1. |
My Kind of Night
03:37
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chorus: Fm7-G7-C-Dm7
verse: C-Dm-Esus4-E
pre: Dm-Am-G-Gm
Chorus:
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
Things are great
Till I wake
Seeing all the same mistakes
Wondering why I turned out
All the lights
I don't care who
Verse 1:
Had a dream last night
And I woke up on my side
Back is aching from the parties
That I don't attend
I can hear the dread
Like the reruns in my head
Like the messages from people
That I can't call friends
Pre-Chorus:
How many times
have I been over all this?
How many times
are we gonna do this shit?
How many times
have I been over all this?
Again again again
Chorus:
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
Things are great
Till I wake
Seeing all the same mistakes
Wondering why I turned out
All the lights
I don't care who
Verse 2:
Out of bed, check the clock
Says it's time I'm moving on
Gotta find someone to
give all of my problems to
Had a near-miss kiss
Put me on the waiting list
Got a broken brain
That needs another peer review
Pre-Chorus:
How many times
have I been over all this?
How many years
are you gonna listen to me bitch?
How many times
have I been over all this?
Again again again
Chorus:
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
I don't care who you are
This is gonna be my kind of night
Things are great
Till I wake
Seeing all the same mistakes
Wondering why I turned out
All the lights
I don't care who you are
*solo*
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2. |
Bye Baby
02:38
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Verse 1:
Where do you go when I need you the most?
Where do you go when I run low on hope?
Where do you when the end's feeling close?
Where do you go now?
My recollection says that we used to work
A distant memory of which I'm not sure
It's been long enough for that memory to contort
Where do you go now?
Chorus:
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
*solo*
Verse 2:
I couldn't tell you when we lost the spark
It's felt like years stumbling around in the dark
Impaled with pieces of my broken heart
Where did I go now?
I hate this morning, I hate what it means
Relearning years worth of important things
Kicking and screaming to start the machine
Where did it go now?
Chorus:
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
*solo*
Chorus:
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
You said "bye, baby"
I tried to be someone new
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3. |
So Good For Me
02:49
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Verse 1:
Lately I've been wondering
if you were the one
The concept that I don't believe
Still scares me some
But I'll repress that shit, lock it up
I should be old enough
To let the past
Be the past
So tell me why the blood
stained my sheets so deep
It doesn't seem like anything
can get them clean
I've tried detergents and bleach
Countless home remedies
But I'm still fucking around
On square one
Pre-Chorus:
When I dig this hole
Won't tell a soul, won't tell a soul
Gonna dig this hole
Can't tell a soul, can't tell a soul
Say what?
Chorus:
Guess no matter what I try
I will always love you
More and more I've realized
I will always love you
Wish we were swapping spit and mixing drinks again
I could be your very bestest friend
Seems so lovely when I play pretend
I could be so good for you
Verse 2:
I know that time has got
a way of smoothing out
The ugly details
I don't wanna think about
Like how I'm so fucking difficult
We're incompatible
My brain tries to
Rationalize
Every stupid thought
And every fantasy
As a way to make me sad
A way to make me grieve
For the loss of our innocence
I'm not the victim
But my mind keeps
Milking the pain
Pre:
Here we go again
Chorus:
Guess no matter what I try
I will always love you
More and more I've realized
I will always love you
Wish we were swapping spit and mixing drinks again
I could be your very bestest friend
Seems so lovely when I play pretend
You could be so good for me
*solo*
Pre:
Guess I'm just like her
Chorus:
Know no matter what I try
I will always love you
Pathetic that I keep on crying
I will always love you
Wish we were trading blows and starting arguments
Never knowing what the other meant
Make small talk, not saying anything
Nah, fuck that, I'm good, I think
We would be so bad for us
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4. |
Identity Crisis
02:58
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Verse 1:
I forget who I was
Before I became this
Collection of half baked metaphors
And painful memories
I'm stuck in the skin
Of a yearbook I burned up
I'm living for the sake of it
Recycling melodies
Chorus:
Lost my love of living
In the city
Now I don't know who I am
People ask what I've been up to
I say "Good question"
As though a stranger made up all my plans
Post-Chorus:
She said I don't care what it is that you wanna do
Unconditionally, I'll always love you
Tell me now, is that true?
Put your money where your mouth is, here's my I.O.Us
Verse 2:
I bleed on my bicycle
Missing my bedroom
Been trying to work up the nerve
To walk out on the interstate
I don't know what happened
To make me so angry
I hate the person I've become
And I don't know how to change
Chorus:
Lost my love of living
In the city
Now I don't know who I am
People ask what I've been up to
I say "Good question"
As though a stranger made up all my plans
*layered*
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5. |
The Fun is Gone
02:08
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Verse 1:
The lights come on and there you'll find
A skeleton on New Year's night
But don't feign shock, don't act surprised
I've been here this whole time
Chorus:
I need someone to pull me up
I can't keep hanging on
It used to come so easily
But now the fun is gone
*solo*
Verse 2:
I dug myself into this pit
A dramamongering hypocrite
Every convo has been counterfeit
Here's a real self portrait
Chorus:
I need someone to push me down
I've been here for too long
I used to love so many things
But now the fun is gone
Bridge:
I never wanted to be like this
I never wanted to be anyone's worst nightmare
I never wanted to be jaded
I miss having the ability to care
I promise, I'm not like this
I just need to dig my way back out
I promise, I'm not like this
But I'm stuck inside the ground
Verse 3:
I'm working so I don't go broke
Career in music? What a joke
I can't see too far past the smoke
Of mental images that make me choke
Chorus:
I need someone to pull me up
Can you hear me? I was wrong
I thought I'd make it on my own
But the will to live is gone
*solo*
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6. |
Pretty Pictures
02:34
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Verse 1:
I can't wax romantic
Or weave nice metaphors
My journal entries
Hang on every door
I've got no hiding places
I can't do poetry
I linger on the shit
That makes me angry
Chorus:
But I'll try to be myself again
Match the pretty pictures in my head
And I'll study all the negatives
Deconstructing my unhappiness
Verse 2:
You take things more for granted
The longer they go on
I'm comfortable with
Drowning in the dawn
Now I'm afraid to say this
Cause I can't take it back
It's much safer
Imitating artifacts
Chorus:
But I'll try to be myself again
Match the pretty pictures in my head
And I'll study all the negatives
Deconstructing my unhappiness
Post-Chorus:
I feel so empty, I feel so empty
Pondering all my regrets
As another attempt falls apart again
I broke my heart again
*solo*
Chorus:
But I'll try to be myself again
Match the pretty pictures in my head
I'll deflect bad thoughts with positives
But I know I need much more than this
Post-Chorus:
I feel so empty, I feel so empty
Pondering all my regrets
As another attempt falls apart again
I broke my heart again
I just feel so empty, I'm so fucking empty
Pondering all my regrets
As another attempt falls apart again
I broke my heart again
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John Vermeersch Shoreview, Minnesota
Thanks for stopping by! These are my demos, so if you're new here, I recommend checking out my band instead: lonelyenclave.bandcamp.com
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