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Gunfighter Jesus
04:31
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Is that your ghost portal, an opening you can't fit through?
Closing forever, all your hopes within
You're the smoke on the harbor, always floating in the air
Clandestine as the blood of the sinking ship of wanderers
In the silence of the ocean floor
Blackness pressing in like you knew before
It's been explored, but I know there's something else
Just let go and believe your lungs won't fill with water yet
Make yourself a ball, pressed against the wall
You could escape it, if you didn't create it
Let me die like the fire, slowly as you fall asleep
You'll wake up when it's cold again
But the nightmare remains when the day comes in
And the lock on your door won't save you now
Always remember
Every waking breath
Love yourself to death
Don't be like the rest
You can't just let your death only be witnessed by fireflies
Trying to lose themselves in the night
I found some footprints staggering to the cliff side
I think they might be mine from last night
I guess I'll lay here in the tall grass for the rest of my life
But nothing could ever pull me
Away from the edge
It's my final breath, I'll use it when I want because it's been a lifetime
Longing for this
Nightmare to end...I'm so tired of wondering
What am I supposed to be?
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2. |
Double Wizard
04:23
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Sound the false alarm, you don't know who you are
Now panic and lose yourself in alcohol
This tunnel's narrower than the last time I drove
Just beyond the curve, I still can't discern
This pattern of excess repeating again
My eyes are glazed and heavy
Maybe I'll close them a moment and find you in this maze
I feel closer to the golden elevation of letting it go
I'm polluted with your ghost
At least she's having a good time, I'm just the host with the most
It came on like a fever
I'm sweating you out like a sickness I'll never have again
I've been seeing carousels again above my bed
Headless horsemen of every color but red
Oh what a perfect circle that they carve
Violent maybe, but not in this regard
I'm in love with the idea of innocence from the crimes I commit
I failed the succubus, she came in the night to take me away
I tore into the oculus, an eye for an eye, that's what she said
Can you give me the rest?
I don't know if I can stay here
With only apparitions keeping me company
Put me back in the maze now
I feel that I need to be leading mice away from the always comforting
Other side of hell
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3. |
Invitation Only
04:01
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Anxious, patient captive audience
They play along with your
Game of hangman, puzzling evidence
I think I know what's next
She danced along the highway, like she had someone beside her
She spoke with only light waves, in the heat I couldn't understand
The medics on their way, a haphazard ambulance running far too late
Only the night could cure you, feed you once again
Awake from sleeping in daylight, smiling, choking on the air
Wander your way to shore
In the arms of the ocean, she found the sacred movement
Torn away by the tide, what you feel is your lifetime reversing
this will be the end, suffocating in darkness
The medics on their way, a haphazard ambulance running far too late
Only the night could be so bright to peel back your eyelids
I know it's right, I sympathize, why didn't you invite me?
This is your one last chance to save yourself
Get back, all of you are part of this sympathetic crucifixion
Of your own charade, and it's high time you noticed
The medics on their way, a haphazard ambulance running far too late
Only the night could be so bright to peel back your eyelids
I know it's right I sympathize, why didn't you invite me?
This is your one last chance to save yourself
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Blue Flame Special
03:45
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I fell asleep in the backyard looking for answers talking to myself in an elegy
The alchemist gave me a bottle, I deserve a little taste
But the tonic isn't for the heavy-hearted
But I guess I better finish what I started
I know I'm not as easy-going as I was but
I feel the time flying over my head
I'll leave my 20's in a bloody pile of teeth
They're giving me nothing but sorrow and grief
I found the clarity lying naked in the sun
A light you could only imagine, and know if you were the one
If you want to see the light just cut me open
But I guarantee it won't be what you're hoping
I know I'm not as easy-going as I was but
I feel the time flying over my head
I'll leave my 20's in a bloody pile of teeth
They're giving me nothing but sorrow and grief
It took you long enough to notice
It's not so bad to be alone
But you've got to build yourself a purpose
You need to build yourself a home
I walked for miles across overgrown farmland on the forgotten side of the great divide. I was following constellations vehemently burning across the sky, and the cuts on my ankles from beating the path were only a fraction of the final cost; in finding myself, I've become so lost.
I'll live
Outlast
I'll crash when I'm dead
To live in distress and hope for the best
It's all you have time for
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Corrosia
03:31
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Outside your forlorn empty world, your lives are all but dust across the flash and the lens
A wipe of the sleeve, and all the bodies cleaned and the camera
Was the only one there to see any evidence
That we held the earth, together enough to build a life upon her husk
And through the canyon air, she bathed us in light
To thaw from the night, and dig our way out of the ice
And celebrate that we remember, but I can't remember anymore
You'd like to think you've won this challenging race
But all you can manage is to stumble in place
Baby put your hands down, it's not a parade
It's a funeral today
And now all that's left to save is this crater in your name
It looks like you from far away, but close up it's a fake
And you'll wear it with pride, until you realize that the camera
Was the only one there to see you through all the good, the bad and the worst days you didn't exist
And now all I see are craters with your face
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March Of Sleeping Stars
01:42
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7. |
Fear Not The Dog
02:53
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Fear not the dog who paces behind the wall snarling at your every movement
You fear the wolf who silently waits for you in the cold that you don't know
They came for your assets, parlor tricks hiding their wealth
Lemme see them hands little man, lemme see them!
You're hiding something else
And when you come for me
You'd better bring all your friends and some heavy sedatives
Because I'm gonna make a scene
Overlord versus the psychonaut
This is still the battle that our parents lost
Let your hate cultivate your resolve
Come inside and cover your eyes and open your mouth
We came here to party, HEY!
But you started without us, HEY!
I'm sure you told us nothing but truth
Handsome commander under the oath
Serve and protect me, down with the ship
Send me a postcard, I'm sure it's better than this
You're loaded like a gun, with no one to unload upon
As if in a dream, you can't gather the strength to pull the hands from your neck
I'm no pawn, I'm the rook upside down
I survived and crossed to your side, now panic ensues
For you
Fear not the dog
Fear the wolf
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