Emo Song 1

Exit Song

Grounder plays some covers and originals at The Dirt House's second annual Halloween Bash.

Werewolves of London (Live at the Dirt House 10.31.21)

Halloween (Live at the Dirt House 10.31.21)

Local Grounder fans have heard these two at our shows. New album coming soon.

Knew

Sober Cigarettes

I drink from a bowl like a dog
Open a window when its hot
Wash my hands in the sink
Watch out for mother when she drinks
It hurts when you don’t shake my hand
I'm walking on unstable land
It always gets louder in my head
I wish we were fishing instead

Love hurts sometimes
But I’ll be alright
Sleeping in til noon
It hurts a little longer

Step up to the plate again
Nobody will let me in
Hunted for sport in a forest
Running away from it All
Running away from it all
What did you say to me way back then
It still hurts now so it sure did then

Love hurts sometimes
But I’ll be alright
Sleeping in til noon
It hurts a little longer

It’s been
A long time
Since I knew who I was
Since I knew

moment

Take a break and catch your breath
You’ve been caught with premonitions of your death
Somewhere or some way
There’s another person who can make her stay

And I want some time
Just enough to make this worth my while

Then it hits
Then it hits
I know I’ll never be the same after this
I can’t stand
On my own
My weak and wobbly legs won’t carry me along unto my throne

I can’t think
I can’t sit
When did complications complicate all this awful shit
My head
My home
I can’t see through all the bushes when they’re all so overgrown

Something tells me I gotta put it together
I hated you for what you did
Need to pull myself out of this nightmare
Need to wake up and roll out of bed
That awful feeling seems to haunt me through my days now
Always loyal, never leaves my side
When I go to bed it jumps into the covers
When I cry and yell it always seems to thrive

Then it hits
Then it hits
I know I’ll never be the same after this
I can’t stand
On my own
My weak and wobbly legs won’t carry me along unto my throne
I can’t think
I can’t sit
When did complications complicate all this awful shit
My head
My home
I can’t see through all the bushes when they’re all so overgrown

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I’ll crawl to you
It makes me feel so dirty but I’ll
Stop abusing all my words
I’m in your head, you’re in my
Heart, pull me in
Make me feel this way again
You looked right at me, there’s no other way

Overgrown

I know I shouldn’t but it makes me feel so good
When I wake up I feel you on my breath
I go outside and I stay until I’m finished
How good could it be

These sober cigarettes are all that I can think about
But I reek when I walk away

The light goes off in your room
The sun still seeps through
the gaps in your blinds
Almost wide enough for someone to look into
And see you

Now I turn my head when I walk next to you
I convinced myself it wouldn’t happen
I go outside and I stay until I’m finished
How good could it be

Some things never change
Like the setting of the sun
Or the house your grandparents have always had
The pictures on the wall
Inside your parents’ house
Show the same played out scenes they always have
The way they used to hug you when you left at the end
Of a trip that’s one of many more to come
The croquet set in the top right picture sits in this garage collecting dust
It takes a little while to realize
That the moments on the wall are in the past
Your dad doesn’t look like he did in Japan
And your cousins now wear marriage on their hands
Your mother sees a girl in the pictures on the counter
Of a grown woman standing on a bridge
I can’t help but to see my 50-something parents in a photo of the two of them as kids
Well she greets you by the lake with a towel
It hurts to launch the boat without her there
It’s still the same old house and a lot of the same old people
But the spark has traveled far away from here

I wonder what it’s like in the forest
Will she be waiting there when the ground is rough
When the angels come from heaven
Will that not be enough

It’ll only hurt for a little bit then you’ll find yourself one day
Thinking fondly for the hell of it of that brighter summer stay
The way he yelled at you and made you walk on eggshells in the sun
Mesmerizing metamorphosis as it all blends into one
Wash it out with all the laundry till it makes a subtle grey
Running fifteen miles an hour to a town an hour away
How do you go on existing with these things that they have done
It would grow and grow within me
Chew me up until I’m gone

Rememberer

Roll the windows down
Let the smell of perfume out
Four wheels and a straight A student

Always too tall to sit in the back
The front’s just for the aftermath
and all the looks they throw me

And now I’d take it down to Decatur
Trunk full of skeletons
Your friends’ll admit you’re so full of shit
and your thoughts are way too loud

It’s no secret you were dad’s favorite
After all you were his first purchase
Now the drivers burnt out laying
on his floor, covered in

dyed blonde hair and dryer sheets
You can see his pain in MPG
Hold him like he’s still the same guy
you even thought of loving

And even with the windows down
I can’t get the smell of you out
when I try
or I

fail to eliminate the pattern
They can all hear it and I know it doesn’t matter
Damn it she looks like her

When I’m in the hills
I lose track of time
few friends and four wheel drive
used to feel just fine
It’s so easy for you
You were built for this

Answer the call
You were never mine at all

Wait for the moment
when everything comes spilling out

Your mouth is rusty
but it still tastes so good

Wait for the moment
when they finally arrive

Has your time come
or can I just keep my foot down?

Anywhere, Everywhere

Your Obsession

I wanted it all night
But you took it from my hands
It’s all that I deserve
I need another chance
When did it become
A line across the sand
It feels so far away
But when the tide comes I can’t stand

Take a part of me
Hold it in your hand
The walls are falling down
I’ll kill you by the end
I’ll run between the hills
Far away from here
It hurts when I can’t see
I just give right in to fear
Let’s sort it out

Full of apprehension in my blood
Neck deep in the lake again
Hurtling sideways across the pond
Hold my hands up and play pretend
Nightly feelings of horrid scenes
Makes my head hurt once again
You told me it’s fine to be alone
But it feels like death in my room instead

I hold my hands
Above my head
I’m bleeding out from the places that you cut me
I watch as everything I build crumbles down
(ahh)

Take a part of me
Hold it in your hand
The walls are falling down

I’ll kill you by the end
I’ll run between the hills
Far away from here
It hurts when I can’t see
I just give right in to fear

Hands

Sixteen sitting on a rock in my room
Heard that you were off to college pretty soon
All the hatred that you kept in your mouth

Give me several hundred dollars never text and I’ll head south
Getting food all alone in the dark
I missed the cutoff several hours from the park
Get home from work and don’t have anything to do

There’s no more rhythm in the process and I don’t know what the fuck to do

Do you care how you’re treated?
Do you care if I spend a month away
Running down by the river
Coming back to a house I left a long
Time ago when I was happier and cleaned my fucking house
I knew her then

When did it finally click?
Were you sitting alone?
What’s the feeling of dread like
When you’re in your home?
It took some time to realize but now it’s in my head
Wrote the four things that mattered so that I could show my friend
Deep within I knew I felt it
Almost scared of the desire
I’ve been with you for so long Can’t take my eyes off of the fire

I’ll give another chance
I’ll hold another door
In the end I’ve made my mind up
But I just need to be sure
Second guessing all the feelings
Overcome with doubt and fear
In my heart I know it’s dying
I need to get out of here

I used to take my dog on all these walks
I used to be with friends and call them when we’re not
You used to hold my hand and breathe between my lips
It’s all my fault but I can’t help but beg a bit

Scum

​​Maybe ask again when I’m not drunk alone
When I’ve got nothing on my mind
Suicide is back with the winter season
So I’ll get in my car and go
On late night drives through
Canyons with Mountain Views

I wanna drive my car
Right off the cliffside
Let the flames burn high
While I’m warm inside
Sober up when the sun comes out

Leave my room with a sickened gut
I wanna drive my car into the sun
Let the flames burn high while I’m warm inside
I wanna drive my car into the sun

I wanna drive
Alone
High all night

See my friends on Saturday night
But I won’t drink til I’m alone
Done my time and it’s alright
High all night and I’ll drive alone
With your photograph upon my dash
I’ll drive alone
You took a lot from me
But I’ll get it back

Running sideways through a field of old cornflowers
Smoking softly in the car
Now he’s really apprehensive
Come through the door to take it all away

With your photograph
On my dash
I wanna crash my car

I wanna crash my car
In through your house
Let the engine flare up
While I watch it get hot
I’ll sit alone feeling warm inside

Grounder

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