1. |
Experiment
04:07
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A prisoner in a big white room
There are no doors and no light can get through
But somehow she's going blind with the burn of electric bulbs
That don't go out, they're trapped behind her eyes
A lonesome tree is set ablaze
The wind picks up and the forest is razed
And the smoke covered us in an ashen haze
The sun didn't set, it just faded away
Experiment
Made to feel like you're irrelevant
Out in the storm just to catch a cold
So you can tell yourself you're not controlled
On a hillside shrouded in fog
The horizon an unfinished epilogue
All the people fade into none
Oh the strings that hold you up are coming undone
At a table floating in space
Like the hall that's a day beneath the lake
Hold your breath as the oxygen drains
Uncanny, the faces of strangers in family's place
Experiment
Made to feel like you're irrelevant
Out in the storm just to catch a cold
So you can tell yourself you're not controlled
Embarrassment
Waiting on a good samaritan
What makes you think you couldn't be so bold
Are you gonna let your story go untold
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2. |
Deep Sea Diving
02:51
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Holy water
violet eyes and stained glass cheeks
as you search for relief
Coral knees
salt rub frailty
bearing your teeth
Looking for someone to believe
this won't be forever
but I don't want to solve it,
lying at the bottom of the
Deep sea diving
treasure troves must abound
so far beneath the
Grounds for coffee
drink before you should sleep
mechanical eyelids seize
To find just someone to believe
this won't be forever
but I don't want to solve it,
lying at the bottom of the
deep sea diving
deep sea diving
deep sea diving
deep sea diving
deep sea diving
deep sea diving
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3. |
Yours Truly
05:27
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My darling daughter
I hope that you're well
though I'm not sure if this letter will reach you
I've got no address
Maybe you think that best
Thanks for the photograph
Of your trip to the hills
You look lovely and happy as can be
And I thought of our time there
When my life was in green
How is your mother
Her birthday just passed
We're not getting younger, though I might
have grown old by her side
If it weren't for my pride
I love you dearly
Despite all my mistakes
Now I've three young others past my time
I can still call them mine
Without pain in their eyes
How do I keep from repeating this scene
How do I keep from repeating this scene
How do I keep from repeating this scene
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4. |
Cheap Thrills
04:01
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Wake up to the sound
of his body hitting the ground
As you pick up your smile from the drawer by your bed
where you hide your regret
accumulating like debt
The words never said
lie heavy as lead
eyes flitting like flies as they circle the light
if it's all out of sight, then it's all out of mind
babbling on through the night just to keep things polite
Cheap thrills
do what you will to make it all okay
No frills
just a little white pill makes it all go away
He threatens to leave
you cling on by the knees
you need this one to stay so you don't lay awake
smothered by your mistakes
in the mess that you made
Those two little girls
You brought into the world
cracked plates like gravestones for what once was a home
now it's all catacombs and they're just skin and bones
so you roam like a ghost haunting Lethe's coast
Cheap thrills
do what you will to make it all okay
No frills
just a little white pill makes it all go away
Cheap thrills
do what you will to make it all okay
No frills
just a little white pill makes it all go away
Wake up to the sound
of her body hitting the ground
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5. |
Swan Serenade
04:50
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Birds of a feather
tethered here
Words from my father
falter fear
Holding on the tightest to the little things that slip so easy
Walking on a rope you only get so far before I'm running out
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
Wishing on a well until I drown
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
Feigning belief
oh so tenderly
Raining parades down
autumn leaves
Letting go of everything to make myself someone to fall for
He called me a fantasy, I guess that makes me cold and cast away
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
Wishing to be well before I drown
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
Worse for wear, no better off the ground
I'd hoped that I would know better by now
Birds of a feather
spread your wings
Words from my sister
begin to sing
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6. |
Play It Back
05:25
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Just a stone's throw away from cold
Sticking it out as I kindle my bones
running low
I fiddle in fits of hope
Pocketing puzzles, I litter kaleidoscopes
Glittering fractures aglow
Don't be a quitter, you told me once
So where did you go
Leave it behind but a mirror reminds
I can only rewind and I can't play it back
A lonely horizon, it rises and falls
Seems I can't catch what's coming
And I'm losing what's already gone
Dreamed of a house in the hills
Made believe gutters were towers with pillars
and alabaster songbirds
Now my head's in the dust clouds, could do with some cleaning out
Leave it behind but a mirror reminds
I can only rewind and I can't play it back
A lonely horizon, it rises and falls
Seems I can't catch what's coming
And I'm losing what's already gone
A cavalier cavalcade roams
Bearing away all that's left of our tomes
as the sun sets polychrome
Call it a day, it's been coming for centuries
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