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…like it was yesterday

by Plastic Stars

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1.
The Long Way Out 02:48
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Don't you dare tell this to anyone I kept the photographs They got stained by lighter fluid But I could never bring myself to strike that match Wind at our backs Windows down Screaming hearts out on the highway Dreaming of leaving our hometown I met you at the end of the summer We were dancing by the river we were dumb and we were younger then Life was easy, but my darling it got harder So I'm leaving here tomorrow Taking the long way out of town And I never felt so free Laying in the backseat Through a long Virginia summer With your hair down in the park where we would meet And we'd sing "Saturday" Beneath the streetlights I don't remember all the words But I can still recall the rhythm of those nights And I'll hold tight I met you at the end of the summer We were dancing by the river we were dumb and we were younger then Life was easy, but my darling it got harder So I'm leaving here tomorrow Taking the long way out of town
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Don't Make Me Go Back 04:00
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You could hear the patter of raindrops in the alleys All the cars stayed stuck at red lights Strangers didn't look up as they passed on the street Everything was frozen in time And old friends tried to keep the mood light We laughed about good times and smoked in the churchyard We swore nothing would be different As we watched you slip away Don't make me go back I can't lay anymore flowers by a stone By the Potomac Don't make me go back I can't put on a smile for all our old friends Pretend nothing's different Been having visions of your silhouette A shadow in a window in perfect symmetry Feels like I'm living a past life in my head I remember it vividly We were diamonds and runaways on freight trains All we needed was a song and a sunset to chase We dreamed of packing everything and heading West We dreamed Don't make me go back I can't lay anymore flowers by a stone By the Potomac Don't make me go back I can't put on a smile for all our old friends Pretend nothing's different Don't make me go back Because I'm torn to pieces By every inch of pavement Don't make me go back This isn't where I came from Everything is different
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Grass Stains 04:06
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Bottles strewn across the floor Your dress is hanging up on the bedroom door You're sleeping, I'm writing you a note to leave by your bedside It's not hard to see the mess in the early morning light A vase fell off its table, the flowers wilted overnight I look around the room one last time before I slip outside We can only fake it for a summer or two You're just lying to me and I'm just lying to you All the pretty girls are dressing up To wander the streets like ghosts Free spirits lined up at the bars by the boys who wanna take em home And I'm far away and alone, staring out the window Wondering what you're doing and who's gonna take you home Take you home We can only fake it for a summer or two You're just lying to me and I'm just lying to you Things used to be so easy We sat beneath the scarlet oaks and you rolled down those hills with me But October came eventually and I'm left with dead leaves And grass stains I can't get out of my jeans
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Samson's House 04:50
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It's such a long trip coming home by train And after a couple hours I'm tired of the landscape So i pulled out a notebook full of songs about the good old days Those early summer evenings when we would just hang around Passing out together under trees behind a playground Unafraid of everything the world was gonna throw our way We lived in sunlit backyards at the summer's end With all our old friends, With all our old friends We hid ourselves away from the sober days ahead Drinking whiskey in Samson's house again Do you remember the night we told ghost stories A few blocks from your house in that patch of trees We pretended we were in the deepest densest forest, so nobody would hear our secrets About how scared you were of getting older, how scared we were to leave So I let you fall asleep there on my shoulder and I kept you company We kept the world away for a little while We lived in sunlit backyards at the summer's end With all our old friends, With all our old friends We hid ourselves away from the sober days ahead Drinking whiskey in Samson's house again And the town where we grew up closes its eyes and falls asleep As kids pull off from parking lots and the ones they couldn't keep Like smoke into the sky the things we love will fade away But at least we'll always have those sunny days At least we'll always have those sunny days We lived in sunlit backyards at the summer's end With all our old friends, With all our old friends We hid ourselves away from the sober days ahead Drinking whiskey in Samson's house again Drinking whiskey in Samson's house again Drinking whiskey in Samson's house again
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Songs About The Suburbs 05:06
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I started smoking again since you died Falling back into bad habits, sleeping every couple nights I kept the pack we stole on the last night I saw you Its still sitting there by my bedside You got your last taste of sunlight and I hope it was sweet And I hope you thought of me when you felt the cool grass underneath your feet Cherry blossoms blooming in the place we were raised I hope you were happy We were once untouchable It felt like nothing was impossible Singing songs about the suburbs with all the windows down As I drove you all around this town I've heard that time heals all wounds but it just tore us apart I barely talk to the people I used to love with all my heart These photographs are just mediocre portraits of people I don't recognize In my backyard We were once untouchable It felt like nothing was impossible Singing songs about the suburbs with all the windows down As I drove you all around this town So I left flowers and a letter by your grave It said I'm sorry if I ever hurt you and I think about you every day Flowers and a letter by your grave I'm sorry if I ever hurt you and I think about you every day I think about you every day.

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released September 16, 2014

Music & Lyrics By Bair Srivastav

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