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Beefcake
04:57
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I wanna be a beefcake
I wanna take what they take
I wanna do everything they can do
And I don’t want to be rejected
So sick of feeling dejected
I wanna be everything I can be
Oh
And I start out feeling I’m flying
The next minute I’m dying
I just feel like I could be more
And I never guided a writer
Fiat, Gatling, or Geiger
I want to be everything I can be
Oh
And I, it’s like winning the lotto
And then hitting the bottle
I just feel like I could be more
And I, I was reading the Bible
Its the struggle, survival
I wanna be everything I can be
Oh
Doesn’t need to be like that
Oh, I know
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Life on the Playground
04:30
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Up close, trying not to breathe
My life so far was suddenly a dream
And then, he’s gone
And I am my mother's son
I can't find out
What it is I’ve done
I'm the one standing your mirror
And you’re the one between there and here
Living in a moment, frozen, I kept running past the end
And running the same thoughts through my head over and again
Clutching on your silent phone you hang on hoping still
You ask me what I’m gonna do and
I can't I can't I can't remember
Nothing at all
No, nothing at all
Then in a moment or two, when it’s faded from view
I thought I saw you
One day, I’m okay, but the next day I am not
I can’t sit still with any passing thought
Talk, talk
Tell me that you’re real
When I’m alone
Tell me what to feel
I spend a day in my old house just trying to take it in
But two months later on the train I’m falling apart again
Once again, lost out in time just searching for a strand
Stopping myself to ask why
I can’t I can’t I can not remember
Nothing at all
Going back to that fall
In a moment or two, when it’s faded from view
I thought I saw you
Don’t fall apart
It’s breaking my heart
I can’t, I won’t, I don’t want to wake up
I hope against hope, but it’ll never be enough
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3. |
For You
03:09
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Picking it up
Or putting it down
I can't even say I care
Showing up
And making the rounds
Just to know that I was there
For you
Heavy light, shining from the shrine
Too many things I just can’t share
Alone at home
After school
I promise I'll always be there
For you
I remember feeling scared that everybody’s watching me walk home
But the road will always tell you where it thinks you need to go
Living all my life and I’m still wondering how you could be found
Touching everything in 100 mile radius around
For you
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Nothing's Gonna Change
06:04
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Later on in a cough of dust
I was reading up, never touching the stuff
I know what a lie looks like
And I tapped back in each and every night
No no no
In and out and right through the walls
It’s a hollow point; it rings when no one calls
And out and up out through the sides
A clean break, willing to make a mistake
No no no
And that’s why nothing’s gonna change
Nothing, nothing, nothing’s gonna change
I was up halfway through the night
Only half awake, half aware of the sight
Of you standing by my bed
Staring up at me, wondering what I had said
No no no
And that’s why nothing’s gonna change
Nothing, nothing, nothings gonna change
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Charlie Kaplan New York, New York
I'm an independent songwriter.
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