1. |
Old House
03:45
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In an old house
Grit in the grout
‘long the back roads
Sun washed
Worn down
In an old house
Dust on a shelf
Stuck in your ways
“I said I don’t need no help”
I reek of kerosene
And a hard day’s work
Someday my labor
Will have some worth
A farmer’s son
A father’s curse
“Always keep the Lord first
Tend to the land and
Keep your hands in the dirt”
Got a shotgun in a golf bag
Monotony
“How ‘bout you grow a backbone
Be a man and grow a backbone”
The written word
The holy ghost
Conceived in the church
A life lived in verses
And fearing the worst
Live in an old house
Die in an old house
You lost yourself
“May your life bear fruit
May your wife bear sons
One day that day will come”
Monotony
Waiting forever for
The end of the world
Make haste
Life gone to waste
Make haste
Life gone to waste
A simple life, a simple chase
Make haste
Life gone to waste
Amen
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2. |
Walking
04:14
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A blistering sound
Thunder claps
We bear south
I’ll take what I get
“You just don’t know how this works yet”
Dodging the downpour
The figment of a fever dream
A figure in-between
I regret saying anything
Asking you what did you mean
When you said…
“This feels like walking on water
And drowning at the same time
Like using you for shelter
Still burn you from the inside
The weight of the panic
Is pulling us down
The faster we breathe
The faster we drown”
We weigh each other down
We sank to the bottom
Laid out Low
At the bottom we found
Prodigal love
Writhing like snakes
Through my blood
Walking in time
Never enough
Let go the anchor
Risk drift ashore
Drown with me
I’m tired of the in-between
We could dream
Together in a wakeless sleep
Dream with me / I won’t
What do you mean / Follow you down
When you say / You know
This feels like / This feels like
Walking on water
Drowning at the same time
Using you for shelter
Burn you from the inside
The pace of the path
Takes flesh by the pound
The further we step
The harder we fall down
The pace of the path
The weight of the panic
The panic
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3. |
Dead Grass
02:52
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But I take it for granted
I knew I’d take it for granted
Lost to parenthetical patterns
But I never forget it
Remember
The feeling sinks in quick
Seeping through the skull
It’s clear that I’ve been here before
I live my life
One crisis at a time
Constantly at a crossroads
Constantly falling behind
A warning sign
I hope I haunt your thoughts
I suffer by my own sword
I fall on my own sword
It’s a war of attrition
I’m an addict
Addicted to my own vision
Of course, Once more
Of course, I took it for granted
Caught in a parallel pattern
Stare out, stare out
Into your neighbors’ yard
Stare out, stare out
Into your neighbors’ heart
What will you find?
I’ll take my time
In who I will confide
Lookin’ in through the window
Seems clean on the other side
A veil of trust
I hope I haunt your thoughts
A warning sign
I hope I haunt your thoughts
A veil of trust
I suffer by my own hand
I live by my two hands
I’m a man on a mission
On the frontline
In a war of attrition
Maybe yours and mine
will find peace this time
Or exposed decline
before our naked eyes
Dead grass on the other side
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4. |
Wolvves
02:37
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As we walk
We count our steps
Slip-step up the broken bridge
We forge ahead
Forward
But never back
Our feet to the beat
Of the broken machine
We follow blindly down the path
Marked by crumbs
Left by the damned
Do I fall in line
Or fall behind?
Deviate
Or follow the trend?
War in my head
Old money, New name
Same funds, Same game
As we live
We learn to die
It’s all we see on the TV screen
Don’t ask us why
More of us won’t fall in line
The rot will start from the center
And spread ‘til it cracks the crust
War in my head
Old money, New name
Same funds, Same game
War in your head
No mercy, No shame
You shed blood
They shed blame
My comfort
My tendency to bend
Thrown willing
to the wolves again
Our purpose
Priorities spent
Thrown willing
to the wolves again
Now you’re not easily impressed
And you’re convinced that
The best we can be
Is chattel grabbing
For scraps
At the feet of swine
They’ll take blood
They’ll take time
We could leave it all behind
Rather be given to the wolves
You’d rather
Rather be given to the wolves
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5. |
Repressor
06:38
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What matters to me
Are open arms in times of need
Will I whisper through your dreams
As you lie asleep?
I don’t expect applause
Or any response at all
When will you see
What’s been clear to me for awhile?
The space between
And it’s deafening
Patient progress
Makeshift promise
I want to echo through your head
Every word I’ve ever said
Tangled up with our plans
Once again
I don’t think that I can shake you
I can’t take you at your word
What is there to do?
For you, something taken
Is something earned
Something worse
is headed your way
But I’m not your sinking ship
Not your warm grave
As it goes
Predictable
Like the tide
The push and pull charade
It never goes away
It just hibernates
As the signals fade
It resonates
I don’t think that I can shake you
I can’t take you at your word
What is there to do?
For you, something taken
Is something earned
Something worse
is headed your way
It’s a histrionic showing
Your devils have you trained
A vow to break the bond
Regret for what we’ve done
The love of loss
And the thought of
What was once
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6. |
Plague After Plague
03:24
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Wake up dead
The ache behind my eyes won’t fade
Buried the neighbors
In a shallow grave
More will die in the coming days
So I wear this mask
To keep death away
Incantations
Amalgamations
Another gutter, another patient
No comfort, no songs
No breath left in your lungs
You can pray or speak in tongues
There’s no escape
When the reaper comes
The rich will turn and run
Frogs and leeches
Bleed out the demons
Desperation to seize the secret
Dragged through hell
To finally see it
Laid out bare
Lay waste to the human race
I think I’ve been spread too thin
Can’t feed the dead medicine
You can’t deny me
I am the reckoning
This world in a different age
Plague after plague
Faith and famine
No sins forgiven
Deliver us!
Pity us!
We know not what we do!
Do we deserve the silent doom
That stalks our every move?
A Sunday sin
A crooked grin
A surgeon’s spread on an ottoman
One day we’ll come back again
Say goodbye
To friends and relatives
Sold for the lowest bid
Transcend to nothingness
Faith and famine
Wake up dead
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7. |
Strawmen
03:48
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Fade away
Or curse my name?
Life fan flame
Culled
Coiled in the vein
Do you dare forgive me?
Gone away
Clawed against the frame
No call for help
Imagined state
Concern to take, no
Caught in a shape
And I can’t walk away
It’s been weighing on my mind
Yet still, I hold on to that fantasy
That things are back
How they used to be
I’m still the same
I won’t change
Not for anyone but me
I’ve got lessons to learn
You’ve got witches to burn
I’m not one wicked word
Waiting on a weathered curse
And when you look for me
I’ll be gone
You don’t choose who you’re born to
Or who you birth into the world
Just remember
We’re all in this together
Remember
It’s not getting better
Re-bend the argument
Set up to fail
Inconsequential sins
Straw men playing with fire again
Curse my name
I’m still the same
I won’t change
Not for anyone but me
I’ve got lessons to learn
You’ve got witches to burn
I’m not one wicked word
A living line
A tired verse
One wicked word
One weathered curse
Am I the one you wish I was?
Old habits die hard
Come to light in the dark
If I gave you my word
Would you dare forgive me?
Or would you curse my name?
Reveal your real face
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8. |
Stay Asleep
01:57
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I need to make a change
Before it gets too late
Everyone around me says
Addiction
In many forms
Chemicals to credit cards
Our lives aren’t ours
If you want to change
You gotta do it for yourself
Is this how you quit?
Is this politics?
Where do we begin
On a cycle that won’t end?
It won’t end
I am wrong, but I won’t admit it
I need to make a change
Before it gets too late
Everyone who loves me says the same
I’ve been staring in the dark
I got my eyes wide open
I chose to be caught in this dream
That’s why I’d rather be asleep
Have I died one thousand times?
I see I take
Repeat mistakes
Regardless
Wait!
Adrenaline and arrogance
A fleeting hope
I’m quick to spend
I have lied a thousand times
Still no change regardless
I’ve been staring in the dark
I got my eyes wide open
I chose to be caught in this dream
That’s why I’d rather be asleep
I’ve been swimming with the sharks
I left the cage wide open
I chose to be caught in this dream
That’s why I’d rather be asleep
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9. |
Moeticah
02:50
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Unintended symmetry
Eroded dirt beneath my feet
No remorse inherently
Of nature’s incivility
Our home of stone
Shelter for the weak
We are mud
We are clay
We live for the cannonade
Are you afraid?
Wait patiently
Breathe
Enter the flame
Breathe
Decay in me
Pale blue sun
Sets slowly
Behind the obelisk
A vacant grave
Rivers run
Low and crooked
Above and of the earth
A drying vein
Let us be
The wisp in the breeze
The green in the leaves
The hope in the haunting
Home of stone
Shelter for the weak
Blood red sun
Comes crashing
Beyond the obelisk
A burning plain
Lands undone
Made holy
Design divine intent
For every flame
Let us burn down now
What we have built
Worn out
Destruction of self
Are you afraid?
Wait patiently
Breathe
Will you obey?
Lay back in your grave
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10. |
Like a Wave
03:46
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Make no mistake
Comfort can become a cage
Caught caving in
Divide and disintegrate
Just know
If you’re lonely then you’re not alone
Just know that no one knows
Every day I wake
With the weight of my words
Held inside my head
Pull me out, Let me go
Mistakes have made me
I live with what I’ve sown
Like a wave breaks
Faced away
Stuck in Place
I’ve been living like a ghost
Watch the world fade
Watch the world change
As sick as your secrets
Held closely to your chest
Hiding your weakness
Afraid of it
Every day I wake
With the weight of my words
Held inside my head
Pull me out, Let me go
Mistakes have made me
I live with what I’ve sown
Breathe me in, Drink me slow
You know I’m going nowhere
What does love look like?
What does it matter to you?
Lonely weeknights
Nothing left to do
Tear down the walls
That encase the truth
In case you’re drowning
No one can save you
For some comfort in the dark
The night shows us who we are
Face to face
Out of time
No warning sign
So find the light
Just know
If you’re lonely then you’re not alone
If you love me then you’ll let me go
If you’re lonely then you’re not alone
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11. |
Nothing, together
04:08
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They say you are the enemy
Another other beneath me
Told us it’s a zero-sum scheme
“They want what you need”
A “truth” I couldn’t believe
A chorus I could not sing
Absolute beyond belief
Only truth that ever rings
Calling out
“Follow me”
We all come home
There’s no writing on the wall
No line in the sand
We won’t tie that rope
We won’t build that cage
We know where this goes
We will never go
There’s no writing on the wall
No line in the sand
Everything you are
Is everything I am
I am you in the end
We all come home
No mountain
No trench
No hate can divide you from me
We share a common destiny
Death brings us home
To what we’re meant to be
We all come home
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