Temporary Homes - Intellectual

[Part 1]

Thanks for letting me stay here, drinking alone at your house

Flick on the TV cause I just need something to care about

It's overcast and drizzling out, I hear the raindrops going

Hurtling down towards the ground, I get the liquor flowing

Hear the bodies going

Feel the bodies going

The inside knowing

I'll never know, where they go

Don't wanna move from the couch, I'm sinking

Just know that there's nothing important I'm missing

"But you're coping, aren't you?"

Bent up over goodbyes, caught myself thinking

'Bout how it's gonna end we'll all stop moving soon

We'll all stop moving soon

And you'll start moving too

Pack up your room and get out

But thanks for lеtting me stick around

We'll all stop moving soon

And you'll start, moving too, moving to

Parts unknown (Detach from whеre those roots have grown)

Parts unknown

And vacate your temporary homes!

Bada da ba ba

Bada da da

[Part 2]

I chose to come around, and I won't be regretting that

Once the people go, they're never coming back to you

I just wanted to tell you-

Thanks for letting me stay here, drinking

Do you see the posters on light posts, feels like somebody's missing

You're just trying to cope

But no one ever told you that it inspired hope

I never chose to feel like this

But it's a natural consequence of what's been going on

They're singing their swan song

But this is the place where I chose to exist

So say it again

"I won't be regretting this"

You're just trying to cope

And I'm just trying to cope

But no one ever told you that it inspired hope

It might not

You're just trying to cope

And I'm just trying to cope

But no one ever told you that it inspired hope

That it inspired hope

[Part 3]

"I-I would put a solo here, but I haven't done that yet. I'll do it eventually."

Third wheeling's really not that cool, I think

But on a trike you never really have to think

About balance or stabilization

All that you need to stay upright

So sitting in the backseat of your car, I think

The third wheeling, I will tolerate this week

Just glad I'm not a unicyclist

Circus performer, or juggling act

I'd fall alright

When the tears fall from my eyes

Might even feel nice for a moment

I love you but plantonically, I guess

It's kinda hard to separate them in my head

But I will follow you beyond the end, way past these dimming lights

There's probably projection on my part, I guess

I just wish I was as happy as you seemed then

But you still wanted me here-

That's why you sent me the invite, right?

So I'll take your invite

I'll take your invite

I'll take the invite, I'll take the invite

Thanks for the invite

Don't look me in the eye (ugh)

Am I dimming your sunlight?

But you extended the invite

So I'll take what I can, right?

[Part 4]

Permanence, impermanence

Haven't you ever heard of it?

Permanent, nothings permanent

People, friendships, dorm rooms

Sing to me while I steel myself

I love you but you're soon to go

Moving to parts unknown

Parts unknown

Vacate your temporary homes

But how can I do what humans do?

How can I do what humans do?

Feels wrong inside and outside too

How can I do what humans do?

I'm missing someone but I'm just not sure who yet

How can I do what humans do?

How can I do what humans do

I even know what animals do?

How can I do what humans do?

Did you?

Ben and Andrew, I'm a big fan of your work

I just wanted to let you know

The kids

Are trying not to be so haunted anymore

We're trying to seize control

Just trying to fill the hole

Take everything we can from him

We're trying to feel okay

Just taking it day by day

Just trying to make it out alive

They're lining up for a reason

And everybody's just screaming out loud: "where have you been?"

[Part 5]

I'm just trying to find truth

In the things the real people do

I'm still hoping to feel new

Crying in my dorm room

But I'll miss

When we were wondering how to come up with metaphors

Falling on axes, walking through the wrong doors

Feeling everything walking through the food court

Tripping up stairwells or falling straight through the floor

Tearful goodbyes we don't want to prolong

People you only hope will come along

To the end of the song

If the future proves my choices wrong

I can at least say I tried to stay strong

Cause we're falling on axes and walking through doors

Tripping up stairwells or falling straight through the floor

(They're tearing the walls down, of the house you grew up in, the house we grew up in, that you let me stay in )

Choking on phrasing and getting so bored

Hiding in our rooms afraid of asking for more

(They're tearing the walls down to make room for whoever's next)

Falling on axes and stumbling through doors

Watching movies in dark rooms and cold nights on the floor

(To inhabit these walls, to say that they grow up in

The place that you stayed in your last year before rent)

It permeates me right down to my core

But I'm promising you that I won't be scared anymore

(They're making sure you'll never be invited back inside there)

Bada da da

Hope to see you anyway

Know I'll miss it any day

To you, from me, forever hoping