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Could it be, what we perceive, is just interference?
The Old Devine got the wires crossed
And what you love, and what you don't, is all contradicted
By the way you can relate to everything you hate
Reach out for the life raft
An escape route
Intubate and save these
Collapsed lungs
What resulted in us entering service?
Their promises were all paper-thin
We're all left with no sense of a purpose
No place in the world at all
Then they gave us all pennies for tears
So cold..
This stuck hog has been bleeding for years
So cold..
They paint a picture for what is means to be free
Everyone you meet is just a commodity
So cold..
Brace for the crash
Now they're in a nosedive
They'll get what's right
Now they've kicked up the hive
They'll never see us coming
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Candy Sick
02:47
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I never feel it
No, I only bare the scars
And all the records left the brain
From dust to dust
And though it is a storm
I only see the stars
And all the shakings fade away
The cellars will not be culled
Before I snap
The sulfites dissolve
Before I snap
A moment of levity
This fuzzed up memory
The angels share and show the teat
Place setting for one and I prefer it neat
Eraser
Mind Eraser
You're better left alone
You better bite your tongue
Before I snap
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Sea Vigils
03:44
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To claim the open seas
Such possibilities
With wine and sacrilege
The voyage..the voyage
Our flags raised up to god
The heavens are enough
We'll find where the heart is fair
And we will pierce it there
Make the mornings stop and see
The shadows in our company
The whispers coming through the grass
The tauntings written on the glass
The calming of the salted breeze
The bathroom light in front of me
I will not be denied my post
I swear by ship and holy ghost
The beach, the sand
The red pills in my hand
The others, will wave to see my sails arrive
The faces on the shore
Matches my spotting apple-core
The others, will wave to see my sails arrive
And the seven men say I'm not there at all
Just in the apartment singing down the hall
I'm much more then they're seeing
The cross, the masthead
The waves breaking on my bed
Don't follow me to foreign lands
The nightstand creeks, the sirens sing
The arc of sanity
Don't follow me thru the pane of glass
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Petals for Ashes
03:01
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Wasp sting
The first sign of spring
And there's so much there to love
Wind storm
Mosquito swarm
And the early scream of dawn
Yellow dust
The cement rust
And the humid stench of cars
Knees scabbed
The children laugh
To the woes of mourning doves
And when the grackles crawl
All along the ground
They know the value of
Food coming up for air
They'll make a plate of you
Underneath the uncaring sun
They'll make a plate of you
Long before you know you're gone
Wasting hours, it never meant that much to me
Wasting daylight, I never cared that much to see
A self-designed, simple-minded, invalid
A host of nations, all throughout the garden bed
Swing low oh chariot
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Passing Orbits
03:02
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The comet hits, the world upends
And everything that was to come
The dragon's wings could not defend
It's whole future burned in stone
The planet begged for it's moon to stay
The crushing burden of the vacuum cold
But sound can't travel in the hell of space
Lips just move apart and close
An open lesion
A battle scar
Still hope and needing
To hold back the sun
Mercury or Venus
Descending colored dots
Still hope and needing
To hold back the sun
The crescent waning
Can't remove the mark
Still hope and needing
To hold back the sun
Lodestone, my soul's a lodestone
Oh Virgo, you're such a teaser
So bold, you bit the head off
Blackhole, you're such a killer
So gold, the devil's halo
It's spiral will make it new again
So bright
Gold and bright
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Miracles of Subversion
02:42
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The knights of the gloom
Racing for the grave
And the wrists bare their souls
Longing for the blade
The small shell of the form
Laying on the bed
Left alone in a room
When she's feeling dead
Under the pines
I'm still above it
Throughout the days and weeks
It's pleasant overall
But the question "Are you sure?"
Won't be heard at all
It used to be so much easier baby
And now
It vanishes overnight
They always taught me that the waters would save me
And now
It's miracles with subversed eyes
It takes control like a coma
Made out like a melody that's overplayed
She puts her heart in a vessel jar
It's just stones in the pockets, of a dress, of a dying star
Under the pines
I'm still above it
No not now
Now's not the time to be afraid
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Dead Litmus
03:41
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The spoils well deserved and won
The armies dispersed under the sun
The tzars and the whores of Babylon
Praise the pedestal
With reverence and all
The last memorial
Posed the magus, "Do you have the key?"
"It is small and colored olive-green"
"It unlocks the door, that was sealed before"
Soon the strips of paper
Will give up the clue
Soon the strips of paper
Much sooner than they want
We will take it all
Leave the ruins for the bleeding hearts
There's just the ants remaining for us to devour
The whole world will despair
Trampled under our reverie
All our arms are bent like scythes
The Fallen Gods
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The Great Rite
02:43
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The stake
Why should we wait?
There's no harm to deny the hours on Sunday
The form
Milk warm
A taste in the mouth like Cortisone
Molded tight
She's Princess Di sitting under the bar light
Opportunity's shut
Compared to what?
I could be your monster
In the heart
We were apart
But I could be your monster
In time
We can draw battlelines
I could be your monster
A shoebox for my Goldilocks
I could be yours
There's no quarter gave to feeling fine
Rip out the meaty bits to make you mine
Gaslight the motive and the pulse in the vein
The blue reflection is always the same
Oh circle, oh circle
I'm not one to wait so weak and sullen
Oh circle, oh circle
I'm not one to stand and endure it colder
Nah you won't see me crawling
I'm not the one who is falling
Without a thought of the cost
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Floating in Moonlight
02:08
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I'll burn my head
And calm our bed
When I'm sober
I won't be scared
To hold my head
Underwater
I won't be wed
Or left for dead
With another
I won't be here
To calm your fears
When it's over
The resting insecurities
There's no need suffer silently
The colors of the pain
Won't ever let me doubt it
Or drink from the picture that caused it
We'll spend the night
Under the light
Of sorrow
And curse the seas
Of misery
Till tomorrow
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Comfortable the dress undone
Can't resist the chance to stun
Vapor trails the figure comes
And it's the start of the show
Strike where it counts
Strike where the line was faltering
Strike where it counts
A wasteland before the mirage and then
Behold the vision now
One lust
One lost out to the wilds again
One lust
Out to the wilds
Wasted again
It's dead to rights
The lock turned before the key was made
Without a fight
Without so much left to take away
Oh sister night
Don't take your eyes away from mine
Oh sister night
Don't take your staff and leave our side
Gutted, I
Can't be left in a pool of loathing
Gutted, I
Can't be left to fantasize
It played like Golden Brown
A harpsicord thru the ground
And then came the sight
I couldn't leave to dry my eyes
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