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Just This
03:42
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Each day's a study in monochrome.
Every night, the same fucking song.
So much so, I cannot tell:
is this my life?
Am I sleeping still?
Slipping into the routine
and everything else just melts away.
Chipping away at the stones of my foundation.
Everything there is.
Every day I am.
The ocean is so clear today.
I'm watching you through the waves.
It's all there is, it's just this.
Sink down to me, let's coexist.
And if this moment suits your taste,
dance with me beneath the waves.
It's all there is, it's just this.
Sink down to me, let's coexist.
Slipping into the routine
and everything else just melts away.
Chipping away at the stones of my foundation.
Everything there is.
Every day I am.
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2. |
Creature Comforts
03:20
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Here inside this place
I can hide my face.
This is where I'll stay... right here.
Until my fears just go away.
Drinking down the dregs of denial;
drowning out the fear and the pain.
Creature comforts to insulate.
Wrap me in your warm embrace.
Please hold me.
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With our eyes to the skies,
searching for angels.
Fingers pointing,
looking for demons.
All our humanity,
all of our beauty lost
and buried in illusion.
Without each other we're nothing at all.
There is no one speaking these words.
There are none to hear.
Nothing lost, there's nothing to find.
Before the cause, nothing at all.
Dirt and stone, the ground we walk.
Concrete and steel, these are heaven's walls.
Now and now, again we fall.
Without each other, we're nothing at all.
Shrieking through these speaker cones.
Rumble, rumble, rattle my bones.
Always been so sure that I exist.
But then I looked and looked,
and found that it's just this.
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4. |
Tribes
03:32
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Hey.
So you figured it out?
You're only fooling yourself.
I'd tell you what I've learned, but I -
I'm just another fool.
If I cut off my legs, maybe I can fly.
How the hell did we get here in the first place?
I only make promises I can't keep.
I only cross bridges I will burn.
Only the present means anything to me
Completely free, I am desperately empty.
Destroying foundations to touch the sky.
If I cut off my legs, maybe I can fly.
Erasing traditions to pave the way.
But wait, how the hell did we get here in the first place?
Transcend, include. There's no going back.
Let's trade, upgrade, take a new tack.
Lords and demigods, the myths of old
united tribesmen, helped us to grow.
Some shed these fairy tales, and rightly so.
But you might think twice before you shed your soul.
What's the meaning of meaninglessness?
What's it like to live without purpose?
Well, now we know.
Destroying foundations to touch the sky.
If I cut off my legs, maybe I can fly.
Erasing traditions to pave the way.
But wait, how the hell did we get here in the first place?
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5. |
Faith
03:15
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Cracks in the walls in the home of my tradition.
I want to understand.
I need to know.
And no one else can see,
because no one else will look.
They say 'close your eyes'.
I'm trying to fly a little higher.
I know how to love a little deeper.
And I am, you are, as Christ was:
I am I AM.
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6. |
Running Far
03:32
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A coffin here of my design.
A clouded lens, it's just my type.
Undoubtedly my darkest night.
I'm giving up on daylight.
And I don't want to rememeber.
Dead skin, brittle nails,
pale as a ghost, and deader than most.
Ghostly white, this frightened soul
full of woe, fear, dread, is dead and dry.
Turn away, push it all down.
I don't want to remember.
Running far cause I fuck it all up.
I don't want to remember.
Turn away, this loneliness;
How do I break the cycle?
Running far from loneliness,
I'll never break the cycle.
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7. |
No Boundary
02:37
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Gonna ride that train
far as I can.
Like Jesse James, West 92
misery, man.
And when I arrive, who will I be?
What will I find staring at me?
What lies beyond the borderline?
The smallest thing, the littlest word.
The tiniest thought, the oldest murderer.
Us
Them
Us
Them
Us
Them
Such a simple idea.
It's killed a million men.
Us
Them
Us
What have we learned?
Still beating ourselves down.
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8. |
The Lesser Sin
04:12
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Happy ever after turns to tears.
Haven't seen a happy person in years.
Gotta think of something.
How far would you go?
The lesser sin...
How far is too low?
It's sink or swim.
And just how would you know?
It's you or them.
Tell me, how far would you go?
It's you or them.
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9. |
No. 4
04:48
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(instrumental)
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10. |
We Ate the Morning Sun
02:53
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Staying true, staying true...
the hardest thing to do.
With the weight of the world crushing down,
we fall.
And we rise.
We are the morning sun.
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11. |
Beloved
02:05
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I know You can hear me.
I've been silently screaming for You.
I need You to be near me.
To just hold me when everything else falls away.
Beloved, in this moment,
You're all I see.
You're the one for me.
Beloved, in every moment,
You're the death of me.
You're just like Me.
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Stays-the-same Kansas City, Missouri
Equal parts EDM, alt-rock, and metal with pop styling.
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