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Gunned Down At Sundown
05:17
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Did you ever have a dream
That meant everything to you
That you held within your heart
And you never shared
Even those you've loved
And the ones who've loved you
Never knew about your dream
Because of how it made you feel so vulnerable
Then that one day/
you told them all about it
That time you bared your soul
And their reaction was not what you expected Or /ever thought,
because they shot your dreams down like a fleeing outlaw
Like a runaway slave
Maybe they laughed while
Your dreams were
Gunned down at sundown
The lie that they tell everyone
Is you should follow your dreams
But what they really mean is
keep them hidden And
toil away in your meaningless existence
Follow your dreams they say
But not too closely
They will lead you astray
And mess you up mostly
Don’t hope don’t dream don’t love don’t seek
Just do what you do
and what you’ve always done for 40 plus hours a week
And let your dreams be
Gunned down at sundown
So they die in the night time
Instead of the light
Don’t let your dream’s remains be identified
Even though you know it’s not right
Gunned down at Sundown
Did you ever have a dream
that meant everything to you
That you held within you heart
That you never shared
Because the lie they tell everyone is
Follow your dreams
but they really mean is
Keep them hidden and toil away in your meaningless existence
Follow your dreams they say
But not too far
Don’t be late to work
Don’t ever take a day off
Don’t hope don’t dream
don’t love don’t seek
Don’t hope don’t dream
don’t love don’t seek
Just do what you do
and what you’ve always done for 40 plus hours a week
And let your dreams be
Gunned down at sundown
Dead dreams
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Delightmare
04:11
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You tried
and you tried too hard
To be something
That you are not
Your disguise, so elaborate
Completely obscures
what you really are
Is what you are...
My delightmare
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I’m not here to kiss the ring
I don’t cop to that kind of thing
I’m only here for the scenery
I’m only here for the scenery
which I’m pretty sure
Is only here for me
You have been and shall always be
My Delightmare
My dream come not so true
Just like you
3
You are part of me
The art in me
that craves to be
created
The first and last lines
Of a tale no one will ever read
A song to which no one will ever sing along
A joke with a punchline no one ever gets
But you...always the only one laughing
My dream almost come true
Almost come true
My delightmare
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Better Fights To Fight
04:56
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These kinds of days will drive you crazy
People saying stupid shit
every time you turn around
There are causes on every corner
Each time you pick up a new one
You put an old one down
Their goal is not to win
Just to tire you out/Wear you down
So you won’t have anything left
When you face them in the next round
Stupid wins by sheer numbers
The unenlightened outnumber us 10/1
They don’t debate, they just repeat themselves--
beat their chests and
Act like they’ve won
All these causes on every corner
So many you put the old ones down
each time you take up a new one
Pick and choose your battles...
There are better fights to fight
It’s a long way down
There are bigger fights to fight
Such a long time gone
More important fights to fight
Let the small things slide
Save your strength for the big time
There are better fights to fight.
These kinds of days will drive you crazy
People saying stupid shit /
every time you turn around
There are causes on every corner
Each time you pick up a new one
You put an old one down
Don't get so easily bated
the only reason trolls exist is
just to hear themselves whine
Even though it might seem really deflating
kick ass When everything's on the line
Stupid wins by sheer numbers
The unenlightened outnumber us 100/1
they just keep repeating talking points
And beating their chests
acting like they’ve won
All these causes on every corner
So many you have to put the old ones down
each time you take up a new one
Pick and choose your battles...
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Nothing Left of Nothing
04:46
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So far from perfect was perfect to me
So not my type
but my type you soon would be
You nailed my soul to a wall
and left it there to writhe
And never thought to give
a single reason why
You looked me in the eye
Told me that you loved me
But it was just a lie
Nothing left of nothing
No more coming to your rescue
No more talking you down
No more cleaning up your messes
No more having me around
You said we’re the best of friends
Like you’d even know how that feels
And said we’re not friends anymore
Like that was some kind of big reveal
You looked me in the eye
Told me that you loved me
But it was just a lie (it was just a lie...)2X
(Nothing left of nothing).
You even told our friends you love me
That’s part of what made me fall
Knowing you was never easy
Then to find I don’t know you at all
I even shed tears for you
Then drowned them in plenty of shots
Each petal on your flower plucked says$z
She loves me not
Why did it fall apart
Without me even there
to my dismay
My very best became
my most awful day
You made me look you in your eye
Told me you were really in love with me
How could that have been a lie
Now there’s nothing left where nothing’s
Ever going to be
I never get to know why
I never get to know why
What changed what changed
I never get to know why.
Then one day and the next day
and the next day
you told that youd never love me
That’s what you said
you said you’d never love me
Still never told me what changed
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Unfortunate Son
05:52
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This is not what anyone wants
It’s not what anyone needs
It’s not what anyone sane
Would ever buy into or believe
The end is nigh
No
It already happened thousands of years ago
A story cobbled from almost
every story That came before it
See, it’s harmful mythology
Based on fear, sold as love
We burn in hell because god wants us to
Because god loves us, right?
This is control, pure and simple
You’re not a god
You’re just a symbol
Nailed to your martyrdom
The unfortunate son
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Have you ever read your Bible?
Or just had it preached at you
All of that sick stuff in it
Aren’t you glad it’s not really true
The end is nigh
No
It already happened in AD 69
One story chosen of all the 28 versions
written to scare you
See, it’s torture porn philosophy
Based on fear, sold as love
We burn in hell because god loves us
Because god wants us to burn in hell
This is control, pure and simple
You’re not a god
You’re just a symbol
Nailed to your martyrdom
The unfortunate son
Am I safe
If I’m not saved
3.
This is not what anyone wants
It’s not what anyone needs
It’s not what anyone sane
Would ever buy into or believe
The end is nigh
No
It already happened thousands of years ago
A story cobbled from almost every story
That came before it
See, it’s torture porn philosophy
Based on fear, sold as love
We burn in hell Because god loves us
because god wants us to burn
Based on fear, sold as love
We burn in hell because god wants us to
Because god loves us
This is control, pure and simple
You’re not a god
You’re just a symbol
Nailed to your martyrdom
The unfortunate son
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if anything I ever did really mattered
Now’s the time to say that it did
Decisions must be made without/keeping anything hidden
And I’ve never been assessed this kind of Self Evaluation
These are the impractical perils of an unmade mind
If only I could hold up and see all the answers
And know how things could have been so much better than this
And Ive never been scrutinized like this before
Knowing me /inside and outside /and it Goes on forever
Hold this for me/one last time
My hands shake
every time I try to take it with me
Every time I say goodbye
Every time I breathe 2x
Every time I say good bye
Now we’re back in the right direction
And hauling ass there in record time
We finally know the difference between
How things are/and how they should be
We’ve never seen this theory/
applied in real time
And we didn’t think it would last and last and last this long
Hold me /for one last second/one last time
I’m shaking /every time I open up my eyes
every time I try to put it down
It talks to me like a lover
And makes me feel guilty/for saving my own life
It seeks an end /it needs an end so
It can go back to the beginning and
start things over
But we/are not ready to fall/ into that pit again and/lose everything
We lost it all before/it hurt and we were cold/ with nothing to eat/and no one to show us a good time
So we got ready to fall/into the mouth of hell/
to be chewed up
And swallowed and shit on the ground
This isn’t why we were born in this place/ And during this time /
we were made for something,
something better than this
So much better than this
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Dive So Slow
04:04
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I always thought you were here
I always thought you were nearby
But I could never catch a glimpse of you
Or really anything that you did
when I was not there.
Are you a figment of my imagination
A delusion
anhallucination
a dream I had while I was dying
a Rope that broke
when I was trying to seek you
Just to speak to you
Just to see you in the moonlight
Just for one night
Or all the time it takes
to get somewhere
We can be like star light
bouncing off the moon
We can sing in or out of tune
All the places and the voices there
Carry us to anywhere
A melodic beast of burden
With no stones to throw
filigree and vertigo
opalescence and shine
These are part of a world
I claim as mine
Part of a world I claim as mine
I always thought you were here
I always thought you were nearby
I could never catch a glimpse of you
Or really anything that you did
when I was not there.
When am I ever there
When am i ever anywhere
When am I ever here
When It leaves it always goes back there
Where big things made little things
Born alive or hatched from eggs
No one can know what’s next
You grab the glass
I’ll grab the bottle
Let’s drink to drinking
Let’s drink to thinking
Let’s drink to this sinking ship
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Now
04:55
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Now I’m old
Now my wishes
turned to dreams
I don’t remember
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Now my life is nearing its end
Now I can see it all
And it’s all for me...
at least when I daydream it’s all for me
3
Now I see a shadow circling over me
Vultures seem like angels in the heat
moments just before
the daydream ends
4
And now the night falls
Now I am on the ground
Now the angels draw nearer
Now they whisper things to me
5
as they
remove me
from here
piece by piece
by piece by piece
1a
Now I’m older
Now my dreams turned to wishes
I don’t remember
2a
In my finer world
I am becoming an angel
where vultures fear to tread
And I can remove me from here
3a
Now That shadow circling over me
Is the only thing that I can see
In the moments just before the daydreams cease to be
4a
And now the day breaks
Now I am in the sky
Now the angels are so far away
I can’t hear them whisper things to me
5a
as they
Try to
Put my
pieces with my pieces
And pieces and pieces
6
Now you’ll have to
look up to see me
Not down
at the mess
on the ground
Up to see me
not down
7
How long will I stay up here
How long will I be kept in place
Up here
How will I know when the time has come to put me in my new place
4b
In my new place
Where vultures fear to tread
In my new place
8
In my new place
Where vultures fear to tread
9
In my new place
In my new place
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Yours Forever Dark
06:27
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I really love doing drugs with you
You’re the most fucked up fun there is
I love how much you want to fuck me
When you’re high
We don’t even care why...
I love that—like you’re barely there—fucked up
Look in your eye
Like you’re barely alive
I love you more than everything else in the world
I’m not obsessed with you
Ok maybe a little
Please don’t ever leave me
Or die before I do
If you did I’d be buried alive with you
Even if they cremated you
they’d
Cremate me too
So I’d always be with you
Yours forever dark
These are things
You should never ever ever ever know
About me.
I love when you look at me/like I’m crazy
Like you’re scared of what I’ll do to you
I love when you’re afraid of me
That frightened look in your eyes
Your fear turns me on
There is darkness
There is pitch black
And far below that...there is me
Yours forever dark
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