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Departure
05:28
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Where are we when we drop the anchors from our hearts
Who are we when all our words turn, they're coiling
Turn back, I can't turn back
Even though I always had the words
There was only ever one thing there to say
Something beckons me, I bring new life
They made an orator, let's hear another speech
Keep your eyes open, and fall
Some open field
Some old dream
I'm falling asleep
Hope to hear that you'll cover me
Once more to that field
Once more for that dream
Turned over the shoulder
I should have heard a whisper
The only paths left to choose are colored with whispers we never heard
Once more to that damn field and you forgot the anchor
Cover me
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2. |
Notes On Departure
03:47
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Five hundred lives I watched pass through your eyes, your mouth
Hold it close
There was never any way to say where I depart
All your backhanded gestures held way too many thoughts of love
Watched you grow for so long
I let you hide under my tongue
I return to you in my sleep, there to water you
Plunge my hand into the sea
A hundred lives, but I chose you
Saw just how far you'd go to tell me you have no chains
The reply you gave
I would give the same
Give me life, now step aside
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3. |
Bridges
03:00
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Sharpened three words
Did I mean for your blade to turn
Tell me I need the ocean
Leave your lesson
Seen through a dark unreal sea
We built bridges
That last step
Held me under
Direct one, drink the other
How long I walked in the fall
Before I took another step from the crawl
It's not just me that changes
We built bridges
One more step from the crawl
Step out from the crawl
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4. |
The Crawl
01:45
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5. |
Chromasloth
01:49
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Time runs on
Time runs out
It set the truth frothing out our mouths
You're some fierce angel
Some rabid creature I've seen before
Take a hand
Leave me be
Take a picture
And leave
When the shadowed actors turned on me
My flesh fueled the void
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6. |
Hate The Healer
03:02
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Here's a new bear trap
Caught my own prey
Twisting backwards to grasp my own hand
Climb out from between eyes
Blind to what climbs my spine
New psychic hell
Lay me all open
Make its unknown mark
Climb out
Point the blame in my stead
So addicted
Crawls right out my head
Makes its unknown mark
Lay me all open
Age says I'm brave enough
See how far this hate will go
Glorified by new hells
Dare to digest what this pain knows
Psychic umbilical
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7. |
Assailant Waves
06:29
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Eyes slide closed
The better to see a friend long dead
Was it you
Were they your waves
Now that you yourself are one with the waves
Embedded in senses
Covered in senses, hardened to stone
Tempted to remove myself
To return home
When you're sinking under a felt-depth ocean
You need only to speak
Ignorant of this rescuer
It still clings
It leaves a sea-green ring
My copper heart leaves a ring
Eyes still lie closed
We'd better send in her ghost
I can't help it, I bring fear
I bring her
She holds my limbs down to my waist
Says I can't hurt myself anymore
If I cannot move
I cannot hurt myself anymore
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8. |
Hells
06:05
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One more world to enfold
Brought to swallow the unknown
Passing through the core
What have I become, to forgive me
Waves of the storm, circling
And oxygenated
What has fastened itself in the skin
Variable denizen
Wondrous view
Wonderful here
All the years
To be held still
Like you did me
Perceive my flesh darken
So still, my breath is seen as the wind
Written in hallways of the mind
Vestigial senses, recognized
Turning the skin so phosphorescent
Was this the last choice I ever made
There is a will working in me
Turning the skin so phosphorescent
The choice can't be unseen
To die, or to find life, finally
If I'd known this about my body
If I'd known this was hidden in my body
The choice can't be unseen
To die, or to find life, finally
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9. |
True Names
03:25
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A bridge of air between us
Made of our memories, made of commonalities
A corridor carved through the wind overhead
Round the corner
Then through the sinking center
The limestone spires
It brought me up off my knees
The rules gently changed of how I perceived
It took me years to perceive that you saved me
That you exist
True names span lifetimes
I only just placed you in time
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10. |
Psychic Umbilical
05:53
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My old friend has led me to hold this leaf
Adopt its shape, its veins
Come a long way through regarding this dry and windless riverbed
The stones move of themselves
Shifting how I felt
Was it only nature making all my darkest stories
Or my deeper will, understanding mortality
Veined and ancient hands thicker than the trees
Weave my memories
Shown the map once only
Only shown once I forget
Move by consuming
Distill my last senses
Stones move of themselves
Shifting how I felt
Failed dreams scattered on the ground
They're there to curl my roots around
Though I'm small
I've been given a hollowed-out place in which I can begin
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11. |
Intoxicant Waves
04:05
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Go forth, emissary
Who makes it back
I hope that I'm back
Intoxicate
Who makes it back
You wouldn't turn back
Fed on obsidian
Scarred, enflamed, then raised my own
My mind, found inverted
Furrows of grief outgrown
Face down the predicate foe
Face down its will to hurt
Or its replete will to nothing
Distortion almost contact claws right out of my body
Not of the crown, but of my flesh
To distillate my fate was sent over the veil with the rest
Finally cleared the crest
What do I do with the black oil seeping out my pores
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12. |
Turn Of The Clock
03:44
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Do not stop until you reach the wall
You will find a doorway hiding in the wall
A letter she left for me inside of a dream
When I awoke, my feet knew where to go
Cannot stop until I reach the wall
You will find a doorway hiding in the wall
Held me down
Pulling hands
Burning light
Colors run
The way the mantis holds her husband
This could be love
They took out my eyes to put them inside new wings
Pulling hands
Burning light
Branded night
A sacrifice
Must be love
Brought me here, for what
Whence came the need
This what you wanted for me
Well, I've changed
To draw from the Charter
You taught it to me
Blind and stumbling
My senses are growing up
Intensity's not even in it for us
You took my eyes
Was that enough
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