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Countdown
01:25
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Countdown until our count’s increased beyond what it can take
Scale tips we start to fall into the dark abyss
Would it really be so bad?
The world could finally find some peace
Sleep well. It’s your last dream.
None awake, no more pain, no eyes to interpret the scene
Speed it up, we’ve had enough
As long as shes still bat their eyes this train’s not slowing down. The track’s been built a million times, but were finally out of coal
Just black skies, free real estate, for no one to claim till they find our remains someday
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2. |
High Horse
02:01
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No questions asked, but answers abound
The more you speak down to those around
The more it becomes clearer day by day
Your mouth and asshole are one and the same
Don’t remember
Don’t forget
Don’t remember what I said
The mirrors in your house reflect the shame
The look on your face is the same
Didn’t ask for your help, but it came anyway
Always unwanted, always enraging
Release your self-esteem the pressure is high
Higher than your horse, fed poison oats and died
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3. |
Super Dark Times
01:47
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A last embrace, let’s try to chase the setting sun
To eviscerate and incinerate us back to dust
The clowns are laughing, we’ve lost the plot
It’s getting late for a twist of fate to come along
Everything you’ve ever wanted
And once thought possible
It slowly slip away
For now you’re grasping straws
Wholesale catastrophes, riptides in boiling seas
The only limit is your dreams
Fear is the killer, don’t let it in
Maybe a turning of the tide is up ahead
The current overwhelms you
And you’re washed out to with the tide
It surely can’t get darker all the time
It’s gonna turn around
It has to turn around
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4. |
Wasted Life
02:43
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Try to find any reason just to try
Another day, another chance to find out why
To get it right
All those times I didn’t try
All those dreams that dried and died
All those happy sad time
Wasted life
Stay inside, where its dry, and just say we tried
While tides are rising
Holding on to branches that are broke
Wait to fall into anything but hope
All alone
You had your chance, now and then
But “thens” are gone, and “nows” are fleeting
There’s no light at the end
Of the tunnel when
Your inside and it’s
Closed and crumbling
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5. |
Drown The Wizard
01:40
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What might have mattered once will never matter again
I lost my place in line, I don’t know where to begin
Can’t tell if I’m in the groove or if I’m stuck in a rut
Waited too long the door slammed shut
Stuck in a box, without a key, with nothing bright in front of me
The light bulb shattered long ago
Snuffed out thoughts you’ll never know
Now and then it flickers on
Reminds me of when things went so wrong
Like pouring cement upon a garbage truck
Make sure the dirty wheels stay stuck
When there’s nowhere left to go but down
I’ll just remain here standing till my time runs out
Can’t fall asleep. Can’t wake up.
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6. |
Last Man Standing
01:58
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92 years seemed to fly by
Or is it 93?
Celebrate with lots of whiskey
And old thoughts of his friend Pete
Never took care of himself and
Never had nobody else
Left him with nothing but years just to ponder, drink, and smoke
Draw the shades, won’t let light in
All of his friends long ago died
All with families left behind
The last man standing would rather sit now
Just waiting for his time
A smile, then a shatter
He won it alone
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7. |
Remains
01:51
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One shitty night
I should have known
to set it down
but whiskey talks
and I listen well
I got too drunk
and dug a hole
hazy morning
a muddy spade
all money gone
and buried deep
a life savings
10 acres lost
to keep from her
what I had earned
I should have known
went to bed
with all my problems solved
awake, to find
another problem now
I can’t escape
I lie awake
Where’d it all go?
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8. |
El Doot Doot Real
02:09
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9. |
Limbo Children
03:37
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We never thought to ask
Our versions from the past
Would we like what we see
Or cringe at the glance?
On the edge of something grand
Or falling back on old habits again?
I think I see a trend
Like a ship without a sail
As we fumble and flail
True believers, self-deceivers
Disappear into the ether
Flash in the pan
A shaky hand
Navigating foreign lands
The quest for something real
Is just another imagined idea
I think our fates are sealed
Cutting through life with the dullest knife
Past our prime, yet to expire
We detest this pissing contest
An indictment of the unenlightened
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10. |
Too Late
02:41
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Sinking through the depths of time
Floating at the top what’s left behind
Was never mine
Don’t look down and don’t look back
Faded disappointments all that’s left
It won’t come back
And I know that this life is nothing
But I hope that it was worth something
You’ll find out after waiting for so long
There’s nothing there and never was
It’s too late to turn back
Mistakes made and repeated
Memories fade duller ones take their place
Shades of gray
Drive all night but can’t escape
The darker that it gets the less I see
It catches me
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11. |
Skylines
02:05
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squinting hard just to see now
bloodshot eyes in the sky
throttles back in his seat while
distant ground rushes by
steering wildly, white-nosed
leaving nothing behind
except some yachts and a mansion
but now he’s flying high
bought and believed in things
bandaids for misplaced dreams
rotting below now he screams
smelling his savior speed
red eyes see white-capped cliffs coming to save him
from gaping wounds dollars couldn’t sew
what you’ll never know
blow on mirror, leaned in, scared of reflection
Baby I’d write you but I’m gone
bloody fire on white caps
burning what's left alive
snow fall to a demise
could buy all things but time
left a message in white puffs
for those gazing below
his final message read “goodbye"
and then drifted to snow
final descension
a haze of speed and sound and screams stopped by the blow
stopped by the blow
with rats under your pillows
how could your dreams be sweet indeed
be sweet indeed
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12. |
We Once Used Knives
03:25
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Brawling through the headlights in the pouring rain
Not a mouth unbled, not a body slain
Stilettos drawn, call out his name, swinging bottles and brass knuckles
but today it ain’t the same
Sophistry takes its pound of flesh
We once lived simpler lives, we once used knives
Now we’re just a shell under a second spell
Sane times have gone by the wayside but I’ll try
To live right till I die
Don’t take any stock in what they see or read
Barreling blindly through history
Gotta get a grip on reality
There’s a trigger warning on everyone you see
How much tragedy will it take to pry
Away arcane ideas from old dumb minds?
We’ll know when, our sights are turned to them
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