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Day 3, 5:30am
03:22
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2. |
Barely Human
03:04
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the days are getting colder
but you've gotta live them
wrapped in wires and soldered
you can barely breathe
but breathing's not desirable anymore
exhalations upon a bloody floor
you're barely human
but you bleed just the same
the nights are getting darker
but you've just gotta get through them
they leave gaps in your memory
and pieces of you on the ground
there's no comfort upon the frozen grass
just cuts through the bone
you gave up on everything you had
and wonder why you're alone
still remember their voices
still remember their voices
still remember their voices
but the faces have started to fade
still remember their voices
still remember their voices
still remember their voices
long after the faces have faded away
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3. |
Medusa
05:39
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spiral pulls you in
made enemies of friends
turned lovers to stone
tore your thin skin from its bone
your medusa's gaze
how it freezes them
makes them so fucking cold
that they can't look at you
i wanna tear my skin from bones
i wanna tear my skin from bones
don't know what to do
when i can't speak to you
got too much to say
nearly choke on the lump in my throat
i lost my mind, baby
so i lost you too
now nothing that i say is good enough
after all the shit i put you through
medusa turn my skin to stone
medusa turn my skin to stone
i wanna tear my skin from bones
i wanna tear my skin from bones
tried to dress it up in words
tried to keep it all inside
but my soul is just a shadow
kept alive with poison vines
i just wanna tear it open
bleed it all out
tear my skin from bones
medusa turn my skin to stone
medusa, tear my skin from bones
just wanna tear my skin from bones
think i'm gonna rip myself up
to the bone
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4. |
Cabinets
03:56
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it's barely a mystery
when you read from my history
it's all in my file
been here all the while
still i gave little warning
on those steps that winter morning
i let you down
i let you down again
when i made you meet my shadow
watched it tear your fragile heart out
and then i drowned
never to be found
and everything is swallowing me now
my head's just been engulfed by a black cloud
and maybe i'm just fucking freaking out
but everything is swallowing me now
oh yeah everything just swallows me
fall to the tile, weak at the knees
and everything you say to me
just causes me to scream and bleed
i never meant to be like this
cesare the somnambulist
puppet to the will of fate
a sleeping ghost without a face
my blackened eyes, my fragile will
forced now to destroy and kill
my thoughts are not my own
and i'm not proud
you know i've got snakes in my head
a thousand eyes that sit and stare
through every love that's ever been
and ever will, they'll all feel that chill
stuck in place, turned into stone
the time i had, something before
they heard your knock upon my door
they fixed you right in place with their dead stare
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5. |
Signs
04:18
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can't stay in one place too long
always running around
desperately wandering city streets
begging to be found
streetlights and faces and things you love
all turn to a blur
but i could never concentrate
beneath the static of stranger's words
how come i still see your face
when i close my eyes
i turned into everything
that i despise
can't seem to forget the shine
that lay in your eyes
just as the tears that i gave to you
painted those lenses red
now i wander city streets
desperately trying to be
imagining that there was a time
when i made you complete
but even now i still see your face
when i close my eyes
shame i turned into everything
that you despise
self indulgent... nothing
self indulgent, narcissus said nothing
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6. |
Wildflower
04:15
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7. |
Synthete
02:20
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it finally leaves my system
my transient lifeline
now my head's on fire
and my teeth are cracked and brittle
my days
stuck in place and still
meet the man to buy my easy way out
i'm too useless to cope
without my synthete hope
my heart shakes
i can barely breathe
only way to assuage
the constant need to bleed
boil in sweat and lose my vision
but at least it killed my cares for a time
medicating the sickness
just covered up all the symptoms
but the disease stays the same
need something to dull the pain
late descendant of sisyphus
carry these chains upon my wrists
fates have already cut my thread
and now its wound around my head
i'm barely human
but i need just the same
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8. |
Love
03:56
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it happened again
i loved, i loved, i loved
never thought i'd regret
that i loved, loved, loved
but it did not need a subject
should've left you be
because i broke you when i became selfish
made it twist and contort into a mockery
my shadow just grew and grew
the love that we knew set us alight
seared your skin
burned our bridges
and our river
was too weak to quench it
our love, our love, our love
caused me to use you
caused me to drain you
and i abused you with my games
my love, my love
its not even love at all
my love, my love
is not for anyone
that's why i won't try to tell you
just how bad it feels
my words are now cheap to you, baby
and nothing i say is real
my love, my love,my love, my love
oh it'll kill you, it'll drain you
my love, my love, my love, my love
is just a poison, just a toxin
my love, my love, my love, my love
oh it'll kill you, just fuckin drain you
my love, my love, my love, my love
just like the pills i take
it'll claim you, it'll swallow you
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9. |
Insufflate
03:53
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it's your birthday
i'll try not to think of you
up all night on cocaine
my lips are numb
teeth chatter relentless
they steal my focus
prevent my mouth from uttering
my warped old thoughts of you
up all night on cocaine
up all night tearing my hair out
burning holes into my brain
cuz there's little else to do now
i know its a test
i like to push the limits
of what anyone expects
toxin in my brain
reminds me of my love
the boiling blood in my veins
has come to replace your touch
up all night on cocaine
better do out another line
so i can keep on running away
from the onslaught of passing time
up all night on cocaine
my fingernails are painted black
chasing every distraction
to make up for what i lack
up all night tearing my hair out
burning holes into my brain
because there's nothing else to do now
it's your birthday
i try not to think of you
up all night on cocaine
my entire body's numb
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10. |
The Wound
03:45
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think i'm crazy
attachment cut a hole
torn up ventricle
surprised this heart still beats
intrusive thoughts
i know their origin
but i'm no better
for the knowledge
it's now so distant but the wound's still there
it makes no difference but the wound's still there
don't even miss you but the wound's still there
wish i never met you cuz the wound's still there
wish i'd never seen your face
puked my insides up
but the wound's still there
learned not to give a fuck
but the wound's still there
scratched until it bled
but the wound's still there
banished you from my head
but the wound's still there
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11. |
Common Eros
02:11
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not dead
the sun still rises
not dead
the moon still lights
the night sky
but i don't know what it's for
my reasons have gone
poetic screeds litter your bedroom wall
common eros in your blood
plain to see when the mask falls
projected image of the divine
threadspinners webs reach the end of their line
reveal to all your secret shame
the endless wreckage that carries your name
not dead though you may wish to be
drawing sigils as though from memory
crescent frame persists through the dark
never really knew how to play the part
but you wore that mask well
like to inhabit those personal hells
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12. |
Window
03:24
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feet touch the steps
where your thoughts are kept
but i know i can't go up
i turn my head
try to catch my breath
slip away for the night
all the lights from the cars
blurry, can't tell them apart
i just hope i don't see yours
it's gotten late
no time to waste
i wish i could erase my shame now
can't take being in your mind
gonna leave it all behind
wish i wasn't even memory
don't want to exist as
the raw shade you see me as
that fucking voice that you're so sick of hearing
and i wanna go
where no one can find me
where no one knows
and i wanna leave
right out that window
hope you don't see me
you won't have to make
any more excuses
for being seen with me
and i will be at peace
when your memory fades
and i am just a bad dream
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13. |
Endless
04:16
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i watched the trees
turn brown and die
withered willow branch
hides the sun's light
from a window
where the moon can't hide
a crescent shape
and a single star
appearing so close yet so far apart
thought i saw you there
i thought we spoke
then i noticed
it was just your painted shape
just my mind's eye filling in the blanks
these winter days are only for dreams
but now it's time
for me to wake
for life to breathe
upon this face
we'll meet again
in a different place
all must be left
in the hands of fate
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14. |
When Last We Spoke
03:02
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a world turned upside down
just an average week
didn't do much of anything
too still to speak
i take my crutches
and run with them
when i fall over
i wonder why
i let you down when last we spoke
can't see the sun
it burns my eyes
a gaze in the mirror
i can't recognise
try to break it up
gather up the shards
cuz every time i split
i fall apart
i let you down when last we spoke
there's nothing left of me since last we spoke
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15. |
Phantom
03:16
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