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Sometimes I wonder If all of my friends Are really just regular people

And sometimes I wonder If regular people Are really just all of my Friends

I'm The loneliest bug out on the bend

Sitting all alone in my den

Thinking 'bout my friends

I think of all the people Who came and went back out like nothing

I think of all the time And how I'd like to fill it up with something

And the emptiness that lurks And fills you up with something heavy

And sinks you through your day just like a stone

I'm the loneliest bug out on the bend

Sitting all alone in my den

Thinking 'bout my friends

Maybe we all balance To keep our thoughts fully intact

And slip off in the night When something small comes to distract us

And no one really knows Which direction leads us to

The places we've been meaning to go

I'm the loneliest bug out on the bend

Sitting all alone in my den

Thinking bout my friends

What's up with time? And what's up with you?

You're doing all the things that you Don't wanna be doing

Yeah you're twiddling your thumbs As you're drifting through

And you're sleeping when you're walking And you're dreaming with your eyes open

Eyes open wider than the sky

I wish that I could touch your eye With my eye

If you can't take the weather Why don't you put on a sweater

Why don't you do what you're doing But just a little bit better

Just a little bit smarter And a little more funny

Why don't you have

A little more money, honey

Honey is dripping from your lips

I wish that I could touch your lips with my lips

There is something tender hardening

Oh, I can feel it happening

And I can't remember what it used to be

No, I can't remember what it meant to me

So who do you think you're fooling, who?

No one in this world has been watching you

And there's really nothing that we need to do

You were just using me while I was using you

If I had a dollar for every time I got to thinking

That I spend too much time blinking and all the seconds in between

They start to fizzle at the seams

And I don't know when I'm dreaming

Yeah, I'm sleeping when I'm day walking

Spacing with my eyes open

Eyes open wider than the sky

I wish that I could touch your eye with my eye

What's up with time? And what's up with you?

You're doing all the things that you Don't wanna be doing

Yeah you're twiddling your thumbs As you're drifting through

And you're sleeping when you're walking And you're dreaming with your eyes open

Eyes open wider than the sky

I wish that I could touch your eye With my eye

If you can't take the weather Why don't you put on a sweater

Why don't you do what you're doing But just a little bit better

Just a little bit smarter And a little more funny

Why don't you have

A little more money, honey

Honey is dripping from your lips

I wish that I could touch your lips with my lips

There is something tender hardening

Oh, I can feel it happening

And I can't remember what it used to be

No, I can't remember what it meant to me

So who do you think you're fooling, who?

No one in this world has been watching you

And there's really nothing that we need to do

You were just using me while I was using you

If I had a dollar for every time I got to thinking

That I spend too much time blinking and all the seconds in between

They start to fizzle at the seams

And I don't know when I'm dreaming

Yeah, I'm sleeping when I'm day walking

Spacing with my eyes open

Eyes open wider than the sky

I wish that I could touch your eye with my eye

Woke up from a dream And it swiftly blew away

To find yourself In a peculiar condition today

You could call the doctor And they'd be on their way

But you already know Just what they'd say

There's something wrong with you

I really must confide

There's something terribly wrong with you inside

I stop to watch the people As their days slowly unfurl

They dress up their funny body's And they push them through the world

And they talk about their taxes and pretend that they don't notice

That there is something decomposing lurking just beneath the surface

There's something wrong with you

I really must confide

There's something terribly wrong with you inside

Sitting with those feelings that you had

Caused by the nerve in your belly that makes you sad

It's like practicing the method of infinite descent

I heard what you said but I didn't catch what you meant

There's something wrong with you

I really must confide

There's something terribly wrong with you inside

It's ok to sleep through the morning

I guess it's ok to not sleep in the night

And it's ok to feel boring and worn

I guess it's ok to feel nothing inside sometimes

It's ok to feel that you're not

The person you were before you forgot who you were

'Cause I'm sure Pretty soon it'll come in to view

It's ok to lose it all 'cause I'm a loser too

I picked a combination of words to be said

From the nebulous storm of pictures in my head

And from there I thought you'd know who I am but instead

It was just a fleeting wisp of emotion

And it didn't even scratch the peel

Because the only real thing you could ever even know about me

Is the way that I make you feel

Out of all our conversations

And all my reservations

And all the moving parts held precariously in my heart

I can't seem to find the right time

Treading water in my mind

It's kinda difficult to ignore

I wish someone would do it for me

It's ok to step out of line

I guess it's ok to shit your pants sometimes

And it's ok to lose all your socks within your fitted sheets at night

And it's ok to feel that you're not

The person you were before you forgot who you were

'Cause I'm sure Pretty soon it'll come into view

It's ok to lose it all 'cause I'm a loser too

There's no secret in knowing everywhere that you've been

To get like a beetle And crawl inside your skin

'Cause everyone in the cast of it

Don't know the half of it

Just making the faces that convey what they need you to see

But I witnessed you shedding

Your human disguise

Yes you turned into an animal

Right before my eyes

You turned into an animal

Right before my eyes

I saw you thinking on your years

All the things that you didn't do

Some you didn't 'cause you were broken

Some 'cause you just didn't want to

But you were trying to fool me

Hiding what's underneath

Behind your grizzly teeth

You went and you swallowed it away

But I witnessed you shedding

Your human disguise

Yes you turned into an animal

Right before my eyes

Yes you turned into an animal

Right before my eyes

You sometimes forget to

Listen to what I am saying to you

And I don't alway know what I'm saying

But I wish you'd at least play along

'Cause I'd just like to be here for a second

A second pressed under my thumb

I'd just like to mention the way the light's hitting

The side of the mountain with the dead orange leaves in the sun

There's a voice in your bathroom says maybe I'd love you

If only you were a bit different

Shrunk down to pocket size with smaller ears and bigger eyes

And a little less dusty inside

You have a serious way of remembering

The things you ought not be thinking about

I'm tired of hearing you telling yourself

That you're all squeezed out

There's many odd shapes and dimensions of love

There's that flirty boy back home you often think fondly of

And the way that you're calm and the way that you're shook

And the secret letters Left in your notebook to find

All those times, and I'll keep them in mind

I'll keep them like relics of the tiny divine

And I'll keep them entwined with what's lost in the rest

But I'll keep them nonetheless

You have a serious way of remembering

The things you ought not be thinking about

I'm tired of hearing you telling yourself

That you're all squeezed out.

I am looking forward to a time years from now

When I can write you a letter expressing how

You make me feel Right now

Yes, I've just been reflecting On all the times we had

Can't call them good, in fact you made me mad

So mad, so mad

With you up there in your big 'ol head

Not hearing a goddamn thing I said

Oh well, oh well

But because of you, I can see

The toughest me I'd ever be

As far as I can tell

All the things to say

Just put 'em in a box And ship them away

No one's listening anyway

Just two clueless people sitting in a cloud

Talking to ourselves out loud

I can't go telling you how to be

If I can't change the way I look at you

I'll change the way I see

I can remember various instances

Wandering at night under various substances

We'd find a place to lay and gaze up above

Never quite at rest and never quite in love

You know, I think I spent all this time lying through my silence

Taking' apart your mind and trying to make sense of it

You're tangled up in blue

And there's nothing I can do

You know, I love the way you think But I don't think I love you

All the things to say

Just put 'em in a box And ship them away

No one's listening anyway

Just two clueless people sitting in a cloud

Talking to ourselves out loud

I can't go telling you how to be

If I can't change the way I look at you

I'll change the way I see

Spent an hour perched on the bathroom shelf

Making faces in the mirror to myself

And it'd probably be good for my health

To find something better to do with my time

Time time time

I do this all the time

I spend too much time thinking about time

And minutes turn to days put in boxes on a shelf

Stacked up in my mind

And I'm staring at the open door

Waiting for something to be waiting for

And I'm starting to worry

That we're all in a hurry

To just sit around and wait some more

But I wouldn't feel so far behind

If I wasn't so restless all the time

Time time time

I'd figure it all out if I could

But I got this terrible feeling

I'm not doing what I should

Maybe the nights will get longer And the world will get smaller

And I'll miss out on everything for good

I'll miss out on everything for good

And I'm staring at the open door

Sixty seconds away From six years more

Don't know what I'm counting on

Don't know what I'm counting for

I don't know what I'm counting for

But I wouldn't feel so far behind

If I wasn't so restless all the time

Time time time time

We're on the porch under the crows nest

And you're sitting over there looking your best

And I may as well say something I guess

'Cause I'm dying

And you're dying

We're dying

Something happened from the very start

I'm not in love with you

'Cause that wouldn't be too smart

But some spazzy little creature Dances 'round in my heart when you're here

And I'm dying

Only for a lifetime, I'm dying

I won't be dying anymore when I'm dead

And I'm not dreaming up Some grand fantasy

Of you leaving who you got to run away with me

No, I'm not some hopeless romantic fool

I just think you're pretty cool

I just think your pretty cool

And I'm dying

Prolly not for a while but I'm dying

One of these days I'll be dead

One of these days…

And it seems that life just rolls along

Narrating itself In three chord songs

about how everything is here until the second it's gone

And if it doesn't go right it doesn't have to be wrong

But I'm dying

It's no big deal but I'm dying

Like everybody else I'm dying

Take my bones, take my sighs

Take anything from me that you like

'Cause I'm not here

And the tension is slackening

I’m just a puppet of the happening

Or a wizard of the night

But sitting here with you I love you dearly

You fit so clearly in the space that takes up you

You drink the morning in through and through

And the morning drinks you too

Take My bones Take my lies

Take anything from me That you like

'Cause I'm not real

And the tension is slackening

I'm just a puppet of the happening

Or a wizard of the night

But sitting here with you I love you dearly

You fit so clearly in the space that takes up you

You drink the morning in Through and through

And the morning Drinks you too