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End transmission. Silence. Words escape me once again.
as you sit waiting patient for an answer
Is there time, enough to tell?
Has common ground said its farewell?
Before we’re bound into blissful disaster
Her eyes, they tell the story of a broken angel
fed too many promises
she's got nothing left to give.
I'm breaking down, she's halfway there
Keeping secrets inside we'll never share.
All the words within could not convey,
what wouldn't make a difference anyway
And when she comes around the world seems a little brighter
And when she takes control my shoulders become lighter
When explanations fail to make you see what’s true
I’m alone, I’m here with you
Synaptic signals misfire all the words I want to say
And you're just thinking 'afterthought', 'once again, I can't convey
And If this rehearsal fell apart, the final act would have no heart
There’s an explanation hinged upon the answer
Your eyes, they tell the story of a broken angel
fed too many promises
now she's got nothing left to give.
I'm breaking down, she's halfway there
Keepin’ secrets inside we'll never share.
(with a burning conscious I know I ought to...
Hear the words
"I Never knew I needed someone that was you"
Intoxicated by the things that you do
I'm by your side to lend the hand that helps you through
Don't leave me hangin' on just like you always do
Don't leave me hangin' on
cos I just need to know now are you in this, are you with me til the end?
Can’t let myself go through this again
have we grown apart from lovers to friends
Be real with me, is this the end
When will she come around
When will she come around
When will she come around
Articulate these afterthoughts
When explanations fail to make you see what’s true I am alone I’m here with you
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Lessons Lost
02:57
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As the virtues of the old and brave
Lay side by side in cross lined graves
The values and ideals are left behind
Please save us now, we’re at the turning point
The victory will echo through the hollow
Without the words we never say
Meaningless and shallow ‘til the day
We take our place in history
Notions of humanity are grey
We bleed out contradiction, laboured through with blind ambition
Tailored for the birthright
Their collars white
Success through exploitation, filtered through with segregation
Where is the foresight
The lessons quickly sidelined but
How could we let go
Of images in our minds
This ignorance bestowed
These seeds of hatred
We’ve come to know
Old stories told, with the horror they unfold
Their dignity, their bronze and hard earned
Silverware was sold
We can’t go back against the sacrifice
The crimson stain on history will
Wash away
Without the words we never say
Meaningless and shallow ‘til the day
We take our place in history
Notions of humanity are grey
We can’t go back, We can’t go back
We can’t go back, We can’t go back
We can’t go back, We can’t go back
We can’t go back, We can’t go back
Without the words we never say
Meaningless and shallow ‘til the day
We take our place in history
Notions of humanity are grey
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Here's to Liberation
02:24
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Seeing you this way
Leaves me searching for the words to say
to let you know it's gonna be alright
And It may never seem quite real
like a vivid showreel of surreal
scenarios that manifest in rumination
If only we could step back and rewind
to make the best of everything we left behind
take it back now, and give it one more shot?
cos this is all you’ve got
No longer got you on my mind tonight
I don't need to numb the ache growing deep inside of me
anatomised each moment shared then send them out to sea
cos that callous counterfeit kiss
was the moment we began to cease to exist
Sometimes when you're too lost to see
That time’s a healer in good company
Now all that’s left behind you’re walking a little taller
and there’s something in the atmosphere that tells you what you wanna hear and
all those little things that you abused when you were wasted
led us down this dead end path
and shows you who you’ve gotta be now
Seeing you this way
Leaves me searching for the words to say
to let you know you're gonna be Just fine
and it may always seem to feel
like the weight of secrets we conceal
reveal the isolation and eluded conversations
that led us to our liberation
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4. |
Lifer
02:49
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Lifer,
Pretend that there’s a world beyond the barrier
Outsider,
Take the blinkers off your eyes,
You’ll never get back to the inside,
Try as you might.
Redemption’s a lost cause
In the aftermath of all my worst mistakes,
I’m running out of promises to break.
Remember how things used to be?
The future was a certainty
So burn me out of your memories.
Bite my tongue
This chemical reaction could never be undone,
Caught up in the web we spun,
The worst versions of ourselves, the only ones.
Search for something to make you whole,
heaven knows
That the harder you chase it, the further you go
Away from the sanctuary of home
Over and Out
Swallowed by cracks in the ground
Alone in a ghost town
Never speak out loud
You’ll be found out
The truth behind your lies will hold you prisoner
Deceiver
The more you find a place to hide,
The more your skeletons come into sight
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Downfall
02:59
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Flat feet hold fast in constant desperation
Hard skin will push against the ground that crumbles underneath
Raw hands are cracked and burning from the fires
Ignites determination and the hard earned self belief
Eventual destruction of the carbon form
Hands tied behind our backs
Keeping our intentions and aspirations out of
Our control
Layer strong foundations, live up to the expectations
Push against the coming
Downfall
Bleeding from the inside to the
Cell walls
As gathered dust accelerates our
Final days
Battling with tired aching limbs
Until we see the day
Assurance of decay
It’s out of
Our control
Make your case for lack of progress, pushing back the mental process
Running headfirst to the
Downfall of the soul
Past indiscretions feeding
Misplaced underlying faults
Until we learn to take control
The limits fade away
And make way
For our enduring stay
Push through all the knee deep waste
Stand up to all that we can’t face
Listen for the sound
Ringing in your ears
Dragged through sodden ground
Frayed edges and these built in weakened structures
The holes expose the flaws in us that ground us in defeat
Inflicted and self defeatist thoughts of
Giving up and casting our tired bodies the the heat
We fade, throughout
Our intentions, lost forms
This road will take, everything from nothing
(Everything from nothing)
We’ll bend and brake, forget the consequences
(Forget the consequences)
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6. |
Better Left Behind
03:09
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Lying Awake inner conversations.
Wild assumptions and speculations
Twisting the meanings into a fabrications
Que sera whatever can we let this be
And hold the future up to see
Indecision is destroying me
Kill this anxiety
Medicate me now
Sedatives to slow the pulse down
Heart beats running out
Silence is a deafening sound
We’ll drown it out somehow
Choke
Abandon hope
with hands wrapped around my throat
Losing my tenuous grip on the world (the world)
But if the elements could transform
I’ll be a stable platform if you hold on
And all the elements inside
Are better left behind
Medicate me now
Sedatives to slow the pulse down
Heart beats running out
Silence is a deafening sound
I’ve had enough so lay me to rest in the ground
Put me down
You're better off without me now
And your regards are few and far between
One hand held the match, in the other gasoline
The worst mistakes are the ones we can’t forget
I don’t wanna be your worst regret
(I don’t wanna be your worst regret)
I don’t wanna be your worst regret
(I don’t wanna be your worst regret)
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