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Take Time
03:48
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Dry erase boards are meant for charting chords
And keeping track of tracks
On lazy Saturdays before time gets away
And you never get it back
But that was in the past
Dry erase boards with facts and figures
Grids to chart the time
Count the hours down gotta to wait it out
Try to close your eyes
It’s too much to ask
Time doesn’t slip away when youre watching pain
Mmm it creeps
There’s no chart to tell you how to feel
Or how to get to sleep
Hell you feel lucky if you can breath
Moments worn in time and in my mind
As days just waste away
All the things I’ve said or haven’t yet
Will I get that time and place
Sometimes there’s answers you can’t face
Dry erase boards can be wiped clean of course
And used for other things
Buckets lists and plans cross off what you can
Each day makes my heart leap
Take time to cherish little things
Take time to cherish little things
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Another Day
02:34
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I'm at the intersection
Of ADD and depression
I am lost and found
I am gently bound
By the rules of life
In a lawless riot
Known as being human
In this world we live in
Procrastination
And every moment taken
Is a thing you'd hate
That I can't escape
Though I'm filled with dread
I get out if bed
Zombie through the day
Carry all that I can't shake
I am a used up journal
With over flowing internals
Filled with quips and maps
Instances that take you back
I sit on the shelf
Question mental health
Overcome with fear
Of the world without you here
There is no tomorrow
Where I don't see sorrow
But I can hear you say
That old clicheTomorrow's another day
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The Winter After
04:34
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I guess I reached the point in life where
All my friends are dead or dying
And sometimes I don't know how ill
Make it through the day
So I'll put on a pot of coffee
And a record that you bought me
Stand here in the window watching streets turn gray
In the winter after you died
I wonder what the spring will bring
But there's no use in guessing things
Instead I'd better work towards goals I know you'd have me reach
But I pick this old guitar and work on pouring out my heart
So all the world can know I'm taking time to heal and grieve
In the winter after you died
The work will be there later on
Maybe the pain will lessen some
So I can focus on the things I need to do for me
Like finishing the words to this song
Because I don't know how it should go
Do do do do do do do
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Overwhelming
03:51
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What you see as overwhelming
Baby that's just life
And the cruelty of time
Some say we've lived our golden years
But to me it's not exactly clear
If they exist
So I try to let little shit go
Because for all I know
There's a sink full of dishes in the sky
What you see as overwhelming
Baby that's just life
You'd better learn to live it before you die
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10-4
03:52
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The first to arrive and the last to leave
Still doesn't feel there was time to grieve
But I'm back home and I'm working now
Cause I don't know any other way how
Else to deal
So I try to focus on other things
Instead of your memory
I'm sorry if that sounds fucked up
But that's what I am over you
Some days it's all I can do
Come home and sort through the bills
Mountains of papers topped by your will
Saying I now own all that you left
But I'd drive those cars right off a cliff
For one moment with you
So I try to focus on other things
Instead of your memory
I'm sorry if that sounds fucked up
But that's what I am over you
I just have to tell the truth
Not that anyone's listening
They're all caught up in the machine
Working hard until they die
Too tired to ever ask why
Won't I ever retire
So I try to focus on bigger things
Like creating memories
That probably sounds fucked up
But that's what I've learned losing you
Life's not something to just get through
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Errol Bateman recommends:
Shameless Money Grab
by Crywank
Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday And Everyday Is Stupid has been an album I can't get enough of for years. I can't stress enough how much I love the brutally honest and relatable lyrics.
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Noise
by Silhouettes vs. The Sun
Phenomenal lyrical content and just all around talent. Rather partial to When The Silence Breaks but also always looking forward to what comes next.
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Well written songs, elegantly produced, and performed by a voice that gives goosebumps. Someone that has strength I have been in awe of for a long, long time.
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Woozy, rollicking indie rock that's thick and humid, searching vocals set against pealing guitars. Also available on cassette.
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Echo Dancing
by Alejandro Escovedo
The legendary Alejandro Escovedo returns with another country-rock scorcher.
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Turn My Radio Up
by The Coffis Brothers
Big, sunny country songs from this Santa Cruz duo summon the spirit of late-period Byrds.
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