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A Long Shadow
03:21
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You can hear it
You can smell it
You can feel it
You can taste it
You can waste it
You can burn it
You can kill it
You can't erase it
You can't escape it
Do what you want, you can't change it
Is it you or I who's chasing?
If you wanna know, turn around and face it
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2. |
Calmdown
03:07
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Hard to breathe, you just fell in it
Only one way on and off of this planet
It doesn't make sense
Wanna go back to sleep again
It'll all be better when you ascend
I break it down one day at a time
Oh, you've got problems? Well so do I
Ya gotta push it down no matter how hard it is to
Try, all that's drowned out
Only telling ya to calm down
What happens when it's an accident
You're not even thinking about what happened
Then you hit send to a spam email aimed at your head
Pleading to fix it
I hit the brakes when I feel too much
Just leave me
There's plenty of beautiful things worth seeing
I'm a long story
Well as am I, go ahead and bore me
Cut me open, cut me open
Do your surgery
Cut me open, cut me open
Set me free
Cut me
Check my background
Go ahead and calm me down
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3. |
Hole in the Hull
04:06
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Not one thought, where do I go from here?
All I knows that the boat has water up to my ears
I'm a man of many wells but I'm gonna choose myself, if I've got to choose
Suddenly, I rip the veneer
Thrusters leaving me in the atmosphere
And that's why I'm on my own
Oh well
Are you afraid of the dark or miracles?
The tiny fractals on your skin are varicose
I really tend to lose myself when I let go
I'd rather forget times like these the most
Why oh why, must we all die?
And have a reason we keep living this life?
Gotta hang on to a thread
You've gotta hang on
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4. |
Orion
05:08
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Hunting the hunted
Has me wondering
How they feel
Up there
Likely scared
From oranges
To peels
Quicksand in the chest
They become nervous
They'll never see again
Still they stretch back their bows
Into that mirror of hope
Until they realize they face the antelope
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5. |
Aquarius
01:52
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We've got rocks in our bodies no one can sell
So I ask of you, sweet light, what is wealth? This or the place I wish?
Take me where it snows
On the way is quiet and evidently cold
Eventually the sun will fade the dye
A fade is nothing, my darling, to the sky
Floating 'tween points making lines
Too bad you can't fold it enough times
Just look me up come July
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6. |
Wisdom Tooth
05:14
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It's not like I've been here that long
I've been stuck on my words coinciding with my actions
Not trying to be huge
Always been tiny that's what I'm trying to tell you
Happy? Possibly oh possibly, as long as there's efficiency
Going through this thought every moment sticking to my random access
How, when I got no CPU?
Well I guess it's glued to my wisdom tooth
Safety only for a minute
Gotta prove we're independent
But when the power goes out
We're right back sucking every word into our mouths
Going through this thought every moment sticking to my random access
How when I got no CPU?
Well I guess it's glued to my wisdom tooth
It's a learning process
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7. |
Transient
02:42
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I think I can see all my friends
Never thought I'd see a view like this
My face like silk as I move through the wind
Slapped in the face when I hear good morning
That's what they say to me
They tell me I'm dreaming
I'm dreaming
I'd like to offer my hand
If you come with me you'll be glad you went
What's wrong with being transient?
Sometimes I'm alone and that's okay
And they say I'm dreaming
But they don't see what I'm seeing
I'm dreaming
Jumpin' off the concrete
With no one to stop me
Everyone staring at the lines on my feet
I'm dreaming
Thing is I would be
If I could just fall asleep
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8. |
Sophistry
02:51
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Give a man the world
He'd take everything
He'd take everything
But if you gave me the world
I'd give you everything
Give you everything
I'm gone, again
I'm gone, again
I'm friends with myself
Yeah I'm always looking up
From that grave that I dug
No it's never enough, no it's never enough
Give a man the world
He'd take everything
Take everything
I'm gone, again
I'm gone, again
I'm gone, again
I'm friends
With myself
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9. |
Alarm Clock
03:40
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I'm on the axis, stuck in my place
As if I chose it to be a way
And when I do, I'm forced to move
I'm so sick and tired of the everyday
As of now, I'm just fine
Though I miss the mark at times
You let it go
As much as you
As much as I
Like to say
If I could stop time
I'd try and change
Everything
But I just stayed home
Illness is beating our medication
Losing a fight we can't win
Already feeling better now way too many changes
Remind you that it's happening with or without you
Right now, this just sucks
But without digging it up
I wouldn't come out
As much as you
As much as I
Like to say
If I could stop time
I'd try and change
Everything
But I just stayed home
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10. |
Thalamus
01:36
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I am in brightness
But lack interest in squinting lids
You see, it's a fallacy
Stuck between all of my habits
My thalamus
When I'm up in the morning
Stuck on something I'll blank to sleep
While you leave
Wake up and do it all again
Lead to an exit
Oh I'd like to think there is
My thalamus
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