The healing power of wordsin lyrics and in life

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foreign

i get so deep in my own head

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an endless pit in my own bay

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up with these made-up fears

i draw myself and made up tears

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you say that this is ending here

i hold you and i disappear

i disappear

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i disappear

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let me hold you like

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you say call me my koala let me

hold you like gotta

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some nights feel like a heavy load

a ticking clock and i explode

the words get caught up in my throat

you give me space but keep me closed

sometimes the voices get so loud

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so loud like six feet underground

i wake up on the battleground

scared that i won’t make it out make it

out

god what if no one remembers we’re here

bones turned to dust is the last

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let me hold you like

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i disappeared

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would i lie to you you say

call me my koala let me hold you like

i say i’m a wreck i’m a crazy mess

you say call me my koala let me

hold you like

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we are fortunate to hear from our

listeners how our words

help them get through high school or get

over a heartbreak

so we spend a lot of time searching for

authentic lyrics

yet in our own story we forgot about the

healing

power of words and the words that we

used almost cost us our dreams

we started out as two awkward kids

learning how to navigate life on tour

with a pile of instruments

thrown in the back of a 15 passenger van

several years into our music career my

sister unexpectedly received an

opportunity to compete

on a reality tv show and it set us on

different paths

for the first time we felt jealous

and competitive and then lonely

and lost so i quit the band and we

barely spoke to each other for five

years

i started to notice the words i used to

describe that dark part of our history

together

i referred to our band’s past as our

band

drama and i would say things like

i’m a jealous person or i’m a bad person

for reacting the way i did i carelessly

threw around these

damaging words and they kept me stuck

in a painful past but then i thought

about the care we used when we write

songs

and i decided to try and heal our

relationship

instead of referring to our band’s past

as our banned

drama i say we went through a hard time

but we figured it out and now we

appreciate

every opportunity because we know it’s

not going to be forever

instead of saying i’m a bad person

i say look i made a mistake

how can i grow and move forward

we spent some time growing into our own

autonomy but ultimately we missed the

road and that smelly

15 passenger van

we went to sister therapy we learned how

to say

i’m sorry

and i love you and we are still working

on our

relationship but our new words did make

us feel better

and are the inspiration behind this next

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song

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dear heart

are you ever coming back to me

did you ever notice how i need you

now to experience the things i see

dear heart

i know you’re hiding out somewhere

i’m feeling up without someone to

tell me that i’m still enough

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show me which way to go

tell me it gets easier

i’m scared i’ll lose control

can we go back to the way we

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were

dear heart

hey friend

i know you’re feeling incomplete

i wish i knew just what you need cause

when you’re

hurting i can feel how deep hey

friend

i promise i won’t fix

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show me which way to go

tell me it gets easier

i’m scared i’ll lose control

can we go back to the way we

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were

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don’t give

don’t give up on me

i’m still

i’m still pulling myself together

i need

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i need time to breathe

don’t give up on me

show me which way to go

tell me it gets easier

i’m scared i’ll lose control

can we go back to the way we

were high

all they used to make you bittersweet

and you’re not as quick to trust what

looks like love

cause the last time they left both of

us

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you