saying everything’s alright I’ll keep saying everything’s alright
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All That's Left 04:12
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Blood splashed on the curb Distant voices you heard Falling of winter rain Nothing ever the same Time lost memory All a flash and blurry Slowly time passed It all went so fast Spinning spinning tires Testimonials for liars Said I’m okay to drive Never make it alive I watched it all die Grab the wheel as a joke Under ashes and smoke All this fire I miss All that’s left of there is… Was it what you heard Will you never learn Must you wreck everything Go and do it again You tear me limb from limb Get up I can take you again Grab the wheel as a joke Under ashes and smoke All this fire I miss All that’s left of there is…
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Off To Sleep 04:45
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Twisted delight Back stab your pillow in the moonlight Chasing you down Hallways echoing words once spoken proud Sing yourself to sleep Sing yourself to sleep A distant melody to keep you company Sing yourself to sleep Sing yourself to sleep I pray the Lord to keep you far away from me Caught in the cold Sucked down swimming in your undertow Ensured of flight Snake over balconies like moonlight Sing yourself to sleep Sing yourself to sleep A distant melody to keep you company Sing yourself to sleep Sing yourself to sleep I pray the Lord to keep you far away from me
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Jawbone Hill 05:12
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Wanting clever riddles, telling casual lies Were you never challenged were you never satisfied Playground battles on Jawbone hill You were my forbidden love and you want me still My every pout is your every whim You held me captive here, you locked me in And I’m to blame now, as I lay to rest All those accusing me I am the killer now, I am to blame You are the innocent tricked and betrayed I am the killer now, I am to blame You are the innocent tricked and betrayed Our final night as I lay by your side Pushing from you all those secrets you hide Slip of the blade, please forgive me Never was a question of my loyalty My every pout is your every whim You held me captive here, you locked me in And I’m to blame now as I lay to rest With all those accusing me I am the killer now, I am to blame You are the innocent tricked and betrayed I am the killer now, I am to blame You are the innocent tricked and betrayed You are the killer now, you are to blame I am the innocent tricked and betrayed You are the killer now, you are to blame I am the innocent tricked and betrayed Tricked and betrayed
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Selling Stars 04:50
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Screaming at you across the wires Windmills spin as weapons fire Hold your head beneath the waves I told you this is diplomacy I didn’t mean to put you on I’ll sell my star I’ll dream on Signals spawn a sinking prize Tears in waves, fire in minds Jumping in behind your lines From any angle it’s all a lie I didn’t mean to put you on I’ll sell my star I’ll dream on Oh love That was not so long ago [I’ll stay at home this evening I’m plugged into your TV I’d give up all my liberty for national security] Well I smell the whiskey on your breath And I fear the chain unbroken yet I didn’t mean to put you on I’ll sell my star I’ll dream on
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Epilogue 08:10
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I see you sometimes I’m home then, still waiting And worlds do collide We’re hopeful, not breathing The look in your eyes What once was has changed for the worst Try as I might I can’t pull back the sheets It’s always a scene They want to believe The stories will spread and The truth deceived It’s always the same A car crash of fate My heart on my sleeve for shame And we’ve both got lies to blame I’m out of my mind The numbness of fealty I’m over the line Just begging for that feeling I can’t change the tide So I should just leave before the flood It’s always a scene They want to believe The stories will spread and The truth deceived I can’t break my ties Defraud alibis I wait for the sound And we’ve both got blame to go around You tell me I’m wrong You say this was over long ago You say “Why go on?” But I’ve been the one who’s here still holding on The corners are dark The smiles flow, the smoke screens The eyes constant dart The hoping that you’ll walk in The season grows dark The whispers are coming clean It’s always a love until you bleed It’s only a love until you bleed It’s always a love until you bleed It’s not really love until you bleed

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released August 21, 2020

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