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Memory Machine

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1.
Summer swallowed us whole but autumn's setting in And work's pushing in from the edges again Clutching coffee on the bus like a lifejacket We don't sleep enough but we dream like champions Thursday nights getting drunk with my new friends The pit of my stomach in the fuzz of the morning Three weeks since I've seen you I'm scared this is sliding off of the rails before we've even left the station And it's the same feeling in my chest, like every September The walls to the bus stop in the morning getting darker Feels like everything's older Just keep me close for the colder weather The abbreviated daylight and those mornings we lost to each other's bodies and breath Walk you down to the station I don't know when I'll see you next but this is hard to forget And what if the autumn swallows our plans Like dry leaves on the pavement, the hair I lost to your hands I know disappointment better than most I've got a history of coming close And it's the same feeling in my chest, like every September The walls to the bus stop in the morning getting darker Feels like everything's older Just keep me close for the colder weather And I love this city even when it fucks me over I won't say I hope I never leave but I hope I always find my way back
2.
From the top of Highgate Hill The city looks like Gotham through the mist and rain These place names seem to follow me around I watch the swollen river almost lapping up against the path Lay shallow roots in the mangroves I won't build myself to last Don't you know that we are reckless young itinerants We'll be feckless to the bitter end We were promised the planet, well, look at the shit that we inherited But we won't implode, we'll probably disintegrate Delayed life goals, we're having fun at any rate We're getting by but we'll never meet the yardsticks they celebrate And putting off these big decisions isn't fear of commitment It's fear that I've still got nothing to commit to This town was built on swamps and this won't last Built on swamps, Hanging off the edge of a decade of uncertainty Scream into the void, "I'm not letting go!" There's nothing waiting for me there I know And experience pays so you pay for the experience And most of my friends are only ever gonna rent First chance these bastards got, sliced up the welfare state Well, they never gave a shit about us anyway And putting off these big decisions isn't fear of commitment It's fear that I've still got nothing to commit to This town was built on swamps and this won't last Built on swamps And so fuck all these hopeful visions that next year will be different It's a vanishing point, forever distant This town was built on swamps, not built to last Built on swamps, we're sinking
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Nervous 03:10
Thirty degrees every day, stays hot forever up this way City Cats out on the river amplify my sense of place Been a long, long summer Crash out on the sofa like we do I'm never bored when I'm with you You can never go home again Stay at arms length from your old friends We can just pretend we don't need them where we're going Stay out super late, visit every state The scrapes we get into I'll always worry about you All I'm looking for is a good reason to be nervous All I want is to feel for a moment like nothing in the world can hurt us All I want is something worth it Can't live in just one moment, got so much in my mind I try to figure out the future while keeping one eye fixed behind Make each other better, exert bad influence forever Can't make sense of what we do I'm not as fun without you All I'm looking for is a good reason to be nervous All I want is to feel for a moment like nothing in the world can hurt us All I want is something worth it The bridges in this city cross and tangle, effervescent The weeks slip down like wine, I try to focus on the present The river's murky even in the sun, so wide and so flat We are not perfect, wouldn't ever want to be like that
4.
Another summer sleeping through the heat Just look at what you've got Do you think that you could really leave? Always looking back or forwards Make regret as much a part of me as feeling awkward Decisions I can't make I've watched enough movies to second guess myself at every step These structures barely even off the ground You might not even realise, construction noise can drown your thoughts out Summers dripping like the deep south, these places I've passed through All this pulling life up by the roots Will it still grow? Decisions I can't make I've watched enough movies to second guess myself at every step A confidence that I can't fake I've seen enough summers to know they always drift apart Decisions I can't make I've watched enough movies to second guess myself at every step A confidence that I can't fake I've seen enough summers to know they always drift apart I've made enough friends to know they always drift apart

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released October 25, 2017

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