Act Natural (Keep Your Composure)

from There Are Roadmaps In Our Veins by The Breaking Pattern

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I can’t be held responsible for my actions on this night
If I could take it all back I’d have stayed home locked up inside
Guess I’ll just be getting drunk in the kitchen with my friends
Far away from the site of you with him

Oh how I hate how my throat begins to sink
When you walk into the room with him (whoa oh)
Someone tear me away I cannot bear to see this
Pretending not to be phased but I’m shaking violently

It’s another lesson in self-control
It’s another lesson that I wish I never had to learn
It’s another bullshit night I lie awake in suck city
It’s another sleepless night I die a little while you look pretty

Keep your composure, it’s almost over
No don’t let them see you

(you are the liquor that I can’t get out of my system
You are a cancer that I can’t cut deep enough to kill
You’re not the burning bush I once thought that my god could speak from
You’re just the weed that sucks the life until the garden dries up)

Keep your composure, until the garden dries up

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from There Are Roadmaps In Our Veins, released April 8, 2016

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The Breaking Pattern Phoenix, Arizona

The Breaking Pattern finds a balance between melodic ambience and an intensity derived from today’s modern indie rock. Fueled by flowery, introspective lyrics, the music creates an excitingly imaginative, atmospheric pop genre.

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