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Pain As Spirit
05:37
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I face the sun and watch it glow like any other star
It lights up the sky like a painting that I know I’ve seen before
I face the moon and watch it sit like any other rock
And it starts to feel like nothing really matters anymore
Caught in the gears of a fierce loop wherein I’m a test
And I’m thrown to time who lets its forces do the rest
This is not the first time that I’ve been trapped in this strife
This is not the first try that I’ve had to carry out a life
Doomed to always stop one day short of 23
Sacrifice my interest and watch my fate spoonfeed me FEAR!
There are two moons where I stand
I am the night in Pio’s hands
I am a star upon the waves
So seen but all so far away
I am a harbinger of nothing
Nothing like the clues I have
I am a martyr, for surely
Something needs this
Something needs this FEAR!
And I must assume it happens more than once
And as the waves crash over what could have once been my body
I wonder to the spirits “why the hell did no one think to stop me?”
I am a restless soul, on clouds of dust I fly
But in a moment of illusion I allow myself to die
So what brings me back?
Have my prayers gone unheard?
Is it blasphemous to curse the souls
That filter out my words?
I am a star upon the waves
I will cry for help for days
There are secrets to my ways
In that I don’t know either why I came back
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Fear Of Death
05:14
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The end is imminent
And I can’t hide my discontent
Wonder where all this time went
I can’t help being recalcitrant
Cause when you feel your agency taken away
And all the heart is sucked out and you know you’ll never stay here
Avoidance is the closest thing we have to human nature
And the cause is a loss of free will, in suggestion of absence
I feel my blood thin out into nothing more than red water
And bones begin to crumble into vicious dust
I can’t move, trapped in air
I call for help that isn’t there
I’ve been through this all once before
But I cling to hope there won’t be more
Where something lives, something dies
Where one retires, one more resigns
A piece to fill for puzzled earth
A heart attack is just old birth
When something sends, one receives
When one hooray’s, something grieves
The mind is emptied, the body is cleansed
The soul resets
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I arise with brand new eyes
I arrive a brand new life
I appear in brand new spirits
I perceive but I can’t hear it coming yet
Hold me as I learn to walk
Test me as I learn to talk
Push me as I learn to slide
Find me as I learn to hide, but I don’t know why
Or what from
Or how come
I know the answer but I can’t find the questions
I don’t know how to do anything right
Where is the tunnel? I can’t find the light
I should know better but square one has got me fucked
I have the sense to be a freer man but locked into a mind not fully grown
And for the first time in this short but endless life
I realize that somehow I have no control
I should feel much worse about repeating birth three times
But inexplicably I think I can let it slide
Surrender to time
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Death Of Fear
07:37
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As life goes on
I lose the will
To keep holding on
To stand so still
It will always happen again
You can say that life’s a game when you’re winning
No more time to wait for the end
Just let it happen once you stop singing
The praises of eternal life
It’s not that simple, and I’ll never get it
But if it’s inevitable
I can game/match/set caution to the wind and forget it
Until it’s time to blow back in my face
As death comes forth
I take my pride
Leave it ignored
And stay on the ride
It’s not denial when I know it’s coming
Just won’t let it ruin a good time
It stings I’m going out
But at least I’m doing it in my prime
It will always happen again
So why act like so much more is coming?
Finish line’s at the same point forever
It’s not a race so why try running
From the winds of cold dark change come storms of real fear
I can’t keep lying to myself, I don’t love it here
But I can tell myself that one day I’ll leave and I’ll always know which
I do not fear death! I do not fear!
I can’t help but shake this feeling that I’m lying to myself. Of course I fear death. I can say I’ve overcome it all I want but at the end of the day I’m going to keep starting over for the rest of eternity. I don’t know what I did to deserve this, and I’m too tired to figure out why it happened. Maybe I’m just too apathetic to be scared.
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∞
08:05
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I do not accept this fate
But I cannot escape it
So I am doomed to repeat it
I know there’s no survival
Awaiting the arrival
Of my next revival
Everything matters
That’s why it hurts to let go
And when the windows shatter
That’s when I’ll know
That I’ve lost a battle
I wasn’t really fighting
And I grow a little
Precisely when they drop the lighting
On me
And in these last moments
I wonder what awaits me at the gates
And on forever
Death opens the door
And lays down a carpet
And turns the hall light off
And holds my hand as we lock the door
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Hello Whirled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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