1. |
Peripheral
04:06
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Won't you take a second look?
Here alone I stand awaiting your final judgment.
All the years, flights, promises, can't amount to nothing now.
Won't you take a second look?
I can't force the hand of love or claim it's spoils uncooked.
But this is life, that was faith those were promises.
I can't bear the thought of how
You kept me so
Peripheral
Never let me in beyond the corner of your eye
Peripheral
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned.
Anchor-less but still so hooked
To the dreams and fantasies that lay awaiting us.
I was deaf, dumb, childish
Far too late to play an adult.
Anchor-less but still so hooked
To a future disappearing in a haze of dust.
I tried black magic, witchcraft, and conjuring.
Not a single spell has stuck.
And you kept me so
Peripheral
Never let me in beyond the corner of your eye
Peripheral
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned.
Kept me so
Peripheral
Never let me live beyond the corner of your eye
Peripheral
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned.
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2. |
Pantomime
03:27
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Pantomime kisses
for anonymous lovers
again tonight.
Take the back stairs
to another's covers
who knows, you might.
Give it all away to only one
but still refuse to claim a prize
could you climb the stairs again now
and accept the truth?
In time, it dies.
Asinine wishes for
a taste of discovery
steer your life
wake from pale dreams
to a state of recovery right in time.
And give it all away to only one
but still refuse to claim a prize
would you climb the stairs again now
and accept the truth?
In time, it dies.
Through forces now outdated
they once had found their places.
Now only chumps and vagrants
put trust in good god's graces.
And so with boot to pavement
chase down the night.
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3. |
Gaslighting
03:22
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Didn't you lay a clever ruse
drawing me towards your light
didn't you bet I'd play the fool?
( Low on trust but paralyzed )
Balancing through a wreck of moods
praying to satisfy
struggling for sufficient proof:
( That our house held more than lies )
Truth scares me when I have to burn the past to flee
Erasing these memories
feels like going blind
Never knowing
If when we felt free
We were just confined
trapped inside each other's lives.
Stubbornly searching for a rule
hoping that there's still time
stuck at a table set for two.
(cartoon romance hypnotized)
Holding out for a sight of truth
hanging on for the night
but if I soon slip back to you
( Promise not to touch the lights )
Truth scares me when we have to burn the past to flee
Erasing these memories
feels like going blind
Never knowing
If when we felt free
We were just confined
trapped inside each other's lives.
Please don't touch the lights
I am sane and I am breathing
Please don't touch the lights
When I am safe from the feeling
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4. |
Resistance
03:28
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She wanders in and out of sight
she hovers just beyond the pale street light.
And if I could only meet her outside of a dream
maybe then I could recover all that has been lost in me
Help me manage to replenish faith
Broken for the night
I can barely stand
Giving up on love
was never in my plans
Broken for the night
and hope just recedes
Is this resistance
now a part of me?
He stumbles slowly through the night
makes rubble of the plans he once held tight.
And if he could recover access to his dreams
would he dare to rediscover what it once was like to see?
We feign helpless despite agency
Broken for the night
I can barely stand
Giving up on love
was never in my plans
Broken for the night
and hope just recedes
Is this resistance
now a part of me?
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5. |
Stuck
03:49
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Frozen time thaws slowly breaks like ice
hold a shard closely, to the light.
These are all the years you threw away
Chasing hearts
This is all the time that you can’t reclaim
Staring at charts
You turn to face the pendant sway
Another spell cast in the dark
Maybe you’re stuck, deprived of grace
So why stick around for it everyday
Maybe you’re stuck, you’re eyes are glazed
The wheel keeps spinning and there’s no escape
Maybe you’re stuck, decide to play
To welcome loss and gain
Wicked eyes glow softly in the night
meet their gaze cautiously locking sights.
Those are all your fears you still embrace
Held to heart
These are all the lies that you can’t replace
Scattered in parts
You kneel to pray but curse the day
With its arrival you are lost
Maybe you’re stuck, deprived of grace
So why stick around for it everyday
Maybe you’re stuck, you’re eyes are glazed
The wheel keeps spinning and there’s no escape
Maybe you’re stuck, the lies, the praise
It don’t mean a thing even if they say
You’re so stuck, decide to play
For soon it's all erased
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6. |
Chasing Charles Atlas
05:05
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If I could believe in something
don't you think I'd try?
If I were a man of faith, wouldn't I, wouldn't I?
But it won't reappear the taste for life
that was so abundant in past years.
Standing at the gates of memory
a palace built of lies.
Permanently barred from entering the same each time.
So it won't reappear
the taste for life
that was so abundant in past years.
Help me find a line to this source
that was so abundant in past years.
Years, I know now I've misused.
Voices foreign hover in place
echoes of lost seasons escape.
I replay desperately these
fragments of a truth to renew.
If you could control the faucet
of sanity that blinds
would you face the gaping maw
to resuscitate your vital signs?
When it won't reappear
the taste for life
that was so abundant in past years.
Help me find a line to this source
that was so abundant in past years.
Years I know now I've misused,
Voices foreign hover in place
echoes of lost seasons escape.
I replay desperately these
fragments of a truth to renew.
{ The memories will fade
while the details degrade
and the dream now overcast
belladonna-alcohol.
Until then there's no relief
face down in a pool of hurt
crying "help me"
pathetic and out of control
endlessly wanting }
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