1. |
Firestarter
04:38
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stay inside
isolate
say it right,
or oscillate
you might be thinking
you know that's dangerous
we're all concerned
that's a strong word
say no more,
you might be right
you're afraid (I think)
when I am visible,
threatened by what I don't hide
hide
it's just as well
think I knew it then
sanctuary self,
filtering
the apocalypse, the unveil
thinking for myself
can you tell?
we're all concerned
that's a strong word
say no more,
you might be right
you're afraid (I think)
when I am visible,
threatened by what I don't hide
hide
firestarter,
the prisoner
could you hear it then?
can you hear it now?
can you hear it now?
we're all concerned
that's a strong word
say no more,
you might be right
you're afraid (I think)
when I am visible,
threatened by what I don't hide
hide
hide
hide
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2. |
Can't Keep
03:48
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you stole that line of scripture
and drew it 'round my silhouette,
negating all the spaces
in my rhythms of breath
you took my heavy handed
and drew it like a cigarette,
but here's an absolution,
indiscreet, without illusion;
you can't keep
what you once called your valley
you can't keep, can't keep
what you once called yours
serenity is shifting,
unintended, salvific current,
wrestling the alchemy
like I didn't want it
yet in that solace instant,
to validate above the water,
hope raptured in ivy
in all that's standing still
you can't keep
what you once called your valley
you can't keep, can't keep
what you once called yours
under cover of lighthearted,
I recognize the glances,
so I breathe aside discretion,
but am I
just seeing my existence
as somewhere in between?
you can't keep
what you once called your valley
what you once called yours
you can't keep, can't keep
what you once called yours
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3. |
Continuance
05:04
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if everything were equal,
would we all have been embodied
in the beauty of our choosing?
I see my name on the officer's paper
yeah, the moon seeks equanimity
over the tree lines as the summer
sings her valediction
they say it could've happened to anyone
I see a stranger at the door
continuance
continuance
continuance
continuance
nothing here is real
in our society of reason
the almighty documentation
when truth is detail, law is broken
we assume these sensibilities
like gospel from a holy other
in the garden I learned the truth
who am I to be one and the same?
guilty until granted
continuance
continuance
continuance
continuance
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
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4. |
Healer
04:46
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up the stairs,
out this window I've been
staring out
at the holy ocean
in my room,
the night that knew me dreaming
I'm alone
except for everyone here
when I'm force-fed sights,
impenetrable night,
I just lay back and
wonder why I'm wondering
I hope all your pathways
make you die and live again
daddy tried
to reconcile his silence,
but never mind,
empty won't justify it
walk you down
and give you over, ever
could never find
a way to die forever
when I'm force-fed sights,
impenetrable night,
I just lay back and
wonder why I'm wondering
I hope all your pathways
make you die and live again
but you don't know
'cause you were blacked out, stumbling
in the room
of the wounded healer
when I'm force-fed sights,
impenetrable night,
I just lay back and
wonder why I'm wondering
I hope all your pathways
make you die and live again
die and live again
die and live again
die and live again
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5. |
Soft Choices
03:41
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four hundred ninety thousand miles an hour.
but you don't feel it
you've still got blood in your chest
but you don't believe it
you're making your soft choices
when no one sees it
you're making your tender exchanges
in everything affected
I don't know what it is,
but feels
different
every time
and you're hoping it's something real
am I as miserable as I feel?
isn't there something you wanna say?
suspension of belief is killing me
in the oblivious significance,
singing entropy is abdicated
I don't know what it is
but it feels
different
every time
I don't know what it is
but it feels
different
every time
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6. |
Lifted
03:42
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it's cold and bright
but the sun offers no protection
temperament is temperate at best
you're full spirited existence
cracking knuckles dry and white
yet the winter's got you dreaming
mother nature lies awake
she was born in her deathbed
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
chemicals in my brain
I'm a vessel of temporal pain
gentleness beside truth as virtue is it
genetic or just my human condition
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
isn't each soul a congregation?
are we as simple as we seem?
ah, distinguished with our outside voices,
are we really who we mean to be?
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
only alive when I'm giving up the ghost
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
only alive when I'm giving up the ghost
I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
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7. |
Poser
04:23
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oh, in the ocean of my mind,
it was more like a baptismal
am I what you had in mind?
will I forget before it matters?
I'm here to fuck this up,
to explode the notion,
to fulfill the very thing
that you've forgotten
I become the unthought known
in blood, sweat, and consequence
universe behind the forms
yet outside, I sigh
I'm not trying to replace it,
just trying to get to it;
not trying to erase it,
trying to embrace it
duality is one
is it all in my head?
have I got it right?
am I losing it?
I become the unthought known
in blood, sweat, and consequence
universe behind the forms
yet outside, I sigh
diversity's a human word,
a human descriptor
preach indoctrination
conditioned to comply to the common form
how could the Author author me
but for the immanence
to be born again,
but in which direction?
I become the unthought known
in blood, sweat, and consequence
universe behind the forms
yet outside, I sigh
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8. |
Heather
02:50
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I've watered it down
to be easier to take
I've tried to fit myself
into your margins
I am the gray
in your black and white pages
enumerated colors,
golden hour, baby,
holding the tide in the moon
I am the ember
alight in the ashes,
cold snap in the summer,
heather in the thistle,
perennial in winter
far too long spent on concern
for the sorry sake comfort
gotta keep the camera rolling
for who am I reserving?
through your gaslight
is a projection screen
superimposed on me
a lie of dichotomy
for my dawn and dusk
I am the light
coming through your window,
dream that you remembered
feel the morning dew seep
in your shoes
breathing, no more buried
breathing no more, buried
breathing, no more buried
breathing no more, buried
I am the light
coming through your window,
dream that you remembered
feel the morning dew seep
in your shoes
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9. |
Pluto
03:37
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sun setting, linear and quantified,
the revolution of no comply
I still wonder, cosmically, why
can I get a witness to speak for the times?
I'm the lonely planet
it's episodic, a journey of face
and emblematic of my time and space,
then lifted above the astral plane,
anthology of give and take
sun setting, linear and quantified,
the revolution of no comply
I still wonder, cosmically, why
can I get a witness to speak for the times?
I'm the lonely planet
liminality, the threshold of fate
do you believe in that sort of thing
in this obscurity to be reclaimed
given a voice and a different name
sun setting, linear and quantified,
the revolution of no comply
I still wonder, cosmically, why
can I get a witness to speak for the times?
sun setting
the revolution
I still wonder
can I get a witness to speak for the times?
I'm the lonely planet
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10. |
Tomboy
03:05
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blooming here, the coast is clear,
within fear and wonder
a tomboy, a waif, an ingenue,
perennial incantation
embodied as within, to be one,
amidst inhabitations,
still keeping up appearances,
appearances
to be lovely,
to be fair,
I begin
I am the son,
I am the daughter,
I'm the new iteration,
subversive as someone in between
your definitions
the fine line you've drawn
that's disappearing,
delicate, impossibly aligned
damn, I just wanna be
I just wanna be
to be lovely,
to be fair,
I begin
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11. |
Vigil Annie
04:21
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maybe it's more than you've found
when does giving up look like settling down?
you can find me wherever you try,
but you just try and remember your lines
I just want you to say it like you mean it
can you help me out?
standing right where you are
like a planet afraid of the stars
yet you make it up in your mind
that you're defeated
wherever you begin
ephemerality of mine
at rest upon your shoulder
and you cover me in lights
to be enough
or am I too much?
as to a mother all will gather
you're afraid of taking your time
yet you're worried that you're wasting your life
with the visions and prophetic lines
that always spell out whatever you'd like
but you know that the present time
is always waiting for you to arrive
I'm tired of turning it down
no longer to edit myself
just as I breathe now, with nothing to prove
where I'm becoming, to be anew
ephemerality of mine
at rest upon your shoulder
and you cover me in lights
to be enough
or am I too much?
as to a mother all will gather
as to a mother all will gather
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Public Universal Friend is a real life queer goth americana musical force based in Indianapolis, IN founded by songwriter Jody Galadriel Friend.
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