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Nocturnus
03:57
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What becomes of us?
Guidance, drag me through these woods
Lead me further down this path
Barefoot, wet soil,
Leaves crumble underneath
Remember that story that you once told me?
Of a boy lost amongst the trees,
Bare chested, stumbling, worms toil underneath
White light shine on
The moon stipulating
Whatever will happen
Will happen to me
Bring me wine
Show me the sun again
Make me remember why it is that
We still all breathe
Will I still remember once this is over
Everything you’ve told me
And every way I’ve grown since?
And if you see me still walking down the streets
Please tell me that you still love me
Will you still love me?
Cause I still love me
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Mortality
04:40
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Weighted innocence upon my mind
I was lying when I thought I’d made a friend
A thought that it happens every time
With this bag of bones I brought to make me cry
I hope you’re as happy as you’re concerned
Turned away the last time,
the last time I’ll try
You recite lines memorised from movie scripts
But forget to pause between sighs every time
Graciously at my every desperate
attempt to get me by
You smile, my lips shake,
revealing what’s inside
Hate you? Not while I’m alive
This apartment is starving for air
Meant for me to remind me of a time
Cursed by my love to survive
Why are my eyes blessed with sight?
Pretend it’s all the answers
Rest in peace tonight
Lines my pockets with more lies
Destination unknown tonight
You were the weight holding me tight
Under the surface we drown on rushing tides
Above the surface I race to the sky
No parachute, no safety net
I’m unleashed into the air
Pardon my fall
Do not revive
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Not quite finished yet
Need to last a few more minutes
All my friends have dreams again
Show me mindfulness
Show me strength
Oh miserable me
Feeling so lost and empty
Oh miserable me
My best was never good enough
Help me see their mindsets
Rearrange the sickness in their brain
My problems are my problems
My needs not the same
All my friends are dead inside
Show me death next
To have a heart so full of hope
To catch a light that shines so bright
Shadows cast too big to grow
To catch the sound so lightly thrown
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4. |
Rite
02:53
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Ritual awakening
On a sunrise dawn so slow
An apple dangles high up
on a tree still young
Fairy wren gracefully perched
on a branch below
Marigold flower soaking up the
early morning sun
Turning on the bathroom faucet
To watch the water flow
Kitchen kettle boils lets me
know when it’s done
Breathe in deep, feel emotions wash over me
Exhale out air as another day has begun
The illusion, it settles in again
Tell myself that I’m a grown man
An inexperienced shepherd
as I tend to my lambs
And I’ve been down
Lower than I’ve ever been before
Curled up fetal
Lying on the bathroom floor
I’ve been high
Taller than I’ve ever been before
Standing straight up
Prouder than them all
And I thank my strength
as I say to myself
‘I can do this, as I have done this before’
Keep failing thoughts at length
as I say to myself
‘I can do this, as I have done this before’
I can’t fail
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Carnation
05:42
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A story of loss tonight
Red sky lights over eastern skylines
Peoples lives lost, people living afraid
Smug satisfaction on the politician’s face
Where were you when they told
what was to come?
Burn every suit alive
Who never stuck their neck out
What will I say to my children
when they ask ‘why it’s this way’?
And I hope you‘re happy
Cause when the rich get richer
It’s the lower class who pay
Hard to see from your modern tower
Lined with grief from the mothers
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Spirit Hunter
03:41
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Fortune deliver to me
Death below the cold dark sea
For nobody, nowhere
The expanse looked me in the eyes
Begging me to come inside
The loneliest hearts speak the loudest truths
And the hardest nights mark the troubled youth
That night I was torn asunder
To the sound of rain and thunder
When you spoke to me
When you spoke to me
‘god it’s hard to love you,
When you act the way, you do’
Ever since that night
I’ve never trusted myself
How does one tell the truth?
When their body won’t stop lying
Every minute lived is another spent dying
Marked for death
What does the liar say?
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City of Glass
03:11
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I can feel my heartbeat
Knocking on deaths door
Time seems to move slowly
when you don’t care anymore
I can feel it in my bones
Every step makes a creak
Time honoured tradition
Televisual entropy
There’s no stopping it
Fast alive, barely breathing
Yeah, life gives you that
Dog shit feeling
Lean over and reach out
Come on and take my hand
I’ll make sure that you get one last dance
And when you see me there
Just give me one last chance
And I’ll make sure that you are home tonight
Straight silver
This is your last chance
Fall down
Get back up again
Reach out
Time to make amends
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8. |
Menhir
04:22
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Kiss me once, kiss me twice
Kiss me every single time
My soul leaves my body as I walk through that door
Feel the pressure bearing down on me
As my pupils hit the back of my head
I kneel down at the foot of the throne
and I pledge my fealty
My offering of life, my endless service
and the burden is mine
Until I’ve grown old
Old enough to see
The bleach white of my bones
When my knees break at the throne
Release him to death they scream
but little do they know
Leave my heart at home
Lest it turn into stone
into stone
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Liminality
04:37
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Strive to find a way
To hold out through the night
Survive another day spent keeping ourselves alive
This time take my hand, pull you deep inside
Redefine life instead
Fill our hearts with pride
And I can’t stop thinking about the end
Another down the hatch for life’s oldest friend
Memento mori and the peace to come
Collect all your memories from when it begun
And I’m a little older now, a little wiser now
No need to ask how, no need to know how
Just accept it’s happening and hope to slow down
Yeah but I’m still useless and I’m now a fucking clown
but I pick my struggles and I’m still afraid to get old
fuck knows what’s happening
and fuck knows what I’m told
I will return to the beginning and start a new life
If my bones are dust then times cut by its cruel knife
Ah fuck it, time to call it quits
Trip down the stairs and watch myself eat shit
Lit sticks, fire licks, stick tricks, throats sick
Pour acid down my throat and hope it fucking sticks
Sing another shitty song about how my fucking life stinks
Stare at the flame lit by a candle of fucking Lynx
Play another shitty show
Waiting for my alarms blink
Watch myself struggle while I listen to my bones creak
Every day I lay awake
and think of all the things I hate
Every night I dream of a sky,
made from all the things that I like
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Havoc
03:11
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There’s a whisper in the city breeze
That reminds me of a mind riddled with entropy
That whisper builds, that whisper cries
Brain wiped clean in the morning skies
You appear on the horizon, city skyline
Lock eyes, past time, clock strikes, midnight
The thought builds, that thought cries
Be better man tonight
Empath shines bright
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