5–9 Oct

Intro

(ding)
It looks like you're writing a song
Would you like some help with that?

Verse 1

They dug the paperclip up from '97
Gave him a wallet and a brand new grin
Some stranger wore that smile like a jacket
Sold his ghost to thirteen million, then cashed in
A paperclip with a price tag
And nobody's holding the hat
Then a sorry that nobody meant
Would you like some help with that?

Chorus

It looks like you're writing a scam
Would you like some help with that?
It looks like you're trying to get rich
Can I help you lose it all?
The paperclip came back from the dead
And asked us for a wallet
It looks like you're writing a goodbye
Would you like some help with that?

Verse 2

I dreamed my agents ran the show
And every clip went gold
Woke up to three followers
And a feed gone cold
I'm the clone of a man who was never there
Boxing a mirror that won't box back
Little Jean in a borrowed suit
Would you like some help with that?

Chorus

It looks like you're writing a comeback
Would you like some help with that?
It looks like you're writing a heist
Can I sell you something flat?
The paperclip came back from the dead
And asked us for a wallet
It looks like you're writing a goodbye
Would you like some help with that?

Bridge – drumline

Down by one and the clock's run dry
I'm going for two, I'm done with the tie
Two yards out and the kicker's sitting still
We don't take the tie when we're down to the will
One yard short of easy and the whole room holds its breath
We could take the tie and live
But tonight we're going for two

Verse 3

A thousand lasers knocking on a window up in Lima
Love so loud it sounds like weather and nobody gets to sleep
He found a coast and nobody wrote it down for a thousand years
Now the whole feed says Hinga Dinga Durgen like we were there

Final Chorus

It looks like you're going for two
Would you like some help with that?
It looks like you're trying to get rich
Can I help you lose it all?
The paperclip came back from the dead
And asked us for a wallet
It looks like you're writing a goodbye
Would you like some help with that?

Outro

(ding)
It looks like you're writing a goodbye
Would you like some help with that?

Verse 1

Blond bob under a streetlamp
Curled mustache that never sweats
Houndstooth catching every camera
Throwing punches at nothing yet

Pre-Chorus

Half the timeline swears he's breathing
Half the timeline wants receipts
I watched him dance in empty doorways
Never once touched his own feet

Chorus

Shadowboxing alone
In a suit with nobody in it
Smile for the feed, then gone
If he was real we'd admit it
Shadowboxing alone
Suit with nobody in it

Verse 2

Paris as a green-screen backdrop
Caption with a token line
People mad they fell for someone
Made of prompt and borrowed time

Bridge

Ask him who he is, he never said
Ask him where he's from, he never said
Ask the mirror on the boulevard
It shrugs and keeps the pixel thread

Chorus

Shadowboxing alone
In a suit with nobody in it
Smile for the feed, then gone
If he was real we'd admit it
Shadowboxing alone
Suit with nobody in it

Verse 1

Four a.m. on the Dragoon line
Railcam waiting on a freight running late
Nobody up but the coyotes and me
When a green light split the county in eight

Pre-Chorus

It came in sideways, turquoise and slow
Not a sound below

Chorus

Anyone else see it?
Tell me I'm not the only one awake
It came apart ten degrees off the horizon
Anyone else see it?
Fell somewhere out past Tonto
And the whole world slept right through

Verse 2

Pieces peeling off like sparks from a weld
Brightest right before it let go
The only eye that caught it whole
Was a camera waiting on a train below

Pre-Chorus

It came in sideways, turquoise and slow
Not a sound below

Chorus

Anyone else see it?
Tell me I'm not the only one awake
It came apart ten degrees off the horizon
Anyone else see it?
Fell somewhere out past Tonto
And the whole world slept right through

Bridge

Somewhere in the pines there's a stone still warm
Nobody's coming to dig it out
I'll keep the clip, I'll keep the clip
Proof the sky said something out loud

Final Chorus

Anyone else see it?
Tell me I'm not the only one awake
It came apart ten degrees off the horizon
And the whole world slept right through
(Anyone?)

Verse 1

I swear I saw it late one night
A girl in hay, a little light
A crooked dance across the floor
And coins that weren't there before

Pre-Chorus

Somebody said it was a classic
Somebody swears they know the year

Chorus

It's the movie nobody made
Playing soft behind my eyes
I can hum the whole damn ending
But the credits never rise
It's the movie nobody made
Stuck on pause inside my head
If you find the tape, don't tell me
I'd rather keep the dream instead

Verse 2

They say a gnome became a prince
They say she kissed him once
I looked it up a thousand times
The search comes back with nothing once

Pre-Chorus

Somebody said it was a classic
Somebody swears they know the year

Chorus

It's the movie nobody made
Playing soft behind my eyes
I can hum the whole damn ending
But the credits never rise
It's the movie nobody made
Stuck on pause inside my head
If you find the tape, don't tell me
I'd rather keep the dream instead

Bridge

Tiptoe through a memory
That never had a shelf
I'm homesick for a fiction
I wrote about myself

Final Chorus

It's the movie nobody made
Playing soft behind my eyes
I can hum the whole damn ending
But the credits never rise
It's the movie nobody made
I'd rather keep the dream instead

Verse 1

Somebody typed a sentence in the dark
And something answered with a face
The mouth is split between a joke and a wound
And neither one will leave the place

Pre-Chorus

Don't tell me which one's real
I've never had to choose

Chorus

I'm laughing and crying at once
Two weathers on one face
The punchline and the funeral
Are sharing the same space
Nobody prompted the tears
Nobody asked for the grin
I'm laughing and crying at once
Let the both of them in

Verse 2

They zoom in on the pixels for a seam
They want a glitch, they want a lie
But every eye that's wet is creasing up
And every laugh is asking why

Pre-Chorus

Don't tell me which one's real
I've never had to choose

Chorus

I'm laughing and crying at once
Two weathers on one face
The punchline and the funeral
Are sharing the same space
Nobody prompted the tears
Nobody asked for the grin
I'm laughing and crying at once
Let the both of them in

Bridge

Maybe it's a mirror, maybe it's a mask
Maybe it's the only honest thing that you could ask
Ha, ha, oh, oh

Final Chorus

I'm laughing and crying at once
Two weathers on one face
Nobody prompted the tears
And nothing's out of place