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Dread
05:03
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Wait,
I'm a severed day here
The colors in my hands now
Are fighting like animals today
Somehow they always end back with the secret teeth I have
You walk in dreams of oceans breathe and then single out your mind
It's smoke that I feed on where are you fire?
Wait, oh, when your mind's zeroed it makes me tired
The fear of not, not knowing when or if I'll last
Oh give up one, one last breath I swear I won't
Follow you around
You look so strong from way down here
Wait,
I'm a severed day here
And there will be a use for this in the many years you'll see
A thousand years is long enough for you to fall into my teeth
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Holy Grass
05:28
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Can I go where there is an ocean floor?
Anchored to every mind like mine is?
Oh how it looks from way out at this elevation
When everything my mind sees is a landslide
You try to escape my lungs and my teeth, I'm not wasting light
Gunned down by day so we crash through tired
I'm not that young I lie wide-eyed and bear
I'm listening for now
I dream like days we haven't seen yet
The sky is full of things that bring us passage
Dwelling happily in things as they are
We'll meet the laws of gravity
And run fresh water over
Our mouths and claws and scream over ocean
This is where I'm building my new lungs and coloring my mind
For all the days that I've spent half asleep, I never changed my face
A love of fate that carries me out beyond the last days
So I can see forever out into space, dark and ancient
And bite down hard on written wisdom of overmen
An unrelenting refusal to wander off the earth
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New Teeth
04:00
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Finish off this old body for an absolute
Feeling like I know now why I wrestle
Who lay down my feet and help me grow new teeth?
Travel on my evil these are not your legs
To stand in front of me I will not follow
My footsteps are my own you may not have them
To stand behind me I will not lead
Look to see the man I was meant to be
Fighting only myself I'm crashing my way in
May your convictions breathe and not disappear
May you come through to know your boldest claims
Live to find you will not be erased
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Skepticism
05:37
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Sun break
Take my eyes whole
Feed like you know my name now
It's my body my blood
Feed like no one's buying
Calluses are flesh
Feed like it's decay
Say that you will take it despite of all that claim it
I won't give in
See the life you're making, the kind that refuse to take it
I won't give up this start
Sun breathes in my face
Calumets bring my fate now
What was that you said?
Seems like you're ok now
Wanting them to take my hands
Waking up my amen I feel I've been you before
Far away, give myself over to new days of strength
What is that for?
Days in your room
Feeling so strange
Wearing you out
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5. |
Tail Bitten
03:21
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If only for your sanity
Don't fight like hell
Let yourself let you go
You're not alone
I too have been here before
Don't fight like hell
You may not win
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Meanwhile
05:50
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I put X's over your eyes but you came back to life
Now I've been an ice age wielding a thousand year light
Born into bare hands
Leaving the maze I don't know
I don't know if they're alright or who is inside
Looking back in amazement while exploding with all colors
And wanting to be there every time you lose your mind
We're wondering if you'll stay there
We're walking against the built-in life
You're counting up things that you haven't got
We're wondering how you will ever stop
You're counting on rapture or divinity
And nothing around me can hold that tight
We're wondering when you'll see your name
Echoing against words etched in time
We're counting on nothing but your life
We're wondering vaguely if you'll sleep
I've already met the old lies
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7. |
Wool Fingers
06:08
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The sounds I made when I was afraid
For when lies are unraveling
I can't lie unharmed forever
The many undecided coming years
Like a seed ripped apart
In the wool of youth, I'll spring up
And stretch out toward the surface
Pulling in all decay for itself
A revolving loop of youth
Nothing but warm earth above us
For all that are here
And all who come again
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8. |
Nym
05:15
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You are the day coloring smoke
Walking on spiders, fighting
You are my face
I worship your womb
Gallons of space in tunnels under your skin
Trying to coax me in so you won't be estranged
Effortless change in hanging upside down
Let me offer my breath, my grime, my light
Hey daylight I am the universe
And all my dreams are colored in by your eyes
I may grow to look just like you and walk in your rivers
I want to live by the earth and cry upon birth
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9. |
Glow Worm
02:16
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Fade in and out
Fade like them
Time goes in and
opens my side
May I run now?
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10. |
Monism
05:39
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