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Look, The Faces
03:25
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Going through the motions
Almost 4 years later
Locked in a room
Yet it feels much safer
Doing what I'm told is all I know
Doing what I'm asked is all I'll show
Apologies make their way through
Just trying to be polite
Now I am the weaker view
The only one in sight
Doing what I'm told is all I know
Doing what I'm asked is all I'll show
To question everything is to rely on what you know but still it's a path I never wanted to take and said I'd never go. No, my words dont mean a thing. Like they really fucking should. I said I never would.
Back into a place where nothing changes.
My intentions are what led me here. Somethings to always find. The things I fear
Am I a hypocrite just like the rest. I'm following the same steps.
Buried in my own mistakes, while the past is catching up. But I cant seem to grasp.
One step forward, two steps back
One step forward, two steps back.
Almost 4 years later.
Its everywhere I look.
faces. faces. They're in the walls.
Its everywhere I look.
The faces in the walls.
I'm trying to run away.
But now I'm feeling small.
But I cant help but stare.
So I just sit around.
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Pretend
03:12
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Every now and again
The ghosts stop pretending
They've gone to the nowhere but we seem to be the everything
The pavement you walk on
You started floating to the sun
They've kept you down
Said you were not for that route
But clouds began to fill your mind
You know what you've wanted to find
Be kind. And the ghosts have taken flight
The sun is too bright. Why?
You've walked through the doorway
The wooden cracks have begun to say
They said don't fall away. Dont fall away
And they say, they say.
A dream state the body is in
And the flesh and bone will win
What a realistic way you put it
Tell me why I believe you.
You told the truth yet your spirit hasn't let you tell it what to do.
Blinded by this fact
Describe the ways youd like him to act
And reaction, it takes control.
Like the insects that poison your soul.
Feels like this home
It isn't ours.
We just live here.
No days
No new ways
It's the same old case.
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3. |
Safety Exists
02:40
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One more question
The only one I put a face to
I see myself in you
Catch me back and forth
To find them at the very source
What I would give
What I would do
To just bullshit with you
Just one more
Inside the war
This place turned into the battlefield
This place isn't real
The casualties that washed away
The horror crashed down on those who stayed
A thought that crossed our mind and left
It hits close to my home
Knocking down the doors, breaking every window
How many more have to get taken before we signal
As the evil looks you directly in the eyes
Safety exists. Believe in the lies
As I look out in disgust
Ask us the question
Just one more question.
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Too Selfish To See
05:43
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At their expense you step down
And consequence sneaks up
Like a snake trying to run home
It comes through the back door.
The back of your head shakes and what for, what for?
A liar at best.
The pressure in your chest bursts through the way everyone says.
A liar at best everyone says.
The whispers being heard.
A sense of unsure, we're unsure
We'd like to know but if that's so.
Why have we run so fast and said no?
Why do we run?
Why have I run so fast and said no?
Why do I run? Why do I run?
Running out of things to say.
I've been chasing love.
Reading into the things being said.
Being the first to shove.
And our self pity is eating us up.
But we cant show it or let be seen.
Sometimes we just gotta say the things we mean.
We feel bitter. I want more.
A liar at best is still knocking at my back door and what for? What for? What?
I keep to myself. I bottle things up.
Eating my words is easier than speaking up.
Learning to grow up inside a home, in which I was never taught. "Figure it out alone."
The anger soaks my bones.
Is it just Male testosterone or insecurities of my own?
I isolate myself. No matter how happy this place might be. And I cant see.
I laugh at the floor. It's not good enough. And i find a way to make this about me.
I laugh at the floor. I'm not good enough. And I'm too selfish to see.
I'm too selfish to see the things I made but you are my escape, a place to keep me safe and I just like your attention. But I'm done asking questions. To my pleasant surprise, I'm still laughing at the floor.
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Shut Eyed
07:49
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I closed my eyes to see something great. The sun can barely pierce the clouds and a single beam shows through the rubble. And I can hardly stand the mumble. Under the rain. It stands under a shade. We came through and robbed the town, took everything for ourselves. We remain the same. But not the same you knew before. Grasp tight. We'll lose each other. Lets keep what we've lost. I'll keep my hands off of my eyes. My own will see the light. I'll look up one day, see you in the sky. Wondering if I was the reason you got stuck up there. High in the sky. I closed my eyes to see what's there.
I saw a stranger across the hall.
To never know another's faults.
I want to believe that everyone is playing along.
But there's still a great big wall
When appearances are so high
Blissful is the prize.
We're losing the touch
It happened abrupt
When things come to an end.
2x -To capture
Appear
Blank skin faces
no mirrors.
It's all superficial
The ways you keep yourselves in line
I can see that you're really trying
Tell me what they're hiding.
Why are they hiding?
You've always been talking. Seems like you love the sound of your own voice
I know they all love it. They're all just a bunch of porcelain toys.
It's all an empty shell
Feel the emptiness
The propped walls have started to break
Crumbling down. Create the mess
But you break like glass
You're just an empty shell
I feel your emptiness
Your propped walls have started to break
You're crumbling down. You created your mess
Ambiguous, the way things act
The way you act
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