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POST IT
01:15
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It's a beautiful world
Post it
Let's get some pictures in it
Post those
Not that one
I don't look good in that one
It's a beautiful world
Post it
Let's take another one from my good side
From my good side
Which one is my good side?
It's a beautiful world
Post it
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FORGET AND FORGET
01:01
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Everything we do, forgotten
Everyone you knew, forgotten
All the shit you got into, forgotten
All the effects of the shit you got into, forgotten too
Forgotten
Why's it comforting to me to be forgotten?
Why's it comforting to me to be forgotten?
This day and age, it's a vacay to be forgotten
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PUT SOME FILTERS ON
01:24
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I'm taking all these pictures with my phone
Gotta catalogue this shit alone
Should I put some filters on?
I place it on the internet and wait
Wave it like a flag before your face
What a world, man
I've been making all this stuff
It has no soul
I'll politic and play my role, but I don't really feel well
I'm working out a prologue in my blood
Working on a landslide, selling mud
Just call it what it is, man
I've been looking at the world from a new lens
Audience appeal beats common sense
Should I put some filters on?
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PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
01:05
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People of the world
Pissing in the same old whirlpools
Eating from the same old vines
It boggles the mind that we do fine
A lifetime in the loop
Filling up the same blank spaces
Some moot pursuit of truth, hastily abandoned
Oh, these things we tell ourselves to feel better
Oh, these things we tell ourselves to relax
It's not awful at all
It's not sick, is it?
It's not twisted at all
Only a little bit
It's not insidious or horrifying
Everything is totally fine
Follow me online
People of the world
Sailing in the same dark oceans
Miles and miles in single file
Heading in reverse directions alone
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Nothing is the way it used to be
Nothing will be the way it is currently
Lots of things seem a little like they're permanent
Other things don't seem themselves
Nowhere is the path back to history
Nothing is the thing waiting there
Lately, I've been feeling like a cat in a turtleneck
Fundamentally affronted
No one is the answer to anything
Everyone's just answering themselves
Get a gut filled with candy
A head filled with fantasy
A heart with its head up its ass
You said, "This ain't the way that it used to be"
That's okay
"This ain't the way that it used to feel"
That's okay
"This shit is starting to get to me"
I understand
Everything changes except the ending
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DON'T BE PERFECT
01:08
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Don't be perfect
Don't be a star
No, please
Not that
Be as broken as you are
My heart is open
Just for you
You are you and that's rad
I am me, and I'm learning to live with that
It's okay to
Guess your way through
Just don't be perfect
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I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot change you
But I can forgive you
For the the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot fix you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend it doesn't hurt me
I'll just turn and walk away
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the love of God
Just shut up
I cannot fix you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us and
For the love of God
Shut up
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THE SUN ON ONE'S BUM
01:13
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All the pretty people with the sun on their bums
All the pretty people with the sun on their bums
I'll pretend to read my book
While I take a closer look
I'm not ashamed to see the beauty in booty
All the pretty people with the sun on their bums
All the pretty people with the sun on their bums
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A DYSTOPIAN DISTINCTION
01:07
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I'm in love with your picture
You drew it
I hooked my feelings to it
So now it's more than just your picture
I'm in love with your picture
You took it
I hooked my heart up to it
So now it's more than just your picture
I am in love with your pictures
You're in them
But you aren't them
That's a dystopian distinction to make, but I'll make it
The world is ours
So fake it
I'm in love with your picture
You post it
I paste my face over it
So now I'm pretty as a picture
Pretty as a picture
Pretty as a picture
Pretty as a picture
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BE KIND, PLEASE REWIND
01:52
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I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot change you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot fix you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend it doesn't hurt me
I'll just turn and walk away
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the love of God
Just shut up
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us and
For the love of God
Just shut up
I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot change you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend I didn't hear that
I'll pretend for both our sakes
I cannot fix you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us
For the sake of love
I'll pretend it doesn't hurt me
I'll just turn and walk away
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us and
For the love of God
Just shut up
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us and
For the love of God
Just shut up
I cannot help you
But I can forgive you
For the sake of us and
For the love of God
Just shut up
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