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Wellness
11:16
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I'm so glad it's cold again
better late than never, I guess
hoping for warmth in the moonlight
flickering in the darkness
when did I get old so fast?
I forgot what it was like to grow
burning in the fires of past
you know you are this
can't keep digging down there
so young and selfish
how did you find new reasons to care?
expecting wellness
feed the demons in your sleep
make you think of friends who fought
staging arguments for the stage
and the curses they brought
whose mind palace am I lost in?
how much did it cost to get in?
where are the crosses on the walls?
where is the blood in the waterfall?
I stared at my reflection in the lake for hours
and didn't learn anything new
walked back to where I was taught to ride a bike
and learned to tie my shoes
what a horrible lie
what a horrible time
what a horrible life
I could have accepted
my history's a mystery of misery
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Replacement
10:13
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sleeping in your fridge
there's life in here but meant for the cold
death is a knife away
or worth the wait to be claimed by the mold
I wasn't born like you
a shadow of what you loved the most
crying your life away
I hear you but I'm just a ghost
you can say whatever you want
I can't bring back, I'm just here to haunt
and if you see a stance as a taunt
you can live in denial forever
I'm a replacement
locked in the basement
bars over casement
preventing your defacement
I'm a substitute
nothing absolute
something to point and shoot, at
but it won't change anything
waking up in the woods
it's dark out but you see the trees
no one's killed you yet
but still, it comes for your unease
walking on the edge
there's life out here but underground
death is a night away
in sleep you'll never hear the sounds
of alarms in tune with the birds
I can't bring back the warmth of the words
but if you see a man in the dark
you can die
I can't clean up all of the blood
that you left in the wake of your flood
I can't burn it all for the good
of your mind
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The Ocean On Fire
11:46
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I stare at a face in the monitor but it’s not mine
It breaks down when you ask if it’s fine
No good reason for it being there
But I’m far too stressed to care
About the noise
About this poison
Dripping from the ceiling and falling into the floor
There’s a bucket of burning oil hanging over my door
And when I try to leave, they throw on tar and leaves
And push me down a few flights of stairs
And no one cares
What I knew was nothing but an image
What I grew had died
What I threw into the water with my eyes closed
What I blew away in the tide
And erased away
Defeat by fighting stone and mockery
The laughing giants of rock
Deliverance by pride and stoned apologies
On the monitor’s eye-face
And erased
What is a monster to an accomplice?
Who holds the key to an empty palace?
Who pours the water into your chalice?
Where did you pray for Spirit Alice on fire?
In my hands, a gravure of the monitor
Hands are chopped, swimming in ink
Begging to never repeat itself
Where? But in the middle of the ocean
No can hear you
That’s the point of sailing into nowhere
Get lost and afraid
And maybe sea change will come through
But I have doubts about a victory
When did it ever end all right?
Presenting odds as color pictures
Blown up and perfect
Just like you remembered it for us
Haven’t I been somewhere here before?
Finding the fragments and chasing the islands
Hoping the nerve doesn’t strike too violent
Praying I break through the monitor
In the shadows I see a dog
And a girl I obsessed over 9 years ago
I swear, it’s true, I was different then
People make mistakes and don’t know when to let them go
Out in the dark, I am no one
Free to blend into the set
Bored and annoyed with glass in my feet
And an eye gouged
Someone is chanting in whispers
A clue from a parallel world
“There’s an ocean on fire”, says the monitor
And I shut down
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Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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