Cape Fervor

who died and made you capable of everything?
you could be the captain of a football team.
why’d you have to saturate the market more?
juvenile, but you got a sold out tour.

bitter cause it happened for you just like that,
i’m still having trouble getting on the map.
raced you to the finish, but i came in last.
i can’t even hate it cause the song still slaps.

jealous everybody seems to know your name,
jealous of the record that you made in la,
jealous of the girl you get to come home to.
don’t know what it is, but i’m infatuated with you.

hate that our music sorta sounds the same.
wish i didn’t hate you for your lucky break,
but you get opportunities that i just can’t.
i’m still hanging wishes on a bamboo branch

hoping that one day they come true,
but it’ll never happen cause i told you.

how is my calligraphy?
blowing in the summer breeze,
wrote it on a slip of paper:
make me into something greater;

cause you got everything you wanted,
blazing into action like a comet.
well, i’m not man enough to face it,
following a constellation.

if only luck was on my side,
making music wouldn’t feel like such a waste of time;
and you’re on my mind 24/7, envious of how you shine.

so tell me that isn’t rigged.
i just wanna make it big.
does any of it mean a thing
if nobody’s listening?

jealous that you’re doing something with you’re life,
jealous of the following you have online,
jealous of the girl you get to come home to.
don’t know what it is, but i’m infatuated with you.

hate that our music sorta sounds the same.
wish i didn’t hate you for your lucky break,
but you get opportunities that i just can’t.
i’m still hanging wishes on a bamboo branch

hoping that one day they come true,
but it’ll never happen cause i told you.




tanzaku

striking,
so beguiling.
he's a siren,
i'm a viking
and i'm swimming in the deep.
i could really get lost

and if it's meant to be,
joey wouldn't be tugging at my feet,
dragging me down to the bottom of the bermuda.
i ignore all of it just so he'll show me some love.

if he's gonna leave,
i would go where he goes.
if he's overseas,
i would build a rowboat.
i would take the fall
so he's never lonely.
anything at all,
i'd do it all just for joey.

hang up his excuses.
line them up and pin them to the kitchen fridge
and i always keep them as reminders,

but they never stick.
joey knows that we should call it quits,
dragging me down to the bottom.
i'm still gonna show up.
it doesn't matter.
i'll stay regardless of what he does.

if he's gonna leave,
i would go where he goes.
if he's overseas,
i would build a rowboat.
i would take the fall
so he's never lonely.
anything at all,
i'd do it all just for joey.

just for joey

thought of you the whole way home,
wished you luck before the show,
tugging on a wishbone.
i'm so careful not to let you know.

heard you on the radio,
shirtless in that video,
peeking through a telescope.
i'm so careful not to get too close.

i asked you out and then i did it over again
and for a year i was kissing up to all of your friends.
i think about it now and its embarrassing.
i'm never over it, i'm never over it.
i'm never over it.

angel numbers, warning signs,
actors tell the greatest lies
and you were so phenomenal.
i just wish we never got so close.

wishbone

scorpio,
you're mia.
well, i'm no cheapskate.
i'll give you space, but it drives me crazy.

how do i go about my day?
i can't think straight.
i'm so fixated on my baby.

i'm sure you'll tell me all about it,
but it's raining in the roanoke rapids.
you're bound to get a bit distracted.
just fill me in,
tell me what happens.

i'm waiting patiently
till you return to me.

blowing up your phone last week,
i know you need autonomy.
i just get lonely.

if there wasn't a hurricane,
i'd leave right now and drive on down and take you bowling.

i'm sure you'd throw a fit about it.
the crime rate in the roanoke rapids
is bound to make you feel protective.
just fill me in,
tell me what happens.

i check in frequently
till you return to me.

all i can do is wonder where your head is at
when you're off of the grid.
i shouldn't even have to ask,
but i bet you'll avoid the question.
do you even like me?
you forgot to mention.

waiting for you like responding is a chore,
doing just enough to keep me coming back for more,
but it makes me feel like such a loser.
you still got me wrapped around your finger.

it's the charity cases that i love
and so of course i would chase after jacob
and while he's stoned at a rave,
i'll be the one to keep on calling his name.
no one picks up

and what kills me the most,
i never learn.
i just wait by the phone
and hope he returns.

return to me

carefree,
sticking your head through the ceiling,
blinded by streetlights in nashville.

a-team,
all of you met at a party.
down by the beach, i'm on standstill.

never said i wanna live like i'm in a movie,
half the time i barely know what i'm even doing.
i just wanna be cool like you.

levitating off the ground underneath my cold feet,
i just hover from above looking at the city.
i just wanna be cool like you.

debut,
everyone cheered at the venue.
i watch from up in the nosebleeds.

you take the lead and you score for the whole team,
i kick the ball, but it always gets blocked by the goalie.
look at you shimmer and spin like a beyblade.
i couldn't do it. i'm too prone to making a mistake.

never said i wanna live like i'm in a movie,
half the time i barely know what i'm even doing.
i just wanna be cool like you.

levitating off the ground underneath my cold feet,
i just hover from above looking at the city.
i just wanna be cool like you.

cool like you

it was never a matter of if, it was when.
i could tell by the way he bragged about me to his friends.
he could teach a masterclass in affirmation,
swearing he's crazier about me than i am for him.
"i didn't quite catch that.
can you say it again?"

i never thought it could be so easy,
but when i am lost he reassures me.
think i met someone i can trust to catch me.
when i'm falling deep,
it's comfortably.

carolina boy,
carolina boy,
carolina boy

cool like you

Martyr Crown