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The Only Road
04:14
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Impatience takes its toll
Another year goes by, devoured
This is but an onus, comin’ from the depths
Of a solitary state, goin’ overboard
Fallin’ into place, it’s over
Brace yourself for the only road worth taking
You sold your soul and now the body’s forsaken
Friction comin’ from the soul and the outside
Sordid genuflections to the darkest of your days
Another fold in the envelope to send you on your way
Through hollow drops of molten rocks
Confined and locked away from shallow games
Brace yourself for the only road worth taking
You sold your soul and now the body’s forsaken
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Carbon
04:21
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(Find a way out)
I was distorting the time
To find a way out
It’s all mea culpa
Hug the ground in humble hope from hollow bites from the cobra
He’s sendin’ you some love between the pain and the poison
To the edge of all your skin until you run out of life force
Drain away the fabled language
It’s all right, you were goin’ down again
Breath it out, gotta release the blocks and let go of the venom
Dissolve my effortless intentions
Words comin’ out of you like it’s the end of the world
To find a way out
It’s all mea culpa
Hug the ground in humble hope from hollow bites from the cobra
He’s sendin’ you some love between the pain and the poison
To the edge of all your skin until you run out of life force
Drain away the fabled language
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Black Horizon
03:51
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We were so strung out
By the light and the dark
They polarize while the soul weeps heavily
Torn from the eyes of the sublime
This is the only way to roll away the time
To cultivate the mind
Sorting through just to implicate the lies
Dissolving everything
I commit to the vision despite the fluff and derision
No I don’t earn a commission, but I don’t ask for a dime
It’s all comin’ down anyway so we can just stay alive
Sometimes I hope I’m gone and never coming back
To wake up without the spirits pulling on my neck
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
This is all we have left
Because you trade away the mind
For thoughts devoid of love and pride
Bereft of seminal changes, it’s hard to maintain it
The anger bubbles up inside
And then explodes into your life
It’s hard to contain it, but who are we blaming?
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
And so you sold away the change to play the games that last
But what am I asking?
It’s all distracting from the meaning to grasp
I’m filled with regret and shame, but that too shall pass
Covered in scars, bruised and bleeding
Endlessly grieving for the plasmic ash
But the lies are receding, how do we even
Hope for something else?
Maybe it’s better if there’s nothing left
Bereft of seminal changes, who are we blaming?
Constant haranguing of the tepid self
We were always looking inward for the higher self
But it’s way out of here, so we’re comin’ back down
It’s a little bit tough with a raw deal
But it’s all right again
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4. |
Run Away
05:33
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We were so strung out
By the light and the dark
They polarize while the soul weeps heavily
Torn from the eyes of the sublime
This is the only way to roll away the time
To cultivate the mind
Sorting through just to implicate the lies
Dissolving everything
I commit to the vision despite the fluff and derision
No I don’t earn a commission, but I don’t ask for a dime
It’s all comin’ down anyway so we can just stay alive
Sometimes I hope I’m gone and never coming back
To wake up without the spirits pulling on my neck
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
This is all we have left
Because you trade away the mind
For thoughts devoid of love and pride
Bereft of seminal changes, it’s hard to maintain it
The anger bubbles up inside
And then explodes into your life
It’s hard to contain it, but who are we blaming?
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
And so you sold away the change to play the games that last
But what am I asking?
It’s all distracting from the meaning to grasp
I’m filled with regret and shame, but that too shall pass
Covered in scars, bruised and bleeding
Endlessly grieving for the plasmic ash
But the lies are receding, how do we even
Hope for something else?
Maybe it’s better if there’s nothing left
Bereft of seminal changes, who are we blaming?
Constant haranguing of the tepid self
We were always looking inward for the higher self
But it’s way out of here, so we’re comin’ back down
It’s a little bit tough with a raw deal
But it’s all right again
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We were so strung out
By the light and the dark
They polarize while the soul weeps heavily
Torn from the eyes of the sublime
This is the only way to roll away the time
To cultivate the mind
Sorting through just to implicate the lies
Dissolving everything
I commit to the vision despite the fluff and derision
No I don’t earn a commission, but I don’t ask for a dime
It’s all comin’ down anyway so we can just stay alive
Sometimes I hope I’m gone and never coming back
To wake up without the spirits pulling on my neck
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
This is all we have left
Because you trade away the mind
For thoughts devoid of love and pride
Bereft of seminal changes, it’s hard to maintain it
The anger bubbles up inside
And then explodes into your life
It’s hard to contain it, but who are we blaming?
So sophisticated are the ways that you let yourself down
There’s always a place and time for reprisal
Choosing just to live under the reign of a crown
With nothing left but defiance for survival
And so you sold away the change to play the games that last
But what am I asking?
It’s all distracting from the meaning to grasp
I’m filled with regret and shame, but that too shall pass
Covered in scars, bruised and bleeding
Endlessly grieving for the plasmic ash
But the lies are receding, how do we even
Hope for something else?
Maybe it’s better if there’s nothing left
Bereft of seminal changes, who are we blaming?
Constant haranguing of the tepid self
We were always looking inward for the higher self
But it’s way out of here, so we’re comin’ back down
It’s a little bit tough with a raw deal
But it’s all right again
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These smoldering embers in my mind’s eye radiating
Rippling outward to extremities unknown
If seeing is believing, I’ve seen but fear the worst
The illusion gathering, being, unrivaled and collective
Collecting thoughts spiraling, tumbling
Vapid intellectual grumbling, contrarily humbling
There is no such thing as an answer
Pondering the vibes, the infinite but exhaustive time
Confronting boredom despite busy days
Alternatively capacious, this room is spacious
But crowded with my projections
I elect to live or die to escape these institutions
A solution etched into my DNA
Yet hopeless wandering, soullessly groveling
At the feet of an egregious wizard
Staring to the fissure, the abyss
You cannot wish back the time, it is merely a distraction
Dissolving the days into fractions functioning, friction slipping
Fractals protracting, sauntering
Nature will always have the last laugh
Looking death in the eye as a lover
Minus enmity and delusion, neuroses and confusion
I have been there, in the head of another
Free-falling from the precipice but losing access
To worlds unknown
Giving in to the future but not giving up
Allowing the path to unfold like a dusty carpet
Cracked and crumbling constantly
The beyond beckons, willingly bellowing
Conjecture circling numbly until I can feel the tingles
Mingling with pins and needles, sensations ancestral
Vestral in their celestial forthcoming
It’s time for some prolonged silence
If you’re really there, that is
If you’re really there
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Carbon (Instrumental)
04:21
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10. |
Run Away (Instrumental)
05:33
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