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Ghost Cities
08:28
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We're drinking in the last dregs
We've raped the land, sky, and sea.
If you want to eat you'll serve our greed
Cake for all until no mouths can speak
Dead air, burn my lungs, eyes sting, slowly suffocating
If we, could, go back in time and see the clear blue skylines before they were wiped away like fog from glass, just gone one day
Speak to me, of days long past, of verdant greens and deep blue seas, and starlit plains that stretch for days or the lost sounds of children at play.
Father how were we so blind, were there not signs? The bold headlines? Increased divides? Public outcry?
As forests burn, they preach the word, so unconcerned.
And laugh as the ashes fall at dawn, that we choke on
Baiting our protest just to say we we're the ones to blame
Hold me close for the time that's left
Searching the same gray skies, for signs
this nightmare will end
Walk with me through empty streets
Roaming the ghost cities as dusk falls on who we used to be
Sit with me as fires peak, embers of our history, just float away on the toxic breeze
Where's your god now?
It's a fine time for him to show up now
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Spit In My Third Eye
06:21
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May I ask for no restraint?
Don't stop if I scream
Deliver me to the shores of absolute pain
Throw me in and watch me drown
Ahe water in my throat
Until I swallow it down
And quench my thirst
There's just no other way
Burn me down
Strike the match fan the flames
And let me suffer
Until I break
How can I express my gratitude?
With each cut I grow stronger,
I pray more trials loom
I beg you, don't leave in comfort
Instead salt my wounds
And when I cry and ask for mercy
Just spit in my eye
There's just no other way
Burn me down
Strike the match fan the flames
And let me suffer
Until I break
Subject me to demoralizing defeats
Laugh in my face
Take everything i thought I needed
And then take more
Take it all
Cut off my face and use it to masturbate
Bring the climax of devastation
Dismantle me in one breath
Take pleasure in leaving me bereft
And when there's nothing left to break in me
We'll find the truth we've been missing
And when there's nothing left to hide what's real
We'll step right into what we should have been
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3. |
Gottfried All Night
07:26
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You've got something to say about all the things
And you're quick to voice what is wrong from your small perspective
And you're so loud, it's sharp nails and chalkboards and Gottfried all night
You foment, let's keep that conflict strong for one more night
Blurring the facts, its cleverness bought on the cheap
Stirring the pot, just keep ratcheting up the heat
Maybe you appear strong to the unaware
But I see the child inside, so frail and scared
Pushing beyond your thin skin we find the heart within
Covered in scar, barbwire, chains, on alert to defend, we reach in
You're bothered, there's something you don't like and we all must know
Your beds made, but please tell us how you hate what you've chose
And you're too loud, your banging the drums in a library isle
You're so proud, you've caught our attention, though we choke on bile
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4. |
Little Deaths
10:36
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Let the ocean carry him out to the depths for the tide break
And when the morning casts its colors to hurry away the rake of nightmares
All is well in name, but in your chest, it’s not the same
And there’s something strange about this burden and the cobwebs throughout
This kneeling silence pulling like weight on the wing
They’re plucking the feathers right out, muting the ones who would sing
Now there’s a candle lit window, or a distant howl of a dog
A mother who covets a hollow chest, a boy’s faint lilting call
Here in the darkness they’re moving, like an old man forgetting
The sunlight filters through the rain, we’re watching the cloudlets dissolve
It's a death wish Sunday
Can’t stay awake
Red shot eyes
I fell hypnotized
Let the cold wind find him buried away from the din and claw of roaming bones
And when the evening blankets day, to usher the star shine down upon your skin
There’s a glow in the west, rolling jade, it whispers your name
And there’s something strange about this longing and the calor in which we burn
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Pawns, Rooks & Kings
09:23
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How we long for a change
To end the fight and open the gates
But with fear as our guide, we can’t help but stab with the knife
We can’t help it
Wisdom follows pain
Yield to the heat of the flames
You can’t know strength without
a weight to bear you down
And it’s all part of the game
You can’t simply choose not to play
There’s no escape
From the start it’s checkmate
Be it a pawn, rook, or king, we’re all dying
The peeling gray skin
The bones are so thin
All turns to dust in time
How we crave to see it burn
To step bare feet in the ash
Breathe it in and laugh out loud
Walk away and start again
We will walk away
Wisdom follows...
Bring on the dust to suffocate, bury everything
I invoke/invite/Summon flames to burn away, every that we've made
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Light Behind The Clouds
07:40
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There's something hidden
A light behind the clouds
It's something ancient
Something rarified and patient
It's under the surface
It's in the silences
It moves in the darkness
It speaks without the need of talking
But you see it in the morning sun
And you hear it in the ocean waves
You feel the heat inside your veins
But you turn away all the same, don't you?
What will it take you reach you?
What will it take to shake you up?
You've had all the pain and youve known the answers all along, it's been inside
It's in the spaces
It's in the in Between
It's on the cold breeze
It's in the starlight and your eyes
It's everything
It's me, it's you, it's all this
Still it's nothing
We're all a part of it and we're dreaming
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Frameworks
07:48
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I have paid a heavy price
For ignoring who I am
Now you won't catch me again
Forgetting myself, losing myself
Twisting and contorting my shape
To fit a framework
That was never meant for me out of some misplaced duty
I would lie to myself, about myself
It buzzes frantic in my head
And it reeks havoc in my chest
It's all teeth and clawing its way out
And leaving me in shreds
There's no escaping its power
You either open or die
There's no denying it's presence
When it descends tonight
The audacity to ignore
To piss on, to hide from
The living breath of the divine
Coursing through you, animate you
The arrogant child, the broken man
The lost boy
The vacant stares and losing touch
Becoming void
It buzzes frantic in my head
And it reeks havoc in my chest
It's all teeth and clawing its way out
And leaving me in shreds
There's no escaping its power
You either open or die
There's no denying it's presence
When it descends tonight
And now it’s here
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Superposition
06:24
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You like your chains, the blunt caress, it’s comfort
No movement, no struggle, just consent
You’re easy prey, your simple mind, you just buy in
No questions, just answers, it's all their words
They tug and work your strings, make you dance, make you sing
Your tongue is theirs to use, you've been seduced, welcome to the loss of you
Their hooks in you, reel you in, you’ve no defense
Good parrot, vacant mime, automaton
How they own you, how they mold you, you move on cue
No substance, no real thought, just an echo
They tug and work your strings, make you dance, make you sing
Your tongue is theirs to use, you've been seduced, welcome to the loss of you
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Nightflyers
05:56
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Hidden under the daily noise
Is the voice of your true self, buried
Overshadowed and long ignored in lieu of trinkets and comfort
But that can't last long as trinkets rust, and comfort becomes walls
they're too high now and you can't climb, you've grown weak with shallow vices
Haunting whispers in the dark
There's something you've forgot, something you've lost
There's a sense of longing in your heart
For something vague, something unmarred
Carve up your insides for their golden plates
And drain your blood for their chalice
Appease your masters with your very self and give thanks for the opportunity
Its time to take that step you've feared
Off the ledge into the night
It's time to fly away my dear
Into the waiting atmosphere
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