Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Ted Hartog
Mixed by: Wes Rodberg
Mastered by: Sam Rodberg

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Spent three days in eight hours last night
Living somebody else's life
Acted like I usually do
And turned my head to look for you

No lesson to carry out
Daylight makes me dizzy now
Countdown til I fall asleep
And jump back in the in between

[Chorus]
Where we meet and we break up
Kinda true, kinda made up
And you say you're fine, and I think you meant it
Both wrapped up and disconnected
Where we meet and we break up
Kinda true, kinda made up
And you say you're fine, and I think you meant it
Both wrapped up and disconnected

[Verse 2]
Can you see it in my eyes
Bloodshot, burned a little time
Found truth, but forgot to try
You ask me how I slept last night

Went places I'll never go
Met people I'll never know
Is this how it's supposed to go
Erasing thoughts, before they grow

I spent three days in the back of my mind
Spent somebody else's time
Woke up like I usually do
And shut my eyes to look for you

[Chorus]
Where we meet and we break up
Kinda true, kinda made up
And you say you're fine, and I think you meant it
Both wrapped up and disconnected
Where we meet and we break up
Kinda true, kinda made up
And you say you're fine, and I think you meant it
Both wrapped up and disconnected

Eight Hours

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog, Alexander Clayton, Hunter Mulkey, and Julia Meredith
Produced by: Wes Rodberg
Mastered by: Sam Rodberg

Lyrics:

I've been having such a rough go
Nobody noticed
Habits I can hide in, know that y'all would chime in
If somebody noticed

I can tread water in the deep end
Think that I've got her when I'm sleeping
But I don't sleep in whenever I'm needing
Someone to hold this

Feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it show
Feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it go

Feeling high, high, high, high
High, high, high, high

Clock's slow, memories like mine blow
Up in a hurry

Doing makeup on my floor
Head poppin' up at my door
Show up in a worry

I know I go backwards when I retrace
But I'll keep getting my coffee in the same place
If I'm gonna feel you, at least make it the real you
That's gonna hurt me

Oh, cause I'm feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it show
Feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it go

Feeling high, high, high, high
High, high, high, high

(Instrumental)

Feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it show
Feeling high
Feeling low
Hazy, maybe we should let it go

Feeling high, high, high, high
High, high, high, high
High, high, high, high

Hazy

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog, Alexander Clayton, Hunter Mulkey, and Julia Meredith
Produced by: Wes Rodberg
Mastered by: Sam Rodberg

Lyrics: 
[Verse 1]
I gotta tell you one thing
Gotta say it loud
In all my dreams, and the in-betweens
There's only one thing I think about

I am not talking forgiveness
Of superficial means
I want all your good times, and your bad, too
And I want you to want to be here with me

[Pre-Chorus]
But if you're givin' all you've got
Then make it good
And if you're 'bout to up, and, walk
I think you should
But if you're gonna let, me, love

[Chorus]
You better step up
Or I'm gonna move on
Never talk short
If you wanna get along
Start holding my hand
While we're driving around
Stop giving directions
In my hometown

I'm back to my old ways again
Thinking we're better off friends
But if you're gonna be with me
Then be with me all the way

[Verse 2]
I've been talking to my sisters
They think you're good for me
I've got patience between my eyebrows
I've got brand new jeans

If there's a door you've got to lean through
Well, you know
You never gotta lock it, I can knock before
I'd be caught off guard for a minute
But I hope you know I'd get it

[Pre-Chorus]
But if you're givin' all you've got
Then make it good
And if you're 'bout to up, and, walk
I think you should
But if you're gonna let, me, love

[Chorus]
You better step up
Or I'm gonna move on
Never talk short
If you wanna get along
Start holding my hand
While we're driving around
Stop giving directions
In my hometown

I'm back to my old ways again
Thinking we're better off friends
But if you're gonna be with me
Then be with me all the way

(I don't need to make you love me)
(I don't need to make you love me)
(I don't need to make you love me)
(I don't need to make you love me)

You better step up
Or I'm gonna move on
Never talk short
If you wanna get along
Start holding my hand
While we're driving around
Stop giving directions
In my hometown

I'm back to my old ways again
Thinking we're better off friends
But if you're gonna be with me
If you're gonna be with me
Then be with me all the way

Be With Me

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog, Alexander Clayton
Produced by: Wes Rodberg
Mixed by: Wes Rodberg
Mastered by: Sam Rodberg

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
How many times will it take me to see
That running cold and running scared
Are two leaves but they ain't the same damn tree
Both quit, but one don't care

And I wish I'd said or done it right
Put up just one good fight
But it feels like death in the middle of the night
The world spins but it don't end

[Pre-Chorus]
I am scared every evening but I'm alright
Suffocating and breathing at the same time
Life gives me a reason, but there's no rhyme
Don't see or believe it, but I'm sublime

So send me up, I'm rocket fuel I'm flying
Gray clouds, no I'm blue-skying
No first floor but still high rising

[Chorus]
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over
I am sad it's over
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over
(la la la la la)


[Verse 2]
How many times will we talk before you say
What you see when you look at me
There's an unknown lack of focus in your gaze
Tunnel vision to apathy

And I know you know I see it too
The same words that thrill now bore
It's the motions we are walking through
Cuz I've made that face before

[Pre-Chorus]
I am scared every evening but I'm alright
Suffocating and breathing at the same time
Life gives me a reason, but there's no rhyme
Don't see or believe it, but I'm sublime

So send me up, I'm rocket fuel I'm flying
Gray clouds, no I'm blue-skying
No first floor but still high rising

[Chorus]
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over
I am sad it's over
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over
I am sad it's over
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over
I am sad it's over
Somehow my friends all know I am sad it's all over

How Many Times

Stranger (Instrumental)

Scrub (Instrumental)

Kicks (Instrumental)

Hazy (Instrumental)

Easy (Instrumental)

Chaos (Instrumental)

Be With Me (Instrumental)

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Melt
Produced by: Ted Hartog

Sour Candy

Before (demo)

Half and Half

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Ross Collier

Lyrics:

(Intro)
Treat me like a dog with cancer
Take me anywhere

(Verse)
How does it seem now, that every plan I had dreamed out
Was taken in full by this girl scout and pursued ’til the end?
The math is not calculating, neither is she, there ain’t no half-baking
All of the people and places, they keep changing, she’s still my friend

(Pre-chorus)
But love finds a way to make a martyr and you were never hard to defend
I was sure you’d stay, we promised weddings, but everybody gets to pretend
Everybody gets to pretend

(Chorus)
Treat me like a dog with cancer, take me anywhere
I’ve got flowers but I can’t romance her in the plain white kitchen chair
She asks me how her dress looks, she knows I think it looks great
But why’d she have to count down from 10 just to get it in, am I already too late?

(Verse 2)
The mess is all messy now, I’m convinced that my jacket ain’t dressy now
I bought it brand new and you seem to be backing out from when you said it looked good
What do you see that makes you nervous, to tell me you’re done, well how do you word this?
A telephone call vs. the truth of churches is all that you should

(Pre Chorus)
(Chorus)

Cancer Dog

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced/Mixed/Mastered by: Ross Collier

Lyrics:

[Chorus]
All in all she’s misty-eyed
Thundering through a great divide
Buzz words filling up her eyes

Too smart ain’t hard to irritate
Quick wit but nothing good to say
Try to be a Misses Hemingway

[Verse 1]
I wonder what it’s like to be nice
And I’ve been wondering that since ’95
If society takes it’s toll
Where does all the good money go?
My songs never made a difference
I funnel bullshit into my existence
Her thoughts flow like faucets on
Not a drip drip but a waterfall

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I got everyone around me
She’s a biscuit and loneliness surrounds thee
She’s authorized and I’m mesmerized
She’s got glasses on and everybody’s closed their eyes

[Chorus]
All in all she’s misty-eyed
Thundering through a great divide
Buzz words filling up her eyes

Too smart ain’t hard to irritate
Quick wit but nothing good to say
Try to be a Misses Hemingway

[Verse 2]
I wonder what it’s like to live in
The world she’s created, it’s a given
Everybody else has a limit
She’s got no bounds to her own cognition
But nobody is hearing you
Everything you think is number 1 they’ve made it 2
We all know she swam in Walden
Head of ideas mouth does no talking

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I know she read every Genius
Every backstory to explain talk-singing
And all she took was author’s titles
Never did more than emulate her idols

[Chorus]
All in all she’s misty-eyed
Thundering through a great divide
Buzz words filling up her eyes

Too smart ain’t hard to irritate
Quick wit but nothing good to say
Try to be a Misses Hemingway

[Verse 3]
Every reason that I had to go
Was the same as the people I used to know
Looked around and they believed it
Smart slash mean is more convenient
Her bread and butter is Hunter S. Thompson
She knows it all and she quotes it often
It doesn’t matter who when where or why
She’s leveled up, man, reclassified

[Pre-Chorus 3]
What’s the difference if you read well
If you sleep in a mansion or a motel
She believes her life deserves a witness
Smart slash mean well whats the difference?
Smart slash mean well whats the difference?

[Chorus x2]
All in all she’s misty-eyed
Thundering through a great divide
Buzz words filling up her eyes

Too smart ain’t hard to irritate
Quick wit but nothing good to say
Try to be a Misses Hemingway

All in all she’s misty-eyed
Thundering through a great divide
Buzz words filling up her eyes

Too smart ain’t hard to irritate
Quick wit but nothing good to say
Try to be a Misses Hemingway

Hemingway

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Baby, do you think that I could maybe try and make it colder?
Colder than the etched in stone
When I know I just wanna be your best friend
Baby, you'll find the time and place
Well maybe I like the rhyme and taste
Of freedom, on my tongue and in my soul
On the top of that hill where I used to call home
And tell my mom, my pops, and hometown
That maybe I’d come back around

[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe I’d call off the hounds
Maybe I’d live by the downs
Maybe I’d ask how it sounds
And maybe you’d tell me
That you couldn’t bear to see me go home
Well maybe I never left there at all
Excuse me, I'll try not to bump in
To soft subjects while the bass is pumping
And the me is jumping
And I'm gone let me tell you where

[Chorus]
Why do you think that I’m a stranger, to my own damn friends?
Do they believe I want to break her?
Please, I couldn’t make her bend
Darling see that it’s the truth now
And I do now what I should’ve done then
Do you wanna see it through now, the breakdown
And where it begins?
Come on I’ll walk you through that door

[Verse 2]
Ooh I’ll take what I can get, the smaller I feel, the smaller I sit
And the better for you and your cool confidence
(does it make any sense?)
Does it make any sense that I’m drowning?
Does it make sense that the madness surrounding
All that I see, and all that I do
Is all cause of me, I’ll blame it on you

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Does it ever feel like I’ll make it alright, how?
People be coming up telling me I am doing fine
But I want you old friend to make it right now
People be coming up telling me I will get mine
Talking at breakneck speeds, I need you to take your time

[Chorus]
Why do you think that I’m a stranger, to my own damn friends?
Do they believe I want to break her?
Please, I couldn’t make her bend
Darling see that it’s the truth now
And I do now what I should’ve done then
Do you wanna see it through now, the breakdown
And where it begins?
Come on I’ll walk you through that door

Stranger

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
If loving came easy
I wouldn’t make these plans just to feel like you need me
Wouldn’t ask if you’re grieving
You say you miss me I know you’re bleeding

I held the knife with my right hand
Picked out a spot where I know that you ain’t been
This is the second time, you say we’re still friends

Verse 2:
I should’ve told you
That I was headed on out when I hold you
The memory comes back and I’m fidgeting
Go for a walk, when I really like running

I was a bullseye, you a dart
I was a cold boy down with a slow start
You had weak knees, and I had a weak heart

Chorus:
Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do
Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do

Verse 3:
A warm bed ain’t a problem
Boys coming up from the barrel where you called them
It used to feel like I stalled them
Like they caught you at the bottom when I sent you falling

It took less than two weeks
What a sweet song, now what a shit thing
I thought I hated them, they just ain’t me

Verse 4:
I wanna ask your friends how it seems that you’re doing
On my drive to school is full of punk music
Go to loud shows ‘cause you did
People see black Vans doubt that the shoe fits

I’m reading books that we promised
We would do in book club back in August
It’s been a hot year and I’ve been a hot mess

Chorus
Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do
Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do

Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do
Tell me how you do what you do, oh darling
Tell me how you do what you do

Tell Me How

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
My mama promised me that the world isn’t coming back
She nearly gave me a heart attack
I started planning for the times when I’d maybe meet you, try and teach you
All the good shit that I learn when I leave you
Lord knows I’ve tried to understand, the way you fill that space in your empty hand
It ain’t who I ever ever thought I wished to be
And then I severed my forever for some fitful sleep
When I’s a baby, you’s a baby
And I latched onto you in the night for the right to breathe daily
I just asked for the must have, screaming for your love, now I’m screaming out fuck that

[Bridge 1]
I’m a big man and I walk with my shoulders wide
Left the beat cuz my feet got tired
Left the beat cuz my feet got tired
I’m a big man walking with my shoulders wide

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
I’m prouder than I’ve ever been of everything that I could be
The preacher and believer are alive in me
I used to try recreating my history
Another big thing, big swing and a miss for me
Oh I kissed the street where your house is
Missing old me, wishing you’d found him
If I crawled back, would you surround him
Make the same mistake and rebound him, the mountain
The shouting is killing me, do you wanna hear
How your call is the enemy, the headlights, the deer
And the fear is the shit that I don’t like
Do you wanna call me for the love or the limelight

[Bridge 2]
Well I’m a big man and I walk with my shoulders wide
How you gonna tell me where I can and can’t ride
How you gonna tell me where I can and can’t ride
I’m a big man walking with my shoulders wide

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]

Scrub

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Ted Hartog, Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Fight it
Leave it
Call it
Anything you want, but I can't stay
I feel it in my gut, and every day
I get a little more on my plate

I try to find you here
But I can't stop
Answering when the world is calling
Dancing around when it feels like stalling
I'd rather rise up on my own, than fall in love

[Pre-Chorus]
It isn't any different, whenever you leave town
I already know what it feels like here
To never quite know if you'll be back down

It isn't any different
Telling me that you'll be right back
When the ticket from here's in your eye contact
I keep my head bowed from the things I lack

[Chorus]
But love, you always made it sound so easy
Now you make it look so hard
You always said it'd be so easy
Now you make it look so hard

[Verse 2]
Tough, I've always made it more you see
It's just a pattern in my history
My arms are sore the more I squeeze
Help me, help me learn to let it breathe

Enough, you said for me to let it go
Said you don't wanna know the seeds I sew
I said I don't need you to understand the shit I go through
I just want you

But when I'm with you, I already miss you
Whispering four letters til my head hurts when I kiss you
I know you'll never say it until you mean it
But every day I swear that I can see it

[Pre-Chorus]
It wasn't any different, whenever you left town
I already knew what it felt like here
To never quite know if you'd be back down

[Chorus]
Love, you always made it sound so easy
Now you make it look so hard
You always said it'd be so easy
Now you make it look so hard
Love, you always made it sound so easy
Now you make it look so hard
You always said it'd be so easy
Now you make it look so hard

Easy

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
Too crazy, I was reading
Burning my candle bright, cuz it’s right in season
And turning towards my rice-based vice, believing
That it's everything I'll ever need

Who cares, slappa my face, face the baseless
Claims I made to lay waste to the chasing
Re-erasing every tasting I had
Developed on the five slash three

[Pre-Chorus]
Then I see you there, and I become aware
My kicks, my favorite pair, are so inadequate
And then I see you there, and I become aware
My kicks, my favorite pair, of a new graduate


[Chorus]
But you knock me off of my feet
Moving two aisles to see
Everything I need to be
Oh-oh, when I lace em up, I'm better than I was

[Verse 2]
It must have worked
I thank the Lord for the hurt
I’ve made the choice between nerves
And her, the salt of the earth
Blessed be the lonely

For ever waking up
What's real anymore
Another old key to another locked door
Then another false dream and I'm really not sure
What all this risk is with no reward

You see I’m working for my betterment
And I know you typically deal with better men
And after a couple of years of settling, everybody’s meddling
Trying to reconnect me in a way that I have never been

I’m looking for the same thing
A life that needs what I'm making
And the kind of girl who won't change me
And the color laces to save me

[Pre-Chorus]
And then I see you there, and I become aware
My kicks, my favorite pair, are so inadequate
And then I see you there, and I become aware
My kicks, my favorite pair, of a new graduate

[Chorus]
But you knock me off of my feet
Moving two aisles to see
Everything I need to be
Oh-oh, when I lace em up, I'm better than I was
Knockin' me off of my feet
Moving two aisles to see
Everything I need to be
Oh-oh, when I lace em up, I'm better than I was

Kicks

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog, Hunter Mulkey
Produced by: Andrew Conner
Mastered by: Zach Hughes

Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
I’m reminded of the first time
You looked me in the eyes and you said that you weren’t fine
It's rarely just what the season brings
You love the past, the way it feels
To make it last, but when you talk to me
You talk too fast

I know you’re looking to change things
It wouldn’t be as messy baby but you’re just rearranging
There ain’t no trying to fix you up
Or tear you down
I only hope, you stick around
To find your feet, upon the ground

[Chorus]
Ooh yeah baby it feels so good
To tell me just what you need
To never know that you could ask for more
Than you ever received
Ooh yeah baby it feels so good
To tell me just what you need
To never know that you could ask for more
Than you ever received

[Verse 2]
I’m reminded of the first time
You ever talked to me honey
In the way that I wanted to talk with you
It came out like the worst line
And I was honest about it
But I knew that you couldn’t be that way too

Oh it’s never what the season brings
Our love is everlasting
Talking don’t make it easy when it’s just time passing
Telling me what you're needing, baby just ask it
Baby just ask itt

[Chorus]
Ooh yeah baby it feels so good
To tell me just what you need
To never know that you could ask for more
Than you ever received
Ooh yeah baby it feels so good
To tell me just what you need
To never know that you could ask for more
Than you ever received

The First Time

Performed by: Miki Fiki
Written by: Theodore Hartog
Produced by: Wes Rodberg
Mastered by: Sam Rodberg

Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
I wanna give you all my lovin'
But I don't know where it went
I thought I was onto something
Now I don't know what it is
There's a heavy message burning
From the light pollution in the sky
I'm on a mission, I'm yearning
To learn it all before I die

[Chorus]
Maybe you're gone, gone, gone
Maybe you're somewhere else
Maybe I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
Maybe I'm something else
Maybe you're gone, gone, gone
Maybe you're somewhere else
Maybe I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
Maybe I'm something else

[Verse 2]
There is chaos in the front yard
So I broke down like my sidewalk
Do my neighbors hope that I'm alright
When my bedroom light's on all night?
Give me reasons, make it known
That I am my next best self when I'm all alone
I don't test myself, when you call my phone
I just want a green light to feel right at home

[Chorus]
But you're gone, gone, gone
Maybe you're somewhere else
Maybe I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
Maybe I'm something else
Maybe you're gone, gone, gone
Maybe you're somewhere else
Maybe I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
Maybe I'm something else

Chaos

the candle is lit and the pizza is in the oven

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