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Decrescendo
03:22
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Can’t help feeling It’s my time
Checked each box labored over each line
Standing patient in the tracks
Waiting for the bullet to reach the line
But All’s Okay in outer space
All is right within it’s time and place
Still I cannot knock the vibe
Face was lost and part of me has
I hear million-dollar snaps
Stand-ins for real heartbreak
Sorrow has never ever sounded
Never sounded quite so fake
I see you smile at them
I see you smile at everyone
It’s a damning invocation
To try and fool
The sun
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Silent City
03:46
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Cancelling everything you did today
Running at a cheetah’s pace
Buildings crumbling in place
Towers lining up to pray
Mastering the higher grace
Graded on your best refrain
Finding out the inner realm
Is harder than the outer race
Channeling everything you need for faith
Into something less inane
Trading in the kingdom
For Pieces of a common game
Maybe that investment made
Is no longer worth what you paid
Don’t turn around
You might miss the light of the others
Make some space, examine it slowly
Make some space, examine it slowly
Make some space, examine it slowly
Make some space, and find you place ‘fore it’s done
It’s all that you get
It’s all that we get
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3. |
Uncanny Valley
05:13
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Find Caroline looking at the time
in a tube on a track
See Meredith contemplate death
from a bird in the sky
Watch the pale dot lose another shade
as the command line shifts
Mark the destination with a fine metal line
no blood reached there
Search deep inside it
Try to find a common name
None of us decided
To enter into this game
Know that what divides it
Never would sustain without us
(without us)
There’s no change
Hear the mad king sprout another lie
Out of a fearful heart
Insecure godhead with the wild west mind
Turns away once more
Nothing’s worth saving if it doesn’t stand time
No island is bare
Search deep inside it
Try to find a common name
None of us decided
To enter into this game
Know that what divides it
Never would sustain without us
(without us)
There’s no change
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this must be the place
06:07
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Behold the archo
piece of art deco
Forged in a furnace
of flesh and bone
Take it for granted
but sooner or later
These words will utter
in a harsh tone
(Peace comes to those who wait)
(Peace)
Comes to those with patience
transient nature
Opens your heart and
taps into veins
Taking the high road
modest crescendo
Makes the heart full of
embers and grace
(Peace comes to those who wait)
They say it felt like a new life
Nothing was left unsaid
Took stock of all that surrounded us
Nothing felt alive or dead
Saw something there in the middle
Infinity without dread
Ask yourself “can it suffer?”
If not, it’s in your head
(Peace comes to those who wait)
If your sense of safety
is monumental
Fettered and tangled
in your self-worth
Maybe it’s time to
find a new angle
Matters existence
in we and you
(Peace comes to those who wait)
They say it felt like a new life
Nothing was left unsaid
Took stock of all that surrounded us
Nothing felt alive or dead
Saw something there in the middle
Infinity without dread
PLEASE ask yourself “can it suffer?”
If not, it’s in your head
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