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Take It Back
03:34
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Your gloves are up but I don’t want to fight you.
You’re badly filtered and I don’t want to light you.
And you’re so good at muddling specifics,
cutting to the quick and burning up your bridges.
Playing victim to anyone who listens.
It’s like you forgot that I’m still here.
And if I’m just a long-term mistake,
I’m the best one you’ll ever make.
All I need is transparency,
a way to peak through the layers that you have,
finally bury this in the past
where it belongs.
Back then we were kings of the summer
but every season ends.
I wouldn’t take it back / I wouldn’t take you back.
People change, it doesn’t matter who.
Anyone you know could be a stranger
next year, next month, next week, tomorrow.
So I’ll go out and find new names and faces
to cover up the lonely places
where the people I love used to fill,
when I was prescribed moments instead of pills.
And all I know is that they don’t make sunsets like that anymore.
And 4am coffee tastes much more bitter when you’re drinking it alone.
And if I’m just a long term mistake,
I’m the best one that you’ll ever make.
All I need is transparency,
a way to peak through the layers that you have,
finally bury this in the past
where it belongs.
Back then we were kings of the summer
but every season ends.
I wouldn’t take it back / I wouldn’t take you back (2x)
And all I need is transparency.
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Recover
03:02
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Will you recover?
Everything about me is everything that you can’t stand.
The patron saints of passive aggression,
grinding teeth while holding hands.
Half smiles hiding misery,
tight lips will be the death of me.
I’m sorry I don’t want to be the thorn in your side.
Watch what you say when you’re saying goodbye,
before you build up an anger you can’t control
and begin to cry.
I’m not the worst you’ve seen.
One day you’ll forget me.
I’ll peddle backward out of sight until you can breathe.
Everything about us is an issue overdue,
like taking steps walking on eggshells just to get the best of you.
I’m sorry I don’t want to be the thorn in your side.
I don’t want to be the kind of person people have to recover from.
Watch what you say when you’re saying goodbye,
before you build up an anger you can’t control
and begin to cry.
I’m not the worst you’ve seen.
One day you’ll forget me.
I’ll peddle backward out of sight until you can breathe.
If everything burned down tonight, you’d burn to death before you let me put out that fire.
If everything burned down tonight, I would burn to death before you put me out.
I don’t want to be the kind of person people have to recover from (4x)
If everything burned down tonight, I would burn to death before you put out that fire.
If everything burned down tonight, I would burn to death before you put me out.
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It's Been Real
04:22
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Stay just for a minute,
long enough to let yourself breathe and begin it again
now that you think that everyone’s your friend.
You’re awake and dreaming at the same time
and it’s so surreal how you can’t find
any means to a bitter end.
And I can’t wait for the day when you finally say I was right.
But given the circumstances, that probably won’t be tonight.
In hindsight, everyone you broke in half,
you should have let them stay whole.
You’re getting a taste of reality and we’re letting the camera roll.
There has to be a way to fool yourself into thinking
things will ever be okay again,
as if they ever were way back when.
Shake it off, it’s only 3:30am.
Forget the next four hours ‘cause you’re running on regret again.
I think you’re finally understanding the fact
that you’re fucking transparent, you can drop the act,
and learn to take it as it comes,
read the goddamn pass and react.
And I can’t wait for the day when you finally say I was right.
But given the circumstances, that probably won’t be tonight.
In hindsight, everyone you broke in half,
you should have let them stay whole.
You’re getting a taste of reality and we’re letting the camera roll.
There has to be a way to fool yourself into thinking
things will ever be okay again,
as if they ever were way back when.
Let this go,
Let your conscience take control if you had one to begin with
You deserve some time away from yourself just for a day.
Your regrets are getting harder to live with.
Stay just for a minute,
long enough to let yourself breathe and begin it again
now that you think that everyone’s your friend.
(Stay, sever the ties with all of our friends)
Shake it off, it’s only 3:30am.
Forget the next four hours ‘cause you’re running on regret again.
(Shake it off, it’s only 3:30,
you’re running on regret)
You’re running on regret again.
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Sweater
03:31
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Is he a gentleman to you?
Is he burning up just from your presence like I did,
like I still do?
No one fills the passenger seat of my car like you did.
It perpetuates the emptiness to see you riding around with him.
Is he a gentleman to you?
Is he burning up just from your presence like I did,
like I still do?
I am the one, I am the one
who waits for your call even now that you’re gone.
I’m sorry, you’re wrong.
It doesn’t get better, downing whiskey like water,
ripping holes in my sweater.
When summer rolls around I’m leaving,
casting off my demons, I am done.
(Can you feel the…)
The curtains closing on this chapter?
Our happily ever after will never come.
(Our happily ever after will never come)
Is he a gentleman to you?
Is he burning up just from your presence like I did,
like I still do?
I am the one, I am the one
who waits for your call even now that you’re gone.
I’m sorry, you’re wrong.
It doesn’t get better, downing whiskey like water,
ripping holes in my sweater.
Picture perfect girl, you tied a noose around my world,
caught me while my back was turned,
and kept me keeping your toes curled.
Had me so dependent, thinking I was incomplete,
but I can turn the fucking tables faster than you can switch seats.
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5. |
Flightpaths
04:06
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Airplane lights draw lines across the sky.
I’m following the flightpaths to the places I wish I was.
Now I’m so torn, this is where I was born,
and this is the place where I found and I lost first love.
We’re all so tired of the constant trials,
and we’re staring back at the way life was before.
Now I’m stuck with the choice of staying or starting over,
or none of the above.
This city has been weighing me down.
I swear that I won’t always be around.
I’ve got my boarding pass and a backpack.
I’m leaving everything behind for the weekend.
I cover up my tracks ‘cause I know that I lack
the confidence to say goodbye to my friends back home.
I’ve got the money in my wallet and a magazine,
The only thing to get me by and keep me company.
I’m on an airplane now and I’m southeast bound,
thinking the world’s already taken enough of me.
It feels like I’m the poster child for growing up and growing tired.
Sometimes it’s like I never left,
I try to forget that I’m crossing state-lines.
I’ve been ignoring phone calls left and right.
I don’t get your messages, my phone’s off for the night.
But when I packed that suitcase and threw it in my car,
I knew that I would never look back.
I’ve got my boarding pass and a backpack.
I’m leaving everything behind for the weekend.
I cover up my tracks ‘cause I know that I lack
the confidence to say goodbye to my friends back home.
I’ve got the money in my wallet and a magazine,
The only thing to get me by and keep me company.
I’m on an airplane now and I’m southeast bound,
thinking the world’s already taken enough of me.
The Carolina sun burned a hole inside my chest,
but it won’t get the best of me
(2x)
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