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What is a song
What is love
What does a song hold?
Was it love
Restlessness
in the light of the morning
what is real
are my words still as empty
as they were
transformations
physical
transformer
from the perils of my mind is aging
from the second I fall down
it may be too late for trying
to find some better way to say it
until you need me, I will rehearse
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Substance
03:36
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Substance
out of reach
and taken with it
Silence
we had hoped to
put it out first
and yet it's all that
we are left with
words we never said
did we really need them
someone give them to me now
words that I can say
but you never hear them
someone's standing by the door
the common man wouldn't give up his throne
the common man wouldn't give up his throne
changing the guard
though you don't even notice
it's mine to discard
too ashamed to deserve it
you will forget and I will remember
everything changes
you don't know I exist
words we never said
did we really need them
someone give them to me now
words that I can say
but you never hear them
someone's standing by the door
the common man wouldn't give up his throne
the common man wouldn't give up his throne
and you will forget and I will remember
and you will forget and I will remember
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So you had to find your way
So you had to fly away
I have your will
the task is waiting
I have your will
the task is waiting
Confidence
Sun, the gentle wind behave
Sun, you had to come and take
a friend away
my mind is empty
the body's still
my mind is empty
Confidence
Don't slow down
Don't slow down
Who has it all has nothing
Who has it all has nothing
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Stranger
04:00
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Secrets I'd been keeping
made it out to see
words that come with offers
who did you believe
can I have a place near
silence on the perch
take away my stirring
return to me with words
Tomorrow is just another week
Our urge is to wait and not to speak
I plan to see this through until you grieve
As a stranger, do you see me?
in your anger, will you need me?
are we still there, will you hold back?
will you compare me to your past?
I was just a watcher
still to catch my breath
innocent bystander
complacent and useless
quick in pointing out your
mistakes at a glance
to circumvent the center
of what comes
not knowing when or if you
would show up
I plan to see this through until it's done
As a stranger, do you see me?
in your anger, will you need me?
are we still there, will you hold back?
will you compare me to your past?
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Relief
03:39
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Son, when you said
that you'd be on my side
but you left
so I fear when I call
will you pick up hide
if at all
Intel wouldn't give
substance out of reach
tend to damages
to keep up
and some days nothing gives
cold page, openness
covered innocence
to keep up
Son, did you win?
is that the only time
that you're lucid?
what I fear is inside
the danger's not out there
I reply
heartache, windowsill
landscape overkill
intake overfilled
from way up
and some days maybe wrong
stake claims that were on
landfills never gone
so keep out
sentimentalist
sentimentalist
so I sit with my wife
thinking of nothing much when we fight
and I squeeze till we dry
I hope that this relief doesn't die
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Holidays
01:27
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Is this a sign or symbol
unless you are coveting
the benefits are beginning
to set in your home where you cannot be tested on
what you know changes as soon as you're resting on
Holidays, you can't recover
Holidays, you can't recover
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Family
03:26
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Family, family first
sworn to be brought up then burst
quiet car rides, acknowledgement of
who is in there, who is inside
born between desert and storm
and where they meet never gets warm
quiet car rides
memories of
consenting adults
waiting on us
caught between
desert and storm
prefer the peace
but living in…..
success, success is failure
failure's assured
success, success is failure
failure's assured
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The Current
03:57
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Punctuated steps
while plagued with rhyme
habits die
while wasting time
the precious undercurrent
throughout all that's tough
the cracking of the crust
that surrounds my will
surrounds my trust
struggle with love is artifact
a paisley of the second act
I hope this love will free myself
I hope this love will free myself
Thought I'd wait for the silence
but it never came
forcing my thoughts through a sieve
and while the noise continuous
a ropeful of a focus
to floss us out
who looks stupid
waldo, monet, more names to come
struggle with love is artifact
a paisley of the second act
I know this love will free myself
I know this love will free myself
If this love comes unto me, I'm with it
If this love comes unto me, I'm with it
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Destroyer
03:28
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I know this is between you and me
my hope exists, how I want it to be
You know you are
dark and twisted, cold and gifted
as you are, I'm not the one to say it
betrayal's deep, known by it's face
eyes are aiming back at me
I'm not the one you wanted
did you have time to grieve?
cause I can be tame for you
if there are strings to pull
you are the destroyer
look what you made for her
I know this is between you and me
my hope exists, how I want it to be
Look what I've made
so creative, brave and naked
not at all, that's not what I had wanted
and tears they come
like a geyser
powered pressure building up
I'm not the one stop it
did you have time to grieve?
cause I can be tame for you
if there are strings to pull
you are the destroyer
look what you made for her
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Death
03:19
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The sky is just about set
your silence seems to have crept
I know the hour is intense
Death, what could be worse
if I had something to complain about
if I took your place, would it hurt?
something to complain about
I never thought that I'd let
I mostly want what I get
it comes at night when it wants
you're better off than I bet
Death, what could be worse
if I had something to complain about
if I took your place, would it hurt?
something to complain about
prefer the noise to the song
the words they always seemed wrong
we're better off with you here
Death, what could be worse
if I had something to complain about
if I took your place, would it hurt?
something to complain about
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11. |
The Ocean
04:34
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It's only the ocean
It's only the ocean love,
It's only the ocean love,
no need to run
it's only the ocean
subject to others
subject to no one
there's no need to run at all
there's no need to run at all
why won't you be where I want you to be?
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