Name: The Answer
Duration: P00H02M04S
Description: written and recorded in a couple hours

The Answer

from Chrysanthemums by Lost on Purpose

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written and recorded in a couple hours

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Polka dots and striped pants
Staring at a mirror at the dance
Pen on the page blood in the veins
I'm gonna live in Norway

I'm holding out for the answer
Sitting by a window waiting for cancer
One twice three times a day
Everything you love will soon decay

What about an old house
Bedrooms waiting to be cleared out
Good and bad it's all the same
Can't feel love without the pain

Like the girls in the photographs
I'm trying to hold on to the past
Press your lips let down look away
I can't move my neck your smell locked down my brain

I want to take you silhouette
Hide it in the middle of a gold locket
Next to my heart under my clothes
Always remember you until I don't

I'm a seagull stuck in the sky
If the winds don't change I'm gonna die
A cold fall day in a parking lot
Watch a kid get an insulin shot

Let this day pass by
Let the girls into your life
Tear a page out of every book
You always let me off the hook

Hard as your heart is
Lost on the mountain in the autumn mist
Struggle to love easy to hate
I know I'm gonna be too late

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from Chrysanthemums, released November 4, 2014

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