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Snooze
03:51
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Well I never knew
What it meant to you
To be one of a kind
Snoozing in your head
Sleeping through the rest
Got no time left to shine
Snoozing
Losing my soul
Yeah I got nowhere to go
Gotta find my bed
Find a better rest
Look it up I'm there for you
And I feel myself grown
Over trauma seasons
No more fear following
Spitting backwards wisdom
As I walk on eggshells
But it feels so becoming
Snoozing
Losing my soul
Yeah I got nowhere to go
Gotta find my bed
Find a better rest
Look it up I'm there for you
Snoozing
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2. |
Write the Wrongs
04:21
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Left my backbone by the river
Make my way down the trail
The lights go out and we start to shiver
Lose control and lose the way
I started out strong, when you let me in
I’ve been in too long, to write the wrongs
As I lose control, and I lose the way
I forgot the question and dream of the day
Now the ground begins to slither
A clearing culled without a sound
A cadence call stand and deliver
The sentiment suspends the shroud
I started out strong, when you let me in
I’ve been in too long, to write the wrongs
As I lose control, and I lose the way
I forgot the question and dream of the day
Out of the woods and back to the river
Fill my lungs with air around
The color shifts with no more than a quiver
The phantom leaves with phantom sound
I started out strong, when you let me in
I’ve been in too long, to write the wrongs
As I lose control, and I lose the way
I forgot the question and dream of the day
When I write the wrongs
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3. |
A Quiet Cult
03:05
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Oceans feel the tide
It happens every time
And everyone gets cold inside their bones
When everybody lies
You have to sell it whole
Your story may describe the world you know
But so much is contrived
Just make up something good
Something we can buy to feel appeased
Something for the scribes
A vector took the wind
Around the world it flows
Oceans feed the tide
It happens far and wide
While we lick the salt from out the breeze
Liars pay no mind
A quiet forms a cult
A fiction may entice a growth on all
That friction isn’t mine
A vector took the wind
Around the world it flows
It tells you where to go
It moves you so
Oceans kiss the sky
It happens every time
And history relies on what was told
When oceans bit the sky
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4. |
Strayaway
04:45
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Everywhere you are
I spot you from a mile away
I see it in your eyes
It hangs on all the words you say
Let me know if you do stray away
The monster's gotten out
He watches the tube with me
I'm sick of sitting around
I beg to go out and play
Let me know if you do stray away
Doc, can you fix me up?
One million pieces
Running all amok
From all the diseases
My blood is at boil
Maybe a fever
But if you rearrange
Maybe I can leave her
Let me know if you do stray away
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5. |
Sloth & Decay
03:23
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Welcome all you puppets to the show that requires no strings
The shepards have all gone to sleep now and we're free to plan our revolt
We're get organized and realize there's no justifying what's wrong or right
And the evolution of mankind will conclude in the flash of one thought
This is all just a dream
To captivate and enslave
We'll battle with those who refuse the truth and prefer an existence of sloth and decay
And demand that all lives embrace every second of every day
And by removing the heads from the stand we can fulfill the stated plan
Of letting every creature know that they can take a stand
Against the tyranny of greedy men
I'll burn brighter than you
To prove there's only gains and amusement
Second time around now with newly found sounds
We'll communicate better
This is all just a dream
To captivate and enslave
Open both eyes at once, focus hard to discover
Things aren't what they seem to be
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6. |
Chimera
02:30
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The passersby dissolve
In the face of our resolve
In the face of we
Solid as a rock
Despite disputed stock
Parts of him and she
In here we're safe
Under the anvil we're erased
In here we're changed
Put back together in our place
In our place
Your eyes and my hands
Weave all the strands
Of nerves into gold
Your left and my right
Combine at the sight
Of tissue and bone
In here we're safe
Under the anvil we're erased
In here we're changed
Put back together in our place
In our place
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7. |
Pitter Patter
01:49
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Pitter patter on the step
Lets you know that they’ve come home
Arrange the seats in semitones
Trading masks and certain sets
For borderline Tourette’s
And splitting of the psyche
Oh we’re not the same yet
Living in a state of stuck
Both boots firmly in the mud
Surrounded by the crowd
Certain words to display
The fraying of the length
Of distance in bad company
Oh we’re not the same yet
A gang of five or maybe ten
Circle round the recent dead
As they pluck eyes from your head
You scream we’re not the same yet
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8. |
Go Alight
01:57
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I wanna be adored by you
I wanna beam
Go alight, I do
My heavy soul can empty eyes
Kill the mood
Just wanna be adored by you
Please forgive me for the wrong song stuck in my head
I know you’re tired of the rhythm
I’m all but lost in repetition
I wanna be adored by you
I feel the need to remove my blues
I miss you, Lover
I see you as a muse
Vehemently,
I’ll be romantic soon
Please forgive me for the wrong words long on my tongue
I bet you’re tired and indifferent
I’m all but lost in repetition
Remind me of your love
Remind me
Be mine
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9. |
Warhorse
04:25
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We’re all seeing ghosts
Skinny, white, no more spines
And somewhere in their gloom
They shock the air
Alive in the walls
Every kill’s old news to me
The monsters are armed to their teeth
They’re splitting cross-hairs
Everyone’s hungry for the warhorse
But no one is ready for the slaughter
They’re lost in the smoke
They mob the world at edge of night
They’ll live on the news
They’ll be everywhere
Absent in the mind
If they’re gunning for you, then they’re gunning for me
I can feel them nipping at my feet
They’re hot on my trail
Everyone’s strung out on some fever
No one can come down from that blotter
Everyone’s hungry for the warhorse
But no one is ready for the slaughter
Them cannibals will hunt for fun
So run
Run, run, run
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10. |
Big as Life
02:45
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Another light shines down on you in sympathy
You set your sights on getting back up back at me
Don’t pretend you know me
Better to ignore me
Is this the right time to back up and betray your friends
You’re big as life your descent was only betterment
Don’t pretend you know me
I’m riled up and distorted
You think you’re so fit
You think you’re so right
You think you been keeping me up at night
You think that you matter that you’re going far
You think you’re the favorite in the bar
It would’ve been best if you stayed home
Take a hint and leave well alone
You ruined the party and you fucked up my show
Everybody else here wants to tell you
Don’t pretend you know us
We’ve turned on you in silence
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11. |
String Me Up
03:54
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String me up tall where the trees grow thin
Where I will be amongst friends
Straight as an arrow devoided of sin
Where the green lights are no longer red
Haunted
Haunted by everything
I ever left unsaid
Wanted
Wanted by elements
Ceded and compounded
String me up
Carry the folklore to the place of my birth
Where the hillocks will measure my worth
Shadows and sheafs rain down on me first
And the echoes of impact feel sure
Hollow
Hollowed out excuses
That ring in the back of my head
Follow
Follow back the years
To the long days that kept me well fed
String me up
String me up loud
String me up proud
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12. |
Out in Rays
05:29
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13. |
Systems, Mobs, and Bob
06:59
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See it disconnecting our bones
Can’t have the feckless wrecking any rules
Arranged in moving parts
And never to be assembled
I dream in movies
Tumbling beneath the sea
Bring ‘em down to me
See ‘em dressing up in our clothes
Devils in heaven
Blowing up their hosts
Inflamed in locking jaws
And ever an empty emblem
They think I’m falling
But I light fires beneath their feet
Bring ‘em down to me
See him devouring her hope
Can’t have her spirit veering from his ghost
A mangey dancing heart
And evil to sing ensembles
We dream blood-red suites
The owls be not what they seem
Bring ‘em down to me
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