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Horoscope
03:04
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Tell me what you have up there
Tell me do you live upstairs or deep inside yourself
At the bottom of the well springs fortune
But you’re not the fortunate kind
Lights reflect in your eyes
Stand up and straighten your spine
The sunrise shouldn’t be so surprising
You’ll never get another a chance so take it.
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Growth
05:08
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Sleep for the weak
Debts that you owe
Veins in the flesh like cut stones
Awake in the dream
Rush for the throne
Rust in the blood bleeds red to the bone
You’re waking up in the back of the hearse
Your wrists are raw from the cuffs and the illusion goes up in smoke
Did you ever wonder why there’s no ghosts in this town?
They drove ‘em all out of bounds to get fucked
There’s no headstone, you’re all out of luck
They’ll tell you that its growth
You’ll tell them that you know
They’ll tell you you’ll grow old but you know that they’re coming for you
They’ll tell you that its cold
And that you’ll never know
They’ll say that you’ll grow old alone
But they are coming for you
The grief never sleeps
Sins to atone
Asleep in the back with the bones
Clutch and release
Live, die, on your own
Run for the church, cry, beg, for your soul.
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Introduction
02:24
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Easier to Love
04:15
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I don’t want to breathe
For fear of getting lost
Somewhere in the hollow of the space between my lungs
So I don’t need it to be perfect,
I just need it to be quiet.
And I don’t want to speak
For fear of breaking trust
Cause I don’t want to be the one who failed to hold you up
So trust in god, or trust in something else
Because you human body’s fallible and it breaks like glass
So trust in love, or trust your instincts
Because your confidence is edible and it runs right out
you just want to sleep cause the silence is a drug
forget about the dreams that you swept under the rug
and you don’t wanna know, cause its easier to love
the person that you see and not the hand inside the glove
I see it all now, you’ll see it all soon
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Avalanche
03:02
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I die in a dream
I die in an avalanche of complicated scenes
I die with a whisper caught in my throat
I die and I hope that somehow you will never know
So it was
So it will be
Sew it up
So that it lives
And so it breathes
So it is
So it could be
Sow the seeds so that they grow
So we believe
I die in a dream
I die in a cavalcade of emptiness and greed
I die in a hallway that leads to nowhere
I die with the notion that I was never there
I don’t want to live like this
And I don't want to die like this
For what its worth
I’m feeling cursed
Im feeling like the worst is yet to come
Its always out there waiting never sleeping
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Data Erased
03:42
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In endless summers the lines become tangled
The memories root into dangerous trees
Just a minute, I’ll call if i’m able
I’ve climbed in so deep into this well full of leaves
And in the water the dead become dancers
If you couldn’t stop yourself where would we be?
And In my panic I try to stay under
The cold and the dark become comfort to me
Have you suffered enough?
Have you suffered at all?
I spoke to your shadow but she couldn’t hear me
I asked to bear witness but you said you couldn’t be saved
Data Erased, They’re saving a place in the blackout for you
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Parade
06:15
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Step out out into quiet
Consumed by this winters day
And like an animal
Not like the predator more like the prey
I go back to my hole in the ground
Lay one more step in this endless parade
Paint it all white
To blend into the sky
Don’t look up, don’t look down
Just keep marching on thin ice
Can’t shut my eyes
To the blinding red light
And its time time time
Running out on me
There’s no time, time, time
To sleep peacefully
Don’t count up, just count down
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The Lie
04:51
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What did the damage cost?
You’re no mast, you’re no rock, you’re no horoscope
So let me tell you what I see
Of all the the faces bought and sold
You’re all that you have and you’re all you know
A fake
If I could prove it to you,
I’d surely prove it to you
But I’m rooted down into the floor
So go on and dust off, you know the party’s over
But you don’t need to push off so soon
You don’t need to get used
The lie was shattered in your hands
And from its pieces sprang a hundred more
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Solitude
04:41
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In a well where we were sleeping
We weren’t dreaming so well.
And if I told you I had a feeling
Would you have believed it?
Would you have believed me?
I miss you but I’ll never miss you more than
More than the way I used to find beauty in my solitude
And I want to, to reach you
But I’ll never reach you in the way you want me to
In a dream where we were living
We weren’t breathing so well
And if I told you I had a feeling
Would you have believed it,
Would you have believed me?
And if you couldn’t would you leave me?
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Conclusion
02:11
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Rinse, Repeat
09:20
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You’ve got so much potential
You’re bursting at the seams
But you know you’re going nowhere
With your head fill of dreams
You’d better keep your head down
You’d better toe the line
Do you know what it cost us?
Everything for you all the time
take the time that you need,
scratch till you bleed,
pick the blood from your teeth,
rinse repeat
He never raised his voice
He never lost his temper
But you knew that it was in there
Waiting for you
You’d better get your head straight
You’d better kiss and make up
You’d better cut the bullshit
Cause its not working
I aimed wide in the dark and I
I missed my mark
You take the wind like a firefly
Hunker down to the ground till it passes
No overreaction, it feels right
To be sidelined
You feel the stinging in aftermath
Everyone’s born to laugh but you’re afraid you need some air
The friends you know you get tired of
Castles that you used to love lie empty and cold
you’re quiet
I used to like that
I used to want to ascend your stairs
You simmer
In winters trapped indoors
Mixing pigments i can’t figure out
What colors blend like yours
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