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Forgiveness
04:18
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In life, I've known countless shades of pain
ones that I could not foresee
unbeknownst to me
To, to become someone you feared
and when the dark draws near
the way through is not so clear
Oh, my eyes are growing dim
breath is drawing thin
I'm sure, this is it
So, did it break creations mind
when ivy failed to climb?
A flaw in the design
Upon death's door I realize
there's another side
to live 1,000 lives
I'll live 1,000 more
Though the dream may fade
the scars I can't hide
will they shudder at the mark?
I'm absolved but in the dark
Oh, can they tell
where I've been, how far I've fell?
They're all searching too
So, did it break creations mind
when ivy failed to climb?
A flaw in the design
Upon death's door I realize
there's another side
to live another life
Though the dream may fade
the scars I can't hide
will they shudder at the mark?
I'm absolved but in the dark
Oh, can they tell
where I've been, how far I've fell?
They're all searching too
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2. |
Purge
03:33
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Black night came and the moon was rising
whispering wind carried away the youth
Daylight mourns with darkness coming
Death, rebirth
fade into the earth
you are all that you see
Rising tide, the waters take the shore
taking back all that's been consumed
surviving none, they torment her no more
The bereft shall purge
calm will follow surge
memories burning
fading mind
from ashes new life will rise
All that was sought
has been lost
washed away into the sea
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3. |
Stay
06:07
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I was a stranger in my own land
I knew no shepherd, no guiding hand
I prayed for solace through restless nights
my plea was desperate, and all was light
My heart was begging for a sign
I'll take your conviction for sublime
why don't you lay me right into the walls of your shrine?
Of your shrine
It's light or dark, can't you tell?
bottom of a wishing well
the time has come, you must decide
go on alone or you can stay
How they are humble, how they are kind
how they look longing through diamond eyes
they give their comfort when they speak
they take in lepers and prey on the weak
They spread their arms wide, they grin
We got the message our new friend
We're gonna lay you right into the walls of our shrine
of our shrine
It's light or dark, can't you tell?
bottom of a wishing well
the time has come, you must decide
go on alone or you can stay
I wanna wear the robes
I wanna don the beads
I wanna cut myself open
just to see if I bleed
I wanna read the book
I wanna dance for the sun
I wanna turn my back
and remember no one
I want a brand new mom
I want a brand new dad
I want praise when I'm good
I want the rod when I'm bad
I wanna take the vow
I wanna writhe in shame
pay penance for my past
and take a new name
I wanna live for the king
make it to the hill
I'll do of his bidding, even if it's to kill
And when they come for me
It's too late I'm sold
I'm gonna do it till I die
till my blood runs cold
And when they come for me
It's too late I'm sold
I'm gonna do it till I die
till my blood runs cold
I wanna like for the king
dance for the sun
turn my back and remember no one
turn my back and remember no one
turn my back and become one
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4. |
Positive Vibes
03:18
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You must be reeling, for sure
you just can't take anymore
the burden weighs and you shake
your mind about to break
the walls are caving in
resolve is wearing thin
before you hit the floor
I know the only cure
If you wade through your life's dregs
hold silent reverence of your breathe
Was born in lightning strikes
a torrent raged all night
and in this torrent of rage
I scrawled her name on the page
my body twisted and formed
inbred with love and with scorn
I am the blood, flesh, and bone
I am the life that flows
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5. |
Our Love
05:03
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Our Love, like a candle’s dying flame
hubris by another name
I tried a prideful hand
in a well known loser’s game
Our love, like some lifeless serenade
like a hit that’s over played
I showed up in fanciful garb
to a dressed down masquerade
Oh, it came as no surprise
nothing left in your eyes
like a bitter winter sun
that doesn’t ever really rise
Oh, I walk in my sleep
with no dreams at night
to hold a youthful promise
and watch it age, lose it’s shine
Oh, I walk in my sleep
with no dreams at night
to hold a youthful promise
and watch it age, lose it’s shine
Our love, poetry that never made the page
passion lost within the play
and when we finally took a bow
we were but actors on the stage
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6. |
Heroes?
03:24
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Sometimes I wish I never knew you at all
wish I never heard your song
oh, you let me down
Heroes? Oh, what you do to me
how you used to set me free
in midnights, I was alone
The sweetest fruit I've ever known is rotting on the vine
bittersweet is the taste, sour is the wine
The shame is mine, for in all of time
heroes only live in lines
of stories timelessly told
Turn the page, look upon the tyrant sage
turned to a darker way
I was spellbound
like a child I loved, like an angel you fell
The sweetest fruit I've ever known is rotting on the vine
bittersweet is the taste, sour is the wine
Far away, under distant stars
perhaps there are heroes truer than ours
on the darkened stage I was in your palm
but I'll see your face when the curtain's called
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7. |
Harbinger of Spring
06:57
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Withered bones stretch out through cold
sigil comes in red and gold
water brims and surface cracks
curtain lifts, dissolves the black
Hail the forsaken queen
who's time is emerging
hark the burgeoning
Harbinger of Spring
Harbinger of Spring
On a still and silent land
the stream of life, unbroken
in darkness, there shines a midnight sun
that breathes life into the earth, awakened
What colors come and fill the world?
longing for life, tendrils unfurl
the fertile earth shall have no need
all hope resides within a seed
Hail the forsaken queen
who's time is emerging
hark the burgeoning
Harbinger of Spring
Harbinger of Spring
The fertile earth shall have no need
the coming of a reborn queen
all hope resides within a seed
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8. |
2121
01:58
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In the year 2121
there'll be no more definition
distinction to oblivion
all will be one beneath the sun
There'll be no more sweet melodies
no bars or chords, cadence, or keys
just ambiguous harmony
all will be a sea of atonality
In the year 2121
there'll be no more definition
distinction to oblivion
all will be one beneath the sun
There'll be no more sweet melodies
no bars or chords, cadence, or keys
just ambiguous harmony
all will be a sea of atonality
Whoa, I'm fancy free
I've never been better becoming me
I'm fluid like amoeba genes
just picking things up as I please
and what I don't need, well it's to the breeze
And one day I'll be free at last
I'll let the stars consecrate my mass
revert back to planetary gas
become another lifeforms home
of iron ore, argon, and gold
I'll let my carbon harden
I always was a diamond
forever free and radiant
just dig me up, and I'll do it again
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