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Push It In
05:00
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She's scratching till the skin between her fingers and her nails turns red
They pretend she is still alive, not dead
But she's locked herself away in the cage and thrown away the key
And we can't look away until we're free
The shell sits alone, sure as hell ain't real on any throne
The knife in your life
It's easier to pull it out than push it in
She made us all the biggest fans of electric love
When push comes to shove
How could you take from me
There's nothing left you see
I'm a man I swear it, and you can have it if you believe,
So take this seed and plant it, think how beautiful we could have it
One day you who's listening, don't be afraid,
To see life glistening.
Life alive
Your life alive
We stare into the sun
She's burning up and blinding everyone
Fight, make of sin,
Run within
The knife, in your life,
Is easier to pull it out than push it in
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2. |
Someone Leaves
07:59
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Beyond the edge of time, you wouldn’t get much older
Deny the truth of why, the burden on your shoulder
We’re halfway there
There is a game that people like to play
It’s all the same to live today
The winner cuts out parts that work and throw the rest away
What a trip
They’re the piece of thread, that you can’t grip
Beyond the edge of why, you're disconnecting time
Turn it back, but don’t wind, wind it up inside
There is a game that people like to play
Where someone leaves another tries to stay
Turn around and walk away
We try to build the things we have to last
But what we have is built upon the past
You didn’t feel the pressure in the bend
You couldn’t see that stories always end
This is the game we play
And in the end the pieces blow away
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Anna
08:13
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Anna your bones are tired
It’s time we both put out the fire
Every time I step away I'm choosing not to die
Who do I tell I'm not coming back next time?
Every time you cry, you're away from me, isn't it irony
Look me in the eyes, it's the only way, to get to the giving tree
The way you are
We'll just cut right through, all those scars, from the last times
If you’re on death’s door
You’re just a knock away
From the slip away
So it's onward
Anna says she’s tired
And her body’s cold to touch again
Says she’s feeling rather warm
There’s a hole where she’s drinking through her arm
So it’s onward
I know fire well, and the danger that its comfort brings
I can feel it pull me in
As it pushes you away from me, too warm
I’m burning up now
Anna put out the flame
When we’re gone we’re all the same
Feeling Warm, Cook the horse until it’s charred
Push it in, pull the trigger hard
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4. |
The Rest
07:08
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Don't you wish
You were out of this time
Neurogenesis is fine
Now we are aware, of the perfect storm
Walk the line
Hang your head up high
When you let go, I will fly straight into the sun
Hits our lives, now we run
Don't tell, don't tell, don't tell…a soul
Closed our eyes and fell right down the hole
But that's the way it is down here you know
Simple, simple man,
If that was me, no need to hide
No need to die
Life has taken time, fine...
begin again, to realize, the first time is now
Your heart explodes, because it had nowhere to go
You're not alive
To help the rest to survive
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5. |
Open Up
12:08
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Push the furniture aside,
Tear up the carpet please and look inside,
And below you'll see a heavy door
Put both fingers through the ring,
pull with all your might, beware of what you find,
It's dark beneath the floor
I won't dream, if I can't sleep
And I won't love, if I can't heal
When you've opened up the heart
After being closed for decades
The demons are released
The garden is might be dead
But it lives inside your head
Let your fears turn into summer
The last time that you close your eyes be at peace
Always
I won't drown, if I don't breathe
I won't dream, if I can't fall asleep
What are you waiting for?
You are already alive
And why at the end of our lives
Can’t we crawl back inside our mother
And you won't live, until you love
And we won't love, until we open up
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6. |
Different Eyes
05:38
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The train comes through, the land of dreams and cuts the silence of its route
The sparrow flies, nobody knows it's his last night so it doesn't try to be alive
Through different eyes
A widow smiles, and says you've hardly touched your plate, it's been a while
But her heart is lost, she's dying now of too much to give
Though they can't see she wants to live
Through different eyes
How could it be
Their arms turned to wings as they were set free
How could they fly?
One is so low, and one is just right, while one is too high
A rubber ball, black specks wore through its paint against the northern shore
Battered by the waves, the painted rings seem to smile and wave as it drifts away
Or does it come nearer and bigger, alive
But through different eyes
How could it be
When the end is near, there's nothing to do but watch everything disappear
When life snakes and twists
Making the time here worth places and people were loved and everything will cease to exist
Through different eyes
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Flapping
11:44
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I know you're scared
Your reflection is impaired
What do I do?
To help you through
Can't break that love through
I Can't put you down, I can't calm you
You try to fly but you're chained to the ground
Constant flapping has made you wild
It's made you lose your mind
I showed you calm,
But I know, I know
Constant flapping has broken your wings
The rage has made you blind
You woke from a dream
But you can't wake from life
Constant panic has made you flee
As far away from me, as it gets
I hack at the chains
I've never seen one more afraid
I just love, I can't fix you
I just know how to love
I loosen the bonds
and watch you go anywhere but here
I just love, I can't fix you
I just love, I won't fix you
I can see you getting wrecked somehow,
'cause there is no other way
Who the fuck am I kidding anyway?
There's no way I can stay
I've watched this movie many times
I know how it all ends
You're fighting for your happiness
While the rest of us pretends
Enough, it’s time
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8. |
Where You Once Grew
12:18
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Into the house
And out of the world
Into the room
Where you once grew
There ain't no dust, there ain't no rust at the beginning
There's no time for losing when you're winning
Odd man out
Paramount
Look to the clouds and know they had formed for you dear
There was no one there
Every time you remember a better time it's clear
There is no one here
There is a land that has no time
There is nobody there who knows every line
Of the story, of your story, I'm sorry
Nobody gets out alive
No, none of us get out alive
What makes being a human hard is what's inside
You talked and talked, and never stopped
But I never knew what you were saying
So now that you are gone for good I know you were right from the start
Because all we are is moving parts
Of the trap that holds us behind the windows
Once the sound gets past your ears
It finds the heart it's been missing for years
And years and years and years from the beginning
Windowless house
Safe from the world
In the room
Where you once grew
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Speeding
08:41
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Come into my room, this is where I live
This is where I never told a lie
Where I forgot to say goodbye
This is my map of the world, it hangs up high,
This is where I'll die
But first I will live because I have a choice,
While we fall in line, at least I have a voice
With pain you've had a steady diet
You don't have to die alone, we'll see to it
When years turn into days and hours
And seconds...
We're already gone
My lovers I've shed like fallen leaves
My life's a series of things no one believes
One day there is no later
One day there will be no creator
Quit speeding by the most beautiful parts of life
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