1. |
Dawn
04:18
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Day breaks
Resolve
It takes everything
To stay awake
But sleep steals
All you’ve steeled yourself for
As you fall into
This rut of least resistance
It feels just like
Falling out of love
Thin string
Frays and snaps under the weight
The mask
Falling to the ground
Cracking
To again be donned
At the first sign of light
Now forcing its way
Through to weathered, tired eyes
But I’d gladly hold my peace
If it hadn’t slipped out of my reach
With morning light
This morning’s light
It feels just like
Falling out of love
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2. |
Best Guess
03:59
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What is a man
But a boy’s best guess
Shaking arms to frame
A slipping innocence
But, in a sense,
There’s nothing there to hold
His every hero burns to ash
His optimism sold
For no return
A model’s only role
Is to build you higher up for a farther fall
To where your
First guess decays as forecasted
Deep in its casket
Lying
Hand in hand with the father’s name
And it’s dressed
As he used to be
In his best
A man
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3. |
Weight
03:20
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A corpse
Is the only weight
Heavier
With more
Struggling to keep it above
Out of tortured mind
No time
Crying eyes
All wishing to be
Struck
Emotionally blind
Well she had a crowd
Forced to lay her down
The pallbearers tried their best
But still she sleeps
Deep
Beneath the ground
I swear
There was lead in those bones
And it pulled her away
Not age
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4. |
Rent
06:05
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Driving by
Your house
At night
My fingers
Reach for
Turning signal
It seems that they
Chose not to hear goodbye
And now
We’re way past self-respect
When can we just laugh about this
When can we just laugh
No reason, no way but the way we were
You’re a permanent tenant
In this hotel town
Renting perfect love
To make it feel like a functional house
But sleep’s uneasy
Bags packed
And your key is in the latch
Wake up to single-use towel
And the heart to match
So you left
Packing all the smiles
From my picture frames
You stole them
Now just borders remain
Here where I
Find that I
Need a mirror least
You make this wall of wood and glass
To stare right through me
Why can’t we just laugh about this
Why can’t we just laugh
For
No reason but the way we were
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5. |
Winter
02:36
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If we’d fall here in the snow
We would freeze just where we start
Our hands clasped, safe
From their coming drift apart
Don’t think
It’s not healthy
Just sink
Into silence with me
‘Cause it’s perfect now
And could only get much worse
With time
I’ll find
An enemy of mine
Is sleeping in my bed
Pressed close
Her eyes tight
And our hands as far as joints will allow
No love left for the night
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6. |
Metacognition
04:16
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It’s not the kind of thinking
That you can drown out of your mind
But you can try
So drink it dry
And I will speak in cryptic rhymes
Taking time that was never mine
Never mine
Never mind
So I will take your family tree
And feed through all its branches
Just let the burning keep you warm
No time for second chances
I’ll flood your wounds with platelets
Mending everything in time
All in time
All in time
You know that blame never applies
But you deny; out of mind
Out of mind
Out of mind
So I will strip your family tree
And feed through all its branches
Just let the burning keep you warm
No time for second chances
And I can see by now
That you can’t stand these mental dances
So let self-pity make its move
You never spurn advances
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7. |
Still
03:22
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Racing to red lights
Hurtling past dead end sings
These wheels should spin the world into night
Making darkness from light
But everything’s tinted
By the lenses of second sight
When all to see has been seen before
Who would ever want more
So let fog cover mirrors
It’s the same as yesterday
This is how it all forever will stay
Through the measured decay
So tired of the gradual fade
Demanding new life from every day
New cells from the templates of old
What hope is there for change
Stagnate
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8. |
Bridges
00:56
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9. |
Divest
04:57
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I couldn’t see you
Through the darkness gathering
I couldn’t read you
Through the darkness gathering
Tried to believe that this
Was just a trick of mind
And that your eyes
Had not grown cold
To me
Never wanted anything
To ever mean this much to me
Until you broke me down
Sweet words and promises
Couldn’t have you wandering
Cause I’d invested everything
In these four untested walls
And all they hold within them
I couldn’t reach you
Through the darkness gathering
I couldn’t beat you
To the darkness gathering
Tried not to see it
As the darkness settling
It formed a ring
Above your head
Would’ve promised anything
To keep you with me endlessly
So we could settle down
And watch our children growing old
It seems that you had different plans
That didn’t meet with my demands
So you just slipped away
Instructing, “Never follow”
Why’d you have to leave
If you loved me
You could’ve stayed
Until our dying day
Forever, as they say
Why’d you have to go
I’m lost
Wherever you are now
I hope that we were wrong
Can’t stand the thought of endless darkness
Nothing here to end this darkness
Surely more than endless darkness
For you
My love
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10. |
1158
00:54
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11. |
1159
03:55
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It’s been a landmark year
As the one that has broken us down
The ringing will reach our ears
As a dissonant, desolate sound
Faces will turn to stare
But their features have faded with time
A sea of smooth skin takes care
To conceal every worrisome line
No, it won’t be fine
In its time
When it’s time
That erodes us
It’s all too long
Keep in mind:
Nothing is short until it’s gone
It’s been a landmark year
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12. |
In Time
03:44
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I have shown up at your door
For a thousand moons or more
Each time last minute you postpone
And I’m left waiting in the cold
Alone, for you to let me in
They say that time will heal all wounds
But this stagnation stings anew
Now my façade is so entrenched
That life is watching from the bench
I can’t walk her down the aisle
Between deceit and misery
She could grab me by the hand to find
She’s miles away from me
She’ll snap that warped corrective lens to see
The man she’s made from three
Could never last the years
Under lover’s scrutiny
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