1. |
Still Life
03:12
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all i wanted was all the time in the world
but what i was given was a moment and then
a lifetime to chase it, memories to displace it
each day just more distance by which to erase it
a matter of time, it’s matter of time
my heart cannot find where it belongs on the line
there is still life, still life here
but my heart is in still life here
all i wanted was to be without time
all i wanted was to be without time
a lifetime to live with the ones that i loved
a place we can stay hidden safe and one of
i want all the time in the world
all the time in the world
all I wanted was all the time in the world
i was given just enough to now know all I am without
a heart that’s been stained, no answers explained
everything a reminder of the parts trapped in pain
a matter of life, it’s a matter of death
no matter the matter time can take this last breath
there is still life, still life here
but my heart is in still life here
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2. |
Trigger Safety Happy
03:16
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a cup, a key and a memory
a kingdom long under siege
second hand that’s counting the lifetimes
the pace of land crossing the sea
carried pieces just far enough to notice
that life is poison when ready to be free
towers teeter towards the soils
yielding their summits to seeds
i can’t sustain the truth
it’s more obscure each day anew
the pieces that wash to the sea
return the tides that set me free
i will not live to be alive
when every moment living is given over to
the campaign to defy
the one truth we can finally rest in peace with
i will not live
to be alive when all we do is race from the finish line and extinguish
all that makes this life worth living for
just to get one more step further from the truth
words decay while on their pages
seep through the din and the noise
bend time to knee at the altar
a squalor of ache in the scrawl
i’m the new life you can’t stop from emerging
i have come to topple all you’ve schemed
release your thrown to the landscape
sages with palms to the seams
i will not live just to be alive
i will not stay caught up in this lie
i will find a reason that will outpace fear
or fold my hand and end this here
i will not live to be alive
when every moment living is given over to
the campaign to defy
the one truth we can finally rest in peace with
i will not be without
all that makes this life worth living for
just to get one more step further from the truth
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3. |
Love Lust Blues
02:12
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i am a refuge
i am a captive
i am a fortress longing to be
i am a nomad
i am a conscript
i am a vanguard longing to see
we draw on each other
long into being
all things held in secret
until they’re received
but what if we touch on
and feel the retreat
what if veneer
is allowed its defeat
red alert, red alert
it’s time to lock down the doors
stand back for your safety
the time for love is no more
stay here with me
please stay here with me
just tell me we’re safe here
that i can just be
when the broken in you
finds the broken in me
will we be still together
long enough to finally be received
i am done, i’m undone, i am done
all these parts of me waiting to finally be one
we are sick with a lust for the love
we are monsters when bled from above
we are parts desperately needing home
we are orphans who will not be owned
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4. |
Okazaki
03:28
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well hey there baby
we made it all that we could be
we shed layers of skin
we reached deep within
and we crossed the sea
hello my lover
we made the most with time we had
but then time had us
and ransomed our fate
and now I’m all alone with the tab
hey baby
yeah, you're all that I see
now maybe, yeah you’re all that I can’t see
i’ve lost sight
i can’t find my way out
i need a bearing to read
i need the signs you leave
to reroute my faith in doubt
scrape every inch away of me
and, there you’ll still be
yeah, there you’ll still be
and, so i’m here to see
and, so i’m here to be
and, so i’m here to watch time wash my memories to the sea
all i want is to be free
to feel alive inside of me
there’s no way left for me to take
but how can i take myself away
well, hey there darlin
there are no regrets
sure glad you said yes
that we shared in our best
and found out how true love gets
scrape every inch away of me
and, there you’ll still be
yeah there you’ll still be
all i want is to be free
all i want is to cast myself back to the sea
and I don't know where I'm to go
i know to pace my heart this slow
i've waited here so long it seems
will you still meet me in my dreams
well hey there baby
we made it all that we could be
we shed layers of skin
we reached deep within
and we crossed the sea
hello my lover
we made the most with time we had
but then time had us
and ransomed our fate
and now i’m all alone with the tab
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5. |
Hallucination State
03:14
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you know the sickle, it comes in cycles
allotting time for each new brand to wield it's high hopes
yeah it comes crashing like a tidal
no moment to consult the oracles or idols
all that is hallowed becomes the fallow
prepare the way for the next champion to follow
yeah in this fable we wear a label
today’s last conscript come to show them all your able
this is it, the moment we’ve be waiting for
the one where we make note that we are here, yes we’ve finally arrived
just bring everything you brandish
til it makes all we touch outlandish
and, i could never ever, ever, ever stay
beside the ones who came to exhume our hearts
and seal them all away
we’re lost in symmetries and circles
we can’t tell victims from disciples
we’ll fold this construct across our eyes
its final collapse within our minds
you know the wager, it makes us waver
each day a gamble set to fail by our own saviors
it is the signal with no receiver
the next broadcast that’s silenced by its own believers
and, you and i, we will never ever ever die
but we will scrape it out clean, crawl on in, and eat from inside
this is our one and final moment
and when we’re past the point that we cannot deny
we’ll give it back to the ones
who’ll sink the ship upon the crest of their own lie
our voices scream for the annulment
we’ll fold this construct across our eyes
it’s final collapse within our minds
we’re in the cycle
caught in the cycle
we die to live and be reborn into the cycle
we’ll fold this construct across our eyes
its final collapse, it’s in our minds
and when we walk free what will we find
with arms wide open to the maligned
they told us happiness is the purest of the goods
well it’s a lie, yeah it’s a lie, yeah we’re all just spinning in the lie
to be at peace with the world we hold inside is all we’ll ever need
to be at peace with the world we hold inside is all we’ll ever need
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6. |
Imaginal
02:04
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7. |
Chasing Monsters
02:23
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hopelessly human, this merry go round
built on the ashes of the last boys in town
every brick in this place is a feat all its own
an altar to exalt the stones that we’ve thrown
from our armchairs we reach out and pulverize worlds
our words lit like rags in the bottles we hurl
we reach out and take, we lay waste to dissent
place cocked guns in mouths of the souls we augment
we dance on our pyres, we shout out at the gods
we drown out the voices with our own grand applause
we’re all just racing to maintain the controls
we're all just drowning in the cure we were sold
we’re all chasing the monster
we’re all becoming the monster
yes, the secret’s out, and it's you that I
yes it's you that I, that I ran from
yeah, the secret's out, and, yes, you can see
that you are the one i ran from
and, you can be damn sure that i'm proud of that
i won't be the mark for your healing machine
i won't
i won't give blood to cleanse your tarnishing sheen
i won't
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8. |
Hester
02:41
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we are all of the things
we are all, all of the things
we are all of the things
we are the seeds from which entire worlds spring
why do we strip them away
all of the things that we see
that make us the beings
make us the beauty
make us the lovers we need
what is this shadow untold
this monster that longs to take hold
to lurch at the first crack
to tear at intention
and, lay bare the love we withhold
we came here to devour your sacrifice
we came here for your power
as your ashes rise
we came here to devour
we came here for your power
we are all trying to run from
we just all just want to disguise
the wounds that we hold
that build on their own
a world that will bring our demise
all i want is to be with you
i gave up the world just to be
i take it all back
i take it all back
i just want to be all of the things
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
by the love that we harmed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
by the division we farmed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
by the lovers we harmed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
our thoughts are armed
by the monsters we farmed
we’re all the things
just let me be all of the things
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9. |
FIVE
01:36
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10. |
Haunting
04:05
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