sign of peace

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[twochordhack]

quiet lives

I often feel like that place I'm meant to occupy in this life is as one of the many. Part of the people who exist as background noise to the great. Of the talented and kind, the beloved and the benevolent, I am simple and steady static droning on, hard to tune into, easy to glaze over. Almost everyone will live their lives this way...

There is no shame or self-pity for being like everyone else. We are designed to be together and to blend, it's a source of strength. It's why I wrote this song

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If you'd like to play along, the chords are just D and A if you'd like to sing along, here are the lyrics:

I know a place when it’s dark If you wanna swing at the park In the open center of My old neighborhood It’s so busy after school Early morning see runners through You would never think it could Be peaceful and still And still It’s quiet When the night hits Nobody ever comes out Nobody ever did Nobody smokes on this block Nobody drives past 9 o’clock Nobody’s out to walk or talk In this place, in this, Their home All they’ve known Where they’ve grown Right outside their windows And the clouds are enchanting Look around, no one else will see No one else is out at night To witness those arcs of light Nobody walks on the block Nobody drives in the dark Nobody wants to meet up in the night Tonight But then again, maybe I miss it When the sky is all I see Before I escape into my room Maybe I miss them walking past me Maybe I miss lives being lived around me Because they’re done so quietly

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and sometimes

you don't have a story to tell and

sometimes you don't have a word to say you let the time pass, slowly you count every second you have... sometimes

and most times?

there is a something behind everything behind the windows and the mirrors behind the glass and sometimes there is nothing

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foolspring by Mabel Ye?

This song was a bit of a challenge tbh, something about a sliding note and a barre chord is just asking for a hand cramp lol but it's so sweet and short enough to power through! I really hope you like it!!

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I love love love inbox requests, I always get introduced to such beautiful music!! I cannot thank you enough <3

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rejected intro:

you don't know who i am yet i'm open to you like a rose in bloom I'll take any sunlight i can get

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scrolling through my old acc, found this and remembered how much I loved this song... I must've re-wrote it a million and a half times

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If you listened to the end of this and thought, hmm this seems familiar, 1) I ripped it straight from Making It All Up, but it's ok bc it's mine, and 2) thank you sm, ur the only one who listened to it <3333 I appreciate you so so much

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Otherwise this is just a haunting tale of reckoning with the dullness and darkness of reality... it's chill tho fr..

my reckoning:

I try to stretch myself thin I try to fit in I try to bleed myself dry I try to be good

Nothing’s as it should Nothing’s as it should It doesn’t feel as good As they promised it would

I try to escape Find myself running away dream-like, I’m running in place I look at all the same things everyday And it doesn’t feel the same Routine doesn’t feel as good as it seems As good as it should As good as it should As good As good As good

You wanted me And I didn’t care at all Too lonely, and far too scared for it all What do you want from me? Other than my temporary body? Other than my current mind Subject to change at any time I don’t care to see I know it won’t feel as good as it seems

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I don't have a green thumb, but plants are more resilient than I am neglectful, and that's the precarious edge I balance my life on so

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if the basil can do it, so can I

words i wrote under where?

How do I know this is the end? I couldn’t tell you, I just knew This morning I knew It was in the patter of the rain But there is no one else to blame but me No one but me I couldn’t be more free I couldn’t feel more clean I couldn’t more complete Than in this moment The rain after you Feel the flood in this moment of this silence in this room The silence of this room I can fill it however I choose If I did what I was taught to do I’d be so cruel You wouldn’t stand it, you’d run and hide It’s what I was taught to do It’s what I’m good at But I’m graceful enough to be kind I let you drive us out Because that’s what I’m about Nothing can compete Nothing’s as sweet Nothing’s as mean as me It doesn’t get this deep With anybody That’s just me That’s just me

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i've been a night owl all my life... sleep has never been something that felt within my control, in my grasp... but you don't mind that I'm up late, you just take my hand and lead me back to bed. a tenderness I've never...

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lyrics:

I learned how to swim so I could swim with you I learned how to be cool I learned how to sing so I could sing to you In the middle of the night I hope I sound alright I hope I sound alright I'm eager to do things for you I wonder if you're all I'll ever know If that is, it wouldn't be that bad of a fate. Maybe it's all I'm good at anyway

Somehow I know it's fate And so many other things I don't know The same powers that keep me awake It's that shiver that lets me know That there's a freedom found in you There's a freedom that grew in me You spread it like dandelion seeds Takes nothing but a breeze and I, I'm so eager to know you And I am so eager to see you I often shake you awake just to hear you say "go back to sleep babe"

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PLEASEpleasepleaseplease

promise me one thing... if I'm good, please

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lyrics under the cut :/ will you read them?

if I promise to be good, can you promise things will turn out as they should? streets so dark and lights so yellow against the blue sky, It's blue, the sky and the greenery on both sides this night on this night life will change for the better, they say on this night this night things won't stay the same things cannot remain through the night cold hands warmed in my jacket and my pants pocket and the flickering of the overhead sign advertising where we party tonight nothing's gonna be the same everything, oh everything's gonna change nothing can be the same everything must change if I promise and I do I really will! I'll be so good Can you guarantee can you even see it going alright for me?

probably not, right?

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I could save you...

I stumbled on this song a few years ago, and fell in love with it, it went triple platinum on my room istg so I wanted to add it to my covers collection

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This is my 100th post !!

\(IoI)/ Holy moly... I celebrated my one year tumblr anniversary last month, and now I'm forced to face that I have made 100 flop post LOL I'm gonna make at least another 300 flops, and to commemorate that sort of blind, incessant carrying-on I've made this song!

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Lyrics below the cut!!!

Sat outside Watching the sky Streaked with colors Thats life Singing out To the clouds I echo back down That’s life Giving up That anyone hears Because nobody cares Thats life

Been too busy to work on myself Been too prideful to ask for help Desperately wishing it would all be done Endlessly seeking somewhere to run What does this accomplish Who does this help I’m still alone I’m still poor I’m still selfishly wanting more

Writing songs Wanting it all Moving on That’s life Being good Loving you Easy to do Thats life

Been too busy to get any better Convincing myself that time’s the matter When I’ve got it I’d do fuck all And wonder how everything’s fallen apart I want to accomplish I want you to hear this I can make music I can sing songs I am an artist Maybe I am wrong

Can I hope Take a mo’ While I mope About life No audience No one to witness My worst or my greatest Any of my life

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pov you've been bed-rotting for a few weeks and decide to open a window, but it just makes you feel a bit worse? Not worse, but like you've failed yourself for not immediately feeling better... so you close the window, and stare out for a minute, as long as you can stand to...

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musings:

Yeah the ceiling looks nice from this side of the floor It looks clean, so clean and white you could almost ignore All the waste of my time looking sky-high and never forward Let me change the lights, maybe green and bright, so it’s almost like I’m outdoors Mmm, outdoors With the bugs that crawl on me And the leaves that start tickling (waving) And the spiderwebs I can’t see but can feel all on me Mmm the outdoors The outdoors How could you take the whole outdoors with you? How could you? Take the whole outdoors with you

But it’s fine ‘cause these wall are so straight and so even every time And they’re sturdy and I’ve heard and they hold up real nice There’s nothing beyond them, I don’t think so There is nothing within them, I don’t think But the outdoors The outdoors Where it’s warm, and it’s dirty But it’s where I wanna be Out with you, out with me The outdoors The outdoors

I wanna take to the outdoors with you You didn’t take the outdoors, ‘cause how could you?

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Just imagine you were happy and had everything and it still wouldn't be enough... It's kinda comforting, in a way that no matter what I can't do anything about this discontentment.

So this is a happy song \o/ !!

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Lyrics:

Trees too high to climb Apples too sweet to bite A freedom too vast to find Rivers too wide Dappled skies A softness that collides Hope that rewinds time An outfit for the sun Glittering, shimmering, sparkling like the sun Over cool clean waters Swaying onto beaten sands Softly amended Soft in your hands I want more I want more I want more

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It might get better, it does get

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Its getting harder to pretend That it’s easy to forget That I’d ever forgive Out of anything other than fear It’s getting harder to pretend That I know how this ends And I know what they’re doing The things that I do Nothing stops until it does And I’m learning what it was Pinpointing what I want But always in a past tense

I’m starting to disassociate Something puts me on pause I wish I could say what it was But the words just… It’s getting harder to turn it off I know who I’ll become Dammit I hate it so much It will consume me

It’s hard to be big I would never say it was easy Being that kid But it’s harder I know better It was never meant to be Something as simple as life could be For me But it’s getting harder

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I'm sorry, I know you're asleep but ...

I'm sorry I I'm keeping you awake I know you need a break I'm sorry that I'm so loud I'll try my best to keep it down I'm sorry that I'm still here I know I said I'd leave last year I'm sorry that I can't find someone that loves me like you Nobody loves me like you Nobody cares, it's true I'm sorry you do Know that I'm sorry I know you wanted to go You said this don't feel like home I don't know what I'm missing I just know I'll miss you Sorry that you love me I'm sorry, that's a lie I'm sorry, but I tried I tried

If it means anything I'll stay quiet I'll love you silent Just not as good as you

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you I just wanted to thank you I needed yo see you You're hard to quit You smell so sweet And you love me And I'm sorry And I'm sorry

I'm sorry

[girl-at-dusk]

lights. in all the wrong places.

places that have seen too much of what i am.  and i’m made far too bright and far too small  to be capable of having my own say.  and that is something i can’t stand, so it’s me, it’s me,  that i try to take away.

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Months ago, 2/23 I reblogged this post into my drafts. It's such an evocative and simply effective piece of writing and my breath was taken by it's last line...

"it's me, that i try to take away" I truly hope you don't mind, I went and recorded a song that I made 100% inspired by this post! I felt it too deep not to

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my variation:

and all of a sudden, I see lights on me know that I'm in places I'm afraid to be And all of a sudden I see lights Lights, on me Lights on me In all the places I don't wanna be Not tonight Not this time You, you asked me why? You asked me, you asked me You are the reason why I am too big to hide There are lights on me now All my days are bright I cannot be me Larger than life You deserve to see the night It's beautiful, it's makes me sigh I love you, and that is why It's me that I take away It's me, that I try to take away

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Gave my Miis a proper hangout spot

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and the answer is yes

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Savor the flavor of privilege on your tongue maybe it'll wash away all their blood Doesn't feel good to know that you are the villain, does it? So maybe you should grab a pen and rewrite the comic?

Yes, you could try to out-scream their cries but, why would you bother when you could just press mute?

So, what should you do but ignore what you can? You can't change that they killed, the ones who've made all your plans. You can't help, though you want to You can't help but you choose to be silent to forget to push away and I can hear it now, I can hear it now aren't you the same?