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Miles Worth of Maybes

from Common Houseplants EP (demo) by Pete Davis

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This one's kind of sappy. I even have trouble getting through the long verse-part in the middle of this song.

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There's something to be said about scenery and how it can be so goddamn unappealing. I know it's been said before, but how could it really hurt to reiterate that I'm illiterate? How can we live with it? How can we swallow it whole? How can we sit and wait? How can we choke it down, this cyanide chaser?

Would you like a sip from this Molotov cocktail so your lips can't be shut anymore?
Would you like a few drops of my heretic blood to stain your teeth red, to give you life and I'll give this life away?

Always you toss and turn to push yourself away from the wall but you still can't sleep, and I'm up all night anyway just prowling the streets just because. I'll throw rocks at your window and bathe in the shattered glass just to show you that my arm's improving and to let you know you're the only thing I have out here.

Always I hide my face behind a few hundred miles worth of maybes and I don't knows, but one thing I know for sure; no matter how far apart we are, I never left you.

And once this is said you can say no more; I've given myself a chance to far.
And don't be so kind as to sympathize; I know what I do to you.
And no one will ever remember this, and no one will give a second thought
To brushing me off, erasing my name, just so you can pencil me in so dark it tears the pages.

Would you like me to give up this habit of screaming right on past your ears?
Would you like me to try even though you won't believe to make you understand my reason, realize all I've said is concrete, pry my way under your skin, and give this lie away?

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from Common Houseplants EP (demo), released August 1, 2003
P Davis:
Acoustic Guitar
Piano
Drums
Bass
Vocals

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