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change my mind (demo)
03:08
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I’m so scared things will end that I pray they don’t start
Try to live in the moment but it breaks me apart
Try to write a nice song but the lines rhyme with fart
But I’ve been trying to change my mind
The leaves make you breathless and then the leaves fall
You make a new friend just to wish they would call
The long lonely nights are the worst of it all
But I’ve been trying to change my mind
I write a song while I’m driving, can’t control what I feel
But it’s hard to write down with one hand on the wheel
I put on the blinkers, pull over to heal
I’ve been trying to change my mind
It feels like my brain’s poking out from the lid
Or I wake up and feel like I’m still just a kid
My body got bigger, now my mind doesn’t fit
But I’m trying, I’m trying to change it
So in March or in April I’ll look at the trees
See them shivering and grateful for winter’s release
The quick happy trills of the robin’s relief
I’ve been trying to change my mind
On the days when I miss you I’ll be glad that we met
Or get busy with work and be glad to forget
Why does trying to be happy feel like paying off debt?
I’ve been trying to change my mind
I’ve been trying to change my mind
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here right now (demo)
04:36
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There is a hunger with a hold on me but my guts are glued
I stay a length away and try to throw it food
It won’t release its grip until it runs me through
Until I lose myself in pursuit of you
I’ve got an ache inside, a kind of subtle fear
And it’s poisoning my atmosphere
When I’m driving I’ll lose focus and it’ll reappear
And get me missing you while you sit right here
There’s a beauty in the sadness when it comes along
Just to taste how it’ll hurt me when you’re gone
When I’m old will I remember, if I’m feeling down
It’s nostalgia for what’s here right now
It’s the time I can’t forget and almost wish I could
The discomfort’s there but the pain feels good
Until I’m standing in the room where last night you stood
I said “please don’t go” but I knew you would
There’s a beauty in the sadness when it comes along
Just to taste how it’ll hurt me when you’re gone
When I’m old will I remember, if I’m feeling down
It’s nostalgia for what’s here right now
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You could call me more often, you could leave me alone
You could make me a copy of the keys to your home
I’m always here when you need me, and I’m here when you don’t
Like a brother I’ll love you even when your friends won’t
You can move to the forest or go live on the coast
Just don’t lose your dumb humor or your terrible jokes
You can do what you like in this strange little life
Just please don’t change
I’ve been working on balance, don’t want to sound too intense
But in the moments you’re with me, my life makes more sense
The more time we’re together, the more my soul is uncurled
Makes me scared to go back to the rest of the world
Being a friend is like having sex when you’re high
You do it all wrong, but it’s fun just to try
You can do what you like in this strange little life
Just please don’t change
I’m just a kid with his heroes, but the movie’s not true
Do I love who you are or just the image of you
I don’t know if it matters, or if it’s worth it to ask
But please don’t change
It’s like I don’t know you, or at least we just met
To me you’re as close to perfect as people can get
But there’s something not wholesome, there’s something not right
The way the darkness in me is drawn to your light
The way I love you is clumsy and I can’t keep it down
Gives me a lump in my throat just to have you around
You can do what you like in this strange little life
Just please don’t change
Please don’t change
Please don’t change
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