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I've taken pettiness
And I've raised it to a higher art
Than previous attempts
Or demeaning epithets
So write down
All the obfuscating things you say
And bite down
Before your words have found their way
I'll burn the lights out
I won't hear anything at all
I'll pull the sky down
I'll find the quiet soon enough
If these were your last moments
Would you waste them
Trying to save your precious,
Precious, worthless skin?
So dig down
Don't spare yourself the dignity
Bite down
And find supreme serenity
If these were your last moments
Could you yourself find some peace and quiet?
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I went outside
But I couldn’t find you
You were blind too
And I was met with
The most furious light
To blind my eyes
When I followed you
To the water
You walked in and I
Still couldn’t believe
That the earth
Could meet the sea
I asked if I
Could come along
I heard the final song
My words never
Even left my mouth
And I was all alone
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Meteor in the Madhouse
03:22
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Sinking slow beside you
Thinking love will right you
The poison's in the promise
It keeps us all dishonest
Suddenly I find
Those with longer noses
Tell better lies
And while you smile
With those petals in your mask
You'll make it to the light
Common morning wishes
Covered yours and kissed them
I've been reeling, endless
It keeps us in suspension
Holy hexed
Heavenly earth
Relax my mind
From which I'm cursed
Purse my lips to
Ease my
Retraction
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Vagrant Moon
03:37
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Raising up your alabaster fist
Tinged with wanton violence
And a passionate embrace
Girl, keep your scars alive
You'll earn their favor
They want you compromised
Singed in their papers
Older now, her beauty ever marred
Spirit never yielding to the curse of broken stars
Girl, keep your head on right
They'll never waver
They've got you dead to rights
Burned in their papers
They want your compromise
Yeah, they can taste it
So keep those scars alive
Don’t ever waste it
I have seen the desperately awake
In time
Meet their fate in the moss and the rust
They all fell, indifferently aware
Behind
What was once the siren of change
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Awoke adjacent to an angel
The type who lit my eyes
Then walked beyond
It's not long for the righteous
Behold her ascent
Behold!
You earned the perfect end
I hope you're getting decent
To face it
These futile lines you've drawn below us
Will never be sufficient
For the descent
O, monumental liberation!
They've never learned how to live
Beyond these walls
Impart the foundation
Hopeless though it is
Depart!
We belong
Where the light
Touches down
On her bones
We believed
These lucid nightmares
We deserve
This desolation
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6. |
Dexter Holland's Opus
03:06
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Let's play out this serenade
You take the sky
And I'll assume the ocean
We'll sing it till we reach the end
And then reverse
And take it from the start again
I could have drowned without this
But once you know
And we know
We'll carry on
You gave it all away
Now grow something new
And pray these wings will carry you
Goading answers
From the shades that line these halls
Indifferent eyes will never
Teach you the same way
They're running fingers,
Crooked fingers,
Down your spine
Until you find that what you feared
Has been your life
You're not one to complain
When you can't lose
But you don't want to reclaim
When you've carried on
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7. |
Slipped
03:48
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Start to compile the list of all your faults
And when you get to the part
When you stop feeling your heart
Calm down and change the ink
From red to black
And wipe this memory away
So that you won’t have to change
That’s just what they want you to think
It’s criminal,
The sum you know
Death’s not such an anxious disease
This ebb and flow,
It’s getting old
Don’t ever hide your condescending eyes
You know the shade of your sins
Matches the grey of your skin
You’ll look to them to be your exit
But now when you start to depart
Just know they’ll rip you apart
I’ve found my end
I’m lying, free
For all to see
The death that follows me
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The Clairvoyant
03:27
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When it suits them fine
They wallow in your every word
Live and breathe, choke and spit it out
Lure them down, drive them wild,
Drown them out, set them on fire
It's you they'll put on trial
All it comes to, is
All you want is to
Be left to prophesy
You've seen too much now
This cannot be allowed
Now you'll testify
Now they've had their fun
Could you come back down?
Decried, depleted, demoralized,
A savior you've been christened
All the damage you've done
With all the sights that you've shown
All the wreckage you've wrought
All the lives that were lost
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Bless the Maker
04:01
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You feel your skin against the glass,
A monster hiding in your past
You never thought that
It could move so consciously
You always try to live again
It’s nothing hard to comprehend
That everything you love
Gets burned out in the end
One is fear and one is key
Hide underground or be set free
You never thought that
It could move so easily
You should have known
That it would come for you
What fire has the mind
To let one through?
And they run, and they run
And they run, and they’re gone
The silence raises the chaos
And so a blanket grey has settled in,
A blizzard crafted from our sins
I never thought that
You would move so recklessly
And you’ll keep trying to pretend
This was an unforeseen event
Now everything you love
Gets burned out yet again
What moves you? What makes you
Run to the edge just to fall all over again?
What burns you? What tears you?
What divides you moral thoughts and common lies?
The "Light?"
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10. |
Ad Astra
05:33
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I don't mind what they take from me
I'm not looking for your sympathy
Every other word you say
Gets to me
Every other sign you make
Replaces me
Rise!
Align the stars by design
I'm only attached,
Attached on the outside
I don't mind what the lovers say
Trust their words will find their way
Every other war you wage
Gets to me
Every other time you pray desperately
Destiny
We all float on
We believe
We sail to calm
Time's asleep
We'll make a move
Destiny
We'll be reborn
Move the Earth in reverse
With lure tossed to sky
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Remnants
03:25
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The rains were never meant to burn her heart away
You know she hung on every word
And now she’ll finally be heard
The blackest pitch could never hold against the flood
And now she’s dying to come out
You know she’s dying to come out
Say nothing and say it all
This conversation denies growing old
There is nothing to make this right
And still we pray for light
This never came from greater plans for anyone
The sand just ran out of the glass
The time for prayer has come and passed
Her eyes are empty though the skies will never calm
You had a choice, you stayed your hand
They all believed you had a plan
She was never being tempered
She was being broken
And you knew it all along
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The silence of ash
Deafening rust
The imprints retreat
Behind the moss
Forty-seven times
Circumnavigated
Centuries gone
Finally a quiet hollow
A meager pocket of souls
They do not rejoice
They do not cower
They do not remember
So brilliant a spark
This foreign idol
Likeness unfamiliar
Books rife with nonsense
The maul is earned
They can not rejoice
They can not cower
I can not remember
How I found the peace and quiet
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