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let them lay their hands
on our portioned out eternity
it's deeper in the middle
where opinions drift
and fall away
where you don't flaunt
where you don't seek
without a purpose
who burned the world
silence
the guise of a tormentor
so far from the rubble
i think we can start over
blue
ticket
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소나기 - endless waltz
04:05
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it all looks better
smaller
different
in the distance
does it really
get better
somewhere
outside of answers
constant spacing
an error
changing my scales to deal with clouds
enduring the right kind, a simple contest
which one are you? why does it matter?
and truth at any cost - a secret impulse
the choice is mine, renew this illusion
please just stand by
please just stand by
changing my scales to deal with clouds
(breaking restructure reclaiming enclosure)
enduring the right kind, a simple contest
(breaking restructure reclaiming enclosure)
which one are you? why does it matter?
(breaking restructure reclaiming enclosure)
the truth at any cost - a secret impulse
(breaking restructure reclaiming enclosure)
somewhere
in the wrong direction
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This equation all ready for calculation
No need for extraneous variables
But the solution is all wrong.
A step was disregarded for ease
You may have failed your course
But you got your photo op.
Any attempts to correct the work are either
Ignored or waved off with a belittling politeness.
You may have failed your course.
But you still got your photo op.
It only cost your empathy.
-Cheers.
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A future snuffed out
Before it had time to ignite
Signed promises
Tossed upon the gas flare
This land will soon flood
I hope it takes you all with it
You crypto-facist fucks
Nothing would give me more pleasure
Than to see you beg for air
Leave them bloated, sinking to the bottom
Drag them under
Take what they stole
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indisposed - support
05:34
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Stave from all words (you breathe just like)
You Stave from all words (you speak just like)
You Stave from all words (you stare just like)
Just stare
like someone’s watching (you breathe just like)
do they see me like I see them (you speak just like)
you care just like
you don't
you don't
concrete means unfold as this chapters ending
your deaf intentions an alcove
in there no meaning.
you turn the knife quick
on these battered arms
I'd never hurt you
what is this worth?
what is this worth?
the MRIs back
I've made my bed
the blueprints dotted
you erase first
why do you erase first?
gently persuaded by isolation
self effacing to tethered ends
disappointment in details
beseeched from one end
vague reminders there's no one left
there's nothing left
I imagine a day in a white
am I beside, or aside ? —in the closet
a dress hangs like a skeleton,
too spineless — to come out
recount the words (never a straight shot)
what was I worth (murmur you honesty under your breath)
a disappointment and a placeholder
a disappointment and a placeholder
tired and vain attempts and I am exiled
they rely on you as you try to maintain your image
tired and vain attempts and we are exiled
Intentions corrosive, we splinter under pressure
my back is against the beams
and the window breaks
I retract the hand that holds this up
I retract the hand that holds this up
just to see
if you'll
save yourself
you just save yourself
as it falls
save yourself
and it falls on me
it falls on me
backbreaking, it falls
it falls
it falls
vague reminders there's nothing
your image pirouettes in all photographs
vague reminders there's no one left
hold them in judgement, as battered backs turn
words dance desperate
day in white
words dance desperate
day in white
words dance desperate
hands intertwined
words dance desperate, murmured
I retract the hand that holds this up (save yourself)
I retract the hand that holds this up (as it falls, it falls)
I retract the hand that holds this up (save yourself)
I retract the hand that holds this up (as it falls)
and it falls on me.
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coma regalia - reach
02:48
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drifting snow blinded eyes pained to see this interception falling countlessly there is nothing watch it accumulate and melt away
anxiety's grip closes see how these fears take flight
whatever once was was lost and never found again in not a difference of opinion but trust melting away
no breath left to hold no reason to think that this would be any different
so cold miss the warmth bathe me in flame make me feel this once more so i can let go
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coma regalia - pause
00:38
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exhausted worry narrates the soundtrack of fan blades
choose an ending
painted darkness and thoughts and lost hopes choose an ending
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coma regalia - break
01:32
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inch forward in pain closer to life closer to death hold onto this pain afraid of this life and closer to death
seek out / hear these voices
reach out / follow them down
head down the road to nowhere
seek out /
nothing has changed it's still the same it all remains broken and shattered
drown in the insignificance of these ideals and paralyzed by the dent you never made
nothing has changed / a flash in the fire / too much to behold
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