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Melt Beneath the Sun...
02:04
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(instrumental)
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Purple Envelope
04:41
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We awoke in the sand with sunlight in our veins
We were hazy and sparkling, free from all constraints
We were blackbirds in flight, whistling songs of rebirth
Breathing in the crisp air of our inherited Earth
The past melts away and the roots yield growth
Scrape the skyline in pursuit of hope
Future undecided, moments yet unknown
Like ancient treasures in a tomb across the globe
Stunning secrets slipped in a purple envelope
Filled with promise, there it stands alone
We thought answers would heal all this hunger inside
Form a bridge in between our internal divides
Long to feel free, for security
What the world can never give
What’s within ourselves, trapped in uncracked shells
Where no soul has ever been
The past melts away and the roots yield growth
Scrape the skyline in pursuit of hope
Future undecided, moments yet unknown
Like ancient treasures in a tomb across the globe
Stunning secrets slipped in a purple envelope
Filled with promise, there it stands alone
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3. |
Blessings and Curses
04:22
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Blessings and curses, behavior misaligned
Put on display for impressionable minds
This contradiction, this blur of right and wrong
Safety in vices, the pull is much too strong
Inherited myself from generations past
No admiration for this fortune I’ve amassed
Haunted by evil echoes, tempted to succumb
The same old plague my children will suffer from
Handed these burdens, my muscles quake beneath
No way to reach out when you’ve been told not to speak
These patterns braided, twisted up with the good
I won’t confront them, stay silent like I should
Inherited myself from generations past
No admiration for this fortune I’ve amassed
Haunted by evil echoes, tempted to succumb
The same old plague my children will suffer from
Haunted by evil echoes, tempted to succumb
The same old plague my children will suffer from
An evil spell cast on each generation
Chisel your heart out of the stone it’s encased in
Only one refuge before all this caves in
Chisel your heart out of the stone it’s encased in
An evil spell cast on each generation
Chisel your heart out of the stone it’s encased in
Only one refuge before all this caves in
Chisel your heart out of the stone it’s encased in
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4. |
Koi Pond
05:07
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Innocent kid, my own aquarium
I didn’t want to love
These long time pets, the last thing they offered was rest
Oh, should I stop playing coy? Stop taking away my joy
You can’t let me in? Am I too attached to my sin?
A quiet pond out in the backyard
Free from late night sounds of bars
I might be wrong to throw a fit
Muck covered water, there I sit
Never gave you enough time, promise that will change
Gonna remove all the grime
Someday we won’t be estranged
I’ve got chalk dust inside my brain, I’ve caused my own agony
It’s my confused and ransacked heart
Not worth living in week by week
Hello, my friends
It’s time I love you again
I hope I’m not too late
Couldn’t come above the waves
It’s clear today, the water is still blue
Let me jump in, take it all in with you
Hello, my friends
It’s time I love you again
I hope I’m not too late
Couldn’t come above the waves
It’s clear today, the water is still blue
Let me jump in, take it all in with you
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I think I finally know why I was supposed to stay
Thought that I’d been promised an end to all the gray
Or at least a bit of respite from this never ending tempest
Sprinting in the wrong direction, toward some fictional protection
The fortress I’ve built is no defense for this
I want to surrender, but can’t take the risk
There’s no one I want to keep out more than me
If I just stop to breathe then I’ll see
What makes this worth it
I think I finally know why I was desperate to leave
Thought that I’d been promised some way to still be me
The escape was an illusion, a darkness made deeper still
Sought a cure for my confusion and my own depleted will
The fortress I’ve built is no defense for this
I want to surrender, but can’t take the risk
There’s no one I want to keep out more than me
If I just stop to breathe then I’ll see
What makes this worth it
It’s for the odds I’d ever be here
And all the stories left to tell
It’s for the ones who never left me
And finally, it’s for myself
And finally, it’s for myself
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6. |
Chalk Dust
04:21
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Wake up and choose an identity
One that will make them depart from me
These halls seem endless, they haunt my dreams
All that I want is to not be seen
No way out
Homeless, heading south
No condemnation but from myself
That constant judgment, that ringing bell
Torn down by all of their vicious words
At what point are they all just confirmed?
No way out
Homeless, heading south
Chalk dust inside my airways
Twelve years ago on replay
I can’t accept your embrace
Held hostage by my headspace
No way out
Homeless, heading south
No way out
Homeless, heading south
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All alight
In your eye
Bed on fire
In the sky
Scream into the starlit night
Without making a sound
We watch them pass us by
Hoping they’ll turn around
I can’t see how these echoes now
Won’t follow me until it’s over
I try to sink, night black as ink
But these cool, soft words fall right over my shoulder
You’ll be okay, just trust in me
You can run until your lungs turn black and blue
I’ll be right here, just turn your ear
For these stars might die, but I will never move
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8. |
Shapeless
04:35
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Those nerves inside your mind are a loaded gun
Ice cold and yet still bright, like the winter sun
They say that it’s painless, inviting and warm
We’ll both become shapeless, and leave this old form
This soil’s slowly dying out
Our footprints stifled all its shouts
And while I’ll never quite know how
I’ve heard there’s promise through the rift
So take my hand and make the shift
Ascend into deep space with nothing but hope
Look backwards with longing at our shrinking home
Don’t know why they chose to leave this cold world
But on both our shoulders, this burden stands firm
Our vessel approaches, a fissure in time
Uncertainty holds us, our molecules fly
Beacons of light shoot from my eyes
Feet leave the ground, gravity dies
Frozen in time, atmosphere cries
Atoms are split inside my spine
Flesh melts away, only our souls
Body electric, finally whole
Lungs don’t need breath, eyes don’t need sight
Body electric, at the speed of light
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9. |
Capo 1 Song
03:57
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I’ve got righteous anger for pharisaical babble
For my childhood cliffhangers
All of it, too much to tackle
Suppressed somatic despair turned cozy cold war
Exhausted with this dance, leaving piles of bones
In need of assistance, I can’t change on my own
Father, I know it’s baffling
How I hope in my vices
Despite miraculous saving
I continue choosing crisis
Exhausted with this dance, leaving piles of bones
In need of assistance, I can’t change on my own
I can’t change on my own
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10. |
Summit
04:12
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In the icy shade
We can see our breath
You’re a shining blade
Cutting at the threads
My heart is open
Against my better judgment
You blazed a new trail
Met you at the summit
I’m holding out my hand
Careened over the edge
Trusting incompletely
Every act second guessed
I’m holding out my hand
Careened over the edge
Trusting incompletely
Every act second guessed
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11. |
When The Oceans Ran Dry
04:37
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Where were you sleeping when the oceans ran dry?
When we learned that powder was all we could cry
What were you thinking when the sun wouldn’t rise?
‘Cause you were the only one who wasn’t surprised
Aimless, we wander through scattered debris
Swallowed by the night, no visibility
Scavenge for shelter to heat up our bones
No sign of the coastline
A desert of black sand beneath our feet
A rainstorm of ashes is all that we breathe
Nothing for miles but fire and salt
Silently sit, watch the trembling faults
In the desolate wind, you bent down by the stream
Just like in my dream
The color returning slow
Your tears made the water flow
The atmosphere breathes again
Your touch, it was heaven sent
The atoms, they reunite
The skyline is pierced by light
Clouds break and return their sight
In the desolate wind, you bent down by the stream
Just like in my dream
A desert of black sand beneath our feet
A rainstorm of ashes is all that we breathe
A desert of black sand beneath our feet
A rainstorm of ashes is all that we breathe
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12. |
To The Touch
04:28
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All I know is dust
All you know is true
Wolves formed in the rocks
Sunset turned dark hue
Clouds conceal truth
I can’t feel you
Fears and creatures
I can’t see her
All I see is dew
I am laying there
In the stream again
Dazed and unaware
When you pull me in
Clouds conceal truth
I can’t feel you
Fears and creatures
I can’t see her
All I see is dew
I wanna feel you
I wanna hear you
I wanna touch you
So tear me down
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