Choke
from Tough Love by Chief State
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumTrack listing:
1. Try Hard
2. Deciduous
3. Reprise
4. Something Good For Once
5. Biding Time
6. Choke
7. Peace Of Mind
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lyrics
I can’t imagine what you’re going through after all this time
I feel shit for what I did to you that night.
Even now in this crowd I feel all alone, I never thought that it would go this far
Because the truth is that I don’t remember where, where I end and you start.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
Let it out, all the doubt that’s been bothering you
Before it starts to consume you.
I’ll be here, so austere, with all my fear
In hopes you’ll learn to forgive me.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
The day I met you sometimes plays in my head, a feeling I won't forget.
And now it seems we think lesser but we'll stick together because it will get better.
Yea it will get better in spite of the worsening weather
We’ve suffered through much more, still feel the words that left us sore.
As we pass through shade it’s brighter than before.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
I can’t take much more of this torment, it seems it won’t relent
So we suffer and then resent.
We’re too far past to decompress, don’t need to second guess
These feelings that have been suppressed.
I wish we took the time to realign ourselves
Because we went over it but it went over our heads.
I wish that I could fix this mess.
I’ll go and choke on my words, I’ll go and choke.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around
I feel shit for what I did to you that night.
Even now in this crowd I feel all alone, I never thought that it would go this far
Because the truth is that I don’t remember where, where I end and you start.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
Let it out, all the doubt that’s been bothering you
Before it starts to consume you.
I’ll be here, so austere, with all my fear
In hopes you’ll learn to forgive me.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
The day I met you sometimes plays in my head, a feeling I won't forget.
And now it seems we think lesser but we'll stick together because it will get better.
Yea it will get better in spite of the worsening weather
We’ve suffered through much more, still feel the words that left us sore.
As we pass through shade it’s brighter than before.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around.
I can’t take much more of this torment, it seems it won’t relent
So we suffer and then resent.
We’re too far past to decompress, don’t need to second guess
These feelings that have been suppressed.
I wish we took the time to realign ourselves
Because we went over it but it went over our heads.
I wish that I could fix this mess.
I’ll go and choke on my words, I’ll go and choke.
I’ll go and choke on my words
Hope I will start learning because I’m sick of running.
So forget what you heard
Because when life kicks you down I’ll always be around
credits
from Tough Love,
released March 27, 2020
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Chief State Vancouver, British Columbia
Rain Drenched Pop Punk from Vancouver, Canada
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