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Absences
04:09
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Sometimes I estimate
the strangers' blood in my veins
Behavior & your race
Your age, size, sex & faith
Who are you?
& therefore, who am I?
No need to speak
It seems we're of the same type
I like to speculate she lived up to her name
Records ain't the same
I'd like to feel those names in my veins
How did she feel?
What was all that like?
I'd really like to see but it seems we had our time
Retake the wheel in a familiar case & learn to steer it right
Staying the course on a creaky vessel
Cast diversions aside
We exaggerate the loves we lost on the way
Missing less each day, the pain, smell, touch & taste
The times that we had seems like they were fine
The saying isn't true
Absences & hearts go fine
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Trading in all of the green & blue for blackness
All alone, all of the cities start to lose their glow
Frozen stiff, my black orb hangs in vastness
Living for a long dinner & a short dance
The way that you'll be
The way I am now
The way my speck gets smaller, smaller & smaller still
Play & replay the grainy clips in disarray
Trying to keep a disappearing face & a voice alive
Up here alone , I feel my wrinkles stretching longer
& down below, she stays suspended in a smooth young glow
Blue & green come into focus much more slowly
The sudden heat, feeling the earth beneath my feet
& don't you know, it doesn't feel a thing like home
& all is lost, back in the blackness is where I belong
Play & replay the grainy clips in disarray
Trying to keep a disappearing face & a voice alive
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3. |
Understudy
04:38
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Let your guard down in your dim room
Relearn every inch of you
We'll play "Unravel"
Throw all my caution to the wind
Part your legs in silence
Feeling your breath race and recede
& you'll sleep on me
Wake up & reach for you but it's no use
cause I've been sleeping with your apparition
Wander outside to the street &
audition strangers silently
to play your understudy
Feeling her breath race & recede
You'll be back when I'm asleep
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4. |
Sum Up
03:58
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To sum up our lives here
to kill time til the end
Some of who we loved
seemed right then pass on
Most will never see
so many years
I’ve been cursed to live in a row
I tried & tried & tried to break free
but all I’ve learned is I’m a coward &
Things feel differently
this go around
Don’t go growing old all alone
I’ll try & try & try to break free
but I’m afraid I’ll fail at this again
If only someone warned me
I’d take back my old wish
Just take me sooner than later
End this charade & bring me closer to a blissful end
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5. |
Snakebit
04:19
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Me, I'm an emperor watching over dust
She is a lovely distraction from my work.
But is the product greater than her parts? (Maybe)
An aberration, sent to me, to be solved
So what if I am snakebit?
So what if she's my savior?
We'll pioneer a new era
where the bones & the steel are one.
Legend will spread across the planets
Forsaken off in a desert
then she came & the walls would fall
A savage surface without one grain of faith
Before she landed here , my throne was just a cage &
My mind's caved, cause I'm alive & you're a fake. (Maybe)
Liberation couldn't save me. Can I trade it for the lie?
So what if I am snakebit?
So what if she's my savior?
We'll pioneer a new era
where the bones & the steel are one.
Legend will spread across the planets
Forsaken off in a desert
then she came & the walls would fall
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6. |
Candor (Captor's Lament)
04:01
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You're seeing what I couldn't see
Your biggest plans were laid
Not seeing that you, dear
Wanted away from the light I bring.
Faking what I couldn't fake
Feeling what I couldn't feel
If you just stayed here
I could have built a perfect life for us.
Oh, you'd love it all
If only you'd have shown me some
Candor rather than silences.
Now, it's just, "Goodbye."
The cards that we held stayed the same
The hands hadn't changed in weeks
If you didn't go cheat
we'd be living the life that you'd love to lead
but trust wasn't ever your thing
A breaker of hearts & locks
If you just stayed here
we could have had it all
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7. |
Necktie Party
04:03
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Lower all the lights and sound
Feeling overwhelmed here and now
Static from an urban scene
can drive a simple man to his knees
But desolation yields a different war
The quiet of a frozen plain
can drive a man insane just the same
But, some people just don't have any place
But, some people just don't have a place
We love curl up in a comfortable fear we know
But exposed to an unknown infinite world, we fold
The need to understand everything
It's dangerous, so dangerous
Taunted by a rope in a breeze
Insulted by the simplest machine
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8. |
Lines Advancing
03:25
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Unfinished sketches
Flying machines in armor
Decorate all the walls
Those engine roars
They sound more & more &
That same horse won't take you home
& unseen
The lines advancing from wall to ceiling
Just keep them off of your arms
The city crawling uphill slowly
Keep those wheels spinning strong
Drawing what's left of your memory
before the faces are gone
& every decade
details are always fading
Those more you try, the more you've lost
Keep an eye for meteors
Knocking down all of these walls
Leaving just one big hole.
End it all
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Four Lights
04:30
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Walking outside
To your straight-faced gaze
Oh, where do we go from here?
First a quick draw
Then we lower our arms
Reaching for each other’s hand
On a lifeless plane
We relearn to trust
In a brand new way
We relearn love
In a barren land
without a flag in sight
is the only place
our love can survive.
The killer instinct
Leaving just us two
A chance to start up anew
It’s only logical
that we settle our feud
Live as the remaining two
Weary eyes are
looking lost in wasteland
fearing any sign of life
Then then met mine
& without one sound lit
the four lights of this town
Over time they
grew so bright
the only needed source of light
So we’ll stay here
up until they burn out
Leave behind this old town
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10. |
Tags
04:30
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With every eye on horizon lines
hallucinating saviors
The static fades out & in again
Morning moons show failures
In open waters, with empty skies
Ranks are always thinning out
Floated tags are torn apart
& all the fins keep closing in
We’ll adhere to plans one more day
Keep pulling tags up from the waves
then shine em up
Send back the sun to catch an eye
overhead in line of sight
Panic fades out & in again
with every dawn & sunset
Guessing always what lie in wait
underneath the surface
From out of the blue an interference
enters in the skyline
Just stay on course
& follow the sign
and steer into the signal fire
Collect tags
as signal fire fuel
The sunlight
serving as a starter
Collect tags
of all that we had lost
End the wait here
Let us all hear that sweet engine song
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11. |
Empty Tunnels
04:02
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Listen Annie, give me any name.
I don't come with one.
Please don't be afraid because I am what you need.
Thin or sturdy, build me as you please.
I can love you & I can never leave.
I swear that I can feel.
As the years go by
These circuits, they turn into something you love.
Cave in & make believe
You don't know that I don't even bleed.
My veins are simply empty tunnels, we ignore.
Until I break you down
& you send me on back home
to tell them all I've learned
& you, learning to feel love.
(sing the body)
Cave in & make believe
You don't know that I don't even bleed.
Just cave in & make believe
You don't know that I don't even bleed.
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I'm Jarrod, writer of 4 minute songs, most of which are based on The Twilight Zone.
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