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The Prom
03:08
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In the polaroid picture they took on Friday night
I swear I look like somebody’s mom
Just like I’m waiting to be shoved in a drawer somewhere
To be found by my daughter when she’s about fifteen
I’m in a purple dress closer to the camera
You’re to the left in your tuxedo
I’m sitting up straight, and you’re leaning back
And your bowtie is slanted at an angle
And you’re captured by the midnight lighting
Looking like you will be young forever
And I have no doubt by the way I see you, half-smiling half-winking
And I’m just the girl in the chemical dream
Drunk on Diet Coke, and Mulholland dreams
Looking at you like you’re my savior but you’re looking at the camera
As if to say I warned you
I ran inside to the bathroom and got lost
In the chinoiserie wallpaper
It’s ironic that most pretty things are stolen
Maybe that’s why we found ourselves broken
I stare at the stray hair and the smudged lipstick
I make a draw with the girl in the mirror
Decide I’d rather stay in here with her
Then make the brunette you’re dancing with disappear
And you’re captured by the midnight lighting
Looking like you will be young forever
And I have no doubt by the way I see you, half-smiling half-winking
And I’m just the girl in the chemical dream
Drunk on Diet Coke, and Mulholland dreams
Looking at you like you’re my savior but you’re looking at the camera
As if to say I warned you
The girl in the chemical dream
Drunk on Diet Coke, and Mulholland dreams
Looking at you like you’re my savior but you’re looking at the camera
The girl in the chemical dream
Drunk on Diet Coke, and Mulholland dreams
Looking at you like you’re my savior but you’re looking at the camera Looking at you like you’re my savior but you’re looking at the camera
As if to say I warned you
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2. |
Laguna
04:07
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There’s a candle on the bookshelf
And the box says it smells like laguna beach
Grocery store cherries and disposable camera wrappers
Is what it should smell like to me
Embroidered clouds and a satin sunlight
I fell in the salty teal sea
They say blood is thicker than water
But you are like family to me
But I don’t want to chase like an old memory
I was raised not to chase boys but you can chase me
I don’t want to look back at the photos hiding in a pink hatbox
I don’t want to think of you when I hear autumn leaves
I know the nostalgia will cut a little too deep
I don't want to wonder if our paths will ever cross
I don’t want to cherish a road that’s gone, I want to cherish you
I used to think that you were like the dandelions
That dance through the sky in Oregon
But I learned you weren’t fleeting
As we walked through my grandmother’s garden
Players never quit the game
And all guys are forever the same
I’m ashamed to have believed them
And angry that they slandered your name
But I don’t want to chase like an old memory
I was raised not to chase boys but you can chase me
I don’t want to look back at the photos hiding in a pink hatbox
I don’t want to think of you when I hear autumn leaves
I know the nostalgia will cut a little too deep
I don't want to wonder if our paths will ever cross
I don’t want to cherish a road that’s gone, I want to cherish you
I don’t want to live in sepia
Or black and white
Pining for old days as we fight
Or even worse
Not having you there at all
I don’t want to chase like an old memory
I was raised not to chase boys but you can chase me
I don’t want to look back at the photos hiding in a pink hatbox
I don’t want to think of you when I hear autumn leaves
I know the nostalgia will cut a little too deep
I don't want to wonder if our paths will ever cross
I don’t want to look back at the photos hiding in a pink hat box
I don’t want to look back at the photos hiding in a pink hat box
I don’t want to cherish a road that’s gone
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Petrified Forest
03:39
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You dreamt we lived
In the middle of the petrified forest
We had dogs that looked for truffles
And I was five months pregnant
We walked to the elementary school
and talked on the field
The drought washed the grass in yellow ochre
You called it a fire hazard
So if a brush fire should wipe across this valley
You’d bring the plants and bugs inside to keep them safe
I’d be staring at the constellations
Trying to remember their names
There’s a timer on everything
I say turn it down, drown it out
You say we can’t be saved by destiny
And I admire your empathy
But I don’t feel anything
I don’t feel anything
No I don’t feel anything
I stopped waiting
Until you fall asleep to smoke a cigarette
You used to reprimand me
I said “it’s only after I drink”
And after you go to bed alone
I pray to a god that I don’t know
There’s nothing to see in the sky tonight
And I think about how you’re right
But if a brush fire should wipe across
You’d bring the plants and bugs inside to keep them safe
I’d be staring at the constellations
Trying to remember their names
There’s a timer on everything
I say
Turn it down, drown it out
You say we can’t be saved by destiny
And I admire your empathy
But I don’t feel anything
No I don’t feel anything
I’m worshipping at Orion
You’re a 21st century Noah
You wish that I would listen
I wish I could get to know you
There’s a timer on everything
I say
Turn it down, drown it out
You say we can’t be saved by destiny
And I admire your empathy
But I don’t feel anything
You say we can’t be saved by destiny
And I admire your empathy
But I don’t feel anything
No, I don’t feel anything
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Olivia Gubel Williamstown, Massachusetts
Olivia Gubel is a twenty year old indie-folk singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, CA currently living in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Olivia believes that there are only love songs – romantic love, familial love, struggling to love oneself, fear of love, longing for love that isn’t there, and love for places and things. ... more
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