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For a Thief Who Couldn't Find a Payout

from Hold me close enough to feel me break by Off the Beatnik Path

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Do I look just a bit
Like the things you don’t want to remember?
Printing out counterfeit
In your room without me all November

I gave all that I owe
But I still feel like I am indebted
Isn’t it apropos
How we lived for what we’ve since regretted?

We set it up
And watched it fall
We stood for nothing
But I’m standing tall
So do your worst
But look your best
Drunk on emotion
And barely dressed

Let’s go all the way back down
Let’s go all the way back down

Now I see, now I know
You were in disguise, but had no way out
Feel that strong undertow
For a thief who couldn’t find a payout

Now do you understand?
I was always just a fucking scapegoat
Holding your contraband
Like a child inside a den of cutthroats

We set it up
And watched it fall
We stood for nothing
But I’m standing tall
So do your worst
But look your best
Drunk on emotion
And barely dressed

Let’s go all the way back down
Let’s go all the way back down
Let’s hold on until we drown
Let’s go all the way back down

You’re a mastermind, you’re a wannabe
You’re a Jesus billboard in Tennessee
You’re a cardboard cutout of all the things
You pretend to be, you are nobody

You’re a tightrope walk rich in alcohol
You’re a barrel over a Niagara Falls
You’re a leap of faith on a darkened cliff
You want to make me fall
Oh, but that’s all right

Let’s go all the way back down
Let’s go all the way back down
Let’s hold on until we drown
Let’s go all the way back down

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from Hold me close enough to feel me break, released May 11, 2016
Written by Aaron Schaefer

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals by Aaron Schaefer
Backing vocals by Eilish Waller
Bass guitar by Eric Hickson
Drums by Julien Palmer

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Off the Beatnik Path Toronto, Ontario

Off the Beatnik Path is a folk rock band based in Toronto, Ontario. It was started by Aaron Schaefer, who is also one half of Howl and Other Problems. Off the Beatnik Path operates with the Beatdown Artists Collective.

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