Tragic-Grieve

[ti:Tragic] [ar:Grieve] [al:Together/Apart (Deluxe Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:10.51]They say that lightning never strikes twice [00:11.89]In the same spot when it's landed [00:13.39]You ought to see the thundercloud I'm trapped in [00:15.39]Head down looking for a tactic [00:17.08]Trying to find a way up out the gravity around me [00:19.58]I'm attached to stuck [00:20.95]Floating on luck like a river raft was [00:23.45]Spitting up love like it's ipecac [00:25.76]If in fact there's a quicker path to diminish that [00:27.89]I'ma get a first class ticket just to finish last [00:30.89]Often who's watching chip another crooked a** tooth on my options [00:35.82]The blues never had a use for its caution [00:38.08]And cut right through me like a razor bladed harsh wind [00:40.83]Yeah I guess I'm living off a habit [00:43.02]And digging up graves just to reseal the casket [00:45.58]Bold-faced marching to the middle of the havoc [00:48.02]Just so I can sing a song about it all [00:50.08]Tragic [00:52.11]You act like this can save me hey hey hey [00:56.86]You act like I don't know you don't know [01:01.73]I act like I've gone crazy and all of this can save me [01:06.98]But I don't really know [01:09.55]I don't know no more my brother me and my blue sensitivities [01:12.79]Look at all that this music has given me [01:16.36]Intimately in tune with my misery [01:18.86]I can spin bad news to a symphony [01:21.79]I ain't a boy in a bubble I'm a man in touch with my joy and my trouble [01:26.11]Got a fighting chance at love in this ugliness [01:28.49]I think hope deserves to know what she's up against [01:31.48]Blues and 12s I write 24s life's twice as hard fighting with the cards [01:36.49]Those chosen the moment we were born [01:38.67]Highs and lows joys and woes they're yours [01:41.49]Chase the blues and one day you're gonna catch them [01:43.80]Sing em all you want you gonna wish you never met them [01:46.42]Humming the ballad of the paper-thin jacket [01:48.79]Trapped in the rain again [01:50.80]Tragic [01:51.93]You act like this can save me hey hey hey [01:57.43]You act like I don't know you don't know [02:02.42]I act like I've gone crazy and all of this can save me [02:07.55]But I don't really know [02:10.11]I don't know what the deal is [02:12.18]But lately I've been looking through a thick glass [02:14.30]Squinting just to see the smidgen of the kickbacks [02:16.80]My little ticker only flickers with a mishap [02:18.99]And lashes out at me every time that I admit that [02:21.93]Look at what I did with the ashes [02:24.18]Smoking in the boy's room ditching out of classes [02:26.61]Hands full of shattered stained glass with a grasp tight around it [02:29.74]Just enough to make a couple wounds last [02:31.68]As scars medals rose pedals [02:34.24]Scattered on the path like it's Hansel and Gretel [02:36.68]Burn from the water I splash from the kettle [02:39.17]In efforts to make a documentation of what I went through [02:41.74]Hell I guess I'm playing from the attic [02:44.37]Pulling up the floorboards digging up the hatchet [02:46.75]Firm footed standing in the middle of the static [02:49.25]Just so I can sing a song about it all [02:51.39]Tragic [02:53.14]You act like this can save me hey hey hey [02:58.15]You act like I don't know you don't know [03:03.20]I act like I've gone crazy and all of this can save me [03:08.21]But I don't really know