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Mysteries of the Earth
04:12
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The darkness falls away
And here comes the dawn
A dazzling sun illuminates
Our new treasure to live on
Can you see me pull
Obstacles from your way?
Fortune delivers seasons
Every single day.
It's as simple as forces of nature
Shaping what we think is real
Before my eyes and if I have the strength
I will weave them to heal
Can you see me pull
Obstacles from your way?
Fortune delivers seasons
Every single day.
The sky describes a story of what has taken up residence in your heart
And like the temper of the time I can't quite find what's pushing you to position the end before we even start.
What is hidden should never be bound
Secrets will not make us free
Surrender them slowly into the passage
Of time and for once be happy
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Up & Swings
02:31
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I heard the news you left later the next day
I suppose it didn’t seem important to say
Goodbyes because they were simply talking
About the greater plan to begin walking
Away
This life brings me up and swings me down
There are times I rule and there are times I clown
There have been days of ruin that I thought
It felt necessary to grab a guitar and figure
Out the proper way to shake this dark architecture
But there's a problem in deciphering who
Should be listening for a breakthrough
Today
This life brings me up and swings me down
There are times I rule and there are times I clown
There have been days of ruin that I thought
When misadventure takes it's time to pick
Me up it strips me down with Fortune's quick
Sway
This life brings me up and swings me down
There are times I rule and there are times I clown
There have been days of ruin that I thought
Lost for hope but was worried for naught
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Here's an inescapable truth
The future will hold the past subject
To time and bring the dirty proof
Into a light that others may inspect
It feels increasingly so the fact
That my past holds me captive
The dreams of all those in back
That disappeared fall inactive
The past becomes my present
So often I wish
Pages of penultimate phrasing
Saying what I thought I should say
Time spent halting and stumbling
Drifts and drives until it's far away
That's just how it's always been
You say like the dilemma is done
But the man out of this time has seen
Seconds pass differently under the sun
The past becomes my present
So often I wish
The past becomes my present
So often I wish
I could send it to the future far away
The moments that we spend in conflict
Are the times we are covered in noise
That pushes us in directions derelict
The discomfort of chaos naturally enjoys
Choose silence over the arguments
Of the ages if it serves no advances
Or purpose and perhaps prevents
Poisoning the futures best chances
The past becomes my present
So often I wish
I could send it to the future far away
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5. |
A Responsibility Caucus
05:17
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Illusions losing power in the light
Revealing the absence of wonder
That filled the innocent with sight
In my arms no fear of falling under
Damaged hearts replace the story
We used to tell before time for bed
Still found random chances for glory
We overcame enemy myths instead
Though clearly there comes a time
When lifting the world is not an option
Softening with a laugh or a rhyme
Provides no counter to time's toxin
The aim of mistakes may be a mystery
Consider if the insight is worth the journey
(Fix the dream of one more day of bliss
Conjure memories bright and precious
Sun kissed can be saved from the abyss
If I learn to sort the truth from the premise)
The shadow that hovered over seasons
Bringing home real danger we could avoid
Reassessed the weights that were reasons
We waited patiently to be destroyed
In truth I still seek words of wisdom
From the store of many with longer time
Than me for the benefit of the sum
Of experience exceeds new design
(Fix the dream of one more day of bliss
Conjure memories bright and precious
Sun kissed can be saved from the abyss
If I learn to sort the truth from the premise)
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6. |
The Day I Dreamed
03:09
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The sky is dark and there's the lonely hum
I hear after stumbling out of my bed
It would be a fine time to let that wave run
Me over right back to lights out in my head
It's the same day as the day
I dreamed there was another way
To take it back before I stay
Lost again in time's decay
It's the same day as the day
Wages dance instead to the music of
The register and the pay clock chime
And the mealtime bells ringing above
Stealing slivers of seconds in time
It's the same day as the day
I dreamed there was another way
To take it back before I stay
Lost again in time's decay
It's the same day as the day
Unlike my heart, I jump and start setting a pace
Instead of putting off now the inevitable later
By the time I fully get my head in the race
My time has made off with the accelerator
It's the same day as the day
It's the same day as the day
It's the same day as the day
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Traveler
02:51
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I traveled to the sacred place my heart pulls
Me and wished to record the experience
Hoping mostly to document some miracles
With technology and spare no expense
By paying attention one may detect the slight
Texture of grains turning to pebbles crowning
To stones that shape the church we did sight
Where the stories of miracles are abounding
This will be the gift that needs love and time
Before anyone gets to claim it belongs to them
But where once there was only possession
This treasure is destined to be everyone's gem
Quests can achieve bright clarity if we cherish
And nurture ideas instead of quickly honing
Them to be shaped ready to battle and perish
At the mercy of the false penitents atoning
I call upon the gods to grant me the courage
When my stomach swims, dips, sways and flutters
Tap whatever source for hope we may forage
To keep me on my legs while my heart stutters
Further along to the violent storm and follows
The path that led to the choice of crossing
The capital and onwards to the gallows
Followed by the resting place of the king.
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9. |
Six & Seven On a Sunday
02:20
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I have belief to describe for me
The world I live and breathe every day
What matters most is I choose it for myself
And force no obligation for others to obey
There are wonders in this world that most
Of us will never have the grace to witness
For one there is the birthplace of a legend
To see the light of that star and progress
That star and progress
But no matter what we saw
We only found our faith
Some held back in chains will never share in
The glory of knowing these gifts are here.
Their destination is hidden from me
But if we know patience then we all know no fear
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Our Proper Place
03:03
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Hunters with direction sniff out the run
The youngest of our hope die blind of the sun
The light lowers with long miles to go near
Never know a day that doesn't have fear
We hope to take up devotion to the dream
Of better days to survive the mayhem
But before we preach an improved path
We must memorize the lines to walk them
Here is a message that can't be lifted away
From the light because it has been conveyed
By the voices that improve and imbue it
With the depth and gravitas that is due it
We hope to take up devotion to the dream
Of better days to survive the mayhem
But before we preach an improved path
We must memorize the lines to walk them
We must memorize the lines to walk them
Here is a song that was written and then erased.
The context has not been properly placed
Because the unjust side was writing rules
To take away the peace and reward the fools
We hope to take up devotion to the dream
Of better days to survive the mayhem
But before we preach an improved path
We must memorize the lines to walk them
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There Is No Number Seven
02:17
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The Rehabilitationist
02:28
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First breath to last gasp they put me in my place
Just when I’m set to reset they push me back into race
Hoping to push me past the pain to where the gaudy things
Define me, nothing is denied me, pleasure is for kings
The fight is where they teach you all of the rules for saying the right thing at the wrong debut
The truth is if you do as they say and even as they do it still won't make you one of the few
There is an approach to the path if you put your soul up for sale
They insist you need to be okay with some moderate betrayal
If you aspire to retire with a level of comfort second to none
Be quick to get your cut and leave the scraps to no one
The fight is where they teach you all the rules for saying the right thing at the wrong debut
The truth is if you do as they say and even as they do it still won't make you one of the few
God and drugs and fucking and drama in the golden age of TV
Create the illusions you find necessary in order to catch seconds to breathe
And even if you hold as much as you can
The fight is where they teach you all the rules for saying the right thing at the wrong debut
The truth is if you do as they say and even as they do it still won't make you one of the few
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This Machine Kills
02:04
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Prayer is not worth much
When prescribing a way to die
Some faith would say such
A single minded goal is an ally
A tool that discourages thought and
Travels undercover in velvet glove
Lying in wait to steal all that you love
In the real it never looks like a brutal
Display of finesse.
What really shatters the people to scatter is the futility of the safety they possess
Creating spirits is a main feature
Of what we do so it's unusual
How civil society can confer
An attraction so clearly delusional
They know this kind of work in really
Every city you can name inside
The borders of the land of those who did not survive
In the real it never looks like a brutal
Display of finesse.
What really shatters the people to scatter is the futility of the safety they possess
Many who hold me don't read me
They feel like they are in control
But I say when to need me or feed me
When to take or to give up a soul
In the real it never looks like a brutal
Display of finesse.
What really shatters the people to scatter is the futility of the safety they possess
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I see her and say, it's been awhile
I'm glad to see you found your way back
I felt there were signs announcing your
Arrival and when I was sure I made ready
I see her and say, it's been awhile
I'm glad to see you found your way back
There are roads you have traveled and roads
You have lived and I see them scratched across your skin
To see you home and it's been so long
Maybe I thought you disappeared away
So stay here and recover the pieces
Of memories left and share them with me
Let's not think on when you might be going
I see her and say, it's been awhile
And not much has changed around here
The same stories and excuses that you ran
From are still right here anticipating
The next time you run into the arms of
A comfort you can send straight to the brain
In my heart I still wait for the day
You might listen to reason or love
Or instincts for survival that would
Lead to a revival of hope
That somehow I can look and
See where you are wandering is truly safe
So stay here and recover the pieces
Of memories left and share them with me
Let's not think on when you might be going
I see her and say, it's been awhile
I'm glad to see you found your way back
Not much has changed inside my heart
And I would do anything
I see her and say, it's been awhile
And I would do anything
I see her and say, it's been awhile
And I would do anything
To know where you are wandering is truly safe
So stay here and recover the pieces
Of memories left and share them with me
Let's not think on when you might be going
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