1. |
Lighter
04:00
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Making way thru the door 'fore he expires.
The blinking light the voice that caught on fire.
Shifting words, interpreting expressions to
any outcome where he's not on the line.
The last thing he'll see - a blanket & a goodbye.
Woke up early...still there when he arrived.
Can't ignore the door did he walk on past it
when he was out of their authority.
Maybe a way but now why would you bother
we'll just keep taking in more water.
Is it ok to lose your mind and walk away.
Woke up early, still there when he arrived.
Would you take it personally if I returned another time.
I lost my chance to hold my breath.
But in the event, the voice in my head went deaf.
Didn't sink too low, now I'm surfacing.
Might as well admit again.
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2. |
Alright
03:13
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Monopolize my mind, taking all you can
I've lost the time to fade away.
& float into an ecstasy that pretends to guide me on.
Submerged beyond my faculties can bear & I can't see.
Fate's not enough, I'm done. I'm sick.
But it's alright.
Can I feel alright.
Can we be alright all night?
Complicate or shine, when time was not a beast perched at my door.
I can't pretend the things that died so long ago aren't yet to bloom again.
Finding out how to cut out the life that feeds the rot.
The same supply that I've been feeding from.
Lost sight, when I swore I was right.
But will we be alright, all night.
I don't know where this is going.
I don't know.
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3. |
Cheer
03:10
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Crashed reading warning signs.
Wait to breathe on the air you traded patience for.
Rain, for which you prayed.
Now has you displaced.
Your crime rises.
Your crime rises to the top.
The answer is your own truth, but they ask why.
Ignored all the signs.
You cheer the end.
I cheer the end.
For all different reasons.
Now you get to be right.
Now...you get to be right.
I don't wanna seem like I feel any way at all.
Operating under the best impressions of ourselves.
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4. |
Tried
02:55
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I tried to make improvements on a station but I was caught
by a man who lost the papers that I never sent.
So I climbed on down, pretend I read the contract wrong.
Where'd it go?
I don't know.
Please let me go.
I know it's somewhere in my home.
I'd like to speak to the one in charge.
I think they called me better go & show my card.
I should not have shown my face
I think they're on to me.
Squad cars all around.
Are my ears just hot or is that security.
Rub a man's rhubarb, I said my friend just might be kin.
So I feigned an interest in the chance to legally return again.
That's not my bag.
That's not my photograph.
It looks like me,
but my lady has my ID.
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5. |
Busy
02:00
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I felt the fear reading over my shoulder.
I quipped "it's left to right."
and that old bastard said goodnight.
Can't decide where to stand,
to be scared or unprepared.
Sudden stop of the digits punch.
Let's keep on listening.
Yada yada yada, I don't wanna know.
Yada yada yada, I don't wanna go.
Waiting on time and in all the wrong ways.
Mania bled for us all,
but we're still stuck with yesterday.
Back when I decided to be blissfully unprepared
I had not yet heard the calling, so like...
I gotta be somewhere later on tonight.
I'm busy growing my hair out tonight.
I gotta be somewhere later on...
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