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A Mile Away

from A Mile Away by Happy Tooth

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This is the way it must feel to die.
This fate it'll make us all break in time.
This is the way it must feel to dive.
When trying to spread your wings full to fly.
This is the way it must feel to lie,
down on the ground and drown in the light.
I haven't felt right since that first bitter kiss.
Spent half my shelf-life to stack words in my ribs.
Blurred innocence and too much ambition,
burns when it hits a screwed up man's vision.
This is the way it must feel to lose.
To be a pawn for so long you go along with the moves.
Is it wrong to confuse your dreams with reality?
If a song can consume and delete what you're about to be?
The screams are so loud to me I can't hear myself think.
From the voices that exploit this in my head and yell things.
Melt wings until there's nothing left but stubs,
shouldn't have flown next to the sun,
now there's nothing left of us.
If I die wide awake, I'll try and tell the devil that I made a mistake.
If I go to sleep to forever unconscious,
I hope I dream of all the things I never accomplished.
If I die wide awake, I guess I'll see it coming from a mile away.
If I die wide awake, I'll try and make it happy with a smiling face.
So you've started to fall,
but you're the only reason you departed at all.
The art is so dull, but you wanted to be an artist.
Your part is so small but you wanna confront the largest.
A carcass is all your body will become.
You'll probably be a bum and copy something someone's done.
But failures just a mindset and we all haven't died yet.
My bets times left and I've slept through life's likeness,
it's like death.
Why fret and fuss if I've slept enough?
When all successful people are just as fucked as the rest of us.
Try, try, try and go succeed.
Hopefully you sew and reap, grow a tree and go to sleep.
Slow and cheap like riding the bus is.
We're so fucking disgusted but we never discuss this.
Spending our lives waiting to see what enjoyment is.
But we feel the most alive when taking all of the poisons in.
Pursue them, improve then, but understand you're human.
Anything you do then can fall from the hands you've ruined.
From the first endeavor to the burst of pressure,
we search until it hurts and then get cursed forever.
I wanna die young, and face it when my times come.
With all of life's scum full of hatred from what I've done.
If I die wide awake, I'll try and tell the devil that I made a mistake.
If I go to sleep to forever unconscious,
I hope I dream of all the things I never accomplished.
If I die wide awake, I guess I'll see it coming from a mile away.
If I die wide awake, I'll try and make it happy with a smiling face.

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from A Mile Away, released March 20, 2014

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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