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Better Being Heartless
03:19
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Cut my heart in half
All the crevices and cracks
Got too deep to undo
Then I burned it to the ground
Spread the ashes all around
In memory of someone I once knew
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
It’s so much better being heartless
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
Oh it hurts less being heartless
Been so very nice
Not stopping to think twice
About what others need
I used to get hung up
On sentiment and love
Now cut me open and I won’t bleed
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
It’s so much better being heartless
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
Oh it hurts less being heartless
Kiss me on the lips
I am ambivalent
The one downside to an otherwise perfect deal
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
It’s so much better being heartless
It’s so much better
It’s so much better
Oh it hurts less being heartless
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2. |
8.20
02:57
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your roommate’s out of town
so we play house at your apartment
you unzip my dress, put on Joni
god you know me like that
but I’m caught between breathing and holding my breath
the delusion will shatter any second
somewhere between stillness and overdrive
I ache for you in real time
we go to the store I see a girl
in wide leg jeans and glasses
think that when I’m gone she’d be someone
shoot your shot make your passes
but I’m caught between breathing and holding my breath
the delusion will shatter any second
somewhere between stillness and overdrive
I ache for you in real time
but I’m caught between breathing and holding my breath
the delusion will shatter any second
somewhere between stillness and overdrive
I ache for you
I ache for you
I ache for you in real time
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3. |
Pool Party
03:39
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Thought it’d make me happy to be skinny
Started cutting back when I was 13
Crying trying on tight blue jeans
Made myself smaller being quiet
Felt a burn and learned how to deprive it
If baby’s bad put her on a diet
But you don’t know what it means, you don’t know how to treat yourself
When you’re busting at the seams, would it feel good being someone else?
You go home and say no to the pool party
To the pool party
The one recurring thought that occupies me
To be a woman wanted for her body
Running through the yard in a bikini
But you don’t know what it means, you don’t know how to treat yourself
When you’re busting at the seams, would it feel good being someone else?
You go home and say no to the pool party
To the pool party
Could I dive in? Could I dive in?
Oh I’ll dive in Oh I’ll dive in
I hear the water’s fine
But I don’t know what it means, I don’t know how to treat myself
I’m busting at the seams, would it feel good being someone else?
To the pool party
To the pool party
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4. |
Valentine Road
02:50
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At the top of the maple tree
In front of my grandparent’s house down the street
Had no nerve, no fear of falling no fear of dying
That was for the bad guys in the movies
Girl grown tall to bend with the branches
Dancing all alone with her shadow
From outside the world is quiet just how she likes it
Separate from the scene playing through the window
In that house there’s new family
I forgot until I saw the lights up for Halloween
The kids are small but soon enough they’ll just grow up
And stop swinging from the maple tree
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5. |
Nosebleeds
03:44
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What if I watched your life from the nosebleeds
Would you see me seeing you from afar
No daily greetings, just my own private grievances
My presence like a feather on your pressure points, it’s subtle but stark
What if I took a ride on the subway
Avoiding places that feel like yours
I’d stay in my lane, weighed down by discipline
I’m not near you but I hear you in the traffic and creaks in the floor
So is it better with a little than none at all?
Keeping you in my system, constantly reminding me you’re gone
Constantly reminding me your gone
What if I watched your life from the nosebleeds
(hard enough to let you go so I can’t give it up just yet)
Just snapshot clips of times you’d like to have more
(I wanna know who you know, the names of all of your new friends)
I’d draw conclusions, come up as meaningless
All the big bright lights obscure me it’s all blurry and hard to keep score
So is it better with a little than none at all?
Keeping you in my system, constantly reminding me you’re gone
Constantly reminding me your gone
This time I know I’ll say goodbye
This time that’s all I’ll say
This time I know I’ll say goodbye
This time that’s all I’ll say
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6. |
Cool Grl
03:04
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you say fucking and feeling are things you keep separate
but would you ever think of amending that just for second
‘cause there’s no surprise mine are like watercolor baby they’re bleeding across the edges
you’re filling my head and half of the bed how could I help it
I know I said I was good
at being unavailable
but baby ooh you got me beat
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
when you tell me you want me I think I see heaven
then I remember the rules and your apprehension
well can’t you tell I got a bite and I might wanna sink my teeth into it
guess I’ll put it to bed try to forget and swallow my secret
I know I said I was good
at being unavailable
but baby ooh you got me beat
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
I know I said I was good
at being unavailable
but baby ooh you got me beat
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
I can’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
I won’t be your cool grl honey ‘cause I want you to love me
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Maisyn Los Angeles, California
Maisyn has a knack for empathy and introspection, and if you spend some time with her music you’ll know more about her heart and yours, too. The Los Angeles-based indie rocker is an emotional force, weaving her way “into the alternative mainstream."
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