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22 Years
01:45
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Took twenty-two years of bargaining
To get to where I am now
You always knew I had it in me...
So how does this sound?
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Eden
03:49
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This city has become my Eden
From open plains, to coastal cliffs, to the town within
Inhaling the salty air that gets under my skin
Oh to me you’re just the right amount of weird
I get it, I get it
This city is a scale of grey
A collective of rare and strange
In the pallid, gothic mist, we’re all slightly deranged
Oh to me you’re just the right amount of weird
Oh to me you’re just the right amount of weird
I get it, I get it
This city can make your patience thin
Catch a plane yet you’ll return by at least next spring
You can’t sweat out this salty air it gets under your skin
Oh to me you’re just the right amount of weird
Oh to me you’re just the right amount of weird
I get it, I get it
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Paranoia!
03:36
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Something’s coming up to bite me
Within the white walls of my room
The sheets a tidal wave
The lampshade a moon
Mist my eyes with salted fog
Fill my mouth right up with smog
Madwoman trapped in her monologue
I think this must be paranoia
Paranoia!
This is getting oh so personal it’s all
Paranoia!
Sensations overtaking
Brewing a storm in my mind
Feel a tap on my shoulder I look behind
Eyes glistening black like coal
Staring straight into my soul
They tell me “Darling, it’s your entire fault”
I think this must be paranoia
Paranoia!
This is getting oh so personal it’s all
Paranoia!
Let me slip into something more comfortable, like the state of being horizontal...
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4. |
Weary
03:28
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A friend once told me
Love should not be
Overwhelming
It’s fleeting
If love was a constant feeling
Of excitement and dread
We would all be dead
Hearts exploded, blood to the head
A friend once told me
Love is suspended
By wisps in the air
It’s threadbare
If love was a constant feeling
Of excitement and dread
We would all be dead
Hearts exploded, blood to the head
I’ve learnt instead
To sleep in the middle of my bed
Pull this silver thread
While quietly healing
I have a strange feeling
In regard to you
Got this thread under my ribs
Tightly knotted to you
If you were to leave
The thread would snap
I’d bleed inwardly
While you'd forget me
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Radiant
03:23
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I want to be humble yet radiant
I want the calm yet crazy in me
I want to be open yet mysterious
Can I be defined yet free?
But it takes so long
To become the one I should become
Feels like I'm walking in circles
I want to be humble yet radiant
I want the calm yet crazy in me
I want to be open yet mysterious
Can I be defined yet free?
But it takes a toll
The vicious hounds have control
How long til I’m devoured?
The risk of sounding pretentious has become too great!
Holding my hand up in a sea of possible hate
Self-reflection, self-indulgence, it's a thin line
Do I take myself out before the critics dine
On my flesh, on my conscience - I easily comply!
Fall into the cycle of wondering why
I can't be my true self, it stems from expectations
Shifting my brain to crucial complications
Existentialism won't put me at ease
Let me grow in peace! Grow in peace! Grow in peace! Grow in peace! Grow in peace! Go in peace!
I want to be humble yet radiant
I want the calm yet crazy in me
I want to be open yet mysterious
Can I be defined yet free?
But it takes so long
To become the one I should become
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Romantic, Platonic
03:17
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You walk me home
Under golden tones
Of the streetlight, it’s cold
Swirling breath hanging
Wisps of my musing
We’re not quite romantic
Yet not quite platonic
If you kissed me at a party I wouldn’t complain
We sit in the next room
Listening to faint tunes
Under fairylight it’s warm
Sweat from our dancing
I almost say laughing
We’re not quite romantic
Yet not quite platonic
But if you kissed me at a party I wouldn’t complain
Couldn't imagine breaking your heart
So I repressed my feelings from the start
I empathise with the neurotic part
Of your mind
I understand why you built up walls
To ensure your heart never falls
Victim and when the wanderlust calls
You’re away
We’re not quite romantic
Yet not quite platonic
But if you kissed me at a party I wouldn’t complain
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Moonlit
04:09
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You entered my dream
With moonlit eyes
Misty beach
Hand in my reach
You smiled
“I love you” you said
It all made sense in my head
Woke up with tears on the
Sheets of my bed
I swear by the air that I breathe
I will cut out my heart
Lock it in a box and leave
For the open air of some distant city
Far from you
Far from me
Final glance
Missed my chance
And cried
“I hate you!” I screamed
Love is not what it seemed
Cut my teeth on the truth from the
Lies that I dreamed
I swear by the air that I breathe
I will cut out my heart
Lock it in a box and leave
For the open air of some distant city
Far from you
Far from me
One day you'll hear me
When you least expect it
And just for one moment
You'll regret that
You can never,
Ever, ever!
Forget me
Forget me
I swear by the air that I breathe
I will cut out my heart
Lock it in a box and leave
For the open air of some distant city
Far from you
Far from me
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Ships In The Night
03:35
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At the end of your dock, that green light
Like the emerald dot beside your name
Twinkling as we continue to pass like ships in the night
I wonder if you feel the same?
Will you talk to me?
I can’t hear you
You’re a ghost to me
And I can’t hear you!
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9. |
Rebirth
04:19
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(cw: suicide, depression)
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I was thinking of killing myself
I was going to take a walk
Lay my body down in a stream
Like Ophelia
Let me breathe free...
But I stayed home instead
Cried on the wooden floor til 6 a.m.
Felt my conscience fall deep into a pit
Which ate my lungs alive
Let me breathe...
Sick of not knowing who I am
Or where I’m going
Stuck in the threshold
Metamorphosis
All that is certain
Is that every cell in my body
Is yearning for change
Disruption, transformation
I was thinking of killing myself
The part of me I once was
This is not the death of me
This is my rebirth
Rebirth, rebirth, rebirth...
Let me breathe free...
I’ve stopped thinking of killing myself
I am going to take a walk
Lay my body down in a stream
Let the water rush by me
This too shall pass, this too shall pass...
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Golden Age
05:25
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Fear has gripped me
High time for conquest
No longer shall I hear
My anxious heart
Deep in my chest
Now is the summer
Of my deep content
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I’m entering a golden age
The energy in the air is
Beautiful and strange
No clue where I’m going
All I know is that it’s golden
Never felt so self-assured at a
Time where I’m none the wiser
Bade farewell to past trauma that Isolated me in a world full of friends
In my dreams I’m embracing
All who wronged me
Taste the forgiveness on my lips
I’m entering a golden age
The energy in the air has been
Beautiful and strange
No clue where I’m going
All I know is that it’s golden
Now I’m not afraid
My heart’s blown wide open
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I’m entering a golden age
The energy in the air has been
Beautiful and strange
No clue where I’m going
All I know is that it’s golden
Now I’m not afraid
My heart’s blown wide open
I feel so much
Smallest of words, the slightest of touch
Sunlight in my hands
Spills across the lands
Paint me gold, paint me gold, paint me gold...
Can barely keep up
With how much I’m changing
Barely recognise the person I’m becoming
No clue where I’m going
All I know is that it’s golden
Now I’m not afraid
My heart’s blown wide open
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