Quicksilver (acoustic)
from Please Play Please by Never Right Now
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lyrics
your name slips like quicksilver
from my mind
i don't feel that tug on the other side
of the rope
'cause i've let go
to watch you sail, float, sink,
i don't know
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
it just slips by
somewhere right around here
is a dried-up river bed
someone upstream must have got
too greedy i guess
and i feel all hollowed out
all used up
and forgotten about
waiting for someone to heal me
waiting for someone to fill me
with purpose
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
why'd you have to be the lesson
and not the prize?
why'd you have to end up just
another rest stop in my life?
now i'm supposed to throw
the empty wrappers in
keep the city clean
courtesy of a faceless waste bin
and just conclude my small part
and get into my car
and go it alone?
i leap at every possibility that enters my mind
each unknown variable approaching my life
throw in another pinball
double my score
or lose it all
either way it's been fun
but you know i'd never be one
to let you see me cry
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
it just slips by
from my mind
i don't feel that tug on the other side
of the rope
'cause i've let go
to watch you sail, float, sink,
i don't know
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
it just slips by
somewhere right around here
is a dried-up river bed
someone upstream must have got
too greedy i guess
and i feel all hollowed out
all used up
and forgotten about
waiting for someone to heal me
waiting for someone to fill me
with purpose
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
why'd you have to be the lesson
and not the prize?
why'd you have to end up just
another rest stop in my life?
now i'm supposed to throw
the empty wrappers in
keep the city clean
courtesy of a faceless waste bin
and just conclude my small part
and get into my car
and go it alone?
i leap at every possibility that enters my mind
each unknown variable approaching my life
throw in another pinball
double my score
or lose it all
either way it's been fun
but you know i'd never be one
to let you see me cry
every time that you've saved me
every good thing you've done
it slips by
it just slips by
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from Please Play Please,
released August 19, 2010
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Never Right Now San Jose, California
Genre outlaws from San Jose, CA. One moment we sound a little like Thom Yorke falling asleep to Tori Amos after having a fight with Trent Reznor. And in the next moment, not at all.
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Jul 2011 -
Aug 2010
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