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Crowded
01:02
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Trite
03:56
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is it called a scene
cause everyone is acting?
and have i missed out on the curtain call?
they're following the pack
while patting themselves on the back
and i've been rolling my eyes so hard
that i can see out of the back of my skull
it's oh so trite
but it might get me on the radio
redundancy has been the theme of every trend
which must be why i've heard this all before
but nobody complains
there's nothing but empty praise
and i've been biting my tongue so long
that i don't even taste the blood anymore
and just a little bit it feels like shit sometimes
like i'm not in on the joke
the happenstance of relevance is such
to be faux is to be vogue
well i don't care to be vogue
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World on Fire
03:31
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i'm so damn bored
with all the nonsense that's around me
there's just too much noise
but i think i have a remedy
i want to set the world on fire
just to watch it burn
and if by chance i minimize this madness
then, in turn, i guess
i want to set the world on fire
just to watch it burn
and when we're standing in the ashes
then we can return and start again
let me say
that i can't condone this action
but i must confess
that there's a sense of satisfaction in it
i think it's time we started over
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Compassion
04:03
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i've been up all night
thinking about all that is right on you
i can't shake it from my head
so i'll lay here in my bed without a thing to do
it's not that i've forgotten
but my focus has been shot as of late
when all i have is time
it's so easy to resign myself and wait
i just want some compassion
how can i get a little compassion?
i'm not saying that i don't sympathize
we've both been in this condition before
but for me to share your presence it alleviates
how can i be blamed for yearning for more?
i'm only looking for some compassion
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5. |
Stay the Same
04:10
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i'm watching this sapling grow
it's doubled in it's size
in just a matter of days
i watch my body grow
changing before my eyes always
why can't everything stay the same?
i've noticed my world grow
to places i've not seen
so surrounding
i watch this child grow
yet all i see is me somehow
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6. |
Blink of an Eye
04:58
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back and forth, up and down
all these complications
they make it harder to get around
sober truths, stress and strife
all inevitabilities in this life
yes i know it seems quite unsure
all the more reason to endure
the world doesn't care if we're in love
it'll pass us by
all the things we've been dreaming of
in a blink of an eye they're gone
that's why we've got to hold on
yesterday disappeared
and all the while, it turns out
lost itself in the passing years
sleepless nights, tired dawns
i can't even remember how it all went wrong
even so i refuse to concede
just as long as you're still here with me
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Body Music
06:41
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light permeates into the room
but we don't dare open our eyes
seven o'clock has come too soon
and nothing feels as right as you
everything else just fades away
when i'm laying next to you
when my body's here with you
stay a little longer if you can
cause i can't bear when you're away
you make me feel most like a man
when you begin my day
your hand in mine, limbs are intertwined
the gentle contours of your form fit into me my dear
your breath is slow, i know that i should go
but i can't think of anywhere i'd rather be
than here with you
the morning air is cold against the surface of skin
but my body is warm now that you've taken me in
every touch is live with electricity
and all my senses are tuned into your frequency
break the silence and fall into ourselves until
i feel you tremble and so i hold you closer still
i promise i'll always come here when you want me to
the only thing i know is i exist inside of you
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8. |
De-Vice
05:50
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when everything seems
oh so dramatic from afar
a spectrum of widening extremes
if it's your will
and not the pills you take
that keep you bound
and stretching at the seams
they've got a fix for that
a way to even out those feelings
don't mind the side effects
it's what makes it so appealing
precisely systematic
targeted demographics
it's not about what's right
but what's easy to sell
this corporate mechanism
bred from consumerism
if you want out of the device
then just de-vice yourself
are you that certain
that you're still up flying high
or spiraling into the ground?
imbibe to find your wings
and you'll be fine i'm sure
until you need to be unwound
they've got a drug for that
they've made a miracle concoction
don't mind the side effects
you can take care of those with another one
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Enough
04:25
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these words they only go so far
though resonating in my heart
is there something i'm missing?
can't even tell if you're listening anymore
i'd sacrifice my very breath if it was all that i had left
but is it enough?
i try to give you all i can
i do my very best to understand
still i can't help but fear that the end is already here
all of my thoughts belong to you
my dreams and my ambitions too
somewhere along the line the both of us went mad
so should it really matter
if you're the hare or the hatter?
i long for you and you alone
i know it deep within my bones
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10. |
Lost in the Moment
05:02
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it's been three weeks
since i last felt the razor blade
a single culmination
of all the choices that i've made
and it's that moment looking back into the mirror
and you don't recognize what's there
we won't be here for too long
where has everybody gone?
are they all lost in the moment?
and say tomorrow never comes
when it's all been said and done
will you be lost in the moment?
it's been three years
since i could step foot in my home
no welcome parties
we returned to the familiar on our own
and it's that moment when you stop and take it in
and you're not quite sure how you got there
there is no in between
you're living or you're lost
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Ordinary
04:55
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waking up
prying myself from these sheets
and anchored down by the opportunities
that seem to be slowly slipping out of reach from me
day to day
following this routine
i can't help but wonder
if everything ahead of me is already set in concrete
waking up
to another dull morning spent growing old
my coffee's gone cold
and there's this growing fear
that it's already spread to my soul
could i be different?
some latent variant?
or am i just another nothing special
ordinary face in the crowd?
could i be exceptional?
is it so impossible
that i'm more than just another carbon copied
ordinary face in the crowd?
no way
well i suppose that i could just give in
and take my place
but i really don't see a resolution coming up that way
yeah fuck that
if i can manage to traverse these hazy pathways
then by all sound logic
i should make it out okay
so they say
i can't be ordinary
i won't be ordinary
with everything before me
i can't be ordinary
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12. |
Constant Contact
04:28
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constant contact with this endless stream
ever present and all encompassing
drowning in digital currents but i don't feel a thing
no i don't feel a thing
far be it from me to complain
but this familiar stimulation has come up again
and thought it just might be in my head
though as of late
it seems like all of my nerves have gone dead
open my mouth but there's no sound
my voice is muffled by the waves
that keep on crashing down
in our universal figments
of databyte oceans that go on and on
divided in two shades of blue
one that is counter
to the other than aligns with you
and i would swim to middle ground
but the horizon just goes on and on
by now you'd think i'd learn to tread
with all these words dragging me down
i guess i'll sink instead
the letters all begin to blur
i give up i'm moving on
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Make Believe
04:22
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visions appear
they're not really here
but i still see portraits in the textures
i still find figures in the nimbus overhead
in all that i can remember
i've never escaped from the make believe
i'm caught up in a daydream
head in the clouds
asking aloud
do you see portraits in the textures?
do you find figures in the nimbus overhead?
with everything you can remember
have you ever woke from the make believe?
caught in a daydream
do you see glowing colored outlines?
do you hear soundtracks set to daily happenings?
with everything you know
are you left wanting to believe
or are you caught in a daydream?
i can't be the only one
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14. |
Unlike
03:12
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i can find a rhyme to any verse
but i can't write a resume
i can empathize with every side
but i can't convey what i'm trying to say
and maybe i'm just unlike everybody else
for whatever reason
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Conversion Delay Columbus, Ohio
Sebastian // Nick // Nathan // JD
Independent Rock // 614
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