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Uhtceare
05:02
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Call me again if something happens,
It’s better than counting down to nowhere,
That everything, we’re all waiting for,
That we know it isn’t coming, anymore.
Called me again like something happened,
It’s better than rounding down to nothing,
Something you wait patient for
That You know isn’t happening anymore
Held me like a thought, for as long as you wanted to
Hung me by a thread, you got all that you wanted to
They’re cool but painful shoes, I’ll carry you if you want me to
Or muddy them in the street, we’re free to do as they want us to
Like famous last words, no one ever heard.
Called you instead coz something’s happened
This couldn’t wait I’m so sorry Claire
Asked what I’d been pacing for,
Well “there isn’t any future anymore”
Held water like a cause, when nobody was asked to
Imagined how you’d feel, as if you’ve ever wanted to
On point, we are not, you just want someone to answer to
Act like you can’t help it, when nobody wants you to
You had me at “truth”, but no one else heard you
Broke into our house, stole every memory that we ever had
And yeah, it’s bad, because our past, weighs nothing now
So, you carved your teeth with a crucifix, like an accident, an emergency
Like a child actress, in the face of this, I’m so nervous Claire, with the morning here
It’s those selfish shoes, that you stepped into, guess I fell in too.
Like a common thread, or an off-screen friend, I’m a dizzy spell
Getting off your chest, like a hair to split, baby hold my hand until ‘our’ song ends,
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Snake Eats A Lady
04:27
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Snake ate a, I want numb, what is the rush?
Snake ate a, go give them hell for heaven’s pearls
Where sand is tortured glass
Where eyes are tempered bone
Lady is, queen of flies, and spirit thrash
Said, yeah, you can trust me
Yeah, we’re on a kill streak
Said, you know the drill
Yeah, you know me well
Swore I’d kneel before the great uncertainties
We’re just ill equipped, taking the piss
Our plots get lost, so sketch
So, I’m the best drunk text
But loopholes are for gods
And our truest love is not
Who even cares?
If everything is
Temporary
Or so they’re telling me
So, meh so effortlessness
So why do serious?
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All Time Glow
04:43
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Labours of love, but the wrong skin, when we all start with nothing
But you’re where the sky begins, at threshold sentiment
You left them for dead, so we’ll hold our breath for the rest of time,
No more foreplay we’re pure and meant, no-one’s an accident
Says the blanket holes, full of milestones, where a glass gets raised, till it levitates, and everything breaks, while the pieces shake, our mind’s up remade.
If the world’s a hopeless ornament, on the brim of consciousness,
Well the truth it came and went, beginning, middle and end,
And when asked to leave, we’re the souvenirs, in this cemetery, of data entries, like a non-routine, you can’t read between, left in quarantine, the honeymoon suite, where our decency, is their currency , the end isn’t near, it was never here, it was never here.
Now it’s time to see you.
Labours of love, but the wrong skin, since we all start with nothing
But you’re where the sky begins, at near-peak sentiment
Like a jilted groom, or DMZ wound, or a death toll tap, of masters of rings, who will trade their place, with more of the same. So yeah who are we, of complacency, it’s a ticking bomb in an empty street, we’re the sacrifice you’re willing to make, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whatever it takes.
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4. |
Coattails
05:33
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Now there’s a raincloud in the house
And the ceilings are bleeding
Overcome with the feeling
If It is what it is, then times were simpler when?
Your point of view must die with you, coz still it weighs us down.
Vacant is the sodden ground, it’s soaking up our town, the moments circle round
Rolled your smile, like, perfection is a type
And you miss your friends, but now they want you dead
There is just no need
With yet another mouth to feed
Heard but never seen
As the coin spins the self, descends so steadily
To produce of our vanity, we’re so helpless and weak
Drip fed all the pleasantries, like you’d remember me, it remains to be seen
But these winning sides, are all from other times
We’re so blessed, the grass here is greenest
And when you speak to god, does he say son good job?
Or does he cry with us, in their our upturned?
Like ace of wands and terraform, red flags pile up beneath
The Rabbit holes, of misinformed, shed flames behind a screen
So null and void, the argument, the cycle’s there to break
My puzzle piece confuses me, but that’s beyond repair, my eyes are clear and wet
Your luck has pushed, but enough must be enough
You hate playing god, but more when you are not
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Live-In Atrocity
03:25
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Gave us your word said it was safe
Dressed like a stranger, wore opaque
Just say you don’t see it that way
It’s enough to pull thread bare, the frays of coattails.
My head’s trying to talk you out of me
You’re the water that shorts our circuitry
So, I’ll choose my words most carefully
Numbered are your days of plenty
Guess we’re free to fall before your whims
There’s no bars in this prison it’s best
Like as legends has it, life’s a gift
But no one knows what to do with it
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As if faith waits for pillars of proof, well so do you
With a head full of history too, said “feeling cute”
Still, we’re all going home in an ambulance
Best stay cognisant, someone to give the driver directions
Of, blind ambivalence, in the aftermath.
A reckless optimist, of symbolic swells.
We’re all just playing along, two flaws in unison.
Overcome with overthought, until we’re inside out.
Back stepped, all things, conscious, comets, honest, summits.
My inklings fade with false alarms
Her ink face decorates his arms
Tied perfect knots around the tubes
And your mother looks confused
Because you still buy baby’s shoes
Just one’s you know you’ll never use
Spoken like the truest friend
So, make a move, I’ll make the next
The moment passed, it came and went
It never started, never ends.
Traced steps, flawless, conscious, comets, secret, handshakes, complex, dissuade, obsessed, haunted, safe space, flightless, nervous, oh nothing!
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Madonna's People
03:28
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Aged wine face lift
Ghost mage purse lips
Blazed trail pay slip
Made up language
Said so prefect
We’re just a dying breed
There is no in between
Major arcana forfeits
The get out clause you wanted
In the same breath
Begged forgiveness
You’re so big headed
It’s common knowledge
You spoke a dark cloud
With poison in your mouth
Found ways through endlessness
Got passed the senselessness
Wore love just like a fortress
Madonna complex privilege
If progress’s a hollow dream
And Everything between
Is so unextraordinary
Seems meaning’s all in being
We are the dying breed
And Everything between
This started over nothing
But failure’s always more honest
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Overboard
02:51
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Like every dream, left inside a diary
The genius, left inside their padded cell
All is dear and full of lift, it’s hard to get all cut up about it
As the land begins to slide
Our smiles reek of CGI
We’re on the brink of truly nothing
Guess I’m all good with it
Like every face, left upon a missing sign
And flowers, left inside their beds to die, so yeah
Punchlines hit home, too close, low blows
Underplayed my overflows
No more words I can’t think of any
Overshared them till I was empty
So gently placed my ear to the ground
Listened hard but couldn’t make it out
It was everything that is and ever was
All talking to me at once
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Big Ideal
03:25
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Your words are on display
In the back room of my brain
Thought all my thoughts belonged to me, but you say all mine clearly.
Showed us where downward spirals end, said wheels can reinvent.
It looks worse than it hurts
But what you said it worked
When the voice of reason couldn’t speak, you were a voice for me
Answered life’s questions for us both, and I just wish you could know
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10. |
The Mouth Of
05:17
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It’s a desperate climb to relevance well soak up the view,
The trees, the air, and things, you know they’re all just for you, server dilutes
As sceptics thread apparantries shred ribbons of air,
Forms paranormal crushes such predictable news, your traditional views
Cadenced alien feels….
Where, where we found a pin, you fixed it on me, wished I would believe, good luck was for me, too.
Now dusk bleeds, all over her cheeks
Of gold pleats, may your dreams be sweet
Our timelines move like circles they all start with an end
The ground remembers us you’d swear we we’re past life friends, to terrestrial ends
Flashbacks purged, forbidden words, things are as they were
Says the calm hands of a gambler’s guess is as good as mine, made dilate time
Nuanced foreign bodies….
Where, this campaign button, you wore it so proud, you knew I’d believe, I still have it now.
Now dusk bleeds, all over her cheeks
Of gold pleats, may your dreams be sweet
Unsolved, murderous and vanished
A precious, chandelier’s debris
Now black beads, trickle down her cheeks
You’re so pretty, I can barely speak
Of our monstrous, darling ricochets
You killed mine, set lose yours away
Now dusk bleeds, all over her cheeks
Of gold pleats, may your dreams be sweet
Unsolved, murderous and vanished
So precious, brokered me a deal
Now black beads, trickle down her cheeks
You’re so pretty, I can barely speak
Felt you, sore the nights with comets
You lived, for the same moments that I did
Now gold beads, drape across her cheeks
Of black beads, lest your dreams be sweet
You’re so pretty, you dressed the night with diamonds
You died, for the same reasons that I will
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I wished I’d been the centrepiece
Upon a shrine made of your feelings
On a tightrope love of balance beams
Always trying to find some meaning
Like every road has two ways to go
When the right direction comes you will know
But sometimes you just can’t do
What you know you’re supposed to
The future once clung to our legs
And it followed wherever we went
We saved away all of our borrowed time
I didn’t care I could never pay back mine
My life’s my only gift your go to
Something sacred I’d gift to you
But such a fate so definite can wait
Because the truest love we’re still to make
You could never truly live
If you could never truly die
You’re not just anyone
Nowhere near
You can never truly live
But I promised myself
It was better to try
Better to try
And if we find ourselves in a snowball fight
I’d still want you on my side
You sang the praises of the shade below your lemon trees
Well I hope you know it’s still you I rest beneath
Let’s break our promise, see it through
Find some new guns to stick to
But you said to bury mine with kindness first
Before they tunnel their way out way worse
Wish I’d been the masterpiece
Hung on a wall within your heart’s museums
But this custom-made costume fits
Nowhere near as well as you think
It’s all well and good, having dreams
And I know the dust will settle down eventually
On a little piece of heaven just for me
Things work themselves out, they always do
But why’d I have to go and fall in love with you
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