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Loosened Seams
04:17
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Everything falls apart
Is this the end
of everything we understand?
will all that’s left
just be footprints in the sand?
We’ll do all we can
Just to find that it’s no use
The holding seams
Can only take so much abuse
Is this the way that we all planned it?
Invisible, and left abandoned?
It feels like I’m drowning
I can’t stand it
but I'm gonna let it fall apart
Gonna shut my eyes forever
Cause I'm gonna bank on a new start
When it's all sewn back together
Head towards the light
Let it wash away the stress
You’re innocent
It’s not your fault we’re such a mess
Nothing to do
But simply let the pieces crash
And pray we find
a future buried in the ash
Trace back the final steps to
Realize there was nothing we could do
It’s not our fault,
Everything we’ve gone through
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2. |
Hate Ballad
02:33
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I hate the air we breathe
I'm sick of the ground we walk
I can't stand the world we see
I hate the way we talk
I hate our dying planet,
The sky, and fading stars
I hate those at the bottom
I hate the ones in charge
It all makes me sick
Everything is wrong
Nothing that will stick
Nowhere to belong
I hate our transportation
electricity, gasoline
I hate feeling trapped
when I have no way to leave
I hate optimists, and pessimists
All their smiles, all their frowns
I hate never ending happiness
but I hate always feeling down
I'm tired of stupidity
When people try their best
I hate people who think
they're so much smarter than the rest
I hate those who complain,
never spread their wings and fly
I hate that it seems like you're fucked
no matter how hard you try
Is it all my fault
or is it all okay?
When all hope is lost
There's no other way
If you hate the air we breathe
if you're sick of the ground we walk
if you can't stand the world we see
and you hate the way we talk
If you hate the way we are
Turn and point at something else.
When we can't change what goes on
hating something always helps
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4. |
Keep Sailing
02:54
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I stood at the shores
Knowing all there is to know
Nothing to explore
When you’ve seen all there is to show
Out on the horizon
A shock of lightning strikes
I must venture out again
To see what’s come to life
Staring me down
Was a kind I’d only dreamed
A renegade, a seed of chaos
Planted at our feet
No regard for those before
He swiftly left behind
Those who refused to engage,
Who said we’d lost our minds
The water crashing down upon us
The madness of the crowd stayed focused
With destiny, I was anointed
As I took up my arms to join them
Ready to set sail again,
My mind was set ablaze
Finally, a reason to
Get back out on the waves
Failure seemed impossible
I didn't care about the odds
With our energy to hold us
I could finally take my shot
Through it all he stayed right with us
Until it seemed something was different
I looked to either side and noticed
Somewhere along the line, he’d left us
The ideals I once had seen
began to fade away
The unity I felt
had turned to hollow energy
The sounds I'd heard have changed
Yet the wind proceeds to blow
I’ve no choice but to stay the course
And keep sailing alone
All the storms you helped me to push through
Now I will keep sailing without you
This time the only thing I can do
Is try and keep sailing without you
I’ll keep sailing without you
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5. |
10,000,000 Nobodys
02:48
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Why do we all blend into each other?
Prophets turned into disciples
Minds feeding off of one another
Thoughts are copied and recycled
Other people's thoughts
Outpace yours by a mile
Snap a branch off what's grown
Tell yourself it's your own
Millions of the same sound
Blend into the background
Fighting, silence till it's settled
Restate, now until forever
Hiding, using us as vessels
Reshape, blend it all together
No one here is someone else
Here there's no need for yourself
Another one drawn in
and tossed into the pile
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6. |
Indestructible
03:45
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Nobody understands
What they have in their hands
When they pull off their plans
Nobody seems to get
that people always forget
No matter the threat
No one needs to live forever
we just waste every minute we have
The world needs more than the light
Of yesterday’s sun
Unguarded, vulnerable
We’ve never gotten it right
We'll never become
indestructible
We break the binds that hold
We breathe life into old
We buy all that's been sold
We take disaster on the face
We revel in the tortured wake
of the world we knew now laid to waste
But finally, we are December
And the cobbled walls we’ve built collapse
We’ll never be indestructible
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Jump out of the sky
Save yourself as you sink
Trust your nerves so you don't have to think
Sleep runs too thin
to keep you alive
Don't waste energy on sad goodbyes
I'm sick of seeing all the non-progression
I know that I can't shake them all awake
I'm striking out to find my own exception
Where the center of the universe awaits
Outside these walls, are those who will follow
Beyond this life there's somebody who cares
Leave behind you all that’s cold and hollow
Chase the stars to a place where there’s
Somewhere to begin
May the lights let you find
A way to clear the static in your mind
Jump out of the sky
Forget all you've got
Fuck the clock, I'm taking one last shot
I've done my best as long as I've been trying
Because in my mind it's always been my fate
I'll chase new life, cause I can't sit here dying
When the center of the universe awaits
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9. |
Stargazer
03:21
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Vision melts, the senses fly
When you stare into the sky at night
Shooting through the stratosphere
When everything else disappears in light
Flashes of a starlit dream
Start racing through your mind
Convince you that the sky is where you're bound
Suddenly the weight pulls you
back to earthly life
you curse the feet that chain you to the ground
One day I'll be up there too, right?
Call out to the blessed souls,
The lucky ones, both young and old, who know.
Arm them with their diamond rings
Those chosen to receive their wings let go.
Born into a lower plane,
Do we even have a chance?
Was the stage already set when we arrived?
Are we forever meant to crawl
While others get to dance?
And spend our whole lives gazing at the sky?
Stargazers crowd the ground tonight
To the heavens we all look
Because it might one day be our time
They're the lights that guide the lost
Because the stars will always shine
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11. |
The End?
04:30
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Can't everyone shut
the fuck up for once
And let us live our final days
in silence?
Nothing left to be
Said or even thought
The tide of static rising,
A reminder that we’ve got
Nothing worth going back to
and no future to trust.
This nightmare will come down to
Dust to dust
Ash to ash
Steel to rust
First to last
The sirens call
The children cry
The towers fall
The planet dies
Broken trust, the blind will see
Dreams are crushed, the slaves are freed
Crowd the door, the hungry fed
The bombers soar above our heads
Inscription in the wreckage
reads "Forgive and forget"
Nobody will be left to remember
The hanging debt
That's never paid
The sins still left
Are washed away
The hurt inside
Is finally cleansed
A suicide
A fitting end
It will come for us
Can’t you hear the distant roar?
The tolling bell, a chapter that
we haven’t read before
In its wake you'll find
that some wounds will heal.
There'll be no traces left behind
of the pain that we all feel
Give up amends, embrace the fear
Do you think the end is finally here?
It all just began, how can I accept
if now the end is all that’s left?
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