ALEX WHORMS - DAYLIGHT CHASING DUSK

YOUNGER SELF

Cloudy inkwells, twenty years to brood about
Tipping bottles, blurred up memories bleedin’ out
She had skin like paper, didn’t know how to stand up for herself
Livin in this whole new chapter, you could spend all night tryin’ to
spell her out

What do you write in a letter to your younger self?

Scaling models covers racing off of shelves
She logged miles on the treadmill of self-doubt,
Spiral-bound the story, swallowed copy outta manuals
One day you decided you’d stop dyin to be somebody else

What do you write in a letter to your younger self,
Write a letter to your younger self
What do you write in a letter to your younger self?

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WRONG

That sting of rain
Every sunny day, I can take it
Dry my face
In the morning and just embrace it

I’m so tired of lying,
Tired of hiding tears behind my eyes

I can’t help the way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right
And I don’t feel inspired to come into the light, yeah
I don’t want an answer, I don’t need to fight
The way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right, yeah
Wrong just feels so right

It’s their mistake,
Let ‘em say I’m a soul to save
I’ll keep my pain, thanks,
I’m ready to bear its weight

Because I’ve given up tryin’
To see a silver lining in my washed out sky

And I can’t help the way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right
And I don’t feel inspired to come into the light, yeah
I don’t want an answer, I don’t need to fight
the way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right, yeah
Wrong just feels so right, yeah
Wrong just feels so right

No more waning fake smiles, no more keepin’ it all in
Just to drown in the dawn, playing girl optimist
Oh no more saying I’m fine, no more lying by omission
no, I’ve got to be real, so someone knows I exist

I can’t help the way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right
And I don’t feel inspired to come into the light, yeah
I don’t want an answer, I don’t need to fight
The way I feel this time

Can’t help the way I feel this time
Wrong just feels so right
And I don’t feel inspired to come into the light, yeah
I don’t want an answer, I don’t need to fight
The way I feel this time

Wrong just feels so right, yeah
Wrong just feels so right, yeah
Wrong just feels so right
Wrong just feels so right

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WISH

Past midnight on a Saturday, at
Our old place on the subway line
In the mirror, painting on your lip stain, you
Told me you met a guy

That smile shot across your face like
You couldn’t’ve stopped it if you tried
What I couldn't bring myself to say then,
I still imagine all the time

You and I are always on my mind
Something in me shatters every time I realise
I was never close enough
Like daylight chasing dusk
I wish you wanted me
Never could get over us
I should have spoken up
I wish you wanted me

Cold coffee, middle of the day at
Your new house in the countryside
When we’re laughing and I know you’re happy
Yeah I know how he treats you right,
These words still burnin in my brain are thinkin
My God, if I was blind
Then I might finally say them
Each time I tell you goodbye
You and I are always on my mind,
You and I are always on my mind

I was never close enough
Like daylight chasing dusk
I wish you wanted me
Never could get over us
I should have spoken up
I wish you wanted me
I wish you wanted me

There’s a hundred perfect stories you don’t get to hear out loud
Cause l’ll never stop conjuring starlit memories of ourselves
And your breath against my body, would you wake up to me now
that time has taught me to be proud?

I was never close enough
Like daylight chasing dusk
I wish you wanted me
Never could get over us
I should have spoken up
I wish you wanted me
I wish you wanted me
I wish you wanted me

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STAY

Do I owe you an apology
For loving you the way you couldn’t love me,
Pulling you to safety
When what you really wanted was for me to let you sink?

It’s your prerogative, wear yourself so thin
Your right to let your hope fade
And when your sad blue eyes capsize again,
Ask why you wanna live that way

Why you gotta give up so easy
Run, run running away
Why you gotta let go and leave me
Beg beg begging you,

Stay,
Stay

I thought that we were in it deep
Held you heavy in my chest like concrete
I know you saw through me
Needing someone you’d forgotten how to be

It’s your prerogative not to let me in
Your decision not to want me,
chase the storm, not swim, feel the salt burn your skin and
Forgive me cause I don’t see

Why you gotta give up so easy
Run, run running away
Why you gotta let go and leave me
Beg beg begging you,...

Why you gotta give up so easy
Why you gotta give up so easy
Oh, why you gotta give up so easy?

Why you gotta let go and leave me
Beg, beg begging you
Stay

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THE WAY

Minerals and vitamins
In the kitchen cabinets,
Scribbled affirmations on a whiteboard
Got myself a therapist,
A locker at the local gym,
Mind map in my journal till I get bored

Every single day that I wake up
Try to show the world that I’m okay but
Swear I’m trying everything,
Following the recipe,
Tell me why it tastes like cardboard

You’re what I’m missing,
All words, no music,
Can’t rewrite history, and
I can’t relive it
You were the real thing, that one key ingredient
There ain’t anyone or anything
Make me feel the way that you did

Idle in the parking lot
Lookin’ in that restaurant
Always let us stay past closing
I can still imagine us,
Greeting all the customers
Acting like we owned the building

Now every single day that I show up
Empty chested looking for my lost heart
Livin in your epilogue,
Coffee when dessert is done,
Sugar in my cup don’t taste so sweet

You’re what I’m missing,
all words, no music,
Can’t rewrite history, and I can’t relive it
You were the real thing, that one key ingredient
There ain’t anyone or anything
Make me feel the way that you did

There’s gotta be some other high
Then the way you made me feel alive
Every disappointment feels like
Life serving up lemons and
You would have made em into lemonade by now

You’re what I’m missing,
All words, no music
Can’t rewrite history, and
I can’t relive it
You were the real thing, that one key ingredient
There ain’t anyone or anything
Make me feel the way that you did

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PRODUCTION NOTES

Music by Alex Whorms

Produced by Michael Keire and Thomas Hammerton

Recorded and Mixed by Michael Keire at Threshold Recording Studio

Mastered by Brian Lucey

Vocals and Piano by Alex Whorms

Keyboards by Thomas Hammerton

Guitars by Nick Zubeck

Bass by Anna Ruddick

Drums (track 1) by Michael Keire

Drums (tracks 2-5) by Levi Kertosz

Photography by Ruth Chan

Logo by Madeline Czukar

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