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Burst

by Nate Leslie

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1.
A Fork In The Road 02:25
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Balancing 05:12
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Say all the wrong things at all the wrong times to ruin your chances of sneaking into her window late at night take all the wrong turns on all the wrong roads to find your way out of your arm's reach split in two I'm falling off and I'm pulling back I learned it from watching your balancing act and I'm lonely, just like you're lonely your broken bones and your broken heart you learned it from watching as I fall apart and your lonely just like I'm lonely feel all the pulsing and all the soft breath that bring you back hope that no one is watching as you fall my heart tears in two down in your room I tried to tell you
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Quickness 03:04
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if you're here come get it off your chest let me take it off your mind you're always second best alone until the day you're old ain't how you're meant to be that damn boy stole your soul because you never want it until you haven't got it you know that if you were really moving you'd have gotten where you're going by now I couldn't tell you why but you're a halfway home where no one stays inside no I don't need to know your name I already know your type you're a person made for pain
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Burst 05:05
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darlin' why why you always gotta run you always take the long way and have your twisted fun I know you by by your lack of optimism you'd change your ways if there were books on how baby, you're adrift at sea sitting here right next to me your only friends are the birds and whales but baby I invented sails so let me sail you home my hopes are high but then so am I Love's the thing that makes your heart run dry baby why can you not decide who you will who you'll let inside my hopes are high but then so am I Love's the thing one thing I can't find
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The Hurting Has Me 03:57
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we're right on top of it somehow we stumbled across the secrets of our dark minds it's right in front of me it pushed you to collapse like you're standing on a fault line the hurting has me now it's slightly baffling to fall apart at one word we're slipping through the cracks now we hide behind a face and try to make you believe while we're choking on the morphine the hurting has me now I want to fall asleep without a pain in my chest or feel like I'm in pieces I'll break the brightest lights I'll set my body on fire if it means that I don't feel this cuz I don't want to feel this
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The Fortune 500 04:24
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it passes slowly it makes my blood run cold and I'm inside it let it eat my soul watch it choke me until my head falls off and I'm still smiling cuz I can't get enough enough enough enough father hold me father hold me in your hands hold me in your hands
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Occupant 04:48
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I can see the light come over your head I can see the light come over your head I can see the light come over your head I could be the light I can see the dirt that's under your feet I can see the dirt that's under your feet I can see the dirt that's under your feet I could be I can see the tears about to overthrow your eyes I can see the tears about to overthrow your eyes I can see the tears about to overthrow your eyes I can see the tears I can see the crack running right through your disguise I can see the crack running right through your disguise I can see the crack running right through your disguise I can see I can see the things that you would rather hide I can see the things that you would rather hide I can see the things that you would rather hide I can see I can see the things I can see the hate get under your skin I can see the hate get under your skin I can see the hate get under your skin I can see I can see the hate I can see the pain sinking into your bones I can see the pain sinking into your bones I can see the pain sinking into your bones I can be I can be the pain I can see the fear creeping into your heart I can see the fear creeping into your heart I can see the fear creeping into your heart I can see I can see the fear
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Martyr The Maker 04:44
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don't stand by let it hurt me don't stand by let it hurt me my bed at night tuck me right in pull blankets up it's cold find your place and stay there
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It Crept Up Behind You 04:22
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I'm a desperate man and I'd kill to get a piece I'm a loaded gun with a trigger beggin' please I'm a cut-off tongue with nothing left to say I'll be a dying man until my dying day I'm the nightmare buried in your eyes I'm the hands that are choking you with lies baby come on that perfect love I have my doubts you run inside just to fall back out it seems that no one ever tells you why I'm the hammer ringing out your bell I'm the heartbreak for your show and tell that perfect love I have my doubts you run inside just to fall back out it seems that no one ever tells you why your bleeding heart is inside out I run inside just to fall back out I swear that no one ever told me why
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Paint Yourself Blue 03:41
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staring at the sun and drinking from a gun and if you tread lightly you know you're having fun the captain's in the hallway I'm a bender first class you say you don't want it but I always hear you ask won't you stop it now come on and stop it now no matter what you do it ain't as bad as when you're painting yourself blue painting yourself blew into your room and watching you consume you hate all of the answers that are mostly falling through no, you never told me no, I never catch on nothing is below me and I'm bringing it along come on and lay me down won't you lay me down try to catch you laying down break in your house without a sound painting yourself blue staring at the sun and pulling out a gun and shoot it from the heavens then turn your back and run no, you don't want me I know you never will to hell and back is normal when you've got me sitting still come on and tie me down won't you tie me down close the door behind you now break out your house without a sound painting yourself blue lookin up and down take me to the ground nothing is above me when nothing is around I've got all my disguises I really blend in I really try to hide it when someone's looking in oh try to hide it now come on and hide it now no one here will see me through the fortress I put up when I am painting myself blue when I'm painting myself blue
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Snitch 04:44
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build my body with your stones form your dirt into my bones your paper bag into my lungs you put army in my tongue you fire me up you fire me up I won't take your medicine no more I won't take your medicine no more I will take every good thing away from you you build me like an empty house an old balloon turned inside out you split the opening in two I name my problems after you you fire me up you fire me up
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Kings 03:56
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we're living levitated out hearts electrical we're tongue-twisted, tied up because our mouths are full we keep our best poisons for when we're all alone in the darkest corners inside our darkest homes this is all a game this is all a game we're here to tear your heart out we're living overloaded the monster gnashing teeth a violent avalanche and we are underneath it's really rather simple because our minds are slow we're gonna kill ourselves until it's time to go this is all a game this is all a game we're here to tear your heart out the roof will cave in on us extremities are cold no one else can make it the rescue boats are full we keep our best poisons for when we're all alone we're gonna kill ourselves until it's time to go
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Two Letters 05:33
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how do you not understand that I'm in the palm of your hand save me for later while I'm doing all that I can I promise I won't make a sound while the spark in my eye's on the ground I know all the answers you have let me show you how you always say no you always say no you always say no I know you're totally out of your mind all your strings up there slowly unwind you bury your scars under shiny guitars and you lie let me show you how you always say no you always say no you always say no I know that you know I know that you know just one more time I couldn't say no I couldn't say no I couldn't say no but I know that you know
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Framework 05:36
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I'm not the one in control my face a mask your heart's a door make me move make me sleep there's living things for us to eat I am hurt I am hate I'm all the evil you create my body broke a twist of bones I crack my teeth on little stones I don't believe you at all I can't believe you at all I'm staring at the faces buried in the ground I'm staring at the faces buried in the ground nothing nothing nothing without you I'm nothing without you I'm nothing without you I'm nothing without you

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The third and arguably the most mature, creative, and well-produced solo album from Chicago rocker Nate Leslie.

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released March 1, 2012

All recordings, songs, lyrics, and artwork by Nate Leslie

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Nate Leslie Chicago, Illinois

Nate Leslie is a sonic alchemist creating his own blend of indie post-punk electro psychedelic rock. Whatever that means.

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