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Measuring the Coast

by Open Bar

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1.
Inner Monologue 04:04
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i see your tears hiding there behind your smiles i see your fears hiding there your inner child i always wanted to be everything that i couldnt be now i’m left incomplete and i feel i owe myself an apology you always wanted the best but the best is always subjective and i never looked up my sleeve to see if there were any aces hiding now some old man waits on me waits on me to take his place on the stage in the final act of the play i never want to make you feel like you couldn’t be cause i just take and i take and my hands can’t hold you when they’re holding me do you see my tears hiding there behind my smile do you see my fears hiding there my inner child and i just wanted to say if you want me to i’’ll stay and i just want you to know if you want me to i promise i will go
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Where's Waldo? 03:55
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i lay in bed and close my eyes headphones playing songs from another time feels like when i reopen my eyes i’ll wake up as the version of me i left behind when i was a kid days didn’t feel like this i was happier then but i then i barely remember it i sink so low thinking bout the highs and faces in the crowd i know i don’t (know) the worst it stays beside me, the best is left unknown each day i feel less like me slipping into obscurity who was better at vanishing copperfield or houdini? each day i feel less like me slipping into obscurity who was better at vanishing was it lennon or mccartney? i sink so low thinking bout the highs and faces in the crowd i know i don’t (know) the worst it stays beside me, the best is left unknown the worst it stays beside me, the best is left unknown don’t you wanna know? where did i go? i dress myself in red and white but i still seem impossible to find i get the feeling no one has the time to pick me out of a crowd no matter the size i was a dot on your canvas i kinda got lost when more got added in i sink so low thinking bout the highs and faces in the crowd i know i don’t (know) the worst it stays beside me, the best is left unknown the worst it stays beside me, the best is left unknown don’t you wanna know? where did i go?
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Surfbored 04:45
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the waves died down i’m a sidewalk surfer now my heart gave out so i’m a pessimist and a cynic now all roads lead to low you’ll see them play pretend a trail in the snow you’ll find me at the end looking so bored looking so bored i was such a fool to fall in love with you we were green, you were yellow, i was blue never one for games i don’t follow the rules and i lose, i lose my cousin ran into a great white shark and i know its uncommon but it’s really food for thought on the land there’s a man who’s there to see me trip and i all i wanted to show him was a couple of tricks the waves died down i’m a sidewalk surfer now my heart gave out so i’m a pessimist and a cynic now all roads lead to low you’ll see them play pretend a trail in the snow you’ll find me at the end looking so bored looking so bored i thought that it was cool to be in love with you trying to calm my nerves with every bottle of booze i was never good at math but there’s one thing that i knew that one plus one… is two my brother ran into a great white pile he’s been sad for years he was happy for a while on the ramp there’s a lip i’d really like to clear my friend broke his arm now his bones are filled with fear surf/skate/snow… bored looking so bored looking so bored it’s never mine i just rent it out and as the sidewalk grows the cracks in the pavement begin to show i wished you stayed a while i wished you stayed a while oh i wished you stayed a while but you looked so bored yeah, you looked so bored you looked so bored
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Lazy J 03:25
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I run motel in Claresholme It’s a town where no one goes I spend my days at the front desk I look at the door I look at the clock then to the door again i’m trying to keep things clean but what’s the point when all remains unseen i swept away my dreams and now the dust just makes it hard to breathe the sign says “vacancy” theres nobody here but me each day i speak to no one i change the sheets for no one each day repeats like sitcoms i know all the beats, when to applaud when to cry when to laugh when to fly when to crash i know every season but i have no reason to believe in believing i’m trying to keep things clean but what’s the point when all remains unseen i swept away my dreams and now the dust just makes it hard to breathe the sign says “vacancy” theres nobody here but me a snow storm is coming in this might be my moment my moment, its golden i know that it’s coming i’m holding out
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Visiting Hours Are Over 03:55
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baby baby i am lonely without you here baby baby i am lonely without you everything reminds me of you everyone looks kinda like you my heart stops for a second or two but it subsides as i remind myself it’s not you everything makes me unhappy even things that make me happy yesterday the sun was bright and i just cried as my mind replayed the better times you were a visitor you were visiting me you were a visitor our time was temporary you were a passenger you were just passing through and i’ve been on this path before feels like deja vu every night i sing this to you every time i’m further from you i try to throw my voice but its like a dream i feel so weak and untrue every life is what you make it still a life even if you waste it trying to sell myself or trade in for a memory with you that hasn’t faded baby baby i am lonely without you here baby baby i am lonely without you i hope you feel like you are loved i thought i could do it by myself but clearly i was wrong you were a visitor you were just visiting me you were a passenger in the seat right beside me it takes one to know one no wonder i have no one
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Waiting List 04:23
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sitting on the bus home seeing all the people waiting out the clock and i am waiting for someone to wait for me when i get home sitting on the good thoughts seeing other people waiting out the clock and i am waiting for someone to wake me up how long was i asleep for? i’m waiting for the right time i’m on the waiting list for a better life line standing on the side lines i’m watching all the people as they just pass by i’m waiting on you are you waiting for me too? (do do do do) sitting on the asphalt running out of things to do it all comes down to being here without you here without you here wasted all my good shots seeing other people all i see is you all i, all i see is you i’m waiting for the right time i’m on the waiting list for a better life line standing on the side lines i’m watching all the people as they just pass by i’m waiting on you are you waiting for me too? (do do do do) what what what is my time frame what what what is your heart saying is it on its way back to me? tell me tell me tell me tell me what what what is my time frame what what what is your heart saying is it on its way back to me? tell me tell me tell me tell me sitting on the bus home sitting on the bus home i’m sitting on the bus home seeing other people seeing other people i’m seeing other people i’m waiting for the right time i’m on the waiting list for a better life line standing on the side lines i’m watching all the people as they just pass by i’m waiting on you are you waiting for me too? (do do do do)

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released October 12, 2019

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