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Mind Castles Collapse
03:00
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You...so inconsistent.
Walking around like you own the joint.
Never before have I felt so fucking down...but so insistent.
Boots and hooves as they breach the gate,
trampling over the weak and unworthy fools…but not fool-hardy.
I will not break. I will not come apart gladly.
Never have I felt so pushed away.
Cut off the heads and burn all the bodies,
so they'll never forget your name.
It's only what they all deserve.
You…you've overdone it.
Administer force to the shell.
Twisting the pegs as you burrow them deeper down…below the sink line.
A serrated blade, it will still cut with its edge dulled.
This isn't me.
This is a general consensus.
You're so well versed to play the fool.
Stay in your circle, your flashmob full of cunts.
How can you live with yourself day to day knowing, you'll be gone?
We'll still be here.
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Cut Marks on the Bone
05:15
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Yeah we're staring face to face,
but not for long because we're not long for this place.
Wish I was wrong.
Yeah, 'cos the air from which we sustain our story is
...[dragging us to hell]
...and down beyond, subterranean mountain ranges and caverns,
drain our souls.
It's when you realise, it's your time to die.
[There's no changing, what we've been through.
Blame reason, it ends with you.]
...and if I find a way to talk like I've walked in your shoes before.
I can walk this line while walking tall.
It'll eat you up inside,
thinking about that day and what it meant to look the other way,
while fists fly in fury?
...and things will never change.
Before you ask for your reward,
fall down upon your sword in flames.
How can I feel that blade you feel?
To know your symptoms are for real?
Get to the surface while you can:
We're not changing.
To be free.
Yeah, there is a black cortege ready and waiting.
Yeah, to a man, time is less than fleeting.
Yeah, all the things you said are lost in time now.
Yeah and does your soul remain free?
It'll eat you up inside,
thinking about that day and what it meant to look the other way,
while fists fly in fury?
…what would it take to turn me off once again?
…and things will never change, what would it take to turn me off again?
{Under what we've lost there's a gift of costs incurred.
Heavy weighs this freedom.}
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Soul Dinero
03:50
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To see things clearly,
you must walk these streets alone,
completely.
What could I ever do to make amends?
Was it something that I said?
Was it something that you took for granted?
You said my problems were inside my head.
All except for one, arms stretched to the sun [and open].
Savour the day when you can distract a glance or two
and make it work for yourself.
I will figure if you've abandoned yourself you will abandon a friend.
So if you want a fucking piece of me.
They can come up to my door.
Just as long as they know what they came for.
[It's symptomatic of the cunt that you've become]
It's just for putting problems in my way.
All except for one, arms stretched to the sun [and open].
You can't help but pull it back,
the insecurity you feel,
when you can't break away.
[Into the void.]
You could've sold your soul for less dinero.
Now you're supposed to know how not to complain.
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Surgeons in Slaughter
02:54
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Once the circle stops, the start is just the end.
Once the circle stops, the start is where you just departed.
In the back of your mind, you wrestle with change
and you know better than to let it deceive you.
Just like surgeons in slaughter.
I am not the child you see. Push your problems on to me
…and if you tackle the why's,
the wherefores come in their own small way.
How can I envy you?
With your world so steeped in tragedy.
Our story's ending in just one way.
Whats wrong? I thought we had an understanding.
Shake it off your back and turn away.
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Will I ever find a way to show how I worked it out all by myself?
…and would you fucking believe a word I said? …and could you take it in?
Walking past your demands for attention.
Will never get me back.
[We'll get back. We'll get back again.]
In the shadows of ourselves.
They can run and dive, they can pretend it's the way it's meant to be.
Thinking back over past generations, is always good for grounding -
dreams today / your dreams.
…and we can hear them and we can feel them, but we cannot see their faces.
We'll get back. We'll get back again.
…and if you take away our means, then we will claw down with our fingers.
We'll get back. We'll get back.
No you can't believe me.
No you can't believe.
..and if I ever find a way to go. Then I will make my way out into the light
...and make the shadow to cast across your face.
We'll get back again.
[We'll get back. We'll get back again.]
I guess we're never getting to that show.
We may as well turn around and count our losses,
count our blessings,
just sit tight while waiting to see the change.
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The Poison
03:21
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You suck the poison out then spit it in my face.
Lost in an image of yourself. Replay them [one by one.]
You try to focus but the image is displaced.
You look inside but there's no fight left.
I guess I'm heaven sent, I guess i'm heaven sent and down the middle.
Won't compromise, the truth's behind your eyes.
Just like a pachyderm my memory [won't forget].
I'll meditate your social schizophrenia.
You've never risked it in your life, your words are empty.
I guess I'm stuck in the middle, thinking I'm heaven sent and down the middle.
{Mind castles collapse around me, but my jacket's kevlar/wool.
Consider your creation, you're going to play the fool,
you're going to play the fucking fool.}
You're side to side, it's time to straighten up.
Wet cloth to wipe it all away.
Your summer bone contested. You're going all the way,
but this time you'll do it on your own.
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Satin Misunderstanding
04:11
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{I've never found the time.}
You've come a long way to take this burden off of me
and there is no mistaking. There is no mistaking you.
How can I recognise something I can't bear to see.
So maybe there's no need to ever think like that again.
I wish I'd never moved the line and as the carpet grows around my feet,
so intentions pull me under.
I wish I'd never found the time and nothing I say is going to change it.
It took a long time to wash this filth clean off of me
and I've come round to thinking, I am bored of here befores.
It's not a twist of fate but an error of a way.
So maybe there's no need to ever be like that again.
How did I find the time…for you.
{I've never found the time.}
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This Illusion is made up of two beings from different planets who met during the last inter-galactic
war.
They currently exist as guns for hire, trying to bring justice to the moral disintegration of the Lambrini System.
If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...This Illusion.
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