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Yukio
02:41
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Who says a song must be heard not read?
The lights go out. The words remain in my head.
Detailed thoughts without intrusive lies.
Words on paper. Expressive minds.
I do believe they have a machine controlling soft minds and removing the dreams. Musculoskeletal systems corrupted.
The minds not the first nor the last thing disrupted.
Everything and everyone at all unaligned with a poisonous grip and a firmly held sign.
I posed a question last night.
Everything and everyone at all unaligned with a poisonous grip and a firmly held sign.
Where do we go?
Can you help me out of this right now?
You give me a feeling that I've never felt before.
This is quite impossible for me to ignore.
When she said you are my blessing, my gift and my curse.
The details irrelevant just know your my first.
My dear did you realize the lives that I've taken in vain were first taken from me?
Were first taken from me.
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Love
02:45
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Is there use in lapping up these wounds as I bleed for you? The truth: we may blame it on our youth. An excuse for how we lose all our roots. Just know when we start evacuating it
was you who lit this fuse.
Where went the time?
With days so numbered I wonder if she still cares. The peace you seek is here with me. Released from grit teeth is what was once thought of the.. this distance between now and our way down. There is no light now within this tunnel. What of the promise we've made? What of all those coins in the wishing well? Were they all also in vain? We have come to be in pain and afraid. But go from walk to crawl you'll see we are the same.
My love. Darling, tell me what is that look upon your face?
She said "My life is a nightmare. These doctors couldn't fix me. God would not forgive me supposing I believed and I love you but I'm sorry."
Then she took that fucking pistol and pressed it to her temple. Just a moment; an eternity. As what was left of all her memories scattered the wall then flowed right before my feet.
My love I'm sorry for this but I will not let you be alone in the dark. The flames of hell shall entrench us now for all of time though we will
never be apart.
Drag us down where we belong now. I will never understand and I will never love again.
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Lust
04:09
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Within this realm of flesh and blood you tear and bleed.
Scavenge for scraps from those less fortunate and wallow in the squalor about you.
What's left for you here?
We'll trade weight for weight.
Your soul in gold.
My friend.
What loss is worth such a reward?
Regard this as a gift.
How could you refuse?
It is of no use to you.
That which you abuse.
Forlorn since bestowed in the womb.
You lack virtue. Vigor. Honor.
What's left for you here?
We'll trade weight for weight .
Your soul in gold
I'll only take you where you were destined to be.
A personal realm molded by thy fleshful deeds.
In the darkest blackness in a blazing sea.
To dwell eternally in your life of sin.
Now shake my hand.
Your soul shall rot away.
On the brink of existence.
With all the rest.
In such a short life.
You bring so much despair.
Man is the omen of Earth.
What's left for you here?
We'll trade weight for weight.
Your soul in gold.
Within this realm of vex and flames you burn and weep.
The only escape is the madness within convincing it's just a dream.
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False Sleep
03:47
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As calm as death, I rest. With the weight of this void in my chest.
And in each breath; a test. Do I wish to live like this?
Haunted by demons I struggle to bear with my own mind.
Oh how they taunt me and somehow I'm conjuring wounds.
God, give me to death.
Have self regard, a voice of reason; a selfish word.
And now I know just what it means to suffer
What it means to beg.
So I shall welcome the oceans of fire.
Anywhere but here.
Have self regard, a voice of reason; a selfish word.
It made my heart rush and it forced my eyes closed. It's simply noise now.
When I cease to be I don't think anyone will truly miss me.
When I'd look in their eyes and hope they don't know but they always recall
Please don't let me go.
(reconnecting)
As above. So below.
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Companion Piece
03:08
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They seek the bite of winter then they cry for warmer times.
They gaze at every sunset just to pray that morning shines.
Back at the six lay the wake of culled meek and shambled homes.
And the space that we take is no longer a waste.
Now the threats that we face crawl back into their holes.
Set our sights to the North. There I shall rest my sword.
Gnashed flesh and crimson sand now bless my prey thrown to the wolves.
Men search for the answers.
Most never to know.
First find the right questions
Why are we here and where do we go?
There's no sound
From the heavens now.
As it were
Since the first breath of life.
To be king.
Is to be a god.
A lone voice.
Can lead to genocide.
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Open Your Eyes
03:16
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Soon you'll find what you're after if you just take your (Time).
Be willing to let this go. (The Earth)
Dont dwell on what we don't know. (Is stuck)
To guide us through our mistakes. (In it's)
All our faults that aim out way. (Ways)
We gathered angel wings and flew to their gates. There we met the Sun.
Behold all. All things are temporary as is this plane.
Child I've led you here so you can see.
We are capable of so much more.
We shall all descend before we soar.
Please do not mistake these words.
With time this world wends.
We succumb to the stars and return back to whence we come.
To the Sun.
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The Earth As We Know It Houston, Texas
FFO: Job For A Cowboy, Mastodon, Fallujah, The Fall of Troy, Dance Gavin Dance, Protest The
Hero
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Cody Mills - Vocals
Joseph Foreman - Guitar/Vocals
Andrew Escobedo - Drums
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