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Witness
01:50
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don't you fucking look at me
you don't have to look at me
I need you to look at me
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Acquiesce
01:55
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it's too early to make decisions
the sun's not up but unfortunately we are
oh for crying out loud
we're all doing it too
just cry a little quieter and let me sleep in
a little longer to explore the night
I'm not facing the day without a fight
hope sucks
I wish I didn't have it
it seems you still have yours
and you won't stop saying "acquiesce"
cause I know how much you care about the outcome
care about the journey
give this shit a rest
throw an old movie on the TV
wish things were still that sanitized
and never fully realized
how much power we could have
dress nicely for boring adventures
of embezzlement or whatever those were about
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Process
01:26
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you won't remember the songs
all the lyrics are too long
but I suppose all the best ones are
no bait for the hooks
lack charisma, good looks
but I reckon the best minds don't
if being a god wasn't so complex
I'd try it out myself
but if it's revolutionary it must be free
and then I'd be like everyone else
and gods are meant to be slain
or being unique would make you plain
context matters when the vacuum cleans
in the middle there's a floor of dirty scenes
but the headaches aren't so mean
nothing ever spells itself out
but it spills and there's no rags on hand
nerve to say "go start a band"
if all it rewarded was self-respect
I'd keep it to myself
but if it's for the public then it can't be free
and then I'd be like everyone else
and heroes are meant to be dead
or being unique would put a target on your head
running in circles only works so long
you won't remember my songs
all the lyrics are too long
but I suppose
all the best ones
are
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Bloodletting
01:33
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"I don't know you" is something I would say
if events had gone my way and you'd truly cut me out for good
I wish sometimes you'd never forgiven me
like a bad insurance ad I could be forgotten and left alone
why do good things happen to bad people
and why am I doing so well?
see that's a joke I made to set up a point
I'm actually doing terribly but I need you to know it now because
one day I'm gonna kill ya
and that's the last they'll ever hear from me
live a hero's death or a villain's life
or a bystander's disease
one day I'm gonna kill ya
and I'll gut you like the leech you are
cut down the boundaries you always ignored
and discover the benefits of bloodletting
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改めまして
00:58
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once again
the path splits into equally
unsavory directions
and near certain death paths
once again
the river backs up too much
and overflows over such
a large expanse
once again
asks to remind
on no uncertain time
get up from your seats
and head for the exits
this is only the end
once again
the blood outweighs the water
as long as no one's after
no bookmark necessary
aratamemashite
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Diptych
01:51
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your face
is telling me nothing
and your eyes
are quietly humming
something nice
but it's slowly crumbling
and the race
isn't worth much running
running out of water
water to rain
rain for your clouds
clouds for your parade
parades for what?
you've kinda done nothing
and I guess that's something
but you're not moving much
and your words
in diptych and palimpsest
growing blurred
over time meaning less
and quite absurd
by the mark of your crest
you're undeterred
but you're not playing your best hand
hand over the keys to your heart
I don't care to penetrate, just need to know that you have one
it's not my job to guess you're enjoying this
but do you feel anything at all these days?
these days are troubled ones, we know
would be lying if I didn't think so
but history is divided by the winners
and I guess we're losing cause we're not doing much
much has to be done around here
but is it revolutionary to do nothing all day?
could say okay
if you had the energy
to speak
or open something
what a way
to celebrate the end times
sure the future could be better
but I'd almost rather die unfulfilled
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Shaking
01:45
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master looks at his table
lays out his tools and prepares for the trade
conjures a spell from his fables
and reacts with defied grade
master washes himself clean
walks into dusk with a smile on his face
was an unforgettable scene
and a lack of solid trace
that's why they built barriers
for the heartless and the hardened
they're here and they're scarier
and they're shaking up the garden
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Egregore
01:55
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who are you to watch me
as I walk my day to day?
is it true you're really floating?
do you even have a face?
some may call you "thoughtform"
but I'll call you by your name
as soon as I know what it is
we'll be walking all the same
I don't know who you are or how you found me
should it be enough to ground me?
some extent of you surrounds me
does your present form confound me?
who am I to question
why this entity appears?
it might not be the least explainable thing
I've seen in the last 10 years
do I hunger for another?
have I tricked myself again?
am I praying for a lovebird?
have I grown tired of having friends?
I don't know who you are or why you chose me
I have enough self-doubt to know you broke me
my bed's not made enough for this to be a dream-like lie
when they say "you'll find someone to call your own" did they mean of own design?
I don't know who you could be
so please close the door and leave
believing you is not the problem
but it's a grief to believe in me
I don't want to live forever
if I'm going to be alone
but at a choice I'll just say "never"
and ask you now to leave my home
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Reincarnation
01:44
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they found the body on the spot
air dried the blood while the skin was hot
it rained carnations the night you died
and now you're a new world
they tagged your limbs and sent you free
to be with like minded carbon for eternity
it rained carnations the night you died
and now it's a new world
you can't change the past
only hope for a better future
and that's for a new world
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Datura
00:54
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I can't sit still
these days it's getting harder to do that
there's nothing more I'd rather do than leave
but if I walk they'll cut my future from my arms
take the hands and leave me to clean the trail
put it on me to keep this train moving
piling on the coal for your entertainment
pointless and pained, all I'm doing is losing
hop towards the tracks and never look back
would I be happier elsewhere?
suddenly location matters
could there be a better ending?
of datura trips and acid splatters
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Rubber
01:57
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stretch the mind too thin
watch it snap back like rubber
let the organs fall
and replace them after another
the body's not supposed to live like this
doing everything and nothing at a time
we look back at the horror of it
and decide that this is fine
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Wrench
01:55
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we both know this isn't working
but that doesn't make it any harder
watching you leave
there's a hole in my heart that I carved myself
and there's no cause left to resign or bereave
let me ponder
let me wonder
let me filter out the screams
let me pretend
let me ascend
let me perish to my dreams
I know I'm flying
but it feels like falling
I could be dying
but really I'm crawling
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Heavenbound
01:21
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and they run so closely
and they walk so far
and they travel quickly
and they end up where
the sun doesn't set on time
days pass like seconds anywhere
the moon isn't an old friend just fine
and they sleep on the ground
and they wake up early
and they feast for years
and they house a garden
and they use their tears
to grow their floral blood
passed down for generations here
no bombs could torch this sacred sleeping ground
either way, heavenbound
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Quaintrelle
01:57
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dandizette / I do regret
the things I've said of you
of assuming natures
not investigating through
marionette with invisible strings
I thought you were of such
but so capable of brilliant things
I seek no second touch
quaintrelle
do tell
a tiny world wrapped around your finger
trapped inside your shell
quaintrelle
oh well
every chance worth taking
such as long as you excel
philocalist / how I had missed
your little whispered threats
when most are shooting eye daggers
you shoot eye bayonets
traditionalist you're not
and never expected to be
show and tell, a place in hell
prove you skated your own circle
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Buzzcut
01:34
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you think you look good with the buzzcuts on
up the mountains with a self made weight
drop of sweat could move your hands to gun
a heartbeat's all you need to never hesitate
you're a menace to the peace of the world
awful terror to a neverland
reaching values not unseen by the dead
they'd be alive instead
if you hadn't let it get to your head
you're helping no one with that buzzcut, son
deliriously delusionally complex gods
stain the rivers with the setting sun
where you come from there's no moon
if there is, it's coming down soon
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Normality
01:07
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there's toxic waste down at the watering hole
it'd be a lot safer there if it wasn't so cold
but with nowhere else to go
we all pile up into the same location
all make the same pained observations
with no effects to show
an opportunity presents itself
as thinly veiled "back to normal" escape
but when everyone pulled back the drapes
it showed nothing had really changed
because no one believes in moving forward
to accept the dangers of staying the same
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it never takes you much
to turn you on
and while I appreciate the gesture
it's my right to say you're wrong
I'm almost dead already
and you're so full of life
hold the fondant and the toppers
it's a match not made in any heaven
it's too late to feel I'm ready
can't back out now but I don't like this touch
let's take it steady
live as friends until our paths split
and we reach the end
and never see each other again
it never takes too much
to turn me off
short of falling into a lecture
I refuse to play along
much like the dreams I don't have
a lonely king in a dancehall court
nothing like cutting short
it sounds like you but I'm not ready
your words strike like earthquakes for me alone
but that's the past unsteady
the future's bleak but not so much
that it needs you
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Aegis
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old silver in the sun
you've got the heart of a winner
old age is not for harm
coated legend for beginners
I know I'll see you everywhere
I know you'll go to many places
I know I'll cheer you on in stares
I know you won't forget the faces
old silver hearted son
your journey has begun
(and it's not a short one)
stock on mythril 'fore you leave
give us time to sit and grieve
(a little longer)
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Thousand
14:23
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history's made in the present
for futures that don't exist
decisions made for hope, forgiveness
and people that won't be missed
all of it forms an experience
a story of someone's life
birthing to burial stories
and drink to it every night
but what if it's all a farce?
and none of it's worth any value?
shrinking into a hole
where nothing receives light
submerged with the head of the K class
it searches for something right
gasps once for air, learning nothing
and vanishes out of sight
people I knew growing up
have taken journeys of their own
some haven't changed, and paid for it
some made a family home
boring and plain is an option
an easy way through the game
pleasant but not worth discussing
it starts to look all too same
who would want to live like that?
you did what you wanted but what you wanted was shit
who would want to die for that?
some words engraved and that's the last of it
who would want to live for that?
repetition and droning on
who would want to die like that?
playing every second wrong
like an endless vicious cycle
I still haven't learned to control mine
like a morphogenetic Bible
with all of the waste spared
it's still as good as dead
like a perpetual motion wheel
I want to feel nothing
just for a taste of the end
just to finally fucking feel
a meaningful change
so I don't feel like I'm floating in a cold sleep
on a shooting range
target couldn't be painted redder
just to not feel estranged
we can all sit around and watch me unravel
like yarn in the hands of a careless nurse
I'm losing wars to win a single battle
and acting surprised when it keeps getting worse
I think sometimes I long for a companion
someone to know will always be there
but at the thought of romantic relations
my eyes dart inward and my brain goes nowhere
may I be blessed to live my life
as a silent protagonist in a game you'll never play
leave the world to argue whether I should speak or not
deep down I know it's the right move
you won't like what I have to say
it's as the kids say - I belong in limbo
everything must remain
it's as my thoughts stay - I belong in limbo
nothing must ever change
all I wish, and nothing more, is that you please forget my name
in honor of my hopeless soul that's doomed to never do the same
I don't ask for death, I just want another life
to mend my ongoing mistakes and treat it all as a bad game
or maybe it's quite good, I wouldn't know it
if I could play it well I don't show it
I've been here 22 years and still haven't found the dev exit
there's no blood for me here
no violent signs of decay
just doomed to repeat disappointment
for every fucking day
so what's the point to it all?
I've tried a million things and I've done it all before
where do the dead ends come to life?
I've cried a thousand times and I'll die a thousand more
and her flaming absence burns
golden opportunities that had to wait
her flaming absence burns
a gently crumbling state
each step takes defeating
a history worth repeating
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