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08:08
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A year from now I will know you by name only
This is a cycle of life, this is a part of being
I can turn loneliness, to bitterness, to anger to cope
This is something i've learned
it's so much easier to be without when every bridge is burned
this is a modern lifestyle
I can be interesting
I could be someone you might like to talk to
I can be worth your time
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Meaning
04:46
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Birth served me kinder
Life would've seen me a mariner
in some sort of golden age
reminiscent of stories of old
history to forget my name
but i would know the sea
grow old on an ageless sea
grow grey among green and grey
history to forget my name
but i would know the sea
I suppose what I am trying to do here is in a sense crucify myself through discomfort, so that i can know pain, i can be saved
go forth to unnamed ports
see stars as they're meant to be seen
history to forget my name
but the sea to know my worth
myself to work my worth
my body to earn it's aches
speak in lore to replace
know my name in a vast expanse
know my name in it's last breath
history to forget my name
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Words
06:10
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They Built an empire, on Zossima's rotting flesh
They built another world, on the purification of Christ's words
Malpractice dentistry, by the kingdom's best
dislocation, built from grey skies
Your new savior is performing
buy a ticket, watch him dance
and see the ghosts that haunt this building, they're only semi-transparent
see his bells, hear them ring, let them comfort you
and rejoice your father's sins are forgiven in the blood of the inquisition
oh empty beneficiary what have you now?
a blank page, in a book of black thoughts
write nothing, so that forests can grow
write nothing, hang your head, move on
there's a party in the streets
you're uninvited, you're weak
your eyes are clouded with tears that you owe
shed the tears, explain your blindness
shed the tears, and see Zossimas blood was no better
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Implication
03:48
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With Sisyphus considered is it worth it, to cling to pretty things?
so that time and age will cease their terrible hunting, if only momentarily
to search for a place where one can sit down, without the unnerving pressure to immediately stand
in a field, old growth, or the window of the house where you spent your best, waiting to hear the train pass, before falling asleep
arise, sun kill this mistake of an age
do i look like my mother? Do i talk like my father?
Spring is waining in it's bloom and is ungraspable even with hands not already so full
do i look like my mother? Do i talk like my father?
Sunrise took years, but the moon is only minutes away
do i look like my mother? do i talk like my father? do i talk the way he talks?
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11:00
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Let's leave this place/if only for an hour/ lets run away from loneliness/ light a cigarette in celebration every time you pass that point/ lets save enough for moonlight/ we can starve ourselves satisfactory/ we can stay up so late we find meanings/ in street lights/ fast food dinners/lost friends/and the discomforting pinch of a tattoo needle held by an ungloved, unwashed hand/ learn the names of everyone under a bridge/find comfort watching trains/ hoping for a freight/ send prayers to a non attendant god, rightfully unnamed thus far/ for the woman selling paintings at the gas station at midnight/ for the meth drinker having visions of children, who won't stop laughing at him/ for the mute who lost his job to paranoia/ for the woman waiting for her husband to return from Vietnam/ for the man who will wait for an unknown relation to take him home, but until then will water dirt in his from yard/ to the inheritor who's father's money will not come/ to the heroin user, ready to raise a child that is not his.
Lets make sense of this
by the fire in the hills, turned blue in the night sky, watching an inconsequential freeway bring gas haulers home
to families who will forget every beautiful memory
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