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Continue?
02:34
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Insert a quarter
If life's worth living with anxiety disorder
Stealing every instant
A pained existence for no good reason
Insert a quarter
To sing your blues to the windows voice recorder
A tree in a forest, falling on purpose
WIth no one there to hear
Press start to open
A nice career as a software boy in Oakland
Press some keys and hoard your wealth
Or maybe you could kill yourself
Well you know, it's always an option
I've been trying so damn hard
Tto pick myself up off the ground
It's one step forward
And nineteen backward
Why can't I just play these songs, please?
And still eat
New game, continue
Your save's corrupted but it's better than what you'd go through
Starting a new one
Too old to waste time, but too young to give it up
So pick a dead end, chill out 'till you die
I've been trying so damn hard
Tto pick myself up off the ground
It's one step forward
And nineteen backward
Why can't I just play these songs, please?
And still eat
'Cause no one
Will pay me to live a decent life
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Path Through the Past
03:08
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Every path through the past reaches a dead end
My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead
Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends
And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end
When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?
Every child that is born will withhold their joy
When their peers wipe them out, I mean totally destroy
Every shred in their head that the world is good
Now they're left all alone writing songs about how they're misunderstood
When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?
Every path through the past reaches a dead end
My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead
Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends
And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end
When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?
When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?
When things will just get worse
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Bones
02:53
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I’m draggin' my feet
I’m draggin' my bones
I’m draggin' what remains of the shreds of my soul
I feel incomplete
I feel so homesick
But I’m already home
I’m already home
There’s nowhere to go
Pardon my feet
Pardon my soul
Pardon every part of me that’s not quite whole
Ashamed to exist
Ashamed to be lonely
I gave myself to fear and now I’m letting it own me
I want to exist
I want to be happy
But everything hurts
When you’re maudlin and sappy
I don’t wanna die
But I don’t wanna be alive
I don’t wanna be alive
But I don’t wanna die
And there's nothing I can do
I'm already home
There's nowhere to go
Fucked up, knocked down, in over my head
An inch of water, I drown in my bed
I don't want to be myself no more
No more
I'm draggin' my feet
I'm draggin' my bones
I'm draggin' what remains of the shreds of my soul
I'm already home
In my solipsistic hole
There's nowhere to go
I'm all alone
I'm already home
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Ember
04:14
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When I was younger
When sorrow still slumbered
An ember burned bright
Nurtured by daylight
The ember's ever-fading every year since the age of ten
Maybe if you feed it you'll be warmed by its flames again
The ember held too tight
Can burn you, so learn to
Let age give its graces
Through cycles and phases
The ember started glowing every time that you spoke your name
Maybe if you feed it you'll be warmed by its flames again
The ember's firelight
Once swallowed by midnight
Now nourished, burning
Smolders, yearning
The ember started glowing every time that you spoke your name
Speaking to your spirits as they gather by its golden flame
A lifetime of looking inside filled me with spite
When I was younger
When sorrow still slumbered
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9 to 5
02:31
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Children know
While our bodies grow
A chill will seep
Through every hour of every day of every
Weekend coming
Motor running
But the car goes backwards
Struggle ever after just to
Idolize
A boss that we despise
We waste our only life from 9 to 5
Yuppies know
Though your debt will grow
Your thoughts will shrink
'Til the only thing you think is real's your
Credit rating
Masturbating to the
Stocks your boss has
Bought you off with, just to make you
Idolize
A boss that you despise
You waste your only life from 9 to 5
I Idolize
A boss that I despise
I waste my only life from 9 to 5
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Ulcer
02:54
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A hole in the lining
That lets all the hurt in
Anxiety made manifest
A souvenir for all your stress
A pain to drain your soul
I don't know
What I am or where I'm going
Who I am or what I'm doing
My ulcer grows
With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up
There's hope in the lining
A glimpse of silver
Maybe I can gain control
A pound of flesh a pound of gold
Exchange my pain tenfold
I don't know
What I am or where I'm going
Who I am or what I'm doing
My ulcer grows
With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up
Hope floats in surges
But as soon as you surface
The water turns sour
Acid eats right through your stomach
Cuts a hole and saps your every power
I don't know
What I am or where I'm going
Who I am or what I'm doing
My ulcer grows
With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up
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7. |
Interlude
00:22
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Thank you for installing GIF Construction Set Professional
Please insert disk 2
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8. |
Bastille Day
03:23
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The guillotine’s effective
More than an election
They have feasted for a century
I think it’s time to reckon
No votes and no more begging
But it’s time to kill the gentry
Time to kill the gentry
Uh-huh
The lesser of two evils
Dragged away the middle to the
Bidding of a small elite
They bought the laws they wanted
Our god kings were anointed in the
Blood of all the peasantry
Blood of all the peasantry
Uh-huh
The 1% beheaded
Abundance shared with all indebted
A working class united
For good
For good
Suffering the curses
Of a god they couldn’t purchase
So disarmed without their capital
See wealth is not a virtue
In the end it only hurts you when it’s
Time to storm the capitol
Time to storm the capitol
Uh-huh
The guillotine’s effective
More than an election
They have feasted for a century
I think it’s time to reckon
No votes and no more begging
But it’s time to kill the gentry
Time to kill the gentry
Uh-huh
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Someday
03:22
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What can I say?
I think I'll stay another day
What can I do?
I'm stuck inside just me and you
Things go wrong before they go right
People say goodbye
Whenever they like
Things go wrong before they go right
Maybe someday stars will align
Thank god it's you
The sunny version of the truth
I've been abused
By my own pessimistic views
Things go wrong before they go right
The muse will say goodbye
Things go wrong before they go right
Maybe someday stars will align
Things go wrong before they go right
Maybe someday stars will align
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Ghost
05:19
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"Why can't we retrieve
A vibrant glow from muted memory?
Good friends fade away
Why can't summer stay?
Why can't I break through?
Dreamt the ghost of you
Good souls passing by
I'm glad you stopped to touch my life
And all the pain it added up to nothing but a clusterfuck
Why didn't I save you?
Why is it I let you
Suffer in this worse-than-silence
Cries unheard, a quiet violence
I'd like to say your soul is home
But death's a rainbow made monochrome
And all the worries added up to nothing but a clusterfuck
Why didn't I save you?
Why is it I let you
Suffer in this worse-than-silence
Cries unheard, a quiet violence
I'd like to say your soul is home
But death's a melody made monotone
The boy who lent my first guitar now sleeps in silence between the stars
No constellations formed between them
Just static, noise, and death
No meaning
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Sliver
03:01
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Every day
A sliver of what made me happy seems to fade away
Just a trace
But something better finally is standing in its place
Every shape
I knew when I was younger seems to dissipate
With a rate
Accelerating violently until some final day
Leaving traces of your heart
Before the dawn
Before the dark
In a state
Of gratitude, serenity I speak my name
Unafraid
Without a trace of bitterness of self-obsessive shame
'Cause there is peace inside the part of you that aches
A quiet dark inside the space that you retake
When you feel your pain and celebrate
There is peace inside the part of you that aches
A quiet dark inside the space that you retake
When you feel your pain and celebrate
'Cause there is peace inside the part of you that aches
A quiet dark inside the space that you retake
When you feel your pain and celebrate
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Island
02:59
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Where I’m coming from
And where I’m going to are one
Both the island and
The continent will spend their time beneath the sun
When I wanna see
What is good in me I hum
Out a melody, ringing presently out
From the past, now sounds as one
A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life
And the days added up to much more than a sum
A whole, a soul, I know, I know
Who I wanna be and
Who I hated once are one
My impermanence
Gives precedence that all my woes
Will come undone
A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life
And the days added up to much more than a sum
A whole, a soul, I know, I know
Who is judging you and
Who you’re beholden to are none
When you ached because
The stakes would tower over you, blot out the sun
You closed both your eyes to the light of your life
And the beat of your heart rung out deaf, dumb, and dark to a
Cold, black hole, where envy took control
A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life
And the days added up to much more than a sum
A whole, a soul, I know, I know
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Continent
03:33
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Servitude channeled through
Churning black centrifuge
Swallows you whole,
Commodifies your soul
Affinity lures me
Back to humanity
Anchored by empathy
To the bottom of a sacred sea
But we don't face this alone
The parts compose a whole
As planets, oceans bask in the sun
The islands warm as one
Apathy shackled me, fed on my energies
Only let go of me when I heard a voice sing to me
We don't face this alone
The parts compose a whole
As planets, oceans bask in the sun
The islands warm as one
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indie rock/power pop from oakland CA
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