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Estranged
02:40
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Suspend your disbelief
A loss or lack of faith
In lustful gloom this lurking ache
A chase that never stops
Attachment reoccurs
The shallow ways I'll prove my worth
Was your composure compromised?
Was your dignity sacrificed?
Are you staring in
mirrors all smoke, cloak and daggers?
Ten years on the run left me damaged and ragged
Each moment stark, marked with poignancy
I've grown tired of the city and the city's gotten sick of me
A boring endless catalogue of apologies
Shadow powers of recall,
whatever brings you ease
Dealing in ignorance, a roll of the dice just to exercise conscience
An eternity to repent.
Welcome doubt into your home, it's enough to stir the ghosts
Invite doubt into your bones, preempting that sting
I closed the door and kept the darkness in
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2. |
Raumdeuter
05:16
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Separate me from what creates balance
To deserve to be let down
What soaks up and sobers?
The prison of twilight
Peace will not absolve this
Cut these cords.
Let it unravel
Let it flood through every floor
Teach me a lesson
Build upon my disgrace
The unbearable flaws of it all
Torrents crash without warning
Unlatch from the notion that this is binding
Figments strike out in passing
To be parched always eternally
Here lies what we've feared
Just let it pass
Take cover from the all seeing sun
Bewitched by the glare
Let it wash over you
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3. |
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I will not face this retribution
I know what's futile
It's wicked and reckless
Make it discreet
Torch it all
It's forever faulted and fallen
Dawn to dusk, the first and last
Entirely tarnished by the past
Is it enough?
Repulsion flocks beneath the skin
The primary cause, consumed but adored
To host such passion, but desolate and drawn
The falseness of enchantment
The fractures in such deep devotion
Is it enough?
The love and hate, the loyalty
Clawing through by the skin of your teeth
The love and hate, the loyalty
Desire and torment, it’s everything and nothing, this promise of bliss
But fractured and brittle, infinite and unconditional
An undivided fantasy
Which you can't bare to see beneath
The host of heaven
Swallowed down into this darkness
It's no defeat. I
t's not enough
Sworn to by faith
Burning for eternity
Infinite and unconditional
Sworn to by faith
Burning for eternity
It's not enough
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4. |
Prelude III (Phantoms)
01:42
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All of your greatest failures
Committed to memory
Like the words of a secret
Or the sound of a melody
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5. |
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No measured mark of wit
Wisdom or rhetoric could solve this
Too fractured to endear
Bonds broken, beyond view
With all roads leading here
Fettered by an endless blue
But I held the arrows
I pulled the strings
And bottled messages
Never to be seen
But I held the arrows
I pulled the strings
In fits and starts
It can blossom and bloom
But I held the arrows
I pulled the strings
In fits and starts
It can blossom and bloom
The shot at the moon still falls short of the stars
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6. |
Unseen and Unknown
00:37
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7. |
Stage Knives
03:52
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I pulled up the roots just to see
I’ve felt differently since about disappearing
I placed myself back in the weeds
In echoes in alleys I’m reminded
(As close to closure as we’ll come
As close to composure as I’ve come)
I’d immersed myself in beauty
And find it all vanishing
Empty.
Longing and vulnerable
Sharpen your knives
Neither a pawn nor a king
I am nowhere
I am nothing
For this betrayal that’s how I should be seen
Wearing scars I deserve
On a throne of nothing
Ethereal and haunting
The wandering and yearning
Characters I’ve kept
Plot less and neglecting
The architect and monument
Neither here nor there
Forever elsewhere
And so it goes
There’s consequence
To these vowels and consonants
And I came as close to heaven as I’ll come
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8. |
Crystal Cascades
03:20
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A wave cascading
Our glory fading
I felt the world greying
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9. |
Chandelier Shiver
02:14
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10. |
Funereal
04:57
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At war within, to suppress everything
The more you struggle the deeper you sink
Thoughts form in constellations
Now emerge composed
Nothing is sacred
Electrified by hatred
Nothing is sacred
These threats accumulate
Nothing is sacred
Purified by hatred
Lose and lack control
You'll find you ever only reap what you sow
Ward off the brightest stars
They are primed with tragedy
Get a handle on this harmony
Get a handle on this harmony
Faith is ill advised
Relapse is a choice
Get a handle on this harmony
Get a handle on this harmony
I am eclipsed. It's so bittersweet
I struggle to draw breath when we are so restricted
Observe these passing waves
Forgive the missing pieces
I struggle to draw breath when we are so restricted
In finding the balance now that the weight has shifted
And with all my being I know that I don't need this
To hear "to be in need is some kind of weakness"
I observe spirited loyalty
And wonder why this does not apply to me
Bitterness has bathed me
I feel destruction overwhelm me
For we're the loss, follow our slowing pulse
Practice makes permanent
For we're the loss, follow our slowing pulse
I am eclipsed.
It's so bittersweet
Bitterness has bathed me
I feel destruction overwhelm me
I am eclipsed. It's so bittersweet
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11. |
All That Has Gone Before
07:19
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At the end, see this will close with clarity
Leave nothing unturned, searching for perfection
Let it commence
The hold this has on me
Strengthened by the permanence of scars
We can't be loved as we are
Deafened by discontent, I am nowhere
The hold this has on me
How it orbits the fallen, in this uneasy calm
We can't be loved as we are
The dull numbness of demise, I let it die
To search for the other half in this uneasy calm
With this rise and set, shattered sharp misery
In the sweetness of these secrets
There's structure to this ruin
To flee from the other half in this uneasy calm,
Hidden in the permanence of scars
Disconnected and undone
Devastated by these ruins, I am nowhere
We can't be loved as we are
With the rise and set, I am nowhere
I am nowhere
There is no glory in the air
(Hidden in the permanence of scars)
We can't be loved as we are
With the rise and set, I am nowhere
(The dull numbness of demise, I let it die)
This will close with clarity
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