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Let’s try to capture the uncapturable
I wanna see you feeling vulnerable
Let’s not pretend I know the real you at all
You’ve only showed me what you wanted to show
And you only told me what you want me to know
And I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you at all, at all
Tell me why I feel alive

Tell me why I feel alive when I’m standing outside
I just need to keep my eyes wide open all the time

So if I could, I wanna see you beyond the glass we often speak through
Open your eyes, you can see what we sleep through, every night we’re alive
So if I could, I wanna see you every night we’re alive
So if you could just open your eyes

And tell me why I feel alive when I’m standing outside
I just need to keep my eyes wide open all the time
And tell me why I feel alive when I’m standing outside
I just need to keep my eyes wide open all the time

Tonight, I lie awake without you here beneath the sky
Convinced it’s not enough to hold your picture close to get me by
But I’ll try to reason with the lives we lead and compromise
I’ll start to close my eyes

Tell me why I feel alive when I’m standing outside
I just need to keep my eyes wide open all the time

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from Who You Pretend To Be, released September 17, 2021

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Post Prom Buffalo, New York

Post Prom are a five-piece American rock band from Buffalo, NY. The band formed in 2017 from a collection of punk-inspired coffee nerds who met attending shows in college town basements and dive bars, and who all just couldn’t get enough Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind, and Gin Blossoms. Their unique brand fuses 2000s pop punk vocal stylings and 90s alt rock guitar riffs ... more

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