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Borrowed Problems

by Fake Fireplace

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Testing I'm all alone Testing Testing Is this thing on I'm resting my arms on your shoulder blades and I've been On to you for a while now Keep myself wound up too tight Fighting for my spot Always looking at what everyone's got Keep thinking I'm in your hallway knocking on your door and you Keep it locked up tight now Good thing I've got your front door key There's been someone tugging at my sleeve Can't say nothing, guess I'll just leave now Keep my sunken treasure beneath The ocean I'd most like to be
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Counting every hour Climbing up the guard tower tonight To look down at the lights See my chimney Smoke billowing forth looks so nice But I gotta pay the price See those workers Hope they're alright Soon I'll see when I go back the muddy marks Tromping through the forest And into my life To introduce new horrors Sounds from the basement I think I'll just stay upstairs And put aside all my cares Listen to the silence I wish that sound would last all night But there'll be a fight Seen the muddy marks Tromping through the forest And into my life To introduce new horrors I'll be alright If I carry my cutlass In my right hand In my right hand
3.
I never made Much in the way of good grades Always disrupted and feeling untied I never held Anyone's hands in those days 'Til I lucked out and I was feeling on top I'll never go back I'll never take the lunch out of my sack All the cool kids think I'm feeling alright I'll never go back I'll never take another look Keeping my thoughts depressed in a book Thinking I can't hear what you say I'm pressed in a book You're thinking the coast is clear But I can hear you so near I never make Any headway with what you say Anything real you just keep it from me Soon as we cross Another head lost in another critique You've got some problems babe Take it from me And to this day all I can say is you got You got spirit in you I can hear it in you And if it makes you feel more okay we got We got near it, it's true But that fear is in you Yeah, that fear is in you Thinking I can't hear what you say I'm pressed in a book You're thinking the coast is clear But I can hear you so near I would have thought that all that we'd got would be clearing Disappearing you see But it's here as we keep Getting nearer
4.
I can get up and out of my bed Take my knife and place it in my bag I could track all night and never sleep Keep my hand within my weapon's reach I keep my knife to your back To your back I keep my knife to your back After all this time my face is red After all this walk my feet have bled After every shadow comes a light After all this time I think I might Be ready for a fight Would you write me off as mad? It could be nothing But with these dark dreams I've had there could be something to it Would you strike me down deranged? It could be nothing But the sprung traps I have made–there could be something to it Now on this dark night I lay me down Never once a single creeping sound Maybe I am easy prey to fear Nodding off I oh so faintly hear A knocking on the door
5.
I might be a man who wakes up early mornings Look to the paper for my daily warnings And I tried and I failed To get you bail Punctuated hexagons marked in a row No chance to get away cause he's too slow And I tried and I failed To get you well Geometry juice Relax, your mind will see you through Forget what you figured what you figured is dead One slip and you will feel fantastic dread And I tried and I might Continue into the night Geometry Juice Relax, your mind will see you through Oh no Disaster I could never get I could never get what I was after I'm the one who wins I'm the one who wins Not the attractor One of these days I'll walk On the other side of these walls Try no more to be confused And if we are we'll have many books to peruse I wanna see your shoes By my door when I come home to watch the news Geometry juice Relax, your mind will see you through Geometry juice Relax, your mind will see you through
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Sleep deep sleep Cover yourself in iron and wire Give good dreams In iron and wire It's all not what it seems In iron and wire Sleep in my bed tonight And I will treat you right Sleep with no covers on Swear I won't do you wrong Somethings keeping you down Going to send you Sweet dreams Make sure your eyes can see me Going to send you Sweet light And sing a love song through the night Sleep in the basement That's where I used to live Go where you want to live And I will tag along Sleep with your eyes relaxed The ones I used to lack
7.
There are pages in your book and everybody took a couple Out when they were trying to get Out when they were trying to get You had a way with words and used them all against me Trying to convince me Trying to convince me Left my motel I'm overthinking drinking as I stumbled out Into the blacktop parking lot Into the blacktop parking lot Giving me a way Taking off my mask as I save the day I've got a library card You can loan things out to me Just like a library card Yeah you can check it out from me Whisper to myself as I'm laying within your dark bedroom "I've got ideas that I can't give up" "I've got ideas that I can't give up"

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released July 6, 2018

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Fake Fireplace Boulder, Colorado

Fake Fireplace is a three-piece indie rock band led by singer/songwriter Neal Wright (Wave Collector). The band also includes keyboardist Ayal Alves (Kelli Schaefer, Siren and the Sea, Saroon) and drummer Will Hattman (Months, Down Gown). Fake Fireplace employs elements of folk, rock, and electronic styles while maintaining a subtle pop sensibility. ... more

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