1. |
Slipping Back
05:12
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I’m sinking low
Daylight overhead
I’m tethered to
A stone I call my bed
What will I do?
I need you now
We’ll align ourselves
And slip right out
With every climb
Up the rails
I keep on slipping back
Messing my mind up
Your gravity
Keeps me stabilized
But the warnings come
In a swarm of wasps and flies
What will I do?
I need you now
We’ll align ourselves
And slip right out
I try to keep
All my promises
But it blows me out
It blows me out
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2. |
Keeper of the Peace
04:53
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A faint inner light
In an empty house
Flashing in the currents
Its life will bend and reach
While struggling
I walk on tampered ground
The cautious life
But desperate is the enemy
He’ll start the seam
That’ll break apart my shell
How can I help
My wasting away?
The keeper of the peace
It falls on me
How will I heal
In the wind and the shade?
The keeper of the peace
It falls on me
The rain on the pavement
Is pooling up
The motioned light of street signals
Reflecting off
And forming on my wall
Stuck in my head
Suspended flight
You see what you want to see
And take comfort
Though I don’t sleep well at night
Under the Sun
Unfolding form
Here comes the chill
Over the hills
The warmth of the day
Will fade away
Gather my collections
They break apart
Falling brittle earth
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3. |
Winter Storms
02:57
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I will lend
All of me
Together we will come to be
In the warring winds
We’ll make our home
Though terrified and insecure
We’ll let our wonders win
Separate
Separate
How good it is
We soon forget
Get lost amidst the winter storms
Get strung about instead
Our fears
Flashing through our eyes
Like wind howling
Lightning strikes
Fences are flying
The billows from within
Give lift
Though we’re always tumbling
Through these rifts
How could I have let
This foolishness
Always get the best of me?
A contagious mystery
Separate
Separate
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4. |
The River
04:14
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Out in the dirt
Summer swell
Set myself apart
for the first time
I’ll go upon my way
Lived my luck
Made my peace
Been a wash
I want no more
It’s not me
It’s not me
that you see anymore
I’ve been hollowed
Set to rest
Pines overhead
I will lie by the river I’ve followed
I drag my bones
Bound and tumbling
They are splintered
And as frail
As my memory
I’ve buried them before
A long time ago
Slow drip
Burned its way
Through the marrow
I will lie by the river I’ve followed
I will lie by the river I’ve followed
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5. |
Magnolias
03:06
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I wait
In unrest
In your forest
In your forest
All I am without you
The wind is up
Rustling
Flows right through me
Through me
I’m an empty shell
Sitting
Sitting in the stones
Down in Magnolias
Under Magnolias
I am lost without you
The burning of the Sun
Time’s undone
In my sorrow
Sorrow
I will wait for you
I will wait for you
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6. |
Mountains/Arrows
02:32
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7. |
Stranger
05:17
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A desperate alliance in the dark
Winding through bodies on city blocks
I’m a stranger
Give me lift
In the light
I’m a loner
I’m always hung
Out to dry
Calculated killer in the wasteland
Elevated, anxious, and paranoid
Penned pariah
Shake me free
It’s much too late
I’m a loather
I’m running out
My head ablaze
Keep putting the pressure on my wicked head
Red, black, silver sea forever
The ocean breaks upon the city walls
I stumble back
And fall
Seven lonely years
I came apart
I never needed anyone
Drowning down in alcohol
I came apart
I never needed anyone
I came apart
A desperate admission
A running clock
I stuck to the shadows
With a poisoned flock
I was a lover
You never let me in
I’m a stranger
A fallen citizen
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8. |
Lion's Den
04:09
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I drift through the landscape
The roots twist and roll away
All I ever feel
Is beneath my feet
Deeply set within me
A lions den
Gnashing teeth
Now a ghost out in a clearing
I guess my cold memory will live
How the wind lifts off the water
I guess this old awakened moon
Will cast its light where I have never been
I will never know now
What’s happened here
An old trail
Overgrown
With no road to take at all
The water colors
Bleeding through the layers
Penetrate my skin
And sink right in
I guess my cold memory will live
How the wind lifts off the water
I guess this old awakened moon
Will cast its light where I have never been
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9. |
What Might Have Been
02:32
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I’m ashamed to admit
I won’t be taking
The life you want for me
Despite the talking we have done
Despite those evenings
I’ve withdrawn
It’s all been a waste
been a waste
All the lessons I’ve learned
Lessons I’ve learned
I must put this to rest
Put this to rest
Though I fear I am not
Out of the woods
I will carry on
Despite your cautionary tales
Despite the fog
That lingers still
I’ll get on my way
On my way
Though it hurts to leave
You guessing my fate
And what might have been
Might have been
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10. |
Feathers in the Sun
03:31
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Let the devil in
Let the devil in
You have lost your mind with him
And the birds will leave
The winter trees
They will flock and fold under him
With their feathers in the Sun
The calm before the storm
You sat in the shade
And picked all you could from the bone
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11. |
Ocean Alarm
01:17
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12. |
Lift the Weight
03:39
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Lift the weight
Liven up
Restless in the sea
The climb so unfulfilling
Spinning ceaselessly
I get caught up in it
The wolves forever howl
The bitter winter washes
Your cinematic glow
So much I see
Gets lost in the noise
Electric storms
While flowers are blossoming
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