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A Reading Of Scales
03:30
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Fortify my mental blocks-
Can't find focus/Not my fault?
Karma not as a belief-
how I track my universal debts
might reveal some bizarre god complex
waiting on overdue payments.
Surely I've done enough good by now?
Withholding kindness until I get paid.
As if I have any right
to expect from the lights
a reading of scales
taking place overnight.
Tell me I've risen above all my peers,
I've overcome their evils!
As if they weren't already mine
Please forgive me of my sins
I've yet to commit
but will in due time.
Predetermined guilt as a core drive;
begging redemption/no self reflection.
Read too much in every detail
reinforcing what I hoped I'd unlearned.
Tell me I've risen above all my peers;
I've overcome their evils!
As if they weren't already mine.
I wish I had been who I am now then.
Kindness with a fucking price tag,
favors for favors/ Sacrifice or selling short?
Shallow love with profit margins.
You of little faith, insured against Peter's Gates.
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2. |
Rewind/Reset
02:57
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I can't reset
Rewind in lockstep
Hours lost in restless thought
No place for rest inside my mind
Take a breath, stall for time.
Fuck, another year's gone by.
I will let you down in time
(nevershouldhaveletitgetthisfar)
Time will hold you down/hour-blind
(atmidnightiwillstealyoursoul)
Months slip by like mile signs
Can't slow down to feel it all
The ceaseless cleave; the please-don't-leave
god the guilt is setting in
Best case we'll settle in
please don't go near that light
Collapsing into light
"You sure you'll be alright?"
I will let you down in time
(nevershouldhaveletitgetthisfar)
Time will hold you down/hour-blind
(atmidnightiwillstealyoursoul)
(nevershouldhaveletitgetthisfar)
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Apophenia
03:25
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Take back wasted hours
There doesn't have to be an answer
Find peace without the pattern
It doesn't have to connect
You can't force it all to make sense
But it'd be nice if it did
Vulnerable as ever
Building bridges out of air
I promise I'm all here
I swear, I'm not reaching
I can see it all from here
I'm an empty canvas
Open for interpretation
I've worn my demons down
Barren frames and pages
Desperate for your designs
My well of questions dry
I don't see the patterns
Don't tell me any theories
Can't trust I'll read them right
I swear I'm not reaching
I swear it's not a reach
I can see it all from here
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Golden lines // Astigmatic Lights
First-hand failure
Haunts my drive
At what point in time
will I experience
symptoms of the harm
I allow myself?
Because apparently until then
I'll recklessly lean in
These lights are gonna catch up to me
The light is gonna catch up to me
I will stand as long as I can
All my fears in front of me
Don't worry about my soulless eyes
They've only got a little to do with you
A little fear of lightning
Hear a little clipping
Strain in all directions
A tin can at the bottom of the ocean
Staring frozen at a door
for all my patience
will never fucking open
until I move to open it
The years are pages
in a book I tried to stop reading
turns out I can feel the end
as long as I can find the noise
I will stand as long as I can
All my fears in front of me
Don't worry about my soulless eyes
They've only got a little to do with you
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A State Of Suffering Caused By The Sudden Sight Of One's Own Misery Kansas City, Missouri
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