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Birthmark
06:18
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"Birthmark"
I'm covered in coma everywhere,
every time I get stoned.
Leaving the outside world out there,
all the clues that I'm alone.
Never not daydreaming.
Looking out into space.
Lost the keys a long time ago.
This door is facing me.
Complicate things,
what could go wrong?
Everything wants to eliminate me.
I muster the sigh until I'm outside.
One foot out the door.
Turn back and hide.
My paranoia.
Reverse my steps,
crawling this way.
Diluted ones,
distracted with obsession.
Distracted forever,
no smoke clears.
My spawn you've wasted your time.
Lie in my trap,
can't unsee the world outside.
Never not daydreaming.
Disaster to no end.
It felt like it would.
I'd get there much faster,
if I could just see straight.
Birthmarked to walk alone.
Run or stay?
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Perfect Host
04:30
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"Perfect Host"
Possessed again,
full weight.
Demon at play,
show your teeth.
Screaming myself fast asleep.
Can we do it again?
Whom shall I confide in?
Nightmare.
Woke up the same,
nothing new.
Everything's fogged,
clear my eyes.
Can I get out?
Ripping through the clouds
in my dreams.
Just to make me run through
your broken maze.
Perfect host,
you are attached to me.
Let us repeat the cycle.
No point talking,
We're the same.
Along came this imposter to me.
Like a rat through your maze.
Living blind.
Feed me promise through a hole.
Involuntarily cling to your words.
Bonded for life,
I'm perfect.
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Outcast Of A Dying Mind
04:42
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"Outcase Of A Dying Mind"
Drain,
you're bleeding me,
Anything you want from me.
Drink,
even the sea,
deprived of everything.
If I wanted a mistake,
I would go with you.
I felt my feet swell,
then it came to me.
I dealt for hours of my life,
your grand scheme.
Hey mister warden,
I want out of here.
Hey mister omen,
I once bled just to be clear.
Home's what you see in the day.
Trickle on then you'll see my dark.
We are the same,
introvert.
Why worship the god you like?
Trouble on the mental range.
Outcast of a dying mind.
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Pressure
05:28
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"Pressure"
Breathe as if my life is sane.
Keep going on somehow.
Believe in too many things.
Don't I seem fine?
I always try to get out of my cage.
Anxiety greeting me.
Look me in the eye while I look at the floor.
Allow me to close the front door.
I'll shut you out so easily.
Go away and let me be.
Too many times I tried for you,
but I'm not set to carry on.
Willing face. I know the truth.
In my own skin I can't fake,
the life you want me to fake.
Feel myself collapse.
Everything from front to back.
Giving out my soul to take.
Live this hell with no mistakes.
Why the face so long?
Never get me out.
Pressure,
into the void.
Here I am. I'm stuck.
Stand here. Loser.
No one will celebrate me now.
Paint the scene without you.
Why's that so hard?
Come on,
try harder.
I'm drifting from you all.
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Shapeshifter
05:10
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"Shapeshifter"
Two faces look your way.
Disguise melts away.
Counterfeit deity.
Creature not known to me.
Thought to be the savior.
They must all look to you.
Get off the conveyor.
Through the fog,
coming at you,
with sharp teeth.
I don't recognize you at all.
Disguises, all I know.
Lift up the rock you've been under.
Come out from there.
I guess that's ok,
hostile for all,
Yes sire.
Fire words from the gun.
Empty the clip inside me.
Delighted to see it there,
world's sorrow.
Delighted to keep you there,
until tomorrow.
For days my room,
belonged to you.
My soul was bare,
no details.
Sunlight so far away.
Sunlight became extinct.
Follow your pace,
legs give out on me.
Follow your grace,
there is no cure.
Fradulent face,
shifts back again.
Something's not right.
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Misguided
04:57
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"Misguided"
No one can see,
they just wipe away the crime.
Person not like me,
kill for pleasure and that's fine.
Rip the spine,
let it consume the human.
Be, in time, alive.
Consume!
Lay awake tonight.
Comfort to your cancer.
Five hundred nights,
you just felt the need to separate the two.
Even if you try,
you can't saturate the good.
Feel the weight,
you might mistake.
Misguided and annoyed.
Felt the weight,
you made mistakes 'cause that's you.
A life you never took.
Cast your thoughts aside,
let them turn.
Your way can be tame,
or insane.
And you,
only you will know.
If only your good didn't fade to death.
If only your good was not a blank canvas.
What you know,
enlighten me.
I know I won't return.
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Through The Mirror
06:24
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"Through The Mirror"
Clear the smoke.
Rewrite,
make it clean.
Life can be a joke,
if you want it to be.
I thought it was comforting,
to have it staring back at me,
through the mirror.
Gave my heart out to this friend.
Same luck,
never again.
Familiar face but not my own.
Who's that merchant on that side,
selling my soul?
Unrelated vote.
I called to cast you out,
make you gone.
Forget about you.
For shame,
my other lied.
I cut the chains this time.
Burn slow,
love the smoke.
My portrait of pure black.
Cut away from this scene.
Make the world stop for me.
And of course won't you throw it away?
My, aren't you insightful?
Place your own mark,
across me for so long.
Fill up my body,
cloud my own mind.
I simply don't belong.
Splitting brain,
right down the center.
Hoping to find the right piece,
for this situation.
If I never snap out of it,
should I stay waiting in my fortress?
For my sake,
create new buttons for you.
Alone no more.
Long wait,
I stayed for you.
And I'm ready to set it off with you.
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The Stage
06:12
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"The Stage"
It's you adoring all the man in me.
Might words that you made up,
and never meant to say to me.
In such good taste.
Accurate that you've always
poured your heart into this place.
Lavish waste.
Round and round,
no one set me free yet.
At least I found the seed
that lets me be.
Undo the suture,
let me bleed.
Excuse the former ugly me
I never meant to.
Planting seeds across my eyes,
tumbling but making it through the dirt.
Dirty deeds throughout my life,
assembling but not making it right.
It's city of clovers now,
the luck is always bleeding out of me.
I'm seeing the comets now,
spreading out across the sky.
Bury the siren,
I hear it again.
Unleash the tyrant,
fools errand.
What am I fighting?
Nothing I see.
Something familiar,
far away.
You're looking tired,
I'm looking dead.
Feed me the fire,
from your head.
I can't deny it,
I lost control.
I give up this body.
I assure you that,
no one can take your place.
I rest my case.
But if we're all the same,
my hopes are fake and I can play.
In the moonlight we dance,
to the sounds of the afflicted.
Release the cloak,
show us the stage.
Unveil the coward,
complete your game.
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Underneath My Skin
05:40
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"Underneath My Skin"
The crooked knife makes,
its way through me.
Mental state unclear.
I look alive just a bit too much.
We're just alike,
all the same inside.
And I found my second chance to follow you.
Knowing that it wasn't a good idea.
They said that I am just fine,
it's skin deep.
Target my mind,
mental trait unclear.
You took my life just a bit too much,
we're just alike all the same inside.
The cloak of night,
it sinks in me so deep.
Why can't I find him,
this person from my dreams?
Gonna die in the farthest spot from the sun.
How did I get so lucky to have found you,
underneath my skin?
Your creation, alive.
I finally found you in front of me,
bright as day.
Open my eyes,
see what I see.
The demon inside,
lives within me.
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Embryo
05:27
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"Embryo"
The embryo waits for you to come.
You're only moments away.
Developing brain untouched by you,
knowing everything's okay.
Besides the fact you have to take me,
and I'll be alone,
what's the point if you will
break me eventually?
Deeper into the rabbit hole.
Proceeding without a care.
Falling for what seems like forever.
Caught in this nesting place.
No way to tell if this is fake.
There's no slow,
it's only at this pace.
We keep going from here.
I hold the reins,
but my thoughts have all run red.
Visions I see,
they keep me seeing dead.
Delusions have always found their way,
to the end of the road.
Until that day,
I'll soon forget.
I look upon thee.
Look up above the sky so high,
it's more than envy.
Face your fears of long regret.
Your halls are empty.
The dancing phrases in your head,
soon will be dead.
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