1. |
Goodbye
03:36
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I can tell you
But you don't really want me to
I can kill you
But I don't really want to
I can kill you
To kill me
You never said goodbye
To it all
Iniquities sold
You’re just a voice on the phone
So I drown in salt
Where do I even begin?
Where?
Where do I even
Where do I even begin?
Watch time erode
Flesh into disappointed skin
I can take you
To the path in the forest
(Watch time erode)
Where the body lays
(Flesh into disappointed skin)
I think I’ve been there
But I don’t think they noticed
(Watch time erode)
Didn’t notice
(But did you notice?)
Notice me
I can tell you
But you don’t really want me to
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2. |
Control
02:48
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I lose control
And madness is taking me over
Fighting within my empty mind
I’m bound to find
What’s winning me over
Is the thoughts of you
Are still alive
If you’re still alive
The essence of headstones
An armchair sewn
And left to tuck us away
Filthy nails
Digging for my attention
With answers ashes away
The entrance of headstones
Like rows of teeth
With flecks of
Indignation in-between
Ancient signals
Calling ‘til
The lights don’t bend
Up until the end
A feather of onyx
A cellar door
Creaking to open to blame
I can hear it
I swear I can hear it
The shrillest voice that’s left
To remember a name
A hundred voices tell me
I’m the one
The petal sleeps against
The stone and mud
Waiting for the words to come
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3. |
Mirrors
03:08
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Birdsong, won’t you
Sing along
To this analog tune?
Powerlines, she said,
Sizzle fine in these
Summertime blues
So there’s
Still a way
Still a way
Of getting through
To you
So she says
I cannot speak
I cannot hear you
I cannot see
I only show truth
Try me and see
I see you down to
Down to your hollow bones
So why not you?
‘Cause I fled to
January, January
For a place to sleep
And I fled to February
For a heart to take
So do you think there’s
Still a way
Still a way
Of getting through
To you?
So she says
Find words
(Speak and you’re never left)
Fine lines
(Out the space of a page)
(In that cage that you kept)
Hollow bones
('Cause that’s where I am no longer home)
Hollow life
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4. |
Nature
04:06
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What can you do
When life is temporary?
These sheets lay stained
Down at the cemetery gates
I’ll wait for you, my ghost
Please don’t be late
What can you do?
What can you do?
Keep telling people that you’re
Lonely now
Become the last thing that they'll see
If human nature is
So lonely now
And you’re the last thing that I’ll see
Then you’re the last thing that I’ll see
Abacination to time
Lacerations in a mortal frame
They sing
Do as I say
Not not as I do
Or you’ve got it coming to you
Bastards
They told me so
Slick tar down the neck
From the fatal blow
Cliffside with an ichor grip
Gravity in the pit
As I let this slip
The undertow
Not what you needed
What you had to know
To live
When the universe comes
Spilling past the eye
The animus you swear you
Left behind
Spilling past the eye
Spilling past the eye
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