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Once More Into Dust
04:02
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Where is my way out?
The golden opportunity is so unknown
My soul is trapped in the clouds
Make light of every situation that unfolds, that unfolds
I want to break through this cold daze
Whether or not I’m besieged by broken thoughts
Look at the way we’ve been struggling
To make sense of this
I want to break through this cold daze
Whether I make it out alive
Is another story
This is my finest hour
Defined in all its glory
Find the unknown
Find comfort in the unknown
And set your life ablaze
We are not your experiment
Set your life ablaze
Search for your comfort when it’s all unknown
It’s just enough to help you grow
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Quantum Relations
04:18
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This is all we’ve ever known
You shouldn’t stick around too long
It’s all that we’ve been told
We’re rushing into the unknown
If I could ask for something better I would
But our circumstances are understood
It would be simple if we learn to command our souls
Let’s just stay right here
All we want is love
So why do we separate?
This reality we create
This is all we’ve ever known
You shouldn’t stick around too long
It’s all that we’ve been told
We’re rushing into the unknown
If I could ask for something better I would
But our circumstances are understood
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Is this where we, we fall apart?
I can barely see to the start
The cycle begins again with another thought
Moving me through an infinite loop of time
The end is in sight, but another thought pulls me back to the start
I will escape
Blech
All of these parts moving to create this reality
Move with the thoughts swimming through your brain
They will all dissipate
Take a look at our creation
It seems as though it’s wearing thin
Would you just take a look at our creation?
It seems as though it’s wearing thin
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Comfort
03:57
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It’s not my intention
To let the earth fall away
To let the earth fall away
Take your time, don’t let your mind spill
Gotta find a way to let the earth stand still
Go back you where you’re from
We’re all too young to let you get your own fill
This is the crux of the moment
And now it’s all fucking broken
Now and then in my head I’m thinkin’ ‘bout how we don’t really know shit
I wanted the present
But all I got was envy of the past
This room is a prison
I’m sitting here just looking through the glass
This is not the time or place to make a decision
I don’t know what is right or wrong and I feel so inefficient
I just can’t handle the stress and the pain and self loathing anymore
Why is it so hard to pay attention to living?
We’re just so caught up in the future and it’s so unforgiving
Can we just breath in the here and the now and take comfort anywhere
I wanted the present
But all I got was envy of the past
This room is a prison
I’m sitting here just looking through the glass
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Lonesome Dove
03:38
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Walking around in circles endlessly
I can’t seem to think of the time too rationally
This place just holds me down
We feel so numb and cold
Each and every passing day
Will you just let me be
Will you just fucking let me be
These thoughts, they grow so old
Everything gets thrown our way
This is just where we’re meant to be
This is just where we’re meant to be
Let go of this burden
This tension is too much to bear
Release all apprehension
In the end we have to let ourselves be
Walking around in circles endlessly
These thoughts they grow so old
It will find us when we’re least expecting
All of the things we promise ourselves
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Open the Lockbox
04:05
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Where is your compass?
Can you move forward
Let go of the past
Take a little time
To feel the weight
Your decisions float free
Out of primordial dust
The path is revealed
Talkin’ bout the self I’m in the know
Everybody gotta try to let that shit go
But they can’t though
Cause honestly it’s a mess and I’m leavin’ so
Bet
This is not a revelation
This is an oration
Merely giving meaning to your palms
Can you get yourself from here to the citadel with no alms
No compass?
Where is your compass?
Can you move forward
Let go of the past
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Swaying
02:02
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Every day I’m stuck in my dreams
It’s getting older every hour, but I don’t want to let go
Just coexist with the means
Because the end is getting farther away
How can I put into words
The things of which I speak
This anguish consumes my process
With every breath that we take
We’re losing our precious time
But I don’t want to let go
Every day I’m stuck in my dreams
It’s getting older every hour, but I don’t want to let go
Just coexist with the means
Because the end is getting farther away
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River Runner Bayfield, Wisconsin
Dissolve genre boundaries.
Keep me out of boxes.
Expand consciousness.
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