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Persecution Complex
02:55
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You walk up to my face I'm exposed
All give and no take you disclose
Sacrifice and stay down below But I'm no different I'm no different
Emotion is a claim that you cloak
Debt to rearrange in smoke
Spin the weathervane with hope Watch my side watch my side watch my side watch my side
After all something good appears but it's me you're talking to it's me you're talking to
After all something good appears but it's me you're talking to it's me you're talking to
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2. |
I'm No Bastard
04:17
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Fail fold annihilate crawl
Slam closed the way we feel way we feel lost
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I'm young (yeah)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I'm tough (and I say)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I take it all (yeah I take it)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I live and I live (and die)
Fire echo coming back can't tell
Hide alone (yeah) apologize all the time guilt
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I'm young (yeah)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I'm tough (and I say)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I take it all (yeah I take it)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I live and live (and die)
And your pain is too hollow and your child needs some more what it's done for I can only guess about it and reach for any answer in a space overgrown all displaced from their home what it's done for I can only guess about it and reach for an answer
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I young (yeah)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard at least I'm tough (and I say)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I take it all (yeah I take it)
I'm no bastard I'm no bastard and I live and live and I live....... and die!
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3. |
Comfort and Doom
05:05
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you come through stress to paint your life in black and white
and feel regret made a choice to serve it right
and plunge into the depths of your lovers' curse words
it's all in step with their Saturn return
or it's not
or it's not
I am the only one to answer you
straight in the moonlight of comfort and doom
straight in the moonlight oh come for me
come for me come for me come for me
You woke up yet haven't done anything
focus drifts from thing to thing to thing
to tear into the help which it's craving
it's all a form of some big distraction
or it's not
or it's not
I am the only one to answer you
straight in the moonlight of comfort and doom
straight in the moonlight to answer you yeah
straight in the moonlight of comfort and doom
straight in the moonlight come for me
come for me come for me oh come for me
It's the same bleak form huddled strange inside
it's the same bleak form huddled strange inside
and you can and you can ask and you can and you can ask
for peace
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4. |
Let Me Dance
02:54
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Let me dance in the light tonight I've gotta feeling and it feels alright
I'm a moth and I love that light that bright light bright
Let me dance in the light tonight I don't want to have to go outside
There's one thing for me and it's that light that light in the night
Let me dance in the light tonight it might seem strange cause it means my life, but I'm so happy when I see that light I gotta dance all night, let me dance in the light
I'm flapping my wings just moving forward to that shining world that is so beautiful
I'm here with you to circle and circle having a good time feeling fine
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5. |
Reach Outside You
07:36
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I know the words that drift and fall in the photograph
wise quiet room's a perplexing type around you
it runs away and always takes such varied forms (with lack of ease)
so open up finally see what you need to reach outside you
reach outside you
reach outside you
reach outside you
reach outside
Mine's a stolen world both isolate and criticize
understand realize who they are is their only crime
It starts to weigh with heavy gate rough and worn (completely stained)
Tall and bright with shining knife all dripping blood reached outside you
Reach outside you
Reach outside
Don't play along in my system it's better for me I'll stay alone in my distance it's better for me
Ruled out by hidden forces hidden from me they're out to know it's not worth it, it's hidden from me
One thing to follow this story into the Earth It's one thing to follow this story into the Earth
Search for recourse from all the fairytales they want your brute force just do what you've been told
Better living till the end
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6. |
Only For Today
04:17
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It's only for today that I don't know what to do
It's only for today that I'm feeling like I do
stuck in my own brain unable to escape
so I might just stay inside
in bad weather
It's only for today that things are truly rough
Tomorrow it'll change and I promise to be tough
we'll rip from our old ways and climb out of this maze
unless I'm left behind
hey man, just forget about it
fill me out a row fill me out a row you know
It's only for today that I'm putting off this work
I feel too drained and can't see what it's worth
waking up in rain all in a fog
and you show me and you show me
the tailoring to the backside of fear
the markings so high above the mirror
oh yeah
It's only for today
It's only for today
It's only for today
Tomorrow it'll change
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7. |
Out Of View
03:53
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I was all alive searching for you
Through time tied and reduced
Fear of living's always been the same
In the open water unclaimed
Oh yeah Oh yeah
Kindly tongue tied all for you
Patience my whole life to improve
Action after action has to wait
Tension more attention's on the way
To stay to stay
And the rest what could it be? A smile it doesn't seem
Nor a void bursting. Unclear atrocity
Face stands soft by the wall of a widening bridge
See me off by the rocks at the other end
oh yeah oh yeah
I was all alive searching for you
Plain dark night hardly used
Waiting with a strange and different name
Everything was tense but it was safe
Out of view.......
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