1. |
Things Start Small
04:41
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Things start small
Emerging from the sea
The tip of an iceberg
Which is slowly melting
A thick black coat
Hate on my skin
Locks most problems out
And it locks my hatred in
So I wear my crown of anger
and I watch myself grow dim
among my efforts not to fake it
and my longing to fit in
And when you are all happy
When you’re all having fun
I gotta start new problems
I Gotta draw - New blood
The sermonizing bastards
Won’t tell me of my sins
But want me to repent
Before they will forgive
They pile on the demons
They tell me of the flames
They don’t tell me what I've done wrong
But expect me to change my ways.
As Christ’s cross clearly shows us
All our weaknesses
Our lack of strength
Our lack of faith
Our desire to fit in
And when you are all happy
When you’re all having fun
I gotta start new problems
I Gotta draw - New blood
I don’t know all my problems
I don’t want to be a freak
I don’t want to control my fate
I want to go to sleep
I want to be a follower
I want to be a sheep
I don’t want to be a leader
I don’t want to be so weak
Speak To Me
Talk to me
Just dont crucify me
And when you are all happy
When you’re all having fun
I gotta start new problems
I Gotta draw - New blood
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2. |
Sienna
04:40
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Gentle snow drifts down upon us
Candlelight sparkles in your eyes
Words of thought vs. emotion
Confusion blocks us on both sides
Tragic clouds block out the moonlight
Your soft beauty shines right through
The timid candle burns out slowly
Along with my hopes of reaching you
Incomplete conversations
Invade my thought like the plague
You didn’t really want to listen
I didn’t know quite what to say
And now all I have is your friendship
my heart
your gift
neglected on the floor
I got a piece
that keeps me living
But I forgot what I’m living for
You say you just
don’t understand
you never really
thought me a man
a platonic friend
no feelings inside
but I can love
instead I cry
2:30 black and white sunlight
on a Saturday afternoon
for reasons still unknown to me
I handed my heart over to you
I wrapped it up in a poem
packaged it buried in words
Judging by your silent reaction
You didn’t know what it was for
Don’t accept that I can love you
Know it’s just a phase
These are only my emotions
They don’t matter anyway
And now all I have is your friendship
My heart
your gift
neglected on the floor
Here take this piece
It keeps me living
But I forgot what I’m living for
Why can’t you see?
I know your not blind
Open up your heart
And let me inside
Give love a chance
Don’t try to deny
Words can’t express
And neither can I
Be true to yourself
Do it just this one time
If you want to understand
Use your heart, not your mind
I can’t take it anymore
I don’t want to lie
I’m more than a friend
You’ll see that in time.
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3. |
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A crashing bolt of lightning
brought cleansing to the land
and while the holy tried to flee
a lone man stood
and bore the full force
of his sins
with all the elegance
of a single rose
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4. |
Of Those Loved And Lost
02:28
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A Broken Ribbon
Spirals Downwards from the sun
A Mourning Woman
Cradling The Barrel of a Gun
A Homeless Child
Only Angst Left Behind
She Left Me Here...
Why Is He So Unkind?
A Rolling Fog
A Shroud Of Hate
A Shotgun Pumped
We All Want To Be Saved
Of Those Loved And Lost
Home Sweet Home
Those Once Together
Now Are Alone
A Man Sits Alone
Hiding Tears among the rain
Forgotten Promises
Caught Up With Him Again
A Wasted Widow Waits
For Her Dead Husband to come home
A Young Woman’s Third Week
Spent Waiting By The Phone
A Child Gone
To A Shallow Grave
For Some There Is Hope
For Some It's Too Late
Of Those Loved And Lost
Home Sweet Home
Those Once Together
Now Are Alone
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5. |
Warmth Of The Fire
03:08
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Hello my friend
How are you?
Do you need a place to stay?
Some soup?
A cup of coffee?
Do you know your way?
Your welcome to my comforts
As feeble as they are
When you need someone to talk to
I wont be very far
Come stand here by the fire
Let its heat warm your skin
You are welcome here among us
Just let me let you in
I realize that your troubled
I cannot be much help
For food to eat, A place to sleep,
Just come and ring the bell.
I offer simple comforts
To guide you on your way
I don’t know what your looking for
I don’t know what to say
except
Come stand here by the fire
Let its heat warm your skin
You are welcome here among us
Just let me let you in
And when you leave on your journey
Speak to me before you go
There is something I should give you
There is something you should know
And so you come to see me
I give the gift of flame
And you leave before I tell you
So you never knew my name
I don’t know where your going
I don’t know what you’ll do
I cannot hope to help you
But If you’re ever passing through
Come stand here by the fire
Let the heat warm your skin
I would love to hear your stories
Why won’t you let me in?
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6. |
Marionette
01:42
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I want to be a loved one
You dress me like a clown
Calliope rings in my
ears when you are around
We all hate having strings but
without the strings we fall
I want what’s not good for me
You make me feel so small
Flesh and Blood
or Stick and String
I cannot feel anything
So I dance my twisted dance
upon my sidewalk dreams
And watch the ones that I love
Control me from above
I lay here on my rose
To cancel out the pain
and I pray you’ll forgive
and make things right again
Flesh and Blood
or Stick and String
I cannot feel anything
Please forgive my digressions
If I’ve said this before
a marionettes sidewalk dreams
A heart and nothing more
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7. |
All This Time
03:43
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All this time I thought you knew me
All this time you talked right through me
You let me go
Now I’m on my own
And I’m gonna
Have to mend these cuts
I’ve got a plan
I know where I stand
And things are
Finally looking up
All this time I wanted you with me
All this time you had nothing to give me
I’m going home
Where I won’t be alone
It’s time to
Cleanse myself of this mud
Things change
Time makes things numb
We changed
And I can finally see the sun
Oh I know that I’ll pull through
Oh I know that I can live without you
All this time I needed someone else
All this time I was scared to be myself
I’ll see this through
And now it’s time to face the truth
That I don’t love you
And yet I do.
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8. |
Skies Of Jupiter
04:34
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Forced from thin ice
For you not so nice
Where you and your dog used to play
Yet if fish cry out
It isn’t their shout
It’s entrapment for slipping away
The spring may come ‘round
If you have found
The ice has melted away
You may take your chance
You can hold your stance
Only then is it safe to stay
I think a good start
Was indeed your depart
try,
To get by
I lift the skies of Jupiter
For you
It’s Lincoln who said
They’re better off dead
The fish with the razor sharp bones
I once sliced my tounge
On just the same one
Now in the trash the fish is alone
I’ve formed an immune
Some have less fortune
Are rotting away with her
A voyage in heat’s
The voyage beneath
What’s left of a social failure
I think a good start
Was indeed your depart
You must try
To get by
I lift the skies of Jupiter
For you
Physically unhandleable
My soul makes me handle
Virtually untouchable
My heart makes us possible
Power reduced
Which she introduced
Time comes for her to replace
The hole in the boot
The crack in the root
Nothing is left to deface
I think a good start
Was indeed your depart
don’t cry
You will get by
I lift the skies of Jupiter
Only for you.
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9. |
Eclectic
03:07
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Torniquet Heartbeats
Fish swim through blood
Through my shattered Dreams
Ruby river is pumping
Drowning the thoughts
That could save sanity
Eclectic Denials
Broken River Retreats
Shelter me from the rain
Were beasts are hunting
Seem harmless by day
Their acid is always the same
Book burning queens
Beheaded kings
Absolved from being aloof
Never ever ever ever ever fire proof
The sky is falling The sky is falling
I must tell the king
Courtyard stained with life
An unacknowledged knife
The falling monarchy
The sea foam is tumbling
From the mountain top
A village of victims must leave
The moon is overclouded
The little cat feet
Hiding the fate they will meet
The photographs melting
The trapdoor unlocking
The dragon is waiting beneath
The dirt is boiling
And the skies eroding
As the dragon spreads his wings
My Mocha Dreams
Twisted Caffine
My eylids refuse to submit
Apocolyptic visions always always shatter the myth
The sky is falling The sky is falling
I must tell the king
Courtyard stained with life
An unacknowledged knife
The falling monarchy
The sky is falling
The sky is falling
The sky is falling on me
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10. |
Deadbolt
03:40
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sometimes the place best place to go is nowhere
sometimes the best way to hide is to run
sometimes the best thing to say is i love you
sometimes the best kind of love is none
Its like waiting for a movie
through all the recurring previews
but the movies overbudget
and sometimes so are you
and sometimes i wonder
if we’re all playing parts
and sometimes i wonder
if we typecast their hearts
and sometimes i wonder
if this is all a game
and sometimes i wonder
if i'll ever be the same
I used to think that you’d know what i mean
if i said i love you or gave you a hug
I really thought that you’d know what I mean
I used to think I wore my heart on my sleeve
Until I did
Cupid is laughing
every time that I see you
All the paper people
don’t know how to get through
The door to my mind
you created years ago
Then slammed in my face
when I told you so
I leave it unlocked
in the hopes that you’ll leave
but you leave me lost
in my own sad machines
I used to think that you’d know what i mean
if i said i love you or gave you a hug
I really thought that you’d know what I mean
I used to think I wore my heart on my sleeve
Until I did
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11. |
Neutral Junction
03:20
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My life is a shade of gray
buried in paint of red and green and blue
the gray stands out
but it’s not too loud
the red and green and blue soaked through
Gray ain’t bad when colors hurt
The gray surrounds and numbs the mind
the red and green
are lies it seems
to reflect the shades of other kinds
I saw you talking to yourself
I asked you what answer you came to
you smiled at me
And then left me be
and it was then that I suddenly knew
that I would
Stand on the sun
To be the one
and I would
Sell my soul
Just to know
that we can reach a neutral junction
You used to tell me of your problems
And I used to try and help you make it through
Now what we speak
Is short not sweet
And I wish that I still knew you
I used to be scared of commitment
And lived my life in a shade of gray
But now I do
Commit to you
And that’s a chance I’ll have to take
‘Cause I would
Stand on the suns
To be the one
and I would
sell my soul
Just to know
That we can reach a neutral junction
I know that we didn’t have love
I know that I don’t know what love is
But I wish I knew
And I wish I loved you
Cause if love’s half as good as this
then I would
Stand on the sun
To be the one
and I would
Sell my soul
Just to let you know
that I’ll meet you at the neutral junction
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12. |
Ruby Slippers
04:08
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Your shadow dances slowly
Over the echoes in my mind
The scent of your mistrust
Surrounds me all the time
No more will your kisses
banish my great pain
to the land of ghosts and goblins
who now quickly escape
The cause of my longing
Is the cause of my love
My heart is now empty
The ground absorbs the blood
And I can die
I can survive
And as I dodge your Judas Smile
I know that I’ll never be free
For I’m forever trapped inside
Your twisted legacy
the wreckage buries me
Now My broken spirit
Drifts among the waves
My days, they get shorter
As my sun fades away
The moon and stars, They haunt me
With their pale, weakened rays
What used to be so beautiful
Is now so far away
And I can Cry
I can Deny
As I dodge your Judas Smile
I know that I’ll never be free
For I’m forever trapped inside
Your twisted legacy
The wreckage buries me
My Anger sets me free
And I don’t mind your fucking smiles
I can take the pain
And I don’t need this love
It just gets in my way
And I Can Lie
And I Can Lie
I Can Lie
And I Can Lie
And as I dodge your Judas Smile
I know that I’ll never be free
For I’m forever stuck inside
Your twisted legacy
The wreckage buries me
This love deep inside me
is easily denied
I don’t need this anguish
you’re just a waste of time
Goodbye.
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13. |
Cayenne
02:33
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What I give isn’t enough
My lack results in my pain
My ceilings a slant, my carpets are rough
I can’t keep from tripping my own feet
Voyage to the deep
From here it’s almost down
Presently sunk, riding my sleep
Trying to get far away from here
I stay in my home Cayenne
It’s where you deserve to be, not me
I’m sick and tired of this phase I’m in
If you came here, you would surely see
I often strive for perfection (Not my handwriting)
More than not, not even close
The spectrum’s end, should be my position
But I’m not, I sit and say how I miss my home
My life as I know does shorten
With every breath I gasp
So now I try by formin’
The life I’ve always wanted to lead
I stay in my home Cayenne
It’s where you deserve to be, not me
I’m sick and tired of this phase I’m in
If you came here, you would surely see
My ceramics now seem so obtuse
Through all my attempts at nice
I know for me theres no excuse
Yet I’m rid of always being stranded here
Flaseness leads to my pleasure
When wendy knocks on my door
They say lifes logical, yet I’m sure
things said drive me far away from here
I stay in my home Cayenne
It’s where you deserve to be, not me
I’m sick and tired of this phase I’m in
If you came here, you would surely see
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14. |
Aphrodite's Meridian
02:09
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I’m standing here alone
Yet I am not alone
Got my heart nailed to the wall at the teaparty of ghosts
With Eponine and her
Blue heart shattered
It never mattered
to you
The quickening of our
Deconstruction
The resurrection of
a fool
The prophecies that I
create and worship
never seem to come
to fruit
Doesn’t mean a thing cause I
really love you
don’t need you to love me
too
Cause I’ve got those never-had’s
who I couldn’t live without
And all those never-love’s
who I loved beyond a doubt
And all the never-forgets
Who didn’t even know my name
And all those never-leave’s
who left me in the rain
Which silently
drowns the shadows
Confused and trampled
Abused
Insatiably
I crave but one thing
A dream that never will
come true
Lie through my teeth
To keep from saying
My heart my soul my meaning
The Truth
Like Eponine and her
Blue heart shattered
It never mattered
To you
I’ll never let you go
Already let you go
My heart can’t see what my mind already knows
for you will never need me to hold your hand
and you will never need me to understand
but I will keep on trying to catch you if you fall
and I won’t keep on lying - we are who we are
I’d die for you
I’m standing here alone
Yet I am not alone
Got my heart nailed to the wall at the teaparty of ghosts
With all those never-had’s
who I couldn’t live without
And all those never-love’s
who I loved beyond a doubt
And all the never-forgets
Who didn’t even know my name
And all those never-leave’s
who left me in the rain
and eponine
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16. |
Shattered
03:57
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How many truths are faithfully ignored?
How many lies are hopefully adored?
Belief is weak except for lies
Beauty clouds block out the sky
To all of those who look for perfection in their love:
To all of those who sacrifice their nows for god above:
Two good things / I lost them both
I guess pain’s what I cherish most
Two good things / I lost them both
I guess pain’s what I cherish most
To all of those who look for perfection in their love:
To all of those who sacrifice their nows for god above:
Nursery rhymes and fairy tales
And sugar coated sweets
Mouse traps snap and rat jaws rip
With big sharp tearing teeth
The greatest thing is not as great
As you would have yourself believe
Tell me stories of the glory that awaits me up above
Tell me stories of the glory that awaits me that is love
Tell me stories
Promise Glory
Tell me stories
Trade you pieces of my soul for a little bit of peace
Tell you secrets that I know for a little bit of empathy
Nursery rhymes and fairy tales
And sugar coated sweets
Mouse traps snap and rat jaws rip
With big sharp tearing teeth
The greatest thing is not as great
As you would have yourself believe
The greatest thing is not as great
As you would have yourself believe
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17. |
Goodbye
03:01
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on a platform in a field of rubble she stood
encased in a dark shell of confusion
which she shattered with her words of confession
her dreams of life were only an illusion
I was there when the sun was dying
I was there when the moon was crying
I was drowning in its fears
This took far too many years
So soar like a condor
and let your cries echo off the cavern walls
shattering the silence
with a piercing heart of clarity
and listen
listen to the voices on the wind
and learn
learn the secrets of your soul
and remember
remember what we once had
and hope
hope for the wisdom to choose
but above all else
love
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