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Hello, I'm Pretentious
03:22
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Hello, I’m pretentious. Who are you?
Hello, I’m pretentious. Who are you?
Who gives a damn about a scene?
Do you know what I mean?
As they change from day to day
If you will please educate
What the hell is “emo”?
What does he or she know?
For that matter what is “indie”?
Is that something I should be?
What’s the proper fashion?
Can you tell who’s gay or straight?
Can my clothes get any blacker?
Mascara tears on my face
And it’s uncool to be faithful
To believe in the unseen
The pressure to live to a standard
Do you know what I mean?
Hello?
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Reciprocation
04:44
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I’ve been trying to get close to you, but everything comes to nothing
Every time I lay it on the line, you smile at me and say forbidden things
Then you brush it off, you don’t feel the same
Though you’re miserable, don’t want things to change
She wants an asshole
“You’re such a good friend”, “you always listen when no one is around”
Still she wants a blackened eye
So pardon if I told you so
I wish you’d realize how much I feel for you
Though it’s never reciprocated
I know you’ll regret the one you dated
Every time you’re hurt you build a wall
I try to prove I’m not like all the rest
No matter what I do you won’t let go
I’m standing here, just please open up
Make up your mind, don’t blind yourself
Then you return to what you want
She wants an asshole,
“you’re so convenient”, “not like the other guys”, “so fun to be around”
Every time he holds you down to punish you I’ll pick you up
I wish you’d realize how much I feel for you
But it’s never reciprocated
I know you’ll regret the one you dated
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No-Life King
03:15
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And so you bow again until you're down again
You want to fill it up until you throw it up
Every day now seems so serene
Please be upstanding for the no-life king
And so you hang about inside the darkest place
You want to own it all until you have it all
You look the very best until you get undressed
Put on your satin shoes and dance the night away
Your life's an opera (it's more like cabaret)
Every day now seems so serene
Please be upstanding for the no-life king
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Absent Company
03:27
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All your friends have come and gone
Just when you need one to stay
Maybe you pushed them too far
or you just pushed them away
company
Every faded photograph, yearbooks stacked upon the shelf
How long do you think you’ll last when you’re standing by yourself?
company
So raise a glass for absent company
and distant friends who’ve gone away
Let’s raise a glass for absent company
Maybe you’ll find one to stay (hey hey hey)
So raise a glass for absent company
and distant friends who’ve gone away
Let’s raise a glass for absent company
Is it too much to ask for company?
Be thankful for the ones who stay (hey hey hey)
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Beautiful Liar
02:40
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Forever doesn’t mean forever
It only lasts when we’re together
To open up and give yourself
To cut off and walk away
Things we said and did today
don’t matter on another day
Give your heart, then take it back
Beautiful liar
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Don’t worry baby
Everything will be alright
I took precaution so I can sleep at night
I tore the pictures, I took away your voice
I would have held you longer
but it was not your choice
Songs I’ll never hear again
What at once was special
What was yours and mine
has bruised and become tender
from distance and from time
I made you a blueprint
compiling sentiment
of songs you once sang to me
and ones to fall in love
Songs I’ll never hear again
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Compare / Contrast
03:54
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Everyone has something going on
Why don’t they stop to take a closer look?
Pull yourself together, pull yourself together
Everyone has so much more
Is it my lot to want everything they got?
Get yourself together, get yourself together
Some things don’t seem fair by comparison
Contrasting with myself
Some say you cannot buy happiness
I’m sure it’s there somewhere
Where I am versus where you are
I don’t see how you got ahead of me
Did I lack opportunity?
Maybe it knocked and I turned away
Some things don’t seem fair by comparison
Contrasting with myself
The grass is always greener on the other side
I need to be content in my shoes
I want to be things
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8. |
The Boy Who Never Forgot
03:46
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Goodbye
04:12
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What else is left to say I’ve not already said?
You took the words right out of me
and placed them on a shelf
to gather dust with others uninspired
I did the best i could with the hand that I was dealt
I tried to make you feel by sharing pains and aches
I went over your head, I spoke to deafened ear
I hoped you would be punished for breaking this boys’ heart
If nothing else, for wasting my time
What else is left to say to prove I’ve what it takes?
I hate to close my eyes because it hurts to dream
knowing that they won’t come true
I did the best I could with the hand that I was dealt
I tried to make you mine by sharing pains and aches
I went over your head, I spoke to deafened ear
I hoped you would be punished for breaking this boys’ heart
If nothing else, for wasting my time
What else is left to say but goodbye?
Goodbye
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The Enigmatic Foe Knoxville, Tennessee
With sharp lyrics, the playful pop bite of the best of the 70s and 80s, and the kind of self-deprecation usually reserved
for a Woody Allen movie, Jared Colinger's lyrics run the gamut from the joy of new love to disillusionment with the old, from wanting to like yourself to being afraid of what we have in our minds.
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