the hotly-anticipated second installment in the Akron, OH Trilogy.
lyrics
(verse 1)
this wasn't a good night to bail
i'm naked and reeling on a hotel bathroom floor
a ball of nerves, undeserved
eyeballs (*long live the hate*) burning worse than ever before
and that's all you had to say if you didn't wanna hang out
you've left me coming to grips with mortality
on the steps of my grandparents' house
and i just wanna get out
(half-chorus thing)
so if you're gonna freeze
come on and freeze with me
i need any excuse to leave
yeah, i need any excuse to leave
(verse 2)
and yeah, she's fucked up
but you've done so much that you can barely open your eyelids
now we're both high and driving the streets
our parents warned us about as kids
and a year ago, i would've reveled in this
and i swear you're the friend that i've most missed
but i'm pining for a utopia
that probably never even existed
(pre-chorus)
and i'll walk Silver Lake alone if she won't answer her phone
it'll be pretty much the same as it was back home
(chorus)
so if you're gonna freeze
come on and freeze with me
i need any excuse to leave
yeah, i need any excuse to leave
and everywhere's the same
so fuck it anyway
i can't wait to be on that plane
no, i can't wait to be on that plane
(verse 1)
(bridge)
and please don't take my silence
as anything but a display of deep-seated inner violence
it's not that i don't appreciate
all that you've done, i just can't relate to anything you have to say
(chorus)
back to my small semblance of the same.
credits
from Five Songs,
released September 4, 2015
vocals/guitar - Sam Kuhns
bass/backing vocals - Jesse De Siena
drums/backing vocals - Damien Thompson
written by Sam Kuhns, arranged by Clarity.
engineered, mixed, and mastered by Rob McGregor at Goldentone Studios.
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