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Please Forget You Knew My Name

by American Ink

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1.
Theme 02:52
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I walked through the door and then my eyes met yours It was a movie scene, bad dream Why’d I ask for more? I’m not the type to second guess the words I choose I don’t know why I’m out of words When I have everything to lose I’m all out of time to waste I won’t walk this way Let’s disappear for a little while We’ll be back in a little while I’m all out of time to waste I won’t walk this way Suffocating you away Don’t forget my name I’m coming back One stubborn spark Left from this flame
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Needs Me Too 02:22
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She’s a rebel with a chip on her shoulder Don’t give a damn about what anyone’s told her She tells herself she’s more than an empty head She tells herself she’s living life on the edge I’m the one who never told it to your face Hanging back and always staying in my place I tell myself the opportunity’s gone I tell myself it was the way I came off But she needs me too She and her friends are out tearing up the town When I’m at home I feel all torn up and let down Where is she going at the end of the night? She don’t know, but she don’t care enough to try She needs me too
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Show 03:23
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Drowning in the pictures I’m painting I’m losing touch my reality's fading I hope I doubt but my thoughts branch out Reality fades too close to my heart Show I want to know Your world is so clean I’m just the ink in your seam Drawing lines within your mind As we’re drifting further apart Show I want to know
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Wild 02:44
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I’d hate to be here all alone With no one else around I feel that everything’s alive Lightyears off the ground And your star may be near burnt out And I’m a waste of light When we’re together, I don’t care Let’s waste away tonight Baby, we’re wild We’re like animals Baby, we’re wild We’re like animals tonight Come on, we’re wild We’re like animals Come on, we’re wild We’re like animals tonight They’ll paint on every single smile And act like we can’t see For us, we don’t have to try We don’t have to pose like them And we are made of fragile matter Tear me up tonight Doing anything we want And never thinking twice Baby, we’re wild We’re like animals Baby, we’re wild We’re like animals tonight Come on, we’re wild We’re like animals Come on, we’re wild We’re like animals tonight You’ve been hurt real bad But you are more than that We’ve been hurt real bad But we are more than that
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Painted 02:36
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Choir sings wastes of breath Faces blue with sunken chests Smiles rot, dull eyes role Wastes of time and heavy souls These hearts pump gasoline Burning clean and constantly Some things I ought not hear Floor boards creak when you draw near I saw you today That smile painted on your face In time it drips away But I like you painted Hour-glass atom bomb Patience wears as time ticks on Migraines in empty skulls Every draining thought we mull Some things I ought not see I feel you staring right through me Sometimes it's hard to breathe Choking hands still suffocating I saw you today That smile painted on your face In time it drips away But I. . . I saw you today That smile painted on your face In time it drips away But I like you painted
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Crash Test Dummy 01:54
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Watching her body falling They take notes on her flaws Repeat the echoes sung She screams they bite their tongues No! She’s made of fragile matter Reach out and she shatters Criticism piles up Words spill out that she can’t stop No more crash tests (I don’t want to live like this)
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Ceaseless 04:14
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Mid-afternoon blues Conjure some excuse To talk, so I can talk To you I’m tired and weak Three nights of no sleep And I think I think too much too So I think about the ways I could do better And I think about the things that I do wrong If you want to go, then go, ‘cause I’ll get better Singing ‘la la la’, singing ‘la la la’ Until I’m numb Bouquet of days Smells like decay In the sun In the heat’s Where I’ll stay I’m pacing the floor By my drawing board But I’m all Out of goddamn paint So I think about the things I could do better And I think about the things that I do wrong If you want to go, then go, ‘cause I’ll get better Singing ‘la la la’, singing ‘la la la’ Oh, won’t you stay for a while? Forget what I said before I love how it feels to make you smile So let’s keep on laughing Laughing like we were Oh, won’t you stay for a while? Forget what I said before I love how it feels to make you smile So let’s keep on laughing Laughing. . . If you wanna go home then go home If you wanna stay here you won’t be alone So why don’t you stay And we’ll keep, keep on laughing Laughing. . .
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The Room I'm In 02:52
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Too many days kept up here Feel like breaking out I want to scream and shout I feel like I’ve been here before Stuck in the room I’ve been here since June I feel like such an insomniac Bored and brought up in my shack My dad is yelling at the walls I built around my head And maybe it’s time to lose the room I’m in I feel like I’ve been here before I feel like I’m wasted and bored Stuck in the room I’ve been here since June Too many days kept up here Feel like breaking out I want to scream and shout I feel like such an insomniac Bored and brought up in my shack My dad is yelling at the walls I built around my head And maybe it’s time to lose the room I’m in
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New Year's Eve (Please Forget You Knew My Name) 03:47
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So bad, I miss you But I don’t have that right Star searching for you Against the city lights But I want to go To that party too But I am alone And its quiet inside Oh, constellation We tried to align My mind’s creation Its too hard to find But I want to go To that party too But I am alone And its quiet inside Where do you hide? I hate to say it I’m too tired now to wait You said, ‘Hey, I’m gone for now, But don’t forget you knew my name’ To paraphrase But I’ll forget it anyway And I want to go To that party too But I am alone And its quiet inside And I want to be Something better than me But I am a shell And I am where I hide Where do you hide?

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released September 27, 2019

All songs written and performed by American Ink
Produced and Mixed by Martin Crotty
Mastered by Tom Waltz

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