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Make Believe
03:32
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Stop playing dumb
You’re hiding from
The things you already know
I won’t convince
You aren’t making sense
Won’t be a part of your show
It’s overwhelming me
That you could be selling these
Stupid ideas that you pretend to believe
Tribal society
Has the majority
Reason aside, it’s normal to make believe
Quit making guesses
You could just accept that
You don’t have a clue
I don’t have all the answers
But your feelings are cancer
To the things that are true
It’s overwhelming me
That you could be selling these
Stupid ideas that you pretend to believe
Tribal society
Has the majority
Reason aside, it’s normal to make believe
I’m done with trying
You keep denying
That this life’s all you’ve got
You’re wasting time
Shutting off your mind
When we could all learn a lot
It’s overwhelming me
That you could be selling these
Stupid ideas that you pretend to believe
Tribal society
Has the majority
Reason aside, it’s normal to make believe
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2. |
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I’m probably not who you think I am
I wouldn’t like your friend just ‘cause he plays in a band
No, I don’t know that obscure John Prine song
I played your other three requests, though, and you’ve been singing along
Just sit down for a second and listen to the song
You can hate it if you want, but I’m doing nothing wrong
If you want to listen to the radio, you’ll have to wait ‘till your drive to work
You spend your week nights watching talent shows, hoping you can be the one to “like” it first
You say there’s no talent on the radio, but you can’t sing along unless you know the words
You can’t sing along unless you know the words
I’d like to say I didn’t, but I lose sleep over people like you
Even though you’re drunk, or high, or low, and maybe just a douche
I will never reach you, and I know it
But I can’t push it down when I’m in the moment
If you want to listen to the radio, you’ll have to wait ‘till your drive to work
You spend your week nights watching talent shows, hoping you can be the one to “like” it first
You say there’s no talent on the radio, but you can’t sing along unless you know the words
You can’t sing along unless you know the words
The sounds I make just don’t do it for you
Let’s pretend that that’s okay and see this through
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3. |
Sebastian Smart
03:37
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He stares straight ahead
Eyes on the screen
Hands in the pockets
Of his hoodie, unseen
Like he wants to be now
While he fights with himself
There’s pain in his eyes
Behind them, it’s hell
There’s something he wants,
And he knows it might kill him
But what’s life without love?
Without joy, what’s fulfillment?
He distracts himself
With pieces of his past life
Sports and movies
Are the tether to the bright side
His family and friends
Are never out of his mind,
And he hates himself
For stealing their time,
Their things and their love
Have been his from the start
Tears stream down the face of
Sebastian Smart
He can’t pick himself up
So he puts himself down
Thinks that things might be better
If he weren’t around
But his heart is so big
He cares too much to quit
On the people he loves
And the life left to live
His urges won’t stop
His mind won’t be the same
But he’s a f***ing normal person
The world is insane,
And it played him for a fool
As smart as he is
A couple of bad choices
And his mind wasn’t his
The ones who know the feeling
Are all already broken,
And they’ve only seen his shadow;
They don’t really know him
But he still knows himself
Remembers all the broken hearts
Underneath it all, he’s still
Sebastian Smart
Underneath it all, he’s still
Sebastian Smart
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4. |
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I haven’t seen that many places
Haven’t heard that many shows
Haven’t paid my dues, it seems
Until I let my health go
Haven’t missed a day of work
To drink all night and sleep downtown
I play my little gigs each week
And try to stay above the ground
I’ll probably never make it out
And always play for tiny crowds
I’m nothing special in this realm
But hate to hear that said out loud
I’m so unsure
Insecure
Is this song
Too long
All wrong
Don’t sing along
I haven’t slept inside a van
Haven’t toured the country yet
Not worldly or experienced
Nervous when I play new sets
Covers draw more listeners
I’ve sung those hooks a thousand times
Do the lyrics even matter
When the beat is catchy, and some words rhyme?
I’ll probably never find myself
I’ll play drunken strangers’ loud requests
I’m nothing special in this realm
But this is still what I do best
I’m so unsure
Insecure
Is this song
Too long
All wrong
Don’t sing along
I’m so unsure
Insecure
Is this song
Too long
All wrong
Don’t sing along
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5. |
Abuse Myself
03:20
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What are you looking for?
Do you even know, or is it
Just a bad habit? You just can’t seem to quit it,
Even though you’re f***ing bored
Well this is
Getting so repetitive; “upsetting” isn’t the right word
‘Cause you think the whole thing’s too absurd
You waste your time wasting time
But those are your words
Does it hurt?
You say, you say,
“Not today, not today,”
Why do I listen to you?
I hear, I hear,
“Disappear, disappear,”
I’m so quick to abuse
Myself
No one knows the answer to
The question they haven’t asked
But we’re all scared to find out
We doubt that our masks
Will hide the pain when we fail
We ride the shame when we bail
On ourselves
Do you remember “show and tell”?
You say, you say,
“Not today, not today,”
Why do I listen to you?
I hear, I hear,
“Disappear, disappear,”
I’m so quick to abuse
Myself
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