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Breathe
03:37
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I’m sorry to be honest but I’m so tired of the way I make myself feel I know it to be something that I can’t seem to run away from
Cause feelings often come in ways that we do not expect
And often I get weary days that I wouldn’t select
But I know that it’s better to feel everything than nothing at all
There’s hope in the tears I cry There’s strength in the pain cause
I’m Still trying
Might feel a little weight of doubt
But I’ll find my way back out
So that I can
Breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out Won’t you just, breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out
I often find the worry
Speaks louder than my voice
It screams and shouts
Letting it out feels often like no choice
But I’m learning to be stronger And whisper to it back
That I will no more longer
Let it think that I might lack
The ways to
Breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out, breathe out Won’t you just, breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out
I’m hopeless in rewinding The truth is in the cracks Of memories lost to timing I wish I could go back
But something moves me forward To make and mend a space
That lends itself to better health I’m finding a new way to
Breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out, breathe out Won’t you just
Breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out
I guess, I guess I should just
Breathe in
I guess I should just breathe out, breathe out
Breathe, breathe in
I guess I should just reach out
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2. |
Empty
04:41
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It’s the space between the lines
It’s the pause before the rhyme
That delivers the worst kind of answer
It’s the thoughts we didn't share
Despite all the love and care
We would give, all too silently
Cause I saw the look in your eyes
Fight feelings you tried to disguise With words like you “didn’t crave”
“Oh I won’t make that mistake”
Then life sets in
Paths diverge, yellow roads
Our story unfinished but only told
Through our doubts, fears and shame
That echo something strange
I carry the weight of stories left untold
Filling in the details of holes that
I can’t accept empty
Please try and bear with me
My feelings go often unread
But I can’t keep living with feelings unsaid
Please forgive me
But I just can’t forget we
I wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye
There's never enough time in the world but I tried
To move on
Yet here I am writing this song
Please know I will always be there
There’s always the love that we shared
Even though I can’t predict the ending
Time flows but not without lending me a little space
To
Carry the weight of stories left untold
Filling in the details of holes that
I can’t accept empty
Please try and bear with me
And my feelings go often unread
But I won’t keep living with feelings unsaid
Please forgive me
But I just can’t forget we
I carry the weight of stories left untold
Filling in the details of holes that
I can’t accept empty
Please try and bear with me
Oo, and
My feelings go often unread
But I won’t keep living with feelings unsaid
Please forgive me
But I just can’t forget we
My feelings go often unread
But I won’t, I won’t keep living with feelings unsaid
Please, forgive me
But I just can’t forget we
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3. |
I'm Done
03:00
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I’m done with you I’m done with this
Done with your ‘tude
And yes that’s attitude
Which neither of us seem to lack
I’m done with you I’m done with this
Done with the rewind
Rinse wash repeat
Over what you seem to miss
Cause I’m calling out the moment lingering sentiments I’m phoning in I think it's time to call it day
And you’re playing with a fire that ignites my song of tired
What I am no longer is trying to play with you
Let my words act as a warning, global, inside out and turning
You might think it's fine to treat me with ease
But I'm coming for your lazy, watch me sink into my crazy
If you think I'll let you treat me as you please
I’m over you
Done with your shit
I’m over us
I’m over it
And yes there once was a you and me
But now it's more like you and her
And she’s the one who used to not know
How to tell you to swerve
But I'm here now
I might fall into a loneliness where gravity bounds nothing miss me
With that sad and tired, “oh I can change”
If i leave now I’ll find sanctuary in myself and actually move me forward In a real kind of way
So my leaving sits on promises of futures knowing good and well you Wouldn’t, couldn’t dare try to provide
Cause you’re lacking what I'm growing, and your childish ways are showing
Let's end here, I’m done
Good luck and goodbye
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I’ve lived in a lie
Perpetuated by dreams of what could be
Oh I really tried oh I really tried
To rewrite my misshapened reality
I casted it out logic for fear
Left myself broken reduced to a tear I shed in vain
Cause the waters drown me
In my lack of remembering how this always seems to play out
This invention born of my own self doubt
Balance is what I lack
I tried to assign a feeling that I can’t keep track of anymore
Oooo, oh I oh I, I thought I could place, oh I would
Trace the lines on your smile, once more
I, I, I I, I don’t think about you (oh what a lie)
I, I don’t think about you
Oh how I tried, not to think about you, anymore I cry, when I think about you
Oh I, think about you, often
It's really like you never left my brain
Was I ever sane to let myself
Think about you
Lord, please guide me on a path
That strengthens and remaps my heart and inclination to search for your face
In my soul, oh it screams, cause nothing quite as it seems I want to be ok
But here I am, thinking about you
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5. |
Last Week
02:42
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It started off as story between
Me and you
What can we do, but laugh
At
What happened last week
I don’t understand quite how But I can’t say I wasn’t down
For what happened last week
Isn’t it funny oh please hunny
Laugh we with me
Cause the tension is mounting
Feelings are cloudy
Due to what happened last week
It started off as story between
Me and you
What can we do, but laugh
At
What happened last week
That last verse was a little lie
Cause I know for sure
Who what when why
That thing between you and I
Happened last week
So let's skip all the games
And swerve out the lanes
That tell us to stay put
Cause I don't know ‘bout you
But I like truth
Of what happened last week
It started off as a story between me and you
What can we do but laugh
At
What happened last week
The third verse is a little shy
Cause truth be told I want you to be my guy
And I felt that way before last week
So now my cards are told
The game soon to fold
Hoping that your hand matches mine
But with metaphor aside
And a feeling quite right I’ll let you know
I like
Who you are
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6. |
Lost in Time
03:25
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How I speak What I thought
Seems to me
I was wrong
Wanna dance these memories out of my mind
But now I can’t seem to find
The rhythm to move my feet
It was love
Or so I thought
Can’t trust no one to
Play my best cards
Win the game
My mind is telling me
Blame the timing
Hell if I know what winning really means
Cause I saw the truth, in your eyes
And behind hope I tried to desperately hide
Swept away by a trace of times now gone
I let the dream, radiate
To sustain, repeat, renew and replace
What once was, but now gone
Lost in time
Find the truth
In what was dreamt
Knowing truth is a currency spent
On remembering all the times
That seemed blinded by a light
Stuck on reminiscing feelings now gone
But here’s the problem
With my truth
It’s tainted by the memory of you
Yet in time I’ll feel reality
Sink into my sanity
Lost right now
One day to be found
Cause I saw the truth, in your eyes
And behind hope I tried to desperately hide
Swept away by a trace of times now gone
I let the dream radiate
To sustain, repeat, renew and replace
What once was, but now gone
Lost in time
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7. |
Rise
04:00
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I capture sorrow my song
I’ve waited far too long to stop now
The feeling makes me want to break
Pray that I keep up with the wait
Dreams come and dreams go and I know
Dreams ebb and dreams flow
And I grow
And so I say rise if you will
Rise if you still want anything
Dreams come and dreams go and I know
Dreams ebb and dreams flow
And I grow
And so I say rise if you will
Rise if you still want anything
I’m lost and found between the notes I hear the cadence grow with hope
I think I’ve captured something brave
The story swells to meet, the pages
Turn with speed
And as I browse the skies
I’m left feeling complete
A whole not half or quartered will
Knowing I’m learning to just stand still
And enjoy all that I’ve made
Dreams come and dreams go and I know
Dreams ebb and dreams flow
And I grow
And so I say, rise if you will
Rise if you still want anything
Oh dreams come and dreams flow and I grow and
Dreams ebb and dreams fight
To stay afloat
And so I say, rise if you will
Rise if you still want anything
Rise if you will
Rise if you still need anything
Rise if you will Rise if you still
Dreams come and dreams go and I know
Dreams ebb and dreams flow And I grow
And so I say
Rise if you will
Rise if you still want
Anything
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8. |
Take Me
03:24
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I burn the bridge to you
Cause I can’t go back there again I hope you know that it was real
Just wasn’t meant to last or mend
My broken heart I find the pieces are scattered too many places to retrieve I hope you heed this apology
So please don’t dare come back for me
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna go
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna grow
Yeah just, take me, take me, take me pieces so I stay the same
Yeah just, take me, take me, take me please so I can take the blame
Collect the pieces of my heart
Like fractured glass from sand
Oh please be careful not to cut your heart
When held in hand
You smell the burning of the cocoa tree
Almost hypnotic that’s the scent of me
But I’m not elastic, not quite pleasant, or good with moving on
My presence lingers
So take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna go
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna grow
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces so I stay the same
Yeah just, take me, take me, take me please so I can take the blame
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna go
Oh just, take me, take me, take me pieces I don’t wanna grow
Yeah just, take me, take me, take me pieces so I stay the same
Yeah just, take me, take me, take me please so I can take the blame
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Kristen Merritt Brooklyn, New York
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