My Dad Calls It Riptide

from This Is What We Woke Up To. by Messes

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I've been through this hell/
I can't get a grip.

My mom tells me to pray more/
my dad just stopped talking altogether.

I'll call when I grow up.
I'll act like a whole new person.
I could finally go into the store without
an upper or a reasurance that my
friends still give a shit.

But the whole time
I was just a nervous little shit.
nothing to care for
or a shoulder to turn on.
so i packed up my guts up off
the floor and spilled them all over
my loved ones.

you'd quit me
if you had the chance.
just like me/ I quit you.

it's so goddamn calming
crying over him or her
or not knowing where i'll end up.
I could just play along.

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from This Is What We Woke Up To., released August 24, 2012

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