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ANTIDOTE
song by Jon Foreman

The ocean is my favorite conversation
She doesn't interrupt or judge my tone
So I talk to her at night when my head's not feeling right
So much better than just staring at my phone

I've only just begun to name the feeling
That comes creeping in my head when I'm alone
Is it fear or my depression,
keeps me up at night with questions?
Like, "Who am I?" and "Why don't I already know?"

Is there an antidote
For the feelings that won't let me go?
Open arms and open roads
Won't you come and take me home?

There's a thread that pulls the night until forever
Dividing where I've been and seeds I've not yet sown
Between the meaning and the fiction, I'll suspend my predilection
With all the secrets that tomorrow only knows

When the wind out in the canyon meets a fire
And the burning in the darkness starts to grow
It don't matter your intentions with all these late-night interventions,
when the burning world's the one you used to know

Is there an antidote
For the feelings that won't let me go?
Open arms and open roads
Won't you come and take me home?

Is there a remedy
For all the broken parts of me?
The versions that I'll never be
Won't you come and take me home?

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AWARDS SEASON
Song by Bon Iver

I can handle
Way more than I can handle
So I keep reaching for the handle
To flood my heart

…always handing me the anvil
…"That's for you"
But then you came to me…
We both needed so much soothing
Played you Rickie Lee

Oh, how everything can change
In such a small time frame
You can be remade
You can live again
What was pain now's gained
A new path gets laid
And you know what is great?
Nothing stays the same

Felt you through me
In every clue you threw me
Pointing at me, asking, "Who, me?"
What a start

You had taken
All away my aching
Well, how could I ever thank you?
I'd been received

But I'm a sable
And, honey, us the fable
You said that you were unable
That it's not reprieved

Oh, but maybe things can change
What can wax can wane
Things can get replayed
And if it's all the same
Oh, just take my hand
And place it on your blame
And let it wash away
With you, I will remain

You came over
Short after it was over
You, as precious as a clover
In a meadow's sun

You had no answers
So we laid back to backs and
Clasped treasure with our hands and
Held all fate

…I know I will be seeing ya
…for some reason
God, my heart
Why do things gotta change?
We were on our way
To be best to face
All that comes in gray
It's so hard to explain
And the facts are strange
But you know what will stay?
Everything we've made

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“Adjustments.” I am in the process of making many adjustments in my life.

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Perfect
song by Alanis Morissette

Sometimes is never quite enough
If you're flawless, then you'll win my love
Don't forget to win first place
Don't forget to keep that smile on your face

Be a good boy
Try a little harder
You've got to measure up
Make me prouder

How long before you screw it up
How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up
With everything I do for you
The least you can do is keep quiet

Be a good girl
You've gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough
To make us proud

I'll live through you
I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I
Compared to him compared to her
I'm doing this for your own damn good
You'll make up for what I blew
What's the problem, why are you crying?

Be a good boy
Push a little farther now
That wasn't fast enough
To make us happy
We'll love you just the way you are
If you're perfect

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Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down

I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must've thought you'd always be around…
…Now you're nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear but I can't sing
I can't help listening

And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were…Dancing our sorrow away…
No matter what fate chooses to play (there's nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down

Perhaps a better world is drawing near
Just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found

Don't let the uncertainty turn you around (The world keeps turning around and around) go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown

Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
That you'll never know

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