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When you're on your own Home is not a home When you're by yourself disregard your health
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Sebring 02:48
You stole the keys to your mother's Chrysler Sebring And we took off like two vandals at the first sight of a gun Hormones raging in our glands and parents just don't understand As we mumble out our plans to live life on the run We were seventeen years old and our love shone bright as gold With the tops down to the cold our hearts basked in the glow We thought we could live forever on cigarettes and cloudy weather bags of off-brand fruity leather stashed in the back seat Well we were young and we were dumb But we were following the sun And following was everything that served To keep us on the run And in our minds we realized They were the best years of our lives But if they were the best, they never coalesced Now we're many miles away and honey I just have to say That up until this very day I've never felt so free Try to smile your reply but tears are forming in your eyes As you let out with a sigh I love you too but see The home we left 3 weeks ago is all the home I've ever known And I still need time to grow before I go away Too proud to agree with you, but I guess I felt it too With our eyes on the rear view my foot fell on the brake Well we were young and we were dumb But with our backs turned to the sun We're returning to everything that served to Keep us on the run And in our minds we realized They were the best years of our lives They may be the best but first let's try the rest
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In Sleep 02:42
You had a secret number I had a book of songs I tried to guess your number But I got it wrong We're lying on the back porch Looking up at the trees You needed words to live by So I gave you these Every shining star is dying Only dopes and hopeless hope Life can lead you to the cave mouth Leave you six feet short of rope Everything that makes us human Everything that makes us weep Lies outside of our perception In the warm confines of sleep And now the night is over The dawn coalesces I get a cup of coffee You start getting dressed We share a quiet moment Before the daily din I haven't words to end it So you just start in Other fields are always greener Not a one can choose their fate Life will get you to the airport Just as your flight leaves the gate Every single dream we harbor All the sacred joy we keep Lies outside of our perception In the warm confines of sleep
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Kraid 02:25
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Mistakes 04:01
Love, what have you done? We can stay, or we can run What is your choice? Is that your voice? Soft and low, nowhere to go And I know that it rained, on your dress and on your parade But my dear, please don't use that gun Please put it down There are cops coming 'round And if they hear you say "I'm going to shoot", Well they're going to shoot So my love, please catch your breath Which is all you have left Save for me, god forbid, there is still me
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Inert 02:22
If you don't need me, why'd you feed me? If you don't need me cut me loose
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The future came around today We chased it away Opportunity came knocking today We sent it on its way Don't believe what they say We will get through this OK and anyway Who are they to stay the course The sun poked through the windows today On the mess that we made The grass poked through the sidewalk today We got out the spray Don't believe what they say Who are they to know who we are anyway We're OK you're OK we're OK
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I don't want to move I'd rather stay close to you But if you need me to I'll go I left Seven Empty Bottles in an empty house I stopped Paused in every door before I just passed out Please believe in Part of me I'm ashamed but I can change You let all my best intentions get the best of you I'm still recalling all the worst of what I put you through They will tell you that acknowledging's a basic step I will put you in a palace but I'm not there yet Please believe in what I see I'm a mess but you're my queen
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(Dogs and Cats are Friends) (sing it to yourself)
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If you use your high beams Pretty sure you'll find me walking across the giant lawns Out there every evening Figuring, scheming Try to make it not go wrong Touch and go, take it slow Dream of beach houses you'll never know Lose or win, reign it in Someday dream about this place again Week is just surviving Weekend for revising Trying on different shades All night wonder Overs and unders Find a place to spend my days Worry-free property Dream of real estate you'll never see Peek-a-boo ocean view Someday soon you'll get the life you're due

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Recorded 2008-2012
Culled together in October 2012

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released October 24, 2012

Cover photo by flickr user: urbanwoodchuck

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Ice Plants Los Angeles, California

Ice Plants is really just Matthew McKinley, and he's sorry for misleading you. He used to make music as Dirigible, but it turns out that's an Argentinian funk band and things got confusing.

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