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Afterglow
03:55
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Sharpen teeth or sink beneath it
I’ve been stuck here before
Should I go or should I stay
I can’t think straight anymore
Within this frame defined
Turn blue to grey in time
I’ll just end up being silent because my words don’t mean a thing
Why should I take all the blame when I’m just hanging by a string
Taking time to think it over while my heart is checking in
It’s a game of keeping secrets that I’m never going to win
Transparency’s apparent swings
Watch them rise and watch them fall
Colors returning, bright and burning
Turning points, one and all
Breathe in deep
Painting pictures in the mirror where it once was black and gray
Drifting closer to the colors of a bright and sunny day
Isolation was a friend but now I’m glad to see them go
A change of seasons, state of mind, basking in the afterglow
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Hive Mind
03:37
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Insecurity turned your shaken might aside
Coming from a retreat, a misplaced sense of pride
What do you believe?
Lies, a dead-end street
What do you believe?
Every plan that falls through is taken as a sign
Now you’re sitting idle to echo by design
What do you believe?
Lies, a dead-end street
What do you believe?
Same as bad company
Now the curtain is falling and you’ll regret
Now the breath is spent and you won’t forget
What do you believe?
Hive mind, hive mind, hive mind
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Driftwood
03:31
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Reeling like a boat on the crest of a wave
(I know) the bark’s peeled back, built to decay
(And so) the current’s left to carry me downstream
(Drowning from the weight)
The hourglass sits underneath the ebb (and flow)
The tendrils grip and I stop to feel (them grow)
The current’s left to carry me downstream
Drowning from the weight
Pariahs fed to piranhas at sail
Our marks on driftwood prevail
The pre-conceived notions, we’re destined to fail
You can’t float when the baggage weighs you down
And the shore is all you want to see
I need more than survival
Grasp for something that’s vital
I need more than survival
Grasp for something that’s vital
Shine a light to break through the night
Then I’ll carry on my own
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Bleed Me Dry
03:26
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Take this flight into the sun, keep everything that’s left behind ok, so dismayed
There’s something in the air we breathe, rank ties that bind our company ok, so dismayed
And that’s fine, when there’s nothing left you’ll bleed me dry, and that’s fine
Worn down to a skeleton key can still open any path I create, another way
Echoes of what left me here all fade away as I lean to detonate, another way
And that’s fine, when there’s nothing left you’ll bleed me dry
And that’s fine, when there’s nothing left you’ll chew my spine
But you won’t take everything
Take this flight into the sun
Brace for impact, let it shine
As the world implodes around me so do smoke and mirrors
Scorched ground but you can’t take everything so that’s fine
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Rebirth
04:27
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Our blood runs cold, in the face of starting over
Lost and fell into the fold, sweeping undertow
Lacking better words, a pleading pantomime
Of walls that lie beneath and seeds left to grow
Nocturnal bag of bones shedding our skin
We’ve got our whole lives to begin
Rebirth, regress, and wading through excess
We’ve seen where the cards lay, built to display
Nowhere is free and so I’m moving on
Although these scars will last, chased by the past
And it cuts right through me but I don’t mind
‘cuz if I’m still too long then I’ll get left behind
And when it’s done, you’ll see it in my eyes
You’ll never take me alive
And it cuts right through me but I don’t mind
You’ll never take me alive
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6. |
Canary in the Coal Mine
03:17
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You refuse to see dawn
Under light so strong
A battle uphill
You refuse to move on, to move on, to move on, to move on
So trying, how fitting
That we can’t look away
Long walk, deplete
Salting the Earth beneath our feet
Part and parcel left to fend
We watch the cycle come again
Slow down, and take a look around
Slow down
So trying, how fitting
That we can’t look away
Long walk, to repeat forevermore
Silence as we see what we’ve displayed
Jaded bones come knocking at our door
Silence as we blink and we fade
Slow down, and take a look around
Slow dance for eternity
Slow down, and take a look around
Slow down, slow down
Remind me it’s working
Who’s really in the way?
So trying, how fitting
That we can’t look away
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Static Home
03:17
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Profuse of energy
Like a drive that carries me
Gears turning gears of nothing
Erase all that’s left of this codependency
Like a flash on the screen of my static home
Come forth to seize the bright decay
I find it hard to rise above the scene
The sentiment is all but lost on me
Artificial heart can I see through
and know where it starts
It’s a vatic art whose strains are
Left a mountain apart
Distraction customized your
Wasting time as another disguise
Watching problems pass me by
Out the window of my static home
Come forth to seize the bright decay
I find it hard to rise above the scene
The sentiment is all but lost on me
It takes me away
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Red Herring
03:12
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Never ready for the force of ego
It’s anxiety to start the day
Hope that I can get a place turned over
But it never goes that way
Don’t pull the plug on this place so outright, wish there’s
Something left to turn the tide
We’ve been debating with the likes of brick walls
Til our happiness turns snide, I said
Don’t look back in anger
We’re already in line to see
I won’t point out your red herrings
As long as you don’t bother me
Never ready for the course that we go
How long have we waited for something new
Am I so drained from the path its taken
Am I a fool for sticking through
Been wasting my breath for how long
There’s a lot you’ve gotta keep at bay
I’m surprised that the world turned over
‘cuz it seems like yesterday
Such a mistake holding on
Times have changed, oh well, so long
I’m surprised that the world turned over
‘cuz it seems like yesterday
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Everyone Else
02:56
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I’ll try to change, I’ll try to give
But it’s just a small point when it’s such a big picture
Well I could shout why use my words
It’s hardly worth it when it never gets better
After today I’m moving on, I haven’t slept in so long
But I can’t convince everyone else, everything seems crazy but I’m not yet
Well it could be you don’t do shit
I’ve tried a million times and what do I get, oh
It chips away ‘til nothing’s left
But a bad taste in my mouth a little regret and
After today I’m moving on, I haven’t slept in so long
But I can’t convince everyone else, everything seems crazy but I’m not yet
I can’t believe in anything at all
When everybody’s heart just seems too small
Every time I start to wonder why I’m starting over again
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Nothing's Changed
03:08
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Commiserate a bit too much
It’s a hard walk, getting around on the same old crutch
Piling up, can’t let go
Heart’s a hard habit to break so no one’s eating crow
We’re still looking around
But nothing’s changed
Bide my time, waiting to grow
We’ve shaken the locks so wholly now what’s left to show?
Watching these follies falling further behind and
Every time I’m left more and more resigned
The weight of these thoughts is pushing down on my head and
Every time I see it’s pushing me instead
We’re still looking around
But nothing’s changed
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11. |
Don't Wait
04:06
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No keeping pace, so out of place
Derelict contradiction, forced as our prediction
No time and place, write and erase
These elements avert you, they’re nothing to hold on to
The same decay persists, passed down as something to purvey
Don’t waste away, the calendar fills its page again so don’t wait
Falling through each day anew
The hourglass sand spilling forth from our hands
Awkward pause, awaiting draws
Disappointment to cement as anger and resentment
The same decay persists, passed down as something to purvey
Don’t waste away, the calendar fills its page again so don’t wait
Disembodied voices, channels void of all the noises in our heads
Though our writing’s just begun, I feel as though we’ve won
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12. |
Toss and Turn
04:01
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Cursed, maladroit hiding behind the word
Strings wearing thin
Another thread stops where one begins
Retract and suspend
At our worst, patiently wait like we rehearsed
Strings wearing thin
Think before when we’d fled
Learning to mend in its stead
Calm my shakin’ knees (they’re gonna take it back)
Bite the hand that feeds (they’re gonna take it back)
Spent so long regaining control yet every night I toss and turn
And I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if we knew what lies ahead would we still (toss and turn)
Curse upon my view (they’re gonna take it back)
Tellin’ me it’s true (they’re gonna take it back)
Spent so long regaining control yet every night I toss and turn
And I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if you’ll still be there tomorrow
I wonder if we knew what lies ahead would we still
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