Released on August 27, 2010

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[Verse 1]

Wizard, do you think you can remember what I did with my old mind?

You look around and you say, "Brother, give it time"

You look around and you say, "Wait a second, wait"

But right above my clavicle, the world becomes so laughably old

It's like I've been here for a decade on my own

You said, "It's been a decade and I had enough"

And beaches strewn with pulpits and ohms

Where the cross is like a spark among your loam

I believe there is a wall, a line of stone by the river

And though we share a tongue, we can't recount it into words

You cannot spill a vault entirely into verbs

I never meant to make you live it all again


[Chorus]

I'm thinking 'bout the relative ways

That all I do is age

And buried, there's a version of me hurting and I'm letting him down

I wanna go, I wanna go home

I can't let this one go

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey


[Verse 2]

Wizard, I've been following a colour but you had to spit it out

You said, "I never have a fear or a doubt

My world is smaller now but everything is near"

And maybe we could rub off every bit of us and store it in a tank

I whisper, "How much will they pay at BioBank?"

You, sighing, "Tissue from the youth of yesteryear?"

And bludgeons flailing arcs form a queue

I'm a coward, I'm a devil, I'm a fool

But I never understand the weight of all, all life decisions

Wizard, I been thinking 'bout the magic that you said would here prevail

And I felt it when they left you and I failed

And yes, I wanna be there when you die


[Chorus]

I'm breathing for the moment alone

My early self unknown

The silences that follow you won't always be the hollow I filled, hey

It's easily the best thing I've done

So why the empty numb?

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey

I'm thinking 'bout the relative ways

That all I do is age

Buried, there's a version of me hurting and I'm letting him down

Hey, I'm in descent, hey

I wanna go, I wanna go home

I can't let this one go

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey, hey

Thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey


[Outro]

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the... solved, no solved

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey, hey, oh oh, hey

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, ah, ah-ah

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved, hey, hey

I'm thinking 'bout my problems and the way that they will never be solved

I'm thinking 'bout my problems...

““How much will they pay at BioBank?””
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The UK Biobank is a long term study investigating genetic components of disease.

“The silences that follow you won’t always be the hollow I filled, hey”
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The “wizard” (perhaps the narrators own inner self) is telling the narrator that his pain won’t always be from loss of a particular person, that he will move on but still experience new pain and loss in life