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Heaven is a circus
06:18
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Does this pattern lain, relieve you?
Against neckties and silver spoons?
Instead of dreams, you covet paper
To alienate the ones who love you
Smiles for a taste of silver
And meanwhile tigers are paid
In handshakes and starvation
(you can't sit down, you can't go back)
Heaven, can you loosen these chains?
Bring me sunshine and the rain
Old men and walking canes
Tie me to the river bed
Wash away my lazy days
Smile to breathe your smoke
And can you loosen these chains?
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2. |
Choose your history
04:55
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There's fact in this fiction
The face is the mention of your name
And how you came to black out the sun
Spit out your rain
So nice, so nice to see you
So much, so much for small talk
Let's get started
The brokenhearted could really use some
down-time, you lovely discarded landmine
I see how you parted all your waves
From exits and standards, you get what you serve
When you serve where you've landed
It's my history
A shameful misery
Don't dare change a thing
Cause it's my history
And what do the judges have
For our misguided, silent sap
Who moves out of sight
When you look through the past
Don't turn out the light
Get out! I don't want to see you
Sit down! You might not believe it
If you choose to open your eyes
You find out your passion determines your prize
I know you did your best
You didn't fail the test
You come back tomorrow...
This time bring your heart
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3. |
Not worth saving
05:14
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It's black now in your blue face
With dirt shoveled in the same place
Your head turned completely around
If I take you to see everything that's become of me
You may turn completely around
You're dug in six feet deep but I
Still imagine you're still asleep, or wait...
Just waiting around
The sky's still wearing the clothes I burned
Guess I'm starting to learn
A new trade, now I'm done with bridges
I'll spark a flame to all you
Goddamned artist's and all your crying shame
Sticks and stones
Broke your bones and teeth
Just to save something not worth
Saving
It's dead now in your bed eyes
But you can have both of mine
If you bleed
Cause you bleed me dry
It's always someone else that you see
But he doesn't look at all like me
And that suits me fine
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4. |
Knights and Daggers
04:06
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Keep all your thoughts under radar
And your turbulence will shine of
Blinking blue desires, you remain less occupied
Reflection breeds rejection if you stand to close to see
The Sun and moon conspire against you
This is how she needs you
And she screams daggers at her insecurities
So she doesn't have to be alone
Cause loneliness has never felt so sorry
To see a girl with so much love and a black heart
Beating to save it's own life
And as I decompress my friends assure me
That I'm stressed, so I smoke and smile, can I
Take this world for granted, please?
And he screams daggers at his insecurities so
He finds the light that leads him home
Cause loneliness has never felt so sorry
For standing in the way of everything and
Hiding all his hope
Can we thank our stars that everyone is sleeping
Soundly and dreams of a time familiar?
Well, daggers cut so safe and sound
I remember hope tied to a string
And when let go, it stayed
And we sleep
Blowing out the night before we never wanted
To breathe
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I’m the breaks inside the tired car, breaking
And I'm faking death
The reason for this treason
is the lack of compliments
I'm a cancer spreading cancer
through the constellations, why?
Don't put me down just build me up
So I can find another high
Be cool, burn down
Hide your face and fade away
I'll stay forever
If the earth was never a part of me
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6. |
Livid/Lucid
03:12
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You're much too livid to speak
Tearing the walls down in your seat
Right next to me lies a suitcase
But it won't hold suits if it holds faith
Who will take my place?
Make sure the lies, it breaks
Asphyxiation seeks
Revolution marching free
Of smokes and dropped beat
I'm growing tired of writing
When I should be
Starting something
Who will take my place?
Make sure the lies, it breaks
Your passion, your progress
Will all fall down in pieces
This old house
This city
Will rape the stars
so pretty
Your passion, your progress
Will all fall down in pieces
Your passion
Makes you
Stay
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7. |
Talk through Me
02:36
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I know you talk through me
You do it so easy
I'm hammered by hard skin
It never really sinks in
Your cool blood, hard face
Cold blood, right place
Who talks through me?
I'm just as you left me
Scared and lonely
Walked on, washed out
Could you please talk now?
It never really sinks in
Hammered by hard skin
Who talks through me?
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8. |
Firefly
02:07
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You can beat me senseless with your eyes
You are at your best when you try not to lie
You just spread out like a firefly
Could make me sit down for hours and try to write
But the page remains white
Until you leave
Excuse me to change
My scenery
It's your pity
More than I can reprimand time
Time for losing my mind, I spent the good part
Of the day, wasting away
To find out that you have been all Godamn night
Hey, that's all right with me. Just wait and see.
Until you leave
Excuse me to change
My scenery
It's your pity
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9. |
Perfect Birds
02:43
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Now that all the strings are still attached
It's commonplace for a habit's need to breathe
A garden spitting colors out of season
Freezes up the rusty hate in me
You sing just like a bird, without the the wings
Trailing out of time and out of sync
Perfect Birds are like a perfect woman
Perfection never really suited me
Raise the ground, the sky is feeling shy
Purposefully fleeting like the sea
Belly up, I float on cursing God
Meanwhile, she just laughs and rains.
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10. |
Rosewood
02:54
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Lights out, old friend.
Lie still and let your backbone, sigh.
Feel free to feel me
Surrender to dawn's candlelight
Blood work, knees jerk to the sound
Of a sick bird's song
His humming keeps fumbling
His wings were all wrong
Keep knocking the dust off your feet
So you don't soil the heart on your sleeve
When you wait for days without any sleep
You just pray the Lord your soul you can keep
Keep killing your birds with your stones and you
Mark the days till you get back home, so you
Clear the nest and make the best of your time
I'll see you at the end of the line.
The parade shined today
With smiles sunk six feet deep
In shade they stayed with all eyes, so perfectly
Until you leave, I can swing with the colors
And change the meaning of life when it rains
I'll throw fits and sink ships in the same day
Until you come on home, it's just not the same.
See you at the end of the line
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12. |
Buildings make waves
04:05
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The house we love is caving through the roof
With you and the androids, to find a place
Somewhere we can hide, all with all the thoughts inside of
You
Your energy is something I can save
Like the checks I bounced yesterday, and the day
Before that
And every time I see you in the light
It takes me back to when I was alive
Oh, where can I go?
It's 5am
The city, sleeps.
This morning's news can barely wait
To scream out of the page
This town's old buildin, It makes some waves
This old town building makes waves.
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13. |
Trainwreck
03:07
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14. |
One too many coats
03:48
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Poor man's lament
06:01
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You tack on some roses
To your list of needs
To get you through Wednesday
Tomorrow's too easy
A joke or an insult
To pour out your blues
Keep singing, keep thinking
My hat's off to you
You needed to see me
You said "It's too late"
But I know that you're somewhere
Somewhere late
Though I'm not wise to speak
When the words fill my cheeks
My spine gets in the way, and it lies
Your dramas are funny
Your night's reek of days
Your "Yes"s are guesses
To the "No"s on your face
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16. |
Old Lake
02:45
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17. |
Coughing up blood
03:44
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Sunshine
When captured in your pale eyes
Will blacken all the blinding
wound up
Wild times
Sometimes I wish we could live
Twice
Instead of living for a lifetime
It's reasonable to think
For a second that your minute
Lasts an hour
When your blood starts turning sour
Oh deadly washed out night
And wistful liquor light
Please fire up the candles
Place my thoughts aside
Among these battlefields
Of stone demand a reality
That's passing you
By
Blackout
I don't remember so I
Dream loud, it's easy
One part aging, two part
Dead clouds
Swing above the sun then
Crash
Down
Oh deadly thief of wind
Hang up your hat and come in
Call me your
Death bed
Put yourself to sleep
Among these battlefields
Of bloodied blankets, steal me
And hold me in your pocket
Prescribe the worst disease
Blessed with the sharpest teeth
Bare to sink
Down
Keep my blood safe
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