1. |
WHEN I SAY GO
04:45
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Your clock is ticking loud
The crowd is active now
Your time is running out
Running out
Face to face with hostile fumes
Noxious pleas of the abused
Try to run, it’s no use
The calm before the storm is quiet
The moment when the mob turns violent
I drown you out when I say so
Tear down the walls when I say go
I’ll holler lies, provide the show
They’ll fall in line when I say go
Don’t spite
your eyes
The light I bear controls
A simulacrum
Where’d you get that from
Couldn’t be my acts, my mask
What you lack
You deconstruct yourselves
You self destruct your shell
blame you for my every hell
Not myself
The calm before the storm is quiet
The moment when the mob turns violent
I drown you out when I say so
Tear down the walls when I say go
I’ll holler lies, to save the show
They’ll fall in line when I say go
Refining light
Claim and shape your soul
Can’t drown me out when I say so
Tear down the walls when I say go
All hollow lies, like every show
You fall in line when I say go
Run for your lives
I’m already in control
And I control
When I say go
When I say go
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2. |
STELLARCIDE
03:34
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Across a distance
We forge a bond
Starlight with persistence
Can be any form it wants
Turn your clouds of dust
Let ‘em dance
Reverberate around
Your resonant orbital bands
I’m a force
Unlike any sort,
Coming through
On a course to collide with you
(No matter)
If our planets align
(No matter)
If we die or survive this
(No matter)
When our stars collide
You still light me up like stellarcide
When you and I mix
(Ignite our every planet’s skies
We burn ‘em white, quick)
(You still light me up like stellarcide)
Leave your devices
Stare at the sky
Join the doomed collective
As they glare into the lights
Cults of no meaning
No more pretend
You want it all to burn
‘Cause you fear I never end
(No matter)
If our planets align
(No matter)
If we die or survive this
(No matter)
When our stars collide
You still light me up like stellarcide
When you and I mix
(No matter)
If our planets align
(No matter)
If we die or survive this
(No matter)
When our stars collide
You still light me up like stellarcide
When you and I mix
Ignite our every planet’s skies
We burn ‘em white, quick
You still light me up like stellarcide
(Ignite our every planet’s skies
We burn ‘em white, quick)
You still light me up like stellarcide
When you and I mix
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3. |
NO ONE'S HERO
05:13
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Insane
am I or are we all
built us up enough to fall
the dark widen out my eyes
that muzzle flashes blind
In flamed,
Make the same calls
Told its us against them all,
More pain that I have caused,
Never take the fall, lie,
I’ve been to hell and back
made brothers, watched them rot,
think after you attack
then tell me nobody saw
We’re pawns for them to play,
follow the hierarchy’s say,
painted in shame, no
thrown away,
all i know,
sold away,
my soul
to be no one’s hero.
scarred,
Alarmed, confounding plea
No choice, no voice allowed me,
Fat cats atop the tree,
Glaring down below
No heart,
Just guts and instinct,
Never ask,
Never think,
I break the chain they link
Take my pain and go
Home
I’ve been to hell and back
made brothers, watched them rot,
think after you attack
then tell me what i saw.
We’re pawns for them to play,
follow the hierarchy’s say,
painted in shame, no
thrown away,
all i know,
sold away,
my soul
To hear the riot go
“You’re not my hero”
We made a battleground
Out of streets in any town
Running streaks and looking down
And counting out the shells
Do we harm more than we help
Impossible to tell
Tell me if it’s nice in heaven
I’ve earned my place in hell
Let loose,
Throw em to the fire,
Pile bodies and papers higher
Justice, a tool refined,
To keep the trenches wide
Truth pries,
Never meant to hide,
Kept tight lipped from inside
Go look with prying eyes
Knowing what you’ll find
I’ve been to hell and back
made brothers, watched them rot,
think after you attack
then tell me all i saw.
We’re pawns for them to play,
follow the hierarchy’s say,
painted in shame, no
thrown away,
all i know,
sold away,
my soul
I’ve seen enough to know
That I’m no one’s hero
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4. |
OVERVIEW
05:19
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Your skin so thin, so brittle
superficial
gone too quick.
All thought forgotten
In darkness simple, lost adrift
Outside cloud nine,
You find a wider sky, alone,
and when you turn inward, you’ll hurt to realize,
it’s better back home.
Running from the ground that beckons
all to fall the same
comfort under crowns they set on small
Hearted aims
How high, does your golden stairway climb
can you tell
Now why, do the global fairways cry,
Help yourself
Your skin so thin, so brittle,
superficial, gone so quick.
Your thoughts are all forgotten,
darkness simple, lost adrift
Outside the cloud’s eyes, redefined,
a wider sky, alone,
and when you turn inward, you’ll hurt to realize,
it’s better back home.
Letting all the sun rays burn your pride,
fried away,
forgetting what you prayed for, realize
the price we paid,
Your skin so thin, so brittle,
superficial, gone too quick.
Your thoughts are all forgotten,
darkness simple, lost adrift
Outside the cloud’s eyes, redefined,
a wider sky, alone,
and when you turn inward, you’ll hurt to realize,
it’s better back home.
Raised before you fall
Make the great feel way too small
Your skin so thin, so brittle
superficial
gone too quick.
All thought forgotten
In darkness simple, lost adrift
Outside cloud nine,
You find a wider sky, alone,
and when you turn inward, you’ll hurt to realize,
Life needs home
Will you savor the end of the world,
or the tears that you’ve already cried
you wait for the bend when it turns,
only fearing the world you survive.
I don’t foresee, or predict what is left to be,
We all know how we got here,
But you need a trajectory
We all know how we got here,
If you leave, just cry for me
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5. |
BED OF NAILS
06:31
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TIME
Wasted, again, til you see and
RISE
Above the bend,
gone from mortal eyes
Now,
Run your race, feel feet don’t touch the
GROUND
Do you know your,
place,
until it turns around
A cycle stabalized,
what you forgot,
by will stay paralyzed,
never fought,
The Fire alive,
It Burns while you lie
face, that, try,
And when you fail,
lay back down,
on your bed of nails.
SOUND
echoes across,
Fearing what you
FOUND,
a broken god,
that left your head,
HIDE,
Holding that pill, until you finally
PRY
Wide Open, your will,
No more limits, no end.
A cycle stabalized,
what you forgot,
by will stay paralyzed,
what you never fought,
The world of the living,
Turns harder, unforgiving,
Do you face, that, risk,
that you could fail,
Or lay back down,
on your bed of nails.
Vision gone,
Black as night,
Moonlit motives
never right
Sunrise bright,
burnt away,
now you know.
let your sorrow go
Numbers of sharpened points to feel,
When you spread yourself too thin,
Too late, too early now to heal,
You kept it all within
Your blood flows out, across the steel,
leaking as you lay your life away,
What some know, other’s never see
Being what you may have come to hate,
So rise,
So rise,
So rise,
So rise
SHINE,
solar, burn down, till the flame runs
DRY
hold on, burn out,
blackened dwarf explodes
WAIT
conserve, your worth,
paid up in blood,
FATE
wonder, what you serve,
beyond the sun.
The thought will occupy,
Is this my place
scarred enough to try
to fly away
Pricks alone won’t kill you,
But are you comfortable?
The devil asking will you,
Are you gullible?
The Fire alive,
It Burns while you lie
face, facts, try, and fail,
Or lay your head back down,
on your bed of nails.
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6. |
KILL ME
03:51
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Get myself tangled up in vines
Overgrown after no time at all
Thought taking root, you tap me dry
You wanna raise me to the sky and fall
Where am I,
where are you dragging me
Who am I,
Absently
It feels like everyone I love’s
trying to kill me
In ways everyone who hates me
wish they could
Know you mean no trouble,
just lying to thrill seek
Feel like nobody but me can do me good
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
Make me bend unitil i break
Make me retch until
I fold back over
Make me love until I hate it
Make me retch until
I'm laid back out burnt
What Am I
grinding between your teeth
Who Am I
Lying beneath
It feels like everyone I love’s
trying to kill me
In ways everyone who hates me
wish they could
Know you mean no trouble
just lying to thrill seek
Feel like nobody but me can do me good
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
Who am I
What have you done with me
What am I
My gluttony
It feels like everyone I love’s
trying to kill me
In ways everyone who hates me
wish they could
Know you mean no trouble
just lying to thrill seek
Feel like nobody but me can do me good
Steal my meaning and call me misunderstood
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
(are you tryna)
Kill me
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7. |
The Astrocartographer
06:22
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Hello Lucky, there you are
You only know your story so far
I’m back again, to watch you fall
And in time rise above it all
Facades of hope,
Held up with spite
My favorite shape
To catch stray light
Your will contains a raging sun,
That you got too young
And I hope
The fire in your eyes
Burns through your heart as well
I’ve watched a hundred times
Will it all work out, time will tell,
So I’ll, point out which stars for you
follow across the endless night
Look up at the sky
Hello whoever’s there,
I know I’m lucky
Maybe it’s the right stars
Floating above me,
If there’s a god at the heart of existing
Wherever you are, I hope you’re listening
I need help. I admit it
It’s dark down here but,
Look how well we lit it
I’m cracked, scared, and full of pain
Count your curses till we all run out of flame
And I hope
The fire in your eyes burns through your heart as well
I’ve watched a thousand times,
It all ends up the same, it’s hell
So i’ve drawn lines through stars for you
To follow across your endless night
Look up at the sky,
I’m waiting to see you fly
Waiting to see you fly,
Fly
And I hope
That the fire in your eyes
Burns through your heart as well
I’ve watched a million times,
To warn you as you walk through hell,
And I’ve
Laid out the stars for you to follow
Across your endless night
Look up at the sky,
I’m waiting to see you fly
Waiting to see you fly,
Fly
Look up at the sky
Find your wings and
Try, try, try, try, try, and try.
I’m waiting to see you fly
Fly
I'll see you try, try, try, try, try, try to find me
So fly, fly, fly, fly, fly
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