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New Strings
02:41
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A sliver of hope
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow
Reciting familiar
Melodies of excess
To shield yourself
From this grim position
Shrugging off
Tauntings of irony
Clouded inertia
New strings lay waste to the future
There’s no limit to self infliction
In pretext
If you can
Bear the weight
Pulled apart
By motivation
To a false fucking standard
Cracked open but still breathing
Clouded inertia
New strings lay waste to the future
There’s no limit to self infliction
In pretext
Leaving the decision to a question mark
Basking in the dullness of repetition
Realization in nightfall
Coercion suffocates an objective reflection
Plagued by gravity
The signs come and go
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Victim Of Change
02:16
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A victim of change
An unbalanced scale
Between lack of interest
And denial
No lasting effects
Just a smirk and a shrug
That's the conclusion
For all it’s worth
Slowly the fog begins to shift
Presenting a pale horizon
Views of persona
Karma is crowning
Stupidity collects the debt
Is perception truly clear
Festering in the past
Draped in dead memories
With a fear of what’s to come
Craving for a piece of mind
Focus keeps the illusion alive
Striking cracks in the gray
Striking cracks in the gray
Slowly the fog begins to shift
Presenting a pale horizon
Unwieldy ignorance begins to disclose
Striking cracks in the gray
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Tracing Fortune
02:24
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No longer takes
Frustration spills out
Drowning thoughts of what was
And what could be
What’s left is a waste of time
It’s all so stale unveiling circumstance
Tension builds with no release
All interactions deemed unnecessary
Unless it supports
Brittle intentions
Pushing away fact and reality
Self control
Just a fading light
Brings out familiar state
No matter where you place the blame
The tracks will always lead back
Tracing fortune
Outlining the monument of shame
What’s left is a waste of time
It’s all so stale unveiling circumstance
Tension builds with no release
All interactions deemed unnecessary
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Concrete Illusions
02:18
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What’s the point in making effort
When so much is left undone
The pain in my side a reminder
And the mania becomes
Conflicting ideas
Confusion
From actuality
Current state
Self-sustaining
Concrete illusions
It cannot stop
It cannot stop
Fictional scenarios
Rising above certainty
Chipping away at yourself
For false future plans
Façade of stress
Encapsulates
To push away, self create, absolve
Deep breathing only restrains
What’s left of relief
It all continues
Consuming self plague
Deterring all
Till you’re by yourself
The cost is bullshit
Eating away at the falsehood of youth
Self-sustaining
Concrete illusions
It cannot stop
It cannot stop
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Pulse Of Ruin
02:22
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Residue worn to dust
A display of expectations
Yet fate has not changed
Spoken or proclaimed
While mindset absorbs
Contorting surroundings
And what’s received
Chewed up, spit out, results
With the same response
Of inching forward
It’s always been this way
The pulse of ruin
Planted years ago
With neglect instinct
Comparison never lifts the burden
Sustaining for a deeper fall
Just like envy
It’s all a waste
Draining the hour glass
Reaping time and thoughts
Till extinction
Corruption, or a lack of face
Extinction, corruption, or a lack of face
While mindset absorbs
Contorting surroundings
And what’s received
Chewed up, spit out, results
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Ghost Teeth
02:19
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Impending deliberation
Creeps with a cold-hearted smile
Time is up and the hammer falls
Breaking you down to a level plane
Weight of existence regained
Fiction dissipates
Rose tint fade out
Bleakness boils over
Showing true colors
An anxiety vessel
Straight to oblivion
With countless highs and lows
That's all there is
That's all there will be
Impending deliberation
Creeps with a cold-hearted smile
Time is up and the hammer falls
Breaking you down to a level plane
Weight of existence regained
Fiction dissipates
Rose tint fade out
Bleakness boils over
Showing true colors
An anxiety vessel
Straight to oblivion
With countless highs and lows
That's all there is
That's all there will be
Times exchange
Left in question
Doomed to exist
But the memory persists
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Another Shadow
02:25
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Another shadow
On the skull of the earth
A walking void
Non-being
Indifferent
Than the acts ridiculed
Encompassing
The same answer
A number
Inferior
It resides
Fermenting
An imprint
Growing bolder
Through time
Acknowledgement
Comes in waves
Washing away
Fabrication
Left with
And decided
A sense
Of loss
Likeness to figureheads
Aspiration turns to regret
When irony is recognized
Subduing the thought of escape
Encompassing
The same answer
A number
Inferior
It resides
Fermenting
An imprint
Growing bolder
Through time
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Tomorrow Midnight
02:58
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Pressed against the cold
Connection amiss
Followed by the constant ringing
Echoes of dread
But times moves on
Past excuses
Curdled emotions
Hold no weight
As the sun recedes
So does control
Temptation
It bleeds
no looking back
what remains dwindles
left with a fraction
of moments bliss
returning
a false sense of completion
the urges resides
pulling the strings
As the sun recedes
So does control
Temptation
It bleeds
Stealing from the past
Only feeds the lie
Tomorrow midnight
The scars proceed
Tomorrow midnight
The scars proceed
Tomorrow midnight
Collapsing forth
Tomorrow midnight
The scars proceed
Tomorrow midnight
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Light Demise
02:28
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Crawling guilt
Through a tunnel of judgment
No words are spoken
Reaction suffice
Closely trailing behind
Past effort
Stationary
Gleaming in light
Eyes of history
Gaze beyond tension
Nails of obligation
Dig deeper
As vacant years
Burn through fuel
The crimson path
Impartial
This long stretch
Unforgiving
Yearning for disaster
And there’s so much more
Your fickle dream is stillborn
And the exit is shrinking
Eyes of history
Gaze beyond tension
Engaging on motive
The light of demise ever brighter
Embellishing and consuming
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