1. |
There You Are
02:05
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(And from under the immeasurable dust of the universe, I sigh.)
Dry your eyes
Come face the sun
Drown in light
Reveal all you’ve begun
What you lost
Is no matter now
Wake up
Wake up
See the world anew
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2. |
Roads to China
05:30
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They sing of a place out east
I’ve dreamt of a rising sun
That’ll burn out all the dark unknown
And eclipse what I once called home
(Now) exhale the smoke that clouds your mind
And realize the roads to China are walked alone
Lies in your lungs, choking your breath
Hanging your head to cover your neck
A decade of indifference
My patience is wearing thin
Carry my loss like I carry my love
With heart below & head above
A decade and no difference
My patience is wearing
Exhale the smoke that clouds your mind
And realize the roads to China will guide you home
In the valley of the gods
Say your peace, unlock the gates
All the maps are charred & faded
And I still don’t know my name
In the valley of the gods
Say your peace, unlock the gates
I’ve been on roads less traveled
But the ending stays the same
My father spoke of life long past
He hung his head & cursed his breath
“May the silence speak
For all the love you’ll never see”
From a broken home
Now reminded
Under broken bone
Hope is binded
Give love away, I’ll never need it
Heaven can wait, I’ll never see it
I know this, though long foretold:
Give nothing, take nothing and risk walking alone
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3. |
Blue Marble Carousel
03:49
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Are you tired?
Can you bear
The weight of heaven?
Your dreams laid bare?
Oh, our souls may hide
Under the weight of stones
But why? Even the birds can make the blue home
Oh, we wonder why
With our fates unknown
The sky can trust the wind to carry them home
Despite our show, we tread like ghosts even in our homes
And can’t say no to anything, nurse wounds we hide by day
Like carousels, we spin without a pause or lull
Held in endless motion, scared of stopping
Something says I won’t
Test the fate of the four winds that blow
Can we chase the words the wind swept away?
Can we be free past this day?
Oh, our souls may hide
Under the weight of stones
But why? Even the birds can make the blue home
Oh, we wonder why
With our fates unknown
The sky can trust the wind to carry them home
(How could we ever know?)
Can we chase the words the wind swept away?
Can we be free past this day?
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4. |
Cabin Pressure
04:32
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Your pulse was an ocean ripple
It hit like a tidal wave
Held under holy water
Bones waterlogged for days
Well I can feel you here, where
Placed within a frame
Time gave you the courage
To reinvent your name, but
What will come of me now?
What will come of us?
If death'll steal the decent
What will be left in my dust?
As a boy, I breathed fire
As a man, I cough up smoke
Hold my place in the choir
Sing my prayers to a dial tone
What’s my legacy? Are my bones worth no weight in gold?
What’s left of me is a question I can’t hold down:
Who’s last to say my name?
The seeds have been sown
No chance of escaping
No chance to atone
Just endlessly waiting
For light to break through
As a boy, I breathed fire
As a man, I cough up smoke
Hold my place in the choir
Sing my prayers to a dial tone
What’s my legacy? Are my bones worth no weight in gold?
What’s left of me is a question I can’t hold
At all
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5. |
Walls Without Stones
06:17
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Seek solace in alchemy
Stare up through the bottom of the sea
Take deep breaths, but it won’t help
Keep screaming to myself
Skip stones when it’s hard to tell
Lines between solid ground & wishing well
And the panic fills in waves
Too afraid to say your name
And watch it dissolve into nothing
The holes in the wall
Remnants of desperate minds
All painted over
But never erased with time
So build me a tunnel
To a place where we can bathe in rays of light
A summer in abandon
Leaving behind
Visions of eyes at night
I drew out the poison
The summer’s edge cuts deeper
It never mattered
If only I had known
And the panic fills in waves
Too afraid to say your name, let it dissolve into nothing
But there’s freedom in decay
The broken cross, the hidden cave that we carved from nothing
With no one left to blame
And a soul sucked dry of shame, can I dive without looking?
(In the valley of the gods
Say your peace unlock the gates
All the maps are charred & faded
And I still don’t know my name)
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6. |
A Song About Breathing
06:08
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Silence found a hollow heart
Pulled in all directions
A click from absolution
Every thought commodified
Tossed away revision
To favor imprecision
The doubt that lives within our bones
Reveals itself in undertones
In every turn of phrase
In truth, we are knotted
Our minds in disarray
Poised upon the chance to slip away
You’ll find that your breathing
Can clear away your fate
The cycle only ends when led astray
Let air fill your lungs
Let it all wash out
And watch your apprehension swirl the drain
The truth that we borrowed
Can never be repaid
Although we often give half of what we take
We never let what’s taken go to waste
The colors, all washed out
The novelty erased
How could we forget what we replaced?
Oh, everything’s in frames
Broken, fractured, out of place
I can hear the echoes through the wall
What do they say? What do they say?
Build new truths, spill heart to page
Never clasp to what fades away
They build what’s meant to break
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7. |
Broken Waltz
06:02
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Drive the coastline
Lend an hour
Mending wounds I cannot see
Is it lucky
Such a liar
Couldn’t hear the truth I speak?
Slanted skyline
From a cliffside
Lost beneath the dusk’s debris
Heavy hearted
Holding hands while
Flames will dance beneath our feet
And I wonder
If you could tell the story
With a straight face
Every blunder
All the gifts of glory
Fallen from grace
I guess I wore you down
Stole the glow and burnt us out
Though beauty lends a crown
Heaven sent is still hellbound
What a tiny frame
Pulled apart in solemn grace
We walked without a care
Past the pier, in autumn air
Our love beyond repair
All a gift of circumstance
And I wonder
If you could tell the story
With a straight face
I guess I wore you down
Stole the glow and burnt us out
Though beauty lends a crown
Heaven sent is still hellbound
It’s always the same
Her eyes, they pull me down
And I thought I’d found a way to fight it
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8. |
Pixel
01:31
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9. |
New Nihilists
05:26
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You always say
‘The feeling will come & go’
But I don’t have the time to work this out
A peaceful cave
A temple of melting snow
Where I don’t have enough to work this out
Hearsay, echoes
It’s nothing but projected shadows
Crawling up the walls
Coming above, as below
And the TV’s on
Laughter always sounds the same
In an empty house
All my love in a microwave
Come & waste away
Let our souls all pixelate
With our hearts vacuums
Swelling static fills the space
Between what I want
And need, all I know now
Is that there’s something I’ve been missing
Shrouded in a layer of irony
Spare all doublespoken eulogy
My couch is a crucifix
So it goes
On and on and on
On and on and on
On and on and on
We’re all just wasting time
With the TV on
Laughter always sounds the same
In an empty house
All my love in a microwave
Come & waste away
Let our souls all pixelate
With our hearts vacuums
Swelling static fills the space
Between what I want & need
What I fight & feed
Swollen hands that bleed
Of all the stories, of all the lies I tell myself
We’re all just liars (with nothing to show)
We’re all just liars (with nothing to show)
We’re all just liars, a silent chorus of nothing but woe
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10. |
Timshel
06:41
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You lay to waste
All of creation
Under setting sun
Every step veiled in low fog
Wrapped in circled thought
Is the future taught?
Is it already known?
Grasp at strings just like a puppeteer
Games of black & white
When it’s love you rely on
Waiting for a long sigh
And wasting all my time on
A storm that’s never coming
Crimes of invention
Holy beads that hang around my neck
Slowly turn to sweat
At the thought of escape
So pull the ropes, I’ll show you pieces of me
Not too high, you cannot see
Out of frame, there’s a man offstage
Debating to set me free
Oh, I’m dancing now
Coaxing shadows to follow my move
But the light’s never right, the floor crudely
Bends & distorts the symmetry
Haunted by the wayside
And wasting all my time on
Dreams of better answers
When I know they won’t come
No, I know they won’t come
No, I know they won’t
There is a light that never goes out
Illuminates a darkened sea
Many nights, I swam out to meet it
To find my home ablaze behind me
“You are a mountain, a peak in the clouds
I am the wind, quiet in carving you out
And when it comes, when it comes you’ll find out
The fear of God will not calm the storm’s shout”
Am I just a consequence
Of what I was not returned?
(Gave away my love for free)
(Gave away most everything)
(Nothing taken, nothing earned)
(Simple question, lesson learned)
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11. |
There You Were
01:49
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And from under the immeasurable dust of the universe, I sigh.
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