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Better Off
03:20
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All the words that passed from me to you
All the things you said I couldn’t do
I was the queen of what was difficult
I was Atlas, so good at it
What could I do?
What should I do?
You put me on a pretty pedestal
Shook your head and said I should be grateful
My bones they chipped they flew out to the wind
I turned to a ghost where we used to laugh with our friends
Do you still feel me there, like a phantom limb?
What could I do?
What should I do?
Now that I’m better off
We both know I’m better off
without you
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2. |
Acting
05:00
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You want me to write an anthem for you,
I don't write anything but sad songs
It's how I get along
I sit down at my piano bench
it all starts to make so much sense
the reasons you left,
maybe I'm just flawed
Please come back we'll pretend
the last few years don't exist
we're all acting anyway,
we'll go along with it
I swear we could figure this out
if you lashed out at me
let the poison out
you'd feel better in the end,
so come on, I know I ruined it
(chorus)
Come on, just come on
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3. |
I Didn't Belong
03:54
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The bedsheets are cold
I hear the panes creak
The light floods through my widow
I hear the ocean calling me,
she says "darling, you don't belong here"
This place is so old
The wood it creaks beneath my feet
I can't go anywhere
Secretly I want to leave, without breaking you or breaking me because love, no I don't belong here
I gave you everything, everything
Everything, everything
You chewed me up and spit me out
like wretched poison in your mouth,
it feels unfair but I can't be angry now
I knew I didn't belong there
The windows were down,
I drove towards nothing in my old Mercedes Benz
Tears streaming down my red cheeks and I cried out to the open,
"why didn't you save me?"
I expected life to be fair and the break to be clean but I was so young, so completely naive
Even though I knew it right then, it still broke every piece of me when you said "I love you, but you don't belong here."
'Cause I gave you everything, everything
Everything, everything
You chewed me up and spit me out like wretched poison in your mouth and it feels unfair
It feels so unfair
You chewed me up and spit me out
Like I was poison in your mouth and it feels unfair
But I can't be angry now
I knew I didn't belong there
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4. |
The Inside
03:52
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The Inside
Inside me is a storm, but all you hear is words
inside me is a world as fragile as the earth
beneath a pretty face
beneath these tired eyes
inside me is a sea as vast as the sky
If you could only see the world inside of me
If you could only look on the inside
Inside me is a fire warm and inviting
with a couch perfect for both of us to lie in
beneath a battered body and my scattered mind
there’s a perfect melody I wrote for you and I
If you could only see the world inside of me
If you could only look on the inside
you’d see how beautiful the world is I build for you and me
if you could only look on the inside
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5. |
Marionette
05:56
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Why was fixing myself always the goal?
Because I thought I could be nothing else
without you making me whole
Therein lies the problem I was just your little puppet
you had me where you wanted because you were all I wanted
My body was a marionette
with some sturdy strings you held
when you cut me
when you cut me off
I barely even knew myself
I was too small to hold what I felt
I swallowed the sound
is that why my insides they all turn to hell
when you're around?
Therein lies the problem I was just your little puppet
you had me where you wanted because you were all I wanted
My body was a marionette
with some sturdy strings you held
when you cut me
when you cut me off
I barely even knew myself
I had to learn to love myself
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Highland Kites Nashville, Tennessee
Highland Kites is an independent dreamy alternative band formed in LA and now based out of Nashville. For more about the
band go here: www.highlandkites.com#bio
“There’s a profound energy emitting from Highland Kites’ music: Vibrant and bright, reflective and engaged.” -Atwood Magazine
Their next 5 song EP “better off” was released on the the 21st of June 2019 via MGM distribution.
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