1. |
Endarkenment
01:50
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I'm the best thing in the game
Pulling up screaming the name
Swallowing all of the flaws
Clenching them in my jaws
Keeping me from my own true singing
I see my prodigal part
Struggling alone in a maze
Playing amazing chess
With every crack in the walls
She's used up all of her pieces
The last is the face of a lord leading services
A toast to imprisonment
I lean in and whisper, "How might you unravel this?"
Wake up and crawl on the floor
See what you've held in your paws
Keeping you from running
Drop it all
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2. |
Bloom
03:10
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It isn’t heavy to feel
It’s only heavy to think
And when you want to stay light
Don’t force it with your mind
Flow flow however it goes
Flow flow however it goes
There you stood and watched me do
What you couldn’t do
What you thought you couldn’t do
Is just your mind
getting in the way of you getting through
Help yourself by helping me get free
And then you’ll see
Then you will see
That the only thing between you and me
Is your mind
Tricking you
Thinking you are bad
Thinking you are bad
We sat in the card game of our hearts
holding back
We sit in the lives of our minds
Holding tight
To our lines
Slack the line
Look below
See the water
See it glow
See the light
How it flows
From the center
To the rose
To the folds
How they unfold
Dare
Dare
Dare
Dare
Dare
Dare
To bloom
Bloom
Bloom
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3. |
Tomato
03:47
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And when you’re ready to stay the sun is gone, the pain is in the west
I tried to saint your health back
“Say tomato, say tomato”
The last time that I saw you
I thought you were what I wanted but
It was already complicated
By the way you made me feel which was
Kind of sad
I watched you put yourself down really bad a lot
It made me feel like I was you
Taking the beating from outside your head
I said it
I said it
I am the repressed emperor
Stuck in the body of the princess with the long hair
And when you go away I’ll find someone to make me feel all right
But it won’t be the same
I won’t be waiting up for you at night
I won’t be hoping that we’ll start a fight to
Work through
The demons inside our own heads
That we put onto each other’s faces
How do I explain
That I’m feeling the same pain
As you
Is it true?
and anger what a brief vacation
Oh, what a tiny view
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4. |
Syzygy
03:04
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Fake lost
this part
solid, terrible
waiting, white walls
solid, terrible
vertical room
to not have control
to not force myself
myself
to stay in the room
but there's nothing outside of the room
anymore
a cavity heart
a hole in my tooth
a lose elevator
no switch
solid
through, through
invisible phase: syzygy
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5. |
One Coin
01:47
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Why did I have to grow up so late?
Too late
You're already gone
Can't even talk to me
Now that I could be the one
that I should have been
back when you were ready for me
I didn't know what I know now
Isn't that just the way it goes
I'll be writing songs to you until I die
and isn't that just what they say
that you are the only one
who doesn't see your own lies
and doesn't see your own light
and doesn't see how they relate
One coin, just two sides
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6. |
Strawman
01:56
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I think about you all the time
I think about you more than I did when you were mine
I wanted to see what you saw
I wanted to see but I made you out of straw
Did you do the same to me?
The bird on the hill flew an inch
The bird on the hill flew an inch than took a rest
I wanted to see how it flew
So I kicked the bird with my shoe
I held my chest
As I watched it run away instead
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7. |
Traveler
02:38
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The age in your face
was a little less than I had guessed,
I'd just been to space
wanted to unearth something I'd left
But earthly time I kept
and every night I wept
I saw the world
it was turning forward, I inferred
The lightyear I wore
shattered all the rotting at the core
The o-zone had changed,
the stones were all rearranged,
on my way down to the air
the ground came out of nowhere,
nowhere...hmm...
I'm spinning out quick
Wanna fly but why's it make me sick?
You hold out a while
But I know the failure in your smile
An ill wind to the sea
Can't blow nobody free
Not what I thought it would be
the Traveler was me
If there is no world, how's he give away his part?
Not like you before,
threw away the key but left the door ajar
Cold war, lukewarm heart
Sky-walking the wall
Avoiding the fall,
my prayer
That's fair
I'm spinning out quick
I wanna fly but why's it make me sick?
I'm spinning out quick
I wanna land but what if it's a trick?
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8. |
Grapefruit
03:24
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The last time I can remember
feeling true light underneath my skin
was when you were still here,
holding me tight and singing in my ear
And year after year,
wishing you'd return I thought I had to learn
to close my heart
Oh it's hard to love
without the knowledge of your own light
The last time I can remember
holding myself truly upright
was when you would look
right in my eyes
and show me what you saw in yours
and night after night,
I hardened to the world
I thought I had to learn that it was cold
I've been told it's hard to live
without the certainty you're alive
I'll learn I'll learn to see what you see,
I'll learn I'll learn to breathe you in me,
I'll learn I'll learn to fill the hole that your love left in me
Grapefruit juice from a tree,
why did you leave so early?
Was it so I'd learn to see
that you would always be in the leaves
loving me?
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Katy Pinke New York, New York
New York, NY
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