1. |
Tell Us Everything
03:37
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Counting all the endless fires
Totems heal and arms raise higher
Shorter breath in winds expiring me
Meglo-braves
Whose nouns aren’t loud enough
Nouns aren’t loud enough
Find their place
And count all heaven’s lost
Count all heaven’s lost
Can you see
Electric fields
Their tide is made
Of ocean’s blood
(Will you wear your halo with the fire to match?)
Grab your kids
For the fire
Goodnight kiss
Then it captures
All you’ve missed
And remembered
Gas emits
Life in raptures
Stones engraved are all admired
They conservate the tenet’s ires
Life belongs to heat euphorically
Bound by choice
The fuel is water now
Fuel is water now
Last rejoice
Regressions aren’t allowed
Regressions aren’t allowed
A change of heart
Is purely art
A song of faith
Exclusive harmony
Will you wear your halo with the fire to match?
Grab your kids
For the fire
Midnight bliss
Then it captures
All you’ve missed
And remembered
Gas emits
Life in raptures
Cast your whims
To the fire
Giving in
For the better
I need this
To remember
Everyone
That I left bare
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2. |
Preservationist
04:44
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Open up
The rebar window
Say your piece
You can’t get near me
In any way
You turned the concrete choral
into more than shores, I know
You said that ash was snow
But every year
the Sun told me more
And I don’t have the time
Imploded cracks corrode and
Every line has passed us by
Despite our tanning hide
We shouldn’t mind
The ceiling was blocking the sky
Its coming for me
Lift the door
that fell between us
Answer please
The water washes the wind away
You turned around in spirals
crashing up and down, through days
You let your last hope go
Till one of them
Would learn how to stay
You were out of time
Imagine masks foreboding
watching as we follow dust
I’m weaker than before
But if I must I’ll ask them to sand off your rust
This space
we need
Girders guide the way
Away
From this
Try to celebrate
The loss
Of all we every knew
We slip into eroded weeks
Outstretch your arms and feel The weightless sense of relief
Peace
Drilling to the core of
You
Cannot find another
Who
Could have earned it
More
Weightless sense of
Peace
Drilling to the core of
You
Memories that won’t un-
do
Preservation
Kills
Weightless sense of wonder
Underneath an ocean
Cannot find anyone
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3. |
All Ears
03:23
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Aftershock
Pulls you down or cracks you up
Turn it off
Look around, the world’s not gone
What do they want? What can I do?
All ears want
Soothing words to comfort thoughts
Overlong
Cast away the days you worried for you
They
(They want you)
(They need you)
Don’t
(They want you)
(They need you)
Want
(They want you)
(They need you)
Me
(They want you)
(They need you)
They
(They want you)
(They need you)
Don’t
(They want you)
(They need you)
Need
(They want you)
(They need you)
Me
(They want you)
(They need you)
Giving up
Doesn’t ever do a thing for anyone
What do they want?
What can I do?
Isn’t this all that I could ask for?
What is enough? What is the mask for?
Where is the line?
Are you benign?
Do I belong to all the discord?
Who stays behind? What is this for?
All ears closing off all around
When its tough, it all gets louder and louder
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4. |
Fellow
03:46
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The Let-You-Down-Hero
Couldn’t help a head
Lie around heroes in
black opal sewage, drunk till stagger
No matter!
(Answer X4)
The Work-Around-Hero
Never let them talk
Made of chalk, selfish woes
Don’t hurt you but your fashion matters
Stay in mind hollow
Ends align your skin
Fellow, that honest in
could have lived with their flower manner
You’re half here!
(Last fear X4)
Don’t forget
Your regret
Their fall
Down all
In a minute you’ll forget all, down these and Move along
I hope
You don’t rest Liar
Your best? Was it?
Was it? Drown in
Dirt
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5. |
Hurting Other People
06:19
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Honestly
Never read
What you write back
Blended in
With the man
In news
Now you feel
(Moving on with no end in sight)
Suddenly
(Born in lasting cold, drought and blight)
Made of wax or
(Have we lost our will or have we lost the last fight?)
Polymer
(No matter what they always feast)
Act it out
(Lasting out is their only need)
Like me
(Ghosts in chemistry, they’re a greed that never sleeps)
When you sit
And you eat
You make rare meat
Out of kids
Made from string
And dreams
But I think
(Empty rooms with walls breathing in)
It's on them
(Where did this come from? Is it them?)
Self-defence
(Could have left it all, now my legs are caving in)
They are so
(Want to help these bones wrapped in skin)
Far away
(If nothing else those are my kin)
From me
(If we cannot win, can I know the ending hymn?)
Under an ocean
Songs of devotion
Sleeping in circuits
Suffer these organs
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6. |
Hold
06:10
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My heart and blood
Living what we’ve made of us
Both of your eyes
Same as mine (but) more fuel, more time
Scent from my tongue
We’re not meant to live this long
By night its loud
Telling me I’ll let you down
Fortune would mind
Any slip, not every crime
Let yourself fold
So that life won’t let you go
Why can’t I hold?
Formulas and knives
Cataracted hives
Solar end and rise
Spending lest we try
To the Sun you’ll
To the Sun you’ll
To the Sun you’ll walk away
Ready somehow
For the day I’ll
For the day I’ll know you’ve walked away
I’ve stayed till dawn
Every other fear moved on
Leave you alone
Years of errs you’ll never know
Miss me or not
Its a space that’s best forgot
Formulas and knives
Cataracted hives
Solar end and rise
Spending lest we try
To the Sun you’ll
To the Sun you’ll
To the Sun you’ll walk away
Ready somehow
For the day I’ll
For the day I’ll know you’ve walked away
Do I have to hold?
Do I have to hold you?
And son I know
You’ll be walking to the end of it all
Where nothing grows,
are you better off without me at all?
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7. |
Catching Up
04:26
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Hands define what they use
Steps can tear
Lives in two
(their lives in two x4)
Leaving all within view
Guilt lives in
A recluse
Finite relapse
Panic en masse
Passing through
(He’s passing through x4)
Carrion carries on
Using all
Cortisol
His eyes look back at empty tracks
Motions adhere to spectred ears
New weights will bring
What time enacts
What he’s deserved
Since coming here
Stillness carries unease
So he runs
Desperately
(He’s desperate now x4)
Formless eyes have arrived
Not erased
Remembered
He left it all
Too close a call
Buried them
(they’re underground x4)
Tails and claws form ahead
Hands outstretched
To guide him
His head looks back
Figures react
Closer than before
Motions appear
Motives now clear
The only enemy
This weight will break
His failing knees
The prize cowards take
What absence fears
No life revered
And soon he finds that it’s
Catching up (X8)
He’s slowing down
He’s slowing down
He can’t live
alone
These
Hands from walls
grabbing his arms
Hands from walls
grabbing his heart
Open Open Open Open Open up Open up
Writhing round gasping for
Any light living here
His eyes roll back
Thoughts turn to black
Moments were near
Order was clear
Convinced of weights
Connected paths
Absence of place
No sound or fear
Menace engraved
Poison of tasks
Compiling myths
And never ask
Why all this seems
too far to grasp
What happens next?
Monoliths mask
Him
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8. |
Artifacted Living
02:59
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I deny the shapes I see
I’m separate and new
I can’t bring myself to prove
A value never used
Limbs were the roots I knew
Now their motions sag and burrow
On their own as willows
Dream as a tethered ghost
When I come back to I’m
Almost
Lucid but what I see
Is a corrugated echo
Anechoic end goal
Tell me I need to breathe
Where my lungs once were an
Ash tree grows
Stop
And
Tell me
I’m standing here
Without a shadow or doubt
I
Don’t
Feel
My
Branches
Reaching out
Is this my body or not?
Artifacted
Living as a
Name redacted
Gone
From the page
Elevate, when I need
Other eyes to see me clearly
Everyone was near me
What does it matter now?
Row of rings don’t count as
Days lived well
Stop
And
Tell me
I’m planted here
Are you the hollow of rot?
Artifacted Living as a
Faint refracted
Light
Artifacted Living as a
Name redacted
Gone
I deny the shapes I see
I’m not in front of you
You may try combining hues but
Colour’s missing too
I deny the shapes I see
I’m separate and new
I can’t bring myself to prove
A value never used
Artifacted Living as a
Faint refracted Light
Artifacted Living as a
Name redacted
Gone
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9. |
Vacant Drifters
05:13
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I don’t love
And you don’t feel so low
After us
The Sea can die alone
Names won’t carry
Us through the plastic tide
Leaving early
To see from miles above
Where’s your self?
I left me on the shore
For good health
Secure and nothing more
Names won’t carry
Us through the plastic tide
Leave your body
And save the skies you love
I left me on the shore
I left me on the shore
Today
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10. |
Wing To Collar (Part 1)
04:17
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Floating and sinking
(Fly up)
Tethered to nothing
(Fly up)
Endless and aging
(Fly up)
All is of my making
(Fly up)
Less of me
And
More than you
Could
Know
Coiled and red
Let’s take
Your heart
Out to
The dead
A rotting
Animal
A test
Lifeless in wonder
Where would it bury
Me?
Watch as their wings form
(Fly up)
Keeping the eggs warm
(Fly up)
Hearts beating softly
(Fly up)
Mother is watching
(Fly up)
This
Can never be
A world that I could ever see
Part of me
Wishes the
Freedoms I’m allowed
Changed me somehow
My thoughts are always dreamt aloud as:
I could be a father
I could have a daughter
Clean the water
Serve a better cause or
Live to raze a monster
Giving you a listen
And with your permission
I could save you
Build a newer world for
You
Floating and tethered to the sky
I fall down, I’m all clouds
Sinking into
Years I’ve yet to live
And wonders
life has yet to give
And making
puzzles out of migratory
Patterns that awake within me
Fly up
Wake up
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11. |
Wing To Collar (Part 2)
04:28
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Your legs are crushing my
collar bone
My neck is too acute
to see it
When I first awoke
(The smoke was choking me alive)
And I remembered how the hunger never left me all this time
(Push Earth away)
Un-captivated skull
(and vertebrae)
are light
(in wind)
From the tallest post
(Clear view of shell-deep buried eyes)
One thought of fighting but the ordinary never seem to thrive
(The last I’d lay)
Hot clouds were reaching up
(so fly away)
to walls
(man made)
Sky’s lights in
Eggs hung by
Steel trees on
Fake stone pyres
Ten steps to go
This ground stays cold
When will I know
Where small birds go?
Your eyes are dead like fire
around me
Bloodless arches loomed
(Evading everything I knew)
Here all the shrieking made it hard to feel my path was catered to
(First prey I’d seen)
Down from my perching rest
(a desperate fray)
(filled cries)
with pain
Clattering around
(The strangest things that sights allow)
Would empty life out from my eyes in steady streams of rotting fowls
(Now fear’s awake)
I cannot plan ahead
(I never knew)
that time
(would end)
Sky’s lights like
eggs hang on
tall trees that
fade away
Ten breaths to go
This ground stays cold
soon I will know
where small birds go
I could be a monster
I could let it falter
Hollow offers
Serve a better cause or
Let them live as fodder
Give in to perdition
No more noble missions
Thoughts can never
Build a better world for
Me or you
Your eyes are dead like fire around me
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