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Despair
04:25
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Everything that's beautiful is condemned to be torn apart
With this knowledge how can I see the beauty in anything?
Is knowledge power when you have no power or is it just crippling despair?
We're slipping into fascism but nobody seems to care
Hard lessons should have been learned but it seems that they're soon forgotten
Or are they just being ignored, pretend those things don't happen anymore
But it is happening right now, payed not to see for such a small price
Illusion of security, plastic culture devoid of life
Overwhelmed with despair
Captive tied to a chair
I feel so alone
Got no hope
In this life we will all be betrayed, I can't sleep with these thoughts in my head
I'm questioning the people that I want to trust, is this me or is this the system?
Fucking with our heads, this is relentless, if they're in our heads they've already won
Crippled by all my guilt and confusion, fail to see what can be done
Our friends they will slip away and we won't see them go
Just pay a passing thought every once in a while, wondering what path they chose
And if we try to get in touch we will find out what they did
They did what thousands of others did, gave up hope and the will to live
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Nightmare
04:26
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An imperfect family on a warm summers night
The windows and doors all open, ignore the signs a storm is coming
Our gaze is drawn to the thermometer in the kitchen
Watch as the level plummets and it shatters into pieces
At first in was amusing as the room filled up with flies
Mosquitos and moths, they swarmed around the room
As they bounce off the walls they sound like a clock ticking too fast
But then the fear crept in, rising from my belly
Then the house was torn asunder by an invisible force
It grabbed me by the ankles, tore me away from the ground
And I clutched onto your hand in a state of complete terror
Said "please don't let go I love you and I don't wanna die".
But the force tore us apart, swept me up into the sky
Awaken in a panic, see your silhouette close by
It's just a hallucination, just a hallucination
A remnant of this fucking nightmare
Shiver as the cold creeps over my body
Ominous feeling that my brain's trying to tell me something
It is just a nightmare, it is just a nightmare
It's a sign the end is near.
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Fallow
05:43
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Illusive delusions, lacking clarity
Of the creature that I want to be
Drowning in my own helplessness
I am weak and I hate myself for this
Thick mists envelope this barren plain
I know these weary eyes will never see the sun again
The cold bitter winds are biting at my skin
Another loser in a game that no one ever wins
Encroaching darkness, waning light
Bright Phoebus has left us in this starless night
Encroaching darkness, waning light
Poisonous wind, the reapers scythe
We're stranded in this desolate wasteland
Forgotten are the ideals for which I used to stand
Betrayed by my former self, abandoned and lost
There's nowhere left to run I cannot escape the frost
I could hear it decaying, I could see it decaying
But I lay fallow and watched everything die
I was watching from the distance, I was watching from the precipice
But I lay fallow and watched everything die
We're biting at the hand that feeds
Muffle the screams with the drone of industry
My own mother was on her knees
I did nothing, now there's no one left to hear my own screams
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Everything Is OK
03:52
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The sounds that once
Reverberated
Through this house
Have long since faded
Reduced to the occasional creek in the floorboards
That are laden with dust
And strips of the peeling wallpaper
And sharps of glass
From the windows that broke long ago
And as we stand here
On either side of the room
The distance between us
it could not be greater
The memories we shared have all been corrupted
By the poison we hold in ours minds
They've been mutated and twisted
Far from the truth, we forgot the meaning of that word
We're far from who we once were
Far from what we once were
Far from the truth, we forgot the meaning of that word
We just stare as the ground breaks open and consumes what's left of this house
This empty decaying shell
Sucked into the infertile ground
We just lie as our hearts break open and release a torrent of pain
That penetrates the numbness of our brains
Pretend not to see we feel the same
Pretend everything is OK.
Everything is OK.
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Roots
05:51
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Burrowing underneath the trees, obsessing over roots
Filthy in the foliage, tunneling into tombs
There's no life without death, there's no life without death
Obsessed with the beginning, obsessed with end
Diving into the deep stagnant murky pools
Water engulfs my body, it's slimy and cold
There's no life without death, there's no life without death
Obsessed with the ancient, obsessed with the end
Magnet embedded in my forehead
My gaze is cast downwards forever more
There's blossom on the trees and pollen in the air
But I do not see it, I just stare down at the floor
Spend my days cowering from the golden orb
Filled with contempt for its blinding light
I wish I could be rid of its exposing glare
Lurking in the shadows, waiting for it to disappear
The silver orb rises, in loneliness I roam
Weeping for the hardness of this cruel world
Searching for a refuge where the day-star cannot follow
Where my wilted soul can finally unfurl
Embraced by the mist as I ascend this lonely mountain
Staggering up the brook into a grimy cave
Worm my way like a maggot deep under the hills
Vanish from all knowledge, never seen again
Entombed in the mountain, obsessing over roots
Filthy in the dark pools and long forgotten tombs
There's no life without death, no pleasure without pain
Fermenting in this dark, dank, earthy womb.
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