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Slip The Collar
06:53
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"Slip The Collar"
Only reenactments are what we see.
Stuffed under pillows we lay asleep.
Would you then wager my life for your salary?
How do you fall asleep at night?
Can you imagine a world without you?
Steady and true.
You're the only oppressor.
Your hand holds us down.
Your faulty understanding,
We don't make mistakes.
Make up for the effort.
Your hate holds us down.
What would you wager to see me on the ground?
Make up all the words,
Let your scythe drop on down.
Capture what you want and I'll take the fall.
Pointing fingers, blame them all.
Wish we could make the call.
Running deeper into fear.
Don't you go prying my life of its sanity.
Living your sick fantasy tonight.
Where's the right?
Where does he get the authoritative mind?
Let him crumble on his own.
Keep calm, courtesy of me.
I've always been polite,
But not tonight.
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Burden
07:57
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"Burden"
Sometimes I get slapped in the face, I lose sight.
I have carried your faith the last time.
If you want me to keep it safe, keep it away.
Then why would you ask anything of me?
Believe anything you see?
If you ask it of me I'll try then say goodbye.
If it's all an illusion,
You're insane.
Seeking further solutions,
Running dry.
This is everything after.
A surefire way to carry all the weight,
But trusting me was a huge mistake.
The canvas drips of lies from the cross you bare.
Painting pictures that were never there.
Justified so you'll live more,
But you keep coming back for more.
Are you ready for what you came for night after night?
That moment you take my breath away.
It hurts, it lurks all up inside where I like to hide.
Married to these headaches crawling down my spine.
A waste to never know.
Stay forever.
No matter what we'll stay together.
Let us grow. Now you know.
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The Lesser
08:24
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"The Lesser"
A menace circling its way home tonight.
A fonder fascination takes over you.
What could be worse than to give into you?
Another balled up knot that sits in you.
You see the world as nothing but a nightmare,
And I too bestow much more.
Disguised in such a way that you will trust me.
I'll complete you as a whole.
Feeling colorblind, it fades to white.
Mesmerized by the dance.
You stood by my side through thick and thick.
You can't compromise, it's no surprise.
Realizing you didn't see the truth,
Now it's seeing you.
No one else can make you see.
Pry it from you, this madness,
As it walks by you. Your master.
It brings the lesser out. It's fucking overrated.
Where'd your friend come from?
The price is their demand.
The lesser must speak to cloud the doubt in your mind.
Did you wait too long?
Starting war is so rewarding.
Everyone you brought tonight, prepare to die.
It's enough for it to linger,
But it always comes to bring the sorry news that it may never stop.
What have you done? Why?
The question never sleeps in my mind.
It starts over again.
Which will it be, me or them? Fine.
It's been haunting me since the day we met.
The masquerade ball of our lives.
There's no turning back.
Enter with no warning.
She turns your insides black.
The night is just starting,
What's gotten into you?
What's shoved down my throat?
Maybe it's simple,
I found the lesser in me.
Maybe I should tell myself there's no one else to blame.
Running in circles just to see my true colors.
Just one more time.
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Institutions
07:41
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"Institutions"
Tonight I set the fire.
More winds come to fuel it.
Help is simply not there.
Gathering the wood that will bring end to all.
Watch your world in flames.
The days are getting shorter.
The nights are endless.
Let's end this.
Where did it all go? Where?
When did bleed out? I'm so drained.
Clean out your sorry savings.
Delayed in full.
Belong to the rest of them.
Bite off more than you can chew.
The stars are getting smaller.
My night is ending. Let's end this.
So close to the end. I'm on edge.
Before we even start, I'm buried alive.
While we wait for me to go back to you,
Can't you see what you are? My answer waits.
While we wait for you to grow. Lethargic nature.
You're just in time. Let it be so.
Fast asleep in your tiny one man pod.
Was this all a dream?
Figure out who you are when you get there.
It's all a waste to wake early.
You missed nothing here anyway.
We solved the problem ages ago.
I saw the place we need to go.
It's red and far.
Start again this day.
It all begins with you.
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Glass Soul
08:14
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"Glass Soul"
Fragile body weakens me.
Open up, why can't you see?
I'm breaking down 'cause today's world.
I see the person inside me,
Holding together the loose strings,
But they all snap.
I feel awfully jaded. Never had a piece of mind.
These things are so frustrating.
It drains the life from me.
In the end we're all just faded.
Come back to me.
Funny all that I see is right in front of me, alive.
With dire need denied, I belong to you.
Before you can clock out.
Before you can save yourself.
Your disease will spread,
And pour into your glass soul.
Rainbows turning black,
Dripping down to cover you.
Feel the burn of your decay.
You're so calm. I lost you there.
What's a good way to find another?
I will greet them with open arms.
What's another way to find your way?
I can't see the point anymore.
I know that face.
I've seen inside my ugly friend.
He sees me back,
Torn up in my own head.
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The Sorrow Speaks
08:25
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"The Sorrow Speaks"
I guess we're falling away.
I guess we're stalling in any way we can.
I just lost how to pretend,
And all this time I never bent.
We gave it all. We fought for reason.
Now I'm safe from up above.
At alarming rates,
We love you to death.
Sudden change in the weather.
The clouds disappear.
Dripping lines from the pages of the story I won't hear.
The struggle to save the words seems impossible.
Don't waste your anger,
Fore it was just a thought.
In time you'll find new pages,
And I too will suffer.
Enter laughs from the room,
But not a second of life.
We will share what we know for a laughing good time.
You've walked down the road of no fame.
Feel like God until you walk in my lane.
In case of running minds, cage them.
Looted and left behind.
That star is shining brighter alone.
Weep for dying worlds below.
The other constellations will know,
Just what you're up to.
It fades off in time,
That malicious feeling.
The above ground grave,
It's all too early.
The shame, the afraid.
I fall in circles.
Betrayed, betrayed.
It burns, I'm melting.
It came, the shame,
It falls upon me.
But then it's like they never came.
The sorrow fades.
The itch is back inside.
Can't help you I fell asleep.
I still think you should know,
You can't be helped.
Fever runs through you like fire.
Godless divinity unto you.
Stages of life we must go through.
The sorrow speaks to you in the night.
You wanted to peak again,
But it's not the time.
Feel the fever run through you like life and death,
Then waste away.
What if we meet again?
I'm looking to fight.
Turn the darkness into something else.
You're still the greatest one.
What if we see again into the night?
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Perspectives From Above
12:15
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"Perspectives From Above"
From here I have the perfect aerial view of the insanity below.
If you come to know this place,
It will haunt you.
Space is out there, no mistake,
Forcing nature.
Warm, just like the sun fire.
It says to wait.
When will the time come for us here?
Honestly I can't see more than this.
No more expansion. This must be it.
Searching for something that can never be found.
Hope lost in galaxies far from your home.
Watch the sunrise. I have a seat for you.
It's no surprise they've given up on you.
I've given up on you.
Listen you tools,
I'd listen to all the things inside.
Come what may. Bottled up right,
Throughout my veins.
Forget what you know.
I'm standing above the earth seeing everything.
All I can see is chaos.
Go at light speed all the way.
Find another world then throw it all away too.
Think about me when you're blue.
Don't forget the one you left so soon.
Force it 'til we wake up.
There must be other ways.
Blanket all the earthlings.
You make us insane.
Feeling naked and blind to your hollowing pages.
You watch from above but never cry for us.
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