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Lust & Learning
04:03
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I'll never shy away from wondering what you failed to say
the implications meant by silence send my mind astray
Wash away, begging to behave
Like a cancer looming in the foreground,
fate spoke and reaped two souls
I wished for waves to come and sweep me off my feet
Close to home, close
You're running fast from your memory
The sting of vodka sweet and you, they were the last tastes on my lips
The picture burns like spices linger in our images
Close to home
So many years, all at the mercy of your energy
I forgive above all but she left me no room to grieve
Our salts and bitter wine swept us away from the world and it all
The past still burns like spices linger in our images
Close to home, close
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Gomorrah
01:39
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(spoken)
We laid beside the graves
As mourners visited their loved ones
the departed beneath us
The wind stopped for us that day
Inebriate and feeling the Earth
I felt her close for the first time that night
Grasses, asphalt, then cotton amidst amber lamps
Blue then streamed in from her windows
We watched the sunrise
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4. |
Chasing Shadows
03:38
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Corner turns, you disappear
I can't catch you anywhere
Blood runs thin, I choke for air
Your silhouette is fading fast
Break away, livid specter, entwined
I'm lost and I long
but this chase keeps me strong
Crimson scents fill my lungs
Touching eyes and you're gone
let this chase come to pause
Pause
Lost the trail you left behind
Chasing ghosts all through the vines
Thorns grow thick, they scrape my sides
Sand grains fade, veiled by fog
I'm lost and I long
don't want to hang on
But with salt in our lungs
This maze is all wrong
let my world come to pause
Pause
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Soma
04:17
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Fast asleep and calm, even howling gusts won't wake me
I watch the storm from inside
In tranquil blurs we rest
There is a ray bright like the sun, arresting me
A glimpse so pure, so close I can taste
that tunnel darkens
These cuts breed infections, whose pulsing pain I soon forget
Remembering that all with you was a haven amongst this brittle earth
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Monster
03:03
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Found a reason to fear myself
another violent spell
Cleanse the blood from my hands
But it's too late
surrender my restraint
No remorse for the pain I cause
The beating in my chest meets
the boil of veins
Vicious and despised
A beast behind the guise
God release me
Devil absolve me
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Mesmeric
01:27
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Demoniac
03:58
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Stave the flesh that keeps me hungering
Thoughts a myriad of your semblance
Keeping me enslaved
Dragging me for the last time
with silent screams
you maintained control over me
But this is the first time I can say:
I'll never be your pawn
I’ll never be yours, because I'm an individual
You’ve studied my ankles
and found where flesh grows thin
You sink your teeth in
And to think I covet you the way I do
If this is the last thing that I say:
I’ll never be your pawn
I’ll never be yours, because I’m an individual
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Eden
05:30
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I've been waiting to be taken
In the gardens they stand, shaken
By their edict, gravely spoken
With temptation, my will slips away
I wonder where we're going again
I wonder if she's ever really there
I wonder, is she slipping away
I see her vivid, and I can't remember again
I see her fading every time that I look away
But here I am, here I am
I see his fingers getting cold but I cannot stay
I've been tracing back these losses
Perhaps maybe, these hints won't vanish now
East of Eden I forfeit my only flame
I've been waiting to be taken
I wonder where we're going again
I wonder if she's ever really there
I wonder, is she slipping away?
I see her vivid, and I can't remember again
I see her fading every time that I look away
But here I am, here I am
I see his fingers getting cold but I cannot stay
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Legacy
03:46
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Sunny Day
02:59
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Sunny day, cemetery bound
Poor souls stuffed underground
You feel me starve, you feel me crave
A gathering for the less fortunate
I tap twice to remind you I exist
Livid eyes illuminate the skies
Weak, I am allured
You see me squirm, you see me starve
Screeching now for your attention
I tap twice to remind you I exist
Like a crow resurrecting me
Picking at my bones and vexing me
Sense my desperation like dawn
and drift into reverie
Like a corpse yearns eternity
Sinews aching for your charity
In all my years alive
I'd never felt so close to fantasy
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A Portrait
04:35
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I shed the last of my dead skins
Embracing all the warmth that's passed
When we met, I'd barely come of age
And years ago
When I yearned so badly for texture
that I plastered posters all
amongst my walls in place of dormancy
And then dreams would bloom
We shed the last of our old skins
Embracing all the warmth that's passed
Molting all the seasons past
to prove ourselves again
Any reason why, for any reason why
Yearning still to belong
Make a home to find myself
Take my hand so that I may see
To have someone to lead
when lights are low
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14. |
Immerse
02:50
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A willow casts me patterned shades
its faint rustling in summer winds heard close
Fruitless vines tapping at glass
opaque from decades of endless rain
and endless drought
You sit between the blinds
inviting me in, yet my doubts precede me
actions and all
A window open, all but a breeze flowing in
another opportunity gone by
I feel this every year or so
The change is faster than I can go
Lest idle attempts invigorate my spirits
with an ethanol to sterilize raw wounds
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15. |
Equinox
04:17
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Here is now
from distant shores a year ago
Your grounding fell, you feel alone
And hopes are hanging desperately
No keep
You're making strides here on your own
Easy to forget when you're alone
Keep hope
When there's a will, there's a way
You're making strides here on your own
Easy to forget when you're alone
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Elation: Gravesend
02:44
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I want to know how deep it flows
How blue the waters are beneath the bridge
My reflection grows, and my reflection grows
dodging rust which seeks to impale
I want to taste the salts of oceans pure
And feel the cold stream down my neck
I had it all
for a moment's sake
growing used to life's fruits
forgetting my pursuits, forgetting my pursuits
when passions took a different form
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Spirits of Leo New York
Spirits of Leo is a dreamy post-punk band based in New York City.
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