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Mellow Drama
04:16
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Tie me down—watch all my problems grow. Break the door—invade and call my head your home. Wear a mask—tell me why we’re all alone. Accept my sins. Whisper softly, “I am here. I will shoulder all your pain. Break my bones, and know my heart is yours alone. Come to me and I will hide you from the sea.” Lie to me—all I need is a pretense. (Let me go. Fix the walls. Be yourself. Tear me down. Lie to me. Rip my flesh. Drain my blood. Hear my voice.) Your eyes—your eyes are telling me lies, and I don’t know if I’m ready to listen. So, wash me away—you’re not the anchor I’ve been looking for. Wash me away before I’m caught by obsession. Passion sinks—throw it down and drop the bombs. Watch it disappear. Your eyes are oceans and they’re drowning me, drowning me. Addiction builds—sink the ship before the crash. Light me up and try to quell the fires raging through my bones. Watch me burn away. Nothing you can do will help me. Scream—I crave your name. Vanish before you can trap me.Your eyes—your eyes are telling me lies, and I don’t know if I’m ready to listen. So, wash me away—you’re not the anchor I’ve been looking for. Wash me away before I’m caught by obsession. Say my name. It sounds so good when it leaves your tongue. Sending shivers down my spine, indebted to everything you’ve never said. We are living colours meant to mix and create something beautiful. But, we break at the water’s surface. We drown in the light.We drown in the light. We’ve run out of time. My life is at the surface. I’ve opened my eyes, but nobody was there. (This isn’t right, this isn’t right. It’s not enough, it’s not enough. Take my hand, take my hand.) Catch me when I fall. I’m already entangled in you. Tell me one more lie. I’m obsessed with the feeling. (Let me go. Fix the walls. Be yourself. Tear me down. Lie to me. Rip my flesh. Drain my blood. Hear my voice.)We won’t end here. We can’t end here.
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Meet Me In Cabo
04:19
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The gates may not have a key, but I’ll always be yours. Fire and brimstone could burn me for eternity, but I’ll always be yours, always be yours. Fall for your intimate demise—I’ll be staying alone with my mind. Convince yourself you’re different when we know you’re all the same. Falling short of the way it is, only giving in for world of grandeur. It’s time to take a stand. Take a stand with me. We’ll show the people how wrong they see. The gates may not have a key, but I’ll always be yours. Fire and brimstone could burn me for eternity, but I’ll always be yours, always be yours. Holding hands across the great divide, only to find the gap is much too great. Will you really plunge into the depths before you walk alone? Walk towards the sweetest fruit together. I stand in the mist and my soul begins to shatter. I’m slowly withering away—my brain will decay. Then, what’s left of me will cease to exist.Fire, engulf me ‘til the end of time. Parasites eat me ‘til my body’s nigh. You let your last chance slip away for sake of better times. Believe in you—believe in me. The gates may not have a key, but I’ll always be yours. Fire and brimstone could burn me for eternity, but I’ll always be yours, always be yours. Meet me in Cabo—tell me where did your thoughts go. If I give you my hand, tell you I have a plan, will you decline? Meet me on the other side. Wait for me should our souls divide. The gates may not have a key, but I’ll always be yours. Fire and brimstone could burn me for eternity, but I’ll always be yours, always be yours. (Tell me your thoughts. Tell me you’re mine. Meet me tonight. Tell me it’s fine.)
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Art History Month
03:09
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Sometimes it takes more than faith to leap. Seize a moment—hope to god it’s yours to keep. Can’t help the ripples in the pond are much too deep. I’ll never sleep. You’d never throw your life away, but that’s not a single step. It happens in the moments you least expect. One drink, one kiss, one touch. How could I? This is absurd. Those blue eyes were always full of strife. I never meant to take your life. I love you more than the knife. I know you’re lost and can’t get out. I try to help, but don’t know how to go about. Take one step from the cliff—only causes an avalanche. You’re falling down. One stranger’s love can break the spell. One drink to numb the pain, one hit to vaporize the doubt, one shot straight through the heart. I swear my soul belongs to you. I just can’t help myself. I swear to make amends with all the pain I’ve brought to you. But then my demons creep back. I’m a bad man, through and through. Don’t you understand, girl? I’m running away from the truth. I know you’re lost and can’t get out. I try to help, but don’t know how to go about. Take one step from the cliff—only causes an avalanche. You’re falling down. And I don’t know how to save you. I’ve brought this down on us. How could I ruin a perfect love? I just took one step off the path. Now I’ve ruined the both of us. I swear, my love, I’ll change. I’ll take the steps I need, but it’s already lost. But, if we work together, I’m sure we can discover the emotions once lost. If we take the steps together.I know you’re lost and can’t get out. I try to help, but don’t know how to go about. Take one step from the cliff—only causes an avalanche. You’re falling down.
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Long Distance Shake Up
04:28
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I thought I heard you screaming. I thought I heard you breathe again. Your eyes won’t ever be seen. Your beauty’s wasted on the dead. Their lifeless corpses buried under the ever-changing dirt. You’re staying above with me—if not in life, in death. You’ll see. I know you won’t believe, and that your eyes won’t see the hope and beauty our love could bring. I hope you know he’s a lie. I told you so many times you’re better off dead or loving me. I won’t let you cry. I won’t let you fear. I won’t let you run away. Even if you have to die, you will see that with time you are all mine. You are all mine. What can I say? I’m just a hopeless romantic. In life, your love is just too sporadic. The bond we share is quite simply fantastic. Maybe in death your love will be less erratic. Your empty body beckons. Your dead, cold fingers call my name. The scars and cuts you caused me will never be re-opened. Why did it take so long, dear, for you to finally see your breath had to leave before we could be? Your body lies upon those sheets, unknowing what love will soon meet. Lust guides with the glimmer of a knife. Soon to be mine—your love and your life. The white turns into red upon your neck and the bed. Nothing needs to be said before you join the dead. Before you say goodbye, just know I wanted it just like this. Your teeth clenched, your hands grasp tighter into the open air. What can I say? I’m just a hopeless romantic. In life, your love is just too sporadic. The bond we share is quite simply fantastic. Maybe in death your love will be less erratic. Your empty body beckons. Your dead, cold fingers call my name. The scars and cuts you caused me will never be re-opened. Why did it take so long, dear, for you to finally see your breath had to leave before we could be? (Don’t believe what they say. I’m okay.) Did you miss the question? Insurgent ignorance flood. Take one step towards the sun. Melt the wax inside your ears. O, Icarus, you ignorant child, kill your dreams now. I'll clip your wings before you learn how to fly. Did you miss the question? Don't fucking try to leave again
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National Lamb
04:00
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Any second now my heart could stop beating. Who’s to say the sun won’t turn into supernova? Do you know what it’s like to always think of death? What’s stopping me from pulling the trigger to my head? My eyes could fail at any second. My lungs inhaling man-made poison gases. My mind can’t stop guessing what’s wrong with my head. Only immortal in agony, I’ll just end it already. Stab that knife into my chest. My mind imagines so I’ll make it see, and make me bleed. Wrapped in plastic where air can’t reach me, I’m suffocating. I’ll take my own life. Every pain—every ache sending signals to my brain. This is it—this is the end. I hope my bones don’t shatter. Knees to chin, scream for the end. My muscles simply tattered. Why won’t death ever come? It’s killing me. I saw my life flash before my eyes with every fiber inside my brain. Every lover made me suffer. Get away—your skin, it’s smothering me. I can’t stand your touch. Death lurks in every cut. No need to say goodbye. I never wanted you—you killed me every day. Oh, my aching heart. Every pain—every ache sending signals to my brain. This is it—this is the end. I hope my bones don’t shatter. Knees to chin, scream for the end. My muscles simply tattered. Why won’t death ever come? It’s killing me. To let it go, we don't know. Where's the crux causing this mental show? I'll sell my mind, en bloc for nil, to counterpoise—to counterpoise. Tell me why I’m dying slowly. Oh, my god. Help me see the point in living. Oh, my god. Tell me why I’m suffering. What’s the point when pain’s in the way? Emotional, physical, will it ever end the way I want it? I don’t see light anymore. Could that really be the source of so much more? Help me see a brighter future when my mind won’t leave the shade. What I would do to have it release me. Leave me
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Reggie Regicide Pt. 2
03:44
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Hatred and anxiety, drag me under the well. Spread malice, disease and filth. End my sorrow before it consumes everyone. The world is ending, and I’m making it slow and painful. Torture the ashes. So much for carrying my burden—let it consume my passion. So much for taking the high road—bear down ‘til only carnal pleasure controls me. Led to an empty end, depression falters, but ignorance prospers. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Look to the skies and wait forever, or open your eyes to your empty lover. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Gather my children, and make them the hunter. Teach them of pride and never to wonder. Anger and malice, pull them down asunder. Parents look down on a daughter and shun her. Too late to look back now, the end must be nigh—the moon’s bleeding in the sky. The servant soon will lie. Soon will lie.Too late to wonder. Too late to recover. Someday, we all must suffer.Led to an empty end, depression falters, but ignorance prospers. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Look to the skies and wait forever, or open your eyes to your empty lover. Don’t look now, something’s wrong. Too late to take it back—you will never see the sun again. Rot in a hole or be consumed by the flames. I long to waste away
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