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1. |
Streetlights
03:24
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Streetlights
We fall down
Water comes it rains down
This world is rotting
And we are going to drown
The street lights
In lines like weary soldiers
Shine as dim reminders
Of the sun
And as we crawl under the sky
Made of stone and we wonder why
The signs that tell you where to go
Won’t help you escape
Or get you off the ground
Heaven is so boring
Goodness so trite
Bring me back to the mud
Bring me back where nothing is right
I throw up your kindness
Leave it to die in dusty filth
Where is your kindness now?
I hold my head up high
Way down here where I scream and I growl
You think you’re better than me
Because you made me?
I’ll show you how fair the works of your hands
I take all your rainwater and I pour it sand
Grab my blasphemous throat
Strangle me in rage
I need a reason to hate you
Because you gave us no cage
An old man
Laughing at the whole world
With golden teeth he’s smiling
As he screams at me on the concrete
These red lights
Never changing into green lights
They’ll never change
I know it’s time to run
We fade away so fast so slow
We’ve choices but we never know where to go
Jaywalking I run towards the station
One day I’ll leave these streetlights far behind
Expressways
Railroads, alleys, freeways
All of them are leading
Straight to the grave
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2. |
Vanity
04:39
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Freedom calling
You’re not buying
There’s so much more to acquire
It’s so empty
But you’d be crazy
To stop to and think for a while
You are growing old and grey
But all you can think about is wrinkles and color
There’s nothing that you can do or say
To keep the dust and ashes away
Keep on moving
Keep on proving
That you’re alive and well
Despite your striving
Despite your writhing
You’ll realize that life is hell
There was a time with life so green and erratic
Now everything’s concrete the breeze is static
The moon in the shape of a shiny silver dollar
The sun the color of gold
Every step you take brings you farther away
Too far to touch
Too far to hold
Keep on moving
Keep on proving
That you’re alive and well
Despite your striving
Despite your writhing
You’ll realize that life is hell
Keep on moving
Keep on proving
That you’re alive and well
Despite your striving
Despite your writhing
You’ll realize that life is hell
Run from the reaper
Flee from his scythe
At the end of your laughter
You’ll see
That everything’s nothing at the end of your life
What is your life?
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3. |
These Four Walls
04:23
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Stay
Keep the monsters away
They cannot get you here
Sleep
Listen to them creep
Around your soul
They swallow you whole
A quiet room
A whitewashed tomb
Paintings on the wall
Of far off places
And sunlit happiness
All in all
A quiet room
Blankets cover your head
The ceiling is red
Soon you’ll be dead
As you’re safe
In your bed
Killed by your Silent Night
Hide from the light
With your covers tight
This quiet room
Is a warm safe womb
But it is dark
So dark
In this white cocoon
Mother coos and croons
From her picture on the wall
All in all
A quiet room
This quiet room
It is a silent doom
A placid sea
With raging roiling coiling
Currents underneath
This quiet room
Is a purple plume
Of smoke in sky
Flying high
And on it you ride
To the ends of the earth
A flaming room
Burns away the gloom
Deep down in the pages
Of these books on your shelf
You're a lover you're a fighter
You’re a hero yourself
How nice it must be
Among the meadows and trees
But each word is read
By the eyes of the dead
Stay in the room
Stay on the bed
Comforter in the fire with the books from the shelf
Silly child to play with matches
When you are all by yourself
It blazes like a flower
Your rose, your tower
Where you've hidden alone
Full of charred peaceful bones
All those adventures and kingly halls
Yet here outside your window
A storm on the wind
Stay safe within
These four walls
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4. |
Let's Keep Things Slow
05:06
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Green light through the leaves that sway
Cotton on the breeze today
Midsummer snow that falls so wildly
So gracefully
But it's still falling and that'll never change
Automatic movements
Reacting to the downbeats
Wings of every single crow
Each swallow's swooping a sweeping blow
I float around never caring where I go
Life flows by
I'm like a stone in a stream
Things will change
But I stay the same
If you know what I mean
I wish that I
Had the strength to cry
To look up at the heavens and scream
Insidious apathy
I never reach for what I can see
Things high things below
If it's all the same to you
Let's keep things slow
Oh, yeah let's keep things slow
Like a patient in a psych ward
The walls are white and I'm bored
Of this never ending monotony
I'm spending my vivacity
On sleep and staring at the tiles
The way things were
The way things are aren't what they seem
Things will change
But I stay the same
If you know what I mean
I wish that I
Had the strength to cry
To look up at the heavens and scream
Doldrums on the sea today
No wind I cannot sail away
God help me please I am trying
To be free
Come and get me
Take me in your hands
Oh lead me by the hand
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5. |
Break Up Song
04:20
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When she looked back at me
Eyes that said she’d set me free
To be who I need to be
She seems so far away
Hair in the wind
Will she be blown away?
Like a leaf in a storm carried
To another place another future another’s arms
Why I am I standing here?
My heart confused and full of fear.
Afraid to raise my head
To see a love that’s gone cold and dead
Oh how I long for a past long gone
Oh how I ache for low whispers and warm embrace
A chasm beneath and a cold sky above
Shows me darkness the true face of love
You think you know what I want
You think you know what I need
I’m a heart full of fire
And mind full of greed
You say you’ve set me free?
You think you’re doing me a favor by leaving me?
Why did you have to go?
Why do the days seem so slow?
Everything seems the same
Dull boring and gray
And I can’t find you anywhere
And I can’t seem to care
About anything at all
Keep it locked inside
These feelings of anger and wounded pride
In the end I’m a child
I want somewhere to hide
Go ahead and leave me behind
Why did you have to go?
Why do the days seem so slow?
Everything seems the same
Dull boring and gray
And I can’t find you anywhere
And I can’t seem to care
About anything at all
If only sleep could make this all a dream
A wisp of cloud over the sun
A shadow on my face
It’s so hard when everything is exactly as it seems
I know I’m nothing without her and that’s why she’s gone
But why oh why did she lead this hollow soul along?
I saw a bright light
As we walked into the night
Now the torch is out and I am alone.
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6. |
Someday
06:17
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We were walking side by side
Your tiny hand so cold in mine
Your lips they moved so silently
And I never heard a word you said
Falling, endlessly through space
Everything floating by my face
May as well be a million miles away
Mind wandering through the gaps between
While locked in your embrace
Someday I’ll find you there
This steaming breath that passes by my eyes
Ascends and melds into the clouds
This steaming breath is all that we can hope
To be. Oh let me breathe you in
The deeper inside of you I peer
The less of you I see
The more I see a mirror
Smoke in the air and ashes on the glass
Your hands pound on the other side of this reflective mask
A wooden bridge
That spans two distant lives
Falls reforms beneath my feet
In murky depths
Or cloudless heights
Someday I'll find you there
Someday I’ll find you there
Between our souls
Vast spaces and long times
We gaze at one another with glass marble eyes
And see only black emanating from these orbs
But someday there will be light that streams from tiny cracks
Someday I’ll find you there
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7. |
Forest
03:58
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Wind blowing
Trees creaking
In dusky gray and I am lost
I’m turning
I’m yearning
To find a light inside this gloom
I’m praying
To heaven
I’m looking for a pathway out
Spinning
Out of control
Out of my mind
This black forest
Is everything now
It gets darker
Gets deeper
No end as far as I can see
A river
Of silver
Flits through the gaps between the trees
I’ll follow
Till I can
Escape this lying forest that is me
Reeling
Not caring where I go
Is this a dream?
Haunting
Breaking me down
Sunset waning
The moon is rising
Glorious night
Creeping in darkness
Now I know its all the same to You
I cannot hide
Feet flat on the ground
Stand still for the sound
I’m waiting for the footsteps
Comes hard on my heals
The truth and the real
This forest goes up in flames tonight
Running
Out of control
Out of my mind
This red forest
Is nothing to me now
Dawn is breaking
The sun is rising
It burns the clouds away
Eye of heaven
Sees the ashes below
I’ll never hide again
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8. |
Hands of Peace
04:49
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A drop of rain
The minor pains
Congeal like blood inside my veins
Falls into a crystal pool
Ripples of life
Overflowing to a stream
A million stories
A thousand glories
Join as one
A raging river
Takes me further
Beyond the lands I’ve loved
Into a tranquil sea
This blood this water is me
A mountain tall
Time and wind will make it fall
A boulder in the stream
A vanishing dream
A grain of sand
In the soft hands of a child
An island in the sea
The stone became dust
And the dust
It is me
These brittle bones
This gasping hope
Eyelids close
And memories float
Like flowers on the waves
A smile drawn
On a leathern face
A mind far gone to a far off place
Falling mountains raging streams
Storm has left a peaceful scene
The end of trials the end of dreams
Let me be held in the hands of peace
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9. |
Ghost
06:54
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The ridge of your spine will cut through my fingers like a saw
When I try to hold you close
Because you are more real than most
You are here to feel and see
But I am just a ghost
Truth gleams out from those eyes
I live in shadows
You live under golden skies
A ghost must stay in fog and smoke
A ghost cannot love a human being
A ghost is not real, it is nothing
A ghost must stick to hollows and haunting
Reality destroys the false
In sun a ghost will vaporize
A truth such as you dispels all lies
Will you really caress this cheek
This corn husk skin?
Light a match I'll burn away
You come to me in the night
I cannot come to you in the day
You kiss me with red lips
Red lips that meet my mouth like a gaping wound
I hope I can cure it
I hope I can endure it
I hope I can infect it
Longing in my eyes
Desire in my cries
Truth within these lies
This ghost is afraid
I love you
Here's the proof
I will confine you to my snow globe of shadow
Dance for me
My candle flame of truth
Set this underground castle afire
Cast my fear onto a wet wood pyre
From the ashes will come bones
Flesh will come out from the coals
From the fires
Will rise
A human being
This present is but a shadow of the past
This “now” a shade of a future that lingers
On the horizon
I was broken from stone to sand
Clay and dust of moon
Sculpt me anew with cool slender fingers
Warm breath and a bright mind
I once was blind
But now...
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