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Fold
04:27
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She folds herself in on herself
Your mother still protects her belly
She knows that’s where life flows from
You will find unfamiliar lines
That you will feel with weakened fingers
And won’t your life have changed when your eyes open…
Is that one friend? Is this one foe?
I’ve not the eyes to see the difference
Without you beside me I stumble blindly
And as for our endless sacrifices, mom
Here’s my best-kept secret
I don’t think we’ll live to see the difference.
We won’t have seen a change nor suffered indifference.
Now stand by mother and don’t you cry
Hard she’ll try but pain will find you
As countless parasites take arms against you
What could she give up of herself
To protect, to guide, to comfort?
Could she beg the world to show you mercy?
Is that one friend? Is this one foe?
I’ve not the eyes to see the difference
Without you beside me I stumble blindly
And as for our endless sacrifices, mom
Here’s my best-kept secret
I don’t think we’ll live to see the difference.
We won’t have seen a change…
Tell me when to fold.
Tell me when the coast is clear
Show me how to cross my own lines
Take a switch to me should I disobey you
And as for your endless sacrifices, mom
Here’s my next best secret
I don’t think I’ll live to thank you enough
Tell me when to fold.
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Perry
04:05
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I am a follower of everything you do
My loving predator, you’ll know this when I’m through
That you are the only one with whom I know any sense of unity
I long to tell you my funny little dream.
The two of us were dead, though nothing really changed
You were the perfect one and I was still deranged
So there we stood, apparitions
Poised to pounce on the unlucky ones
Dreamt I was aimed at them out of my control, Perry.
I am a follower wherever you may be
My precious predator you’re perfect, I can see.
And I see all things were born to die
As you lick your fur and wipe it dry
Perry, I’ve had so much die on me, too.
I am a worshipper, no matter where you are
Never let you fall behind, nor lead by very far
And as the worms draw ever close
They can tell we’re only animals
But I dreamt I could keep you alive indefinitely…
So I’ve heard it told-
All lives love or otherwise must grow cold.
All hands must hold them, and all lines must cross through you.
I cross through you too, Perry.
I am a follower of everything you do.
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Anxiety
03:41
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Love, I’m so busy looking for something better
I’ve missed perfection slipping out the door.
Love, I get dizzy writing these cryptic letters.
I’ve lost direction, closing every door.
Love, there’s no reason to worry
You’re here in my heart when my vision is blurry
And all of this panic becomes a simple choice.
But Love, how I am filled with obsessions!
No one gets answers when asking me questions.
And I just get lost in the vibrations in your voice.
And I can never understand
The wicked things people demand
They wanna tear you limb from limb or make you beg for mercy from their dirty hand.
I wanna know that all is fine.
I wanna touch you all the time.
I wanna roam within the heads of men and pour compassion on their minds.
Love, don’t you dance with liars
Trying to set your world on fire!
No, they’re just desperate for feeling
They cry when you stand and they kick when you’re kneeling
Love, life is full of pressure
Don’t let its cloud of tortures catch ya
Though I’m told there’s reason somewhere in the fog.
None of us will sleep tonight
Our present fears eclipse our sight
We can’t see clear because we hate the light.
So none of us will sleep tonight.
All my life panic, rest, panic.
All my life is out the back door.
All my life is slipping out sideways.
And all this panic makes me sick.
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Rhythms
03:45
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Stay low.
Don’t so soon go.
Some lonely unforgiving ghost
Might swallow me sorrow and all.
Still sore?
Linger no more
We’ll all be there to dance away
The pain of remembering your eyes.
You’d run a hundred years and come home with nothing
But rhythms as clear as your eyes.
Stay ‘til carelessness kills
The most driven rhythm in your bones
If you say “remember” I will.
Still sore.
Struggle no more!
How high you’ll aim and far you’ll go
While most of us lay dreaming..
Stories pass.
The endings are nothing.
But why would you leave them to chance?
We tried to call you back.
We cried ‘til there was nothing
But rhythms as clear as your eyes.
Did you see me on your way out?
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5. |
The Passing
04:32
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Turning the channels today
Smoking the reasons away
Said they've already a name
So soon, and someone to blame
Let's keep him alive for our stones
Broader our crying abounds
Louder their laughter resounds
Now our towers have burned
Some say we'll never return to normal
We're passing through slowly
Your surprise seems so strange
Your wars are unholy, unholy and you should change.
Moving in waves tonight
Crossing the ocean to fight
To deliver messages of might
Splashes, flashes of light.
Keep him alive for our stones.
Now our towers have burned
Some say we'll never return to normal
Never a day will pass we don't remember this, you assholes...
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6. |
Brother With Wings
03:41
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I feel the wings given to me
So they’ll spread and I will be free
Once again I’m bound to leave
Behind the things I once thought would save me.
In the dark we’re paralyzed
Dreaming through another’s eyes
And if another brother dies
Then, for sure, the world will hear my cries.
So long, my brother, since you first came to us
You were smiling like the sun that kindergartners draw.
Light shined from your eyes, giving life to gray skies
But now I’m in the dark and paralyzed.
In the midst of summer days
The kids parade and music plays
And sparrows dance in sparrow ways.
All the world wishes time would stand still.
My brother, everybody knows
Winter comes as summer goes
So I’ll carry something of you
And pray that men leave you in peace.
So long, my brother, since I last gazed upon you.
You were staring from the ground in your death trance.
Blood rolled down your arm; still I held your hand
And you saw my wings and begged that I fly you home.
I feel the wings given to me.
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Taken
03:04
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I confess I succumbed to temptation
Descending on me like a raven.
Was I blind, or drunk on ambition?
A staggering fool at the point of submission.
Maybe you could listen…
The moon was strong and the air so tempting
And the fix of her eyes said plenty.
The palms of my hands were sweating
And the scent of the wine told me I’d be regretting
Something I was forgetting.
I will find a warm place
Where on my dying day
I will have my last dance.
It’s beautiful, but it’s not romance
Her eyes were like cries for her mother.
And I swear I heard Cane begging God for a new baby brother.
Now what did you expect?
All your thoughts blow this way.
Only fools fly down here…
Yes, I succumbed to temptation
Opened my arms to the raven
Will she fly away when he finds us?
Should I be the first to flee for the lives I’d be saving?
On her wings I am taken.
I will find a warm place
Where on my dying day
I will have my last dance.
It’s beautiful, but it’s not romance
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8. |
Chrysalis
06:53
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I look to you for reason through maddening seasons
Won’t you come, my light and my voice?
And I keep as a chrysalis, always changing
I will come with light and a choice.
Everything we cover you feel is hunted
By some secret, hungry and cold.
So I save in a cocoon, safe from secrets
We are here as providers of choice.
I will change, Love.
We may have lost our shelter
And if so we can’t afford to lie.
Our fear of heights, my dear
May just be what keeps us ever high.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know our world is hell
I love you more than tears might tell.
To you I pray and you I save
Lest this fear should bury us.
I look to you for power through maddening hours
Won’t you come, my light and my voice?
And I save us in a cocoon, safe from secrets
We are here as providers of choice.
I will change, Love.
Darling, I weep with you.
Secrets I might keep with you
Will hold us high.
I will change, Love.
We may have lost our shelter
And if so we can’t afford to lie.
Our fear of heights, my dear
May just be what keeps us ever high.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know our world is hell
I love you more than tears might tell.
I’ve dissolved my life in yours
Hoping you’ll provide the both of us
With a choice.
Change with me, Chrysalis.
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Feathers And Bones
05:31
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As I recall the sky was bright.
I made my way to the forest while there was still light.
I’d hunt for answers, armed with ego.
Anywhere silence went the truth was sure to go.
But the woods were dark and full of sound.
A weeping sky had last night soaked the ground.
I hung a dead squirrel from a dead tree
To mark the twisted trail so you could find me…if necessary.
I tried to sleep ‘til I heard the bird.
When a raven cries his croak sounds like words
I’ve never tried to hurt anyone
But this shrieking voice condemned the things I’ve done.
I’ve blown my days to smithereens
My skies are filled with ashes
And I’m spinning faster
Crashing to your ocean
Into your ocean…
I couldn’t speak, nor hear the tones
Which once was raven, and now feathers and bones.
Suddenly I missed your taste
So strong the reason, so wrong the strength I waste.
And I shutter to think of you alone
In the world I love and fear the more I roam
What time will do with us I don’t know.
Hold my hand…we’ll write it as we go.
We’ll write it as we go.
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