1. |
born into the void
05:42
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i was bathed in a light so warm
forgot all the seams where my clothes they were torn
it was more a brother than the sun
i had been born
as we gazed down the halls of our minds
so well we knew the sadness that it beckoned us sometimes
as darkness clouded everything we reveled in the night
we had been born
we used to talk about
we used to talk about the thorns
it makes no difference
all of our matter has been reformed
now I'm heading towards the light
shielded with no will to fight it
life it makes no sense to me
once i scratched the surface
but i never tapped the bottom of the sea
seems the things that no one wants
are somehow the things to be
to be born
we were slaves to the powers we gave
watched the giants in their towers
sprinkle manna on our graves
we cut the flesh of barren earth
that is what we made
and we were born
we used to talk about
we used to talk about the thorns
it makes no difference
all of our matter has been reformed
now I'm heading towards the light
shielded with no will to fight it
we left off where the story begins
never had the chance
though chances they were slim
we watched the picture fading into a light so dim
when we were born
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2. |
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the fallout has faded
all the stones overturned
no time left to practice
the things that we've learned
a call out to warfare
if you are tired of the news
soldier of the great unknown
keep your eyes on where you're from
like you were walking through a minefield
outside the gates the void is strong
so you fall victim to it's throngs
weave the web of destruction
I'm counting on you kids
to write a better story
or else it's us forever remembered
as those who gave up the glory
we're due for a revolution
time to tell your tales
just ignore the institutions
the placebo wore off
you know it's not going to be
the same old song
what once was sunk
has come ashore
open your door
it appears to be a beast
though so much more
what were we before
the darkness cast it's shadow
on our minds
outside of time
nothing is related
even life is imitated
we're due for a revolution
time to tell your tales
just ignore the institutions
the placebo wore off
you know it's not going to be
the same old song
they castrate your memory
with the click of a mouse
getting closer to space
there's a highway to there now
so it's a call out to warfare
if you are not going down
soldier of the great unknown
in the past the hints are sewn
giving way to the meaning
they're selling fear but are you sold
to make your mark do what you're told
though home is still where your heart is
I'm counting on you kids
to start a better future
clean the slate rewrite the story
just don't give up the glory
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3. |
Ghost town
04:02
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i didn't know what day it was
i didn't know how far i could go
from your love
on life support my hearts a wreck
I'm counting on
the morning glory
to resurrect me
the same old story
does not affect me
look out
or everything will make you blind
you'll be the mayor
of this ghost town
bound to what you left behind
innocence is lost at sea
remember when we felt
so young so free
and now we're just a bloody mess
we're counting on
the instant feeling
to tide us over
so we forget that
we're getting older
look out
or you're gonna have to pay the price
you'll be the mayor
of this ghost town
you will become
you're own device
every second goes
i know
can't keep chasing those
i am told
it's only love that counts baby
and we can work it out maybe
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4. |
new tomorrow
05:15
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I'm living someone else's dream
my eyes are fixed on the pulse of the screen
my free bird is on the wire
everywhere they're making pawns into kings
the mighty hands of the wind
gonna sweep away the sorrow
keep on looking for a new tomorrow
just another day to borrow
and let it go
today is a taste of your own medicine
don't know what to say
don't know where to begin
i get a feeling I'm in place that i once knew
takes me back to times i wish i could renew
I'm living someone else's dream
portrayed by an actor who fled from the scene
fire walking with a crutch
i open up the doors to the calling
there's stipulation's ghost and an endless sea of voices
they're looking for a new tomorrow
just another day to borrow
and let it go
today is a taste of your own medicine
don't know what to say
don't know where to begin
i get a feeling I'm in place that i once knew
takes me back to times i wish i could renew
is something really happening
or am i standing still
like the traffic moments fly by
still I'm not quite fulfilled
used to feel like a poet son
but now i feel like a thief
robbing myself of the open road
float down the escalator street
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5. |
Ouroboros
06:28
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our steps are going sideways
we're slipping on the tirades
of a dying youth
it's a candles doom
things are changing for the better
or the worse let's just forget it
come prepared to lose
all the grips you choose to wear
i want this dream to end
we can begin again
like we're immortal
we can learn to live
they ring the division bell
it's getting heard to tell
if you are sick
and what will make you well
oh well i don't want to be bound to fail
got the feeling i am leaving
my head is in the ceiling
watch the ring of fire
burn my hearts desires
and no one holds the answers
they frolic like a dancer
on the sea of madness
where nothing ever happens too soon
i want the dam to break
we can be wide awake
third eye of the needle
it's just the chance you take
come let us sit for a spell
going the distance you fell
you come and go
like the wind beneath your sail
and me i don't want to be bound to fail
look over your shoulder
the pursuits are getting older
the midnight oil's peaked
nights of restless sleep
a lifetime of decisions
lay buried in your visions
only in your pipe dreams
where nothing's as it seems to be
i want the chance to return
seeking my soul's sojourn
these chains around your neck
when you were born
they painted your portrait pale
built with these coffin nails
the secret of life
now just a joke to tell
on no i don't want to be bound to fail
like a snake who is eating it's own tail
and i don't really want to fall
i don't really want to fall into the void
you know I'd give it all
I'd give it all to wash way the noise
but I'm hanging by a thread
just a sliver left of my inner voice
they say it's all inside my head
I'd like to let it go but i have no choice
i just don't want to be running backwards
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6. |
My troubled mind
05:13
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me and my fate will duel tonight
someone will win
the bottle will fill up my eyes
I'll take it to the end
I've lost all the loves of my life
made enemies out of friends
the gold made me lose my sight
blind leading blind
I've been searching the world to find
my troubled mind
and the footsteps of my troubled mind
mother nature's been so kind
but i just have to go
or else I'll never know
the reasons I've been left behind
should i stay should i wine and dine
i just have to go or else I'll never know
where i have gone
vindictive to all in my sight
though it's so real
I'll stick to this cannibal diet
till i can't feel
they say I'm a slave to this fire
i always yield
wish i could calm down and quiet
my troubled mind
and the footsteps of my troubled mind
mother nature's been so kind
but i just have to go
or else I'll never know
the reasons I've been left behind
should i stay should i wine and dine
i just have to go or else I'll never know
where i have gone
the strangest dream occurred to me
i was awake though fast asleep
i saw the end and we were at peace
it all came down we were lost and found
this town was our sacred ground
we looked out saw all the ashes
from the burning bridges
swallow it all like a pill
the heaviness
now light as the feather on my quill
i release these words
back to the void whence they came
from different worlds
dimensions are one and the same
in my troubled mind
and the footsteps of my troubled mind
mother nature's been so kind
but i just have to go
or else I'll never know
the reasons I've been left behind
should i stay should i wine and dine
i just have to go or else I'll never know
where i have gone
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7. |
it's so easy
02:58
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i turned my back on all of my friends
just to journey to this height
power comes with a price tag my love
and the hunger will not subside
it's so easy
to lose your focus
it's so easy
to play the fool
it's so easy
and yet you stumble
your tower will never
reach the sky
harnessing these elements
like lassoing the moon
building life with wooden blocks
the vacuum will consume
it's so easy
but full of glitches
it's so easy
but still arcane
it's so easy like a band aid
your seventh wonder
is just a wall
mansions full of empty rooms
as homesick line the streets
an antidote but only a dose
you can be free in your dreams
it's so easy
to be the rubble
it's easy
to get lost
it's so easy
yet you tremble
empires crumble beneath
the blow
and now you crumble beneath
the blow
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8. |
Tunnel vision
04:16
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the planets are revolving
and I'm staring at a strip mall
see dimensions keep unfolding
seeing beings in the hall
and these nations like a dragon
spitting fire in our rain
the smog becomes the atmosphere
as we wrestle day by day
we're living in a palindrome
trying to stay safe at home
examining the restless soul
looking for that gaping hole
the floodgates have been opened
there is a grid that reads your mind
feel akin to disposition
like it could get you from behind
we're all in each other's dreams now
sharing portals to the un-dead
having thoughts you've never spoken
running circles in your head
we're living in a kaleidoscope
still trying to grab the rope
sleep with only one eye closed
hiding from the life we chose
it seems we're all connected
are DNA just dotted lines
go about your business undetected
but they can read your thoughts inside
now we all got the fever
and they're mass producing lies
the world is a vortex
and you're asking your self why
we're living in a half way home
trying to un-tap the phones
breathing in the black hole
feel like you sold your soul
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9. |
drifting in the sand
05:31
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life's another cycle
you got to pedal your way
down the endless highway
of an hopeless race
no need to get excited
keep your heart on your sleeve
there's no way to enter
you can only leave
and do you wonder what nothings made of
there's no need to wear your makeup
cause time is made of sand
you're golden like your summer tan
the world could be ending for all i know
but i don't really give a damn
cause time is made of sand
you know it's gonna slip right through your hands
it could be all there ever was
but i don't really give a damn
count the mathmorticians
it's like your seeing grids
got no pot to piss in
you keep flipping your lid
been pranked by this process
grinding your pelton wheel
these vast constraints
your Achilles heel
and you don't have to live in misery
just walk away and you can be free
cause time is made of sand
so burn that list of your demands
the gift of lifetime is waiting there for you
but you don't really give a damn
cause time is made of sand
someday you'll have to take a stand
there's a million ways to look at one thing
but you don't really give a damn
and i don't really give a damn
are we inter dimensional
or just stuck in an hourglass
somehow the moon will know
it helps these days to pass
drowning these tears in your pillow
it's just spilt milk on the battlefield
of life
and don't you know what nothings made of
don't try to dress it up with makeup
cause time is made of sand
you know it's gonna slip right through your hands
it could be all there ever was
but i don't really give a damn
cause time is made of sand
you're golden like your summer tan
the world could be ending for all i know
but i don't really give a damn
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10. |
Aftermath
04:32
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everything that keeps me together
is getting tangled up in knots
everybody needs a scapegoat honey
and I'm the only they've got
though nobody knows
why we journey down this road
you know i don't believe in falsehood
try to keep my idols at bay
watch the ground below me crumble
see the light just fade away
and nobody knows
why we journey down this road
i am never looking back
to think how far I've come
to miss the higher path
looks like I'll finish last
i cannot swim the great divide
still someone flipped the switch
the day i died inside
just trying to enjoy the ride
everyone knows a band aid
won't fix the pain
everywhere the signs are pointing
telling you you are insane
what we've been told
couldn't be further from the truth
things we've been sold
like a broke down fountain of youth
i am never going back
wouldn't want to relive
all the aftermath
even if it goes too fast
i can't turn these feelings off
they say we're in the red
but we can't make it stop
i didn't know
i was a child in the undertow
now i have grown up
lost at sea
it wasn't me
i was brought up on the ways
to be or not to be
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11. |
the rest of your life
05:46
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we finished the game now
winners and losers
we all pay the penalty
I'm going my way
down golden highways
fall with the crashing sea
i can't figure out what to be
cause everything is just a joke to me
I'm gonna find myself
and leave this juxtapose
enchained to comfort
gonna break this coil
cause I'm so chemical
our childhoods distant
I'm afraid love we've missed it
we're stuck on this broken record
buried alive in popular opinion
whatever will help you rest
and quiet the voice in your head
restoring all the blues you bled
you're gonna find yourself
and leave this carriage ride
maybe you thought you died
but there's still a spark inside
you're just so chemical
you better find a home inside your soul
you're gonna be there for the rest of your life
floating on these clouds will take it's toll
but you're gonna be there for the rest of your life
the rest of your life
is just a lifetime way
you got to be who you are
so you don't live in vain
fall to the earth like a star
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12. |
Day of the dead
04:26
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your tongue is not a sword
the battle's got the best of you
my love you can't afford
to wrestle with the bitter truth
you wear this painted veil
to hide the skin we all must wear
a freedom from this jail
the whole wide world waits for you
the blood will make you new again
like a rifle to the heart
all your machines will turn to rust
there's no pattern to your flame
there's poison in the well
so seal your lips like sacred tombs
an open book will tell
the secrets that we hold so dear
the ways we loved and lost
and how we filled those vacant seas
with dreams that we had tossed
to chase the wind with broken wings
I'd love to hold you close again
feel a glow inside the dark
living moments that will never end
the continuum is lost
at the gate of isotopes
it's amazing that we stay afloat
with licenses revoked
been catapulted of the cliff
i collapse inside your face
to wipe my tears on tattered lace
the dead will have their day
but you and i won't fade way
our minds are just two wanderers
the oasis mends the soul
with these ramparts now eclipsing us
changing face we're never known
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13. |
Golden age Golden chain
05:25
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I'm a leavin
don't even know
where i came from
guess I'm cheatin
starting on the highest rung
i lived this fable
California on my mind
was young and able
and set apart to walk these lines
I'm not getting older
like the smoke watch me as i smolder
in axis floating like these ashes
slave to nothing always wanting more
thus ends the golden age
each day's a setting stage
there's nothing left to say
dreaming my life away
i told my story
you know i etched it in my bones
spellbound for glory
outside the box these catacombs
sprawling wastelands
but only one that I'll call home
this shattered Graceland
a piece of time that I've been shown
though I'm not getting any wiser
my mind it spindles like a spider
this misery you know she loves my company
but I'll no longer lay down beside her
thus ends the golden age
each day's a turning page
there's nothing left to say
dreaming my life away
i can't make up mind
I'm seeing stars in the signs
of the times
i might sink with the sun
no more tears
what is done is done
i am trying to get back
to all the pieces that i left
scattered across this land
like the driftwood in the sand
I'm not getting any power
all my attachments they leave me like the hours
I'm going to where the mountains
sleep atop the ocean
I'm going to find my freedom
as i lay upon those shores
thus ends the golden age
each day these anthems fade
there's nothing left to say
dreaming my life away
it's sometimes cryptic
the way our weathered hands are worn
our paths they twisted
and led us back into the storm
permanent vacation
freedom from the ties that bind
lost in translation
California on my mind
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14. |
head in the clouds
05:10
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pandemonium
i long for harmonious thoughts
for a change
gonna burn down the bridge
that bridges the gap
till we all breathe the same
I'm tired of living in a world
that buries it's own
if we can't get together
than we're all gonna die alone
when the sleeping world
is wide awake
like the broken switch
has been moved into place
head in the clouds
but I'm down on the ground
drifting in motion
gonna fade like my grin
we've had it with saviors
our manic behaviors
instilled in us now
it takes one to know one
and no one knows anyone
anyhow
and i wouldn't really mind
if they seized the throne
but if we don't get together
i suppose i will die on my own
and the walls between us
they won't hold us back
if we band together
leave their iron grasps
head in the clouds
but I'm down on the ground
drifting in motion
gonna fade like my grin
it's been way too long
since i felt this calm
no more pistols be loaded
no more shades be drawn
every eye be opened
every mouth proclaim
the emancipation from these
earthly chains
turn those fists of rage
into outstretched hands
open the door
for the common man
when we lose it all
we'll be standing proud
got our eyes on the stars
and our heads in the clouds
our faith embalmed
our hope lies in an urn
but the moon still hovers
and the planets they turn
you're a grain of sand
on a forgotten coast
keep on living for the end
to the absence we toast
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15. |
the other side
04:19
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the thought of you
hope my fate will allow
me to cross your beaten path
the things we built so high
come crashing down
all our marrow in plain view
am i talking to myself
is there anybody listening
like our bodies in the dark
seems our thoughts are only whispering
there's all this death in life
one chance to live so don't think twice
you have to earn your stripes
before you reach the other side
we've come so far
on the wings of compromise
still indebted to regret
at the end of the day
do you really know who you are
I'm a stranger in my own heart
am i talking to myself
is there anybody listening
it's just a distant cry for help
like a lighthouse in a perfect storm
there's all this death in life
one chance to live so don't think twice
you have to lose your mind
before you reach the other side
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