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Intro
03:25
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2. |
All Rise
03:34
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I'm terrified
that both you and I could have died
From the thoughts that we hide deep inside
there are days when we can't control our minds
Been Living in the spots in between
where we are never fully seen
we are the dead, we are the lost
just looking for some morphine
so heres to a life
with tears in our eyes
saying were fine
but knowing we lie
cause here we live
and here we die
but someday dear
above the skies
we will all rise
Cause all rise
But thats no way to live
on the point of a shiv
appointed to give
poignant moments to this
a life that I don't know if
any of us could have wished
to blessed with or left with
when we didn't hit the on switch
I aint saying I don't like life
I do but I never said I'd be its wife
were jointed forever
through all stormy weather
see my skin is redder
where I wear the fetter
but this is it
its iron grips tethered
to us so I guess
it is a better
goal to complain less
and to endeavour
to clean this mess
and leave it better
Keep your breath
leave no letters
this lifes a test
lets do it together
Been Living in the spots in between
where we are never fully seen
we are the dead, we are the lost
just looking for some morphine
so heres to a life
with tears in our eyes
saying were fine
but knowing we lie
cause here we live
and here we die
but someday dear
above the skies
we will all rise
Cause all rise
Walking down streets movements automatic
fake smiles all the while this lifes tragic
Show a shell never expose the hell
where demons dwell I am erratic
placed some emotions in a cabinet
up in the attic, I'm feeling static
Wearing my heart on my sleeve
just to see if I can feel some sort of breeze
What a tangled web we seem to weave
with all our crosses and pet peeves
I have so many thoughts in my brain
that keep me up, and drive me insane
there pattering like rain on a window pain
we all need a drain just to stay sane
Living cause you can should never be the plan
but as a backup damn some dark days friends that is the only way to stand it
Strive to find a support thats strong
I found it by writing songs
thats where my thoughts belong
But where has the rest of sanity gone
look at society look at the bombs
so many committing terrible wrongs
often to themselves before dawn
take a breath, go on
we are still no more then fawns
learning to live as one
many fallen have risen with guns
many have made decisions to shun
But our hearts pound in rhythm like the drums
Depression anxiety, social sobriety
many questioning whats is our dynasty
tablets phones, all silicone
worried that we will die alone
but you can't die till you are forgot
you aren't alone when your in my thoughts
all that I know I've been taught
by all, so you are all that I got
life is a game, but don't play roulette
Take every single chance that you get
Except when it involves a single bullet
a life isn't a bet, its set as a promise
cause thats what you are you have promise
so lets be honest honestly were modest
modesty has got to be worth something though
so low and behold were a god, a godess
your life is an epic you are the hero
Trust and accept we all start at zero
build you build life
to two new heights
record setters
the new settlers
terrified of life
but that is just alright thats why we might
survive it
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3. |
Past Flashes
03:36
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Do you ever walk down a path
And see in blinking flashes
Memories of the last
Time you were here
Its like your past
Catches up all to fast
And says you were to rash
Just think back a year
Back when we were
We were
We were still here
Mind body and soul ready
for all told tales and tolls
But now
But now we're just old
Reminiscing of when still it was cold
Wishing that you still had someone to hold
Take one step back
Into your past
Then Take another
Into your future
Both strike me as illusions
In my sight is movement
I'm Losing track of what is here
vision cracks as the past reappears
My view turns to something no longer true
Instead of houses I see land
Before there were plans
Empty and free, littered with trees
A freeze frame saying see
Look at what could have been
if we hadn't moved in
Them reality rushes back like the wind
Do you ever walk down a path
And see in blinking flashes
Memories of the last
Time you were here
Its like your past
Catches up all to fast
And says you were to rash
Just think back a year
Back when we were
We were
We were still here
Mind body and soul ready
for all told tales and tolls
But now
But now we're just old
Knowing your history
Is its own mystery
You know the results
of this long drawn story
yet we cant prove
That what was is true
so we look to pictures
and the things we drew
to confirm we are here
that things once were dear
pictures of brothers
sisters and others
immortalized forever
So we can remember
Our little tether
to time spent together
Do you ever walk down a path
And see in blinking flashes
Memories of the last
Time you were here
Its like your past
Catches up all to fast
And says you were to rash
Just think back a year
Back when we were
We were
We were still here
Mind body and soul ready
for all told tales and tolls
But now
But now we're just old
Losing yourself in the music
the sounds, the movement.
day dreaming, and seeing
meaning in leaving
packing up and moving on
along, somewhere long gone
but where you haven't got to yet
meet your past, meet at last the
hot mess, who you haven't quite met yet
their name you suspect you forget
weather that means that you regret
the days you spent,that lives you trek heck
let it fade over the next sunset
we all have some unmet debts
take a breath live in the moment
let it all rest, so here is to hoping
Do you ever walk down a path
And see in blinking flashes
Memories of the last
Time you were here
Its like your past
Catches up all to fast
And says you were to rash
Just think back a year
Back when we were
We were
We were still here
Mind body and soul ready
for all told tales and tolls
But now
But now we're just gold
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4. |
Astronaut
04:09
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emptiness twists like a shoelace
a picture that was only ever traced
any color it felt quickly erased
to be replaced with cold space
I'm just barely clinging to sobriety
and maybe perhaps its just society
denying me and telling me what
I'm supposed to have inside of me
so come ride with me to the highest peak of my anxieties
speak some of your own if you are beside me
Been grinding writing rhyming
trying to develop a sense of timing
rock band in the garage
on tracks spitting a barrage
hitting notes, three times a day
breakfast lunch and yesterday
working a couple of jobs to get decent pay
acting like I got time like Dorian Grey
trying to save up to move out
learning ways to smooth doubt
composing some new sounds
but that means I lose out
on friends to make the ends meet
on treats and bussing down streets
I walk home so I can write a new poem
and save the bus fare that I'd be owing
I Don't eat, don't sleep,
writing till my arms go weak
lying under sheets rhymes speak
feeling obsessed like a freak
friends tell me to take time off
I scoff I'm trying to get aloft
get caught in the stream to the top
I'm lonely but I think I'm better off alone
For you'll shine brighter on your own
if you give me some time and the stars do align
I promise you then you will be mine
but for now I'm in a maze of my thoughts
just trying to reach as high as the astronauts
If this is my shot, I wont choke
I can't go lower I'm already broke
so its this or the rope saying nope
so lets go, staying afloat on the flow
the last raft of the titanic
I will blow or be titanic
thoughts I'll fail panic my fabric
I want twelfth night no tragic
of life you gotta grab it
I've no illusion of magic
so lifes block I'll stack it
I got that hip like I'm tragically fit
and that hop like a rabbit so quick
I want it bad I'm rabid
The Tv with no bunny ears is up in the attic
so watch me break through all the static
its fantastic,
what a dream can mean when your an addict
I get lost in the traffic, rush hour havok
trying to systematically clear a passage out
I'm lonely but I think I'm better off alone
For you'll shine brighter on your own
if you give me some time and the stars do align
I promise you then you will be mine
but for now I'm in a maze of my thoughts
just trying to reach as high as the astronauts
Aint no musician call me an astronaut
Cause this is space to explore my thoughts
This beat is my vessel, it's in my blood
artistry in arteries, pumping into the hub
I have my heart in this, I'm part of this
it all connects like veins I am an artist
Up at seven to work on ryhmes
Aint put out much, but I'm just giving it time
I'm a clockmaker so rolax
Watch as each word fits into the lines
a lyricist for those inclined
My path rose its a thin climb
But this road I chose been kind
I don't fit in a box, so change your frame of mind
if I can't define myself then why you tryin
Rapper, actor, poet with no master
kid careening forward never looking behind
I don't got time for hindsight, so I'm blind
Got my mind on limelight, that is the grind
Working like a smith, each bar gets refined
each line is correct, I'm the king of masterminds
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5. |
Streetlamps
03:49
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I walk through the night time
searching for the right rhyme
Try to find a clear sight line
So that maybe I might find
Something more then quite fine
something which will fit and sit sublime
I've heard some call this a grind
I prefer to call it escaping my mind
We've all got worries to leave behind
This lifes blurry, so I try to find
some meaning as I walk through
empty back streets, neighbourhood new
missing company, there is so few
people that you stick to like glue
This Lifes cold, or so I've been told
But i've been sold by these the old
and not so bold streets that unfold
into solid gold that you behold
late at night as you walk past grass
growing in empty lots, long gone fast gas
derelict relics, someones past trash
that under the moon shines and blast class
cause everything seems better
when you look under the leather
callused hands scarred by the weather
lifes hard but it'll come together
Street lamps, and stop lights
the streets are damp late at night
its not quite rain, but not quite fog
but the quiet drains the pain right off
I relax when on late walks
but I am missing our long gone talks
so as I'm wandering these streets
where there isn't anyone for me to meet
my feet lead me along paths
That... to speak truth I long pass
the parks, and streets that belong past
where together time went past
Lost in my thoughts I miss the turns
lost in back lots my compass churns
but it is a spot to perhaps at last learn
to blot and bury concerns in an urn
So I think back on us
with a little bit of hope
Cause we were bone and dust
But evenings thrown us a rope
cause the nights for us to make mistakes
to alight precarious and trip into lakes
fight fears daring us and climb a cliff face
For we are what we want to make
I may only see some friends
when the twilight evening makes amends
See these streets glistening will bend
old wounds, till they can heal and mend
Street lamps, and stop lights
the streets are damp late at night
its not quite rain, not quite fog
but the quiet drains the pain right off
I navigate through back lanes
This Late night world black an strange
no light Nothing looks quite the same
Street lamps flicker like a flame
As the rain comes down around
I can feel the sounds that hound pound
but run aground then drown
leaving my mind unbound
As the water drifts and sways
I could have sworn I lost my way
But I think I was just delayed
By the thoughts that betrayed me
Memories are just shadows
that our mind sets aglow
doncha know, so lets go
breath in slow as grass grows
The sodium-vapor lamps
mix into the tapered damp
leaving an impression like a stamp
that we will always have a camp
so ignore them creeping cold toes
life hits you, give it back give it blows
take wisdom from streets, trees and crows
live here today not tomorrow
Street lamps, and stop lights
the streets are damp late at night
its not quite rain, but not quite fog
but the quiet drains the pain right off
Born to the day belong to the night
Born into may but belong to falls flight
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6. |
Peter pan
04:04
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Is it worse to live forever and never forget
While everyone switches sides on their cassette
Or move on and forget forever as best you can
Trying to reach a place where you neverland
I don't want to grow up and move on
Forget the old in favour of a new song
My heart feels so scarred and worn
Every new person leaves it a lil more torn
Turn up the volume and let the world fade away
never let it turn grey and lose your way
I hope you got half the high i have from life
I hope you halve the high and mighty in your life
Your life
Yeah
Your life
Cause that what it is to live
Focus on the you, so that you can give
time and energy to all of this
Find the balance between Kanye
And conclaves don't let that soul conclave on the way
Turn up the volume and let the world fall away
Miss the ground and take flight so faraway
The only place is here, the time is today
get to the hook before the clock tock scares it away
Is it worse to live forever and never forget
While everyone switches sides on their cassette
Or move on and forget forever as best you can
Trying to reach a place where you neverland
Lying in bed, i hear a sound, a foot tred
It could have been a foot away, but it brings me back aways
vision is blurry, only my gut can say
That this isn't the first night like this i will lay
What haunts me in this moment
Is that I can't see the past,
Just hear echoes slip past
The more i reach for my childhood
It gets lost in the crowd like a child would
But in my gut this sits, the heaviest emptiness that I've ever met
Like if the moon never set, so i guess I'll just weather it
Whether this is it, if its deja vu or a glimpse at the boy that I once knew
Who wanted to escape got lost in Runescape, escaping ruins, that boy who would look
through books, to learn about dreams, not about money means and schemes
That boy without a life, whose shadow creeps in my window on a breezy night
Who deep in my heart never grows old or leaves my sight
That boy i once knew, I think i outgrew, and if that is true, let me start again right
I'm caught in nostalgia hook
the clock ticks I'm near the end of the book
chasing chapters that I think time took
So I pour myself onto pages i flow like a brook
look the future is foggy and I'm grasping at straws
luck of the draw, this show has no pause
so I'll show my scars not live for the applause
Enjoy the moments and myself despite all my flaws
call me peter pan cause I've made my own gods
Is it worse to live forever and never forget
While everyone switches sides on their cassette
Or move on and forget forever as best you can
Trying to reach a place where you neverland
Never land
Never land
I will see you some day
Never land
Never land
For you i do pray
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