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Version
00:54
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Funnel the future
Now both - or neither
Refining, refusal
No inverse, reversal
Consider this, consider this
In your unkind hours
Some tinted confusion
Consider this, consider this
A second guess
I blame the order
Collection assembled
Fading to russet
A coiled spade
A stippled line
A cheap array
Consider this
Consider this
Consider this
Consider this
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Coded
01:06
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Layered days
Fall heavy - too much frequency
A feathered display
This distance, is it interesting
Tally the phrase
“Listen more and talk less”
Convince me to say
My choices painted shut with age
Sometimes - I have a separate answer
Etched into tricks of conversion
Sometimes - I have a separate answer
Etched into tricks of conversion
Covered in a question
So critical this cage we keep
Narrow chains
Barren voices
Spill it down
Leave it out
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Quartz
01:16
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Melt your fists into favors
For the sake of getting better
The benefits of decency
And silence
You always rounded down
Forcing out a sharp relief
All buried back
So little effort
I scratched my name into an unknown object
Planted feet for no one but me
This season, stretched into secrets
Electric nets throw claims
On your conscience
In this versal world
How can you value yourself if not seen for who you are
If not seen for who you are
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Closure
01:17
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fed up with this. stitching these loose ends with soothing illusions. fed up with this. fuck this neurosis, don't owe you shit. I see you now in patchwork of false futures. compulsive these visions.
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Pleasant Deceptions
01:14
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these facades carry a weight. a river that runs straight through me. a sound fills the room to protect me from what i need to hear. this cacophony in my head will protect me.
blanket me with warm regards. bury my self contempt with empty amends. pleasant deceptions.
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6. |
In Flight
01:24
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new places to chase the momentum. strange light to forget the forgotten,and feel some familiar but feeling erased and feigning fulfillment.
disposed and disengaging. settled for something close.
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Bracket
01:26
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Can you even see it
With no underline
Over your head
Right on the fence
You say it’s all - impossible
Until it’s - until it’s not
You say it’s all - impossible
Until it’s - until it’s not
My own idiot questioner
In alliance with opacity
Now just pointing to pursue
Functions for their side effects
Morality makes its claim on us
It’s a bridge and not an end
Morality makes its claim on us
Waking up to what I’ve become
Our shadows in the water
Chasing lost, vacant hours
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Sick In This
00:43
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mirror on the wall. show me who i am. the person staring back doesn't stand a chance. eyes glazed with helplessness and blank tragedy. mirror on the wall. no way can that be me.
conscious of short falls forseen in my fate. can't ready myself. can't cope when it hits. can't fckn adapt.
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Gain
00:48
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The impulse to reach for excuses
My habits, persistence in practice
Painful truth over soothing delusion
Regret can be stronger than gratitude
Go past the routine
How far are we from our ideals
All that’s left now
Noise and redundancy
All that’s left now
Noise and redundancy
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10. |
The Lull
01:57
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these few small things keep me together. silhouettes of deparated, violet prints unseen.
in the fold stillness exists. hush tones eclipse.
unanswered reminders hewn from my flesh again
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