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Antpile​/​Black Smith Split

by Antpile/Black Smith

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It's months without sleep Or it's years without dreams And the stitch that keeps my smile wide is bursting at the seams Five hundred miles, just to see how far I could run Another passing mirror and I still hate what I become But it's not enough I am my fathers son There's an interstate for every song But it's not enough Leave no tracks to follow Leave no number to call And i'll see you both down at the bottom beneath this all Another ten thousand miles, so this year doesn't catch up with me Another strangers floor and your face is still all I see But it's not enough I am my fathers son There's an interstate for every song But it's not enough
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I forced your hand You broke my smile Time forced us both to slow down for awhile Two decades gone So little done Too far behind Not worth your time Not even worth mine There's an honest man I'm told you loved But I don't trust you all anymore For every page left on my bookshelf I'll leave it burning at your door It's the simplest things these days that I can't bring myself to do I can't drag myself to sleep, and I can't force myself to move There's an honest man I'm told you loved but i'm just not that man anymore And it's not because i'm not trying So little done Too far behind Not worth your time Not even worth mine Now those nickel strings that showed your soul are growing darker every day Filled with minor chords, major sins, and those things I wish I could say It's the simplest things these days that I can't bring myself to do I can't drag myself to sleep, and I can't force myself to move There's an honest man I'm told you loved but i'm just not that man anymore And it's not because i'm not trying, i'm just so sick of being ignored And I'll stay ignored
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If you find me here in two years time Would you still tell me everything was fine And that I haven't wasted all my best days on the years behind Or if you lost my name, forgot my face and then boarded all your windows with those wooden planks It wouldn't change that much for me I know things will never be the same It's the weight of of your words It's the hatred in my heart Or the poison in his veins It's not so easy to start again Well then you asked if I was staring I lied and said no But still I carry your face with me where ever I go And I know it wouldn't take much for me to leave this stupid town Maybe things will change when we're both old Or maybe they'll just stay the same but I'll just get more cold Till there's nothing left of whatever you loved in me It's the weight of of your words It's the hatred in my heart Or the poison in his veins It's not so easy to start again Now i'm older but not wiser i'm just worse for the wear Every single thing i've ever done just re opens the scars I bear And you don't have to lie when you tell me that i'm doing fine Because I know i'm not Your face has faded from my mind along with everybody else Now all that's left are all the reasons I still hate myself And I know for certain now that those things you loved are gone and that's just fine
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Heart like her mother, frame like her father And time has had its way with both He's still chasing spirits in bottles of amber Now she chases the Holy Ghost She throws white stones Through the windows of broken homes Leave on a bad note, leave with the small hope That maybe someday things will change Forgiven forgotten a fridge full of coffins And he drinks now to more of the same You're all the same She throws white stones Through the windows of broken homes From father to daughter all you ever offered Were vices and empty words Another year older, the skin frozen over But she's still more than you deserve
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The rope I cut to keep from drowning The things you said, they're still resounding I'm not the man I was last year That hope bled out and it drowns me here So leave, and take that future with you That I could never see That world you never understood is the only thing that's saving me Every record covers up All I know I won't become What's one more reason, on an endless list of ways That I'm still not enough I don't see seasons, just an endless string of days That I wish time would swallow up So I could grow up, and move out, and move on And see this world for what it is But it's this city that saved me It raised me, it follows me until the end

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released July 17, 2012

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