Real Estate - Atlas Album Lyrics

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Had To Hear

I'm out again on my own
A reflection in the chrome
Of an adding machine
It's been so long
My mind is drawing a blank
Don't know if I can go back
But to live out this dream
It's just my luck
I call you up

I had to hear you just to feel near you
I know it's not true
But it's been so long
I know it's wrong
I know

I don't need the horizon to tell me where the sky ends
Its a subtle landscape where I come from
I'm out again on my own
A reflection in the chrome
Of an adding machine
It's been so long
I call you up

I had to hear you just to feel near you
I know it's not true
But it's been so long
I know it's wrong
I know

 

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Past Lives

I can not come back to this neighbourhood
With out feeling my own age
I walk past these houses where we once stood
I see past lives but some how you're still here

Underneath this canopy
All light up above us
Oh but I can see the sky
Is not the only thing that changes rapidly

This is not the same place I used to know
But it still has that same old sound
And even the lights on this yellow road
Are the same as when this was our town

Underneath this canopy
All light up above us
Oh but I can't see the sky
Is not the only thing that changes rapidly

And even the lights on this yellow road
Are the same as when this was our town

 

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Talking Backwards

We can talk for hours
When the line is still engaged
We're not getting any closer
You're to many miles away

And I might as well be talking backwards
Am I making any sense to you
And the only thing that really matters
Is the one thing I can't seem to do

When that night was over
And the field was lit up bright
And I walked home with you
Nothing I said came out right

And I might as well be talking backwards
Am I making any sense to you
And the only thing that really matters
Is the one thing I can't seem to do

And I might as well be talking backwards
Am I making any sense to you
And the only thing that really matters
Is the one thing I can't seem to,
Make sense of this dream,
It's the one thing I can't seem to do

 

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April's Song


[Instrumental]

 

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The Bend

Have I not been crude
Or do I sound insincere
I'm just trying to make some sense of this
Before I lose another year
Its all that I can do

Cause its so hard to feel
They control you
Like I'm behind the wheel
But it won't steer

Stepping off the stone
Do I want to, no I don't
It was clear in what the path I left behind
And now I feel alone
No matter what I do

Cause its so hard to feel
They control you
Like I'm behind the wheel
But it won't steer

Have I not been crude
Or do I sound insincere
I'm just trying to make some sense of this
Before I lose another year

 

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Crime

Toss and turn all night
don't know how to make it right
crippling anxiety

This crowd was growing old
If I may be so bold
Will you go straight with me?

I don't wanna die
lonely and uptight
Stay with me
All will be revealed

I remember when
this all felt like pretend
and I still can't believe

sprung you from your hole
with everything you own
as if you weren't already free

I don't wanna die
lonely and uptight
stay with me
all will be revealed

I don't wanna die
lonely and uptight
stay with me
all will be revealed

 

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Primitive

When the night is young in the land I'm from
The seasons ghost away
The starts at night obscured by light
Can still lead me though this

Don't know where I want to be
But I'm glad that you're with me
And all I know is it'd be easy to leave

And in my mind I can't see the street
Where you and I will live
You still can't see the stars at night
But were not primitive

Don't know where I want to be
Oh but I'm glad that you're with me
And all I know is it'd be easy to leave

 

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How Might I Live

How might I live to betray you?
How might I live to see the day?
How might I live to say you're not the one I love?
How might I find the words to say?

Down in my home, Louisiana
Down in my home where I stay
Got to find the words to say you're not the one I love
How might I live to see the day?

But I give so I'm going on.
Call if you heard other songs
But I can't, so I'm going on
How might I live to see the day?

 

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Horizon

Just over the horizon
That's where I'll always think you'll be
It's always so surprising
to find you right there next to me

In this sprawling landscape
How'd you know just where I'd be?

Just over the horizon
That's when I always think you'll be
It's always so surprising
To find you right there next to me

In this sprawling landscape
How'd you know just where I'd be?
I find it hard to believe
Just one season is all I'd need

In this sprawling landscape
How'd you know just where I'd be?
I'd find it hard to believe
Just one season is all I'd need

 

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Navigator

We stare at the shadows on the sidewalk
They're moving on flowers rendered in chalk
The day is young but I'm already spent
I have no idea where that time went

Cross the kitchen floor
Steal out the back door
Past the monument
I'll meet you where the pavement ends

Cross the kitchen floor
Steal out the back door
Past the monument
I'll meet you where the pavement ends

I stare at the hands on the clock
I'm still waiting for them to stop
The earliest light is just shinning in
And I've no idea where the days been