Released: October 12, 2016
Songwriter: Evan Stephens Hall
Producer: Cavetown
Walking outside labyrinthine
Over cracks along under the trees
I know this town grounded in a compass
Cardinal landing in the dogwood
I keep going over it over and over
My steps iterate my shame
How come every outcome's such a comedown?
Lately afternoon with the shades drawn down
I kept saying I just wanted to see you
Saying, "What's wrong with that?"
Needles shaking outlines in a compass
Every outcome's such a comedown
[Chorus 1]
I knew it when I saw it
So I did just what I wanted
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
I saw your boyfriend at the port authority
It's a sort of fucked up place
Well so I averted my stride on a quick one
He's coming back from going over to your place, huh?
I feel like I could forget about it
I feel like I could mellow out
I don't feel undone in a big way
There's nothing really bad to be upset about
But when I thought I was getting better
I woke up on the ground
An appointment or disappointment
A setback, oh, another comedown
[Chorus 2]
As if I needed a reminder
Oh, I do only what I want to
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
Walking out in the nighttime springtime
Needling my way home
I saw Leah on the bus a few months ago
I saw some old friends at her funeral
My steps keep splitting my grief
Through these solipsistic moods
I should call my parents when I think of them
Should tell my friends when I love them
Maybe I should have gone out a bit more
When you guys were still in town
I got too caught up in my own shit
It's how every outcome's such a comedown
[Chorus 3]
And I knew it when I saw it
Oh, I did just what I wanted
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
Over cracks along under the trees
I know this town grounded in a compass
Cardinal landing in the dogwood
I keep going over it over and over
My steps iterate my shame
How come every outcome's such a comedown?
Lately afternoon with the shades drawn down
I kept saying I just wanted to see you
Saying, "What's wrong with that?"
Needles shaking outlines in a compass
Every outcome's such a comedown
[Chorus 1]
I knew it when I saw it
So I did just what I wanted
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
I saw your boyfriend at the port authority
It's a sort of fucked up place
Well so I averted my stride on a quick one
He's coming back from going over to your place, huh?
I feel like I could forget about it
I feel like I could mellow out
I don't feel undone in a big way
There's nothing really bad to be upset about
But when I thought I was getting better
I woke up on the ground
An appointment or disappointment
A setback, oh, another comedown
[Chorus 2]
As if I needed a reminder
Oh, I do only what I want to
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
Walking out in the nighttime springtime
Needling my way home
I saw Leah on the bus a few months ago
I saw some old friends at her funeral
My steps keep splitting my grief
Through these solipsistic moods
I should call my parents when I think of them
Should tell my friends when I love them
Maybe I should have gone out a bit more
When you guys were still in town
I got too caught up in my own shit
It's how every outcome's such a comedown
[Chorus 3]
And I knew it when I saw it
Oh, I did just what I wanted
So I go through with this
I knew happiness when I saw it
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- Demons – Joji
- Can’t Get It Out – Brand New
- Drop The Guillotine – Peach Pit
- Bobby – (Sandy) Alex G
- I Know A Place - Conan Gray
- Dave’s Song - Whitney (w/ Sam Goater)
- Congratulations - Post Malone
- Just Fine - Spookyghostboy
- Will He – Joji
- So Much More Than This – Grace Vanderwaal
- Frankie Cosmos - Outside with the Cuties
- Joji – Slow Dancing in the Dark (w/ Simi)
- Impostor Syndrome - Sidney Gish
- (Sandy) Alex G – Brite Boy (w/ Tom)
- Post Malone – Stay
- Best Friend (Cover)
- all the lonely nights in your life
- Drew Monson – To Hold Amber
- Two Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
- Switch - Ugly
- Piece of my heart - Spookyghostboy
- You’re my Waterloo - The Libertines
- Love yourself - Justin Bieber
- Tear in My Heart - Twenty One Pilots
- Small Bump - Ed Sheeran
- The Judge - Twenty one pilots
- House of Gold - Twenty one pilots
- I can’t help falling in love with you - Elvis Presley
- I’m low on gas and you need a jacket - Pierce the Veil
- Jesus Christ - Brand New
- Rosa Dear - Ruth
- We found two dead swans - Teen Suicide
- C U Around - PWR BTTM
- Old friends - Pinegrove
- Aphasia - Pinegrove
- Thinking out loud - Ed Sheeran
- Floral and Fading - Pierce the Veil
- New Friends - Pinegrove
- Slowtown - Twenty one pilots
- Alex G - Sarah (Cover)
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