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sober (demo)

One of us had to do it 
What we’ve been meaning to do for so long 
One of us had to say it
Call the game and stop playing along

They closed our spot 
I think it’s a salon now 
This part is hard
I’m bracing for the come down 

I’m scared of feeling what I know I will
Is it bad that I still hope we’ll reconcile 
We avoid it but we both know that 
It’s not working, I think we’re  growing out of being sixteen 

Doesn’t mean I won’t think of you 
When I hear someone order your drink 
I’ll paint a pretty picture 
Wait around just to see what think 

I saw your mom 
She said you moved to Austin
I can’t be mad 
But I thought that was our plan 

I’m scared of feeling what I know I will
Is it bad that I still hope we reconcile 
We avoid it but we both know that 
It’s not working I think I’m growing out of being sixteen 

It was meant to happen and it was meant to end 
And it’d be wasting time to pretend 

I’m scared of feeling what/how I know I will
Is it bad that I still hope we reconcile (x2)
We avoid it but we both know that 
It’s not working I think I’m growing out of being sixteen

16 (demo - written with Julia Calvin and Sean Merlin)

Keep the Sun on Me 

Floating clouds meet in my mind
Growing up one day at a time 

I feel you in the light 
In the wind that passes by 

Keep the sun on me 
Keep the sun on me 
Until I can fly 

Trusting, holding all that’s mine 
What is right will come with time 

I feel you in the light 
In the wind that passes by 

Keep the sun on me 
Keep the sun on me 
Until I can fly

keep the sun on me (demo)

Holding you in our hard times
I’m saving you for my whole life 

We’re looking at pictures from the prom 
Laying around in sheets and arms 
Laying around in dirty laundry 

Brushing me with your sweet lips 
It’s 4 o clock in the evening 

Counting the raindrops falling down 
Whisper to me well wait it out 

In the afterglow 
Afterglow 
Afterglow 

Holding me in our hard times
Been saving this for your whole life 

Watching you light the cherry candle
Watching you turn your eyes to mine 

In the afterglow 
Afterglow 
Afterglow
Afterglow
Afterglow

Brushing me with your sweet lips 
It’s 4 o clock in the evening

afterglow (demo)

You used to love the way I dress 
Play with my hair when I’m upset 
We’re so deceivingly well kept 

But you mess up and I say sorry 
So damn tired of doing the right thing 
You mess up and I still trust you 
Wanna touch you but I need love too 

We’re in your room on a Friday 
I feel like flying babe 
Wanted to grow up with you, did you want it too?
We used to be the right thing 
And I kept trying 
But I need a fire escape
Don’t wanna be here when the building falls 

Pull the curtain back to see 
All of the things you did to me
Not playing victim, I’m just playing the historian 

 you mess up and I say sorry 
So damn tired of doing the right thing 
You mess up and I still trust you 
Wanna touch you but I need love too 

We’re in your room on a Friday 
I feel like flying babe 
Wanted to grow up with you, did you want it too?
We used to be the right thing 
And I kept trying 
But I need a fire escape
Don’t wanna be here when the building falls

We’re in your room on a Friday 
I feel like flying
Wanted to grow up with you
We used to be the right thing 
I kept trying 
I need a fire escape
Don’t wanna be here when the building falls

when the building falls (rough demo)

You used to love the way I dress 
Play with my hair when I’m upset 
We’re so deceivingly well kept 

But you mess up and I say sorry 
So damn tired of doing the right thing 
You mess up and I still trust you 
Wanna touch you but I need love too 

We’re in your room on a Friday 
I feel like flying babe 
Wanted to grow up with you, did you want it too?
We used to be the right thing 
And I kept trying 
But I need a fire escape
Don’t wanna be here when the building falls 

Pull the curtain just to see 
All of the issues //  all of the shit you did to me 
Not playing victim, I’m just playing the historian 

 you mess up and I say sorry 
So damn tired of doing the right thing 
You mess up and I still trust you 
Wanna touch you but I need love too 

We’re in your room on a Friday 
I feel like flying babe 
Wanted to grow up with you, did you want it too?
We used to be the right thing 
And I kept trying 
But I need a fire escape
Don’t wanna be here when the building falls

when the building falls (Better demo)

Wrap your hands round my waist 
Almost ten, you keep looking my way 

Close our tab, and we laugh 
We drank too much to pretend we’re ok

Do you know I’ve been waiting? 
For years I’ve been aching? 
To love you this way 

The heartbeat in my chest
Only focused on what you’ll do next 

I’d live this moment for a lifetime 
I know that you’re good at games 
So am I 
And you’re my boomerang 
You’re my boomerang 

You sit back in your barstool
It’s cold out, maybe we should stay 

I want you to be my finale 
Is that too much to ask? 

I’d live this moment for a lifetime 
I know that you’re good at games 
So am I 
And you’re my boomerang 
Threw you as my boomerang 
Threw you as my boomerang 
Threw you as my boomerang 

The longest game I’ve ever played 
I threw you as boomerang

boomerang (rough demo)

I’m at a bar and it’s late 
And you’re on the phone 
But I can’t hear you talking 
It’s too loud 
I can’t understand you 

I’m mad that you’re so complacent 
We fight even if we don’t say it 
You don’t understand me 
I can’t keep explaining 

You’re always loving me then letting me down 
I don’t know how to be with you or without 
I’m breaking down just trying to figure this out 
I thought that we would make it 
But I can feel us fading 
Don’t know if it’s worth saving 
Something that’s just fading 

 We’re at a party with your friends 
Never had the heart to tell you I don’t like them 
I know that it’s selfish 
Can’t help it 

Wish that I could turn back the clock and 
Do this all over again cuz    
I’d try my best to handle this better 

You’re always loving me then letting me down 
I don’t know how to be with you or without 
I’m breaking down just trying to figure this (I want to change this to “us” I think) out 
I thought that we would make it 
But I can feel us fading 
Don’t know if it’s worth saving 
Something that’s just fading 

It doesn’t matter if you love me or love me not 
Things are perfect until they’re not 
Think we’re invincible 
Till we can’t get off the floor x2

You’re always loving me then letting me down 
I don’t know how to be with you or without 
I’m breaking down just trying to figure this (I want to change this to “us” I think) out 
I thought that we would make it 
But I can feel us fading 
Don’t know if it’s worth saving 
Something that’s just fading

fading (newer demo)

I drink way more than I used to babe 
I feel like I’m getting old 
I’m not the same girl I used to be 
You wouldn’t even recognize me 

It’s so lame that I still hate you 
I waste days cuz I still blame you 

I’m starting to wondering if you ever loved me 
Or if I just convinced you to memorize some parts of me 
You never call and I’m never on your mind at all 
No you never call and I’m never on your mind at all 

I have this dream I run into you on Amsterdam Avenue 
But you don’t even look at me, you look right through me like you never knew me 

It’s so lame that I still hate you 
I waste days cuz I still blame you 

I’m starting to wondering if you ever loved me 
Or if I just convinced you to memorize some parts of me 
You never call and I’m never on your mind at all 
No you never call and I’m never on your mind

In my mind I call you every time 
In my mind I call you every time 
In my mind I call you every night 
In my mind I call you every time 
In my mind 
Call you every night 

I drink way more than I used to babe 
I feel like I’m getting old

you never call (demo)

You want me to come to Portugal with you 
You’ll always have a hold on me 
I thought we were past our prime 
But we were just buying time 

It’s like we’re 16 going on 23 
My God how you’ve changed and stayed the same 
In my front seat, laughing about something dumb 
Every song I write is about you 
I’m a fool who’d do whatever you asked me to
But you probably knew that 

Our eyes lock across the room when we hear it 
A joke just for you and me 
I’ve tried to recreate this feeling 
But with you it just comes naturally 


It’s like we’re 16 going on 23 
My God how you’ve changed and stayed the same 
In my front seat, laughing about something dumb 
Every song I write is about you 
I’m a fool who’d do whatever you asked me to
But you probably knew that

I’ll be your puppet on a string 
My friends would kill me if they heard what I’m saying 
You make it easy to believe 
My friends would kill me if they knew that 

All my songs are about you 
I’m a fool who’d do whatever you ask me to 
But you probably knew that

portugal (original voice memo demo)

I wonder where you are
Did you find a new apartment? 
I hope you threw a party 
With new friends to break it in 

I bet you don’t know 
Your name still comes up 
When I meet someone and I get too drunk 

I wonder who you are 
Before work when you’re getting ready 
I hope you know that 

If you called me 
If you wronged me 
I’d pick up the phone 
And talk till you don’t feel alone 
If you need me 
I’m still here on this side of the phone
I don’t need you to say it back
I’m just getting this off my chest

I think about your family 
Has your sister gotten married? 
And what about your mom? 
Is she still sick of living in that town? 

If you find yourself in California 
I can pick you up 
We can laugh till morning 
On what we didn’t know 
About leaving and getting older 
I hope you know that 

If you called me 
If you wronged me 
I’d pick up the phone 
And talk till you don’t feel alone 
If you need me 
I’m still here on this side of the phone
I don’t need you to say it back
I’m just getting this off my chest

if u called me

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