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Balancing Act
03:08
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Spending my Friday night trying to recover from the week
Didn’t give up trying, just feeling kind of weak
And I don’t know how to balance all the things
I never know how to stop and breathe
Just breathe (×4)
Just, ha, ha
Your horoscope said you weren’t doing okay today
How do you feel? Is it still the same?
And I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again
But if I do, I’ll try not to vomit
I’ll try not to vomit
(chorus) And I am struck by your design
But I just don’t have time
And I can’t pick a side
So I must sacrifice
Spending my Sunday night trying to recover from last week
See I’m kind of hungover and didn’t get much sleep
And there are oh so many things expected of me
...I can’t forget to eat
….I can’t forget to eat
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The Wrath of Myself
03:34
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I like my brain deep fried
And I’m such a sap sometimes
Won’t ever hit rewind
On the things that convinced me I am difficult to love
But now I’m listening to my body
It told me it has forces set up against me
Well now I listen to nobody
I can’t connect with anyone
Though I want to love so badly
(chorus) I have some food for thought,
I just typically make dinner for one
Thought I had you all figured out,
And then one day you were just gone
And now I feel the wrath of myself,
I feel the wrath of myself
And all the things I fail to do
But I know I’m a better me without you
Almost everywhere I go,
I say it’s good to be home
Of all the things I won’t let go
It’s that I’m just a nice medium
But now I’m feeling much taller
I once embellished you with words,
And now I’ll make you smaller.
If I let myself and my mood dampen,
I’m sure wherever you are your mind is running rampant
I feel the wrath of myself,
I feel the wrath of myself
And all the things I fail to do
x3
But I know I’m a better me without you
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Don’t mistake my kindness
Please don’t take it for blindness
Don’t you tread on me
I see you trying to so ambitiously
Your eyes are ultraviolent
They won’t keep me in silence
Only I can handle me
Though I see you trying to so ambitiously
I didn’t ask for your advice
But your expert opinion
Got me thinking twice
Thanks for paying your two cents
I’ll be sure to donate to a fund for your ignorance
La di da da, La di da da, La di da da daa…
You ask me why I’m so very small
Yet have a mouth on me that can say it all
Well all your insults, they just slide on by me
I know your mind and your heart are so very tiny
La di da da, La di da da, La di da da daa…
Don’t mistake my kindness
Please don’t take it for blindness
Don’t you tread on me
I see you trying to so ambitiously
Your eyes are ultraviolent
They won’t keep me in silence
Only I can handle me
Though I see you trying to so ambitiously
Don’t mistake my kindness...
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I Feel Like Writing
01:07
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I feel like writing
But not what they told me to
Not what they assigned me
My mind is fried, and blank, and blue
I feel like yelling
Though I don’t know at whom
Guess I write songs when I don’t know what else to do
Guess I should be writing what I’m supposed to
Guess I write songs when I (I write songs when I)
I write songs when I (I write songs when I)
I write songs when I don’t know what else to
Guess I should be writing what I’m supposed to
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HAGS
03:43
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She said have a great summer
But it barely feels like spring
And it doesn’t feel like it’s over
It doesn’t feel like I’m done yet
Am I done yet?
But then the day was over
And the sundown sets in
And all the things I could do better
Come to my mind once again
(Chorus)
I’ll walk it off after graduation
Come and go from my life, I celebrate it
I’m so tired of this participation
I’m overcoming my disintegration
I do not need to be afraid of an American summer
I have overcome and I am free
To think otherwise would be just silly
Hope I don’t disappoint me
Guess I was just so focused on achieving
I forgot to take care, I was stuck there
Convinced my strengths were determined by degree
I underestimated me…
But (back to chorus)
I am so grateful to have had so many beautiful experiences
I am so grateful and appreciative
Don’t get me wrong
I just have to
Walk it off after graduation
He came and went from my life, I'm celebrating
I’m slowing overcoming my disintegration
I’m just tired, just tired (back to chorus)
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Rebecca Zimmerman Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rebecca Zimmerman (Philadelphia, PA) blends elements of rock, folk, and blues to produce a style that is genuinely raw.
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