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1. |
Roadkill
04:33
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Left out by choice
I separate from everyone
Noise and deprivation
Infiltrating my sensations
I am overcome
Roadkill
There to remind us
It's a cruel world
And we are selfish
We are helpless and alone
I've found the sun
Can aggravate me at times
Brightness above
Alienate me
I've made my mind up
I won't prey on you anymore
Roadkill
There to remind us
It's a cruel world
And we are selfish
We are helpless and alone
But all I need to be is alone
To put the pieces where they belong
As it all falls down like bridges crumbling
All I need to be is alone
Still on the side of the road
As the rest of the world goes rumbling by me
Roadkill
There to remind us
It's a cruel world
And we are selfish
We are helpless and alone
But all I need to be is alone
To put the pieces where they belong
As it all falls down like bridges crumbling
All I need to be is alone
Still on the side of the road
As the rest of the world goes rumbling by me
And all I need to be is alone
To put the pieces where they belong
As it all falls down like bridges crumbling
All I need to be is alone
Still on the side of the roadkill, roadkill
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2. |
Above It All
05:09
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There's a reason I stay inside with my hands covering my ears
Only time will tell us the things that we don't want to hear
I could have asked you anything but I live within my own esteem
To step outside that boundary would kill me
It would kill me
It's torment
I feel I've hurt you so
Forget everything you think you know, think you know
You could never instill in me
A sense of love
I'm above it all yet I'm on my knees
Soon I'll learn to be
The open arms you deserve
The focused heart that you need
I kid myself
And trick myself with this imagery
With a painted scene where the colors bleed
'Til we fade away with our memories
It's never enough, never enough for me
I do adore you
Wish I felt differently
I make it harder for you
By clinging to the pedestal you build for me
You could never instill in me
A sense of love
I'm above it all yet I'm on my knees
Soon I'll learn to be
The open arms you deserve
The focused heart that you need
I kid myself
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3. |
Suspension
05:00
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When it's hanging in suspension
I am resolute
Such a crippling fascination with the overdue
I'm reduced to slipping time and rusty gears
Abused by a wandering mind rife with fear
And shifting out of focus it disappears
The feeling that completeness is too near
Where do I go from here
What now
What do I do when I am done
Will it be good enough
I'm envious of the people with all of the pieces of the puzzle
Still in the box
Can't imagine an existence
Where I don't think twice
Such a welling hesitation to believe I'm right
And in tune to everything I want and need
Aloof and always questioning
And thinking with my instinct in place of doubt
Just maybe I'll do something I'll be proud of
Where do I go from here
What now
What do I do when I am done
Will it be good enough
I'm envious of the people with all of the pieces of the puzzle
Still in the box
And shifting out of focus it disappears
It disappears
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4. |
Warm Body
03:21
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I'm in my mind
Rattling around its imperfections
How dare I wield my sword against my own reflection
You've got me all backwards, oh
Running from the wrong things
And all it was
Yeah, all it was
Was a feeling that something was missing
And all it was
Was my attempt to find a warm body to fill in
Easiest way out
Immediate rebound
And all it was
Yeah, all it was
Was a feeling that something was missing
And all it was
Was my attempt to find a warm body to fill in
I'm just a creature
I'm salivating
I'm just a liar
I'm circulating you
I've got an eye for finding warm bodies to fill in
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5. |
Worms
04:54
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Cease
To understand
How nothing commands
Reaps the upper hand
Wanna feel it
And wrap my head around
Absence of all sound
All my life I've found
That I fear it
I keep ruminating, reasoning
But it still comes apart
The illusion that we're meaningful & we've got hearts
And souls to save
That float beyond the grave
But really we all just stop one day
No more
I wanna feel the worms in my eyes
I wanna feel them eat me alive
I wanna feel the earth take over
I'm gonna breathe in my enclosure
And live on
Bleak happens to be
Our only guarantee
To beat eternity
To the coffin
I panic, oh so fast
All this time has passed
This vast nothing will last
With its claws in
I keep ruminating, reasoning
But it still comes apart
The illusion that we're meaningful & we've got hearts
And souls to save
That float beyond the grave
But really we all just stop one day
No more
I wanna feel the worms in my eyes
I wanna feel them eat me alive
I wanna feel the earth take over
I'm gonna breathe in my enclosure
And live on
And live on
And live on
I keep ruminating, reasoning
But it still comes apart
The illusion that we're meaningful & we've got
And we've got hearts
And souls, souls to save
No more
I wanna feel the worms in my eyes
I wanna feel them eat me alive
I wanna feel the earth take over
I'm gonna breathe in my enclosure
And live on
And live on
And live on
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6. |
Our Uncertainty
03:42
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Woke up with a weight in my heart
From a nightmare
It tore us apart
Inch by inch by inch by inch
I wrap my throat around the water
Wrap my throat around the water
It's an itch I cannot scratch
My sternum aches from all the rapid water
Coursing through me
We celebrate our uncertainty
And our eyes are red around the edges all the time
We celebrate our uncertainty
And our eyes are red around the edges
No matter how we end or however we go
No matter how we end or however we go
No matter how we end or however we go
You are welcome here always
Is this for keeps
Is this a dream
Is this the scene I played out in my head years ago
So the story goes
It's like a fairy tale
But vapid endings greet us
Ever after
We celebrate our uncertainty
And our eyes are red around the edges all the time
We celebrate our uncertainty
And our eyes are red around the edges
No matter how we end or however we go
No matter how we end or however we go
No matter how we end or however we go
You are welcome here always
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7. |
Marinate
04:19
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Feel like the door might hit me on the way out
Feel like I'm out of place
If you are the one likely I would know it by now
Feel like I've overstayed
Or do you want to marinate
Until we burst from all we've taken in
'Cause I've got a head full of bad energy
And it's looking meaningless
Feel like the ends don't justify the means
And I'm never on the page
Blood, sweat & tears are dripping from me
And you drag me along in vain
Do you want to marinate
Until we burst from all we've taken in
'Cause I've got a head full of bad energy
And it's looking meaningless
Your biggest fault
You're too mechanical
You've gotta plan it all & fit inside
A tiny box
The edges so neatly drawn
Well I'm not yours to define
Not yours to confine
But oh I've tried
All your imagined crimes
And I come out right every time
I'm tired of this little ribbon
Tied around my only resolve
Let me loose
Do you want to marinate
Until we burst from all we've taken in
'Cause I've got a head full of bad energy
And it's looking meaningless
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8. |
Two Medicine
05:19
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I'm gaining my strength back
You drain me
I hate that
It's all been channeled to pacify you
And then with the endless
Petitions to bend this
Into an alluring July sky blue
Instead of this hazy sadness
This numb entrapment we've been in
I'm breathing different air now
And this all becomes the exhale I push out
Never again will I stand on my head
Just to be good to you
All while the room spins
As the blood rushes in
I am splitting in two
Our words lack intention
Unpack with resentment
And yet you expect me to respect you
To be clear
I don't think I deserve it either
I know I've begun to disconnect, too
I let the stars settle my nerves
And fuel my smothered desires
It's been such a breath of fresh air
To release myself into the atmosphere
Never again will I stand on my head
Just to be good to you
All while the room spins
As the blood rushes in
I am splitting in two
You think we've got this
But I don't think we do
You think we've got this, we've got this
But I don't think we do
You think we've got this
But I don't think I do
You think we've got this, we've got this
But I don't think I do
Never again will I stand on my head
Just to be good to you
All while the room spins
As the blood rushes in
I am splitting in two
I'm breathing different air now
And this all becomes the exhale I push out
Never again will I stand on my head
Just to be good to you
All while the room spins
As the blood rushes in
I am splitting in two
I'm breathing different air now
And this all becomes the exhale I push out
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9. |
The Harvest
05:16
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Go beyond the walls of my mind
All I want is to feel chills down my spine
And offer myself something fuller
And offer myself to it fully
And raw
Engorged with life
Still beating, bleeding all over the knife
A sacrifice to serve you right
There's gotta be some way
To walk away unslain
Peeking through
I begin to see
My hidden nature
Open arms beckoning
Me to embrace it
And nourish me
'Cause I've been depleted
On my own I'll thrive, I'll thrive
And offer myself something fuller
And offer myself to it fully
And raw
Engorged with life
Still beating, bleeding all over the knife
A sacrifice to serve you right
There's gotta be some way
To walk away unslain
As I give myself to harvest
I only hope it's for something honest
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