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And with diminished faculties
It's almost time to go
I know we're both ok, with apathy
But I never said I'd be kind
And with another we could talk
About it all
But we'll pick it up another time
Glancing looks to call us brave
It's been buried so low
Cannot wash the forever stained
It's been buried so low
Pray for the right
To finally shut it closed
It's a battle and a fight
Just to go
When it
Comes out in the light
The younger feeling old
It's a battle and a fight
Just to fold
We'll hover on the side
A fly on the wall
We'll hover on the side
And see through the whole
(What a way to bleed the time away
Opposites forced to share the cake)
Pray for the right
To finally shut it closed
It's a battle and a fight
Just to go
This is suffering
My second sight
Is a cross now
We'll bet the razor
To prove you're right
What you're begging me
What you're begging for
Is a fight
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A Dazed Witness
03:29
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Death mask flashes on the screen
This damn anxiety
But I can still hold my own
All the instigating parties said
That they will never tell
What's there still left to come
Faintly hearing the drywall crack
And the windows tap
It all hits close to home
Don't look. Don't look. I can see The Devil in the details
Overcome, when that web was spun
But you're the only one
To answer to
So beyond the pale, the leftovers stale
Whatever you spell
Comes back to you
Time to reflect
Cause and effect
(Facade cracking up, the slaughter motive)
Just plead the fifth and we'll make it
And I'll shield my eyes from the sun
Climb our way out of the cave-in
And proceed to pull flowers from guns
I don't need a cause
I don't need a cause
I don't need a cause to sever the cord
Just sever it
And regain control
God what a mess this is
Can't control the venom now
The enemy is in the mirror
Give me strength not to let him out
Don't look. Don't look.
Hold it in.
Calm and clean.
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Colder than martyrs left without a wake
You took all the covers and I promised to obey
I don't need your charity
Your love will cover me
Our pictures and conquests in valleys too tall
We made up a future and called it "A Wall"
I'll see you in The Den Of Sin
With long strings of pearls and poppies rotten
You are the Queen of Porcelain
With legs like scissors cutting magazines
Lovely blown-out eyes and tobacco lips
All the pain in the world swaying in denim hips
But the air is empty, the air is empty, the air is empty here
Who is the cause?
I don't need your charity
Your love will cover me
I don't need you sympathy
This is where I want to be
And when it foams out the mouth
You weren't the cause of it's gasps
It broke it's neck
When it hit the glass
You weren't the cause
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So you wanna change?
I could see through the broken window
Just so confused
It sounds like hornets dropping
You play the part
You hum past my intentions
A quicker squirrel, couldn't hold me back forever
Damn this cutting silence
I want to feel alive
And all of my mixed up mind
Could break apart for you
You buzz like a crowd
I'm the one who's all alone
In the end you gave me cause
And now a fist through the wall
You will finally hear the call
Over..Under..Inside..Behind..The Plastic Blinds
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A lack of decision at the point of sale
It couldn't have been more obvious to you
It rose on the horizon like a bloated corpse
Bow your heads, thoughts and prayers, and sigh
Endeavored and dreaming, to wipe you out
Just know that, we're out for blood
Don't blink hun
I'm the off one
You always pegged me for better
But I'm always the latter
Vacant scenes lie before as we twist the knife
Astonishment at what the world will do for love
The quiet dance, turn around, as the hand points down
Snuff the flame, flip the coin, and fly
Endeavored and dreaming, to wipe you out
Just know that, we're out for blood
They're a camp of
Lacerated doves
They're all left feeling nervous
Not unlike all the others
(Reading a passage from Sun Tzu's The Art Of War)
Fade
The coldest wave
Produced pain
Rationed pain
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Faith In Sabotage
03:09
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The Apple of Eden, that's sought out
Can be found, in the fissure of her mouth
She's singing now, calling your ships to wreck
Then watch her go, through the cracks of your eyelids
Oh Morgan Of The Vail
She comes to us with auburn hair
Cold and solemn she comes through
Your failed design
So divine and so efficient too
Plead and beg for mercy now
But it never stops
You once swore your feelings true
Who wears the crown?
The oldest throne
Don't cross her
With the axe of Carrie Nation
She'll crack that skull like bottled hooch
She'll obliterate
She'll obliterate you
Wickeder than Elphaba
She'll boil your heart in a lush pinot
Don't follow breadcrumbs to The Candy House
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The Spectacle Is Real
03:13
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Carve a, carve away, away out
A theater actor left without his lines
Carve a, carve away, away out
Stick your head in the ground to borrow time for..
Eyeing you up and down like a landfill
She's seen better at the city morgue
A face as pretty as a lunar landscape
Kill the lights to see the glow
You made your bed, now sleep in it
Carve a, carve away, away out
The night's adrift, to the daily landslide
Carve a, carve away, away out
To calm the sway, just go away
It takes a lot to make me crazy
I've got all the heads in tow
You think all I said was hazy
A stroke victim through the TV snow
Now you crawl back, back to the hole where you came from
You made your bed, now you sleep in it
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Complete and concrete
We've got eyes like laudanum
The calm of the rage
Laying off to one side
Displayed and displaced
Carved out like an avalanche
A castle in the ground
Where they can't hear you cry
So please
When this all comes down
Just freeze
Don't you come around
Black crown inside of a comet
We're not thru with you
You hung your life on a moment
Till that flower bloomed
We're not thru with you
The rupture
The last thing you heard before it's gold/cold
Your back turned
To the fear that your mirror came back old
Instill the will that feel, won't be enough
And the way that you pray, won't make it stop
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The crime, the phone, the rearrangement clause
Crazed or mad?
It's all too much to bare now
And I never wanted to be under such service to, the hapless taker, my own maker of solitude
Can't pretend I can make any sense of this
How one can go from Avalon to put it all to bed?
And holding just dust in your hand
Cannot repay the price listed to borrow you
I don't have to be awake to know it's true
This is all because I got mixed up, but never again
It all closes
Nothing in stalls, or the crowded halls
Just the wonder and awe
To not be present at all
Breach
Upside down worth
Pages of hurt
A question to paralyze
The lie and the reason and the howls of the blind, are taken
Conceal the mind and prevent decay with lime
Bathed
Poured in the mold
A model of old
And strung up with a noose of a tie
Comply and the breathing and the look in their eyes, are taken
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